Category: rarities

  • Third Night Out with Tony Saunders: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, June 6, 1974

    **updated 21:18 Eastern 20111213, mostly up front with some more historical context** LN jg1974-06-06.jgms.all.aud-falanga.6375.shn2flac A wonderful tape and a wonderful performance. Tony Saunders on bass, Billy K on the drums. We get to hear what I presume to be Freddie Herrera a time or two, interesting given how central was the Herrera-Garcia partnership over the…

  • Redd and Blues

    LN jg1974-06-04.jgms.all.sbd-gmb.90003.flac1644 Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Lion’s Share 60 Red Hill Avenue San Anselmo, CA, 94960 June 4, 1974 (Tuesday) 133 min Betty Cantor-Jackson soundboard shnid-90003 –set I (5 tracks, 75:29)– s1t01. Darben The Redd Foxx [17:24] [0:16] % [0:02] {17:42} s1t02. Expressway (To Your Heart) [16:50] [0:07] % [0:10] {17:07} s1t03. I Second…

  • Merl’s Birthday Generosity: Aunt Monk, February 14, 1975

    LN jg1975-02-14.aunt-monk.142mins.aud-castelli-motb-0149.108896.flac1644 Thought I’d throw in my 2/14/75 notes too, having just done 5/9/75. MOTB Release: 0149 16/44.1 Release Date: 2010-07-10 Band: Legion of Mary Date: 1975-02-14  (Friday) Venue: The Generosity Location: San Francisco, CA Analog Audience Source: FOB Master Cassettes (MAC) Medium Stock Brands: MAC = 2 x Maxell UD C120’s Analog Lineage: Sony…

  • 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…

  • NRPS-Matrix-1970 06 of 7: LN19700902: Wednesday, September 2, 1970

    NRPS-Matrix-1970: a seven part series discussing New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) gigs at the Matrix, 1970, including listening notes on the circulating tapes, speculation on dates, observations on playing, general pontificating. Introduction LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970 LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970 LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970 LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970 LN19700902:…

  • NRPS-Matrix-1970 05 of 7: LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970

    NRPS-Matrix-1970: a seven part series discussing New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) gigs at the Matrix, 1970, including listening notes on the circulating tapes, speculation on dates, observations on playing, general pontificating. Introduction LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970 LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970 LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970 LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970 LN19700902:…

  • NRPS-Matrix-1970 04 of 7: LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970

    NRPS-Matrix-1970: a seven part series discussing New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) gigs at the Matrix, 1970, including listening notes on the circulating tapes, speculation on dates, observations on playing, general pontificating. Introduction LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970 LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970 LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970 LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970 LN19700902:…

  • JGB: November-December 1977 East Coast Tour Rarities

    1977 The Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) was formed in 1975 to be a professional recording and touring band, and in productive years the Band would do a late-year East Coast tour. I’d guess the germ of this tradition formed in 1973, when Garcia and Saunders played the Hell’s Angels Forever gig on the S.S. Bay…

  • JGMS: January 15, 1972, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

    I have been needing to revisit recordings of the very early Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders stuff, and with a bit of time I thought I’d give this show, from a Saturday in mid-January 1972 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, some attention on its birthday. I am not sure who’s drumming … could have been…