Fate Music

Category: NRPS

  • 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…

  • Sunday, Monday, What’s the Difference? JGB #11a at Keystone, December 17, 1979 (Monday)

    LN jg1979-12-17.jgb.s1s2p.aud-walscoller.106057.flac1644 I wanted to spin some JGB #11a (Ozzie-Johnny D quartet) from late in 1979, a little window I have neglected in favor of their first few gigs on the one hand (10/7, 10/14), and the Winter 1980 tour (overall economics, 2/16, 2/20, 2/24) on the other hand. (update: see also 12/20/79) Joanie Walker, Paul Scotton and…

  • Dawn of the NRPS

    I am sure you have already pre-ordered, as I just did, but just in case, here’s link to the upcoming Owsley Stanley Foundation (OSF) release called “Dawn of the New Riders of the Purple Sage”. I cannot freaking wait to hear this! https://owsleystanleyfoundation.org/bears-sonic-journals/dawn-of-the-new-riders-of-the-purple-sage/

  • ca. November 1-2, 1970 fragments

    Having just posted on Janis’s wake, which is said to have taken place on 10/26/70, I find myself wanting to at least take a stand on a few other gigs which have left me a little befuddled over the years. The first involves a “First Annual San Francisco Halloween Marathon Festival of the Performing Arts”,…

  • New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972

    In addition to the tantalizing May 20-21, 1969 Garcia gigs at the Matrix, the newly-digitized Examiner has yielded a good number of previously unlisted, mostly-midweek Garcia gigs. A little list  from 1970-1972 follows. update: see also a subsequent list from 1973-end 11/2/70 (Monday): Jerry Garcia / BBHC / Ice / Cleveland Wrecking Company. Harding Theater.…

  • A Party For Mother Earth

    It’s actually much, much prettier than it looks in this picture. New Riders headlining “A Party for Mother Earth”, benefiting the Bear Commune, Friends and Relations Hall, 660 Great Highway, June 3, 1971.

  • Jerry Garcia and Friends, Sanpaku at the Matrix: May 20-21, 1969

    Fascinating. I told you all that the Examiner would yield many interesting things. Well, this is one of the most interesting. Sometimes skimming cream is worth the price of later anticlimax. Jerry Garcia and Friends and Sam Paku [sic: Sanpaku] at the Matrix, Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21, 1969. Garcia’s first understood public…

  • Stinson History

    Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can’t find an email for anyone in the organization based on a cursory search, so I thought I post some reactions here. The prompt for all of this is the newly digitized source for the…

  • Magic at the Edge of the Western World

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1972

    I have been processing information from contracts filed at the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local No. 6 in San Francisco. San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Sessions, 1970 San Francisco Sessions, 1971 San Francisco Sessions, 1972 There is nothing representative about these – I have information on stuff that is…