Showing posts with label David LaFlamme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David LaFlamme. Show all posts

Friday, August 08, 2014

Context: April 1976 BAM listings

So here's a first example of my sources and methods for context. It's a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM ("Bay Area Music") magazine, April 1976.

Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet:
  • the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty's band of the period;
  • the listings for the Meters, who, I think, shared a bill or two with JGMS in November 1974, which Kreutzmann loved, and at least one song of which JGMS covered ("Just Kissed My Baby");
  • the Roadhog listings (for Corry);
  • the Mingus gigs (because one of my favorite Mingus recordings is from KK the next month);
  • the Eddie Harris gigs, because I thought this might be Merl's cousin?;
  • the Bloomfield gigs, for no apparent reason;
  • Gravenites, see Bloomfield;
  • Mandel, because he once shared a stage with Jerry (Matrix late 1968);
  • the Rowan Brothers, for heavy Garciacentric relevance;
  • the David LaFlamme band, shared stage with Garcia (with NRPS in February 1971, I think 2/28/71).
 More madness than method, of course, but there you go.