Category: Hartbeats

  • Dangerous-Looking Young Man at the Edge of the Western World

    Anyone know who the dangerous-looking young man is? I know I should know, but I don’t know. See also, of course, Corry.

  • Context: 19681009-19681013 Express Times listings

    McHenry Library at UCSC has one random roll of the great San Francisco Express Times from the turbulent year of 1968.  I have some holes in my collection of listings from that paper in that year, had lots of other really specific stuff to get into, but had a few brief moments to spin some…

  • RN Sandy Troy’s Captain Trips (1994)

    Reading Notes Troy, Sandy. 1994. Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press. JG devoted to music Troy 1994, xiii JG was into all kinds of music: folk, bluegrass, country, acid rock, R&B, gospel, jazz. But he never dabbled, he always “plunged in” Troy 1994, xiii Jose Ramon Garcia emigrated from…

  • Hartbeats as Tempo Études

    LN jg1968-10-30.hartbeats.163mins.sbd-gadsden.xxxxxx.flac1644 Well, we probably won’t ever be able to identify everything about the various Matrix Tapes (dates, personnel, etc.), with 100% certainty. But there’s no particular reason to doubt that this is something like Mickey and the Hartbeats (here, as Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, with guest Elvin Bishop on a few tunes)…

  • Mickey and the Hartbeats, October 28, 1968, Matrix, San Francisco, CA

    Deadlists no longer lists (if it ever did) a Hartbeats show at the Matrix on Monday, 10/28/68. It doesn’t appear on the Chicken on a Unicycle Matrix list, either. But what are we to make of this tidbit, from Deadlist’s 10/29/68 Hartbeats entry? On page 26 of issue #34 (Summer 1996) of Dupree’s Diamond News,…

  • Hartbeats: October “1969” misidentification

    I just briefly posted some time back with an image of the Matrix poster that I bought myself. I have now had it framed and I have to say that it looks wonderful. The nice thing about having obscure taste is that some of the stuff that really interests me (e.g., New Riders) has less…

  • Mickey and the Hartbeats, October 1968

    Someday I may write up a post about these shows that I love so much and that are so central to my thinking. But for now I just wanted to show off the poster I splurged and bought myself. Updates: ! note: Note the misdating to 1969 by Grushkin’s AOR. ! ref: AOR 2.118: October…