Category: GD
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GD: October 12, 1969, The Meadow, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY (CANCELED)
Via Google News, found this in the Village Voice: Now, I show “Jerry Garcia and Friends” at the Matrix on this date, based on the list of Matrix gigs shared by former venue manager Gary Jackson. I presume that to represent the New Riders, though I just don’t know. I have no particular reason to…
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GD: early 1971 logistical difficulties
I am sure there are more, but I am just putting down a marker to keep track of canceled/rescheduled/uncertain early ’71 GD shows canceled (or maybe only tentatively planned?) shows on March 5-6 in New Haven, CT (Thomas 1970). show at Franklin & Marshall College reschedule from March 6 (busy day!) to April 10th (Weiner…
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GD/NRPS: March 21, 1971, Expo Milwaukee Convention Center, Milwaukee, WI
March 1971 is an interesting one to me re the GD. It’s overlooked between the (overrated, IMO) Port Chester shows of February and the college and Fillmore East shows of April. Given my taste for the obscure, I’d naturally be drawn to it. Musically, and thus most importantly, it has one of the most unusual…
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GD/NRPS: November 23, 1970, Anderson Theatre (Hells Angels Benefit)
–> Crossland, Chip. 1970. Hells Angels Presents The Grateful Dead. East Village Other v1, n1, pp. 10-11. Publication info from my copy uncertain. I believe I got this from Joey Newlander. There was no publication information, but the reference, which comes from Deadlists, is probably correct. Pretty hilarious write-up. My only real purpose is to…
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GD 19710621 Chateau d’Hérouville
edited 20110903 In January 2007, Hanno Bunjes made a post at his now defunct blog at yurk.net describing the joy of discovering some almost-unseen video footage of the Grateful Dead playing at Chateau d’Hérouville near Paris, France, on June 21, 1971, from the French government’s archival copy (Vive la bureaucracie!). I had a link to…