Fate Music

Category: Jerry Moore

  • Expressway Day: Garcia-Saunders at the Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, December 29, 1974

    I woke up this morning with “Expressway (To Your Heart)” playing in my head. Not just any Expressway, mind you. But the one played by Jerry and Merl and crew (possibly calling themselves Legion of Mary backstage and such) at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach on December 29, 1974, to end (or just about)…

  • Da Weez

    https://archive.org/details/gd1983-04-23.117598.Sennheiser421.daweez.d5scott.flac16 ! db: shnid-117598 ! R: field recording gear: 2x Sennheiser 421 microphones > Sony TC-D5M ! R: field recordist: Da Weez ! R: transfer: Sony TC-D5M (original record deck) > Pre Sonus Inspire GT > Sound Forge > .wav files > Trader’s Little Helper > flac files, by D5scott. I have no idea who…

  • 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…

  • JGB 9/15/76 S.S. Duchess, New York City Harbor, New York, NY

    The relationship between the Grateful Dead and the Hells Angels has been pretty well discussed, though I am sure there’s tons more to say. That’s for others to do. Here I’ll just note that Garcia also worked with the Angels outside the GD framework. I have made a few posts with Hells Angels content. I…

  • No Donna Tough Mama

    LN jg1977-07-08.jgb.early.aud-moore-minches.21478.shn2flac I like this show a lot. Donna Jean is not present. Who sings harmonies? Jerry Garcia Band Calderone Concert Hall 145 N. Franklin StreetHempstead, NY 11550 July 8, 1977 (Friday) – Early Show (scheduled 8 PM) definitive Moore shnid-21478 shn2flac –(8 tracks, 92:34)– t01. [0:12] Sugaree [15:28] [3:00] t02. Stop That Train [13:00]…

  • ‘Jerry, is it really ovah?’ JGMS at the Bottom Line, November 6, 1974 (early show)

    LN jg1974-11-06.jgms.early.aud-moore.117248.flac2496 Garcia’s first professional tour as a named headliner outside the Grateful Dead comprised twenty-one performances over the thirteen days between Tuesday, November 5, 1974 and Sunday, November 17, 1974, inclusive. The first three nights of the tour unfolded at the Bottom Line, 15 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012, two shows per…

  • The April 1975 Legion of Mary Tour

    LN jg1975-04-10.lom.early.aud-moore.117250.flac2496 In April 1975, Legion of Mary (Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, Martin Fierro, John Kahn and Ronnie Tutt) went on its only tour, performing, by my count, twenty-five shows in the seventeen days between April 4th and April 20th (inclusive). They started in Brooklyn, spent a bunch of time in the core Northeast (New…

  • Punch in, mail it in for 90 minutes, punch out and party some more: JGB at the Cap Passaic, 11/26/77b

    LNjg1977-11-26.jgb.late.anderson.85051.flac1644 Something told me I wanted to listen to something from the Cats Under the Stars– era sextet of Garcia, Kahn, Buzz Buchanan, Keith and Donna Godchaux, and Maria Muldaur, and I wanted it to be a recording I hadn’t made notes on. So, here’s what I found: 11/26/77, late show. psilo.com This is a…