This just came back to mind as I came across two ads, a month apart, for Reconstruction at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on 3/31/79. Someone at the Sentinel was either a Prankster or confused, and not just about Jerry (see also "Greg Kihm"). I wonder if Rock got this "Barcia" thing from the second ad posted here? Anyway, I am sure that, especially in Reconstruction, the Great onedidn't mind having some of his higher fans possibly thrown off the scent.
update: commenter Nick points out that the Eldon Porray tapes understood as Reconstruction at the Catalyst on 3/30/79 are probably really from this date, 3/31/79. This pertains to shnid-11673 (deprecated) and the MOTB transfer, shnid-106004. He raves about the "Sama Layuca" as well, which you should take very seriously.
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| ad for "Re Construction" at the Catalyst, featuring mystery guitarist "Jerry Garsia", Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 23, 1979, p. 16. |
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| ad for Reconstruction at the Catalyst, featuring mystery guitarist "Jerry Barcia", Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 23, 1979, p. 13. |
Waitaminute, there's a circulating Reconstruction (or Re:Construction) tape dated 3/30 at the Catalyst, not 3/31: http://db.etree.org/shn/106004
ReplyDeleteLabeling error? Or a rescheduled show...unlikely, if the ad is from a week before the gig?
Thanks for posting this -- assuming it's the same show, then it's nice to have an extra visual to attach to a very hot performance.
also, re spelling, the dormant English teacher in me is wincing at "Jessy" (Jesse) Barish and *Gueen* (um, Queen) Ida, on the same date, no less. Yet, amazingly, the designer spelled "Cipollina" and "Merl Saunders" correctly. So it goes.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know, right? So, Prankster, or just really bad speller?
ReplyDeleteI have 3/30 at the Keystone Palo Alto in my spreadsheets. Had never realized that the circulating tape says Catalyst. I suspect 3/30 was KPA and 3/31 was the Catalyst, so the tape is either right-date-wrong-venue, or wrong-date-right-venue, but I can't say which.
I think it's wrong-date-right-venue: I took another listen to the tape (id=106004) and there's nothing I heard that hints at the venue, but at the end of d1t08 (after Linda Chicana) someone in the crowd yells "April Fools!" -- it seems like a reasonable assumption that it would have been near midnight on 3/31 at that point, hence April Fools Day, hence a case for this actually being 3/31 rather than 3/30 at the Catalyst. Alert the proper authorities!
ReplyDeleteer, actually being 3/31 at the Catalyst rather than 3/30 at Keystone Palo Alto, that is.
DeleteI have left a comment at shnid-106004 and made a note in the post, because I suspect that you are correct. Thanks!
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