Fate Music

Category: Reconstruction

  • tuning ditty identification request

    Can anyone identify the little ditty or ditties Jerry noodles in this mp3? TIA! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9dDbbvXg9d7w5kikobYCvcgpTStjPPD/view?usp=sharing update: commenter WWHS Clear Vision informs us that it is “The English Country Garden” – “it’s an English folk song that was popularized by Percy Grainger.” Thank you!

  • Quicky: I think Reconstruction 6/13/79 at the River Theater in Guerneville should be dated 6/23/79

    update: I am now 100% certain that the correct date for this material is 6/23/79 The tape we have of the titular show comes from Alan Bershaw. Turns out he didn’t tape it, but circulating versions come from his copy. This is a 2nd copy, lineaged as follows: Nak 550 w/CP3 caps > MAC >…

  • Greenpeace ‘No Nukes’ Benefit at the Old Waldorf: Reconstruction, April 23, 1979

    I wanted to love this, but I found very little that moved me. Maybe I was tired. LN jg1979-04-23.reconstruction.all.aud-composite.126927.flac1644 Reconstruction Old Waldorf 444 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 April 23, 1979 (Monday) – Early and Late shows composite auds flac1644 shnid-126927 –early show (10 tracks, 8 tunes, 92:26)– e-t01. announcement/crowd/tuning [0:52] e-t02. Get Up…

  • The Great Barcia

    Rock Scully’s book occasionally referred to Jerry as “the Great Barcia“. I had originally thought it was Salvador Dalí, but looking back, I guess not. It still tickles me. This just came back to mind as I came across two ads, a month apart, for Reconstruction at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on 3/31/79. Someone…

  • The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

    My first working title for Fate Music was The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game. The THGCBTG framing, as I lovingly acronymized it, reflected a slightly darker view of Garcia’s side trips than I presently hold, one in which his damned Midas Touch tainted even his silly bar band, which eventually had to play boomy…

  • Linda Chicana

    Is the name of the song that has gone on Reconstruction setlists as “Linda”. Here is Cal Tjader doing it:

  • Reconstruction in Tempe, AZ, July 29, 1979 (CANCELED)

    **update: the show was canceled, per JGBP’s correspondence with show promoter, in comments** I gather up a lot of stuff, and “processing” it takes time. I appear to have gathered the above about 2/20/2015. It bears the watermark of noted photog Jay Blakesberg, and it’s a ca. July 1979 schedule of Dead-related events put out…

  • Carl Lockett and the Side Trips Social Network

    Preface: Reconstruction #2 Jerry Garcia’s commitment to Reconstruction never seemed total, a big problem if you’re John Kahn, first, and then Merl Saunders, looking to reboot the lucrative Garcia-Saunders-Kahn Fantasy Records franchise. It’s no good if the G is wobbly, because “multiracial dance and jazz band with a rotating cast of Bay Area guitarists, including…

  • Reconstruction at the Rainbow – April 11-12, 1979

    Probably my last substantial piece for at least three weeks. I. Barry Fey (1938 – April 28, 2013)[1] A. Background Once upon a time, twentysomething New Yorker Barry Fey set out to promote rock shows in Chicago and wound up in Denver. Arriving there in 1967, he would have found a town built on stuff…

  • Risky Reconstruction

    **massively updated 11/24/2014 11 PM mountain time** I just tipped my hat to the idea of meso level musical risk in Garcia’s side trips. This is the pedantic-even-by-my-high-standards phrasing of the notion that that different bands, qua bands (combinations of players and repertoires), could and did musically challenge Garcia to different degrees. The challenge-comfort continuum…