Category: Ron Rakow
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On Tours and Marketing Records
Over at Jerrybase, we have begun grouping events not only by “runs” (consecutive nights at the same venue), but also “tours”. It turns out that the notion of a tour isn’t quite as crystal clear as one might want it. I wanted it to be at least three out of town gigs in at least…
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Round Reels, Incorporated August 1, 1974
Round Reels is the company Ron Rakow created for film projects, not least the Grateful Dead Movie. As with many of Rakow’s business activities, it’s really hard to find any solid information about the company. So when the corporate stamp came up for auction over the summer, I was very excited to see it! This…
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TDIH: Wolfgang on Rack
8/13/75 was just about perfection, but I still love Bill Graham’s burn on Rack’s financial acumen best of all.
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On lead guitar and vocals, Mr. Jerry Garcia
Bill Graham: Good evening. We welcome you, on behalf of the group. We should introduce … We should thank United Artists and Mr. Ron Rakow. I should make it official. Mr. Rakow is the President of Round Records. He asked if I could be here this evening, and I said ‘I’d like twelve dollars and…
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Reading Notes: Dupree 1974
Zoo World, January 31, 1974. “Cover photo captured by Mario Algaze the afternoon of a Leas Campbell presentation of the Grateful Dead at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Fla.”, December 18 or 19, 1973. A clean-shaven Jerry Garcia in Tampa, Florida, December 18 or 19, 1973. Photograph by Mario Algaze, published in Zoo World, January…
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Ron Polte on the Demise of the Carousel
Bottom line: A bunch of hippies, a bunch of good people, got together and refused to run a business. And, I’m sorry, you’ve got to live in that world if you’re gonna run a business. On Rakow, in particular: What Ron Rakow did to those people, he chained them to a machine that couldn’t make…
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Sole Star at Paul’s Mall
For the JGMS gigs November 12-13-14, 1974, Paul’s Mall in Boston, two shows a night booked by one Fred Taylor. MERL SAUNDERS AND JERRY GARCIA CONTRACT RIDER 3. MERL SAUNDERS & JERRY GARCIA shall receive 100% sole star billing in any and all advertising and publicity, including marquee … Does this mean that things should…
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Grateful Dead Three Ways: December 20, 1975
Selvin (1975c) reviewed the December 19, 1975 Winterland show billing Keith and Donna Godchaux, Kingfish, and the Jerry Garcia Band as “Grateful Dead Divided Three Ways”. Hence, my title, even though I am working the crossings through the next night. Since I have fallen down the rabbit hole of a long post on 10/17/75, and…
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Reading Notes: “Dead Awaken: New Albums, Label, Tour,” Rolling Stone 163 (June 20, 1974), p. 28.
“Dead Awaken: New Albums, Label, Tour,” Rolling Stone 163 (June 20, 1974), p. 28. This unsigned, one-column thing datelined from San Rafael is chock full of tidbits. I’ll just throw them out and comment on them ad seriatim. Gives 5/24/74 release date for Rum Runners and Garcia [Compliments], 6/21 for GD’s Mars Hotel. I have…
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Jerry Garcia and Round Records
(Parenthetically, the Grateful Dead Archives at UC Santa Cruz will eventually, hopefully, allow us to get a great close look at some of these hitherto opaque business/economic issues. Go, Nick, Go! But I pregress.) I have just been eyeballing some articles that appeared in the amazing, incredible, Golden Road, edited by Blair Jackson and Regan…