Category: drugs

  • Reading Notes: Signpost to a New Space and Stoned Sunday Rap

    These are “reading notes” – little stuff I cull when I read. I copy and paste the quotes into thematic documents (e.g., drugs.docx), so all of this has been “processed” out of the book, and up one level, into thematic or other kinds of buckets. You may not find the quotes of greatest interest to…

  • Lost Godchaux-Muldaur Era JGB

    New to The List:  Stanford Daily listing shows JGB at Keystone Berkeley Saturday, August 12, 1978 (long known via the Soto-McNally-Arnold JG List, and there is tape), but also Sunday, August 13, 1978. The latter would be new to The List.  ! listing: Stanford Daily, August 11, 1978, p. 7.  Still Uncertain? 11/4/78 and a…

  • more Garcia summer 1991 cancellations

    Jerry Garcia Band (electric) was scheduled to play Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford University on July 14, 1991, but July 11th announced that Citing “mounting health problems,” Jerry Garcia has postponed his upcoming tour dates, including his show scheduled for Sunday at Frost Amphitheater. This ended up being canceled. I had earlier noted that that summer’s…

  • Reading Notes: Henke 1991

    LIA posted a quote from this, I stumbled across it amidst my materials, and I decided now was as good a time as any to annotate it. Henke, James. 1991. The Rolling Stone Interview: Jerry Garcia. Rolling Stone, October 31, 34-40, 103, 106, 108. Two September 1991 afternoons, hotel room overlooking Central Park. July 1991…

  • 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…

  • Horses, cocaine and, 231

    So many books. Took my Kreutzmann 2015, no time to really engage it, but wanted to commune with it a little bit, form some expectations. Glad there is an index, just opened to the back and my eye drew to the entry “horses, cocaine and, 231”. “hotels, destruction at, 314” sounds promising, too. Sounds like…

  • Burnt to a Crisp on Long Island

    LN jg1978-03-12.jgb.all.aud-unknown.82587.flac1644 Sunday, March 12, 1978, the Mystery Cats met up with all kinds of old friends for a party on Long Island. Corry’s got the goods on Hunter, Nelson, Marmaduke and Garcia all finding themselves together this night – it’s great stuff. See also my other posts from this tour: 3/10/78 interview 3/10/78 listening…

  • 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.…

  • Junco Partners – LN jg1976-01-10.jgb.all.aud-cook.8077.shn2flac

    Down the road, came a junco partner (right now, wow-oh-wow) He was loaded, he was loaded, he was loaded, as loaded as can be Lord, he was knocked-out, knocked-out, knocked-out and loaded And he was singing, he was singing, he was singing this song for me Some great American music in this set, including several…

  • James Booker, Classified

    ‘Cause I know I think I know How everything is classified That ain’t no lie I’m so glad someone told me How everything is classified That ain’t no lie — James Booker, “Classified” Let me pass some light through the social prism of James Carroll Booker III (December 17, 1939 – November 8, 1983) performing…