Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Several years ago, Richard Greene was kind enough to work through some of his old datebooks with me over the phone. He showed himself at th...

! ad: Daily Bruin , March 16, 1966, p. 2. Preface Suggested audio accompaniment for this post: http://tinyurl.com/hthnmgb , especially...

The Grateful Dead and Santa Barbara are two great things that go great together. One little mystery has always centered on the location of t...

Based on a discussion at Lossless Legs, I generated my own list of openers for the GD. This isn't really openers, so much as acts that w...

Saw something in some ca. '84 GD band meeting minutes where Weir says they should move heaven and earth to play Red Rocks. Spent some ti...

More counterfactual history from a document in the GD Archives (ms332, ser2, box5), though I have seen it through another means as well. T...

I have so little time for this hobby these days. I have fallen way behind on my reading, but I really look forward to reading Joel Selvin...

... while pawing through stuff at the GD Archives. Case in point: the original Mars Hotel artwork was run over by a UPS truck. Now you kn...

https://archive.org/details/gd1983-08-21.fob.sonyECM220t.kirschner.miller.95687.flac24 Source (FOB) Sony ECM-220T -> Cassette Master (...

So, every year around August 9th I bust out the original So Many Roads boxset and listen to some of my ol' favorites, such as "Whis...

The demise of the Legion of Mary , Garcia’s principal side band from Ronnie Tutt ’s arrival on December 6, 1974 until mid-1975, remains one ...

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Nice to see people reading around some old posts. My writing is so tortured, but I do still love some of the ground we have covered together...

Corry has a post on the GD / Warren Zevon / Elvin Bishop / Wahkoo gig at UCSB on July 4, 1978 . I have two followups, a tape beg and a tan...

Man, at like 9:30 of this incredible, late-Mydland era Dead version of Dylan's "Desolation Row"(track 4) Garcia thrusts into ...

Fresh tape. Tracklist, via Nick: http://www.jambase.com/article/donna-jean-godchaux-find-leads-garcialive-volume-seven Sneak preview of ...

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?n=harvey-sheldon-lubar&pid=180700019 Harvey Lubar was a true Mensch. Fare...

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

Uncle Bobo comes on about three minutes in, introduces the band, and they drop into a sublime "Crazy Fingers" , one of my favorite...