Category: Richard Loren

Stinson History

Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can’t find an email for anyone in the organization based on a cursory search, so I thought I post some reactions here. The prompt for all of this is the newly digitized source for the…

May 24, 2018
“The Little Cash Cow” – JGB, Early 1980

Last weekend’s post “On the Bus with the Garcia Band” looked at the November-December 1983 JGB tour’s extensive ground travel – everything was by bus, 3,000 miles on the road in a few weeks in the eastern time zone. Commenter Nick asked a great question comparing that tour with earlier ones, pointing out Ozzie Ahlers’s…

February 28, 2016
Reading Notes – Loren 2014

Loren, Richard, with Stephen Abney. 2014. High Notes: A Rock Memoir. Demariscotta, ME: East Pond Publishing. When I read a book that I will need to be able to cite chapter and verse, this is how I arrange the chapters and verses. I just pull out quotes and other observations, I effectively tag them, and…

May 25, 2015
Richard Loren: High Notes

Richard Loren is publishing a memoir in November. This I am very much looking forward to! http://www.jambands.com/news/2014/07/29/former-grateful-dead-manager-to-release-memoir Former Grateful Dead manager Richard Loren will release his memoir, High Notes: A Rock Memoir: Working with Rock Legends Jefferson Airplane Through The Doors to the Grateful Dead, in November. The book, which features a forward by David…

July 30, 2014