Category: institutions
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MTV Interview, June 2, 1983
I don’t know where this would have taken place, but the date of June 2, 1983 seems right, in between shows at the venerable Roseland Ballroom on 52nd Street and promoter John Scher’s main room, the Capitol Theatre in Passaic outside of Philly. I have gotten direct quotes on the Garcia-on-the-side (GOTS) material, and sketchily…
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“When you add a new member, it becomes a new band”
LN jg1979-11-07.interview.26mins.fm.xxxxxx.flac1644 This is a nice little interview with Garcia after the 11/6/79 Philly Dead show. He talks about “Mission In The Rain” and “Reuben And Cérise”, picks some gospel Dylan to spin, tells the story of the Rambler Room gig in ’78, and drops the titular line, which I like a lot. JERRY GARCIA…
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Garcia’s Early ’82 Tax Tour (Counterfactual)
More counterfactual history from a document in the GD Archives (ms332, ser2, box5), though I have seen it through another means as well. This is a central piece of evidence, along with the Return of Ronnie Tutt tour in late ’81 and a few other things, showing that this period marks a real effort to…
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“Beneficent, Raptured”: JGB 4/4/76 Page Auditorium
**update: see Corry, of course. This show has long been AWOL among collectors, but a nice 1st gen copy of an undetermined master audience tape has just come into the light (shnid-134922). Thanks to Alan Richman and dminches for getting it out there! I decided to post a little miscellanea, maybe a few notes. Listing…
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Institutions and Paper Trails
Formal institutions, “with their explicit mandates, methods of operation, and extensive paper trails, provide the more ready means for tracking and marking change, as evidence drawn from noninstitutional settings must often rely more heavily on interpretation and conjecture” (Orren and Skowronek 2004, 25; see also p. 79).
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Merl Saunders and Friends: May 31 – June 1, 1974, Inn of the Beginning, Cotati
Here is one of the tantalizing little performances that you come across and really, really want to know more about, while understanding how miraculous it is that you are able to know anything about it at all. The Inn of theBeginning in Cotati hosted Merl Saunders and Friends, including Jerry Garcia, with Paul Pena opening,…