Category: Golden Gate Park
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JGMS Marx Meadows video
Wow. That is a four-minute black and white video, with sound, of JGMS playing “Sitting In Limbo” at Marx Meadows, Golden Gate Park, September 2, 1974. There’s an equipment malfunction and the snippet ends on Big Steve coming out to fix some things. Beyond the fact that this video exists, what amazes me most is…
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Dead in the Panhandle – Sunday, April 9, 1967
Video! (Reminder: Jerrybase benefits from the work of Gordon the Drummer, who maintains the state-of-the-art list of GD and JG videos for us. Thank you, GTD!) http://stock.mrfootage.com/pages/assets_clip/popup_play.php?session_numb=80572&language_numb=1&business_numb=1004&shot_numb=407764 http://vimeo.com/97755921 http://vimeo.com/97755927 The 921 link has two minutes of pure gold, starting with the Grateful Dead playing “Caution”, high quality color and sound, a bit distant (but correspondingly…
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January 18, 1985: Strung Out and Busted
January 18, 1985 has got to be Rock Bottom for Jerry Garcia: strung out and busted. But let me step back. Six days earlier, Garcia gave an interview to Jas Obrecht and Jon Sievert (Obrecht 1985, 2010). Obrecht reports that the interview took place at the home of Nora Sage, said to be a fan…
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Where Was the Grateful Dead on Sunday, August 24, 1969?
Here are the listings from the great San Francisco Express Times, vol. 2 no. 32 (August 21, 1969), p. unk. There’s lots of interest here, of course. But I have circled the item that interests me most greatly. It’s under the listings for Sunday, August 24, 1969, and reads as follows: Hippy Hill: Trans-Cultural Rip-Offs,…