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Category: Rob Eaton

  • Twin Wonder Powers, Activate? JGMS, October 11-12, 1973 at Keystone Berkeley

    Tape Archaeology What used to be known by some of us as the Third Batch of Betty Cantor-Jackson tapes proved the most grudging of all the batches in terms of finding broad circulation. This especially vexed Garcia freaks, because it contained a number of drool-inspiring Garcia-Saunders sets. You might imagine where the mind would go,…

  • Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share

    I see that 7/5/73 is slated for official release as (per B&N) Garcialive 6: July 5 1973 Lion’s Share (Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders). http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/garcialive-6-july-5-1973-lions-share/29919624;jsessionid=D74E41C2738E4500EC4D90119172BE33.prodny_store01-atgap05?ean=0880882255220  http://www.amazon.com/Garcialive-July-1973-Lions-Share/dp/B01F73YZZ0 See my post now titled “Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share” if you want to learn more about the very interesting songs, the great performance, the mysterious trumpet…

  • Friday Night at the Boarding House

    edit: well, this is a first – turns out I had already posted a version of this. Heh heh. Presumably, this one is better. April 13-16, 1973 saw Garcia “Four Nights at the Boarding House”, two with Merl Saunders and The Group (JGMS), two with Old And In The Way (OAITW). So much about these…

  • Legal Aid for Unnamed Angels

    LN jg1973-10-02.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.83809.flac1644 I am sure Blair and McNally and all the other sources go into the obscure story of the Legal Aid Benefit. I just re-read the one source I have at hand, John Wasserman’s very suspicious-sounding piece in the Chronicle a few days later (1). Sounds like some Angels, facilitated by Sam Cutler and…

  • After Midnight: JGMS, November 3, 1973, Keystone, Berkeley

    I just call this After Midnight. Tremendous. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Keystone 2119 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 November 3, 1973 (Saturday) 123 minute soundboard -sSet I (7 tracks, 83:05)– s1t01. … After Midnight [7:26] (1) [2:48] s1t02. Expressway (To Your Heart) [10:59] -> s1t03. collective improvisation [15:50] -> s1t04. transition to Merl’s Tune…

  • even though I am on hiatus until ca. March 2013, I

    thought I’d leave a breadcrumb here for the return. Lotsa new info on the Third Betty Batch, or info new-to-the-record, anyway. Paumgarten, Nick. 2012. Deadhead: The afterlife. New Yorker, November 26, 2012, URL http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten, consulted 11/20/2012. Also, I never knew that Betty and Brent were an item. But then again, there’s an awful lot of…