Category: Berkeley
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GarciaLive vol. 9: JGMS at Keystone, 8/11/74
GarciaLive Volume Nine: August 11th, 1974 Keystone Berkeley – set for 7/28 release. I have done listening notes on the Falanga-Menke aud, and beside the Four Tops’ “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)” –and the tape– it doesn’t slay me. That said, I’ll happily buy it – an uncirculated soundboard to support the…
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Dating the Legion’s Demise: A Revisionist Account
The demise of the Legion of Mary, Garcia’s principal side band from Ronnie Tutt’s arrival on December 6, 1974 until mid-1975, remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Garciaverse. The “why” is the biggest mystery of all. After almost five years of steady gigging and recording Garcia is said to have walked away. I…
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The real dates of the “September 1, 1974” material
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Band, Pure Jerry 4: Keystone, Berkeley, September 1, 1974 (Jerry Made JGCD0004, 2004). We always knew that this was a hodgepodge of dates (there are several set/end-of-show announcements, in weird spots if we have a continuous show from 9/1/74). But what little evidence we have suggests that things are more…
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Rango at the Greek 5/14/83
What a great pull. https://archive.org/details/gd1983-05-14.fob.sonyecm220t.keshavan.miller.94396.sbeok.flac16
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The Blogging Hobby
Blogging is a great hobby – if you have ever thought of just wanting to keep some intellectual interest of yours pinned down a little better than purely in your head, I highly recommend it. Among Blogger’s very limited features – You Get What You Pay For, Corry reminds us, and as a Braudelian he…
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Great American String Band – May 5, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley
Sunday, May 5, 1974 found Garcia at the Keystone (typical), but in the background, picking some banjo in the Great American String Band behind its featured front line of Richard Greene (fiddle), David Grisman (mandolin), and David Nichtern (guitar and vocals). Rather remarkably, we know a fair bit of very interesting stuff about this gig,…
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Walkin’ One and Only: JGMS backing Maria Muldaur, BCT, October 12, 1974
updated with newly-unearthed Phillip Elwood review Well, well, well … just found a review of a Maria Muldaur show at BCT on Saturday, October 12, 1974 in the Berkeley Barb (Wikarska 1974). Maria worked with three bands this night. 1) David Nichtern (I presume “and the Nocturnes”): Nichtern, Hank DeVito on steel, Larry Jones on…
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Grateful Dead at New Monk, Berkeley, ca. June-July 1971
One night I went to hear Jerry play a gig with Merle [sic] Saunders at a small place in Berkeley and one by one, for ‘no reason’, the rest of the Dead showed up too, and eventually they got on the stage and started playing — Charles Reich, Spring 1972 (Reich 2003 [1972], xv). Assuming…
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David Grisman and Peter Rowan at the Freight and Salvage, December 29, 1972
I wonder what they played?
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Lost Godchaux-Muldaur Era JGB
New to The List: Stanford Daily listing shows JGB at Keystone Berkeley Saturday, August 12, 1978 (long known via the Soto-McNally-Arnold JG List, and there is tape), but also Sunday, August 13, 1978. The latter would be new to The List. ! listing: Stanford Daily, August 11, 1978, p. 7. Still Uncertain? 11/4/78 and a…