Fate Music

Category: methodology

  • Grazing

    With a tiny bit of space, I have been doing some good work, reading, noting, cleaning, filing, listening. On this last, I have been in a grazing kind of mode. I have listened to an OAITW (6/5/73), some November ’74 JGMS (11/10/74), a ’78 (3/12/78), 11/17/81, 6/4/83b, a few other things (12/5/84 s2). This batch…

  • Daily Collegians

    https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22daily%20collegian%22%20AND%20collection%3Aamericana That’ll get you to scans of the Daily Collegian (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). I gathered up the stuff around 2/20/80, which I have also listened to. The search function seems a little slow – these are some pretty huge files. The pdf of 1979-1980 weighs in at 2GB. Beautiful images, and the scrolling interface…

  • Color: January 12-25, 1972 Night Times listings

    Here are some listings from the Night Times, with a few scattershot thoughts. 1) The Berkeley Night Times is a gem. 2) It’s especially good re: race. The range of clubs it covers exceeds most other sources – you’ve got the country clubs, the rock clubs, the black soul/R&B/gospel clubs, the Latin clubs, a little…

  • GD April 5, 1968 (Friday), Carousel – never happened

    Updated: the SFC Datebook of April 5, 1968 (p. 47) shows John Lee Hooker, Loading Zone, Mother Earth. Given the two conflicting pieces of print, I’ll prefer the later-published one (SFC) to the earlier-published one (Express Times issue of ca. 4/3/68) (lex posterior derogat priori). Corry’s tour itinerary shows an open Friday night for GD/Garcia…

  • Documenting the JGB – February 26, 1976 – Del Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA

    Continuing this little Santa Cruz series, I thought I’d use the next gig to lay out some nomenclature. A little taxonomy to tempt your tastebuds. Institutionalized Practices The current title only came to me after I had just posted this more generically. It currently reads “Documenting the JGB” to complement the Billing and Accounting posts…

  • Context: April 1976 BAM listings

    So here’s a first example of my sources and methods for context. It’s a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM (“Bay Area Music”) magazine, April 1976. Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet: the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty’s band of the period; the listings for…

  • Context

    As I contemplate writing some of this stuff up for a more general (less maniacal) readership, I see that I am going to have to write plain English in book form and refer back to the blog in endnotes. So I can drop all of the random little tidbits here, which is what I do…

  • Garcia Talks Locally, Fall 1972

    Staska, Kathie, and George Mangrum. 1972. Rock Talk by KG: Jerry Garcia discusses Grateful Dead, albums. Hayward Daily Review, October 12, 1972, p. 42. It’s a marvel to study Garcia interviews over the years in all kinds of ways. The man could talk as knowledgeably, engagingly, expansively, and articulately as he played the guitar, which…

  • working without TJS

    By now, anyone reading this knows that The Jerry Site (TJS) is no more.There’s lots to say about that, and more to do, but not right now. How do we replace TJS in engaging Garcia on The Side? Short answer, we don’t. It had some functionality that is not replaceable by any current resource. http://jerrygarcia.com/…

  • Fun With Ngrams: Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1995

    Here’s the bigram relevant to evaluating some hypotheses I ventured in my“Garcia and Marley” post.  Figure xxx. Google Bigram: “Grateful Dead” and “Jerry Garcia”, 1965-1995 In that post, I hypothesized that “Jerry Garcia” and “Grateful Dead” would show an uptick 1986. On visual inspection the GD claim looks rightish: the 1986-1995 slope should be statistically…