Above are the music listings from Night Times, March 8-21, 1972.
Check ’em out if you’re interested, of course, but let me be Garciacentric and offer the following tidbit, about the deepening relationship between Jerry Garcia (et al.) and Freddie Herrera: Jerry and Merle [sic] —Night Times misspelled his name without fail through this point, always adding the erroneous ‘e’ to his first name– as I say, Jerry and Merl played for Freddie 8 times in 11 nights between Wednesday the 8th and Sunday the 18th. Here’s a table view:
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| Table xxx. Jerry and Freddie, 8 gigs in 11 nights, March 8-18, 1972 |
Both weeks, it’s Wednesday-Thursday at Keystone Berkeley –formerly the New Monk and renamed, as far as this evidence goes, as from the March 8th (update: March 1st) JGMS show!– and Friday-Saturday at Keystone Korner in the City. The Keystone Berkeley would continue operating as such for a dozen years, based in large measure on the informal partnership –I believe that nothing was written down– between Jerry Garcia and Freddie Herrera. It worked really well for a really long time.
Note that Armando Peraza is billed consistently with JGMS during this period.
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