Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Random thoughts and cutting-room floor for book-in-progress Fate Music: Jerry Garcia Beyond the Dead.

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Friday, January 13, 2017

Reading Notes: Jackson and Gans 2015

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Jackson, Blair and David Gans. 2015. This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead . Flatiron Books. Blair J...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017

oh my

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https://archive.org/details/gd1978-01-11.135498.sbd.miller.flac16 Check out the Let It Grow.
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Reading Notes: Browne 2015

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Browne, David. 2015. So Many Roads: The Life And Times Of The Grateful Dead . Boston, MA: Da Capo Press [a member of the Perseus Books Group...
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

NGC: Van Morrison and Toulouse Ta Truck

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Via the Facebook page of the amazing Jake Feinberg, which is a treasure trove of text snippets from Jake's radio show , which you should...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

If These Halls Could Talk

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If These Halls Could Talk: A Historical Tour through San Francisco Recording Studios – by Heather Johnson (2006). Has anyone ever seen a c...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Garciaverse Musics

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I'll just throw this out there for comment, spitballing, and eventual dismantlement as a putative mapping (for Garciaverse purposes) of ...
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Reading Notes: McNally 2015

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McNally, Dennis, ed. 2015. Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews . New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers. I...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Bobby Ace

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I was doing some thinking about Bob Weir's musical journey, and what I view to be the pivotal "Bobby Ace" period, running most...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Lenny Hart's term of employment

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I had never quite seen this much specificity on the dates around Lenny Hart , but in combination with some other factors (Gar talking about ...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Old And In The Way at the Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara

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Several years ago, Richard Greene was kind enough to work through some of his old datebooks with me over the phone. He showed himself at th...
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UCLA Acid Test (CXL)

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! ad: Daily Bruin , March 16, 1966, p. 2. Preface Suggested audio accompaniment for this post: http://tinyurl.com/hthnmgb , especially...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Dropping in Robertson Gym (gd1969-01-17)

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The Grateful Dead and Santa Barbara are two great things that go great together. One little mystery has always centered on the location of t...
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Grateful Dead Co-Billings

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Based on a discussion at Lossless Legs, I generated my own list of openers for the GD. This isn't really openers, so much as acts that w...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Red Rocks

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Saw something in some ca. '84 GD band meeting minutes where Weir says they should move heaven and earth to play Red Rocks. Spent some ti...
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Sunday, September 04, 2016

Garcia's Early '82 Tax Tour (Counterfactual)

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More counterfactual history from a document in the GD Archives (ms332, ser2, box5), though I have seen it through another means as well. T...
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Saturday, September 03, 2016

Altamont Dreams

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I have so little time for this hobby these days. I have fallen way behind on my reading, but I really look forward to reading Joel Selvin...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Things You Learn ...

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... while pawing through stuff at the GD Archives. Case in point: the original Mars Hotel artwork was run over by a UPS truck. Now you kn...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

nothing wrong with this 8/21/83 tape

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https://archive.org/details/gd1983-08-21.fob.sonyECM220t.kirschner.miller.95687.flac24 Source (FOB) Sony ECM-220T -> Cassette Master (...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

In Praise of Editorial Judgment

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So, every year around August 9th I bust out the original So Many Roads boxset and listen to some of my ol' favorites, such as "Whis...
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Sunday, August 07, 2016

Dating the Legion’s Demise: A Revisionist Account

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The demise of the Legion of Mary , Garcia’s principal side band from Ronnie Tutt ’s arrival on December 6, 1974 until mid-1975, remains one ...
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