Category: methodology
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Three vast corpora, to start
As I am writing and looking at the things I may have to leave undone, it strikes me that we have some amazing sources of oral history, which can and should be systematically converted to text for close study by humans and pattern extraction by machines. I have in mind the following sources: Jake Feinberg,…
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On Accuracy
The recent June 5th brought out more than a tiny number of people to recognize the Oregon State Penintiery show on the anniversary of its performance — June 5, 1982 — rather than on the date given by the old bootleg tape. Because the bootleg was one of the mostly widely held Garcia recordings in…
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Notes from Dawson 2011 re Nicky Hopkins
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Reading Notes: basic method
I have my research methods. They are time-consuming, but I think they work well. For long written works, they involve several layers of activity. 1) reading, marginal notes, etc. 2) going back through and a) typing direct quotes, with Author, Year, Page reference [for hard copies], or b) copying and pasting direct quotes, with Author,…
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On Tours and Marketing Records
Over at Jerrybase, we have begun grouping events not only by “runs” (consecutive nights at the same venue), but also “tours”. It turns out that the notion of a tour isn’t quite as crystal clear as one might want it. I wanted it to be at least three out of town gigs in at least…
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If ACT = JGMS and Taper = Louis Falanga, and YYMM = 7402, does XX = 17?
I recently wrote that in engaging any Garcia event, I first want to pin down the who, the where, and the what. So I want the sociometric, geometric, and the chronometric particulars … If I can pin down those three pieces about any given event with reasonable certainty, I feel like it “exists” in a…
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Upon Further Review: Various and Sundry Listening Notes on the Last Night of the Fall ’83 Tour: JGB at Wilkins Theatre, Kean College, December 13, 1983
LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early.aud-newberger-seaweed.133469.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early-late.aud-minches.31253.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.early-late.aud-newberger.77710.flac1644 LN jg1983-12-13.jgb.late.aud-nak300.151810.flac2496 I first heard 12/13/83 in 2003, when Andrew Faintych sent me tapes from both shows recorded with Senn 421s from the 10th row by “Tom from Avon, NJ”. In 2005, Bu lent me his DAT of an unattributed aud, and minches and I did our transferring and…
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Chronicle Pickings
Over the years, when I go to the Bay Area I try to make time to spin the Chronicle microfilm to check out the listings. Corry has done some of this as well, and I don’t think he’ll mind me aggregating a sense of what we have accomplished together. It is relatively painstaking, of course,…
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Examining the Examiner
The great sleuth David Davis of Grateful Seconds fame has alerted me to the fact that the SF Examiner has been digitized and is available through newspapers.com (pay to play, natch). Mamma mia, what a treasure trove for someone like me. There will be a goodly number of shows new to The List reported on eventually,…