tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post6833853881586124819..comments2024-03-15T18:58:45.318-06:00Comments on Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger: Carlos Santana and Merl Saunders - February 22, 1971, Matrix, San FranciscoFate Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-68868187244018758792019-03-08T19:41:21.926-07:002019-03-08T19:41:21.926-07:00LIA has found a "Carlos Santana, Merl Saunder...LIA has <a href="https://jgmf.blogspot.com/2018/10/new-to-list-from-examiner-1970-1972.html?showComment=1541845125217#c5988089061599121593" rel="nofollow">found</a> a "Carlos Santana, Merl Saunders and Friends" listing for one week prior to this, 2/15/71 at the Matrix. Unlike 2/22, Garcia could well have been available!Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-30375965818716908412013-05-06T01:52:46.191-06:002013-05-06T01:52:46.191-06:00The Sanatanamigos site relies on folks like us to ...The Sanatanamigos site relies on folks like us to tell them such dates Corry - I have let Karim know.The Yellow Sharkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17001772238662274893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-6376543636481124882013-04-30T20:35:25.905-06:002013-04-30T20:35:25.905-06:00This is pretty interesting. The Sanatanamigos site...This is pretty interesting. The Sanatanamigos site (the gold standard for Santana history) doesn't know about this date, so this is new territory. Carlos Santana had played the Monday night jam at the Matrix various times in '68 and '69, so its great to see he was still doing it as late as '71. You've gotta think it was Merl's gig, so he brought the rhythm section, but I wonder who it was?<br /><br />Larry Coryell was great in 71 too (Mervin Bronson-bass and Harry Wilkinson-drums, Live At The Village Gate, etc), quite a week. And Abel, who was playing the next night at Keystone Korner, featured Abel Zarate, later the guitarist in Malo (along with Jorge Santana).Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18366371.post-19874043163346021852013-04-27T16:59:29.987-06:002013-04-27T16:59:29.987-06:00Both/And Jazz Club
350 Divisadero (moved to 620 Di...Both/And Jazz Club<br />350 Divisadero (moved to 620 Divisadero)<br />San Francisco, CA<br /><br />Capacity 500<br /><br />350 Divisadero<br />Leonard Sheftman was half-owner of the Both/And jazz club.(6)<br />You wouldn’t know it by looking at it, but back in the ’60's and ’70s', 350 Divisadero was a popular live music venue called the Both/And Jazz Club, hosting the likes of Ike & Tina Turner, The Steve Miller Blues Band, and Miles Davis.(3)<br /><br />Joe Louis Walker also has fond memories of the Both/And. He remembers seeing Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery there. "It was a cool atmosphere at the Both And, the premier jazz club for a while. It had a stage to the right and an upstairs area. John McLaughlin played there one night out of a Marshall amp. No one could believe it. Jazz chicks were going crazy. It was an excellent show."(5)<br /><br />In 2012, this address houses Hybrid Training SF, a Mixed Martial Arts gym.(4)<br /><br />620 Divisadero<br />The second site of the Both/And has been used more or less continuously as a music venue in San Francisco since the 1970's. <br />For a while it was the VIS Club, then from the late 1980's until well into the 1990's, The Kennel Club for many years, then The Justice League and now it's called The Independent. The current address is 628, not 620, but its the same place.(1)(2) The old Harding Theater is right next door.<br /><br />The Archie Shepp album 'Live in San Francisco' was recorded at the Both/And Jazz Club.<br /><br />Jerry may have performed here on<br />11/1/70 New Riders Of The Purple Sage<br /><br /><br />1.)^Arnold, Corry, comments, 2009-12-16, NRPS:ca. 11/1/70?, http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2009/11/nrps-ca-1111970.html?showComment=1346721779504#c7662092891056151983<br />2.)^Joe Bob J., 2012-04-06, http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-independent-san-francisco#query:628%20divisadero%20st<br />3.)^Dudley, Andrew, What's up at 350 Divisadero?, 2010-06-23, http://haighteration.com/2010/06/whats-up-at-350-divisadero.html<br />4.)^http://www.hybridtrainingsf.com/<br />5.)^Pepin, Elizabeth, Music Of The Fillmore, http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/learning/music/swing.html<br />6.)^Billboard, 1969-04-19.<br /><br /><br />I haven't been able to nail down the date when the venue moved to 620 Divisadero. Anyone know?Jerry's Brokendown Palaceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06451361448230329754noreply@blogger.com