Category: SF
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ca. November 1-2, 1970 fragments
Having just posted on Janis’s wake, which is said to have taken place on 10/26/70, I find myself wanting to at least take a stand on a few other gigs which have left me a little befuddled over the years. The first involves a “First Annual San Francisco Halloween Marathon Festival of the Performing Arts”,…
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Pearl’s Wake
Around November 3, 1970 the Associate Press (AP) had an item in lots of papers noting that Janis Joplin had left $2,500 in her will for a big ol’ celebration of her life after her passing. Invitations went out reading “The drinks are on Pearl”, and it happened at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo.…
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New-to-The-List from the Digitized Chronicle
After spending X hours over X years spinning microfilm to try to find the needles of unListed Garcia gigs in the haystack of the Chronicle, the paper has been digitized. Je ne regrette rien! That said, I was able to find a few listings for The List. At this point, I cannot imagine we are…
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Jerry Garcia at the Warfield – August 21, 1982??
What a strange thing this is. SFC listing for Jerry Garcia at the Warfield, August 21, 1982. It almost certainly wasn’t JGB: that band had last played June 24 out east, and wouldn’t play again (in a new configuration) until October 13th. It was almost certainly planned to be the Garcia/Kahn acoustic duo, two days…
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“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes”: JGB at the Warfield, March 4, 1995
LN jg1995-03-04.jgb.all.aud-sonics.141470.flac1648 I don’t feel like I have time or energy to do a full write-up, so let me try to sketch a few thoughts around a recent listen to taper Wilson66’s very enjoyable Sonic Studios DSM-6 drink rail tape of the Jerry Band on home turf, March 4, 1995. Tone and Technique > Lyrical Precision…
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Last Freddie-ish Gig on Tape: JGB at the Stone, May 28, 1987
update: I can’t believe I didn’t know that Freddie didn’t actually run the Stone and KPA. I knew the Coronas were involved, but Corry informs me in comments that they actually ran the KPA and the Stone, and Freddie really only had the Berkeley club. Learn something new everyday. I will still refer to this…
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At Wolfgang’s Orpheum: JGB with Clarence Clemons, March 3, 1989
The success of the Dead’s Touch of Grey didn’t only limit that band’s venue (and even city) options. It also impacted ol’ Midas’s bar band. Freddie Herrera’s last remaining club, the 700-seat Stone on Broadway, didn’t stand a chance, and a four-night Garcia Band run on May 27-28 and 30-31, 1987 brought the curtain down on Jerry and…
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The Shortest Two-Set Electric Show? JGB at the Stone, Sunday, September 16, 1984
LN jg1984-09-16.jgb.all.aud-jjoops.97573.flac1644 A little dive into the Rock Bottom period yields this pearl of an electric JGB show – two four-tune sets clocking in around a half-hour of music each. I don’t really note anything much about the performance, other than its brevity and Garcia’s unsurprising vocal limitations. I don’t want to be mean. I am…
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Jerry Garcia playing bass behind Lightnin’ Hopkins: Fillmore Aud, 10/23/66
In the Fillmore Poster Appreciation Society group page on Facebook, eyewitness comments under the poster for the Bill Graham shows on the weekend of 10/21-23-/66 indicate that Jerry Garcia played bass behind Lightnin’ Hopkins. I don’t think I knew that. Did you? This would be Jerry’s third non-GD performance within a week: 10/16/66 sit-in with…
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Big Gigs, Little Ex Post Trace
Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played larger theaters, auditoriums and arenas. Examples include BCT for the United Farmworkers on 9/22/72, Winterland for unspecified Hells Angels on 10/2/73, and BCT again for Ethiopian famine relief (8/23/74) and, on 10/12/74, for…