Category: reading notes
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Reading Notes: Jon Sievert’s 1978 Guitar Player interview with Jerry Garcia
Man, this is such a great interview. Sievert always connected well with Jerry. These are my “reading notes”, which just means that I am drawing quotes and dropping them back into context. So, for example, some of the pedal steel talk below has been pasted back into my materials on the pedal steel guitar and…
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The List Tradition: Chronicling Infinity
Beyer, Susanne, and Lothar Gorris. 2009. SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’. Spiegel Online International, November 11, http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/spiegel-interview-with-umberto-eco-we-like-lists-because-we-don-t-want-to-die-a-659577.html, consulted 1/4/2016. I don’t know Eco very well, and there’s a bit of mumbo-jumbo in here, but I think it’s also a lovely little piece of cultural history, very…
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Reading Notes: Constanten, Tom. 1992. Between Rock and Hard Places: A Musical Autobiodyssey. Eugene, OR: Hulogosi Press.
update 20120107: how could I have missed LIA’s post “Constanten on Constanten”? Anyway, there it is, excellent as always. Spent some time with this, mostly trying to get some more anchoring around Tarot, which has become quite a productive discussion in comments to my post on a “Rubber Duck Mime Band and Jerry Garcia” billing…
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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…
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Reading Notes: Kahlbacher, Gene. 1974. Aquarian Interview: New Riders of the Purple Sage. Aquarian, January 29 – February 12, 1974, pp. 14, 27, 31.
NB: I didn’t have the year of this publication, somehow. But from the context of Torbert leaving and Battin just arriving, I believe it is 1974. Kahlbacher 1974, 14: How much of an inspiration has JG been to NRPS, and was he its Founding Father? Spencer Dryden: “Rather than father, I look to Jerry for…
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Reading Notes: Jackson, Harry. 1970. On Tour with the Dead. Zygote, July 22, 1970: 41-44.
I have only a bad photocopy, with no page numbers, of an article written by Harry Jackson, with the only visible title word being “dead.” I am not 100% sure the above reference is correct. I will refer to pages as they appear on my copy. The article is based on observation/interview at the March…
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Cat in the Limelight: RN Grosswald and Blavat 1978
Grosswald, Mike and Glen Blavat. 1978. Jerry Garcia’s Band Under the Stars. Happytimes (Philadelphia), March 31, 1978, p. 15. Grosswald-Bavat 1978: This is a really nicely done piece from what I assume was a Philly underground paper, Happytimes, around the time of the JGB’s visit to that town in mid-March (3/16/78 at the Spectrum Theatre).…
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Reading Notes: Harris, David. 1970. Rock’s First Family: Grateful Dead. Circus 4, 4 (March): 32-35 .
Just figured I’d post my random scribbles about stuff as I read. Harris, David. 1970. Rock’s First Family: Grateful Dead. Circus 4, 4 (March): 32-35. This article is based on discussions that appear to have happened in January 1970, since Tom Constanten is present. Recall that there have been various discussions of this timeframe online:…