Fate Music

Category: Washington

  • Emerge and See: Hunter Hosting Garcia at the Cellar Door – May 15, 1978 (DISCONFIRMED)

    update 20210526: this seems not to have happened. David Kramer-Smythe reached out to David Morgenstern, who was with Comfort at this time. He remembered this gig for other reasons, but said Garcia definitely did not join, and that, in fact, Garcia never sat in with Comfort. So this is one of those cases of ….…

  • Kicking off the January ’86 Garcia/Kahn acoustic tour

    LN jg1986-01-24.jgjk.all.aud-CC.138168.flac1644 A huge bulge of heretofore elusive Garcia tape from the late 70s and especially the 80s has been hitting cyberspace. I don’t have much time for this, just a few scattered notes laying down some markers for eventual discussion of the tour. First, a tour snapshot. Snapshot of the January ’86 Garcia/Kahn acoustic…

  • August 9th

    This August 9th finds me thinking more about 70 years since Nagasaki than 20 years since Jerry Garcia, though that, too, is on my mind. Might as well go straight for the cream: cue this one up from about 5:40 to hear Garcia wail. In the alternative check out the whole smokin’ hot, first-night-of-tour set…

  • The Grateful Dead: Top-Grossing Act of 1991

    I just picked up a copy of Pollstar‘s 1991 Year-End Special Edition, entitled Year of the Dead, dated December 31, 1991. Though I don’t do much GD stuff, blogger’s stats tell me that GD posts are the most popular. People are funny. But I digress. One of the reasons I don’t do it is that…

  • Who Was John? JGB at GWU, April 3, 1976 (early show)

     LN jg1976-04-03.jgb.early.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 OK, maybe the last post of my hiatus hiatus. 4/3/76a. This is probably the same source tape as shnid-82761. A nice show. Jerry Garcia Band Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University 730 21st and H Street NWWashington, DC 20052 April 3, 1976 (Saturday) – Early show, 7 PM 80 min CC aud-1 flac2448 [upgraded…

  • JGB: female vocalists, late 1983 east coast tour

    update 2016: there is overwhelming evidence that DeeDee Dickerson took part in the late ’83 JGB tour. She is on the band’s tour documents. As of 2/19/2019, I believe DeeDee was present until at least 5/19/84; the earliest confirmed reference I can find to Gloria Jones dates to 8/11/84. update 2020: Gloria’s first show appears…

  • GD: 1970 “Caravan of Love” tour

    Found this fascinating little tidbit (1) that evokes a number of things worth mentioning: The Grateful Dead are traveling eastward across the country on their Caravan of Love, en route to an Aug. 25th appearance at the Isle of Wight Music Festival. The Dead would like to liven up the Washington area with a free…