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Category: college gigs

  • Kean College Tour Closer: JGB, November 15, 1982 (Late Show)

    jg1982-11-15.jgb.late-1.aud-vita-minches.78008.flac1644 Pretty standard late ’82 gig to my ears, not the equal to 11/11/82 late or 11/13/82, IMO. Errico’s Gatling Gun start to HTC is awesome. Three little oddities jump out to my pattern-obsessed brain. First, no early show tape. Hm. Second … , both the Vita aud and the soundboard tape are missing the encore. Hm. never…

  • Fall ’77 Gig Economics: The Case of SUNY New Paltz (JGB, 11/29/77)

    Handbill for JGB at SUNY New Paltz, 11/29/77. Scan via Mark Cohen. Note that Ron Tutt is erroneously listed among the personnel. The economics of the Garcia Band’s Fall ’77 tour have remained a little out of view for me, since I have never been able to track down itineraries, contracts, box office reports and…

  • Garcia’s College Gigs

    I am fixing to submit research assistance requests to the archives of the various colleges Garcia played. Colleges and universities, bound up as they are with modernity and imbued as they are with a sense of their own importance, document themselves thoroughly. Having sniffed around a few archives already, I am hoping there are some…

  • JGB in Chumash Country: Campbell Hall, UCSB, February 5, 1977

    In my writeup of the Garcia Band’s 11/20/76 gigs at the Pismo Theatre, I noted that Jerry urged the crowd to come see ol’ Hoyt Axton in a couple of weeks. “He’ll be down here doin’ a benefit for Redwind, which is just a good scene, about forty miles from here, a lot of good…

  • Digitization Makes Me Happy

    Via https://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu, the UCSB Daily Nexus (and before it, the El Gaucho) has been digitized. Having sniffed around Santa Barbara a fair bit (UCSB being my alma mater), I am happy to see this, and found a few good things. First, I have found a preview and a review of OAITW 4/12/73 at the Granada,…

  • ‘We’re Havin’ Fun” – Healthy, Happy Jerry at the Greek, July 10, 1988

    LN jg1988-07-10.jgb.all.aud-reutelhuber.25416.shn2flac God, this is such a fantastic fileset. First, the legendary Bill Reutelhuber pulled a tape that just grabs you by the collar and forces you to listen. It is right in your face, in the best possible way. Second –and I hope this isn’t just a tape artifact!– the show, too, brings tremendous…

  • 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,…

  • Dropping in Robertson Gym (gd1969-01-17)

    The Grateful Dead and Santa Barbara are two great things that go great together. One little mystery has always centered on the location of the January 17, 1969 gig. The gig was absent from Deadbase, is listed as Unknown Venue chez Deadlists, and circulates from Vault -> Latvala -> world tape as “Civic Auditorium, Santa…

  • UCSB ’78

    Corry has a post on the GD / Warren Zevon / Elvin Bishop / Wahkoo gig at UCSB on July 4, 1978. I have two followups, a tape beg and a tangential piece of metadata. First, does anyone have a copy of the Elvin Bishop set, with Jerry sitting in? Apparently there is an aud…

  • Green Green Grass Of Home

    This show (GD 5/31/69) is a maxed-out masterpiece. Mamma mia. Play it loud! Random tape archaeology: this is shnid-76, very early in the shn game. https://goo.gl/maps/T4udv2YuEAR2 44.0417292,-123.0763108 ! Corry: “when the Dead headlined McArthur Court on May 31, 1969, it was one of the biggest rooms that they had headlined up until that time. The…