Fate Music

Category: GAMB/GASB

  • March 1974

    update: this post mostly doesn’t serve any purpose anymore, but here it is I am working around an important (to me!) post about the birth of the Great American Music/String Band, and want to lay some foundation. So let me start by mapping the known-to-me Jerry Garcia engagements from March, 1974, and just making a…

  • Great American Music Band: Wednesday, April 24, 1974, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA

    Clearly identified as the Great American Music Band by the emcee at the end, this is the quartet of Grisman (mandolin), Greene (fiddle), Nichtern (ac-guitar, vocals) and Taj Mahal (ac-bass). The performance doesn’t light me up the way some of them do. The tape, via ‘fstop’,  is quite nice, though I’d guess that the Will…

  • GSCBF9: Great American String Band: Saturday, April 27, 1974, ca. 23:15 (“Where’s Jerry?”)

    Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! GSCBF3: Sunday 4/28/74 afternoon schedule GSCBF4: Greenbriar Boys (a.k.a.…

  • GSCBF2: Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival: San Rafael, CA, April 26-28, 1974

    I am going to probably do a series of posts on the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival, which was held in San Rafael from April 26-28, 1974. I have become rather obsessed with this festival. It barely gets mentioned in most Dead-/Jerry-ology, but I think it provides a fascinating glimpse into all kinds of things:…

  • GASB/GAMB: mid-June 1974

    update 20140907: June 12 was Lion’s Share, June 13-14 was Keystone Berkeley. This post mostly deals with stuff that has been clarified by Elwood (1974), but there’s still some good analysis of things other than date/venue in the old text /update The Great American String/Music Band is one of my favorite Garcia-involved aggregations. It was…

  • Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival

    Gotta whole mess o’ discs from this festival, which I am going through pretty methodically. Lots of neat stuff. There’s a four CD version going around, but there’s more material that I’ll try to get moving around. There’s a post at Keep on Truckin‘ with the setlist of the circulating material. edit 8/22/201: now going…