Gene Sculati, in a very insightful little piece written ca. mid-June 1969 (1): Recently “a local resort featured Dead accomplice Marmaduke singing country (and playing guitar) to the accompaniment of Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar.”
Anyone know of a Marmaduke-Jerry gig, ca. mid-June 1969, at a resort?
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(1) Sculati, Gene. 1969. What’s Become of the Grateful Dead? Jazz & Pop 8.9 (September): 22-24.
Well, the timing is certainly correct. I think Gene Sculatti was a North Bay guy, from Napa, so this suggests a Napa/Sonoma/Marin type gig. There were (and still are) a lot of places on the Russian River and such that identified themselves as "Resorts."
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about Muir Beach Lodge - which had periodically been referred to as Muir Beach Resort and had hosted a number of similar shows between 1966 and 1968.
ReplyDeletehow are these Muir Beach Lodge shows advertised, or how are they known? Was there a little community newspaper that might have listed them>
ReplyDeleteMuir Beach Lodge had been taken over by the County (or the State--I forget) by 1969.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking further North--Russian River, Rio Nido, places like that.There was also a place called The Marshall Hotel, in Marshall, on Highway 1 North of Point Reyes. Jef Jaisun, among others, played there in Fall '69.