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Category: Sans Souci

  • Stinson History

    Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can’t find an email for anyone in the organization based on a cursory search, so I thought I post some reactions here. The prompt for all of this is the newly digitized source for the…

  • Reading Notes: Signpost to a New Space and Stoned Sunday Rap

    These are “reading notes” – little stuff I cull when I read. I copy and paste the quotes into thematic documents (e.g., drugs.docx), so all of this has been “processed” out of the book, and up one level, into thematic or other kinds of buckets. You may not find the quotes of greatest interest to…

  • OAITW at Homer’s Warehouse – March 4, 1973

    This started off, and can still function, as a post with the setlists for the 3/4/73 OAITW gigs at Homer’s Warehouse. But now there are a few other fragmentary thoughts. Jerry Garcia lived an idyll at Sans Souci (18 Avenida Farallone, Stinson Beach, CA, 94970, map). It was his most domestic period, living with MG…

  • Zimmy at Sans Souci

    Many counter culture luminaries found their way to Sans Souci in those days. On one memorable occasion, Grisman brought Bob Dylan along for a rehearsal at the house. “It was kind of exciting,” [Mountain Girl] remembered. “I baked chocolate chip cookies, and they all seemed to be having a rousing good time, playing together in…

  • The New National Anthem of Bluegrass: OAITW, Stinson Beach Community Center, September 30, 1973

     LN jg1973-09-30.oaitw.all.aud.11862.shnf Old And In The Way Community Center 32 Belvedere Avenue Stinson Beach, CA 94970 September 30, 1973 (Sunday) This old fileset (shnid 11862, probably created around September 2002) has always interested me. The format of the info files was very distinctive around a whole big batch of the iffily-lineaged OAITW shows. The material…