Category: jam
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drive-by: GD 4/15/70 jam: hottest six minutes of the decade?
I don’t have time to go full chapter-and-verse on this one: what I know is at Jerrybase. I give you what’s laconically labeled Grateful Dead’s “Jam (with Guests)” 4/15/70 at Winterland. https://archive.org/details/gd1970-04-15.132734.sbd.reel.latvala-eaton-wise.flac16/t10.flac or https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1970/04/15/jam-with-guests?source=88717
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Elves, Gnomes, Leprechauns and Little People’s Chowder and Marching Society Volunteer Fire Brigade and Ladies Auxiliary String Band
I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It’s a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French rock journalist (wiki) who spent ca. 1966-early 1968 in San Francisco, apparently spending a ton of time with the Dead, if the narratives are to be believed. I am sure it is…
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JGB: November-December 1977 East Coast Tour Rarities
1977 The Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) was formed in 1975 to be a professional recording and touring band, and in productive years the Band would do a late-year East Coast tour. I’d guess the germ of this tradition formed in 1973, when Garcia and Saunders played the Hell’s Angels Forever gig on the S.S. Bay…