Category: CA
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JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 1 datings
Seeing a new torrent for 1973-07-10 at Lossless Legs reminds me that deaddisc.com has not included the information on dates from which the different performances derive. So I will post them. Here’s volume one (CD release). Live at the Keystone, Volume 1 Merl Saunders / Jerry Garcia / John Kahn / Bill Vitt Initial release…
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JGMS, August 24, 1974, venue confusion
August 1974 is one of Jerry’s greatest months. Between the killer GD shows at the star of the month and all of the incredible Garcia/Saunders shows (8/31/74 is right at the top of my desert island list), it really is incredible. But I am confused about a few of the details from this month. I’ll…
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‘On the floor like dying fish’ – and NRPS w/o Jerry (5/29/71)
May 29, 1971 is infamous for the fact that lots of people had an adverse reaction to the liquid refreshments, which were apparently distributed from a 35-gallon trash container set onto the concert floor during an intermission. 35 people were sent to the hospital “with all of the symptoms of bad trips” (“Winterland on Probation”))…
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GD: ca. December 27, 1970, canyon east of Laguna Beach, CA
It seems that a rather loosely organized hippie gathering took place in a Canyon (presumably Laguna Canyon) east of Laguna Beach, CA starting on Christmas in 1970 and ending on Monday, 12/28. It was broken up by city police, who in good Orange Curtain fashion sang “Here Comes Santa Clause” as they rousted sleeping hippies…
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Mickey and the Hartbeats, October 1968
Someday I may write up a post about these shows that I love so much and that are so central to my thinking. But for now I just wanted to show off the poster I splurged and bought myself. Updates: ! note: Note the misdating to 1969 by Grushkin’s AOR. ! ref: AOR 2.118: October…
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JGB on the Chuckie V
JGB, USS Carl Vinson (SF Bay), March 6, 1987 On March 6, 1987, the Jerry Garcia Band played a gig at probably its most unexpected location, aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, which was apparently harbored in Alameda. There’s a tape of it, available in a basic version and a remastered version, done by sirmick. etree…
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JGMS: Bo Jangle’s, SF, February 11, 1972
edited, corrected Lost Live Dead and related have inspired me. Sorry to steal your schtick! I don’t get into depth (nor turn a phrase) the way LLD does, but it sure is fun, anyway. So the SF Chronicle is almost certainly loaded with stuff of interest. Unfortunately, unless I am missing something it does not…
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Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, Ash Grove, May 1973
There has been a lot of confusion over the years about the Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders shows played at the Ash Grove (8162 Melrose Avenue, Santa Monica, CA) in May of 1973. The Jerry Site has listed a pair of shows (early/late) on 5/23 and a pair of shows (early/late) on 5/30. I believe…
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Taking a Shit is a Political Act
Carol Brightman’s Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure offers the thesis that Garcia and the Grateful Dead were “apolitical” and should be condemned to that extent, having failed to stand up (as the Berkeley radicals did) to the injustices and corruptions of American and international politics in the 60s and 70s. The GD/San Francisco/Merry…