NRPS w/o Jerry, pre-Buddy?

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7 responses to “NRPS w/o Jerry, pre-Buddy?”

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   Light Into Ashes

   September 14, 2014

   The NRPS played as a quartet one other time in that period.
   Corry writes that on 5/28/71, when Garcia was sick, "the NRPS had a gig at Peninsula School in Menlo Park in the afternoon. Michael Parrish attended the gig, only to find the NRPS playing as a quartet and the evening's Dead show canceled."
   http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/02/jerry-garcia-new-riders-of-purple-sage.html

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   Anonymous

   September 14, 2014

   The Gaelic Park show was postponed from 71-07-30 due to rain. It sounds like the Longbranch Saloon NRPS show was booked before Gaelic had a replacement date.

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3. 

   Fate Music

   September 14, 2014

   Wow, you guys are gems.

   LIA, of course I had forgotten the 5/28/71 event – perfect!

   ROG, thank you! I did not know that 8/26/71 was a reschedule from 7/30/71. I did not have that in my notes, it's not noted at Deadlists, it's not in Deadbase IX, and it didn't come up in a LIA Deadsources post on 8/26/71.

   At dead.net I see a slightly different account: "This show was originally scheduled a week or so before and cancelled at the last minute because of a truck accident with the equipment or something like that." (dead.net commenter PTRS, 6/14/2007).

   (LIA also note Marty's comment there!)

   I'd like to see confirmation of the 7/30/71 date for the rainout (the Yale Bowl show always looked strange all alone and lonely by itself out there, though of course it would make sense for the right amount of money). Either way, that Gaelic was a reschedule would explain why NRPS signed up for three nights and ended up bumping up against Leviathan (i.e., the Dead).

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   Anonymous

   September 14, 2014

   I'm not sure where I got the rain info from so that could be wrong. A quick hunt around gives a comment on archive.org from 2006-10-17 for shnid 1559 "The concert, by the way, was actually a make up for a show in July that had been rained out." That could be where I got it from.

   https://archive.org/details/gd71-08-26.sbd.dopey.1559.sbeok.shnf

   The (composite) ticket for the show linked from deadlists is for 71-07-30 so it was definitely rearranged.

   http://www.psilo.com/dead/showshow.php?band=1&date=1971-8-26

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   Light Into Ashes

   September 15, 2014

   I also didn't know that 8/26/71 was rescheduled from 7/30/71 – had not seen that before.
   Whether the cancellation was due to rain or equipment trouble or whatever, the date makes sense, since they played the Yale Bowl on 7/31.
   But, since their next August dates were in California, Gaelic Park had to be postponed til after their Chicago dates on Aug 23-24, when they were on the road again…

   Oh, and for what it's worth, the owner of the Poppycock in Palo Alto suggested that "the New Riders played there more than twice [in November '69], but I don’t think Jerry was always there."
   http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1969-11-13-the-poppycock-palo-alto-ca/

   And, speaking of Riders without pedal steel, isn't there a July '70 Matrix show after the Festival Express run in which Jerry's lacking his steel?

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6. 

   Corry342

   September 15, 2014

   I think it is a logical conclusion that there was the occasional Bay Area NRPS gig without Jerry. Our job, of course, is to figure out which ones…

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7. 

   Fate Music

   September 19, 2014

   "And, speaking of Riders without pedal steel, isn't there a July '70 Matrix show after the Festival Express run in which Jerry's lacking his steel?"

   Indeed, July 7, 1970.

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