Category: Santa Cruz
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Second Night Out for Liz and Essra: JGB, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, June 25, 1981
update: the original title of this was “First Night Out”, but I have discovered a warmup gig on 6/24/81 at the Keystone Palo Alto (not in Salinas, as I had elaborately laid out). Liz Stires and Essra Mohawk appear to debut as backing vocalists on the night before this show. There are no singers on the late…
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Good Old Boys at Margarita’s Cantina!
https://homegrownmusic.net/store/cd/good-old-boys-live-2cd John Cutler taped these shows from February 20-21, 1975, and they are now up for official release. Wow! Cryptdev saw one of these shows. See also: Corry, “The Good Old Boys: Jerry Garcia, Producer (and some banjo)“ My goodness, can’t wait to hear these.
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Santa Cruz Blues
LN jg1985-10-16.jgjk.all.sbd-Miller.139756.flac1644 One of the most widely bootlegged Garcia performances, alongside the ’82 Oregon State Penitentiary gig, is another Garcia-Kahn acoustic duet performance from the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on October 16, 1985. As with other beautiful recordings from this venue, an enterprising insider made a 4-channel tape combining stereo sbd feed and stereo ambient…
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The Great Barcia
Rock Scully’s book occasionally referred to Jerry as “the Great Barcia“. I had originally thought it was Salvador Dalí, but looking back, I guess not. It still tickles me. This just came back to mind as I came across two ads, a month apart, for Reconstruction at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on 3/31/79. Someone…
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A Perspective on Deadhead Philanthropy
Joop Rubens, Senior Director of Development, Library UC Santa Cruz, “Without love in the dream it will never come true,” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/without-love-dream-never-come-through-joop-rubens, consulted August 20, 2015.
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Documenting the Dead
Nicholas Meriwether’s Documenting the Dead is an amazing resource for all of us. Check it out, and make a donation to support the building of a great and true-blue American Archive at UC Santa Cruz. Meanwhile, I’ll be over here “Documenting the JGB” (also in Santa Cruz)!
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Grateful Dead Studies
So Many Roads : The World in the Grateful Dead, A Conference & Symposium; Date: November 5-8, 2014; Location: SJSU Student Union. Krieger, Lisa M. 2014. Grateful Dead: An early Silicon Valley startup. San Jose Mercury-News, November 7, 2014, URL http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26894788/grateful-dead-an-early-silicon-valley-startup, accessed 11/9/2014. Sounds like a great event. Congratulations to Michael Parrish, Nicholas Meriwether, and…
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The Fat Man Is Back – LN jg1987-02-24.jgb.all.aud-pinney-gems.82610.flac1644
Poster for JGB 2/24/87 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Tuesday, February 24, 1987, image courtesy of Wolfgang’s Vault. Since I gathered an ad and a few listings in Santa Cruz, I gave the 2/24/87 JGB show at the Civic Aud a spin and discovered a great tape (a single one in circulation, thanks…
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Documenting the JGB – February 26, 1976 – Del Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA
Continuing this little Santa Cruz series, I thought I’d use the next gig to lay out some nomenclature. A little taxonomy to tempt your tastebuds. Institutionalized Practices The current title only came to me after I had just posted this more generically. It currently reads “Documenting the JGB” to complement the Billing and Accounting posts…
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JGMS: October 11, 1974 – Chateau Liberté, Los Gatos, CA
Unlike 3/22/74, a date for which I found no trace of a Garcia-Saunders gig at the Chateau Liberté, the Friday, October 11, 1974 gig there, for which we have some wonderful recollections from Michael Parrish, yielded a few paper remnants. Ironically, I believe that tapes circulating with this date are mislabeled hodgepodges of 1974 soundboard…