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Category: John Lennon

  • Between the Bottom Lines (Lennon and Garcia at the Bottom Line, November 5, 1974) (Guest post by Scott Raile)

    Between the Bottom Lines (Lennon and Garcia at the Bottom Line, November 5, 1974) (Guest post by Scott Raile)

    [note: for a very long time it has been known that John Lennon saw Jerry at the Bottom Line, and various accounts of a meeting, possible sit-in, as well as the date of this encounter have been given over the years. Historian Scott Raile nailed it down as November 5, 1974 in comments to a…

  • Imagine

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(John_Lennon_song) Wiki says John Lennon’s “Imagine” was released on October 11, 1971. Yet Garcia and Saunders played it on September 24, 1971. Corry has explained that release dates are a little fuzzy, but can someone narrate how Merl Jr. would have had the record to play some time before 9/24? (He says he was playing…

  • Stinson History

    Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can’t find an email for anyone in the organization based on a cursory search, so I thought I post some reactions here. The prompt for all of this is the newly digitized source for the…

  • Jerry Garcia and John Lennon, summarized by Dennis McNally

    On December 8, Garcia was at Front Street working on Dead Set when get got a call that told him of the assassination of John Lennon. Work was impossible. He sat down at Keith Godchaux‘s old Steinway (more pain: Keith had died in a car accident that summer) and noodled for many hours, lost in…

  • Reading Notes – Loren 2014

    Loren, Richard, with Stephen Abney. 2014. High Notes: A Rock Memoir. Demariscotta, ME: East Pond Publishing. When I read a book that I will need to be able to cite chapter and verse, this is how I arrange the chapters and verses. I just pull out quotes and other observations, I effectively tag them, and…