Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

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...

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...

Consider this a throwback post, in that it does what the blog started out doing, and that's just trying to correct and fill out metadata...

Over at Jerrybase, we have begun grouping events not only by "runs" (consecutive nights at the same venue), but also "tours...

update: David Kramer-Smyth notes in comments that the article was edited, and that it originally said George Tickner had sat in with Jerry a...

I recently wrote that in engaging any Garcia event, I first want to pin down the who, the where, and the what. So I want the sociometric, ge...

I woke up this morning with "Expressway (To Your Heart)" playing in my head. Not just any Expressway, mind you. But the one played...

Tape Archaeology What used to be known by some of us as the Third Batch of Betty Cantor-Jackson tapes proved the most grudging of all t...

Having just posted on Janis's wake , which is said to have taken place on 10/26/70, I find myself wanting to at least take a stand on a ...

After spending X hours over X years spinning microfilm to try to find the needles of unListed Garcia gigs in the haystack of the Chronicle ,...

Garcia and Saunders mostly played Bay Area clubs. But every now and then, usually in connection with multiact benefit concerts, they played ...

In addition to the tantalizing May 20-21, 1969 Garcia gigs at the Matrix , the newly-digitized Examiner has yielded a good number of previou...

update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71 . It seems more likely to have been 5/2...