Category: CA
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Grateful Dead Studies
So Many Roads : The World in the Grateful Dead, A Conference & Symposium; Date: November 5-8, 2014; Location: SJSU Student Union. Krieger, Lisa M. 2014. Grateful Dead: An early Silicon Valley startup. San Jose Mercury-News, November 7, 2014, URL http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26894788/grateful-dead-an-early-silicon-valley-startup, accessed 11/9/2014. Sounds like a great event. Congratulations to Michael Parrish, Nicholas Meriwether, and…
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Dead in the Panhandle – Sunday, April 9, 1967
Video! (Reminder: Jerrybase benefits from the work of Gordon the Drummer, who maintains the state-of-the-art list of GD and JG videos for us. Thank you, GTD!) http://stock.mrfootage.com/pages/assets_clip/popup_play.php?session_numb=80572&language_numb=1&business_numb=1004&shot_numb=407764 http://vimeo.com/97755921 http://vimeo.com/97755927 The 921 link has two minutes of pure gold, starting with the Grateful Dead playing “Caution”, high quality color and sound, a bit distant (but correspondingly…
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Jerry’s New Year’s Eve – LN jg1975-12-31.jgb.all.aud-Falanga-Menke-8664-retrack.noshnid.shn2flac
GarciaLive 5 GarciaLive, volume 5, December 31st 1975 Keystone Berkeley (2014) is out, available via jerrygarcia.com. Let me start by expressing gratitude for these GarciaLive releases. Having been a massive outlier in my interest in Garcia on the side, having often expressed frustration at the paucity of Jerry shows released under the old regime, I…
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The Demise of the Matrix, 1971
The Matrix at 3138 Fillmore Street (San Francisco, CA, 94123) [map | JGBP]: it’s daunting to type those words and then imagine adding much to what we know, so meticulously gathered over decades. So I’ll zero in on a relatively blank space: the venue’s demise in 1971. Ross Hannan and Corry Arnold’s Chicken on a…
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Contradictions Are Fun
The human spirit … is the favorite home of contradictions, indeed they do not seem to prosper or even find viable living conditions outside it. José Saramago, All the Names, p. 228 Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders were advertised to play the Matrix at 3138 Fillmore on Wednesday, March 3, 1971. But as far as…
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Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Keystone Korner, May 20, 1971 (LN jg1971-05-20.jgms.80mins.sbd-boswell-smith.126365.flac2496)
Corry heard a lot of this keyboard work as Howard Wales. So did I. I also heard Jerry’s guitar tone as 1968, and the recording as the Matrix. I parsed the tape, which seems correctly identified, we talked it over, and I think we agree that this is some very interesting tape. Speaking for myself,…
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Hey Merl, you wanna do that tune in ‘G’? Get spaced out a little? LN jg1971-05-11.jgms.partial.aud.28784.flac1644
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Matrix 3138 Fillmore StreetSan Francisco, CA 94123 May 11, 1971 (Tuesday) 20 min flac1644 shnid-28784 –(2 tracks, 19:58)– t01. talk and tuning (1, 2) [1:03] t02. Save Mother Earth [18:44] [0:10] ! ACT1: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders ! lineup: Jerry Garcia – el-g; ! lineup: Merl Saunders – keyboards,…
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Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix – A Dialogue
[ed: Corry sent me an email about Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix, which turned into a rather elaborate exchange on the subject. One piece of our correspondence involved the tape traveling as 5/20/71. This is some of Garcia’s finest playing on tape in any context. I highly recommend that you check it…
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“JGMS 5/20/71” is probably really JGMS 5/20/71
The tape traveling as Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, May 20, 1971, Keystone Korner (a.k.a. xx/xx/71 and 5/xx/71) probably really is Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, May 20, 1971, Keystone Korner (750 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA 94133) [map | JGC | JGBP | shnid-93137 | shnid-100855 | shnid-126365 |shnid-126389 and listening notes] The most…
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JGMS September 9, 1971 – Harding Theater – New to The List
A few years ago we had a good time talking around some putative Dead shows at the Harding Theater, 616 Divisadero, on September 3-4, 1971. These shows have never been known from anything other than the listing I found, and they may not have happened. I mentioned there the odd cluster of September 1971 Garciavents…