Category: CA

  • A Rare Sight

    A Jerryless month in Berkeley: April 1975. I’d bet it was a bad month financially for the Keystone.

  • JGB: June 23, 1977: Benefit Concert for the Survival of the Forest Community of Camp Meeker

    On Thursday, June 23, 1977, Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) out-of-pattern early and late shows at Santa Rosa High School. High school gigs were pretty unusual for Garcia at any point (beyond early Grateful Dead), but by the late 1970s it almost always meant that there was some personal connection, somehow, to Garcia. For example, Garcia-Kahn…

  • The Group In and Around the Sarah Era: Boarding House, 1/24/73

    LN jg1973-01-24.jgms.early-late.sbd-nfagdtrfb.100216.flac1644 update: this post has so  many old links to the evil db.etree – please never use that URL. Substitute etreedb wherever you see db.etree. Thank you. (Man oh man does Blogger’s formatting suck. One can’t compose online, because stuff can get lost [viz my long beautiful post on Wales-Garcia 1/26/72]. One can’t compose…

  • The Merle [sic] Saunders Experience: Boarding House, January 25, 1973

    LN jg1973-01-25.jgms.early-late.sbd.7670.shn2flac1644 Introduction Not long ago I posted a set of notes on JGMS 1/15/73 at the Inn of the Beginning, the second known date (and the earliest circulating tape) of the Garcia-Saunders-Kahn-Vitt group to include singer Sarah Fulcher. The Sarah Era, as I’ll call it, holds lots of appeal: she’s a mysterious figure about…

  • River City, Fairfax

    Was just looking up some gigs at River City, 52 Bolinas Avenue, Fairfax, CA, 94930. Saw that a gent named Ron Barbarita apparently booked it ca. fall 1975, when JGB played there a few times. Immediately went to JGBP, which hasn’t reported on the venue yet, as far as I can tell. The Google yielded…

  • JGMS September 1-2, 1973 Keystone, Berkeley

    This calendar of September 1973 gigs at the Keystone Berkeley shows Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders there on Saturday, September 1, 1973 and Sunday, September 2, 1973. These gigs are new to The List. Note that OAITW was advertised for shows out east on these dates, but that I concluded about a year ago that…

  • JGMS May 6, 1975, Keystone

    The Keystone Berkeley calendar for May 1975 lists quite an astonishing, amazing set of shows. For blog and List purposes, I post to note Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders on Tuesday, May 6, 1975, heretofore unknown to me. I am not sure what to make of the May 23rd listing. There are tapes of Legion…

  • JGMS January 21-22, 1975, Keystone, Berkeley

    Keystone Berkeley events calendar, January-February 1975 I hadn’t seen this one before. It includes information on two previously unlisted Jerry Garcia-Merl Saunders gigs, on Tuesday-Wednesday, January 21-22, 1975, at Keystone, 2119 University Avenue in Berkeley. Also includes a couple of Howard Wales gigs, information on opening acts for Kingfish on 1/24-25, and a little notice…

  • Summertime in January: The Merle [sic] Saunders Experience, January 15, 1973 at the Inn of the Beginning

    Rex Jackson wrote the band name as ” Merle [sic] Saunders Experience” on his tape boxes for this night, FWIW. LN jg1973-01-15.jgms.early-late.sbd-jgmf.5428+9573.shn2flac Among the Inn of the Beginning materials [JGMF | COAU] I unearthed last summer were ledgers indicating shows by Garcia-Saunders on January 14-15, 1973, only the latter of which had previously been known…

  • Where Was the Grateful Dead on Sunday, August 24, 1969?

    Here are the listings from the great San Francisco Express Times, vol. 2 no. 32 (August 21, 1969), p. unk. There’s lots of interest here, of course. But I have circled the item that interests me most greatly. It’s under the listings for Sunday, August 24, 1969, and reads as follows: Hippy Hill: Trans-Cultural Rip-Offs,…