Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

I just read Joel Selvin's latest, Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long Strange Trip . I have seen many Dead...

Barlow, John Perry, with Robert Greenfield. 2018. Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times . New York: Crown Archetype. This was an a...

update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71 . It seems more likely to have been 5/2...

My post on Old And In The Way in Santa Cruz on Friday, October 5, 1973 referenced some of the band's contemporaneous gigs. One of these...

Nice to see one person (via blogger stats) checking out possibilities for Free Caravaggio !

Stinson Beach Music Scene Time Line: 1960s to the Present The site above was just brought to my attention. I can't find an email for ...

Where most rockers tend to push against the beat to build excitement, using a vocabulary of riffs that has come largely from the blues and ...

Killer "Don't Let Go", and two short sets that foreshadow darker days ahead. Great job on the matrix by AF! update: d'oh! ...

OK, maybe I am feeling a little bit cranky. I have been doing some late era listening, and it's not always easy. Wednesday, April 20, ...

Now available in all kinds of good sound, including this 24 bit / 96 kHz pure sbd from Charlie Miller. This show was the first time in my ...

LN jg1992-10-31.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141463.flac1644 Almost six years to the day after Jerry's "Triumphant Return" from death...

jg1994-08-14.jgb.all.sbd-miller.136390.flac1644 The title conveys some of the adjectives and interjections I used in listening to this rar...

update: this was originally posted some years ago. I accidentally reposted it today. It looks like it is not perfectly together - you get wh...

jg1992-04-30.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141475.flac1644 On April 30, 1992, as on other Thursdays before, at least a couple American cities were i...