Fate Music

Category: GD

  • Keith. And, Modernity.

    Introduction: A Document In my post “Keith Speaks”, I threw out some raw materials on Fall 1971, Keith, FM broadcasts, as illuminated by a great little piece in the Chicago music mag The Now Sound. But I didn’t really add any value. Well a new piece has just come across my brain, and I wanted…

  • March 23, 1975 – Jerry Garcia Interview

    I don’t know who the interviewer is, nor the radio station from which this particular recorded. It is the first track of shnid-126296. This is the interview Jerry gave before the SNACK Benefit at Kezar Stadium. Sounds like reading the newspapers around the time of the show will prove interesting, mismanagement of budgets by bureaucrats…

  • Rango’s Frost ’82 tapes

    https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-09.sonyecm220T.keshavan.miller.93682.sbeok.flac16 https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-10.sonyecm220T.keshavan.miller.93732.sbeok.flac16 Listen to these tapes and think thanks to taper Rango Keshavan. These audience recordings will take your breath away. Thanks, rk.

  • Grateful Dead Three Ways: December 20, 1975

    Selvin (1975c) reviewed the December 19, 1975 Winterland show billing Keith and Donna Godchaux, Kingfish, and the Jerry Garcia Band as “Grateful Dead Divided Three Ways”. Hence, my title, even though I am working the crossings through the next night. Since I have fallen down the rabbit hole of a long post on 10/17/75, and…

  • The Grateful Dead: Top-Grossing Act of 1991

    I just picked up a copy of Pollstar‘s 1991 Year-End Special Edition, entitled Year of the Dead, dated December 31, 1991. Though I don’t do much GD stuff, blogger’s stats tell me that GD posts are the most popular. People are funny. But I digress. One of the reasons I don’t do it is that…

  • Elves, Gnomes, Leprechauns and Little People’s Chowder and Marching Society Volunteer Fire Brigade and Ladies Auxiliary String Band

    I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It’s a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French rock journalist (wiki) who spent ca. 1966-early 1968 in San Francisco, apparently spending a ton of time with the Dead, if the narratives are to be believed. I am sure it is…

  • Grateful Dead at Olompali, ca. June 1969

    I was just sniffing around Olompali a little bit. It’s a powerful place. I need to write a lot about it. Anyway, sniffing around, as I say, and I come across this image: And it comes from this blog post: http://www.thedoctorweighsin.com/so-who-needs-state-and-national-parks-anyway/ I only infer June 1969 because that’s how the picture is dated. The I…

  • GD 9/2/78 pix

    Some great photos of GD on September 2, 1978 at Giant’s Stadium, by Grant Gouldon. http://www.flickr.com/photos/grantdabassman/sets/72157627566191322/

  • RN Peter Simon 1975 New Age Journal

    Simon, Peter. 1975. Making Musical Miracles: An Interview with Jerry Garcia. New Age Journal .5 (May 1975): 52-59. This is a really neat piece, lots of great stuff.  Interview took place at the “film house”  (230 Eldridge Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941), ca. the last week of March 1975. Love his notion of “tight-loose” forms…

  • Alligator

    I didn’t mean to publish this drafty fragment. It published itself. IIWII. anonymous comment:  Russian River connection might have to do with them spending time at the Warnecke Ranch out on Chalk Hill Rd in Healdsburg. Alligator was supposed to be written there. 7/16/67 interview Garcia says they are looking to move to the Southwest,…