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.

All underlying musical events data live at Jerrybase

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Hartbeats to New Riders: from spacesuits to OshKosh

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Somewhere I have Mickey Hart saying basically what's in the title, but I cannot for the life of me find where I got this, and the Google...
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Sunday, November 19, 2023

What I think is Might Be (?) a January 1976 keyboardists' tryout tape

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The great Charlie Miller has gathered and shared many thousands of tapes. One that he got hands on somewhere along the line and then forgot ...
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Monday, November 13, 2023

John Coltrane has a spudfactor of 2?

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Spudfactor is the number it takes to get from Jerry to another musician, using ties defined as making music together, in person. Jerry Garci...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Jerry Garcia - David Grisman Quartet at Sweetwater, December 17, 1990

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Perfect soundboard audio of the debut of the Garcia-Grisman band (JGDG) at Sweetwater in Mill Valley came into the light a few weeks back. I...
Monday, October 30, 2023

note to self: Affect Bias

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The critical source of error in my listening notes, for sure.
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Monday, July 31, 2023

"the world’s most recorded musician in the world’s most famous arena"

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Jerrybase:  https://jerrybase.com/events/19911115-01 The Red Light folks tagged GarciaLive 16 (MSG 11/15/91) with the subject line, and I ha...
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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Great Moments in Taping History: Jim Durkin and Jim Wise @ Red Rocks, July 28, 1982

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https://archive.org/details/gd1982-07-28.fob.senn421.wise.miller.102571.flac16/gd82-07-28d1t01.flac https://jerrybase.com/events/19820728-01...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

RIP Sam Cutler, March 10, 1943 - July 11, 2023

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Three vast corpora, to start

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As I am writing and looking at the things I may have to leave undone, it strikes me that we have some amazing sources of oral history, which...
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Musician Children of Musician Fathers

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I am identifying lots of musician children of musician fathers in the Garciaverse. So, consider this a request: if you know someone with Spu...
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Sunday, July 09, 2023

Setting Right What Was Rent Asunder

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Or something like that. Forgive me, for I have sinned. I have added entropy to the world. I am here to make amends. When the Falanga-Menke...
Tuesday, July 04, 2023

About Last Night

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Hell may freeze over, but here I am. A new man. (Call it my epitaph for JGMF.) But I am going to post about the Post-Jerry-Garcia-Grateful-D...
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From JGMF to Fate Music

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What you see happening is that I can't really blog much anymore. I think. The communication medium known as blogging mostly invites me t...
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Sunday, July 02, 2023

Fate Music in a Nutshell: JGB at MSG: November 15, 1991

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I just changed the name at the top of the blog from Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger  to reflect the progress I am making on Fate Music: Jer...
Wednesday, June 07, 2023

On Accuracy

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The recent June 5th brought out more than a tiny number of people to recognize the Oregon State Penintiery show on the anniversary of its pe...
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Thursday, May 25, 2023

JGB Spring '93 SoCal

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Preface: JGB in SoCal Little springtime SoCal jaunts became a regular thing for JGB starting in 1983. (OK, that was very late winter, but Ma...
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Monday, May 22, 2023

ISO OAITW paper

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I am looking, not quite desperately but maybe with some urgency, for some vintage Old And In The Way paper. Could be an Old And In The Way p...
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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Byron Berline playing with Old And In The Way, ca. summer 1973

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My previous post (three months ago!) touched on an expost recollection of Doug Sahm sitting in with Garcia-Saunders at the Keystone around D...
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Thursday, January 19, 2023

Garcia-Saunders with Guest Doug Sahm, ca. December 1972

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Clearing out old paper files of stuff, found this piece by John Swenson about Doug Sahm: Swenson, John. 197305. The Psychedelic Cowboy Makes...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Between the Bottom Lines (Lennon and Garcia at the Bottom Line, November 5, 1974) (Guest post by Scott Raile)

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[note: for a very long time it has been known that John Lennon saw Jerry at the Bottom Line, and various accounts of a meeting, possible sit...
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