Category: official releases

  • New Releases

    Not surprisingly, we saw a flurry of Garcia-related releases on August 1, 2012, which would have been Jerry’s 70th birthday. Garcia Grisman – Orignal Hi-Def Master  Garcia Grisman Alternate – Orignal Hi-Def Master http://acousticoasis.com/rooms/study/garcia-grisman-alt/garcia-grisman-alt.html Acoustic Oasis has released a “high def master” cut of the original Garcia Grisman album, and a new Garcia Grisman Alternate,…

  • JGMS July 10-11, 1973 complete

    So, Fantasy is going to release the complete July 10-11, 1973 Keystone shows. Hooray! I’ll be able to check my work on these shows. As a reminder: 7/10/73: what’s on which release 7/11/73: what’s on which release JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 1 datings JGMS: Live at Keystone, vol. 2 datings JGMS: Live at Keystone,…

  • The Group In and Around the Sarah Era: Boarding House, 1/24/73

    LN jg1973-01-24.jgms.early-late.sbd-nfagdtrfb.100216.flac1644 update: this post has so  many old links to the evil db.etree – please never use that URL. Substitute etreedb wherever you see db.etree. Thank you. (Man oh man does Blogger’s formatting suck. One can’t compose online, because stuff can get lost [viz my long beautiful post on Wales-Garcia 1/26/72]. One can’t compose…

  • The Merle [sic] Saunders Experience: Boarding House, January 25, 1973

    LN jg1973-01-25.jgms.early-late.sbd.7670.shn2flac1644 Introduction Not long ago I posted a set of notes on JGMS 1/15/73 at the Inn of the Beginning, the second known date (and the earliest circulating tape) of the Garcia-Saunders-Kahn-Vitt group to include singer Sarah Fulcher. The Sarah Era, as I’ll call it, holds lots of appeal: she’s a mysterious figure about…

  • ‘Jerry, is it really ovah?’ JGMS at the Bottom Line, November 6, 1974 (early show)

    LN jg1974-11-06.jgms.early.aud-moore.117248.flac2496 Garcia’s first professional tour as a named headliner outside the Grateful Dead comprised twenty-one performances over the thirteen days between Tuesday, November 5, 1974 and Sunday, November 17, 1974, inclusive. The first three nights of the tour unfolded at the Bottom Line, 15 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012, two shows per…

  • Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)

    LN jg1974-08-11.jgms.all.aud-falanga.6382.shnf I wanted to listen around August 1974 a bit more, to see if there was anything else like the mystery trumpet player on “8/15/74”. So I checked out 8/11. This strikes me as one of the weaker shows of this great month, though it’s been so long since I listened to most of…

  • Reading Notes: Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35.

    Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35. A FEW POINTS TO EXTRACT: First, I believe the interview material and show observations are from March 13, 1973 at the Keystone in Berkeley. He only mentions it as a quartet, so I doubt there was a fiddle player there. Here are setlist…

  • LN jg1973-10-xx.oaitw.partial.sbd.14216.shnf

    Old And In The Way “October 1973” (http://db.etree.org/shn/14216) turns out to be a degraded copy of Boarding House, October 8, 1973. Grisman officially released the whole show in 2008, though all links to download it seem to be dead. Some notes. Old And In The Way “Unknown Location, October xx, 1973” Boarding House October 8,…

  • Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share (LN jg1973-07-05.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.79032.flac1644)

    update 20230709: the trumpet player is Mike Price. update 201605015: this show has now been officially released as Garcialive 6: July 5 1973 Lion’s Share (Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders). slight update 20110816, as noted below Like 2/16/74, this was a previously uncirculated Betty Board dropped by the mysterious ‘alligator’ into the ether at Lossless Legs,…

  • 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…