Category: GD

  • Canceled Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Gigs

    Edit: here is a PDF as of 11/23/2015 Edit: here is a Blogger Page as of 11/23/2015. Formatting will be horrifying, blame Blogger. But here is my list of canceled gigs. DATE VENUE CITY STATE ACT1 NOTES REFERENCES 19650619 Frenchy’s Hayward CA GD canceled ! ref: Scott et al. 1995, p. vii. 19650620 Frenchy’s Hayward…

  • In the beginning

    Grateful Dead Live at Golden State Studios on 1965-11-03

  • Bear Tracks and Bear Drops in the Bear Republic

    “Slewfoot” was a great selection for the Dead’s Santa Rosa shows June 27-28, 1969: “Bear tracks” in the Bear Republic. date venue city state 6/11/69  California Hall  San Francisco  CA  6/21/69a  Fillmore East  New York  NY  6/27/69  Veterans Auditorium  Santa Rosa  CA  6/28/69  Veterans Auditorium  Santa Rosa  CA  7/3/69  Reed’s Ranch  Colorado Springs  CO  7/4/69 …

  • Grateful Dead, 9/11/73, William and Mary

    One of the early Deadbases, maybe the original, had a little review of the September ’73 Dead shows at William & Mary (né College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences, chartered in the Virginia Colony in 1693 by, you guessed it, William and Mary), special shows, maybe second night was a…

  • Grateful Dead at Clifford’s Catering, Walnut Creek, March 1-2, 1968

    In 2011 I made a post under the heading of “GD in Walnut Creek; East Bay Psychedelic Scene?” in which I noted the mystery surrounding the Dead’s Listed gigs in Walnut Creek on March 1-2, 1968. John Fernbach has shared the following handbill. Yeah! Thanks! Reader Brad Vicknair has graciously shared an ad for the…

  • GD: August 19, 1970 at the Fillmore West

    ! R: field recordist: Gene Taback ! R: field recording gear: Sony TC-124 with Sony stereo mic ! R: transfer: Master/1st generation cassettes played back on Nakamichi Dragon > Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe soundcard (96Mhz/24 bit)> HD. My goodness, I love love love love love this acoustic set. The recording really captures a feeling.…

  • On lead guitar and vocals, Mr. Jerry Garcia

    Bill Graham: Good evening. We welcome you, on behalf of the group. We should introduce … We should thank United Artists and Mr. Ron Rakow. I should make it official. Mr. Rakow is the President of Round Records. He asked if I could be here this evening, and I said ‘I’d like twelve dollars and…

  • The Humanity

    Video of “So Many Roads” from 7/9/95 below the fold.

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1970

    **updated 8/10/2015, especially under heading D** **update2 8/11, more, especially, in section D** **updated 8/12, re-ordered sections (now goes from more micro and Jerrycentric to more macro (and less so)), also reworked some of section D, though not really many new words.** I have been processing information from contracts filed at the American Federation of…

  • Visions of Johanna

    Powerful viewing of a gut-wrenchingly beautiful performance, a dying man grasping at life, stumbling a time or two, laying bare the depth and beauty of the human condition. Thank you, videographer, thank you Bob Dylan, thank you Jerry.