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Category: John Scher

  • The Grateful Dead: Top-Grossing Act of 1991

    I just picked up a copy of Pollstar‘s 1991 Year-End Special Edition, entitled Year of the Dead, dated December 31, 1991. Though I don’t do much GD stuff, blogger’s stats tell me that GD posts are the most popular. People are funny. But I digress. One of the reasons I don’t do it is that…

  • Rockabilly JGB Doing Not Fade Away: July 9, 1977

     LN jg1977-07-09.jgb.late-2.aud-strange-miller.124426.flac1644 Not a whole ton to say, not a ton of time, so I’ll just bullet. Donna is absent. I wonder why? I need to document her 1977 absences, because there was a good number. “Not Fade Away” is a JGB singleton, and is very interesting. Jerry is super-fired up for it and does…

  • JGB April 2, 1976 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ

    Wow. Earliest known JGB video. Wonderful. Hopefully there’s more video from the Cap yet to emerge! Thanks to whomever unearthed and shared this. Great, great stuff.

  • LN jg1978-03-17.jgb.late-1.sbd-bershaw-nolan.123184.flac1644

    update 20170710: Here the show doesn’t light me up, yet my CC aud listening notes from a month before this post include this: The show is quite hot, IMO. MITR ends in a manic flurry. Tore Up, my notes tell me, is “ridiculous”. Jerry is *really* into this Dixie Down. RIR is absolutely fantastic, with…

  • LN jg1975-04-05.lom.early.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448

    So, this show has not really circulated complete, unless it does and I missed it. Nice to hear the John Scher introduction intact. The first 60 minutes have never made the digital jump, as far as I know. There’s a “Creepin’” here, which is conceptually interesting but practically, to my ears, not so much. We…

  • List of John Scher – promoted concerts

    Does anyone know a list of John Scher-promoted concerts? I thought, one day, while I’m at it, why don’t I systematically start coding in PROMOTERs? Yeah, that won’t take long! So, having more or less finished coding Jefferson Airplane through 1969, I have taken to coding promoters for them and all of the Garcia stuff,…

  • John Scher, part 4 of 4: Jerry Garcia, Bill Bradley and the price of concert tickets

    John Scher, part 4 of 4: Jerry Garcia, Bill Bradley and the price of concert tickets Podcast of interview with John Scher. A minute or so in he tells the story of bailing Garcia and Hunter out for a pot bust in New Jersey. Goes until the 5-minute mark. Given that he is discussing this…

  • Righteousness, and Two Guests: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, February 16, 1974

    LN jg1974-02-16.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.91471.flac1644 A few days ago I posted about an advertised but canceled Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders band gig (Kahn and Kreutzmann rounding things out) scheduled for 2/16/74 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ. I irresponsibly dropped a few notes about the replacement show for the night, and here I follow up on…

  • JGMS: February 16, 1974, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (CANCELED)

    Village Voice, January 10, 1974, p. 40 An ad for a show by Jerry Garcia, Merle [sic] Saunders, John Kahn and Bill Kreutzmann (call ’em Garcia/Saunders, or JGMS), with Sons of Champlin opening, Saturday, February 16, 1974 at the Capitol Theatre, 326 Monroe Street, Passaic, NJ, 07055. This is positively stunning, I have to say.…

  • Jerry Garcia and John Scher

    Probably premature for me to post about this, since there’s probably tons to say and I haven’t really combed through, less still thought much about it. But just came across a little 1982 Billboard piece (1) documenting a big move by John Scher into NYC. According to the reporter, “The move ends a de facto…