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Category: David Grisman

  • Stinson History

    Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can’t find an email for anyone in the organization based on a cursory search, so I thought I post some reactions here. The prompt for all of this is the newly digitized source for the…

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1972

    I have been processing information from contracts filed at the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local No. 6 in San Francisco. San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972 There is nothing representative about these – I have information on stuff that is…

  • Great American String Band – May 5, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley

    Sunday, May 5, 1974 found Garcia at the Keystone (typical), but in the background, picking some banjo in the Great American String Band behind its featured front line of Richard Greene (fiddle), David Grisman (mandolin), and David Nichtern (guitar and vocals). Rather remarkably, we know a fair bit of very interesting stuff about this gig,…

  • David Grisman and Peter Rowan at the Freight and Salvage, December 29, 1972

    I wonder what they played?

  • Jerry and Sandy’s Adventure, May 1964

    http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2015/10/jerry-and-sandys-adventure-may-1964.html I don’t do pre-Dead stuff, but this of course interests me because, as a member of the JGAB, Sandy Rothman interests me. Great archaeological work by JGBP, and thanks to Sandy for sharing his recollections for public consumption!

  • Reading Notes – Loren 2014

    Loren, Richard, with Stephen Abney. 2014. High Notes: A Rock Memoir. Demariscotta, ME: East Pond Publishing. When I read a book that I will need to be able to cite chapter and verse, this is how I arrange the chapters and verses. I just pull out quotes and other observations, I effectively tag them, and…

  • New Lost City Ramblers Song Book

    Seeger, Mike, and John Cohen, eds. 1964. The New Lost City Ramblers Song Book. New York: Oak Books. Here’s a brief list of tunes in the NLCR songbook that Garcia is known to have played. This does not include the Elizabeth Cotten tunes (I have considered them separately) and has not been carefully vetted, since…

  • JGB: Halloween 1981 – LN jg1981-10-31.jgb.early-late.aud-levene.88958.flac1644

    Late Jerry loved playing on Halloween. In the last fifteen years of his life, the only years he is not known to have gigged on Halloween are 1982 and 1994. Table xxx. Garcia on Halloween, 1980-1994. Orange is GD, blue is GOTS. As indicated in the table, things were distributed across the GD (6 dates/shows)…

  • Zimmy at Sans Souci

    Many counter culture luminaries found their way to Sans Souci in those days. On one memorable occasion, Grisman brought Bob Dylan along for a rehearsal at the house. “It was kind of exciting,” [Mountain Girl] remembered. “I baked chocolate chip cookies, and they all seemed to be having a rousing good time, playing together in…

  • Ronnie’s and Rowan’s Returns

    LN jg1981-11-13.jgb.early-late.aud-streeter.123554.flac1644 I cannot believe that things were nearly forgotten that should not have been around this late ’81 JGB tour, namely that Ronnie Tutt was back on the skins. Somehow that information didn’t make it to Garciabase, and thence to TJS, but thankfully Corry Knows and we have the old McNally-Arnold JG List still…