Fate Music

Category: methodology

  • Garcia and Marley

    At some point I will write up Garcia’s engagements with reggae. It’s an interesting story, really revelatory. In the meantime, on a lark, I played with Google Ngram for these two. Ngrams are a very neat tool. Figure xxx. Google Bigram: Bob Marley and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1981 The vertical is the percentage of all consecutive…

  • Jerry’s gotta clean up his act, man (LN jg1985-03-02.jgb.all.aud-rlouk.99524.flac1644)

    Ticket stub for Jerry Garcia Band, The Stone, 492 Broadway, SF, Saturday, March 2, 1985. Contributed by Erik VanO. First Garcia Band show since the bust on 1/18/85. It delivers a three-song, thirty minute first set. Apparently the ladies were late in arriving. But ol’ Jer makes up for it by stretching out almost a…

  • Ronnie’s Return, Pete’s Payoff: JGB in Provy, November 15, 1981

    Ticket stub for JGB 11/15/81, contributed by Doc Gillespie to TJS. LN jg1981-11-15.jgb.all.aud-stankiwiecz.127050.flac2496 Ron Tutt is a great drummer, but am I biased? Ron Tutt is a beast. Check out the little one-minute fragment discussed in note #1. No biggie, just fun. Then pick some of the other songs I note and hear him play.…

  • 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…

  • JGB 9/15/76 S.S. Duchess, New York City Harbor, New York, NY

    The relationship between the Grateful Dead and the Hells Angels has been pretty well discussed, though I am sure there’s tons more to say. That’s for others to do. Here I’ll just note that Garcia also worked with the Angels outside the GD framework. I have made a few posts with Hells Angels content. I…

  • Inflation Calculator

    Here’s an inflation calculator: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ For example, consider this little tidbit: A June 1975 Bay Area Kool Jazz Festival at the Oakland Coliseum had a $276,000 weekend (Selvin 6/29/75). That’s $1,161,692.48 in 2012 dollars. Sounds like a lot of money to me.

  • “Bloody Hell”

    A while back I posted some listening notes from the Jim Cooper audience tape of the Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) show at Colden Auditorium, Queens College, Queens, NY on Thursday, October 30, 1975. When called to summarize the show in a headline for my etree list, which is a date index for the site, I…

  • Second Gig for the new Sextet: Rissmiller’s 10/27/82

    LN jg1982-10-27.jgb.s1s2p.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 Jerry Garcia Band Rissmiller’s Country Club 18415 Sherman WayReseda, CA 91335 October 27, 1982 (Wednesday) 83 min s1s2p Closet Call aud –set I (7 tracks, 57:16)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [0:28] s1t02. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [8:43] % s1t03. … They Love Each Other [8:11] [0:08] % [0:32]…

  • Location Geocoding (wonky, as Krugman would say)

    Do any of you venuologists (or anyone else) have any ideas about how best to codify the geospatial data attached to the locations we love? So let’s say, hypothetically, I have a giant spreadsheet full of concerts and such. There are pretty well coded temporal data. For many of the events of interest, I have…

  • Digression on Data

    Let’s pause for a minute and reflect on how fortunate we are to have such high quantity and quality of materials to exploit. Posters, handbills, advertisements, previews, blurbs, mentions, reviews, ledgers, contracts, calendars and other sources overwhelm us. (By the way, where are the personal diaries/journals, a la Faren Miller’s amazing chronicles of QMS? If…