This is a followup to New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972. I include new-to-The-List dates, some that were advertised and seem to have been canceled, a few other weird things I uncovered. The Examiner was quite a task. If the Chronicle were digitized, that’d be the last frontier for me. At this point, returns are diminishing, so if it comes online after 2018 I might skim it, but will certainly be less thorough in entering stuff into my spreadsheet than I have been with the Examiner. There’s only so much time.
New to The List
It’s possible that some of these didn’t happen, of course. But I found these and couldn’t find disconfirming evidence of them.
1/30/73 (Tuesday): JGMS at Keystone
! listing: San Francisco Examiner, January 30, 1973, p. 21.
8/12/73 (Sunday): JGMS at the end of Magellan Road, El Granada. “Jazz-rock concert featuring Merl Saunders and friends (including Jerry Garcia) at the end of Magellan Road” in El Granada, presented by Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society.
! listing: SFSECDB19730812p07.
1/3/74 (Thursday): JGMS at Keystone
! listing: San Francisco Examiner, January 3, 1974, p. 29.
3/30/74 (Saturday): JGMS at Keystone Stockton. Of course they played Freddie’s shortlived venture out in the sticks!
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| Jerry Garcia and Merle [sic] Saunders, plus Paul Pena, at the Keystone Stockton, Saturday, March 30, 1974. Ad in the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Datebook, March 24, 1974, p. 27. |
! listing: SFSECDB19740324p04;
! ad: SFSECDB19740324p27.
6/3/74 (Monday): JGMS at Keystone. One can wonder if, like the rest of the shows this week, this gig featured Tony Saunders on bass.
! listing: San Francisco Examiner, June 3, 1974, p. 32.
6/15/77 (Wednesday): JGB at Keystone Palo Alto
! ad: SFSECDB19770529p39.
4/13/79 (Friday): Reconstruction at the Rio Theatre. I had already concluded that Reconstruction did not play the Denver Rainbow on this date, despite tape labels to the contrary. Here’s more evidence against a Denver gig.
! listing: SFSECDB19790401p14.
7/16/80 (Wednesday): JGB at Keystone
! ad: SFSECDB19800713p10.
6/10/82 (Thurday): JGB at the Stone. Ad says “note new SF date”. Earlier ads had JGB at Stone on 6/13. So I suspect that show was canceled and this one replaced it.
! ad: SFSECDB-19820606p28.
7/10-11/84 (Tuesday-Wednesday): JGB at Keystone Palo Alto. Hard to imagine a show this late not having imprinted itself, but it was a midweek down south, before the internet.
! listing: SFSECDB-19840708p14.
CXL
6/10/75 (Tuesday): JGMS at Keystone. I wonder if this cancellation had to do with Jerry being occupied by the United Artists deal, which I date to the next day?
! ad: SFSECDB19750525p29;
! ad: [contra] SFSECDB19750608p29.
12/16/79 (Sunday): JGB at Keystone. This was rescheduled for the next night.
! ad: SFSECDB19791209p24.
12/20/81 (Sunday): JGB at Keystone
! ad: SFSECDB19811206p14;
! ad: [contra] SFSECDB19811213p10.
6/13/82 (Sunday): JGB at Stone. This in earlier ads, then later ads show late addition on 6/10 at Stone, and this show gone. So I suspect this was cxl and replaced by that one. See entry for 6/10/82 above.
! ad: SFSECDB-19820530p22.
10/29/82 (Friday): JGB at Keystone. This is a weird one, listed as
late as the day of the show. But Garcia left LA on PSA #348 dep 2:55 PM
arr 4 PM in Arizona, and was supposed to check into the Fiesta Inn in
Tempe for the next night’s gig in Mesa, AZ. He might have flown home
instead, gigged, and then gone from home back down to the southwest, I
guess. But for now I will list this as canceled.
! ad: SFSECDB19821003p19;
! ad: SFSECDB19821010p24;
! listing: SFE19821028pE2.
2/25/83 (Friday): JGB at Keystone. I have this as canceled and re-scheduled for the 28th.
! ad: SFSECDB19830213p19.
Confusing
8/6/73 (Monday): Keystone. The same set of listings show both Herbie Hancock and Steve Head, on the one hand, and JGMS, on the other, playing for Freddie in Berkeley.
! listing: San Francisco Examiner, August 6, 1973, p. 28.
1/21/83 (Friday): JGB at KPA, or Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma? Contradictory info out there. On the one hand, there’s an announcement of the Petaluma show in a Norcal paper the day of the show, and Jerry gave an interview to a Norcal radio station that day. He is known to have played Petaluma the next day. On the other hand, an earlier listing in the Examiner had him at Keystone Palo Alto.
! listing: [contra] San Francisco Examiner, January 20, 1983, p. E2;
! preview: “Jerry Garcia performs tonight at the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma”, Ukiah Daily Journal, January 21, 1983, p. 8.
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