Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

“A take on “Visions of Johanna” includes alternate lyrics.” I am no Dylanologist and presume this is well-known, but it's news ...

"Slewfoot" was a great selection for the Dead's Santa Rosa shows June 27 -28, 1969: "Bear tracks" in the Bear Republ...

One of the early Deadbases, maybe the original, had a little review of the September '73 Dead shows at William & Mary ( né College ...

In 2011 I made a post under the heading of "GD in Walnut Creek; East Bay Psychedelic Scene?" in which I noted the mystery surroun...

As I have said, blogging will be very intermittent for awhile. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank y'all for reading. It makes ...

Ebb, flow, ebb, flow. Blogging is likely to be like that, for awhile. In the meantime, regarding 46 years ago today: did the Dead play Hip...

! R: field recordist: Gene Taback ! R: field recording gear: Sony TC-124 with Sony stereo mic ! R: transfer: Master/1st generation cass...

Joop Rubens, Senior Director of Development, Library UC Santa Cruz, "Without love in the dream it will never come true," https://w...

http://voices.revealdigital.com/cgi-bin/independentvoices?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=BFBJFGD&ai=1&e Available online: 13 August 1965 ...

New to The List :  Stanford Daily listing shows JGB at Keystone Berkeley Saturday, August 12, 1978 (long known via the Soto-McNally-Arnol...

Proposition 13: "Grr ah. Grr ah. Grrr rrrr rrrr ah," URL http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2015/06/grr-ah-grr-ah-grrr-rrrr-rrrr-ah.html P...

Jerry Garcia Band (electric) was scheduled to play Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford University on July 14, 1991 , but July 11th announced that...

I have updated my post on 1970 SF Sessions , more rumination on the various filmings, a few other points straightened out. updated again 8...

Bill Graham: Good evening. We welcome you, on behalf of the group. We should introduce ... We should thank United Artists and Mr. Ron Ra...

Video of "So Many Roads" from 7/9/95 below the fold.

**updated 8/10/2015, especially under heading D** **update2 8/11, more, especially, in section D** **updated 8/12, re-ordered sections (no...