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  • Chatty Cathy in the House: JGB at the Stone, December 18, 1981

    LN jg1981-12-18.jgb.all.aud-martin.16379.shn2flac I recently learned the term “chompers” to describe people who talk through shows. Well, this phenomenon is as old as time, with the triad of the drum, the chomper and the shusher perhaps very nearly co-constituting each other In The Beginning. Bill Kreutzmann drums, the chomper talks all show long, and I don’t really…

  • The “Little Cash Cow,” Fall 1991 Edition

      Table xxx. JGB Gig Income, Fall 1991 Tour Table xxx. JGB Gig Gross and Income, Fall 1991 Tour

  • Music Mountain Is All That

    Sometimes the conventional wisdom has it right, and the high esteem in which folks hold the Jerry Garcia Band show from June 16, 1982 at Music Mountain in South Fallsburg, NY illustrates the point. I heard it a few times way back when, and really liked it. Then I revisited it a few days ago…

  • Enter Tom Fogerty

    update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71. It seems more likely to have been 5/22/71, and his arrival may mark why they made tapes of the next two nights. Further, I have no idea why I inferred he first joined in Berkeley on 5/26/71, when…

  • Kicking off the January ’86 Garcia/Kahn acoustic tour

    LN jg1986-01-24.jgjk.all.aud-CC.138168.flac1644 A huge bulge of heretofore elusive Garcia tape from the late 70s and especially the 80s has been hitting cyberspace. I don’t have much time for this, just a few scattered notes laying down some markers for eventual discussion of the tour. First, a tour snapshot. Snapshot of the January ’86 Garcia/Kahn acoustic…

  • Garcia’s Early ’82 Tax Tour (Counterfactual)

    More counterfactual history from a document in the GD Archives (ms332, ser2, box5), though I have seen it through another means as well. This is a central piece of evidence, along with the Return of Ronnie Tutt tour in late ’81 and a few other things, showing that this period marks a real effort to…

  • “The Little Cash Cow” – JGB, Early 1980

    Last weekend’s post “On the Bus with the Garcia Band” looked at the November-December 1983 JGB tour’s extensive ground travel – everything was by bus, 3,000 miles on the road in a few weeks in the eastern time zone. Commenter Nick asked a great question comparing that tour with earlier ones, pointing out Ozzie Ahlers’s…

  • Money Money

    Grateful Dead Touring Revenues, 1965-1995, via David Davis’s Grateful Seconds blog. The musical accompaniment is great, even if it prevents me from navigating away. 😉  Davis has just provided me with a beautiful gift – an estimate of annual Grateful Dead touring revenue, also with the component data. Wow. While I have posed some questions…

  • Harrington $treet

    On  January 19, 1994 Hal Kant, under Legally Dead cover, sent Jerry executed copies of the contract for what would become Harrington Street. Kant had negotiated a $550,000 advance for the volume, enough to net Jerry a cool half-million after the lawyer’s 9% came off the top. Kant told Jerry he’d put the money in…

  • Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah.

    Introduction The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something – because I…