Fate Music

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  • Last Freddie-ish Gig on Tape: JGB at the Stone, May 28, 1987

    update: I can’t believe I didn’t know that Freddie didn’t actually run the Stone and KPA. I knew the Coronas were involved, but Corry informs me in comments that they actually ran the KPA and the Stone, and Freddie really only had the Berkeley club. Learn something new everyday. I will still refer to this…

  • At Wolfgang’s Orpheum: JGB with Clarence Clemons, March 3, 1989

    The success of the Dead’s Touch of Grey didn’t only limit that band’s venue (and even city) options. It also impacted ol’ Midas’s bar band. Freddie Herrera’s last remaining club, the 700-seat Stone on Broadway, didn’t stand a chance, and a four-night Garcia Band run on May 27-28 and 30-31, 1987 brought the curtain down on Jerry and…

  • The Shortest Two-Set Electric Show? JGB at the Stone, Sunday, September 16, 1984

    LN jg1984-09-16.jgb.all.aud-jjoops.97573.flac1644 A little dive into the Rock Bottom period yields this pearl of an electric JGB show – two four-tune sets clocking in around a half-hour of music each. I don’t really note anything much about the performance, other than its brevity and Garcia’s unsurprising vocal limitations. I don’t want to be mean. I am…

  • Jerry Garcia playing bass behind Lightnin’ Hopkins: Fillmore Aud, 10/23/66

    In the Fillmore Poster Appreciation Society group page on Facebook, eyewitness comments under the poster for the Bill Graham shows on the weekend of 10/21-23-/66 indicate that Jerry Garcia played bass behind Lightnin’ Hopkins. I don’t think I knew that. Did you? This would be Jerry’s third non-GD performance within a week: 10/16/66 sit-in with…

  • Eels

    I am sure you all know this, but all three of Jerry’s gigs at on the Eel River are slated for release. I have written a little about the 6/10/89 and 8/10/91 iterations.

  • Big Gigs, Little Ex Post Trace

    Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played larger theaters, auditoriums and arenas. Examples include BCT for the United Farmworkers on 9/22/72, Winterland for unspecified Hells Angels on 10/2/73, and BCT again for Ethiopian famine relief (8/23/74) and, on 10/12/74, for…

  • Book on Nightstand at Serenity Knolls

    I thought I remember that one of the big Garcia/GD auctions of some years back offered a copy of the book that was found on Jerry’s nightstand at Serenity Knolls. Does that ring a bell for anyone? Anyone remember what book it was?

  • Good Old Boys at Margarita’s Cantina!

    https://homegrownmusic.net/store/cd/good-old-boys-live-2cd John Cutler taped these shows from February 20-21, 1975, and they are now up for official release. Wow! Cryptdev saw one of these shows. See also: Corry, “The Good Old Boys: Jerry Garcia, Producer (and some banjo)“ My goodness, can’t wait to hear these.

  • New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1973-end

    This is a followup to New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972. I include new-to-The-List dates, some that were advertised and seem to have been canceled, a few other weird things I uncovered. The Examiner was quite a task. If the Chronicle were digitized, that’d be the last frontier for me. At this point, returns are diminishing,…

  • Jam Session Celebrating Dick Clark

    Joel Selvin’s “Lively Arts” column in the Chronicle/Examiner pink section on September 6, 1981 contained this little oddity: Evergreen TV host Dick Clark celebrates his 30th anniversary on live television Thursday [9/10/81] with a program that will include a jam session featuring Duane Eddy, Gregg Allman, Stanley Clarke, Bo Diddley, Nigel Olsson, Dickey Betts, Charlie…