Category: CA

  • GD 19670106

    “Big Mama to aid in raising of the dead,” California Aggie, January 6, 1967, p. 5. Grateful Dead played at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA on January 6, 1967. The above preview article is from that day’s California Aggie, p. 5. What intrigues me is the line that says that the last time they…

  • OAITW 19730424 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Tuesday, April 24, 1973: Old And In the Way featuring David Diadem (Grisman), Jerry Garcia and Peter Rowan played the Inn of the Beginning at 8201 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, CA, 94931. George Edwards opened. This was billed as a “Special Show” (as 3/5/73 had been) and the $2.50 ticket price was just about the…

  • OAITW 19730305 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Sharp-eyed readers who checked out the March 1973 Inn of the Beginning flyer in my post about Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders 1/15/73 and Sarah Fulcher may have looked to the top-left, and seen this: Here we have listings for two Monday, March 5, 1973 shows (9pm and 11 pm) by Old And In The Way (OAITW)…

  • JGMS 19730114-19730115 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    We know of the Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders show at the Inn of the Beginning on Monday, January 15, 1973 from the circulating tapes (http://db.etree.org/shn/9573), which are Betty Boards rescued by Rob Eaton from the muck and filth of God-knows-what-or-where (listening notes). There are severe problems with the recording, especially with the start of…

  • JGMS 19710920 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, USA. What a fantastic spot, and a review of the calendars and other materials so presciently and conscientiously preserved and generously shared by former employee-then-proprietor Mark Braunstein highlights its importance in the whole thing, *that* whole thing, as well. (I didn’t see any evidence…

  • NRPS 19710820-21: Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Inn of the Beginning calendar of events, August 1971. Courtesy of Mark Braunstein. The August 1971 calendar of events for the Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, shows The New Riders of the Purple Sage playing there on Friday, August 20, 1971 and Saturday, August 21, 1971. These dates are…

  • Welcome to your new home, Vassar Clements: OAITW at the Keystone, 7/21/73

    LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.b-live-all.sbd-PNW.113845.flac1644  updated 20110629-1438 EST updated 20200723 We have here a 94 minute soundboard of Old And In The Way, identified as at the Keystone, 2119 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94704 on the evening of Saturday, July 21, 1973. The tape was in the collection of Will Boswell via Jerry Garcia’s own copy, held and…

  • Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share (LN jg1973-07-05.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.79032.flac1644)

    update 20230709: the trumpet player is Mike Price. update 201605015: this show has now been officially released as Garcialive 6: July 5 1973 Lion’s Share (Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders). slight update 20110816, as noted below Like 2/16/74, this was a previously uncirculated Betty Board dropped by the mysterious ‘alligator’ into the ether at Lossless Legs,…

  • LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.early.sbd-smith-boswell.113805.flac1644

    ad for Keystone, Berkeley, July 19 – August 1, 1973; Berkeley Barb (7/19/73-8/1/73), p. 21 Let me just make a few points to head up these listening notes for this newly-circulated version of these rehearsals. They are very, very important. First, the provenance of the tape is awesome. Thanks to the Pacific Northwest Crew for…

  • LN jg1973-04-16.oaitw.s1.fm-nfagdtrfb.100404.flac1644

    I have made an updated post on this fileset. This one is deprecated. http://db.etree.org/shn/100404/ Not much time to get very elaborate, but a little more detail on this fileset. OLD AND IN THE WAY The Boarding House 960 Bush Street San Francisco, CA Monday, April 16, 1973 First Set Disc Time 49:35 t01 (1) [0:06]…