Fate Music

Category: Tom Fogerty

  • 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…

  • Enter Tom Fogerty

    update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71. It seems more likely to have been 5/22/71, and his arrival may mark why they made tapes of the next two nights. Further, I have no idea why I inferred he first joined in Berkeley on 5/26/71, when…

  • 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…

  • Risk and Challenge in the 1970s

    Here’s a back-of-the-napkin sketch, my subjective assessment, of the musical risks and challenges associated with Garcia’s 1970s bands (qua personnel and repertoire) playing black and race-fusion music. So, this includes Wales-Garcia, all of the Jerry and Merl outfits, and all of the JGBs. It excludes NRPS, OAITW, GAMB/GASB (playing mostly white roots music), and the…

  • Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix – A Dialogue

    [ed: Corry sent me an email about Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix, which turned into a rather elaborate exchange on the subject. One piece of our correspondence involved the tape traveling as 5/20/71. This is some of Garcia’s finest playing on tape in any context. I highly recommend that you check it…

  • “Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders & Tom Fogerty Sat-Sun, New Monk”

    SFC 7/2/71 p. 52 Last year I spun some 1970 and early 1971 microfilm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and found seven new-to-The-List shows in a three-month span. If you follow the blog or scroll down a bit chronologically, you’ll see that I have continued to discover more in the 1971-1972 period, and even as…

  • Tom Fogerty, Merl Saunders and Friends – June 25, 1971 Keystone Korner

    The title gives a listing found in “The Music Scene–Complete Listings,” SFC, June 25, 1971, p. 43. Further down the same listing is Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders and Tom Fogerty at New Monk on Saturday-Sunday (June 26-27, 1971). I certainly do wonder if Jerry was a “Friend” at the Friday show in the City. Perhaps…

  • Jamming For The Hell Of It

    Ain’t this pretty paper? Selvin nails the essence of the thing.

  • Context: June 1976 BAM Listings

    Here are the live music listings from BAM no. 3. Here’s the snapshot I take. Jerry confederates, most. I like these Comfort listings just to put some foundation under the idea that they were a going concern when they partnered up with Hunter the next year. And this would be the Kingfish quartet, sans Robert…

  • Context: April 1976 BAM listings

    So here’s a first example of my sources and methods for context. It’s a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM (“Bay Area Music”) magazine, April 1976. Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet: the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty’s band of the period; the listings for…