Category: togotigi
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Carl Lockett and the Side Trips Social Network
Preface: Reconstruction #2 Jerry Garcia’s commitment to Reconstruction never seemed total, a big problem if you’re John Kahn, first, and then Merl Saunders, looking to reboot the lucrative Garcia-Saunders-Kahn Fantasy Records franchise. It’s no good if the G is wobbly, because “multiracial dance and jazz band with a rotating cast of Bay Area guitarists, including…
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Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders
Love this for the Keystone Korner, ca. May 1, 1972, sounds like Selvin to me: “With Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders out of town, not too much happening right now.” (listing: Night Times, May 3-16, 1972, p. 5.) In addition to reinforcing my point about the symbiosis between Jerry and Freddie, how quickly and deeply it…
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Carousel, May 22, 1968 – Jerry Garcia and others
Garcia and others are listed for the Carousel on May 22, 1968. According to a report in Billboard (Lehman 1968), this was a benefit concert to promote bringing jazz into schools, with an organization called the Jazz Action Movement (JAM). San Francisco Express Times, May 22, 1968, p. 14. The night before circulates from Bear’s…
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Billing the JGB: October 8, 1975
Billing shall be as follows without deviation: JERRY GARCIA BAND 100% size type Featuring 25% size type Nicky Hopkins 75% size type John Kahn 75% size type Ron Tutt 75% size type The names of each band member shall appear below “JERRY GARCIA BAND” in any and all forms of advertising in the order listed…
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Fun With Ngrams: Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, 1965-1995
Here’s the bigram relevant to evaluating some hypotheses I ventured in my“Garcia and Marley” post. Figure xxx. Google Bigram: “Grateful Dead” and “Jerry Garcia”, 1965-1995 In that post, I hypothesized that “Jerry Garcia” and “Grateful Dead” would show an uptick 1986. On visual inspection the GD claim looks rightish: the 1986-1995 slope should be statistically…
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“Strung Between Dreams and Reality”: June 4, 1968, Carousel Ballroom
Handbill for Jam at Carousel Ballroom, Tuesday, June 4, 1968. The “Tuesday Night Jam” on May 21, 1968 [JB ] shnid-22727] is the uhr moment for Garcia On The Side (GOTS), representing the first time that Garcia was billed under his own name since the birth of the Dead in 1965. The 1968 Side Trips have…
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‘Secret’ at Paul’s Mall: see p. 27
LN jg1974-11-13.jgms.late.aud-seaweed.121034.flac1644 LIA just posted some really nice sources (“November 12, 1974: Garcia Plays Boston” and “November 1974: Garcia & Dead Projects“) relating to the November 1974 east coast tour by the Jerry Garcia-Merl Saunders (JGMS) aggregation of Garcia, Saunders, John Kahn, Martin Fierro, and Paul Humphrey. In discussing 11/6/74 I noted that this was…
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The April 1975 Legion of Mary Tour
LN jg1975-04-10.lom.early.aud-moore.117250.flac2496 In April 1975, Legion of Mary (Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, Martin Fierro, John Kahn and Ronnie Tutt) went on its only tour, performing, by my count, twenty-five shows in the seventeen days between April 4th and April 20th (inclusive). They started in Brooklyn, spent a bunch of time in the core Northeast (New…
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Jerry Garcia and Round Records
(Parenthetically, the Grateful Dead Archives at UC Santa Cruz will eventually, hopefully, allow us to get a great close look at some of these hitherto opaque business/economic issues. Go, Nick, Go! But I pregress.) I have just been eyeballing some articles that appeared in the amazing, incredible, Golden Road, edited by Blair Jackson and Regan…