Category: GD
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Rango at the Greek 5/14/83
What a great pull. https://archive.org/details/gd1983-05-14.fob.sonyecm220t.keshavan.miller.94396.sbeok.flac16
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The Mecca
These Dead shows from The Mecca in Milwaukee, WI, from April of 1989 are outstanding. Garcia is burning a hole in the atmosphere in “Little Red Rooster”, of all places. This band is Locked. In.
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New blog: Mickey’s Gong
https://mickeysgong.wordpress.com/ the idea is i listen to every single recording of the grateful dead’s 1970 performances and then write about every single one Sounds like a winner!
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Sound Storm Echoes
The Grateful Dead played a legendary gig at the Sound Storm festival on Mrs. Irene York’s farm near Poynette, Wisconsin on April 26, 1970. As ever, Corry is on the case, as is LIA over at Deadsources. I have a couple of obscure followups. First, three years after the fact, a program called “Studio None”…
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Nick on the Dead’s July ’76 Orpheum shows
http://deadthinking.blogspot.com/2016/01/orpheum-theatre-july-1976.html Great write up, wet your whistle for the forthcoming Dave’s Pick.
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Bill Cooper Interviews Jerry Garcia, May 1982
Here’s a nice companion piece that really resonates with “Bob Coburn Interviews Jerry Garcia, November 8, 1982″. My notes/transcriptions are little sketchy, but here’s what jumps out to me. On Run for the Roses, with some anti-marketing: I’ve been working on it for quite a long time. I’ve had to squeeze it in amongst and…
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California Earthquake
Garcia was endeavoring to bring Rodney Crowell’s contemporary “California Earthquake” to the Dead just a little bit before the Loma Prieta quake struck. That is really weird. ! ref: Morse, Steve. 1989. Man with a Mission: Garcia is Back from the Dead, Back with the Dead. Boston Globe, October 29, B1.
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Money Money
Grateful Dead Touring Revenues, 1965-1995, via David Davis’s Grateful Seconds blog. The musical accompaniment is great, even if it prevents me from navigating away. 😉 Davis has just provided me with a beautiful gift – an estimate of annual Grateful Dead touring revenue, also with the component data. Wow. While I have posed some questions…
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Where Were the GD on December 24, 1970?
My list of canceled Grateful Dead gigs shows Thursday, December 24, 1970 at City Center, New York, NY. Deadbase listed as canceled, with note “Not possible with Winterland the night before”. Two things. First, I think we are learning that they’d fly for a gig, so I am not 100% sure this is a safe…
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Grateful Dead at New Monk, Berkeley, ca. June-July 1971
One night I went to hear Jerry play a gig with Merle [sic] Saunders at a small place in Berkeley and one by one, for ‘no reason’, the rest of the Dead showed up too, and eventually they got on the stage and started playing — Charles Reich, Spring 1972 (Reich 2003 [1972], xv). Assuming…