Category: Jimmy Warburton

  • 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)…

  • Two Pauls in Boston

    LN jg1974-11-14.jgms.early-1.aud-warburton.16461.shn2flac LN jg1974-11-14.jgms.early.aud-alt.135968.flac1644 Garcia-Saunders, with Paul Humphrey drumming, Paul’s Mall in Boston, late 1974. What’s not to like? Jimmy Warburton‘s tape (shnid-16461) blew my mind when it came out – a revelation. We were still erroneously calling “Valdez In The Country” “Bossa Martin”, and wearing onions on our belts, which was the style at…

  • Grateful Dead, 9/11/73, William and Mary

    One of the early Deadbases, maybe the original, had a little review of the September ’73 Dead shows at William & Mary (nĂ© College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences, chartered in the Virginia Colony in 1693 by, you guessed it, William and Mary), special shows, maybe second night was a…