Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

The recent June 5th brought out more than a tiny number of people to recognize the Oregon State Penintiery show on the anniversary of its pe...

Preface: JGB in SoCal Little springtime SoCal jaunts became a regular thing for JGB starting in 1983. (OK, that was very late winter, but Ma...

I am looking, not quite desperately but maybe with some urgency, for some vintage Old And In The Way paper. Could be an Old And In The Way p...

My previous post (three months ago!) touched on an expost recollection of Doug Sahm sitting in with Garcia-Saunders at the Keystone around D...

Clearing out old paper files of stuff, found this piece by John Swenson about Doug Sahm: Swenson, John. 197305. The Psychedelic Cowboy Makes...

[note: for a very long time it has been known that John Lennon saw Jerry at the Bottom Line, and various accounts of a meeting, possible sit...

Here's an ad from the Memphis Commercial Appeal  billing Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) at the Auditorium Music Hall in Memphis, TN, November 1...

I don't have time to go full chapter-and-verse on this one: what I know is at Jerrybase . I give you what's laconically labeled Grat...

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I  just want to pin down some details of the Good Old Boys sets from June 13 and June 14, 1974, opening for Great American String Band. The...

I  just want to pin down some details of the Good Old Boys sets from June 13-14, 1974, opening for Great American String Band. These come fr...

Something like this social network graph will form the centerpiece image (I will pay for color) of Fate Music . I presented a brutally rudim...

What an amazing song. Obviously a (continuously, spontaneously, organically evolving) folk song, and working under many different titles, bu...

 

update : Never Trust A Prankster :) via GIPHY Bruce Rostenstein was an ouststanding rock columnist for the American University Eagle  in the...

Consider this a throwback post, in that it does what the blog started out doing, and that's just trying to correct and fill out metadata...

Can anyone identify the little ditty or ditties Jerry noodles in this mp3? TIA! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9dDbbvXg9d7w5kikobYCvcgpTS...

LN jg1982-01-11.jgb.all.sbd-gmb.84012.flac1644 | LNjg1982-01-13.jgb.all.aud-GEMS.98706.flac1644 What a weird little pair of shows - an early...

LN jg1989-05-19.jgb.all.aud-tfh.24537.flac1644 LN jg1989-05-20.jgb.all.sbd-miller.20679.shn2flac LN jg1989-05-22.jgb.all.aud-ebay-liberation...