Category: Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium
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Big Gigs, Little Ex Post Trace
Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played larger theaters, auditoriums and arenas. Examples include BCT for the United Farmworkers on 9/22/72, Winterland for unspecified Hells Angels on 10/2/73, and BCT again for Ethiopian famine relief (8/23/74) and, on 10/12/74, for…
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GSCBF18: whole weekend schedule
Here is what I believe to have been the running order of the whole weekend. This is pieced together from schedules, tape lists, and all manner of published info (see REFERENCES). I am about 90% confident in the sequencing. The times are mostly made up, though we sometimes to have stuff to go on (one…
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GSCBF16: Program Images
More eye candy below the fold.
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Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival: Index Post (GSCBF15)
Mostly for my own purposes, but a little index of my series on the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival, held at the Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium (building and grounds) in San Rafael, CA (94903) from the evening of Friday, April 26, 1974 through late on Sunday, April 28, 1974. I have tons more to get…
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GD: 11/28/71, Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, CA (CXL)
“The Grateful Dead will play a benefit [at the Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium] on Sunday for the benefit of Head Start.” So saith a “Newgrams” in the Pacific Sun, week of Novmeber 25-December 1, 1971, p. 17. update: David Davis found an IJ piece indicating the Marin County supes nixed the gig. Reported by LIA…