tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post8147591132576252014..comments2024-03-15T18:58:45.318-06:00Comments on Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: Grateful Dead at New Monk, Berkeley, ca. June-July 1971Fate Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-2778465355239942352015-11-25T00:52:49.257-07:002015-11-25T00:52:49.257-07:00I've written my thoughts on this:
http://dead...I've written my thoughts on this: <br />http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-grateful-dead-merl-saunders-at-new.html <br /><br />I couldn't come up with any specific date except for June 1971 and/or March 1972. (The July 3-4 New Monk dates hadn't been found yet.) <br />I believe the show Reich saw was in 1971, since that's the way he sets it up: "They were already friends... And in 1971, that fact was still paramount. One night I went to hear Jerry play...the rest of the Dead showed up too... As Jerry says, they just liked to hang out together." He's not being specific at all, it just sounds like an event in the past.<br />Also, at the end of the introduction, Reich mentions that the Stoned Sunday Rap occurred when he brought the introduction to Jerry to read, which implies that the rest of it had already been written in March '72. <br />But the Dead may well have showed up at the New Monk for shows when Reich wasn't there, too. The evidence from other witnesses, vague as it is, points as much to March '72 as to June-July '71; in fact there seem to have been multiple sit-ins at the New Monk. (Merl Saunders remembered Pigpen sitting in more than once there.)<br />Why the Dead would have turned up at the New Monk, rather than the far more frequently played Keystone Korner in SF, I don't know; but every witness agrees it happened only at the New Monk.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com