Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

Random thoughts and cutting-room floor for book-in-progress Fate Music: Jerry Garcia's Life in Sound and Song.

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Friday, November 23, 2018

Morse Codes as Light, Sweet and Lyrical: JGB at the Worcester Centrum, November 13, 1991

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LN jg1991-11-13.jgb.all.aud-mutterperl.81368.flac1644 I can't believe this is my first write-up of a Fall '91 show. I haven't ...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1973-end

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This is a followup to New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972 . I include new-to-The-List dates, some that were advertised and seem to ...
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Jam Session Celebrating Dick Clark

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Joel Selvin's "Lively Arts" column in the Chronicle/Examiner pink section on September 6, 1981 contained this little oddity: ...
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Monday, November 19, 2018

With and Without Maria: JGB at Keystone, August 6-7, 1977

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If "without and with" rolled better off the tongue, that'd be the more accurate title, because here we have a pair of summe...
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Sunday, November 18, 2018

JGB in Chumash Country: Campbell Hall, UCSB, February 5, 1977

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In my writeup of the Garcia Band's 11/20/76 gigs at the Pismo Theatre , I noted that Jerry urged the crowd to come see ol' Hoyt Axt...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Popper on Ignorance

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"The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of ...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

RIP to the Legendary Marty

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Martin Weinberg has passed away. LIA gives a rundown on the ur-Deadhead taper.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Dangerous-Looking Young Man at the Edge of the Western World

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Anyone know who the dangerous-looking young man is? I know I should know, but I don't know. See also, of course, Corry .
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

New-to-The-List from the Examiner, 1970-1972

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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...
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Sunday, September 09, 2018

A Party For Mother Earth

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It's actually much, much prettier than it looks in this picture. New Riders headlining "A Party for Mother Earth", benefi...
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Sunday, September 02, 2018

Jerry Garcia and Friends, Sanpaku at the Matrix: May 20-21, 1969

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Fascinating. I told you all that the Examiner would yield many interesting things. Well, this is one of the most interesting. Sometimes...
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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Examining the Examiner

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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...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

TDIH: Wolfgang on Rack

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8/13/75 was just about perfection, but I still love Bill Graham's burn on Rack's financial acumen best of all.
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Digitization Makes Me Happy

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

Reading Notes: Greenfield 1996

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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...
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Classical Music

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I am trying together instances of Garcia engaging classical music, which are few and far between. Alan Trist reports that ca. 1960-1961 on...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Greenpeace 'No Nukes' Benefit at the Old Waldorf: Reconstruction, April 23, 1979

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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 Group Probably Will Be Short-Lived, Because Hopkins Has Other Contractual Obligations

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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...

No Sellout on Cape Cod: JGB, May 28, 1983

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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...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

True Confessions in Hartford

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