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Category: JGMS

  • Recently added to TJS, Saunders images

    I am sure everyone who reads here knows one can follow changes at The Jerry Site (there’s also an RSS feed). TJS admin slip_not has been adding some nice data from poster and handbill images shared at the Merl Saunders Facebook page. Since these photos are shared intentionally downloadable from Facebook, and acting on the…

  • August 9, 1974 is probably August 10, 1974: a fine show either way

    LN jg1974-08-09.jgms.s1s2p.aud-falanga.8073.shnf More listening around August 1974, as with 8/11/74 and a mention of 8/15/74. I have some doubts about the date. The always-excellent “Rock Talk by KG” column (by Kathie Staska and George Mangrum) in the Hayward Daily Review (August 9, 1974, p. 40), says “Clifton Chenier does Keystone Berkeley tonight and Jerry Garcia…

  • Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)

    LN jg1974-08-11.jgms.all.aud-falanga.6382.shnf I wanted to listen around August 1974 a bit more, to see if there was anything else like the mystery trumpet player on “8/15/74”. So I checked out 8/11. This strikes me as one of the weaker shows of this great month, though it’s been so long since I listened to most of…

  • The Group with George Tickner: Keystone, March 7, 1973

    LN jg1973-03-07.jgms.s2p-48mins.sbd-alligator.31501.flac1644 Update 4/22/2012: The second guitarist is George Tickner. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Keystone 2119 University Avenue Berkeley, CA March 7, 1973 (Wednesday) –Set II (3 tracks, 48:42, partial set)– t01. untitled 19730307 [19:59] [0:08] % [0:06] t02. Merl’s Tune [14:18] -> t03. Georgia On My Mind [13:44] (1) [0:27] ! ACT1: Jerry…

  • Another Mystery Trumpeter: JGMS, August 14, 1974

    There’s a trumpeter playing on “Roadrunner”, the last song of set I of the show previously known as “August 15, 1974, Great American Music Hall”, now corrected as 8/14/74. Listen to the first five minutes of the Falanga-Menke tape. Guy (presumably) is pretty good.

  • Legion of Mary: earliest mention?

    **update: March 1, 1975 was probably the formal Bay Area debut of the name. In addition to the materials here, Todd Tolces had a piece in the 3/1/75 Melody Maker talking about the new name. It is now my estimation that the name Legion of Mary, with Ron Tutt drumming, dates to December 6, 1974.…

  • 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,…

  • Four Nights at the Boarding House: April 13-16, 1973

    “Scenedrome,” Berkeley Barb, April 13-19, 1973, p. 18 Check out Jerry for these four nights: Friday, 4/13/73: JGMS @ Boarding House. We know from tapes that George Tickner is on rhythm guitar. Update: there is now a show review. See “Friday Night at the Boarding House”. Saturday, 4/14/73: JGMS @ Boarding House. Sarah and George…

  • JGMS: July 19, 1973, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA

    Heitman, Dianne. 1973. Merle [sic] & Jerry soar at Music Hall – so does audience. San Francisco Phoenix v.1 n.24 (August 10), p. 8. Positive review of Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, July 19, 1973, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA. The Great American Music Hall, at 859 O’Farrell Street in San Francisco, CA,…

  • Workingman’s Tracker’s JGMS and LOM Project

    Update: thanks to the good folks at WT, the forum posts are now public. Thank you! There is a Garcia/Saunders and Legion of Mary Project going on at Workingman’s Tracker, organized by user SteveSw. He’s posting great reviews of about one recording per day, using only the best sources from ’71-’75. The project is scheduled…