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  • Dating the September 1971 Lion’s Share Gigs

    Consider this a throwback post, in that it does what the blog started out doing, and that’s just trying to correct and fill out metadata around Garciavents. Here, I argue that the material we know from circulating tapes as 9/24/71 is actually from the next night, 9/25/71, also at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo. The…

  • Two Sax Attack? JGMS at the GAMH, February 5, 1974

    LN jg1974-02-05.jgms.all.sbd-ladner.32088.flac1644 I won’t elaborate much. I have always held early ’74 Garcia-Saunders in rather low esteem, despite my early familiarity with, place-based affinity toward –I attended Campolindo High School, just down the road– and resulting inordinate love for the 2/9/74 Rheem Theater show. I was prompted to check-in with 2/5/74 by valued commenter runonguinness’s observation…

  • Woody’s Rag

    For years, I have wanted to know the name of the second song from the first “real” live Garcia-Grisman gig, 2/2/91 at the Warfield, which has always just been identified as “Instrumental”. It starts at 7:20 of the embedded video. (It was also the second song of the second night, 2/3/91, starting at about 7:50…

  • 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…

  • Friday Night at the Boarding House

    edit: well, this is a first – turns out I had already posted a version of this. Heh heh. Presumably, this one is better. April 13-16, 1973 saw Garcia “Four Nights at the Boarding House”, two with Merl Saunders and The Group (JGMS), two with Old And In The Way (OAITW). So much about these…

  • Vassar’s Debut With Old And In The Way

    Listing for “Old And In The Way” featuring Jerry Garcia, Richard Greene, David Grisman, John Kahn and Peter Rowan, Tuesday, June 5 at the Aquarius Theatre”, Boston Phoenix, May 29, 1973, p. 27. Mention for “Jerry Garcia, Richard Green [sic], ‘Old And In The Way’, June 5th, 8 PM at the Orpheum”, Boston Phoenix, June…

  • OAITW at Homer’s Warehouse – March 4, 1973

    This started off, and can still function, as a post with the setlists for the 3/4/73 OAITW gigs at Homer’s Warehouse. But now there are a few other fragmentary thoughts. Jerry Garcia lived an idyll at Sans Souci (18 Avenida Farallone, Stinson Beach, CA, 94970, map). It was his most domestic period, living with MG…

  • May 5, 1982 should be June 5, 1982

    Perhaps the most bootlegged Garcia-on-the-side gig is acoustic Garcia and Kahn, attributed as the Oregon State Penitentiary, 2575 Center St. NE, Salem, OR 97301, May 5, 1982 [JGC | JGBP | map | etree showid-48429] Lots of these have been liberated into freely-circulating lossless formats (shnid-4423, shnid-11463, shnid-17900), which are all pretty much the same…

  • Reading Notes: Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35.

    Tolces, Todd. 1973. Jerry’s Bluegrass Boys. Melody Maker 48 (April 28): 35. A FEW POINTS TO EXTRACT: First, I believe the interview material and show observations are from March 13, 1973 at the Keystone in Berkeley. He only mentions it as a quartet, so I doubt there was a fiddle player there. Here are setlist…

  • LN jg1973-xx-xx.oaitw.88mins.sbd-PNW.99222.flac1644

    This is shnid-99222, a somewhat degraded soundboard tape of Old And In The Way (OAITW) with Richard Greene on fiddle. I had mentioned it when it first came out. update: I surmise that this is Thursday, April 12, 1973, Granada Theatre, 1216 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA. It’s not certain by any stretch, but that’s what…