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Category: David Grisman

  • GAMB: July 7, 1974, CXL’D?

    So, these showed up on ebay a few months back. Poster advertising a “Freak Fair” from July 4-7, 1974 at Shorebird Park on the Berkeley Marina. The red-and-white line drawn poster features illustrations of a native American, a hot air balloon “Enterprise”, a geodesic dome, and mintrally-inspired freaks dancing. Listed attractions include jugglers, belly dancers,…

  • Acoustic Disc

    Looks like Grisman lost acousticdisc.com, despite the fact that there are still lots of links from http://www.dawgnet.com/. Odd.

  • Reading Notes: Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35.

    Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35. A FEW POINTS TO EXTRACT: First, I believe the interview material and show observations are from March 13, 1973 at the Keystone in Berkeley. He only mentions it as a quartet, so I doubt there was a fiddle player there. Here are setlist…

  • The New National Anthem of Bluegrass: OAITW, Stinson Beach Community Center, September 30, 1973

     LN jg1973-09-30.oaitw.all.aud.11862.shnf Old And In The Way Community Center 32 Belvedere Avenue Stinson Beach, CA 94970 September 30, 1973 (Sunday) This old fileset (shnid 11862, probably created around September 2002) has always interested me. The format of the info files was very distinctive around a whole big batch of the iffily-lineaged OAITW shows. The material…

  • OAITW 19730305 Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA

    Sharp-eyed readers who checked out the March 1973 Inn of the Beginning flyer in my post about Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders 1/15/73 and Sarah Fulcher may have looked to the top-left, and seen this: Here we have listings for two Monday, March 5, 1973 shows (9pm and 11 pm) by Old And In The Way (OAITW)…

  • Welcome to your new home, Vassar Clements: OAITW at the Keystone, 7/21/73

    LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.b-live-all.sbd-PNW.113845.flac1644  updated 20110629-1438 EST updated 20200723 We have here a 94 minute soundboard of Old And In The Way, identified as at the Keystone, 2119 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94704 on the evening of Saturday, July 21, 1973. The tape was in the collection of Will Boswell via Jerry Garcia’s own copy, held and…

  • LN jg1970-09-20.nrps.all.sbd-reynolds.97866.flac1644

    Program cover for An Evening With the Grateful Dead; Featuring The New Riders of the Purple Sage; Joe’s Lights. Fillmore East, September 17-20, 1970. Already the September 17-20, 1970 GD-NRPS run was the New Riders’ third trip to Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in the “An Evening With The Grateful Dead” format. On May 15 they…

  • Second Guitarist, No Martin: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, July 12, 1974

    19740712: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders: Friday, July 12, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley, CA. There is a second guitarist on this show. I am concluding it’s David Nelson, but I am really uncertain. Can anyone else with this recording take a listen? Can anyone shed any more light? Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Keystone Berkeley, CA…

  • GSCBF14: Old And In The Way: Sunday, April 28, 1974, ca. 23:15

    Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! GSCBF3: Sunday 4/28/74 afternoon schedule GSCBF4: Greenbriar Boys (a.k.a.…

  • The Birth of the Great American Music Band

    Editor’s Note: I should point out that the timing of this post was inspired by Corry, who has recently posted on the misty origins of OAITW and who earlier had posted on what might have been the “public debut of a very important band,” the GAMB. While I think this post casts a different light…