Category: VA

  • Kemper’s Last: JGB at Hampton Coliseum, November 19, 1993

    The great drummer David Kemper joined the JGB on Wednesday, July 20, 1983, at the Keystone Palo Alto, probably for a few hundred beer drinkers at a show with gross potential of something like $5 grand. He played his last gig with the band at the legendary Hampton Coliseum on November 19, 1993, before a…

  • Grateful Dead, 9/11/73, William and Mary

    One of the early Deadbases, maybe the original, had a little review of the September ’73 Dead shows at William & Mary (nĂ© College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences, chartered in the Virginia Colony in 1693 by, you guessed it, William and Mary), special shows, maybe second night was a…

  • gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648

    https://archive.org/details/gd1984-10-06.127557.set2.schoeps.oade.BCE.flac1648 Spinning this now. Oade. Garcia gave an interview to the Boston Globe guy around this time in which he sounds very happy and positive about the Dead. It’s stunningly orthogonal to so much of the other stuff going on in his life around this time. But I love that the big fella could just…