Fate Music

Category: death

  • On Accuracy

    The recent June 5th brought out more than a tiny number of people to recognize the Oregon State Penintiery show on the anniversary of its performance — June 5, 1982 — rather than on the date given by the old bootleg tape. Because the bootleg was one of the mostly widely held Garcia recordings in…

  • Pearl’s Wake

    Around November 3, 1970 the Associate Press (AP) had an item in lots of papers noting that Janis Joplin had left $2,500 in her will for a big ol’ celebration of her life after her passing. Invitations went out reading “The drinks are on Pearl”, and it happened at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo.…

  • Book on Nightstand at Serenity Knolls

    I thought I remember that one of the big Garcia/GD auctions of some years back offered a copy of the book that was found on Jerry’s nightstand at Serenity Knolls. Does that ring a bell for anyone? Anyone remember what book it was?

  • Body … Bent and Broken

    LN jg1994-09-10.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.23791.shn2flac Man, these late era shows are really changing my understanding of Old Garcia. I have been saying it in these recent posts: his lacks lung-power, his voice is weak, his muscles are atrophied and his wrists are sore. He is prone to forgetting lyrics. These physical limitations dictate his vocal and instrumental approaches.…

  • Jerry Garcia and John Lennon, summarized by Dennis McNally

    On December 8, Garcia was at Front Street working on Dead Set when get got a call that told him of the assassination of John Lennon. Work was impossible. He sat down at Keith Godchaux‘s old Steinway (more pain: Keith had died in a car accident that summer) and noodled for many hours, lost in…

  • The Humanity

    Video of “So Many Roads” from 7/9/95 below the fold.

  • Visions of Johanna

    Powerful viewing of a gut-wrenchingly beautiful performance, a dying man grasping at life, stumbling a time or two, laying bare the depth and beauty of the human condition. Thank you, videographer, thank you Bob Dylan, thank you Jerry.

  • A Conversation With Jerry

    https://youtu.be/2tamQ9Uj1Hk So many data, so little time. One item on my lengthy “to-do” list is to try to process every Garcia interview. It’s finite, naturally enough, and thus in principle do-able. In practice, well, only so many hours. Anyway, this one is a bunch of raw tape for Rolling Stone 20th, 1987 sometime. Some really…

  • Oscuro – February 2, 1975

    (Editorial note: I debated whether to post this, for two reasons. First, these are people’s lives. I will try to stick to the facts. Second, as an aesthetic proposition, obscurity needs to be done in moderation — it isn’t always fun to try to take in, in looking at a painting or in trying to…

  • Darkness, Darkness

    **Fulsomely updated, 11/28/2014 at 12:34 PM, GMT -0700)** **update2: Blogger is making me crazy. Sorry for poor formatting** This post now needs to be completely reconstituted. 1. San Diego papers  I mentioned in my 11/18/73 post that the San Diego State Daily Aztec is digitized and online. Bravo, and thank you, librarians! They have also,…