Category: canceled gigs
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Reconstruction in Tempe, AZ, July 29, 1979 (CANCELED)
**update: the show was canceled, per JGBP’s correspondence with show promoter, in comments** I gather up a lot of stuff, and “processing” it takes time. I appear to have gathered the above about 2/20/2015. It bears the watermark of noted photog Jay Blakesberg, and it’s a ca. July 1979 schedule of Dead-related events put out…
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GD at Gold Rush Festival, Lake Amador, CA, October 4, 1969 – CXL
“Tribe Pushes Gold,” Berkeley Tribe, September 12-18, 1969, p. 13. “Gold Rush is on – 24 hours of rock-folk-blues on the shores of Lake Amador, a private lake resort miles from anything. ” Scheduled for October 4th, planned acts include Ike and Tina Turner, Sons of Champlin, Taj Mahal, Grateful Dead, John Fahey, Cold Blood,…
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Latest Legion Listing
Funny the things that pop up. Here’s a listing from the Marin Independent-Journal of July 25, 1975 for Legion of Mary at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday, July 30, 1975. Of course, the last known Legion gig having been on July 6th, this listing caught my eye. What does it mean? I don’t…
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Darkness, Darkness
**Fulsomely updated, 11/28/2014 at 12:34 PM, GMT -0700)** **update2: Blogger is making me crazy. Sorry for poor formatting** This post now needs to be completely reconstituted. 1. San Diego papers I mentioned in my 11/18/73 post that the San Diego State Daily Aztec is digitized and online. Bravo, and thank you, librarians! They have also,…
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Contradictions Are Fun
The human spirit … is the favorite home of contradictions, indeed they do not seem to prosper or even find viable living conditions outside it. José Saramago, All the Names, p. 228 Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders were advertised to play the Matrix at 3138 Fillmore on Wednesday, March 3, 1971. But as far as…
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NRPS June 21-23, 1971 Boarding House – CANCELED
San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 1971, p. 47. Here’s an interesting one that I don’t quite know what to do with – NRPS and Rowan Bothers playing the Boarding House June 21-23, 1971. Of course, Garcia was in France on 6/21, and even gaining back 7 or 8 hours he probably couldn’t have been back…
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JGMS January 28-29, 1972 Keystone Korner – CANCELED
Interesting to see Jerry Garcia and Merle [sic] Saunders billed for Keystone Korner on Friday-Saturday, January 28-29, 1972. Suggests that, as of whenever the deadline for these listings might have been, a second weekend for the Hooteroll? tour had not yet been pinned down. #AHATT. According to listing in the next day’s HDR, Grootna filled…
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JGMS: January 11-12, 1974, Winterland, SF (CXL)
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, Waylon Jennings, and Alice Stuart and Snake were billed at Bill Graham’s Winterland on the weekend of January 11–12, 1974. These bookings have been on The List since forever. Here’s what puzzles me: why are there no attendee recollections anywhere, or am I just missing them? How come no poster?…
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GAMB: July 7, 1974, CXL’D?
So, these showed up on ebay a few months back. Poster advertising a “Freak Fair” from July 4-7, 1974 at Shorebird Park on the Berkeley Marina. The red-and-white line drawn poster features illustrations of a native American, a hot air balloon “Enterprise”, a geodesic dome, and mintrally-inspired freaks dancing. Listed attractions include jugglers, belly dancers,…
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JGMS February 7-8, 1975: canceled?
The Jerry Site lists JGMS shows for Friday, February 7, 1975 and Saturday, February 8, 1975, based on listing in Hayward Daily Review, 1/31/75, p. 44. The above are clippings of the Keystone’s weekly ads, I don’t know from which paper from the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Datebook, which I lovingly refer to…