Fate Music

Category: CA

  • With and Without Maria: JGB at Keystone, August 6-7, 1977

    If “without and with” rolled better off the tongue, that’d be the more accurate title, because here we have a pair of summer ’77 JGB shows, the first admittedly only partially available, on which Maria Muldaur respectively does not and does make an appearance. I guess I am working toward pinning down her appearances throughout…

  • JGB in Chumash Country: Campbell Hall, UCSB, February 5, 1977

    In my writeup of the Garcia Band’s 11/20/76 gigs at the Pismo Theatre, I noted that Jerry urged the crowd to come see ol’ Hoyt Axton in a couple of weeks. “He’ll be down here doin’ a benefit for Redwind, which is just a good scene, about forty miles from here, a lot of good…

  • Dangerous-Looking Young Man at the Edge of the Western World

    Anyone know who the dangerous-looking young man is? I know I should know, but I don’t know. See also, of course, Corry.

  • New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972

    In addition to the tantalizing May 20-21, 1969 Garcia gigs at the Matrix, the newly-digitized Examiner has yielded a good number of previously unlisted, mostly-midweek Garcia gigs. A little list  from 1970-1972 follows. update: see also a subsequent list from 1973-end 11/2/70 (Monday): Jerry Garcia / BBHC / Ice / Cleveland Wrecking Company. Harding Theater.…

  • A Party For Mother Earth

    It’s actually much, much prettier than it looks in this picture. New Riders headlining “A Party for Mother Earth”, benefiting the Bear Commune, Friends and Relations Hall, 660 Great Highway, June 3, 1971.

  • Jerry Garcia and Friends, Sanpaku at the Matrix: May 20-21, 1969

    Fascinating. I told you all that the Examiner would yield many interesting things. Well, this is one of the most interesting. Sometimes skimming cream is worth the price of later anticlimax. Jerry Garcia and Friends and Sam Paku [sic: Sanpaku] at the Matrix, Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21, 1969. Garcia’s first understood public…

  • Digitization Makes Me Happy

    Via https://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu, the UCSB Daily Nexus (and before it, the El Gaucho) has been digitized. Having sniffed around Santa Barbara a fair bit (UCSB being my alma mater), I am happy to see this, and found a few good things. First, I have found a preview and a review of OAITW 4/12/73 at the Granada,…

  • Classical Music

    I am trying together instances of Garcia engaging classical music, which are few and far between. Alan Trist reports that ca. 1960-1961 one of their friends “John the Poet” had a great classical recording collection, and they listened to a lot of Bach. “Endless Bach,” Trist said. Jerry and Trist and a few others went…

  • Greenpeace ‘No Nukes’ Benefit at the Old Waldorf: Reconstruction, April 23, 1979

    I wanted to love this, but I found very little that moved me. Maybe I was tired. LN jg1979-04-23.reconstruction.all.aud-composite.126927.flac1644 Reconstruction Old Waldorf 444 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 April 23, 1979 (Monday) – Early and Late shows composite auds flac1644 shnid-126927 –early show (10 tracks, 8 tunes, 92:26)– e-t01. announcement/crowd/tuning [0:52] e-t02. Get Up…

  • Enter Tom Fogerty

    update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71. It seems more likely to have been 5/22/71, and his arrival may mark why they made tapes of the next two nights. Further, I have no idea why I inferred he first joined in Berkeley on 5/26/71, when…