Category: canceled gigs
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JGMS: February 16, 1974, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (CANCELED)
Village Voice, January 10, 1974, p. 40 An ad for a show by Jerry Garcia, Merle [sic] Saunders, John Kahn and Bill Kreutzmann (call ’em Garcia/Saunders, or JGMS), with Sons of Champlin opening, Saturday, February 16, 1974 at the Capitol Theatre, 326 Monroe Street, Passaic, NJ, 07055. This is positively stunning, I have to say.…
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GD19700327-29: March 27-29, 1970, “Winter’s End Festival,” Miami, FL (CANCELED)
[Update 20120303] The Festival was held, in a manner of speaking, but almost every big name act, including the GD, canceled. It sounds like a really disastrous episode. Long narrative in the following: Thomas King Forcade, “Winter’s End: free the Rock & Roll Six,” San Diego Free Door, April 23, 1970, pp. 8, 12, accessed…
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GD/NRPS: April 19, 1971, Gymnasium, Hofstra University, West Hempstead, NY (CANCELED)
Corry and I have been documenting some of the GD’s early 1971 logistical difficulties. GD: early 1971 logistical difficulties GD: January 31, 1971, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA GD: March/April 1971, Norther Illinois University, Dekalb, IL GD: March 19, 1971 The Syndrome, Chicago, IL (LLD) GD: April 2, 1971 Kent State University, Kent, OH…
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GD: June 13, 1970, “Atlanta Braves Stadium,” Atlanta, GA (CANCELED)
Haven’t posted about a canceled gig in awhile. Anyway, found mention of a festival to include the GD, Ike & Tina Turner, Traffic, Stevie Wonder, the Allman Brothers and others, scheduled for June 13, 1970 per the post title. Course the GD played in Hawaii that day. Sounds like a big old event to have…
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GD/NRPS: May 28, 1971, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (CANCELED)
In an earlier post I discussed the infamous May 29, 1971 Grateful Dead show at Winterland at which a large number of people reacted adversely to being dosed. As Corry noted in comments, the Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage show scheduled for the night before (May 28, 1971) was canceled due…
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June 1969 Community in Musical Efforts (COME) program, Oakland, CA
I have found two 1969 articles related to Community and (some say “in”) Musical Efforts (COME), a two week series of seminars and workshops in “now” music to be held at Mills College, Oakland, CA, in June of 1969. Teachers were set to include Jerry Garcia, John Handy, Mickey Hart, Roland Kirk, the Tape Music…
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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: September 15-16, 1972, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (CANCELED)
Security & related concerns among the citizenry led to the cancellation of these shows in late August. Advanced ticket sales had already been underway, with ca. 4,000 ducats sold. GD would end up at Boston Music Hall for these dates … not a bad landing, though presumably much, much smaller. REFERENCES Red Wildy, “SPAC Postponing…
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GD: March/April 1971, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL (CANCELED)
More early ’71 scheduling stuff: “The Grateful Dead pulled a last-minute cancellation at Northern Illinois University a few weeks ago.” This was in an article published on May 7, 1971 (1). So depending on the meaning of “a few weeks”, it could have been in March, when the GD were in Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, canceled…