Fate Music

Category: GD

  • Lenny Hart’s term of employment

    I had never quite seen this much specificity on the dates around Lenny Hart, but in combination with some other factors (Gar talking about the situation with Rakow at the Family Dog, which the GD were playing through 3/1/70), this really seems pretty precise. Hart was arrested July 26 in San Diego on a Marin…

  • Dropping in Robertson Gym (gd1969-01-17)

    The Grateful Dead and Santa Barbara are two great things that go great together. One little mystery has always centered on the location of the January 17, 1969 gig. The gig was absent from Deadbase, is listed as Unknown Venue chez Deadlists, and circulates from Vault -> Latvala -> world tape as “Civic Auditorium, Santa…

  • Grateful Dead Co-Billings

    Based on a discussion at Lossless Legs, I generated my own list of openers for the GD. This isn’t really openers, so much as acts that were co-billed. In many cases, GD was opening for someone else. But given my Garciacentrism, and various technical limitations, this was the easiest way for me to generate a…

  • Red Rocks

    Saw something in some ca. ’84 GD band meeting minutes where Weir says they should move heaven and earth to play Red Rocks. Spent some time with one of the ’83 gigs, and now running 9/7/85, and boy oh boy are they good. I hadn’t recalled 9/7/85 being this good. Jerry sounds very together, his…

  • Altamont Dreams

    I have so little time for this hobby these days. I have fallen way behind on my reading, but I really look forward to reading Joel Selvin’s Altamont, among other things. With that in mind, I did want to put down this little tidbit I found in the Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC concerning the…

  • nothing wrong with this 8/21/83 tape

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-08-21.fob.sonyECM220t.kirschner.miller.95687.flac24 Source (FOB) Sony ECM-220T -> Cassette Master (Sony TC-D5M/FujiMetal Tape/Dolby B)Lineage Cassette Master (Nakamichi DR-1/Dolby B) -> Sound Devices 744T (24bit/96k) -> Samplitude Professional v10.1 -> FLAC/24Taped by Michael KirschnerTransferred by Charlie Miller There is not a freaking thing wrong with this tape. If you ever saw a show at the Frost, you know…

  • In Praise of Editorial Judgment

    So, every year around August 9th I bust out the original So Many Roads boxset and listen to some of my ol’ favorites, such as “Whiskey In The Jar” and, of course, the final-show “So Many Roads”. I am reminded how pleased I am with the curation that Gans, Jackson and Silberman did on the…

  • UCSB ’78

    Corry has a post on the GD / Warren Zevon / Elvin Bishop / Wahkoo gig at UCSB on July 4, 1978. I have two followups, a tape beg and a tangential piece of metadata. First, does anyone have a copy of the Elvin Bishop set, with Jerry sitting in? Apparently there is an aud…

  • Desolation Row

    Man, at like 9:30 of this incredible, late-Mydland era Dead version of Dylan’s “Desolation Row”(track 4) Garcia thrusts into a scuba-evoking scream of Between the windows of the sea Where lovely mermaids flow harmonizing behind Weir, who delivers a BOAT-contending version. Outstanding! Thanks to Joani Walker, Paul Scotton, Charlie Miller for the tunes. ! song:…

  • Green Green Grass Of Home

    This show (GD 5/31/69) is a maxed-out masterpiece. Mamma mia. Play it loud! Random tape archaeology: this is shnid-76, very early in the shn game. https://goo.gl/maps/T4udv2YuEAR2 44.0417292,-123.0763108 ! Corry: “when the Dead headlined McArthur Court on May 31, 1969, it was one of the biggest rooms that they had headlined up until that time. The…