Category: Rob Wasserman

  • ’88 Bridge Benefit is Good

    A lot of good material at the Bridge Benefit, 12/4/88 in the Oakland Coliseum Arena. It’s not like 15-20 minutes was very demanding, but Garcia sounds much more enthusiastic belting out the backing vocals here on “Wang Dang Doodle”, and giving “Friend Of The Devil” a sprightly run-through, than he did on either of the…

  • Reading Notes: Henke 1991

    I wasn’t paying attention at the time, but my sense is that these September 1991 interviews (I think there might have been some separate remarks in the Boston Globe) caused a good deal of consternation in Deadlandia – and why not? The golden-egg-laying-goose sounds like he’d love to leave the reservation at this point. Lots…