Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

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...

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 ,...

This is a followup to New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972 . I include new-to-The-List dates, some that were advertised and seem to ...

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...

Fascinating. I told you all that the Examiner would yield many interesting things. Well, this is one of the most interesting. Sometimes...

Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can't find an email for ...

update 20240414 : we now know that the Four Nights at the Boarding House were all two-show nights. Math may have to be updated. I am also d...

Previously unknown gig. Thanks to carville for sharing!

Several years ago, Richard Greene was kind enough to work through some of his old datebooks with me over the phone. He showed himself at th...

updated with newly-unearthed Phillip Elwood review Well, well, well ... just found a review of a Maria Muldaur show at BCT on Saturday, Oc...

This has been in my paper files and, looking for something for Corry, I found something else he might be interested in, as we all must be: a...

New to The List :  Stanford Daily listing shows JGB at Keystone Berkeley Saturday, August 12, 1978 (long known via the Soto-McNally-Arnol...

A few years ago we had a good time talking around some putative Dead shows at the Harding Theater, 616  Divisadero, on September 3-4, 1971 ....

listing: "Rock, Jazz This Week in Bay Area," SFC, July 23, 1971, p. 45. New Riders are scheduled to play Freddie Herrera's N...

SFC 7/2/71 p. 52 Last year I spun some 1970 and early 1971 microfilm of the San Francisco Chronicle , and found seven new-to-The-List sh...

San Francisco Chronicle , May 24, 1971, p. 42. Garcia and Saunders listed for Tuesday, May 25, 1971 at Keystone Korner. New to The List...

There is a great half-hour tape labeled as Garcia-Saunders at the Matrix, May 11, 1971 . I had always thought it was a little suspe...

So here's a new one for The List: JGMS at Keystone on Tuesday, June 11, 1974. But note, too, that Merl is playing Sand Dunes on Mon...

I have Friday and Saturday shows in The List, but this Thursday listing is new to me.

As the title says, per listing under the North Bay section, center column. Lots of other interesting stuff, by way of color.