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Category: context

  • Context: 19681009-19681013 Express Times listings

    McHenry Library at UCSC has one random roll of the great San Francisco Express Times from the turbulent year of 1968.  I have some holes in my collection of listings from that paper in that year, had lots of other really specific stuff to get into, but had a few brief moments to spin some…

  • Context: September 1976 BAM Listings

    Up to three pages, lots of ads. Well done, hip young capitalists! p. 25 finds the usual stuff. I am a little confused about address of the Green Earth, here listed as 1810 Market, with another place, the Omnibus, at 1821 Haight. I assume this is a typesetting problem, need to double-check. Some Country Joe…

  • Context: August 1976 BAM Listings

  • Context: July 1976 BAM Listings

    I intend this stuff for future historians, not to take up Corry’s precious time! BAM no. 5 sees the live music listings expanding to two pages. Probably the same quantity of listings, but now there are ads to go along with them. The publication is doing some business! Lots of interesting stuff here, as always.…

  • Context: June 1976 BAM Listings

    Here are the live music listings from BAM no. 3. Here’s the snapshot I take. Jerry confederates, most. I like these Comfort listings just to put some foundation under the idea that they were a going concern when they partnered up with Hunter the next year. And this would be the Kingfish quartet, sans Robert…

  • Context: May 1976 BAM listings

    More color. May 21, 1976, Garcia Band plays Orpheum in San Francisco, while Garcia’s erstwhile bandmate, Merl, is stuck playing Fonzie’s in San Jose, the latter mostly still orchards and low riders rather than silicon and Teslas. And other fun stuff. Oh, and it looks like Mingus didn’t play Keystone Korner in May ’76. I…

  • Context: April 1976 BAM listings

    So here’s a first example of my sources and methods for context. It’s a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM (“Bay Area Music”) magazine, April 1976. Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet: the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty’s band of the period; the listings for…

  • Context

    As I contemplate writing some of this stuff up for a more general (less maniacal) readership, I see that I am going to have to write plain English in book form and refer back to the blog in endnotes. So I can drop all of the random little tidbits here, which is what I do…