Fate Music

Category: unidentified songs

  • Unidentified Nicky Hopkins Instrumentals

    update: Mark Mattson has identified the number as “Lucky Old Sun” – wow! There may be others, but I am right now pondering two distinct instrumentals that Nicky does out of “Lady Sleeps” with the JGB in the last month or so of his run with the band. 11/23/75: about 1:38:30ff here –> https://ia600902.us.archive.org/9/items/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO/jgb1975-11-23MackeyAuditoriumBoulderCO.mp3 He announces…

  • The still-unidentified funky instrumental from 8/20 and 8/30/75

    UPDATE: researcher David Kramer-Smyth spoke with Hadi al-Saadoon, who identified David Kessner as the composer. David Kessner confirms he wrote it, but is not sure if it had a name. At Jerrybase, we are now calling this “David’s Tune (Gm)“ On August 20, 1975 at the Great American Music Hall, and again on August 30,…

  • Woody’s Rag

    For years, I have wanted to know the name of the second song from the first “real” live Garcia-Grisman gig, 2/2/91 at the Warfield, which has always just been identified as “Instrumental”. It starts at 7:20 of the embedded video. (It was also the second song of the second night, 2/3/91, starting at about 7:50…

  • untitled 19750820b

    UPDATE: researcher David Kramer-Smyth spoke with Hadi al-Saadoon, who identified David Kessner as the composer. David Kessner confirms he wrote it, but is not sure if it had a name. Anyone know the funk-fusion instrumental that ends set I of 8/20/75, Keith and Donna Band at the Great American Music Hall, a week after the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • LN19690219 High Country “2/19/69” Matrix, San Francisco, CA

    LIA’s argument that the GD set circulating under the date of 6/19/68 is actually the 2/19/69 GD show is totally persuasive to me. Of course that probably implies that the 2/19/69 dating of the High Country set from the Matrix, with Garcia and Nelson joining Butch Waller and Rich Wilbur, is probably mis-dated. (A Wednesday…

  • The 1974 Garcia/Saunders instrumental previously listed as “Bags’ Groove”

    UPDATE 1/24/2015: Commenter Nick has determined that this is actually “Darben The Redd Foxx“. For fans of Jerry Garcia’s pre-1975 excursions beyond the Grateful Dead, one of the great fun things is to hear Jerry trying on really unusual material, seemingly without much preparation. I think of the instrumental versions of “Day By Day” (from…

  • Reconstruction: August 10, 1979, Temple Beautiful, San Francisco, CA

    I don’t think I have blogged much about Reconstruction, the jazz-R&B-soul-funk-rock-disco outfit formed by John Kahn that performed in 1979 and that regularly “featured” Jerry Garcia on guitar. This is one of Garcia’s most unusual side trips. It features lots of tunes that he had never done before and would never do again, with my…