Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Tony Orbasido was running the American Federation of Musicians' Local No. 6 in San Francisco when I started asking him about researching...

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...

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

http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/LSD-king-Owsley-Stanley-s-Sonic-Journals-11209700.php And Bear was there taping. I assumed immediately...

Some notes-to-self. Corry : The Grateful Dead family was interested in turning John Dawson into a recording artist as early as 1968, an...

In 2011 I made a post under the heading of "GD in Walnut Creek; East Bay Psychedelic Scene?" in which I noted the mystery surroun...

updated title 20160319 San Francisco Sessions Series San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Francisco Se...

Bottom line: A bunch of hippies, a bunch of good people, got together and refused to run a business. And, I'm sorry, you've got to ...

Since I am on the subject, the ad below (published 5/30/68) lists the GD at Carousel on Friday May 31, Saturday June 1, and Sunday June 2, 1...

Updated: the SFC Datebook of April 5, 1968 (p. 47) shows John Lee Hooker, Loading Zone, Mother Earth. Given the two conflicting pieces of pr...

Garcia and others are listed for the Carousel on May 22, 1968. According to a report in Billboard (Lehman 1968), this was a benefit concert...

McHenry Library at UCSC has one random roll of the great San Francisco Express Times from the turbulent year of 1968.  I have some ho...

I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It's a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French r...