Category: Stanford University
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GD Frost ’85 matrix
Man, this recording from TDIH sounds nice to these ol’ ears.
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more Garcia summer 1991 cancellations
Jerry Garcia Band (electric) was scheduled to play Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford University on July 14, 1991, but July 11th announced that Citing “mounting health problems,” Jerry Garcia has postponed his upcoming tour dates, including his show scheduled for Sunday at Frost Amphitheater. This ended up being canceled. I had earlier noted that that summer’s…
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Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah.
Introduction The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something – because I…
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Rango’s Frost ’82 tapes
https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-09.sonyecm220T.keshavan.miller.93682.sbeok.flac16 https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-10.sonyecm220T.keshavan.miller.93732.sbeok.flac16 Listen to these tapes and think thanks to taper Rango Keshavan. These audience recordings will take your breath away. Thanks, rk.
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JGMS: October 3, 1971, Frost Ampitheater, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Garcia and Saunders played the Pamoja Jazz Concert on October 3, 1971 at Frost Ampitheater, sharing a bill with Big Black and the Bobby Hutcherson – Harold Land Quintet. Love that jazz billing. Anyway, for a long time I have been aware of a show review by Paul Grushkin from the Stanford Daily a few…
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Taking a Shit is a Political Act
Carol Brightman’s Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure offers the thesis that Garcia and the Grateful Dead were “apolitical” and should be condemned to that extent, having failed to stand up (as the Berkeley radicals did) to the injustices and corruptions of American and international politics in the 60s and 70s. The GD/San Francisco/Merry…