Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Here are people who are said to have played with Jerry who remain un-pinned down in Jerrybase because we don't have enough data specific...

Does anyone have a copy of Bluegrass Unlimited from either August 1995 or, more likely, September 1995? One page has a Grisman obit for Gar...

I was just revisiting a little item in Todd Tolces's early 1970s column in the Berkeley Daily Gazette . From May 3, 1973: Picking a very...

Thanks to Jim Powell for sending this my way. This aligns so well with my own experience of Her. David Frawley, Hymns From The Golden Age:  ...

Somewhere I have Mickey Hart saying basically what's in the title, but I cannot for the life of me find where I got this, and the Google...

The great Charlie Miller has gathered and shared many thousands of tapes. One that he got hands on somewhere along the line and then forgot ...

Spudfactor is the number it takes to get from Jerry to another musician, using ties defined as making music together, in person. Jerry Garci...

Perfect soundboard audio of the debut of the Garcia-Grisman band (JGDG) at Sweetwater in Mill Valley came into the light a few weeks back. I...

The critical source of error in my listening notes, for sure.

Jerrybase:  https://jerrybase.com/events/19911115-01 The Red Light folks tagged GarciaLive 16 (MSG 11/15/91) with the subject line, and I ha...

https://archive.org/details/gd1982-07-28.fob.senn421.wise.miller.102571.flac16/gd82-07-28d1t01.flac https://jerrybase.com/events/19820728-01...

As I am writing and looking at the things I may have to leave undone, it strikes me that we have some amazing sources of oral history, which...

I am identifying lots of musician children of musician fathers in the Garciaverse. So, consider this a request: if you know someone with Spu...

Or something like that. Forgive me, for I have sinned. I have added entropy to the world. I am here to make amends. When the Falanga-Menke...

Hell may freeze over, but here I am. A new man. (Call it my epitaph for JGMF.) But I am going to post about the Post-Jerry-Garcia-Grateful-D...

What you see happening is that I can't really blog much anymore. I think. The communication medium known as blogging mostly invites me t...

I just changed the name at the top of the blog from Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger  to reflect the progress I am making on Fate Music: Jer...

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...