Fate Music

Category: Elvin Bishop

  • UCSB ’78

    Corry has a post on the GD / Warren Zevon / Elvin Bishop / Wahkoo gig at UCSB on July 4, 1978. I have two followups, a tape beg and a tangential piece of metadata. First, does anyone have a copy of the Elvin Bishop set, with Jerry sitting in? Apparently there is an aud…

  • Carl Lockett and the Side Trips Social Network

    Preface: Reconstruction #2 Jerry Garcia’s commitment to Reconstruction never seemed total, a big problem if you’re John Kahn, first, and then Merl Saunders, looking to reboot the lucrative Garcia-Saunders-Kahn Fantasy Records franchise. It’s no good if the G is wobbly, because “multiracial dance and jazz band with a rotating cast of Bay Area guitarists, including…

  • Hartbeats as Tempo Études

    LN jg1968-10-30.hartbeats.163mins.sbd-gadsden.xxxxxx.flac1644 Well, we probably won’t ever be able to identify everything about the various Matrix Tapes (dates, personnel, etc.), with 100% certainty. But there’s no particular reason to doubt that this is something like Mickey and the Hartbeats (here, as Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, with guest Elvin Bishop on a few tunes)…