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Category: Robert Hunter

  • Context: April 1976 BAM listings

    So here’s a first example of my sources and methods for context. It’s a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM (“Bay Area Music”) magazine, April 1976. Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet: the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty’s band of the period; the listings for…

  • Elves, Gnomes, Leprechauns and Little People’s Chowder and Marching Society Volunteer Fire Brigade and Ladies Auxiliary String Band

    I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It’s a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French rock journalist (wiki) who spent ca. 1966-early 1968 in San Francisco, apparently spending a ton of time with the Dead, if the narratives are to be believed. I am sure it is…

  • RN Peter Simon 1975 New Age Journal

    Simon, Peter. 1975. Making Musical Miracles: An Interview with Jerry Garcia. New Age Journal .5 (May 1975): 52-59. This is a really neat piece, lots of great stuff.  Interview took place at the “film house”  (230 Eldridge Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941), ca. the last week of March 1975. Love his notion of “tight-loose” forms…

  • Alligator

    I didn’t mean to publish this drafty fragment. It published itself. IIWII. anonymous comment:  Russian River connection might have to do with them spending time at the Warnecke Ranch out on Chalk Hill Rd in Healdsburg. Alligator was supposed to be written there. 7/16/67 interview Garcia says they are looking to move to the Southwest,…

  • John Scher, part 4 of 4: Jerry Garcia, Bill Bradley and the price of concert tickets

    John Scher, part 4 of 4: Jerry Garcia, Bill Bradley and the price of concert tickets Podcast of interview with John Scher. A minute or so in he tells the story of bailing Garcia and Hunter out for a pot bust in New Jersey. Goes until the 5-minute mark. Given that he is discussing this…

  • Robert Hunter and Betty Cantor-Jackson photo by dgans

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/535231392/ “Title: Bob and Betty. dgans’s description: Robert Hunter and a bewigged Betty Cantor-Jackson in the parking lot of Club Front in San Rafael CA, November 1977. I think it was Sonny Heard’s bike.” There’s a little more of the story of the wig if you click through. What a fantastic photograph. It’s got the…

  • I did not know that

    According to Alex Allan’s incredible Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder site, Love in the Afternoon credits lyrics to Robert Hunter and music to John Kahn. “I did not know that.”