Category: CA

  • James and the Good Brothers (Courtesy of the Grateful Dead)

    Found this interesting. The New Orleans House ad from the Berkeley Tribe v.3 n.15 (issue 67) (October 16-23, 1970), p. 21 lists “James & The Good Brothers (Courtesy of the Grateful Dead)” for Friday-Saturday, October 13-14, 1970. Corry has said this about the connection between the bands: James and The Good Brothers were a Canadian…

  • Near-Miss with the Rubber Duck Mime Band: June 2-3, 1970, Mandrake’s, Berkeley, CA

    WAS TITLED “NRPS: June 2-3, 1970, Mandrake’s, Berkeley, CA” But Paul Dresher has confirmed that, while Garcia was in the ad, he did not play this night. So, the Mandrake’s ad from the Berkeley Tribe v2 n21 (issue 47) (May 29 – June 5, 1970), p. 16, lists the following for Tuesday & Wednesday, June…

  • Hard Road

    Anyone know anything more about this publication, Hard Road? This is volume 1, no. 1 (July 20, 1970), and it seems to have been planned as a weekly. Not sure there was ever a no. 2 … anyone know? Seemed to be out of Mill Valley. Anyway, just because. The interview contained in the mag…

  • JGB “1st Northern California Tour”: August 6-8, 1981

    One of the oddest little jaunts you’ll find the in Garcia On The Side histories is one billed as the “1st Northern California Tour”, comprising the following three off-the-beaten-path gigs: Wednesday, August 6, 1981, Sherwood Hall, 940 North Main Street, Salinas, CA Thursday, August 7, 1981, Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA Friday, August 8,…

  • ‘Nice Hat, John’: JGB at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, August 7, 1981

     LN jg1981-08-07.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 JGB’s “First Northern California Tour“, heh heh. Having just posted about the JGB Salinas show on August 6, 1981, here I just drop the raw data on a pretty grungy old tape of what purports to be the next night, Friday, August 7, 1981 at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA. One of…

  • “We Hardly Know Each Other”: JGB at Sherwood Hall, Salinas, CA, August 6, 1981

    LN jg1981-08-06.jgb.all.aud-unk-russjcan.110492.flac1644 JGB’s “1st Northern California Tour“, as the Keystoners had it. In response to a really intriguing email about possible late June 1981 JGB show in Salinas, about which I have posted separately, and with the generous help of folks over at Lossless Legs, I was able to get my ears around the only…

  • Second Guitarist, No Martin: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, July 12, 1974

    19740712: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders: Friday, July 12, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley, CA. There is a second guitarist on this show. I am concluding it’s David Nelson, but I am really uncertain. Can anyone else with this recording take a listen? Can anyone shed any more light? Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Keystone Berkeley, CA…

  • Casey Jones Used Cocaine: LN19790613 Reconstruction River Theater Guerneville CA

    jg1979-06-23.reconstruction.late-1.aud-bershaw-GEMS.96235.flac1644 On Wednesday, June 13, 1979, Reconstruction appears to have played the River Theater in Guerneville, CA. As far as I know this gig is only known because of a surviving audience recording made by Alan Bershaw.  update: I now am about 99.9% sure the correct date is 6/23. Reconstruction River Theater 16135 Main Street…

  • 19910810 JGB French’s Camp Piercy CA (Fifth Annual Electric on the Eel)

    Jerry Garcia Band played the Fifth Annual Electric on the Eel event  put on by Bill Graham Presents and the Hogfarm at French’s Camp near Piercy, CA on Saturday, August 10, 1991. I don’t get into the 90s as much, needless to say, but since this just came up elsewhere I thought I’d just lay…

  • LN19810129 JGB Catalyst Santa Cruz

    Jerry Garcia Band, Sunday, January 29, 1981, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA. shnid 111412. So I thought I’d check out an early Melvin Seals JGB show as a reward for having concluded that his public debut with JGB was 1/22/81. Randomly picked this one. Pretty nice tape that puts you FOB, but the show is…