Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

In addition to the tantalizing May 20-21, 1969 Garcia gigs at the Matrix , the newly-digitized Examiner has yielded a good number of previou...

It's actually much, much prettier than it looks in this picture. New Riders headlining "A Party for Mother Earth", benefi...

Fascinating. I told you all that the Examiner would yield many interesting things. Well, this is one of the most interesting. Sometimes...

The great sleuth David Davis of Grateful Seconds   fame has alerted me to the fact that the SF Examiner has been digitized and is available...

8/13/75 was just about perfection, but I still love Bill Graham's burn on Rack's financial acumen best of all.

Via https://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu , the UCSB Daily Nexus (and before it, the El Gaucho ) has been digitized. Having sniffed around Santa ...

I have read this book a few times, and it has clearly informed my thinking about a lot of issues without my really being aware of it. So I f...

I am trying together instances of Garcia engaging classical music, which are few and far between. Alan Trist reports that ca. 1960-1961 on...

I wanted to love this, but I found very little that moved me. Maybe I was tired. LN jg1979-04-23.reconstruction.all.aud-composite.126927.f...

The titular line comes from an interview Garcia gave ca. November 22, 1975 to a Twin Cities journalist, Jon Bream, and references JGB #1. It...

LN jg1983-05-28.jgb.all.aud-huston.141978.flac2496 I have a bunch of listening notes to catch up on, but I have been holding back maybe be...

In November 1977 and January 1978, Relix published a two-part interview with Garcia. I am looking for copies of these interviews. Anyone got...

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! ...