Category: GD
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GD/NRPS19700731-19700801: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, CA
Note 2/12/2012: This post has been thoroughly revamped and is now deprecated. Please use/refer to the new post of 2/12/2012. Here are the listings for “New Riders of the Purple Sage & Grateful Dead, Lion’s Share, 9 pm” for both Friday, July 31, 1970 and Saturday, August 1, 1970, in the “George” (calendar) section of…
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more on the keyboardist change, ca. 1971
We have been going around on the various blogs about the engagement of Vince Guaraldi and Howard Wales with the GD/Garcia, and especially about Weir’s recollection that Howard Wales had a tryout as GD keyboardist. LIA has wondered aloud whether some of the 1970 “Hartbeats” gigs, e.g., in late July, were, effectively, the Wales tryouts.…
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GD19700327-29: March 27-29, 1970, “Winter’s End Festival,” Miami, FL (CANCELED)
[Update 20120303] The Festival was held, in a manner of speaking, but almost every big name act, including the GD, canceled. It sounds like a really disastrous episode. Long narrative in the following: Thomas King Forcade, “Winter’s End: free the Rock & Roll Six,” San Diego Free Door, April 23, 1970, pp. 8, 12, accessed…
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GD19710903-4: Harding Theater, SF, CA
Here’s another one that puzzles me. This scan from the Berkeley Tribe v.6 n.4 (issue #110) (September 3-9, 1971), p. 13 advertises a benefit for Marin County Head Start featuring Grateful Dead, Howard Wales and Shades of Joy on Friday-Saturday, September 3-4, 1971 at the Harding Theater in San Francisco. Why post? A few reasons.…
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GD/NRPS: April 19, 1971, Gymnasium, Hofstra University, West Hempstead, NY (CANCELED)
Corry and I have been documenting some of the GD’s early 1971 logistical difficulties. GD: early 1971 logistical difficulties GD: January 31, 1971, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA GD: March/April 1971, Norther Illinois University, Dekalb, IL GD: March 19, 1971 The Syndrome, Chicago, IL (LLD) GD: April 2, 1971 Kent State University, Kent, OH…
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GD19680902 – Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair, Betty Nelson’s Organic Raspberry Farm, Sultan, WA
Reader Dave T kindly sent along this beautiful scan of an account of the-amazing sounding Sky River Rock Festival, Betty Nelson’s Organic Raspberry Farm, Sultan, WA, August 31-September 2, 1968 (1). We are very fortunate to have a delightful Charlie Miller board tape of the Grateful Dead’s set, which is pretty freaking ferocious, more the…
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Jerry Garcia and Friends: March 25, 1972, Academy of Music, New York, NY
https://jerrybase.com/events/19720325-03 Bo Diddley, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir: Saturday, March 25, 1972, Hells Angels Benefit at the Academy of Music, New York, NY. I sure feel inept not knowing more about this venue. I assume it’s the one at 126 14th Street, New York, NY? I am basing that on this random bit of info…
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Dead and the Allmans, Sunday, May 10, 1970, Atlanta Sports Arena, Atlanta, GA
Grateful Dead Sports Arena 310 Chester Avenue, SE Atlanta, GA Sunday, May 10, 1970, 4 pm Mother’s Day As Corry has so often noted at Lost Live Dead, in 1970 the GD were still a hand-to-mouth band, touring hard. If we include NRPS gigs as separate, I do believe 1970 would be Garcia’s most prolific…
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GD19671201-02: December 1-2, 1967, Psychedelic Supermarket, Boston, MA – CXL
update note 20150517: I find it hard to update posts once I make them, too little time and all that. In any case, I think I have learned the following things. First, the Dead shows advertised for the Psychedelic Supermarket in Boston on December 1-2, 1967 ended up canceled. Is that right? Second, per commenter Bob…