Category: NGC

  • Szabo’s Santana Sit-In, or, Santana’s Jubilant Jam

    I didn’t see this listed at the great Santanamigos site (1971), so I thought I’d post it here: Santana sitting in with Gabor Szabo at the Concord [Jazz?] Festival, Sunday, August 15, 1971.

  • David Nichtern and the Nocturnes

    http://www.concertvault.com/david-nichtern/record-plant-november-09-1974.html What an interesting looking little fragment. I wish I could hear it. In All GSCBF All The Time news, I suspect that Nichtern hooked up with his band, including Hot Band pedal steel player Hank Devito, as well as Nicolette Larson, through the GSCBF. They were all there.

  • Early Chez Panisse

    Photog John Humble gets a nice shot of Chez Panisse, not long after it opened. Accompanies a positive review by Hut Landon, entitled “A new French restaurant in an old Berkeley house”,” Night Times, September 15-28, 1971, p. 2.

  • More Carousel

    Chicken: http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/Carousel%20Shows.htm 20 June 1968     Big Brother and the Holding Company, Fleetwood Mac, Dr John The Night Tripper23 June 1968     Big Brother and the Holding Company24 June 1968     Big Brother and the Holding Company But this ad has it June 21-22-23. Again, I am sure this is all well established, but since…

  • Matrix footage

    https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/210748 KRON-TV News report from February 3rd 1967 at The Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, at 3138 Fillmore Street. Features views of rock band The Only Alternative & His Other Possibillities rehearsing onstage and an interview with new singer Kay and songwriter Tor Olson. They discuss the difficulty of defining their ‘sound’ and the creativity…

  • Jack and Jorma – Matrix – July 22, 1969 (Tuesday)

    Sometimes to contemplate a piece of data requires going at least one degree of separation back. Here’s a case in point: I was listening to Garcia play the “3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds Jam” [a.k.a. “Turnaround, per the 6/28/69 official release] with Jack Casady. And I want to know how this version relates…

  • B.B. King, Lawrenceville School, November 20, 1970

    B.B. King The Lawrenceville School Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 November 20, 1970 (Friday) Early and Late Shows –Early Show (14 tracks, 59:19)– -Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals- king-bb-1970-11-20-early-t01. //Title? (instrumental) {4:02} king-bb-1970-11-20-early-t02. Title? (instrumental) {3:42} king-bb-1970-11-20-early-t03. Title? {6:48} king-bb-1970-11-20-early-t04. band thanks and B.B. King introduction {2:37} -B.B. King and Band- king-bb-1970-11-20-early-t05. Every Day I Have The…

  • another Natalie Merchant: “River”

    From the great, great album Tigerlily:

  • Great American Music Band: Wednesday, April 24, 1974, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA

    Clearly identified as the Great American Music Band by the emcee at the end, this is the quartet of Grisman (mandolin), Greene (fiddle), Nichtern (ac-guitar, vocals) and Taj Mahal (ac-bass). The performance doesn’t light me up the way some of them do. The tape, via ‘fstop’,  is quite nice, though I’d guess that the Will…