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...

The critical source of error in my listening notes, for sure.

As I am writing and looking at the things I may have to leave undone, it strikes me that we have some amazing sources of oral history, which...

The recent June 5th brought out more than a tiny number of people to recognize the Oregon State Penintiery show on the anniversary of its pe...

Something like this social network graph will form the centerpiece image (I will pay for color) of Fate Music . I presented a brutally rudim...

 

I have my research methods. They are time-consuming, but I think they work well. For long written works, they involve several layers of acti...

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

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...

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Over the years, when I go to the Bay Area I try to make time to spin the Chronicle microfilm to check out the listings. Corry has done some ...

The great sleuth David Davis of Grateful Seconds   fame has alerted me to the fact that the SF Examiner has been digitized and is available...

update: I now have it on good authority that, indeed, the arrangements in the tour book are for the crew, while the band enjoyed a somewhat ...

Some time back, you all convinced me that I should track placeholder dates, and I agreed that it would be helpful in all kinds of ways. But ...

So, the unit of analysis in my basic framework is an "event", defined as GD (musical), JG (musical), or nonmusical. My method can ...

I am thinking about Native American musical influences on Garcia. As far as I can tell, they are mediated by whites: Hank Williams's ...

I have been busy geocoding my Garciavents. Since I do this stuff by hand, it's rather laborious. But I am excited about the possbilities...

Why not try it out, see how it works? http://jgmf.blogspot.com/p/bibliography.html

http://voices.revealdigital.com/voices Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of An Alternative Press I signed up, click browse, ...

Formal institutions, "with their explicit mandates, methods of operation, and extensive paper trails, provide the more ready means for ...