Fate Music

Category: Freddie Herrera

  • Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix – A Dialogue

    [ed: Corry sent me an email about Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix, which turned into a rather elaborate exchange on the subject. One piece of our correspondence involved the tape traveling as 5/20/71. This is some of Garcia’s finest playing on tape in any context. I highly recommend that you check it…

  • “Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders & Tom Fogerty Sat-Sun, New Monk”

    SFC 7/2/71 p. 52 Last year I spun some 1970 and early 1971 microfilm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and found seven new-to-The-List shows in a three-month span. If you follow the blog or scroll down a bit chronologically, you’ll see that I have continued to discover more in the 1971-1972 period, and even as…

  • Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders

    Love this for the Keystone Korner, ca. May 1, 1972, sounds like Selvin to me: “With Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders out of town, not too much happening right now.” (listing: Night Times, May 3-16, 1972, p. 5.) In addition to reinforcing my point about the symbiosis between Jerry and Freddie, how quickly and deeply it…

  • Jerry and Freddie, mid-March 1972

    Above are the music listings from Night Times, March 8-21, 1972. Check ’em out if you’re interested, of course, but let me be Garciacentric and offer the following tidbit, about the deepening relationship between Jerry Garcia (et al.) and Freddie Herrera: Jerry and Merle [sic] —Night Times misspelled his name without fail through this point,…

  • Color: January 12-25, 1972 Night Times listings

    Here are some listings from the Night Times, with a few scattershot thoughts. 1) The Berkeley Night Times is a gem. 2) It’s especially good re: race. The range of clubs it covers exceeds most other sources – you’ve got the country clubs, the rock clubs, the black soul/R&B/gospel clubs, the Latin clubs, a little…

  • Jerry Garcia Sometime Before Christmas

    Night Times, published out of Berkeley for about a year (as far as I know) in 1971-1972, is a treasure. I found a review of Chez Panisse just shortly after it opened, but it’s loaded with great music, art, etc. content. Anyway, I liked this one, from the December 23, 1971 – January 3, 1972…

  • Context: July 1976 BAM Listings

    I intend this stuff for future historians, not to take up Corry’s precious time! BAM no. 5 sees the live music listings expanding to two pages. Probably the same quantity of listings, but now there are ads to go along with them. The publication is doing some business! Lots of interesting stuff here, as always.…

  • At Wolfgang’s Warfield: JGB, March 2, 1991 orchestra tape

    LN jg1991-03-02.jgb.all.aud-mk4-orchestra.123611.flac1648 Obviously I don’t get much into the 1990s, though I’ll need to do more to do the whole GOTS story justice. (seealso: JGB 3/1/91 listening notes) This is a totally professional gig, musically excellent. Old Jerry has his charms. He’s a sophisticated storyteller and themeweaver on the guitar. I have performance notes below,…

  • ‘Drink ’em up, it’s the last one’: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, July 23, 1977

     LN jg1977-07-23.jgb.all.sbd-miller.30662.flac1644 Meh. This doesn’t light me up. Equipment gremlins running amok, things never achieve escape velocity to my ears. Jerry Garcia Band Keystone Palo Alto 260 South California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94301 July 23, 1977 (Saturday) – 9:30 PM MSC Miller flac1644 shnid-30662 –set I (6 tracks, 64:25)– s1t01. tuning [1:02] s1t02. Sugaree [15:01]…

  • Late for Supper: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, October 7, 1978

    LN jg1978-10-07.jgb.all.aud-angus-hart.105024.flac2496 Jerry Garcia Band Keystone Palo Alto 260 South California Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 October 7, 1978 (Saturday) Angus-Hart complete aud flac2496 shind-105024 –set I (6 tracks, 56:11)– s1t01. tuning [0:20] s1t02. I Second That Emotion [12:40] [0:08] % s1t03. It Ain’t No Use [8:31] [0:02] % (1) [1:00] s1t04. Knockin’ On Heaven’s…