Fate Music

Category: Deborah Koons

  • JGB Spring ’93 SoCal

    Preface: JGB in SoCal Little springtime SoCal jaunts became a regular thing for JGB starting in 1983. (OK, that was very late winter, but March is generally pretty springy down there.) Some were one- or two-offs, others were a little more elaborate. Here’s a sketch. 1983: 3/11a and 3/11b in Santa Barbara; 3/12a and 3/12b,…

  • Donny’s Debut: JGB at the Warfield, February 4, 1994

    LN jg1994-02-04.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.146010.flac1644 Friday, February 4, 1994 through Sunday, February 6, 1994 are super interesting, for reasons that may not be independent. The amazing drummer David Kemper was let go at some point between the end of the fall ’93 tour and the first night of this run, for reasons that seem unclear even to him. After…

  • JGB in Chumash Country: Campbell Hall, UCSB, February 5, 1977

    In my writeup of the Garcia Band’s 11/20/76 gigs at the Pismo Theatre, I noted that Jerry urged the crowd to come see ol’ Hoyt Axton in a couple of weeks. “He’ll be down here doin’ a benefit for Redwind, which is just a good scene, about forty miles from here, a lot of good…

  • Jerry Has Fallen, and He Can’t Get Up

    OK, maybe I am feeling a little bit cranky. I have been doing some late era listening, and it’s not always easy. Wednesday, April 20, 1994 at the Warfield, for example, has a “Don’t Let Go” – which is good! – but it falls into quite a remarkable rut. From 3:22-6:03 of this lovely Vasseur…

  • The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

    My first working title for Fate Music was The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game. The THGCBTG framing, as I lovingly acronymized it, reflected a slightly darker view of Garcia’s side trips than I presently hold, one in which his damned Midas Touch tainted even his silly bar band, which eventually had to play boomy…

  • Il lui manque du souffle

    LN jg1995-04-15.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.94692.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 April 15, 1995 (Saturday) Vasseur flac1644 shnid-94692 –set I (5 tracks, 47:32)– s1t01. Cats Under The Stars s1t02. And It Stoned Me s1t03. He Ain’t Give You None s1t04. Dear Prudence s1t05. My Sisters And Brothers –set II (7 tracks, 68:03)–…

  • Harrington $treet

    On  January 19, 1994 Hal Kant, under Legally Dead cover, sent Jerry executed copies of the contract for what would become Harrington Street. Kant had negotiated a $550,000 advance for the volume, enough to net Jerry a cool half-million after the lawyer’s 9% came off the top. Kant told Jerry he’d put the money in…

  • Jerry’s January 1976

    (formatting will almost certainly be a mess – I blame Blogger) I.                    Preface My band is in a state of flux right now. John Kahn and Ron Tutt and I are the main … are the nucleus of it, such as it is. We’re hoping to have a four-piece band that we all like, sometime.…

  • Jerry’s New Year’s Eve – LN jg1975-12-31.jgb.all.aud-Falanga-Menke-8664-retrack.noshnid.shn2flac

    GarciaLive 5 GarciaLive, volume 5, December 31st 1975 Keystone Berkeley (2014) is out, available via jerrygarcia.com. Let me start by expressing gratitude for these GarciaLive releases. Having been a massive outlier in my interest in Garcia on the side, having often expressed frustration at the paucity of Jerry shows released under the old regime, I…

  • “JGMS 5/20/71” is probably really JGMS 5/20/71

    The tape traveling as Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, May 20, 1971, Keystone Korner (a.k.a. xx/xx/71 and 5/xx/71) probably really is Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, May 20, 1971, Keystone Korner (750 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA 94133) [map | JGC | JGBP | shnid-93137 | shnid-100855 | shnid-126365 |shnid-126389 and listening notes] The most…