Fate Music

Category: uncertain gigs

  • Pearl’s Wake

    Around November 3, 1970 the Associate Press (AP) had an item in lots of papers noting that Janis Joplin had left $2,500 in her will for a big ol’ celebration of her life after her passing. Invitations went out reading “The drinks are on Pearl”, and it happened at the Lion’s Share in San Anselmo.…

  • Where Was Garcia on May 29, 1987?

    As I have noted, Garcia’s final Keystone Family gigs before jumping ship to Wolfgang as his permanent and exclusive hometown promoter took place at the end of May 1987, as In the Dark was getting huge. The big fella would play very few club gigs after the Wednesday (27th)-Thursday (28th) and Saturday (30th)-Sunday (31st) Stone shows.…

  • Emerge and See: Hunter Hosting Garcia at the Cellar Door – May 15, 1978 (DISCONFIRMED)

    update 20210526: this seems not to have happened. David Kramer-Smythe reached out to David Morgenstern, who was with Comfort at this time. He remembered this gig for other reasons, but said Garcia definitely did not join, and that, in fact, Garcia never sat in with Comfort. So this is one of those cases of ….…

  • Jerry Garcia at the Warfield – August 21, 1982??

    What a strange thing this is. SFC listing for Jerry Garcia at the Warfield, August 21, 1982. It almost certainly wasn’t JGB: that band had last played June 24 out east, and wouldn’t play again (in a new configuration) until October 13th. It was almost certainly planned to be the Garcia/Kahn acoustic duo, two days…

  • Big Gigs, Little Ex Post Trace

    Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played larger theaters, auditoriums and arenas. Examples include BCT for the United Farmworkers on 9/22/72, Winterland for unspecified Hells Angels on 10/2/73, and BCT again for Ethiopian famine relief (8/23/74) and, on 10/12/74, for…

  • New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1973-end

    This is a followup to New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972. I include new-to-The-List dates, some that were advertised and seem to have been canceled, a few other weird things I uncovered. The Examiner was quite a task. If the Chronicle were digitized, that’d be the last frontier for me. At this point, returns are diminishing,…

  • Jam Session Celebrating Dick Clark

    Joel Selvin’s “Lively Arts” column in the Chronicle/Examiner pink section on September 6, 1981 contained this little oddity: Evergreen TV host Dick Clark celebrates his 30th anniversary on live television Thursday [9/10/81] with a program that will include a jam session featuring Duane Eddy, Gregg Allman, Stanley Clarke, Bo Diddley, Nigel Olsson, Dickey Betts, Charlie…

  • Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band, featuring Jerry Garcia

    Here’s a weird one bottom of column 1 to top of column 2: “Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band, faturing Jerry Garcia. Performing music from their album Blues From the Rainforest, July 26 at the Great American Music Hall and July 27 at the Cotati Cabaret” Several possibilities. First, perhaps most likely (?), whoever called…

  • Dating the Legion’s Demise: A Revisionist Account

    The demise of the Legion of Mary, Garcia’s principal side band from Ronnie Tutt’s arrival on December 6, 1974 until mid-1975, remains one of the enduring mysteries of the Garciaverse. The “why” is the biggest mystery of all. After almost five years of steady gigging and recording Garcia is said to have walked away. I…

  • Where Were the GD on December 24, 1970?

    My list of canceled Grateful Dead gigs shows Thursday, December 24, 1970 at City Center, New York, NY. Deadbase listed as canceled, with note “Not possible with Winterland the night before”. Two things. First, I think we are learning that they’d fly for a gig, so I am not 100% sure this is a safe…