Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Corry once posted about Mickey Hart's pre-GD days . And while this stuff isn't of particular interest to me, I have gathered a bit s...

update : LIA has posted text from the various goings-on at the Family Dog On The Great Highway this night . Corry at Lost Live Dead has ju...

I don't think I have blogged much about Reconstruction, the jazz-R&B-soul-funk-rock-disco outfit formed by John Kahn that performed ...

In an earlier post I discussed the infamous May 29, 1971 Grateful Dead show at Winterland at which a large number of people reacted adverse...

Matt Scofield's discography, at http://www.deaddisc.com/ , is one of those incredible community resources that I have vowed never to tak...

So the story I have preserved in my memory about the Warlocks' change of name in 1965 says that it was proximately caused by Phil Lesh...

Having just posted about Garcia's October 1966 sit-in with Big Brother and the Holding Company, I'll follow on with what is even mor...

Lost Live Dead posted about a Garcia sit-in with Big Brother and the Holding Company on October 15, 1966 . Based on the context of an accoun...

A while back I did a little miniseries linking the July 1973 Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders shows at Keystone Berkeley to the official releases....

I have been needing to revisit recordings of the very early Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders stuff, and with a bit of time I thought I'd give ...

Can you tell I am going through some fragments? Anyway, this little tidbit, from August 1975, has me a bit puzzled. Which album is this? I...

Not sure whatever became of this ... am I missing something? The only Douglas Records release with Jerry that I know of is Hooteroll ? I do...

Of course, we already knew that Jerry was recording Garcia in July of 1971 (though I have never been able to find any precise dates, and ...

I just briefly posted some time back with an image of the Matrix poster that I bought myself. I have now had it framed and I have to say tha...

(From the 1969 Campolindo yearbook -- thanks to Marcus Buick for the scan!) -- Caveat Lector : the really colorful account that follow...

Man, what a mouthful some of these bluegrass festival names are. And what's with the "Indian Summer" thing? Scanning through M...

This is why I pick up old copies of Muleskinner News and such whenever I can. It appears based on the image below that Old and in the Way...

I am sure this has been gone over many, many times over the years. I imagine that in the days before ubiquitous tapes and information the Pl...

I have found two 1969 articles related to Community and (some say "in") Musical Efforts (COME), a two week series of seminars and ...

update 20230704: I can't go back and revise this post 13 years later. It'll show up in Fate Music , believe me. With a LOT more spec...