Category: Freeborn Hall
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GD at Freeborn Hall: Friday, October 28, 1966
This is out of my wheelhouse, but since it brings together two loose ends for me I thought I’d post it here. The Sacramento Bee of 10/23/66 p. W14 has a piece on upcoming homecoming events at Cal Aggie, i.e., UC Davis. The Grateful Dead are scheduled to play Freeborn Hall Friday 10/28/66, Yellow Brick…
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JGB at Freeborn Hall, November 12, 1976
Sometime in the afternoon or thereabouts of Friday, November 12, 1976, Garcia, John Kahn, Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, probably Richard Loren hopped into sedans being driven by monitor mixer Harry Popick and roadie Bill ‘Kidd’ Candelario to Davis, California, about a hundred miles east of San Francisco on I-80. Thus began a little weekend…
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NRPS 19710121 Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA
My questions about whether the NRPS played the January 1971 out-of-town GD shows in Davis (1/21/71), Eugene (1/22/71) and Seattle (1/24/71) , and my conjecture that maybe they just stayed at Heider’s, are at least partly answered and stand at least partly wrong. California Aggie, January 25, 1971, p. 8; photos by Jim Quigley. Here’s…
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GD 19670106
“Big Mama to aid in raising of the dead,” California Aggie, January 6, 1967, p. 5. Grateful Dead played at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA on January 6, 1967. The above preview article is from that day’s California Aggie, p. 5. What intrigues me is the line that says that the last time they…
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‘Nice Hat, John’: JGB at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, August 7, 1981
LN jg1981-08-07.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 JGB’s “First Northern California Tour“, heh heh. Having just posted about the JGB Salinas show on August 6, 1981, here I just drop the raw data on a pretty grungy old tape of what purports to be the next night, Friday, August 7, 1981 at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA. One of…