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  • GD/NRPS: May 28, 1971, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (CANCELED)

    In an earlier post I discussed the infamous May 29, 1971 Grateful Dead show at Winterland at which a large number of people reacted adversely to being dosed. As Corry noted in comments, the Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage show scheduled for the night before (May 28, 1971) was canceled due…

  • The New Peanut Butter Sandwich: October 16, 1966, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

    Having just posted about Garcia’s October 1966 sit-in with Big Brother and the Holding Company, I’ll follow on with what is even more interesting-sounding (though it apparently didn’t come off that well). Mojo Navigator R&R News no. 9 (October 17, 1966) gives a brief account of the evening, which apparently included a configuration (“One Night…

  • Jerry sitting in with Big Brother, October 1966: which date?

    Lost Live Dead posted about a Garcia sit-in with Big Brother and the Holding Company on October 15, 1966. Based on the context of an account in Mojo Navigator no. 9 (October 17, 1966), I am going to argue that this is incorrect. According to MN, this all happened on a Sunday, while 10/15 was…

  • JGMS: January 15, 1972, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

    I have been needing to revisit recordings of the very early Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders stuff, and with a bit of time I thought I’d give this show, from a Saturday in mid-January 1972 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, some attention on its birthday. I am not sure who’s drumming … could have been…

  • Mid-1975 album mixing at Heider’s

    Can you tell I am going through some fragments? Anyway, this little tidbit, from August 1975, has me a bit puzzled. Which album is this? I just don’t recall any Jerry-related work at Heider’s at this time. The Grateful Dead might have been referred to in this way at this time (they had played the…

  • Wally Heider’s, July 1971

    Of course, we already knew that Jerry was recording Garcia in July of 1971 (though I have never been able to find any precise dates, and Bob Mathews won’t answer my queries). We also already knew that Heider’s was absolutely happening. I keep hoping that someday Steve Silberman will write a book about the Planet…

  • Hartbeats: October “1969” misidentification

    I just briefly posted some time back with an image of the Matrix poster that I bought myself. I have now had it framed and I have to say that it looks wonderful. The nice thing about having obscure taste is that some of the stuff that really interests me (e.g., New Riders) has less…

  • GD: August 17, 1970, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

    I am sure this has been gone over many, many times over the years. I imagine that in the days before ubiquitous tapes and information the Playboy article “Grateful Dead I Have Known” by Ed McClanahan (1) was probably scrutinized very closely, like some Rosetta Stone capable of unlocking the 1970-era GD. That it was…

  • JGMS: the show known variously as 1972-06-30, 1972-09-01, 1971-09-01

    So for a long time I have been wanting to lay down a marker regarding the dating of the wonderful Garcia/Saunders show that circulates variously as June 30, 1972, September 1, 1972, and (less commonly nowadays), September 1, 1971. I’ll concentrate on the former two dates –I have nothing to say about the ’71 possibility–…

  • Possible Jerry Gig? October 15-16, 1971, Keystone Korner, SF, CA

    So, here’s one that caught my eye. Nick the Greek, Merl, Tom Fogerty, Dave Getz (presumably) and John Kahn gigging at the Keystone Korner on a Friday-Saturday night in October, 1971 when Jerry is not known (to me) to have been otherwise occupied. Jerry and Merl were billed at the same place the weekend before.…