Category: Nicky Hopkins
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Grateful Dead Three Ways: December 20, 1975
Selvin (1975c) reviewed the December 19, 1975 Winterland show billing Keith and Donna Godchaux, Kingfish, and the Jerry Garcia Band as “Grateful Dead Divided Three Ways”. Hence, my title, even though I am working the crossings through the next night. Since I have fallen down the rabbit hole of a long post on 10/17/75, and…
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“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…
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Nicky after JGB
Under the rock and jazz heading, you’ll see Terry and the Pirates, featuring John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins playing the Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley on Friday January 2 and Saturday, January 3, 1976. I had never really picked this up before. After flaming out of JGB on New Year’s Eve 1975-1976, two days later Nicky…
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JGB at Queens College, October 30, 1975
LN jg1975-10-30.jgb.all.aud-cooper.124251.flac2496 Have barely had time to write a word about the Hopkins-era JGB these last 4+ years of blogging and hiatuses. That remains true, so the writeup will be short. Bottom line is that I think Nicky sounds really good (i.e., reasonably sober). I sort of figure that the day off the day before…
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JGB: September 19, 1975, Crabshaw Corner, Sacramento, CA
Thanks to Corry for answering my query on January 26, 1976 which also included a question about 11/4/78. Before starting my post, I just want to take a second to recognize Corry’s role in Garcia historiography. He has been not only an essential bridge across different documents (Soto, McNally) and traditions (from handwritten lists to…
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my next read
Dawson, Julian. 2011. And On Piano … Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock’s Greatest Session Man. Foreword by Klaus Voormann. San Francisco: Backstage Press. Here’s a link to what I think is the publisher. Different press name, but I think they’re under the same imprint somehow. Anyway, I know a little bit about this…