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Grateful Dead Fillmore West 6/5/70 and 8/19/70
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; During the summer of 1970, the Dead continued to tweak their...
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Jerry Garcia and his banjo in Santa Cruz 1973-75
Jerry Garcia performed relatively often in the Santa Cruz area with his various bands from 1975 until 1985, but his previous appearances were few and not too well documented. Garcia clearly had friends...
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Fillmore West 11.6.70 – Zappa, Boz, and More.
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Grateful Dead - August 1972
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The Chateau Liberte and a Season with Kingfish and Garcia/Saunders– Part One
The retirement of the Grateful Dead from touring in October 1974 came as a blow to fans who had gotten used to seeing them several times a year, particularly in their bay area home base. Other than...
View ArticleCryptical Reviews
Sorry it's been so long since my last post. I'm working on a long one that I hope to have up soon. In the meantime, I have started a second music blog focusing on reviews of recordings, books, and...
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My Season with Kingfish Part 2
After their first show at the Chateau, Kingfish started gigging relatively regularly around the Bay Area, but more or less established a weekend residency back at the Chateau for much of the winter....
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My Season with Kingfish Part Three
After giving my phone number to Tim Hovey at the Keystone Berkeley, I don’t think I really expected to hear from him. Imagine my surprise a couple of weeks later when I got a phone call from Richard...
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Grateful Dead, Sufi Choir, Whirling Dervish Dancers and Yogi Bhajan....
By March of 1971, it had been a good seven months since I had seen the Grateful Dead, and several months since I had been to any large concerts. A mid-week trip to Discount Records produced a handbill...
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UCSC 1971, The Rhythm Dukes, and Oganookie
In the fall of 1971, I entered college at UC Santa Cruz. Although only an hour from home, Santa Cruz might as well have been a different planet. Much less populated and pretty much graffiti-free in...
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Remembering B.B. King
B.B. King - Foothill College Gymnasium February 21, 1971B. B. King and Jeff Beck - Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago 7/26/03With B.B. King’s recent, I thought it would be a good time to revisit the two times...
View ArticleGrateful Dead – May to August, 1971
I'm sorry it’s been so long since I have written anything here – hopefully posts will become more regular now. For this and a few subsequent contributions, I will turn my attention to several Grateful...
View ArticleWinterland 3/18-20/77
1977 was one of several career high points for the Grateful Dead, characterized by consistently strong playing, along with the introduction of several of their most challenging and enduring original...
View ArticleNeil Young discovers Santa Cruz - 3/10/73 - Neil Young and the Stray Gators,...
My apologies to the reader who asked for me to write about this show some time ago. GV, this one is for you.The Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium is a fine place to hear music. Located a couple of blocks off...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve shows with the Grateful Dead and friends Pt. 1
During their tenure as a band, the Grateful Dead worked on New Year’s Eve 22 times. I attended 17 of those shows and listened to two more remotely. What started out as a year-end celebration for most...
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The Grateful Dead - Shows in California 3-12/72
1972 was a big year for the Grateful Dead. They fully integrated new members Keith and then Donna Godchaux, bid adieu to Pigpen as a performing member of the band, went on a wild jaunt in Europe in the...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve with the Grateful Dead –Part 2. Year-end adventures at the Cow...
A year before they went on hiatus, the Dead took the opportunity to take a break from doing a New Year’s gig, and so did I. However, Jerry was out and about, and I ended up celebrating virtually with...
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Tales from In Your Ear – Live Music in downtown Palo Alto 1971-72
The block on the north side of University Avenue between High Street and the Circle next to Alma Street is ground zero for the history of mid-century popular music in Palo Alto. At the western end of...
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Live Music in Palo Alto1971-73 - Across the Tracks at Homer's Warehouse
Literally across the tracks from In Your Ear, Homer’s Warehouse was the other main venue for regular live music performance in Palo Alto during the early 1970s. An actual warehouse located where the...
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The Grateful Dead Unplugged - 1968-1970
Although 1970 was fraught with financial and personal challenges for the Grateful Dead, it was a tremendous year for them artistically. One of the most notable aspects of a very busy touring year (133...
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Watch the Skies - The Who and the Dead at the Oakland Stadium October 9-10/76
If you’re reading this, chances are good that you have friends that you have acquired because of musical interests in music. Many times those shared musical interests overlap broadly – for instance,...
View ArticleThe Dead Back on the Farm. February 9, 1973
It’s hard to believe that it was 50 years ago today that I first heard the Grateful Dead in my hometown of Palo Alto (well, really in Stanford if you want to get technical). Although I had seen Jerry...
View ArticleThe Ducks and Friends in Santa Cruz – Summer of 1977
My last summer in Santa Cruz before leaving for graduate school in Chicago was an eventful one in CSNY lore. Most notable was Neil Young’s summer-long residence in town, during which he played 18...
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Sun, Sea Breezes, and the Grateful Dead. UC Santa Barbara May 20, 1973
I can readily say that the most enjoyable Dead show I ever attended took place 50 years ago this month (writing this in May 2023) outdoors on the UC Santa Barbara campus. After starting 1973 with a...
View ArticleDon't Panic, this is the Movies, remember? Grateful Dead at Universal...
Between the May/June stadium shows that were recently released on the Here Comes Sunshine box set and the huge Watkins Glen concert with the Allman Brothers and the Band, the Grateful Dead did a short...
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