Fate Music

Category: Oakland

  • About Last Night

    Hell may freeze over, but here I am. A new man. (Call it my epitaph for JGMF.) But I am going to post about the Post-Jerry-Garcia-Grateful-Dead-Cinematic-Universe (PJGGDCU). Just read Selvin 2018 for a sense of things. I think Thoughts On The Dead coined an acronym for this which is of course canon. I am just…

  • Wabbit Hunting with Garcia and Kahn in Oakland and Guerneville, August 17-18, 1985

    I shouldn’t be mean. But posterity might not recall that many characterized Jerry’s vocal sound in 1985 as resembling Elmer Fudd, so I am doing it for future generations. You can thank me later. Not much to report. While the Dunsmuir House and Gardens maybe have been a cool place to see Jerry on an…

  • ’88 Bridge Benefit is Good

    A lot of good material at the Bridge Benefit, 12/4/88 in the Oakland Coliseum Arena. It’s not like 15-20 minutes was very demanding, but Garcia sounds much more enthusiastic belting out the backing vocals here on “Wang Dang Doodle”, and giving “Friend Of The Devil” a sprightly run-through, than he did on either of the…

  • Simple Twist of Fate: JGB #23 at the Kaiser, November 11, 1994

    LN jg1994-11-11.jgb.all.aud-CMC5-mk4.145714.flac1644 Like so many of the late-era shows that I have listened to in the last couple of years, this one pleasantly surprised me. The only thing that troubles me is that it brings me into aesthetic disagreement yet again with Nick, who called this show “bad enough to make you want to give Jerry…

  • My First Dead Show

    Now available in all kinds of good sound, including this 24 bit / 96 kHz pure sbd from Charlie Miller. This show was the first time in my life that I felt utterly unjudged by those around me.

  • A Second Triumphant Return: JGB, Halloween ’92

    LN jg1992-10-31.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141463.flac1644 Almost six years to the day after Jerry’s “Triumphant Return” from death’s door with the Garcia Band at the Stone, on October 31, 1992 he made a second comeback from a major health scare, playing with the JGB in the less homey Oakland Coliseum Arena less than three months after collapsing at home…

  • Unscary Jerry: Halloween ’88

    Just another good, clean ’88 Garcia Band show. By my count, the “Band Electric” only played 16 gigs the whole of the year, which is a shame, because Garcia’s clean, relaxed vibe suits it perfectly. “Werewolves” is fun, as always, Cats is fine, Forever Young and Stop That Train are both way above average, Think…

  • Oakland Times

    In at least June and July 1973 a paper called Oakland Times ran some Keystone articles, some Jerry data that are interesting. I have copies of some clippings, but there is no little publication information.  Oakland Public Library has a few numbers in 1965: http://encore.oaklandlibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1507575__Soakland+times__Orightresult__X5?lang=eng&suite=cobalt.  Nothing turns up in any of the following Berkeley Public…

  • June 1969 Community in Musical Efforts (COME) program, Oakland, CA

    I have found two 1969 articles related to Community and (some say “in”) Musical Efforts (COME), a two week series of seminars and workshops in “now” music to be held at Mills College, Oakland, CA, in June of 1969. Teachers were set to include Jerry Garcia, John Handy, Mickey Hart, Roland Kirk, the Tape Music…