Fate Music

Category: Robert Hunter

  • Emerge and See: Hunter Hosting Garcia at the Cellar Door – May 15, 1978 (DISCONFIRMED)

    update 20210526: this seems not to have happened. David Kramer-Smythe reached out to David Morgenstern, who was with Comfort at this time. He remembered this gig for other reasons, but said Garcia definitely did not join, and that, in fact, Garcia never sat in with Comfort. So this is one of those cases of ….…

  • The Bard on WLIR (Long Island), March 1978

    http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/RobertHunter1978-03WLIRInterviewRoslynNY.html Robert Hunter 1978-03-xx* Roslyn, New York unknown hotel (Hunter’s room) Interview by Denis McNamara for 92.7 WLIR-FM Garden City, New York (M?-FM) “Sunday At 9:00” radio program -expanded edition- (3 shows/parts) “A Conversation With Robert Hunter” Not sure how close in time this was to the 3/12/78 Long Island show with JGB, NRPS, and…

  • Garcia-Hunter Originals

    Somehow, I had never pinned down in my mind that Jerry played none of his original tunes before the advent of the Jerry Garcia Band in 1975. Pure covers before then. Hm. You all probably knew this. And at some level I did, too. But it has come into sharper focus for me with this…

  • E72, post 01

    I have been listening to the integral E72, starting from 4/7 and working my way forward. Not obsessing about details, just listening while pedaling. Some random thoughts. 4/7 has a lot of bucking bronco energy, but lacks discipline. 4/8 so much more controlled and effective than the first night. What a great night of entertainment…

  • Garcia, Cutler, Hunter, unidentified woman chatting, ca. 1970

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_g2GWeAgYQ Not much very revelatory, but nice to hear Hunter rapping, and they talk together about Altamont. Around 20, we get some Hells Angels talk. Garcia: “It’s almost like having tigers on the streets.” Hunter, in a classic case of how these guys romanticized the Angels and other outlaws: “Hells Angels are Robin Hood. Cutler…

  • Robert Hunter, Idiot’s Delight

    Just came across my scan of the cover, random posting.

  • UMass ‘Master of the Fretboard’: JGB, February 20, 1980 (late show)

    LN jg1980-02-20.jgb.late.aud-Sony_23F-Nak_550.131018.flac2448 The Jerry Garcia Band (JGB #11a) played 22 shows in the 29 days of February 1980, warming up locally and then touring college and off-campus theaters, reportedly to help pay for the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Sirens of Titan”. I have all kinds of information about John and Jerry’s quest for those…

  • Context: August 1976 BAM Listings

  • Context: July 1976 BAM Listings

    I intend this stuff for future historians, not to take up Corry’s precious time! BAM no. 5 sees the live music listings expanding to two pages. Probably the same quantity of listings, but now there are ads to go along with them. The publication is doing some business! Lots of interesting stuff here, as always.…

  • Context: June 1976 BAM Listings

    Here are the live music listings from BAM no. 3. Here’s the snapshot I take. Jerry confederates, most. I like these Comfort listings just to put some foundation under the idea that they were a going concern when they partnered up with Hunter the next year. And this would be the Kingfish quartet, sans Robert…