Category: Merl Saunders
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Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Keystone Korner, May 20, 1971 (LN jg1971-05-20.jgms.80mins.sbd-boswell-smith.126365.flac2496)
Corry heard a lot of this keyboard work as Howard Wales. So did I. I also heard Jerry’s guitar tone as 1968, and the recording as the Matrix. I parsed the tape, which seems correctly identified, we talked it over, and I think we agree that this is some very interesting tape. Speaking for myself,…
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Tom Fogerty, Merl Saunders and Friends – June 25, 1971 Keystone Korner
The title gives a listing found in “The Music Scene–Complete Listings,” SFC, June 25, 1971, p. 43. Further down the same listing is Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders and Tom Fogerty at New Monk on Saturday-Sunday (June 26-27, 1971). I certainly do wonder if Jerry was a “Friend” at the Friday show in the City. Perhaps…
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JGMS: June 11, 1974 Keystone Berkeley – new to The List
So here’s a new one for The List: JGMS at Keystone on Tuesday, June 11, 1974. But note, too, that Merl is playing Sand Dunes on Monday the 10th – this could very easily be a Monday on which Garcia sat in. The fact that Tony Saunders played with Merl and Jerry the week prior…
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Fragments
Look at how my eye focuses – I want the listings big enough to read, and I want the publication information along with them, if possible. That’s the scanning area I created and captured here. Look what gets cut, “on the margins” of my view, you might say. Besides the adult theaters, there’s some Maya…
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Jamming For The Hell Of It
Ain’t this pretty paper? Selvin nails the essence of the thing.
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Merl Saunders, September 7-10, 1972: Black Expo ’72
Merl Saunders is noted as participating in this big event at the SF Civic Auditorium, known variously as Black Quake or Black Expo ’72. Be neat to see which day(s) he played, with whom, and what! Oh yeah, this is the first time I have seen Night Times spell Merl’s first name correctly – took…
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Context: September 1976 BAM Listings
Up to three pages, lots of ads. Well done, hip young capitalists! p. 25 finds the usual stuff. I am a little confused about address of the Green Earth, here listed as 1810 Market, with another place, the Omnibus, at 1821 Haight. I assume this is a typesetting problem, need to double-check. Some Country Joe…
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Context: August 1976 BAM Listings
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Context: July 1976 BAM Listings
I intend this stuff for future historians, not to take up Corry’s precious time! BAM no. 5 sees the live music listings expanding to two pages. Probably the same quantity of listings, but now there are ads to go along with them. The publication is doing some business! Lots of interesting stuff here, as always.…
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Context: June 1976 BAM Listings
Here are the live music listings from BAM no. 3. Here’s the snapshot I take. Jerry confederates, most. I like these Comfort listings just to put some foundation under the idea that they were a going concern when they partnered up with Hunter the next year. And this would be the Kingfish quartet, sans Robert…