Context: September 1976 BAM Listings

Up to three pages, lots of ads. Well done, hip young capitalists!

p. 25 finds the usual stuff. I am a little confused about address of the Green Earth, here listed as 1810 Market, with another place, the Omnibus, at 1821 Haight. I assume this is a typesetting problem, need to double-check. Some Country Joe and Barry Melton action.

 p. 27 not much to light me up, a Quicksilver gig at Sophie's.

 p. 28, Crabshaw's Outlaws at West Dakota (1505 San Pablo, formerly New Orleans House), and an interesting looking gig at the Lonbranch on 9/23, featuring (for me) Merl and the Little Onion (John Cipollina), who would later play together in the Dinosaurs, I believe.

Nicky after JGB

Under the rock and jazz heading, you'll see Terry and the Pirates, featuring John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins playing the Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley on Friday January 2 and Saturday, January 3, 1976.

I had never really picked this up before. After flaming out of JGB on New Year's Eve 1975-1976, two days later Nicky is picking up a gig with his good buddy (and great guitarist, and Garcia pal) the Little Onion and Terry Dolan, who has come clean that he was dealing coke at the time (Dawson 2011, 261). 

I have no moral judgment on any of this or any of these people. I know the drugs are touchy, but they are what they are, and I see little point (and considerable loss) in ignoring the pharmacological context of all of this, not least given how consequential substances were in how so many lives unfolded (and ceased doing so).