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Category: JGMS

  • Walkin’ One and Only: JGMS backing Maria Muldaur, BCT, October 12, 1974

    updated with newly-unearthed Phillip Elwood review Well, well, well … just found a review of a Maria Muldaur show at BCT on Saturday, October 12, 1974 in the Berkeley Barb (Wikarska 1974). Maria worked with three bands this night. 1) David Nichtern (I presume “and the Nocturnes”): Nichtern, Hank DeVito on steel, Larry Jones on…

  • Grateful Dead at New Monk, Berkeley, ca. June-July 1971

    One night I went to hear Jerry play a gig with Merle [sic] Saunders at a small place in Berkeley and one by one, for ‘no reason’, the rest of the Dead showed up too, and eventually they got on the stage and started playing — Charles Reich, Spring 1972 (Reich 2003 [1972], xv). Assuming…

  • JGMS, July 12, 1972, Town & Country, Ben Lomond

    This has been in my paper files and, looking for something for Corry, I found something else he might be interested in, as we all must be: an ad for a previously unregistered Jerry Garcia – Merle [sic] Saunders – Tom Fogerty – Bill Vitt – and Friends (John Kahn must have counted as two)…

  • One Kind Favor

    I presume this is 9/6/73.

  • JGMS Marx Meadows video

    Wow. That is a four-minute black and white video, with sound, of JGMS playing “Sitting In Limbo” at Marx Meadows, Golden Gate Park, September 2, 1974. There’s an equipment malfunction and the snippet ends on Big Steve coming out to fix some things. Beyond the fact that this video exists, what amazes me most is…

  • Sole Star at Paul’s Mall

    For the JGMS gigs November 12-13-14, 1974, Paul’s Mall in Boston, two shows a night booked by one Fred Taylor. MERL SAUNDERS AND JERRY GARCIA CONTRACT RIDER 3. MERL SAUNDERS & JERRY GARCIA shall receive 100% sole star billing in any and all advertising and publicity, including marquee … Does this mean that things should…

  • LN jg1974-11-09.jgms.late.aud-slabicky.8661.shnf

    I guess I’d say I see that as a rather loose and very good show, maybe above average for the time. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Capitol Theatre 326 Monroe Street Passaic, NJ 07055 November 9, 1974 – 11 PM Late Show Slabicky shnid-8661 shn2flac –(9 tracks, 85:20)– l-t01. band introduction (1) [0:26] l-t02. Harder…

  • LN jg1974-11-10.jgms.all.sbd.98704.flac1644

    Not much to report. The tape has got some issues, but as has been the case in the past, this show mostly doesn’t move me. update: A little tape archaeology. I seem to recall that this tape exists because it was Harvey Lubar’s birthday, and it was spun for him. Talking to him early in…

  • Jim Nelson on the Drums and Several Great Rarities: JGMS at Keystone, October 4, 1974

    LN jg1974-10-04.jgms.all.aud-falanga.8649.shn2flac This is great to hear. Three points of historical interest. 1) Louis Falanga’s onstage audience tapes are great documents. 2) Lots of interesting material including, here, some great jazz (“Valdez In The Country”, “People Make The World Go Round”, “Freedom Jazz Dance”), and a great rare (in the Garciaverse) Motown, “Ain’t No Mountain…

  • JGMS in San Diego 11/18/73 probably rained out

    The List has long given Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Aztec Bowl, San Diego State College (I think it was still this C and not a U at the time), November 18, 1973. Because Garcia and Saunders had barely played out of the Bay Area by that time (Ash Grove in LA 5/29-30/73,…