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Category: pre-GD

  • Black Mountain Boys date

    I don’t really do pre-Dead, but I found this, don’t see it at JGC, don’t know where else there might be show lists for pre-Dead bands, and thought I might as well put it here. The “Marri-Eds” sponsored a hootenanny at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on March 25, 1964, featuring The Couriers, Lino with…

  • In the beginning

    Grateful Dead Live at Golden State Studios on 1965-11-03

  • Jerry and Sandy’s Adventure, May 1964

    http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2015/10/jerry-and-sandys-adventure-may-1964.html I don’t do pre-Dead stuff, but this of course interests me because, as a member of the JGAB, Sandy Rothman interests me. Great archaeological work by JGBP, and thanks to Sandy for sharing his recollections for public consumption!

  • Circular on Mickey Hart and Rolling Thunder

    “Mickey Hart: Off the Road and Into His Head,” Circular 4, 36 (September 11, 1972), 2 pp. Warner Brothers pimped Mickey Hart’s Rolling Thunder (BS 2635) in its “weekly news device” Circular for its September 1972 release. As I found with an earlier edition of Circular (“Keith. And, Modernity”), this one holds various pieces of…

  • Elves, Gnomes, Leprechauns and Little People’s Chowder and Marching Society Volunteer Fire Brigade and Ladies Auxiliary String Band

    I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It’s a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French rock journalist (wiki) who spent ca. 1966-early 1968 in San Francisco, apparently spending a ton of time with the Dead, if the narratives are to be believed. I am sure it is…

  • RN Sandy Troy’s Captain Trips (1994)

    Reading Notes Troy, Sandy. 1994. Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press. JG devoted to music Troy 1994, xiii JG was into all kinds of music: folk, bluegrass, country, acid rock, R&B, gospel, jazz. But he never dabbled, he always “plunged in” Troy 1994, xiii Jose Ramon Garcia emigrated from…

  • Swain’s Music Store, Palo Alto, CA

    I don’t do much pre-GD, but Andy Childs’s lengthy history of the GD in ZigZag in October 1973 mentions a Palo Alto music store, called Swain’s, which I don’t remember hearing about before. I need to read the whole piece more closely, and wonder how well it has stood up as a work of history.…

  • jug band note

    Probably a reference to Mother McCree’s, but this from a ca. late 1970 – early 1971 interview with Jerry by one Frank Fedele, who asks him about what he was doing before GD. Jerry says “We had a jug band together, me and Bob Weir and Pigpen and we worked once or twice a year.…

  • Godawful Palo Alto Bluegrass Ensemble

    Pete Wernick recounts spending some time in the Summer of 1963 out West, playing banjo with Jerry Garcia (mandolin!) and David Nelson in an outfit called The Godawful Palo Alto Bluegrass Ensemble. I don’t recall seeing this name in the historiography, though as I have noted before I am not particularly up on the pre-GD…

  • Guitars Unlimited, Menlo Park

    This is a bit beyond my ken, but since I have one Warlocks post, and an early Phil post, and since LLD has a Menlo Park angle, I thought I’d make a note of it. This may well be in the record, but I don’t recall it. This is from a ca. early 1991 interview…