Category: college gigs
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Rango at the Greek 5/14/83
What a great pull. https://archive.org/details/gd1983-05-14.fob.sonyecm220t.keshavan.miller.94396.sbeok.flac16
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JGB at Freeborn Hall, November 12, 1976
Sometime in the afternoon or thereabouts of Friday, November 12, 1976, Garcia, John Kahn, Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, probably Richard Loren hopped into sedans being driven by monitor mixer Harry Popick and roadie Bill ‘Kidd’ Candelario to Davis, California, about a hundred miles east of San Francisco on I-80. Thus began a little weekend…
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“Beneficent, Raptured”: JGB 4/4/76 Page Auditorium
**update: see Corry, of course. This show has long been AWOL among collectors, but a nice 1st gen copy of an undetermined master audience tape has just come into the light (shnid-134922). Thanks to Alan Richman and dminches for getting it out there! I decided to post a little miscellanea, maybe a few notes. Listing…
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So He Goes Nowhere
https://archive.org/details/gd1980-06-08.SonyECM250.walker-scotton.miller.88452.sbeok.flac16 This fileset is great – awesome tape by Joani Walker. It also includes a few great tracks from the Warren Zevon set and a post-show interview with Bob Weir. Here’s an interesting little exchange, 24 minutes into the interview, or thereabouts. Bob: “Garcia, who’s really visible for miles … he can’t go anywhere. He…
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Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah.
Introduction The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something – because I…
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Clio’s Garcia
“More and different” pithily summarizes what Garcia was pursuing in his Side Trips relative to what he got out of the Grateful Dead. Here are a few snapshots of some over-time trends I find illuminating. “More”: this is a calendar view of Garcia’s out of state tours with the Dead (pink) and his side bands…
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JGMS in San Diego 11/18/73 probably rained out
The List has long given Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Aztec Bowl, San Diego State College (I think it was still this C and not a U at the time), November 18, 1973. Because Garcia and Saunders had barely played out of the Bay Area by that time (Ash Grove in LA 5/29-30/73,…
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UMass ‘Master of the Fretboard’: JGB, February 20, 1980 (late show)
LN jg1980-02-20.jgb.late.aud-Sony_23F-Nak_550.131018.flac2448 The Jerry Garcia Band (JGB #11a) played 22 shows in the 29 days of February 1980, warming up locally and then touring college and off-campus theaters, reportedly to help pay for the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Sirens of Titan”. I have all kinds of information about John and Jerry’s quest for those…
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Daily Collegians
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22daily%20collegian%22%20AND%20collection%3Aamericana That’ll get you to scans of the Daily Collegian (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). I gathered up the stuff around 2/20/80, which I have also listened to. The search function seems a little slow – these are some pretty huge files. The pdf of 1979-1980 weighs in at 2GB. Beautiful images, and the scrolling interface…
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JGB at Vassar: it was not meant to be
It’s tough being Jerry. He won a poll at Vassar about who students would most like to see, but “Garcia … was only available in the middle of the week. It was also rumored that Grateful Dead fans were notorious for destroying concert halls and that the chapel would suffer the same fate. Since the…