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Category: Vassar Clements

  • Triple-Booked Vassar: October 6, 1973

    My post on Old And In The Way in Santa Cruz on Friday, October 5, 1973 referenced some of the band’s contemporaneous gigs. One of these was a gig the next night in Berkeley. In comments, I then noted that Vassar was advertised with Tut Taylor that same Saturday at the Exit/In in Nashville, whereupon…

  • Vassar’s Debut With Old And In The Way

    Listing for “Old And In The Way” featuring Jerry Garcia, Richard Greene, David Grisman, John Kahn and Peter Rowan, Tuesday, June 5 at the Aquarius Theatre”, Boston Phoenix, May 29, 1973, p. 27. Mention for “Jerry Garcia, Richard Green [sic], ‘Old And In The Way’, June 5th, 8 PM at the Orpheum”, Boston Phoenix, June…

  • OAITW: July 18, 1973, Inn of the Beginning, Cotati

    The McNally-Arnold JG List had listed an Old and in the Way show at the Inn of the Beginning, 8201 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, CA, 94931, on Wednesday, July 18, 1973. This carried through to Deadbase (Corry Arnold having given a copy of the list to Stu Nixon) and through to The Jerry Site (Ryan…

  • The New National Anthem of Bluegrass: OAITW, Stinson Beach Community Center, September 30, 1973

     LN jg1973-09-30.oaitw.all.aud.11862.shnf Old And In The Way Community Center 32 Belvedere Avenue Stinson Beach, CA 94970 September 30, 1973 (Sunday) This old fileset (shnid 11862, probably created around September 2002) has always interested me. The format of the info files was very distinctive around a whole big batch of the iffily-lineaged OAITW shows. The material…

  • Vassar Clements Discography

    Vassar Clements Discography at deaddisc: http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Vassar_Clements.htm

  • Welcome to your new home, Vassar Clements: OAITW at the Keystone, 7/21/73

    LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.b-live-all.sbd-PNW.113845.flac1644  updated 20110629-1438 EST updated 20200723 We have here a 94 minute soundboard of Old And In The Way, identified as at the Keystone, 2119 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94704 on the evening of Saturday, July 21, 1973. The tape was in the collection of Will Boswell via Jerry Garcia’s own copy, held and…

  • LN jg1973-07-21.oaitw.early.sbd-smith-boswell.113805.flac1644

    ad for Keystone, Berkeley, July 19 – August 1, 1973; Berkeley Barb (7/19/73-8/1/73), p. 21 Let me just make a few points to head up these listening notes for this newly-circulated version of these rehearsals. They are very, very important. First, the provenance of the tape is awesome. Thanks to the Pacific Northwest Crew for…

  • The Birth of the Great American Music Band

    Editor’s Note: I should point out that the timing of this post was inspired by Corry, who has recently posted on the misty origins of OAITW and who earlier had posted on what might have been the “public debut of a very important band,” the GAMB. While I think this post casts a different light…

  • March 1974

    update: this post mostly doesn’t serve any purpose anymore, but here it is I am working around an important (to me!) post about the birth of the Great American Music/String Band, and want to lay some foundation. So let me start by mapping the known-to-me Jerry Garcia engagements from March, 1974, and just making a…

  • OAITW: June 6, 1973, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ

    update 20230704: I can’t go back and revise this post 13 years later. It’ll show up in Fate Music, believe me. With a LOT more specifics on Tex Logan, Peter Rowan, Boston, John Scher, and so much more! Old and in the Way did a small east coast tour in June of 1973, the band’s…