Fate Music

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  • Deep River Blues on the Festival Express

    –> Early-on, riding the Festival Express: “A few people started to drift into the forward lounge. Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi pulled out guitars. West, toying with his tiny, ancient Les Paul Gibson as if it were a stalk of grass lazily picked out Delta bottleneck blues, and Mountain’s drummer, Corky Laing, sang along: Let…

  • “Hoagy Carmichael is making a fortune – Jerry Garcia is starving”

    So said in August 1969 one David Rubinson, Fillmore Records head who had been a producer at Columbia Records, working with Big Brother, Mike Bloomfield, Moby Grape, The Chambers Brothers and Taj Mahal, and other groups (“if picasso” 1969). It’s a good line. It especially caught my eye because, in sniffing around 12/12/73, I went…

  • GD 6/23/74 Jai Alai Fronton

    Play it loud. https://archive.org/details/gd1974-06-23.akgd1000e.moore.berger.105755.flac24 Sard Thee Well, Jerry Moore. Only Grateful Dead version of “Let It Rock”. Interviewed by Ken Wardell 6/8/74 backstage after the Dead’s Oakland Coliseum show, Garcia talked about the tune, which he put on Compliments: One of the reasons that we did that song was that, in my opinion, that’s Chuck…

  • The Common: September 5-6-7 ish, 1969

    Berkeley Tribe, August 8-14, 1969, p. 3. Regular readers will know that I have been chasing the idea of “Jerry and the Jeffersons” in my head for a good long while. It narrates the arc of Garcia’s life as a process of gradual privatization. I started it years ago, have picked it up and put…

  • Old Folks at Home for a Very Long Show: JGB at the Uptown, November 17, 1981

    LN jg1981-11-17.jgb.all.aud-mason.131710.flac1644 Not much to report. Note that I have just been doing a bunch of listening and most of my reports are lukewarm – what are the odds that it’s as much to do with me-in-these-moments as what’s actually on the tapes? Anyway, there were no early and late shows on the Chicago stop…

  • Junco Partners – LN jg1976-01-10.jgb.all.aud-cook.8077.shn2flac

    Down the road, came a junco partner (right now, wow-oh-wow) He was loaded, he was loaded, he was loaded, as loaded as can be Lord, he was knocked-out, knocked-out, knocked-out and loaded And he was singing, he was singing, he was singing this song for me Some great American music in this set, including several…

  • Flight Of The Bumblebee

    LN jg1976-01-09.jgb.all.sbd-tjs.8386.shn2flac More Booker raw materials. Jerry Garcia Band Sophie’s 260 S. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306 January 9, 1976 (Friday) 112 minute sbd Kahn Shriver shnid-8386 shn2flac –set I (7 tracks, 54:05)– s1t01. //All By Myself [#7:47] (1) [0:54] s1t02. Goodnight Irene [10:35] -> s1t03. Für Elise [0:51] -> s1t04. Slowly But Surely [11:41]…

  • “Gimme some chords, Jerry Garcia, gimme some chords”

    LN jg1976-01-07.jgb-rehearsal.93mins.sbd-tjs.8385.shn2flac I will just post raw listening notes, because I will be sweeping bit and pieces of it up into a larger narrative that I have been working on. (update – see “James Booker, Classified”) Jerry Garcia Band Club Front 20 Front Street San Rafael, CA 94901 January 7, 1976 (Wednesday) – rehearsal 93min…

  • A Pigless Monster at the Fillmore East: July 12, 1970

    LN jg1970-07-12.nrps-gd.aud-cooper.122707.flac1644 More old listening notes. The “Not Fade Away” and “Good Lovin’” from the electric Dead set feature absolutely top shelf rock and roll playing. Look at how I go off on this stuff wow wow wow wow wow and all that. If this tape sounded better, this’d be in the canon with 5/2/70.…

  • Grateful Dead Three Ways: December 20, 1975

    Selvin (1975c) reviewed the December 19, 1975 Winterland show billing Keith and Donna Godchaux, Kingfish, and the Jerry Garcia Band as “Grateful Dead Divided Three Ways”. Hence, my title, even though I am working the crossings through the next night. Since I have fallen down the rabbit hole of a long post on 10/17/75, and…