Category: 1979
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Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah.
Introduction The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something – because I…
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Carl Lockett and the Side Trips Social Network
Preface: Reconstruction #2 Jerry Garcia’s commitment to Reconstruction never seemed total, a big problem if you’re John Kahn, first, and then Merl Saunders, looking to reboot the lucrative Garcia-Saunders-Kahn Fantasy Records franchise. It’s no good if the G is wobbly, because “multiracial dance and jazz band with a rotating cast of Bay Area guitarists, including…
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Risky Reconstruction
**massively updated 11/24/2014 11 PM mountain time** I just tipped my hat to the idea of meso level musical risk in Garcia’s side trips. This is the pedantic-even-by-my-high-standards phrasing of the notion that that different bands, qua bands (combinations of players and repertoires), could and did musically challenge Garcia to different degrees. The challenge-comfort continuum…
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Reconstruction Pix by Chris Stone
Some rare, amazing Reconstruction pix from 4/23/79 and 5/18/79 by Chris Stone. This one Gaylord Birch at the Old Waldorf, May 18, 1979. Major shoutout to the photographer, 1) for getting some stunning shots, and 2) for posting these freely to share. Please be sure to credit him if you archive a copy of this…
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Ozzie and Johnny D
LN jg1979-10-07.jgb.all-2.aud-angus-hart.106528.flac1644 First night out for Ozzie Ahlers and John d’Fonseca (and hence, of JGB #11a). Sunday night is consistent with pattern of breaking in new guys on off-nights, but the Garcia fans don’t worry about work on Monday morning. Probably not surprisingly, this performance is not a world-beater. They are feeling each other out.…
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LN Reconstruction May 19, 1979 Old Waldorf, set II
Corry attended the Reconstruction show at the Old Waldorf on May 19, 1979, and has written it up very nicely from all of the angles that matter. He saw the 1st set. The second set, probably most of it, circulates from a very nice but unattributed audience recording. It’s not the best Reconstruction set around,…
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Dealin’ on Johnny D’s Third Night: JGB, Keystone Palo Alto, October 14, 1979
LN jg1979-10-14.jgb.s1s2p.aud-unk-moore-berger.122979.flac1644 Understood second third show for Ozzie Ahlers and John d’Fonseca. Update: I had this as the second show for this outfit, a week after its 10/7/79 debut, but it turns out they also played the Monday night, 10/8, in Berkeley. Excellent Sugaree and After Midnight, songs which this band made its own right…
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An Echo at Reconstruction’s Ending
JG19790929: Reconstruction: Saturday, September 29, 1979, Keystone Palo Alto (UNCERTAIN) Listing for Reconstruction at Keystone Palo Alto, 9/29/79, from BAM no. 63 (September 1, 1979), p. 14. Like lots of us, I have been really busy. I’ll resist temptation to say a whole lot about this, but will try hard to just put it out…
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Casey Jones Used Cocaine: LN19790613 Reconstruction River Theater Guerneville CA
jg1979-06-23.reconstruction.late-1.aud-bershaw-GEMS.96235.flac1644 On Wednesday, June 13, 1979, Reconstruction appears to have played the River Theater in Guerneville, CA. As far as I know this gig is only known because of a surviving audience recording made by Alan Bershaw. update: I now am about 99.9% sure the correct date is 6/23. Reconstruction River Theater 16135 Main Street…