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Category: SF

  • During Gaylord’s Second Stint: JGB at the Stone, October 14, 1985 (Monday)

    These may be the shortest two JGB sets ever played. Gaylord Birch drumming. See also “The December ’85 Garcia Band Shows“ LN jg1985-10-14.jgb.all.aud.138028.flac1644 Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 BroadwaySan Francisco, CA 94133 October 14, 1985 (Monday) CC shnid-138028 –set I (4 tracks, 34:48)– s1t01. Cats Under The Stars [7:12] % s1t02. When I Paint…

  • GD Fillmore West April 9, 1970

    https://archive.org/details/gd1970-04-09.137104.aud.cousinit.flac16/gd1970-04-09-d2t03.flac What a hottie this Good Lovin’ jam is! These shows are only represented in imperfect audience tapes, but they are crucial documents from a period relatively underrepresented on soundboard tape. 7/12/70 at the Fillmore East is another one of these shows that has gotten too little attention because of soundboard snobbery. For this period,…

  • If These Halls Could Talk

    If These Halls Could Talk: A Historical Tour through San Francisco Recording Studios – by Heather Johnson (2006). Has anyone ever seen a copy of this? I would like one, but it’s $170+ at Amazon and not really available at my usual on-line used book haunts.

  • Altamont Dreams

    I have so little time for this hobby these days. I have fallen way behind on my reading, but I really look forward to reading Joel Selvin’s Altamont, among other things. With that in mind, I did want to put down this little tidbit I found in the Grateful Dead Archive at UCSC concerning the…

  • Dating the Legion’s Demise: A Revisionist Account

    The demise of the Legion of Mary, Garcia’s principal side band from Ronnie Tutt’s arrival on December 6, 1974 until mid-1975, remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Garciaverse. The “why” is the biggest mystery of all. After almost five years of steady gigging and recording Garcia is said to have walked away. I…

  • Reaching for the Gold Ring

    Uncle Bobo comes on about three minutes in, introduces the band, and they drop into a sublime “Crazy Fingers”, one of my favorite songs.

  • The Final “After Midnight”: JGB, March 7, 1983, The Stone

    Garcia played J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight” a bunch –by my count, 96 times starting 6/30/72– with a number of different personnel configurations, for about ten years. But then, after Monday March 7, 1983, he just dropped it. A new fileset of 3/7/83 shows me some killer guitar work in “After Midnight”, “Catfish John”, and “Tore…

  • A 35 Minute Second Set: JGB at The Stone, March 4, 1984

    LN jg1984-03-04.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.85294.flac1644 Sunday night, 3/4/84, Jerry races out of the building with a 35 minute set II. Maybe he was late for mass. Nothing much else to report. Jerry Garcia Band The Stone 412 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94133 March 4, 1984 (Sunday) sbd GMB flac1644 shnid-85294 –set I (5 tracks, 48:57)– s1t01. //Rhapsody In…

  • untitled 19750820b

    UPDATE: researcher David Kramer-Smyth spoke with Hadi al-Saadoon, who identified David Kessner as the composer. David Kessner confirms he wrote it, but is not sure if it had a name. Anyone know the funk-fusion instrumental that ends set I of 8/20/75, Keith and Donna Band at the Great American Music Hall, a week after the…

  • The Blogging Hobby

    Blogging is a great hobby – if you have ever thought of just wanting to keep some intellectual interest of yours pinned down a little better than purely in your head, I highly recommend it. Among Blogger’s very limited features – You Get What You Pay For, Corry reminds us, and as a Braudelian he…