Man, this recording from TDIH sounds nice to these ol' ears.
Showing posts with label Stanford University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanford University. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Friday, August 14, 2015
more Garcia summer 1991 cancellations
Jerry Garcia Band (electric) was scheduled to play Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford University on July 14, 1991, but July 11th announced that
I had earlier noted that that summer's Eel River show had been moved from 7/13/91 to 8/10/91, speculating that Jerry was rehabbing his latest fall from the wagon on the heels of yet another GD intervention after the Denver Dead show (6/28/91). The rare candor of the Stanford cancellation announcement feels to me like strong confirmation of rehab as the reason.
I also found a ticket stub at Wolfgang's Vault showing JGB at The Telluride Mid-Summer Music Festival, in beautiful Telluride, CO, Friday, July 19, 1991. (Also billed that day: Jackson Browne / Joe Cocker / Allman Brothers Band.) This performance was also canceled.
So Gar is off the road a little bit, giving up some paydays trying to get himself clean again.
REFERENCE:
"No Jerry Garcia concert Sunday," Stanford Daily, July 11, 1991, p. 18.
Citing "mounting health problems," Jerry Garcia has postponed his upcoming tour dates, including his show scheduled for Sunday at Frost Amphitheater.This ended up being canceled.
I had earlier noted that that summer's Eel River show had been moved from 7/13/91 to 8/10/91, speculating that Jerry was rehabbing his latest fall from the wagon on the heels of yet another GD intervention after the Denver Dead show (6/28/91). The rare candor of the Stanford cancellation announcement feels to me like strong confirmation of rehab as the reason.
I also found a ticket stub at Wolfgang's Vault showing JGB at The Telluride Mid-Summer Music Festival, in beautiful Telluride, CO, Friday, July 19, 1991. (Also billed that day: Jackson Browne / Joe Cocker / Allman Brothers Band.) This performance was also canceled.
REFERENCE:
"No Jerry Garcia concert Sunday," Stanford Daily, July 11, 1991, p. 18.
Friday, June 05, 2015
Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah.
Introduction
The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something - because I found a bunch of interesting stuff, more Dead than Garcia related.
Big 'C'
So, why is the Daily Californian (http://archive.dailycal.org/) so woefully behind? Some affluent Deadhead Berkeley alum needs to step on up to the plate. I bet $100k could be matched up in various ways and could help whatever work is (hopefully) already underway to completion.
Go Bears (unless they are playing the Buffs, or the Huskies)!
Broader Point: Patrons of the Arts (and Letters, and Sciences)
Oh yeah, and in thinking about tagging this, I am creating a new tag called patrons-of-the-arts, to identify philanthropic opportunities that might be of interest to folks who might come across Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger. In various posts I have talked about the importance of affluent, interesting people providing philanthropic support for some of the institutions that we have called "public" - commonly provided goods the consumption of which is, public choice economists would say, "nonexcludable". This, of course, is the very idea of "open access" resources, as the Independent Voices repository plans to become from 2017.
In the US we used to provide for public goods through taxes. Somewhere along the line, questions one might have thought settled, as that we should all pony up to care for the young, infirm, and elderly, we should probably pay to educate all of the children independently of everything else - opened up again, and the answers have changed.
I credit California Proposition 13 (1978) for this, which phenomenologically correct, at least. If I recall correctly, 1978-1979 saw the loss of the hot lunch program at Burton School in Lafayette, along the old railroad line running in from the Delta and over the Oakland Hills to the Bay, now, in affluent suburbs, trails for the requisite fitness pursuits. More importantly to a third grader, the after school sports program was eliminated, though it was probably made up by terrorizing ten square miles on our Mongoose bikes (private goods, natch). Burton shut down after that year (as did a number of others across all the levels in the Lamorinda School District covering the towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda) in a big old consolidation that sent us to the newly-christened Burton Valley Elementary (on the former twinned campus of Merriewood Elementary and Fairview Intermediate), where kids from all the the eliminated schools came for the first time, to the Merriewood kids' home turf. Many got their first dose of meaningful class and other socioeconomic difference in this encounter. Even through the crow don't fly, some kids from the Walnut Creek side of the hills were zoned in and had to drive up and down a few ridges to a rather different neighborhood, bringing all sorts of socioeconomic exotica with them, divorce, alcoholism, abuse, even some kids who didn't get A's and weren't already queuing up the Cal and Stanford applications. Hard times after Prop 13.
Elsewhere on the blog I have advanced the claim that great cities deserve great libraries. San Francisco Public Library and San Diego Public Library (SDPL), Salt Lake City, of a few I have visited, seem to have gotten some good support from their communities. The fundraising must be good in all of those places. Tip o' the cap. There is no more research efficient public space in the Garciaverse than sitting at a state of the art film scanner at the San Francisco Public Library. I am using it, but someone else paid for it. Thank you.
Anyway, educational institutions are in the same predicament, I am sure Cal could use the support. The Stanford Daily archives display individual donor names on returned search results. So one could probably curate around one's own years of attendance, for example. Very cool. The Californian may well have lots more stuff than we know and think for essential work around Berkeley and everything it has experienced and must, in some ways, represent. It'd be fun reading.
In Closing: The Hat
In closing/by way of reminder, here are a few needs that I have observed in my own research.
The Stanford Daily is archived and searchable back to 1892. This has been up for a little while, but a recent dip of the toe suggests that either the optical character recognition (OCR) process by which scanned images become letters has been improved, or the searching has been improved, or something - because I found a bunch of interesting stuff, more Dead than Garcia related.
Big 'C'
Golden Bear is ever watching;
Day by day he prowls,
And when he hears the tread
Of lowly Stanfurd red,
From his Lair he fiercely growls.
Day by day he prowls,
And when he hears the tread
Of lowly Stanfurd red,
From his Lair he fiercely growls.
So, why is the Daily Californian (http://archive.dailycal.org/) so woefully behind? Some affluent Deadhead Berkeley alum needs to step on up to the plate. I bet $100k could be matched up in various ways and could help whatever work is (hopefully) already underway to completion.
Go Bears (unless they are playing the Buffs, or the Huskies)!
Broader Point: Patrons of the Arts (and Letters, and Sciences)
Oh yeah, and in thinking about tagging this, I am creating a new tag called patrons-of-the-arts, to identify philanthropic opportunities that might be of interest to folks who might come across Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger. In various posts I have talked about the importance of affluent, interesting people providing philanthropic support for some of the institutions that we have called "public" - commonly provided goods the consumption of which is, public choice economists would say, "nonexcludable". This, of course, is the very idea of "open access" resources, as the Independent Voices repository plans to become from 2017.
In the US we used to provide for public goods through taxes. Somewhere along the line, questions one might have thought settled, as that we should all pony up to care for the young, infirm, and elderly, we should probably pay to educate all of the children independently of everything else - opened up again, and the answers have changed.
I credit California Proposition 13 (1978) for this, which phenomenologically correct, at least. If I recall correctly, 1978-1979 saw the loss of the hot lunch program at Burton School in Lafayette, along the old railroad line running in from the Delta and over the Oakland Hills to the Bay, now, in affluent suburbs, trails for the requisite fitness pursuits. More importantly to a third grader, the after school sports program was eliminated, though it was probably made up by terrorizing ten square miles on our Mongoose bikes (private goods, natch). Burton shut down after that year (as did a number of others across all the levels in the Lamorinda School District covering the towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda) in a big old consolidation that sent us to the newly-christened Burton Valley Elementary (on the former twinned campus of Merriewood Elementary and Fairview Intermediate), where kids from all the the eliminated schools came for the first time, to the Merriewood kids' home turf. Many got their first dose of meaningful class and other socioeconomic difference in this encounter. Even through the crow don't fly, some kids from the Walnut Creek side of the hills were zoned in and had to drive up and down a few ridges to a rather different neighborhood, bringing all sorts of socioeconomic exotica with them, divorce, alcoholism, abuse, even some kids who didn't get A's and weren't already queuing up the Cal and Stanford applications. Hard times after Prop 13.
Elsewhere on the blog I have advanced the claim that great cities deserve great libraries. San Francisco Public Library and San Diego Public Library (SDPL), Salt Lake City, of a few I have visited, seem to have gotten some good support from their communities. The fundraising must be good in all of those places. Tip o' the cap. There is no more research efficient public space in the Garciaverse than sitting at a state of the art film scanner at the San Francisco Public Library. I am using it, but someone else paid for it. Thank you.
Anyway, educational institutions are in the same predicament, I am sure Cal could use the support. The Stanford Daily archives display individual donor names on returned search results. So one could probably curate around one's own years of attendance, for example. Very cool. The Californian may well have lots more stuff than we know and think for essential work around Berkeley and everything it has experienced and must, in some ways, represent. It'd be fun reading.
In Closing: The Hat
In closing/by way of reminder, here are a few needs that I have observed in my own research.
- New Englanders, including members of the Boston Area Deadheads Who Give A Shit Foundation (tagline: "Share The Wealth, Kids!"): Buy some great digital scanners for the Boston Public Library.
- Cal Bear alums: drop your battle ax on Stanford's head, and all that. I want to spin through the Daily Californian, and posterity will thank you!
- Anyone: the Grateful Dead Archive, Special Collections, Mchenry Library, UC Santa Cruz.
- The Independent Voices project to digitize and, by 2017, make open access a collection of underground newspapers. I don't know how this collection will relate to the Underground Press Collection microfilm - one hopes that IV will totally deprecate it - but it looks like a great project that will allow us to understand ourselves and our world better than ever.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Rango's Frost '82 tapes
https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-09.sonyecm220T.keshavan.miller.93682.sbeok.flac16
https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-10.sonyecm220T.keshavan.miller.93732.sbeok.flac16
Listen to these tapes and think thanks to taper Rango Keshavan.
These audience recordings will take your breath away. Thanks, rk.
https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-10.sonyecm220T.keshavan.miller.93732.sbeok.flac16
Listen to these tapes and think thanks to taper Rango Keshavan.
These audience recordings will take your breath away. Thanks, rk.
Monday, June 21, 2010
JGMS: October 3, 1971, Frost Ampitheater, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Garcia and Saunders played the Pamoja Jazz Concert on October 3, 1971 at Frost Ampitheater, sharing a bill with Big Black and the Bobby Hutcherson - Harold Land Quintet. Love that jazz billing.
Anyway, for a long time I have been aware of a show review by Paul Grushkin from the Stanford Daily a few days later (1). I think I learned of it in the wonderful (though in need of an update!) Dodd and Weiner bibliography (2). I have been after it, but Stanford doesn't seem to play nicely on interlibrary loan and the Daily doesn't seem to have been sent to many other university libraries. Anyway, with the help of Corry and another generous soul I have gotten a hold of it. [update: now available online - ain't progress grand?] I had been hoping for some setlist information, but alas there was none to be found.
Instead, there are a few other tidbits, both of which appear in the clipping below, which is discussing Garcia and Saunders.
From the back, I wonder who this Charlie Conn is? At first I thought it might be a rare case of Jerry playing with a bassist other than John Kahn, but the homonymy --five dollar word alert-- of "Conn" and "Kahn" makes me wonder if Charlie is John misunderstood or if some Pranksters were afoot or something.
Of greater interest is this: Garcia and Saunders "played a memorable week-long stand last April at the Matrix." Now, the meaning of "last" in this context in American English is a little fuzzy, so this could be April 1971 or April 1970. April of 1971 is booked with astonishing solidity by the Grateful Dead. April 1970 hardly seems more likely, based on the existing state of our knowledge. Not only is the month fully booked, but this seems still to have been the Wales period, with known Wales/Garcia billings happening and no Garcia/Saunders ones for another six months.
So whatever Grushkin is referring to here, it doesn't seem to be April 1970 or 1971. What could he be referring to instead?
I'd like to propose May 1971, so that when Grushkin said "last April" he meant "last May" in the sense of "the last May that passed [1971]" and not "May of the last calendar year [1970]". Why? Well, looking at my Garcia spreadsheet, May 1971 is among the most sparsely populated non-coma months, and yet we know that the man was a pickin' fool at this time.
After the GD Fillmore East run that ends 4/29, I have a JGMS listing on 5/11 at the Matrix, a three-night JGMS stand at Keystone Korner from 5/20-22, another JGMS at the Korner on 5/26, and then the seemingly pretty wacky Winterland shows at the end of the month. To reiterate, that's a suspiciously empty month for live gigs.
Not sure what else he was doing (e.g., working on Skullfuck?), but it's entirely possible that there were more Garcia/Saunders gigs during May 1971. There is certainly room in Jerry's calendar (as far as is known) for a weeklong stand at the Matrix. The alternative may perhaps be that Grushkin is referring to the multinight run at the Keystone Korner, which might transmogrify into a weeklong stand at the Matrix (the previous month) under the right ... conditions. So I'll keep my eyes open for more in May.
Update: I have researched the last few months of Matrix gigs in the SFC, and I don't find anything that fits the bill. I have to check the Examiner. But this still remains a little bit of a head-scratcher.
Caveats, criticisms, questions, codicils, cavils and other commentary most certainly welcomed.
REFERENCES:
- (1) Grushkin, Paul D. 1971. Garcia, Saunders Impressive at Frost. Stanford Daily,October 5, 1971 , 5.
- (2) Dodd, David G., and Robert G. Weiner. 1997. The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography. Music Reference Collection no. 60.Westport , CT Greenwood
! venue: http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2011/12/frost-amphitheater-lasuen-street-palo.html
Anyway, for a long time I have been aware of a show review by Paul Grushkin from the Stanford Daily a few days later (1). I think I learned of it in the wonderful (though in need of an update!) Dodd and Weiner bibliography (2). I have been after it, but Stanford doesn't seem to play nicely on interlibrary loan and the Daily doesn't seem to have been sent to many other university libraries. Anyway, with the help of Corry and another generous soul I have gotten a hold of it. [update: now available online - ain't progress grand?] I had been hoping for some setlist information, but alas there was none to be found.
Instead, there are a few other tidbits, both of which appear in the clipping below, which is discussing Garcia and Saunders.
From the back, I wonder who this Charlie Conn is? At first I thought it might be a rare case of Jerry playing with a bassist other than John Kahn, but the homonymy --five dollar word alert-- of "Conn" and "Kahn" makes me wonder if Charlie is John misunderstood or if some Pranksters were afoot or something.
Of greater interest is this: Garcia and Saunders "played a memorable week-long stand last April at the Matrix." Now, the meaning of "last" in this context in American English is a little fuzzy, so this could be April 1971 or April 1970. April of 1971 is booked with astonishing solidity by the Grateful Dead. April 1970 hardly seems more likely, based on the existing state of our knowledge. Not only is the month fully booked, but this seems still to have been the Wales period, with known Wales/Garcia billings happening and no Garcia/Saunders ones for another six months.
So whatever Grushkin is referring to here, it doesn't seem to be April 1970 or 1971. What could he be referring to instead?
I'd like to propose May 1971, so that when Grushkin said "last April" he meant "last May" in the sense of "the last May that passed [1971]" and not "May of the last calendar year [1970]". Why? Well, looking at my Garcia spreadsheet, May 1971 is among the most sparsely populated non-coma months, and yet we know that the man was a pickin' fool at this time.
After the GD Fillmore East run that ends 4/29, I have a JGMS listing on 5/11 at the Matrix, a three-night JGMS stand at Keystone Korner from 5/20-22, another JGMS at the Korner on 5/26, and then the seemingly pretty wacky Winterland shows at the end of the month. To reiterate, that's a suspiciously empty month for live gigs.
Not sure what else he was doing (e.g., working on Skullfuck?), but it's entirely possible that there were more Garcia/Saunders gigs during May 1971. There is certainly room in Jerry's calendar (as far as is known) for a weeklong stand at the Matrix. The alternative may perhaps be that Grushkin is referring to the multinight run at the Keystone Korner, which might transmogrify into a weeklong stand at the Matrix (the previous month) under the right ... conditions. So I'll keep my eyes open for more in May.
Update: I have researched the last few months of Matrix gigs in the SFC, and I don't find anything that fits the bill. I have to check the Examiner. But this still remains a little bit of a head-scratcher.
Caveats, criticisms, questions, codicils, cavils and other commentary most certainly welcomed.
REFERENCES:
- (1) Grushkin, Paul D. 1971. Garcia, Saunders Impressive at Frost. Stanford Daily,
- (2) Dodd, David G., and Robert G. Weiner. 1997. The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography. Music Reference Collection no. 60.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Taking a Shit is a Political Act
Carol Brightman's Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure offers the thesis that Garcia and the Grateful Dead were "apolitical" and should be condemned to that extent, having failed to stand up (as the Berkeley radicals did) to the injustices and corruptions of American and international politics in the 60s and 70s. The GD/San Francisco/Merry Prankster thing was about sex, drugs and rock & roll, the denial of political responsibility, while the Berkeley thing was about politics first and foremost. She pursues a book-length exercise in head-scratching, asking herself and the reader how these people could have been so irresponsible while there was injustice in the world and while good radicals such as herself fought the good fight.
This is unadulterated bullshit. Wavy Gravy said on 2/9/73 at the Maples Pavilion (Stanford) that "taking a shit is a political act ... ", and he was dead right. Garcia's and the GD's politics weren't of the in-your-face-to-fight-injustice kind favored by the Berkeley radicals. But they were a politics nonetheless. Indeed, I think they were based on a coherent (if implicit) political philosophy in which living well (hedonism?) expresses an aspiration toward which we all (and society itself) might work.
These thoughts are obviously half-baked, and I am sure there are serious works of political philosophy which might articulate this kind of world view. I'd sure like to track them down and check them out.
This is unadulterated bullshit. Wavy Gravy said on 2/9/73 at the Maples Pavilion (Stanford) that "taking a shit is a political act ... ", and he was dead right. Garcia's and the GD's politics weren't of the in-your-face-to-fight-injustice kind favored by the Berkeley radicals. But they were a politics nonetheless. Indeed, I think they were based on a coherent (if implicit) political philosophy in which living well (hedonism?) expresses an aspiration toward which we all (and society itself) might work.
These thoughts are obviously half-baked, and I am sure there are serious works of political philosophy which might articulate this kind of world view. I'd sure like to track them down and check them out.
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