Category: unidentified performers

  • Friday Night at the Boarding House

    edit: well, this is a first – turns out I had already posted a version of this. Heh heh. Presumably, this one is better. April 13-16, 1973 saw Garcia “Four Nights at the Boarding House”, two with Merl Saunders and The Group (JGMS), two with Old And In The Way (OAITW). So much about these…

  • That fiddle!

    https://archive.org/details/gd1969-08-03.sbd.miller.30652.sbeok.flac16 I can’t believe how great the guest fiddler is on this show, 46 years ago today. There’s also a sax and maybe a few other mystery players. Goddamn, I wish I could have seen a show at the Family Dog.

  • Jerry Band at the Pismo Theatre

    On Friday-Saturday, November 19-20, 1976, the Jerry Garcia Band played four improbable gigs at the stunning Pismo Theatre in foggy, salty, sandy, lovely little Pismo Beach, California. If you only know it from Bugs Bunny, I urge you to pass through it some time (though I have not done so in more than twenty years).…

  • Legal Aid for Unnamed Angels

    LN jg1973-10-02.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.83809.flac1644 I am sure Blair and McNally and all the other sources go into the obscure story of the Legal Aid Benefit. I just re-read the one source I have at hand, John Wasserman’s very suspicious-sounding piece in the Chronicle a few days later (1). Sounds like some Angels, facilitated by Sam Cutler and…

  • Second Gig for the new Sextet: Rissmiller’s 10/27/82

    LN jg1982-10-27.jgb.s1s2p.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 Jerry Garcia Band Rissmiller’s Country Club 18415 Sherman WayReseda, CA 91335 October 27, 1982 (Wednesday) 83 min s1s2p Closet Call aud –set I (7 tracks, 57:16)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [0:28] s1t02. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [8:43] % s1t03. … They Love Each Other [8:11] [0:08] % [0:32]…

  • The Group with George Tickner: Keystone, March 7, 1973

    LN jg1973-03-07.jgms.s2p-48mins.sbd-alligator.31501.flac1644 Update 4/22/2012: The second guitarist is George Tickner. Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Keystone 2119 University Avenue Berkeley, CA March 7, 1973 (Wednesday) –Set II (3 tracks, 48:42, partial set)– t01. untitled 19730307 [19:59] [0:08] % [0:06] t02. Merl’s Tune [14:18] -> t03. Georgia On My Mind [13:44] (1) [0:27] ! ACT1: Jerry…

  • Another Mystery Trumpeter: JGMS, August 14, 1974

    There’s a trumpeter playing on “Roadrunner”, the last song of set I of the show previously known as “August 15, 1974, Great American Music Hall”, now corrected as 8/14/74. Listen to the first five minutes of the Falanga-Menke tape. Guy (presumably) is pretty good.

  • JGMS: July 19, 1973, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA

    Heitman, Dianne. 1973. Merle [sic] & Jerry soar at Music Hall – so does audience. San Francisco Phoenix v.1 n.24 (August 10), p. 8. Positive review of Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, July 19, 1973, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA. The Great American Music Hall, at 859 O’Farrell Street in San Francisco, CA,…

  • Garcia and Saunders at the Lion’s Share (LN jg1973-07-05.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.79032.flac1644)

    update 20230709: the trumpet player is Mike Price. update 201605015: this show has now been officially released as Garcialive 6: July 5 1973 Lion’s Share (Jerry Garcia / Merl Saunders). slight update 20110816, as noted below Like 2/16/74, this was a previously uncirculated Betty Board dropped by the mysterious ‘alligator’ into the ether at Lossless Legs,…

  • Righteousness, and Two Guests: JGMS, Keystone Berkeley, February 16, 1974

    LN jg1974-02-16.jgms.all.sbd-alligator.91471.flac1644 A few days ago I posted about an advertised but canceled Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders band gig (Kahn and Kreutzmann rounding things out) scheduled for 2/16/74 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ. I irresponsibly dropped a few notes about the replacement show for the night, and here I follow up on…