Category: New York
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Between the Bottom Lines (Lennon and Garcia at the Bottom Line, November 5, 1974) (Guest post by Scott Raile)
[note: for a very long time it has been known that John Lennon saw Jerry at the Bottom Line, and various accounts of a meeting, possible sit-in, as well as the date of this encounter have been given over the years. Historian Scott Raile nailed it down as November 5, 1974 in comments to a…
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August 1971 Crosby super session / double album project to end the Vietnam War?
update: Never Trust A Prankster 🙂 via GIPHY Bruce Rostenstein was an ouststanding rock columnist for the American University Eagle in the early 1970s. That paper has been digitized, and like so many other college papers, offers up all kinds of goodness for the intrepid researcher. His October 29, 1971 column brings forth something I have…
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Nina Blackwood Interviews Jerry Garcia for MTV, ca. June 2, 1983
Some classic lines here, like the studio as building a ship in a bottle and playing live like piloting a rowboat in the ocean. I wasn’t super careful about getting everything 100% perfect, especially not where there’s GD talk. I am not 100% certain about the geolocation, but it’s got to be about right. Jerry…
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Kenny Kosek
Has anyone ever pinned down the dates on which Kenny Kosek performed with JGAB on Broadway? I know he came out west for the Warfield and Wiltern gigs, but I have never pinned down when he was and was not present at the Lunt-Fontanne.
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The Reedman vs. The Gunslinger: JGB with David Murray, Madison Square Garden, November 12, 1993
LN jg1993-11-12.jgb.all.aud-brennecke-litzenburger-GEMS.91812.flac1644 LN jg1993-11-12.jgb.s2.aud-gastwirt.139507.flac1648 The man had conceived the band bearing his name as a way to scratch some musical itches, play some mostly consonant music with mostly-simpatico (or at least deferential) people, and make a little bit of walking around money. The Jerry Garcia Band provided its namesake with a comfortable and, eventually, highly…
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Armistice Day Rocker: JGB at Felt Forum, November 11, 1982
JGB #15b played two long, smoking shows for John Scher and the assembled faithful on Thursday, November 11, 1982. Among these faithful was taper Jim Wise, who pulled two beautiful, powerful tapes from the theater inside Madison Square Garden. If forced to choose, I’d recommend the late show to you. Clocking in at 108 minutes…
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Bottom Line Archive
The Bottom Line Archive contains over 1000 shows recorded during the club’s 30-year run, from 1974-2004. Anyone know whether, say, certain guitar hero’s 1974 and 1975 gigs might be among these tapes? Asking for a friend.
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JGB’s First Gig in NYC – October 28, 1975 – Beacon Theatre (early show)
LN jg1975-10-28.jgb.early-1.aud.135275.flac1644 Tape of the JGB’s first New York City gig, at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 PM has just emerged. Welcome to the world, tape, and thanks to all involved for making it so. It features Nicky explaining a time he couldn’t play the Bottom Line (8/18/75?) because he fell…
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Alex Bennett interviews the Dead, September 16, 1970
Bennett, Alex, “Alex Bennett with the Grateful Dead. Interview broadcast on WMCA in New York City in 1970 [radio broadcast],” Grateful Dead Archive Online, accessed August 2, 2015, http://www.gdao.org/items/show/378659. Nothing here is verbatim, but hopefully this can provide some markers if anyone else wants to go check this out. A few things of interest. First,…
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Bob Coburn Interviews Jerry Garcia, November 8, 1982
Garcia, Jerry, 1942-1995, “Bob Coburn with Jerry Garcia. “Rockline” radio show, hosted by Bob Coburn, broadcast on November 8, 1982. Includes an interview and phone calls from listeners [radio broadcast],” Grateful Dead Archive Online, accessed August 2, 2015, http://www.gdao.org/items/show/378595. Garcia had two pretty good reasons to do a live national “Rockline” radio interview on Monday,…