Category: CA
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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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Heresy Alert
Avert your eyes if you are sensitive to this sort of thing. Great tapes, but 2/2/80 set I does nothing for me. Discuss. Further hypothesis: it exhibits the “Cornell Effect”, whereby great sounding tape produces systematic and massive overestimation of performance quality. UPDATE: In March 2021 I revisited this show, and found it to be…
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LN jg1995-01-13.jgb.s2.aud-sisler-goodbear.79638.flac1648
update 5/17: I have revisited this date, with rather contrasting perceptions. Needless to say, I don’t get out to 1995 very much. I enjoyed this, overall. It was not a ripoff. Jerry’s guitar play is fine, if mixed very low. The arrangements are pretty interesting, but the execution suffers without David Kemper in the chair.…
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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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OGC – Garcia Never Played Here
1011 The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.Longshaw Card Company, Los Angeles, Calif., 1960, artist unknown [to me] Look at those orange groves! Obligatory Garcia Content (OGC): I do not know Garcia ever to have set foot in this venue. Here’s a report from the Garciaverse #geo on Pasadena, CA: I love JGBP’s taste: Globalization’s taste, not…
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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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JGMS, July 12, 1972, Town & Country, Ben Lomond
This has been in my paper files and, looking for something for Corry, I found something else he might be interested in, as we all must be: an ad for a previously unregistered Jerry Garcia – Merle [sic] Saunders – Tom Fogerty – Bill Vitt – and Friends (John Kahn must have counted as two)…
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In the beginning
Grateful Dead Live at Golden State Studios on 1965-11-03
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Bear Tracks and Bear Drops in the Bear Republic
“Slewfoot” was a great selection for the Dead’s Santa Rosa shows June 27-28, 1969: “Bear tracks” in the Bear Republic. date venue city state 6/11/69 California Hall San Francisco CA 6/21/69a Fillmore East New York NY 6/27/69 Veterans Auditorium Santa Rosa CA 6/28/69 Veterans Auditorium Santa Rosa CA 7/3/69 Reed’s Ranch Colorado Springs CO 7/4/69 …