Category: why
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MTV Interview, June 2, 1983
I don’t know where this would have taken place, but the date of June 2, 1983 seems right, in between shows at the venerable Roseland Ballroom on 52nd Street and promoter John Scher’s main room, the Capitol Theatre in Passaic outside of Philly. I have gotten direct quotes on the Garcia-on-the-side (GOTS) material, and sketchily…
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Bill Cooper Interviews Jerry Garcia, May 1982
Here’s a nice companion piece that really resonates with “Bob Coburn Interviews Jerry Garcia, November 8, 1982″. My notes/transcriptions are little sketchy, but here’s what jumps out to me. On Run for the Roses, with some anti-marketing: I’ve been working on it for quite a long time. I’ve had to squeeze it in amongst and…
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Reading Notes: Henke 1991
I wasn’t paying attention at the time, but my sense is that these September 1991 interviews (I think there might have been some separate remarks in the Boston Globe) caused a good deal of consternation in Deadlandia – and why not? The golden-egg-laying-goose sounds like he’d love to leave the reservation at this point. Lots…
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Reading Notes: Signpost to a New Space and Stoned Sunday Rap
These are “reading notes” – little stuff I cull when I read. I copy and paste the quotes into thematic documents (e.g., drugs.docx), so all of this has been “processed” out of the book, and up one level, into thematic or other kinds of buckets. You may not find the quotes of greatest interest to…
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“A Shitty Father”
The title of this post comes from Garcia daughter Annabelle’s remarks at his funeral on 8/11/95, probably not said in anger, almost certainly considerably true. I don’t recall Jerry speaking so frankly about this issue as here, ca. July 1981: I have a family – I am talking about the woman I used to live…
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Reading Notes: Dupree 1974
Zoo World, January 31, 1974. “Cover photo captured by Mario Algaze the afternoon of a Leas Campbell presentation of the Grateful Dead at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Fla.”, December 18 or 19, 1973. A clean-shaven Jerry Garcia in Tampa, Florida, December 18 or 19, 1973. Photograph by Mario Algaze, published in Zoo World, January…
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Clio’s Garcia
“More and different” pithily summarizes what Garcia was pursuing in his Side Trips relative to what he got out of the Grateful Dead. Here are a few snapshots of some over-time trends I find illuminating. “More”: this is a calendar view of Garcia’s out of state tours with the Dead (pink) and his side bands…
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Jamming For The Hell Of It
Ain’t this pretty paper? Selvin nails the essence of the thing.
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Garcia Talks Locally, Fall 1972
Staska, Kathie, and George Mangrum. 1972. Rock Talk by KG: Jerry Garcia discusses Grateful Dead, albums. Hayward Daily Review, October 12, 1972, p. 42. It’s a marvel to study Garcia interviews over the years in all kinds of ways. The man could talk as knowledgeably, engagingly, expansively, and articulately as he played the guitar, which…
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March 23, 1975 – Jerry Garcia Interview
I don’t know who the interviewer is, nor the radio station from which this particular recorded. It is the first track of shnid-126296. This is the interview Jerry gave before the SNACK Benefit at Kezar Stadium. Sounds like reading the newspapers around the time of the show will prove interesting, mismanagement of budgets by bureaucrats…