Category: Tony Saunders
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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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Darben The Redd Foxx
Commenter Nick’s encyclopedic discographical resources (vinyl and knowledge) rescue me/us from an error and afford a little glancing blow through American culture that helps us situate Garcia in his world. The song currently understood as “Ptah, the El Daoud” (Alice Coltrane), previously understood “Bag’s Groove” (Milt Jackson), performed by Garcia-Saunders on June 4 and June…
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JGMS: June 11, 1974 Keystone Berkeley – new to The List
So here’s a new one for The List: JGMS at Keystone on Tuesday, June 11, 1974. But note, too, that Merl is playing Sand Dunes on Monday the 10th – this could very easily be a Monday on which Garcia sat in. The fact that Tony Saunders played with Merl and Jerry the week prior…
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What’s Going On? Listening to the Show Traveling as JGMS 7/22/74
LN jg1974-07-22.jgms.146mins.sbd-GMB.86198.flac1644 I wrote about this Jerry Garcia – Merl Saunders (JGMS) set dated July 22, 1974 and located at the Keystone, Berkeley, some time back. I had suggested that this show (and the one attributed to July 21, 1974, same venue) might not be as it seemed. I initially speculated that it might be…
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Pennies From Heaven: Listening to the Tape Known as JGMS 7/21/74
**updated** Here are the reference posts for this set of listening notes: JGMF, “JGMS: “July 21-22,” 1974, Keystone, Berkeley, CA”, 7/25/2010, updated 12/16/2011. JGMF, “Jerry with Merl and/or Martin, ca. 1974, The Sand Dunes”, 5/16/2010. In brief, I am walking back from my speculation that this material is from the Sand Dunes. It’s not. It…
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Third Night Out with Tony Saunders: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, June 6, 1974
**updated 21:18 Eastern 20111213, mostly up front with some more historical context** LN jg1974-06-06.jgms.all.aud-falanga.6375.shn2flac A wonderful tape and a wonderful performance. Tony Saunders on bass, Billy K on the drums. We get to hear what I presume to be Freddie Herrera a time or two, interesting given how central was the Herrera-Garcia partnership over the…
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Redd and Blues
LN jg1974-06-04.jgms.all.sbd-gmb.90003.flac1644 Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Lion’s Share 60 Red Hill Avenue San Anselmo, CA, 94960 June 4, 1974 (Tuesday) 133 min Betty Cantor-Jackson soundboard shnid-90003 –set I (5 tracks, 75:29)– s1t01. Darben The Redd Foxx [17:24] [0:16] % [0:02] {17:42} s1t02. Expressway (To Your Heart) [16:50] [0:07] % [0:10] {17:07} s1t03. I Second…
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Go Ask Alice: JGMS at the Share, June 5, 1974
LN jg1974-06-05.jgms.s2.sbd.8062.shnf Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Lion’s Share 60 Red Hill Avenue San Anselmo, CA 94960 June 5, 1974 (Wednesday)sbd set II shnid-8062 –set II (7 tracks, 76:57)– s2t01. ambience [0:27] s2t02. La-La [20:30] [3:22] s2t03. Finders Keepers [7:43] [1:44] s2t04. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [5:58] (1) [1:31] % s2t05. //Kansas…
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Odes to Joy: Aunt Monk at the Generosity, May 9, 1975
LN jg1975-05-09.aunt-monk.84mins.aud-castelli-motb-0144.107829.flac1644 For a couple of years, the good people at Mouth of the Beast (MOTB) were dropping some ridiculously great and important listening material on the masses. Most important, from the perspective of Garcia on the Side (GOTS) were the Robert Castelli tapes, a handful of recordings made by the gentleman of that name…
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Merl Saunders and Friends: May 31 – June 1, 1974, Inn of the Beginning, Cotati
Here is one of the tantalizing little performances that you come across and really, really want to know more about, while understanding how miraculous it is that you are able to know anything about it at all. The Inn of theBeginning in Cotati hosted Merl Saunders and Friends, including Jerry Garcia, with Paul Pena opening,…