Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

**updated 20111216 2057 GMT** Tony Saunders is the bassist on these two tapes. The Jerry Site has listings for Jerry Garcia and Merl Saun...

(Parenthetically, the Grateful Dead Archives at UC Santa Cruz will eventually, hopefully, allow us to get a great close look at some of the...

update 20140907 : June 12 was Lion's Share, June 13-14 was Keystone Berkeley. This post mostly deals with stuff that has been clarified ...

Garcia and Saunders played the Pamoja Jazz Concert on October 3, 1971 at Frost Ampitheater, sharing a bill with Big Black and the Bobby Hutc...

My Blackberry takes the world's worst pictures (see below), and there was neither scanner nor photocopier handy as I was going through a...

Probably a reference to Mother McCree's, but this from a ca. late 1970 - early 1971 interview with Jerry by one Frank Fedele, who asks h...

**UPDATE: DISCONFIRMED. SEE COMMENTS ** I don't have tremendous confidence that this ever happened, but since Corry has educated me a ...

slip added a listing for NRPS 7/5/71 at Fillmore West, based on this poster from Wolfgang's Vault . But the poster is clearly for the mo...

Pete Wernick recounts spending some time in the Summer of 1963 out West, playing banjo with Jerry Garcia (mandolin!) and David Nelson in an ...

update: we know now it was Greg Errico, with Hart sitting in in the third set, so enjoy this post as a waystation in the growth of knowledge...

Chapter 5 of Darby Slick's autobiography, I guess (1), is entitled "Jammin' With Garcia" and recounts a Friday evening jam...

Light Into Ashes notes the following about the April 17-18, 1970 NRPS billing: these were the first known shows Garcia had played with NR...

It seems that these shows have been shrouded in mystery and legend for a very long time. Maybe it's because April 1970 was such a ho...

 I am going to argue that the Quick and the Dead played Eagles Auditorium in Seattle, WA on Friday, January 26 and Saturday, January 27, 196...

update: NRPS now confirmed for all three of these shows I have had some uncertainty about whether NRPS played with the GD during the handful...

Photo credit: Karen Verity Tapes have circulated dated October 27, 1982 from Rissmiller's Club in Reseda, CA. I seem to recall that at...

We know that Jerry Garcia was playing around outside the GD to a varying, but always non-zero, extent throughout the career of his most famo...

Just a tip of the hat to Lost Live Dead , which has been doing yeoman's work unearthing early New Riders gigs based on various sources...

JGMF is stuck in Paris. Anyone know anywhere in town where there might be some rock & roll memorabilia?

Awesome . ht Sully .