Category: union
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Late ’78 Kahn (JGB at Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, October 26, 1978)
LN jg1978-10-26.jgb.all.aud-severson.148655.flac2496 Not a ton to report. Kahn sounded absolutely amazing on this tour. Really, all through 1978. I don’t know if he changed something, if the sound people just dialed him in especially well, or something else, but the bass was big and fat. Great recording by Mark Severson, full of ambience. Garcia strong. Apparently…
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Kean College Tour Closer: JGB, November 15, 1982 (Late Show)
jg1982-11-15.jgb.late-1.aud-vita-minches.78008.flac1644 Pretty standard late ’82 gig to my ears, not the equal to 11/11/82 late or 11/13/82, IMO. Errico’s Gatling Gun start to HTC is awesome. Three little oddities jump out to my pattern-obsessed brain. First, no early show tape. Hm. Second … , both the Vita aud and the soundboard tape are missing the encore. Hm. never…
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Which Side Are You On?
I got a few hours at the San Francisco State University Labor Archives and Research Center to see if the haystack would yield any needles about ol’ Joe Garcia, recalling that Jerry had said his pops had had some hassle with the musicians’ union. What we think we know Blair narrates that in April 1937…
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I work for the union
Garcia was a member of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), local no. 6 in San Francisco. He initially applied on August 24, 1965 and was approved for membership one week later. He gave his address as 71 Miguel Street, San Francisco, claiming to have resided there for four years. He claims his occupation as…
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The McNally-Arnold Jerry Garcia List
It’s very meta, but I do have a lot to say about The List Tradition which I hope to get to. Let me just point out something that I think is interesting: The Garcia stuff on the typescript McNally-Arnold Jerry Garcia List (McNally and Arnold, ND), which became the Garcia list in Deadbase IX, entered the…