Fate Music

Category: NRPS

  • Picture of the Murdering Punks at the Inn

    A little piece in the from the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat on the tenth anniversary of the Inn of the Beginning in Cotati notes that “A picture spread in the Pacific Sun featured Jerry Garcia and the New Riders of the Purple Sage playing there in their early days”. Great – now I *have* to track…

  • San Francisco Sessions, 1971

    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…

  • Investing in Marmaduke

    Some notes-to-self. Corry: The Grateful Dead family was interested in turning John Dawson into a recording artist as early as 1968, and willing to spend their own studio time to do it, even though nothing ever came of it, so the New Riders project can be seen as a solution rather than a random idea.…

  • NRPS (formerly The Murdering Punks) – August 7, 1969

    There has long been a tape identified as New Riders Of The Purple Sage (NRPS), Thursday, August 7, 1969 at the Matrix in San Francisco. Corry has found corroborating evidence for the dating, though of course the tape cannot be tied to the Ralph Gleason “On The Town” listing he found, which bills the band…

  • NRPS 12/15/73 Winterland w/ guests

    Uhhh, wow. The amazing NRPS archivist Rob Bleetstein not only responded to my query about the source for the NRPS official concert history listing that shows Garcia (guitar) and Sandy Rothman (banjo) sitting in with the New Riders on “Glendale Train”, 12/15/73 at Winterland (see also Corry). I say, he not only responded to my…

  • Dirty Business

    Jackson, Blair. 2014. Classic Track – New Riders of the Purple Sage, ‘Dirty Business’ Mix Online, January 1, 2014. URL http://mixonline.com/classic-tracks/classic_track_-_new_riders_of_the_purple_sage_dirty_business/, accessed 10/3/2014. I have had this in my “xfer-incoming” folder since it was published, still need to read it. It looks awesome. Note to self.

  • NRPS w/o Jerry, pre-Buddy?

    I had found some listings from June that had NRPS playing at a time when Garcia was known to be unavailable, June 21, 1971. I wondered what they did for pedal steel, but the question became moot when I scrolled ahead a day and found a cancellation notice. Questions, answers, questions: I have found another…

  • NRPS: July 24-25, 1971, New Monk – New to The List

    listing: “Rock, Jazz This Week in Bay Area,” SFC, July 23, 1971, p. 45. New Riders are scheduled to play Freddie Herrera’s New Monk Saturday-Sunday, July 24-25, 1971. Commander Cody slated to open. New to The List.

  • NRPS June 21-23, 1971 Boarding House – CANCELED

    San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 1971, p. 47. Here’s an interesting one that I don’t quite know what to do with – NRPS and Rowan Bothers playing the Boarding House June 21-23, 1971. Of course, Garcia was in France on 6/21, and even gaining back 7 or 8 hours he probably couldn’t have been back…

  • Harpur College NRPS set

    “Enough about the Dead, how was the New Riders’ set?” – one guy, once Any Deadhead worth her salt knows the Harpur College gig from May 2, 1970. It’s a monster, one of the Dead’s best, and long-circulating from FM tapes; it has blown a lot of minds. I don’t remember hearing much about the…