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...

update : Never Trust A Prankster :) via GIPHY Bruce Rostenstein was an ouststanding rock columnist for the American University Eagle  in the...

The spine of Betty's 9/18/81 JGB rehearsal tape box A beautiful piece of tape: Betty's reel from the 9/18/81 JGB rehearsal I just re...

We have pushed a lot of new studio sessions (a subset of "private" musical activities" which also include rehearsals, private...

If These Halls Could Talk: A Historical Tour through San Francisco Recording Studios – by Heather Johnson (2006). Has anyone ever seen a c...

I have been processing information from contracts filed at the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local No. 6 in San Francisco. ...

Some notes-to-self. Corry : The Grateful Dead family was interested in turning John Dawson into a recording artist as early as 1968, an...

Found this item in the LA Free Press (June 27 - July 3, 1975, p. 14): "Danny [sic] Selwell [sic] has been buzzing 'round the studi...

update: changed title 20160319 San Francisco Sessions Series San Francisco Sessions, 1967-1968 San Francisco Sessions, 1969 San Fran...

Just found Garcia at Heider's (SF) on May 27, 1969 with the Airplane (Grace, Paul, Spencer, Jorma - very vew times I have found all of ...

--> I can’t write up everything I have gathered around the recording of Garcia’s 1978 masterpiece Cats Under the Stars , not no...

Simon, Peter. 1975. Making Musical Miracles: An Interview with Jerry Garcia. New Age Journal .5 (May 1975): 52-59. This is a really ...

Update 15 years later (summer 2025): I had concluded it was 9/7/70. This seems to have been incorrect. Unheard tape suggests that was still ...