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Category: canceled gigs

  • JGB at the Auditorium Music Hall, Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975 (CXL)

    JGB at the Auditorium Music Hall, Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975 (CXL)

    Here’s an ad from the Memphis Commercial Appeal billing Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) at the Auditorium Music Hall in Memphis, TN, November 18, 1975. Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), November 2, 1975, p. 5 The show must have been canceled, because I have never seen other record of this *and* the Garcia Band played the Keystone Berkeley this…

  • Pearl’s Wake

    Around November 3, 1970 the Associate Press (AP) had an item in lots of papers noting that Janis Joplin had left $2,500 in her will for a big ol’ celebration of her life after her passing. Invitations went out reading “The drinks are on Pearl”, and it happened at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo.…

  • CXLv003 now posted

    I have posted an updated version of my list of canceled Grateful Dead gigs and list of canceled Jerry Garcia gigs. You can access it via the link from the top-right of the blog, where you can also leave comments. Here is a direct link to the PDF of CXLv003.

  • Triple-Booked Vassar: October 6, 1973

    My post on Old And In The Way in Santa Cruz on Friday, October 5, 1973 referenced some of the band’s contemporaneous gigs. One of these was a gig the next night in Berkeley. In comments, I then noted that Vassar was advertised with Tut Taylor that same Saturday at the Exit/In in Nashville, whereupon…

  • UCLA Acid Test (CXL)

    ! ad: Daily Bruin, March 16, 1966, p. 2. Preface Suggested audio accompaniment for this post: http://tinyurl.com/hthnmgb, especially 30 minutes in when Ken Babbs is just raving, and things are just WILD. The UCLA Daily Bruin has been digitized, and is accessible via the Daily Bruin Print Archive at http://samhoff.github.io/archive/. The access is rather cumbersome,…

  • Altamont Dreams

    I have so little time for this hobby these days. I have fallen way behind on my reading, but I really look forward to reading Joel Selvin’s Altamont, among other things. With that in mind, I did want to put down this little tidbit I found in the Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC concerning the…

  • CXLv002

    I have updated the document CXL – List of Canceled Grateful Dead Gigs – List of Canceled Jerry Garcia Gigs. This is v002. This attempts to incorporate commenters’ suggestions –special thanks to LIA and runonguinness. Comment on the Blogger Page so we can keep keeping track.

  • Jerry Garcia, January 17, 1972-January 29, 1972

    Here’s a visualization of the Garciaverse from January 17-29, 1972. This being blogger, I hope you can see it. “Jerry Garcia, January 17, 1972-January 29, 1972” Here is the Codebook as PDF. There’s no particular reason I am showing this slice, just wanted to give you all a look at how some of the cancellations…

  • Canceled Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Gigs

    Edit: here is a PDF as of 11/23/2015 Edit: here is a Blogger Page as of 11/23/2015. Formatting will be horrifying, blame Blogger. But here is my list of canceled gigs. DATE VENUE CITY STATE ACT1 NOTES REFERENCES 19650619 Frenchy’s Hayward CA GD canceled ! ref: Scott et al. 1995, p. vii. 19650620 Frenchy’s Hayward…

  • more Garcia summer 1991 cancellations

    Jerry Garcia Band (electric) was scheduled to play Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford University on July 14, 1991, but July 11th announced that Citing “mounting health problems,” Jerry Garcia has postponed his upcoming tour dates, including his show scheduled for Sunday at Frost Amphitheater. This ended up being canceled. I had earlier noted that that summer’s…