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Category: Owsley Stanley

  • 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/

  • The Quick at San Quentin

    http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/LSD-king-Owsley-Stanley-s-Sonic-Journals-11209700.php And Bear was there taping. I assumed immediately this was 2/15/68, partly, I am sure, in hope that this means that the Quick sets from the Pacific Northwest Tour were taped. Hamina hamina. That said, I don’t see any reference to Quick guys in the various reports of this gig. ! deadlists: http://deadlists.com/deadlists/showresults.asp?KEY=2/15/68 !…

  • Great American String Band – May 5, 1974, Keystone, Berkeley

    Sunday, May 5, 1974 found Garcia at the Keystone (typical), but in the background, picking some banjo in the Great American String Band behind its featured front line of Richard Greene (fiddle), David Grisman (mandolin), and David Nichtern (guitar and vocals). Rather remarkably, we know a fair bit of very interesting stuff about this gig,…

  • The Common: September 5-6-7 ish, 1969

    Berkeley Tribe, August 8-14, 1969, p. 3. Regular readers will know that I have been chasing the idea of “Jerry and the Jeffersons” in my head for a good long while. It narrates the arc of Garcia’s life as a process of gradual privatization. I started it years ago, have picked it up and put…

  • Kid Charlemagne

    I absolutely love this song. I never knew it was about Owsley et al., roughly.