Category: NRPS
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A Pigless Monster at the Fillmore East: July 12, 1970
LN jg1970-07-12.nrps-gd.aud-cooper.122707.flac1644 More old listening notes. The “Not Fade Away” and “Good Lovin’” from the electric Dead set feature absolutely top shelf rock and roll playing. Look at how I go off on this stuff wow wow wow wow wow and all that. If this tape sounded better, this’d be in the canon with 5/2/70.…
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RN Sandy Troy’s One More Saturday Night (1991)
Troy, Sandy. 1991. One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Reading Notes “by the fall of 1974 the band’s business ventures began to unravel” (Troy 1991, 27). #business JG and MG moved in together early 1967 (Troy 1991, 68). #women #v-Carousel as described…
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Reading Notes: Jon Sievert’s 1978 Guitar Player interview with Jerry Garcia
Man, this is such a great interview. Sievert always connected well with Jerry. These are my “reading notes”, which just means that I am drawing quotes and dropping them back into context. So, for example, some of the pedal steel talk below has been pasted back into my materials on the pedal steel guitar and…
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NRPS: November 26, 1969, Poppycock, Palo Alto
A few years ago Corry uncovered a whole trove of previously unknown NRPS shows in 1969. Among others, these included gigs in their old Palo Alto stomping grounds, playing the Poppycock (135 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94301) on consecutive Thursdays in November (November 13, 1969 and November 20, 1969). I am still hiatus, so…
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When Jerry Met Freddie: NRPS, Wednesday, November 25, 1970: Keystone Korner
New Riders of the Purple Sage Keystone Korner 750 Vallejo Street San Francisco, CA 94133 November 25, 1970 (Wednesday) Listing for NRPS at Keystone Korner, 750 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA, Wednesday, November 25, 1970. Source: “Opening Today,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 1970, p. 35. “Finds” are fun, and here’s one: New Riders of…
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New Riders of the Purple Sage and Acoustic Grateful Dead: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, July 30-August 1, 1970
(This is an updated version of an earlier post, “GD/NRPS19700731-19700801: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, CA, 4/20/2011.) Some time back, I reported listings for “New Riders of the Purple Sage & Grateful Dead, Lion’s Share, 9 pm” for both July 31, 1970 and August 1, 1970, in the calendar section of the Berkeley Tribe. Here’s the…
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NRPS were best when Marmaduke was focused and sober (LN jg1971-10-27.nrps.all.fm-weiner.18357.shnf)
The New Riders of the Purple Sage opened for the Grateful Dead for most or all of its October-December 1971 touring. Happily, a lot of the shows were broadcast and there are pretty good tapes. This one, from the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse, NY on October 27, 1971 is an above-average tape of a…
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NRPS 19710121 Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA
My questions about whether the NRPS played the January 1971 out-of-town GD shows in Davis (1/21/71), Eugene (1/22/71) and Seattle (1/24/71) , and my conjecture that maybe they just stayed at Heider’s, are at least partly answered and stand at least partly wrong. California Aggie, January 25, 1971, p. 8; photos by Jim Quigley. Here’s…
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NRPS 19710820-21: Inn of the Beginning, Cotati, CA
Inn of the Beginning calendar of events, August 1971. Courtesy of Mark Braunstein. The August 1971 calendar of events for the Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, shows The New Riders of the Purple Sage playing there on Friday, August 20, 1971 and Saturday, August 21, 1971. These dates are…
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NRPS: Gypsy Cowboy (Columbia KC-31930, 1972)
Anyone know the recording location/dates of this album? I assume that this was at Heider’s, since the great Stephen Barncard gets production and engineering credits. I see there’s a blog called “Recording Wally Heider” … I’d love to see more emerge there, though I haven’t really poked around. Anyone know the release date? Since the…