Category: workaholism
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Garcia’s Creative Accounting, late March 1975
In late March 1975, Peter Simon interviewed Garcia at the “film house” (230 Eldridge Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941), for publication in New Age Journal (Simon 1975). NAJ: You’re also doing a solo album and touring with Merl Saunders. In that you have so many projects at once, how do you channel your energy so…
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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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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…
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Elves, Gnomes, Leprechauns and Little People’s Chowder and Marching Society Volunteer Fire Brigade and Ladies Auxiliary String Band
I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It’s a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French rock journalist (wiki) who spent ca. 1966-early 1968 in San Francisco, apparently spending a ton of time with the Dead, if the narratives are to be believed. I am sure it is…
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Reading Notes: Jon Sievert’s 1978 Guitar Player interview with Jerry Garcia
Man, this is such a great interview. Sievert always connected well with Jerry. These are my “reading notes”, which just means that I am drawing quotes and dropping them back into context. So, for example, some of the pedal steel talk below has been pasted back into my materials on the pedal steel guitar and…
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LN19760119 JG interview by Father Miles Riley, KPIX-TV Studios, San Francisco, CA
Update: looks like a 26 minute recording is available through the GDAO: http://www.gdao.org/items/show/379043 Update2: GD Archive material gives taping date as 1/19/76 Update3: see also “Jerry’s January 1976”. Update4: 26 minute video has finally come into the light! I have now put some slightly more verbatim “viewing notes” below the fold. Not a full transcription,…