Category: GD

  • That fiddle!

    https://archive.org/details/gd1969-08-03.sbd.miller.30652.sbeok.flac16 I can’t believe how great the guest fiddler is on this show, 46 years ago today. There’s also a sax and maybe a few other mystery players. Goddamn, I wish I could have seen a show at the Family Dog.

  • Deadlists, Deadbase, GD19691003

    I understand that the Deadbase guys are making a 50th anniversary print edition. I doubt I’ll get it, because I already have Deadbase I, II, III and IX, and though they promise updates based on the wave of information that has emerged in the digital era (starting with Deadlists, and moving through LLD, LIA’s work,…

  • GD releases on Youtube

    http://danb.altervista.org/gdstream.htm What a great resource Dan Bryan has put together! In short, this is a way to access just about every official GD release via the official (sponsored) versions on Youtube. Thanks!

  • Reading Notes: Henke 1991

    LIA posted a quote from this, I stumbled across it amidst my materials, and I decided now was as good a time as any to annotate it. Henke, James. 1991. The Rolling Stone Interview: Jerry Garcia. Rolling Stone, October 31, 34-40, 103, 106, 108. Two September 1991 afternoons, hotel room overlooking Central Park. July 1991…

  • “Hoagy Carmichael is making a fortune – Jerry Garcia is starving”

    So said in August 1969 one David Rubinson, Fillmore Records head who had been a producer at Columbia Records, working with Big Brother, Mike Bloomfield, Moby Grape, The Chambers Brothers and Taj Mahal, and other groups (“if picasso” 1969). It’s a good line. It especially caught my eye because, in sniffing around 12/12/73, I went…

  • Reading Notes: Dupree 1974

    Zoo World, January 31, 1974. “Cover photo captured by Mario Algaze the afternoon of a Leas Campbell presentation of the Grateful Dead at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Fla.”, December 18 or 19, 1973. A clean-shaven Jerry Garcia in Tampa, Florida, December 18 or 19, 1973. Photograph by Mario Algaze, published in Zoo World, January…

  • GD at Gold Rush Festival, Lake Amador, CA, October 4, 1969 – CXL

    “Tribe Pushes Gold,” Berkeley Tribe, September 12-18, 1969, p. 13. “Gold Rush is on – 24 hours of rock-folk-blues on the shores of Lake Amador, a private lake resort miles from anything. ” Scheduled for October 4th, planned acts include Ike and Tina Turner, Sons of Champlin, Taj Mahal, Grateful Dead, John Fahey, Cold Blood,…

  • GD 6/23/74 Jai Alai Fronton

    Play it loud. https://archive.org/details/gd1974-06-23.akgd1000e.moore.berger.105755.flac24 Sard Thee Well, Jerry Moore. Only Grateful Dead version of “Let It Rock”. Interviewed by Ken Wardell 6/8/74 backstage after the Dead’s Oakland Coliseum show, Garcia talked about the tune, which he put on Compliments: One of the reasons that we did that song was that, in my opinion, that’s Chuck…

  • Grateful Dead (1967)

    I am listening to the Rhino remaster of this, and it sounds great. I don’t revisit this record that often, but despite the autocritiques of everyone involved, to my ears it sounds totally vital.

  • So He Goes Nowhere

    https://archive.org/details/gd1980-06-08.SonyECM250.walker-scotton.miller.88452.sbeok.flac16 This fileset is great – awesome tape by Joani Walker. It also includes a few great tracks from the Warren Zevon set and a post-show interview with Bob Weir. Here’s an interesting little exchange, 24 minutes into the interview, or thereabouts. Bob: “Garcia, who’s really visible for miles … he can’t go anywhere. He…