Fate Music

Category: togotigi

  • “the world’s most recorded musician in the world’s most famous arena”

    Jerrybase: https://jerrybase.com/events/19911115-01 The Red Light folks tagged GarciaLive 16 (MSG 11/15/91) with the subject line, and I have to say that it’s badass. That crew does a good job, IMO. I am not kissing up. It’s a hard job and they have released some amazing stuff. And that’s just a good line. Tip o’ the cap.…

  • Makes Up In Enthusiasm What It Lacks In Precision: JGB at Keystone Palo Alto, November 12, 1983

     LN jg1983-11-12.jgb.all.mtx.141451.flac1644 update: d’oh! Already posted this one. Crispy clean but flat and unbalanced sbd meets in-your-face but unbalanced Menke aud to make for a sweet matrix. Thank you Andrew F. for your work! The show? It’s late ’83. The sets are getting shorter. The DLG is fucking killer, and the Deal makes up in enthusiasm…

  • Jerry, tògòtigi – JGB at the Warfield, Wednesday, March 9, 1994

    Marquee for Jerry (who?) at the Warfield, March 9, 1994. I would LOVE to find out who the photographer is and give credit. I love the image above, of the Warfield marquee reading just “Jerry” for the March 9, 1994 JGB show, because, assuming his last name is not photoshopped out, it speaks to who…

  • Garcia-Hunter Originals

    Somehow, I had never pinned down in my mind that Jerry played none of his original tunes before the advent of the Jerry Garcia Band in 1975. Pure covers before then. Hm. You all probably knew this. And at some level I did, too. But it has come into sharper focus for me with this…

  • The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

    My first working title for Fate Music was The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game. The THGCBTG framing, as I lovingly acronymized it, reflected a slightly darker view of Garcia’s side trips than I presently hold, one in which his damned Midas Touch tainted even his silly bar band, which eventually had to play boomy…

  • Bobby Ace

    I was doing some thinking about Bob Weir’s musical journey, and what I view to be the pivotal “Bobby Ace” period, running most obviously from about mid-1969 through 1970. And, since we were just talking about Family Dog shows, I got to thinking about the April 1970 acoustic gigs. Long story short, I just did…

  • Garcia’s Early ’82 Tax Tour (Counterfactual)

    More counterfactual history from a document in the GD Archives (ms332, ser2, box5), though I have seen it through another means as well. This is a central piece of evidence, along with the Return of Ronnie Tutt tour in late ’81 and a few other things, showing that this period marks a real effort to…

  • Banjo

    Dubois, Laurent. 2016. The Banjo: America’s African Instrument. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. en route as of 20160417 Keïta, Cheick M. Chérif. 1995. Massa Makkan Diabaté: Un Griot mandingue à la rencontré de l’écriture. Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan. to read

  • Togotigi

    This patterned musical foundation – or meeting at the head – resounds a sense of collectivity, of a cultural heritage passed on from one generation to another, a patrimony nominally represented by one’s surname, or jamu. To perform on top of this foundation, to mobilize the body beneath the head of a musical arrangement is…

  • Positively Garcia and the East Coast Deadhead

    I. Howard Weiner’s Positively Garcia Howard Weiner‘s very enjoyable Positively Garcia (Weiner 2014) is like a better-written, more musical, less arcane version of my listening notes, great flashing insights on the same issues that occupy Corry, without the depth. That’s not a criticism, by the way: it is light in the sense of being quick…