Fate Music

Category: San Francisco

  • NRPS-Matrix-1970 03 of 7: LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970

    NRPS-Matrix-1970: a seven part series discussing New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) gigs at the Matrix, 1970, including listening notes on the circulating tapes, speculation on dates, observations on playing, general pontificating. Introduction LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970 LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970 LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970 LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970 LN19700902:…

  • NRPS-Matrix-1970 02 of 7: LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970

    NRPS-Matrix-1970: a seven part series discussing New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) gigs at the Matrix, 1970, including listening notes on the circulating tapes, speculation on dates, observations on playing, general pontificating. Introduction LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970 LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970 LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970 LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970 LN19700902:…

  • NRPS-Matrix-1970 01 of 7: Introduction

    NRPS-Matrix-1970: a seven part series discussing New Riders of the Purple Sage (NRPS) gigs at the Matrix, 1970, including listening notes on the circulating tapes, speculation on dates, observations on playing, general pontificating. Introduction LN19700430: Thursday, April 30, 1970 LN19700707: Tuesday, July 7, 1970 LN19700729: Wednesday, July 29, 1970 LN19700730: Thursday, July 30, 1970 LN19700902:…

  • ‘And It Stoned Me’ Debut: JGB, The Stone, October 18, 1986

    LN jg1986-10-18.jgb.81mins.sbd-jgmf.112794.flac1648 Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 492 Broadway San Francisco, CA October 18, 1986 (Saturday)mono sbd shnid-112794 –set I (6 tracks, 33:58)– s1t01. //Think [#3:52] [0:12] s1t02. And It Stoned Me [5:25] [0:30] s1t03. Run For The Roses [5:21] [0:02] -> s1t04. Let It Rock [4:49] [0:59] s1t05. Forever Young [6:24] -> s1t06. Deal…

  • GD19710903-4: Harding Theater, SF, CA

    Here’s another one that puzzles me. This scan from the Berkeley Tribe v.6 n.4 (issue #110) (September 3-9, 1971), p. 13 advertises a benefit for Marin County Head Start featuring Grateful Dead, Howard Wales and Shades of Joy on Friday-Saturday, September 3-4, 1971 at the Harding Theater in San Francisco. Why post? A few reasons.…

  • LN19760119 JG interview by Father Miles Riley, KPIX-TV Studios, San Francisco, CA

    Update: looks like a 26 minute recording is available through the GDAO: http://www.gdao.org/items/show/379043 Update2: GD Archive material gives taping date as 1/19/76 Update3: see also “Jerry’s January 1976”. Update4: 26 minute video has finally come into the light! I have now put some slightly more verbatim “viewing notes” below the fold. Not a full transcription,…

  • LN19690219 High Country “2/19/69” Matrix, San Francisco, CA

    LIA’s argument that the GD set circulating under the date of 6/19/68 is actually the 2/19/69 GD show is totally persuasive to me. Of course that probably implies that the 2/19/69 dating of the High Country set from the Matrix, with Garcia and Nelson joining Butch Waller and Rich Wilbur, is probably mis-dated. (A Wednesday…

  • The Birth of the Great American Music Band

    Editor’s Note: I should point out that the timing of this post was inspired by Corry, who has recently posted on the misty origins of OAITW and who earlier had posted on what might have been the “public debut of a very important band,” the GAMB. While I think this post casts a different light…

  • March 1974

    update: this post mostly doesn’t serve any purpose anymore, but here it is I am working around an important (to me!) post about the birth of the Great American Music/String Band, and want to lay some foundation. So let me start by mapping the known-to-me Jerry Garcia engagements from March, 1974, and just making a…

  • JGMS: “July 21-22,” 1974, Keystone, Berkeley, CA

    **updated 20111216 2057 GMT** Tony Saunders is the bassist on these two tapes. The Jerry Site has listings for Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at Keystone, Berkeley, on July 21 and July 22, 1974. I doubt both date/venue combinations, for reasons I’ll lay out below. A) “JGMS 7/21/74, Keystone, Berkeley” This first date is so…