Category: SF
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Jam Session Celebrating Dick Clark
Joel Selvin’s “Lively Arts” column in the Chronicle/Examiner pink section on September 6, 1981 contained this little oddity: Evergreen TV host Dick Clark celebrates his 30th anniversary on live television Thursday [9/10/81] with a program that will include a jam session featuring Duane Eddy, Gregg Allman, Stanley Clarke, Bo Diddley, Nigel Olsson, Dickey Betts, Charlie…
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Dangerous-Looking Young Man at the Edge of the Western World
Anyone know who the dangerous-looking young man is? I know I should know, but I don’t know. See also, of course, Corry.
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A Party For Mother Earth
It’s actually much, much prettier than it looks in this picture. New Riders headlining “A Party for Mother Earth”, benefiting the Bear Commune, Friends and Relations Hall, 660 Great Highway, June 3, 1971.
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Jerry Garcia and Friends, Sanpaku at the Matrix: May 20-21, 1969
Fascinating. I told you all that the Examiner would yield many interesting things. Well, this is one of the most interesting. Sometimes skimming cream is worth the price of later anticlimax. Jerry Garcia and Friends and Sam Paku [sic: Sanpaku] at the Matrix, Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21, 1969. Garcia’s first understood public…
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Greenpeace ‘No Nukes’ Benefit at the Old Waldorf: Reconstruction, April 23, 1979
I wanted to love this, but I found very little that moved me. Maybe I was tired. LN jg1979-04-23.reconstruction.all.aud-composite.126927.flac1644 Reconstruction Old Waldorf 444 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 April 23, 1979 (Monday) – Early and Late shows composite auds flac1644 shnid-126927 –early show (10 tracks, 8 tunes, 92:26)– e-t01. announcement/crowd/tuning [0:52] e-t02. Get Up…
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Enter Tom Fogerty
update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71. It seems more likely to have been 5/22/71, and his arrival may mark why they made tapes of the next two nights. Further, I have no idea why I inferred he first joined in Berkeley on 5/26/71, when…
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Jerry Has Fallen, and He Can’t Get Up
OK, maybe I am feeling a little bit cranky. I have been doing some late era listening, and it’s not always easy. Wednesday, April 20, 1994 at the Warfield, for example, has a “Don’t Let Go” – which is good! – but it falls into quite a remarkable rut. From 3:22-6:03 of this lovely Vasseur…
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Confused, Trainwreck, Yeesh and Yikes: JGB at the Warfield, August 14, 1994
jg1994-08-14.jgb.all.sbd-miller.136390.flac1644 The title conveys some of the adjectives and interjections I used in listening to this rare sbd tape of late-era Jerry. He sounds bad – bad, I tell you. Jerry Garcia BandThe Warfield982 Market StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102August 14, 1994 (Sunday)remastered Miller sbd shnid-136390 –set I (7 tracks, 68:22)–s1t01. How Sweet It Is (To…
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JGB19900302: Saturday, March 2, 1990, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
update: this was originally posted some years ago. I accidentally reposted it today. It looks like it is not perfectly together – you get what you pay for. I wanted to try a little experiment by just unpacking a single show. I am not a very effective “prosopographer”, so I can’t do what Corry does,…