Category: uncertain personnel

  • I Have A Confession To Make

    I do not know who the JGB backing vocalists were between October 24, 1982 and November 15, 1982 I have posted many, many times about the early 80s backing vocalists (see Appendix below). Our understanding of who was who, and when, was greatly abetted by the fact that Corry Arnold took notes from the GD…

  • 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.…

  • Scotty’s Jam

    Does anybody have the state-of-the-art understanding of what the “Scotty’s Music Store 5/14/70” / “Jetty’s Music Theater 12/7/71” NRPS jam session really is? TIA. update Looks pretty certain to have been 12/9/71 at Scotty’s Music Store. Here is some info from JGBP (thanks!). Jerry plays a Zane Beck D-10 pedal steel and also Lloyd Green’s…

  • Second night out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/21/83

    Second night out for drummer David Kemper and Gloria Jones. See also “First Night Out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/20/83 (WED).” This was conventionally considered the second show for vocalist Gloria Jones, but the late ’83 Garcia Band tour still featured DeeDeeDickerson, raising doubts about a summer time switchover. It’s still possible, but as of…

  • First Night Out for Kemper: Keystone Palo Alto, 7/20/83 (WED)

    LN jg1983-07-20.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 First night out for drummer David Kemper and Gloria Jones. (See also “Second night out for Kemper: The Stone, 7/21/83“.) This was conventionally considered the first show for vocalist Gloria Jones, but the late ’83 Garcia Band tour still featured DeeDeeDickerson, and as of 2020 I am quite sure that DDD was around…