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Category: San Francisco Chronicle

  • Chronicle Pickings

    Over the years, when I go to the Bay Area I try to make time to spin the Chronicle microfilm to check out the listings. Corry has done some of this as well, and I don’t think he’ll mind me aggregating a sense of what we have accomplished together. It is relatively painstaking, of course,…

  • JGMS: January 6-7-8, 1972, Keystone Korner

    I had a Friday, January 7, 1972 Garcia-Saunders gig at Keystone Korner based on an ex post discussion by Ken Hunt in the San Francisco Chronicle (1). But a bit of sniffing reveals a Thursday-Saturday run, January 6-8. No TJS, so update your own spreadsheets. (1) Hunt, Dennis. 1972a. Guitarist Jerry Garcia Never Stops. San…

  • New to The List

    I’ll be posting some new-to-The-List dates ad seriatim. JGMS: Wednesday, December 9, 1970, Matrix San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 1970, p. 62.  JGMS: Wednesday, January 6, 1971, Matrix Wasserman, John L. 1971. A Talent Bigger Than Her Name. San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 1971, p. 38. NRPS: Monday, January 11, 1971, Lion’s Share JGMS: Tuesday,…

  • Carlos Santana and Merl Saunders – February 22, 1971, Matrix, San Francisco

    Wasserman, John L. 1971. The Big Sound At Lake Tahoe [“Something Else” subhead], San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 1971, p. 40. The Chicken’s Matrix list  doesn’t show a few of these Matrix gigs, so I’ll throw them out there. Monday; February 22, 1971; Carlos Santana and Merl Saunders Tuesday; February 23, 1971; Larry Coryell Wednesday;…

  • JGMS: December 9, 1970, The Matrix

    Just another one for The List: Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders & Friends (JGMS), Matrix, 3138 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA, 94123. Source: San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 1970, p. 62.

  • When Jerry Met Freddie: NRPS, Wednesday, November 25, 1970: Keystone Korner

    New Riders of the Purple Sage Keystone Korner 750 Vallejo Street San Francisco, CA 94133 November 25, 1970 (Wednesday) Listing for NRPS at Keystone Korner, 750 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, CA, Wednesday, November 25, 1970. Source: “Opening Today,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 1970, p. 35. “Finds” are fun, and here’s one: New Riders of…

  • New Riders of the Purple Sage and Acoustic Grateful Dead: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, July 30-August 1, 1970

    (This is an updated version of an earlier post, “GD/NRPS19700731-19700801: Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, CA, 4/20/2011.) Some time back, I reported listings for “New Riders of the Purple Sage & Grateful Dead, Lion’s Share, 9 pm” for both July 31, 1970 and August 1, 1970, in the calendar section of the Berkeley Tribe. Here’s the…