Category: Auditorium Theatre
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The Little Engine That Could
LN jg1978-03-10.jgb.all.aud-zimmerman-minches.80887.flac1644 Love this image of Jerry’s face on a locomotive. The show didn’t do that much for me, though I do give rare praise to Dixie Down. Reviewer paints a picture of the Dirty F$%^ing Hippies and assorted others: The dressing room backstage at the Auditorium Theater [sic] has that lived-in look. The air…
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Fall 1971: Keith Speaks, records, FM broadcasts
van Matre, Lynn. 1972. The Grateful Dead Haven’t Changed Much. Now Sound 1, 4 (January): 4, 14. Very brief little piece, the text of which I reproduce in full, à la Dead Sources, below the fold. Here, just a few bullets, I’ll also file under “reading notes“. The interview material with Phil Lesh and Keith…
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The end of the November 1974 Jerry Garcia – Merl Saunders (JGMS) east coast tour
There is so much to say about the November 1974 east coast tour undertaken by the Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders group (the quintet of Garcia [el-g, vocals], Saunders [keyboards, vocals], John Kahn [el-bass], Martin Fierro [horns], and future Lawrence Welk drummer Paul Humphrey). Garcia had done two national “tours” outside the Grateful Dead prior…