Category: uncertain dates
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JGMS: October 3, 1971, Frost Ampitheater, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Garcia and Saunders played the Pamoja Jazz Concert on October 3, 1971 at Frost Ampitheater, sharing a bill with Big Black and the Bobby Hutcherson – Harold Land Quintet. Love that jazz billing. Anyway, for a long time I have been aware of a show review by Paul Grushkin from the Stanford Daily a few…
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1966: Darby Slick et al. “Jammin’ With Garcia”
Chapter 5 of Darby Slick’s autobiography, I guess (1), is entitled “Jammin’ With Garcia” and recounts a Friday evening jam session, ca. 1966, in the Mission District. These one-offs are inherently interesting, of course, but especially interesting to me is the question of how often they occurred. I had always bought into the mythology that…
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GD at Mammoth Gardens, Denver CO, April 24-25, 1970
It seems that these shows have been shrouded in mystery and legend for a very long time. Maybe it’s because April 1970 was such a hot month, because the tape circulating from this weekend reveals a characteristically hot show, because the next gig (4/26/70 at Poynette Wisconsin) is similarly enshrouded, because “Mammoth Gardens” just sounds…
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GD at Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, WA, January 1968
I am going to argue that the Quick and the Dead played Eagles Auditorium in Seattle, WA on Friday, January 26 and Saturday, January 27, 1968, and *not* on Monday 1/22 and Tuesday 1/23. This may well be widely accepted, but since the tapes still circulate with the latter dates, and Deadlists remains a bit…
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JGB: October 27, 1982, Rissmiller’s Club, Reseda, CA
Photo credit: Karen Verity Tapes have circulated dated October 27, 1982 from Rissmiller’s Club in Reseda, CA. I seem to recall that at ont point such a date was listed at the Jerry Site and that I myself got the idea that it was bogus and deleted it. I can’t remember why. Anyway, the image…
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Jerry with Merl and/or Martin, ca. 1974, The Sand Dunes
We know that Jerry Garcia was playing around outside the GD to a varying, but always non-zero, extent throughout the career of his most famous band. We have a sense that this was happening more, and more loosely, in the early days (at least pre-1976) and less, and in a more routinized/institutionalized way after that.…
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Mickey and the Hartbeats, October 28, 1968, Matrix, San Francisco, CA
Deadlists no longer lists (if it ever did) a Hartbeats show at the Matrix on Monday, 10/28/68. It doesn’t appear on the Chicken on a Unicycle Matrix list, either. But what are we to make of this tidbit, from Deadlist’s 10/29/68 Hartbeats entry? On page 26 of issue #34 (Summer 1996) of Dupree’s Diamond News,…
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JGB: November 17, 1981, Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL
A couple of quick notes about the Jerry Garcia Band @ Uptown Theatre in Chicago, IL, in late 1981. [note that the Trib appeared to be misspelling it as “Theater” in this timeframe.] First, it appears the show might have originally been scheduled for 10/29/81. That would have made it the first show of the…
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The mystery of the Jerry Garcia Band 11/28/77 ticket stubs
I just don’t know what to make of this. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, are five unique ticket stubs for a Jerry Garcia show at SUNY Stony Brook (Gym) on November 28, 1977. There is another stub that used to be linked from the Jerry Site which is distinct from these five.…
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Jerry sitting in with Big Brother, October 1966: which date?
Lost Live Dead posted about a Garcia sit-in with Big Brother and the Holding Company on October 15, 1966. Based on the context of an account in Mojo Navigator no. 9 (October 17, 1966), I am going to argue that this is incorrect. According to MN, this all happened on a Sunday, while 10/15 was…