Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

We have been going around on the various blogs about the engagement of Vince Guaraldi and Howard Wales with the GD/Garcia, and especially ab...

[Update 20120303] The Festival was held, in a manner of speaking, but almost every big name act, including the GD, canceled. It soun...

I am intimately familiar with this show. It was in that first batch of ____________ [fill in blank: 10, 20, however many] great tapes I got ...

Thanks to Corry for answering my query on January 26, 1976 which also included a question about 11/4/78. Before starting my post, I  just...

updated post:  I used to wonder if 1/26/76 was an actual Garcia Band show. tl;dr: it was. https://jerrybase.com/events/19760126-01

Dawson, Julian. 2011. And On Piano ... Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock's Greatest Session Man . Foreword by Klaus Voormann...

NB: I didn’t have the year of this publication, somehow. But from the context of Torbert leaving and Battin just arriving, I believe it is 1...

Here's another one that puzzles me. This scan from the Berkeley Tribe v.6 n.4 (issue #110) (September 3-9, 1971), p. 13 advertises a ...

Found this interesting. The New Orleans House ad from the Berkeley Tribe v.3 n.15 (issue 67) (October 16-23, 1970), p. 21 lists "Jam...

WAS TITLED "NRPS: June 2-3, 1970, Mandrake's, Berkeley, CA" But Paul Dresher has confirmed that, while Garcia was in the ...

Corry and I have been documenting some of the GD's early 1971 logistical difficulties. GD: early 1971 logistical difficulties GD...

Anyone know anything more about this publication, Hard Road ? This is volume 1, no. 1 (July 20, 1970), and it seems to have been planned as ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/535231392/ "Title: Bob and Betty. dgans's description: Robert Hunter and a bewigged Betty C...

LNjg1977-11-26.jgb.late.anderson.85051.flac1644 Something told me I wanted to listen to something from the Cats Under the Stars - era sextet...

Reader Dave T kindly sent along this beautiful scan of an account of the-amazing sounding Sky River Rock Festival, Betty Nelson's Organi...

One of the oddest little jaunts you'll find the in Garcia On The Side histories is one billed as the "1st Northern California Tour...

 LN jg1981-08-07.jgb.all.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 JGB's " First Northern California Tour ", heh heh. Having just posted about ...

LN jg1981-08-06.jgb.all.aud-unk-russjcan.110492.flac1644 JGB's " 1st Northern California Tour ", as the Keystoners had it. I...