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Category: college gigs

  • JGB at Queens College, October 30, 1975

    LN jg1975-10-30.jgb.all.aud-cooper.124251.flac2496 Have barely had time to write a word about the Hopkins-era JGB these last 4+ years of blogging and hiatuses. That remains true, so the writeup will be short. Bottom line is that I think Nicky sounds really good (i.e., reasonably sober). I sort of figure that the day off the day before…

  • Review of Legion of Mary 12/15/74 EMU Ballroom

    With the release of this show, thought I’d post the review that I have in my collection. The release sounds fantastic, and I am loving it so far. If I had time to blog, I’d analyze the liner notes and the music and the gigs and all that. But, no time. Deaddisc has an entry…

  • Who Was John? JGB at GWU, April 3, 1976 (early show)

     LN jg1976-04-03.jgb.early.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 OK, maybe the last post of my hiatus hiatus. 4/3/76a. This is probably the same source tape as shnid-82761. A nice show. Jerry Garcia Band Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University 730 21st and H Street NWWashington, DC 20052 April 3, 1976 (Saturday) – Early show, 7 PM 80 min CC aud-1 flac2448 [upgraded…

  • JGB at Northwestern: Cahn Auditorium, March 12, 1976 (late show)

    LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.late.aud-unk.xxxxx.flac1644 My love of audience tapes is evident to anyone who reads here. The anthropological instinct (and practice) underpinning field recording enthralls me. To me, everybody who ever taped a gig is right there with Alan Lomax and all the rest. Now, sometimes you have to be willing to sacrifice your aesthetics a little…

  • LN jg1976-03-12.jgb.1p-2p.aud-coplen.20700.shn2flac

    If there were more time, I’d like to talk about “Who Was John?”, elaborate on the racial structure of the music, the unevenness of this period (March-April 1976).  But there’s not time, so just a data dump. Jerry Garcia Band Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University 600 Emerson StreetEvanston, IL 60201 March 12, 1976 (Friday) 55 minute…

  • Recently added to TJS, Saunders images

    I am sure everyone who reads here knows one can follow changes at The Jerry Site (there’s also an RSS feed). TJS admin slip_not has been adding some nice data from poster and handbill images shared at the Merl Saunders Facebook page. Since these photos are shared intentionally downloadable from Facebook, and acting on the…

  • OAITW: June 11, 1973, Temple University-Ambler, Ambler, PA

    This show (OAITW: June 11, 1973, Temple Festival Theater, Ambler, PA) will end up being important to me, I think, as I write more about OAITW and the summer of 1973. Can’t wait. For now, I just want to address venue confusion. **update: it was definitely in an amphitheater, not an enclosed theater – thanks…

  • GD: September 3, 1972, Folsom Field, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34917706@N07/sets/72157622061027813

  • NRPS 19710121 Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA

    My questions about whether the NRPS played the January 1971 out-of-town GD shows in Davis (1/21/71), Eugene (1/22/71) and Seattle (1/24/71) , and my conjecture that maybe they just stayed at Heider’s, are at least partly answered and stand at least partly wrong. California Aggie, January 25, 1971, p. 8; photos by Jim Quigley. Here’s…

  • GD 19670106

    “Big Mama to aid in raising of the dead,” California Aggie, January 6, 1967, p. 5. Grateful Dead played at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA on January 6, 1967. The above preview article is from that day’s California Aggie, p. 5. What intrigues me is the line that says that the last time they…