Category: Beatles
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Something (Beatles)
Deaddisc says Garcia and Saunders played the Beatles “Something” (from Abbey Road). Is this right? Is there tape? Am I forgetting something?
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The Group Probably Will Be Short-Lived, Because Hopkins Has Other Contractual Obligations
The titular line comes from an interview Garcia gave ca. November 22, 1975 to a Twin Cities journalist, Jon Bream, and references JGB #1. It could be that this was true all along, and the plan was just to monetize the Jerry Garcia name in the new Band, as well as Nicky’s name, for the…
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The Beatles
At about the age of 10, my sage older brother got a copy of Abbey Road, and I learned every groove of that record. Then, let’s say in adolescence, the cassette of all the greatest hits and #1 singles and all that, which was ubiquitous in my piece of suburban America, burned me out on…
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Jerry Garcia and John Lennon, summarized by Dennis McNally
On December 8, Garcia was at Front Street working on Dead Set when get got a call that told him of the assassination of John Lennon. Work was impossible. He sat down at Keith Godchaux‘s old Steinway (more pain: Keith had died in a car accident that summer) and noodled for many hours, lost in…