Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger

update 20210526: this seems not to have happened . David Kramer-Smythe reached out to David Morgenstern, who was with Comfort at this time. ...

Head over to Nick's place and render judgment on the appropriateness of the title "Merl's Tune" for the Garciaverse tune ...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17wXtgegY_SfHpa609QibCj-RPdoRoRN6p-cdU2D8w5o/edit?usp=sharing Have at it. You will see some ambigui...

Holy guacamole, the 9/9/72 Other One is a MONSTER. https://archive.org/details/gd1972-09-09.sbd.miller.105458.flac16/gd72-09-09d3t01.flac ...

Michael Clem has published a major piece of research into Garcia's instruments over at LIA's old stomping grounds. I don't know ...

These are for my purposes, no pretense to completeness. I find his comments about Joe Garcia to be quite revealing. There are a few other ...

LN jg1977-12-09.jgb.all.aud-matera-fix.137736.flac2488 Not much time to post much detail, so some bulleted observations. 1)  Keith is pl...

https://archive.org/details/RheingoldGarciaWeirInterview Not sure I know this one, pinning it here so I can find it again!

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/RobertHunter1978-03WLIRInterviewRoslynNY.html Robert Hunter 1978-03-xx* Roslyn, New York unkn...

LN jg1994-11-11.jgb.all.aud-CMC5-mk4.145714.flac1644 Like so many of the late-era shows that I have listened to in the last couple of year...

After spending X hours over X years spinning microfilm to try to find the needles of unListed Garcia gigs in the haystack of the Chronicle ,...

LN jg1993-08-08.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.145607.flac1644 Nick thought the titular show was OK , but the vocals were so catastrophically bad tha...

Update 7/22/2022: somehow I got the date wrong by a week, but in any case this Chieftains set is now being released by the Owsley Stanley F...

I am not a huge fan of the syrupy tempos of 1976 JGB, the ultimate comfort band for Our Hero. There are some great sounding tapes, the occa...

LN jg1982-06-20.jgb.all.aud-lamarre.139447.flac2496 Great pull by Doug Lamarre , very good JGB from the strong month of June 1982. Bob...

What a strange thing this is. SFC listing for Jerry Garcia at the Warfield, August 21, 1982. It almost certainly wasn't JGB: that...

This is out of my wheelhouse, but since it brings together two loose ends for me I thought I'd post it here. The Sacramento Bee of 10...

jg1982-11-15.jgb.late-1.aud-vita-minches.78008.flac1644 Pretty standard late '82 gig to my ears, not the equal to 11/11/82 late or...

Over the years, when I go to the Bay Area I try to make time to spin the Chronicle microfilm to check out the listings. Corry has done some ...

update:  the original title of this was "First Night Out", but I have discovered a warmup gig on 6/24/81 at the Keystone Palo Alto...