Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Man, the Dead's 3/26/73 show in Baltimore is the cat's meow. Hearing Garcia grin behind his beard during Ramble on Rose, after Wolma...

Check out Nick's awesome post on GASB in June '74, emphasizing Garcia's work on acoustic guitar - great work, Nick!

I don't have a ton to say about this - it's about what you'd expect. Two sets below the 45-minute Minnelli Line, voice bad t...

For a long time, for no particular reason, I have been wanting to dive into the venues that Jerry played with the Dead and on his own. In ge...

JGB #15b played two long, smoking shows for John Scher and the assembled faithful on Thursday, November 11, 1982. Among these faithful wa...

update: I now have it on good authority that, indeed, the arrangements in the tour book are for the crew, while the band enjoyed a somewhat ...

A decade before the final fall, Garcia played another Friday night at the Stone. I still think of this as the Rock Bottom period, even thoug...

In looking at the date index for the blog, I noticed I hadn't engaged a 1992 show, and the only tag for the year wasn't really focu...

zzzzz LN jg1976-09-20.jgb.late.aud-peters.138205.flac1644 The rooms sounds fantastic, but the show bores me to tears, except for some ni...

LN jg1988-07-10.jgb.all.aud-reutelhuber.25416.shn2flac God, this is such a fantastic fileset. First, the legendary Bill Reutelhuber pul...

In the man-cave in which JGMF happens, I mostly work while facing this wall. My aim is to build a poster collection (which might, natural...

UPDATE 20211026: Jackie has clearly stated that she and DeeDee joined the band in January 1983. So, as of now, this is the first show with...

Jerry Feelin' It: JGB at the Eel River, 6/10/89, photographer Steve Walker LN jg1989-06-10.jgb.all.aud-schoeps-ladner.17116.shn2flac...

Some time back, you all convinced me that I should track placeholder dates, and I agreed that it would be helpful in all kinds of ways. But ...

I see that I have consistently misspelled Jackie LaBranch's name as "Jaclyn", instead of Jacklyn. Because I list personnel in ...

LN jg1978-03-10.interview.all.fm-zimmerman.82210.flac1644 I love these March '78 interviews. 3/11/78 is my absolute favorite, all kin...

LN jg1978-03-10.jgb.all.aud-zimmerman-minches.80887.flac1644 Love this image of Jerry's face on a locomotive. The show didn't...

I have a memory of hearing Phil say this over the PA during one of the Dead's Egypt shows, but I have no idea if this was just a dream I...

For years, I have wanted to know the name of the second song from the first "real" live Garcia-Grisman gig, 2/2/91 at the Warfield...