Category: Jerry
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Cat in the Limelight: RN Grosswald and Blavat 1978
Grosswald, Mike and Glen Blavat. 1978. Jerry Garcia’s Band Under the Stars. Happytimes (Philadelphia), March 31, 1978, p. 15. Grosswald-Bavat 1978: This is a really nicely done piece from what I assume was a Philly underground paper, Happytimes, around the time of the JGB’s visit to that town in mid-March (3/16/78 at the Spectrum Theatre).…
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The John Rich Question: Reply to Corry
Bravo, Corry! The John Rich Question is indeed a great mystery.See Corry’s post for the details of the question. I am sure I’ll have to update this post several times, but I wanted to take the second I have available to get started with a reply. I love this mystery. I agree with Corry that…
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OAITW: Homer’s Warehouse, July 24, 1973
**This is an update to a post originally made 9/19/2010, now updated as of 12/28/2014** In a first draft of this post, I used the occasion of a listen to an Old And In The Way set from Homer’s Warehouse in Palo Alto from Tuesday, July 24, 1973 to drop a few crumbs. I have…
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Where was Garcia on July 26 or 29, 1973?
My previous post contemplated where Garcia was on July 4, 1973, based on ads published in a bluegrass magazine. This post does precisely the same thing for July 26 or 29, 1973. As you can see, Jerry Garcia is listed among the acts appearing at the First Annual West Virginia Peace, Love, Blues and Bluesgrass…
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Where was Garcia on July 4, 1973?
I don’t really know. I have him with the GD at the Universal Ampitheatre in Universal City, CA on June 29 – July 1, and then at the Lion’s Share on July 5 with Merl. July 4 was a Wednesday, but Garcia seemed like a vaguely patriotic guy (in a U.S. Blues sort of way!)…
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JGMS: “July 21-22,” 1974, Keystone, Berkeley, CA
**updated 20111216 2057 GMT** Tony Saunders is the bassist on these two tapes. The Jerry Site has listings for Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at Keystone, Berkeley, on July 21 and July 22, 1974. I doubt both date/venue combinations, for reasons I’ll lay out below. A) “JGMS 7/21/74, Keystone, Berkeley” This first date is so…
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NRPS: January 19, 1970, Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley
My Blackberry takes the world’s worst pictures (see below), and there was neither scanner nor photocopier handy as I was going through a handful of Berkeley Tribes from late 1969-early 1970 today. But I found a reference to a NRPS gig on January 19, 1970 at Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley. Scan from Berkeley Tribe, January…
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1966: Darby Slick et al. “Jammin’ With Garcia”
Chapter 5 of Darby Slick’s autobiography, I guess (1), is entitled “Jammin’ With Garcia” and recounts a Friday evening jam session, ca. 1966, in the Mission District. These one-offs are inherently interesting, of course, but especially interesting to me is the question of how often they occurred. I had always bought into the mythology that…
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Jerry with Merl and/or Martin, ca. 1974, The Sand Dunes
We know that Jerry Garcia was playing around outside the GD to a varying, but always non-zero, extent throughout the career of his most famous band. We have a sense that this was happening more, and more loosely, in the early days (at least pre-1976) and less, and in a more routinized/institutionalized way after that.…
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1969 NRPS: new data
Just a tip of the hat to Lost Live Dead, which has been doing yeoman’s work unearthing early New Riders gigs based on various sources, but especially on careful digging through late 1969 San Francisco Chronicle (and notably Gleason’s column). Because of their hard work, TJS has recently added inter alia the following dates: Aug…