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Jerry Garcia Concert Attendance 1961-90
Palo Alto High School, at 50 Embarcadero Road, as it looks today, where Jerry Garcia saw Joan Baez in concert in 1961 in the auditorium. The old auditorium has long since been replaced.One of Jerry...
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Richard Greene-violin (career snapshot 1964-1974)
A Dixon Smith photo of Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys performing in 1966. (L-R) Richard Greene, Lamar Grier, Bill Monroe, Peter Rowan, James Monroe.Violinist Richard Greene is rightly regarded as a...
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Gospel Oak/Mountain Current/33 1969-72 (Matt Kelly II)
The great guitarist T-Bone Walker, in his primeMatt Kelly, 1969Matt Kelly had had a pretty good run as a musician in 1968. He had joined the embers of The New Delhi River Band, and along with bassist...
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Jerry Garcia Recording Studio History: November 1965-January 1967: Early Days...
The Warlocks first recording, a single of "Don't Ease Me In"/"Stealin'" on Scorpio Records, recorded at Buena Vista Studios in June 1966Jerry Garcia is rightly remembered as one of the great live...
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March 17, 1980 Masonic Hall, Seattle, WA: Robert Hunter and The Ghosts (Lost...
The Ghosts, featuring Keith and Donna Godchaux, recorded in 1979-80, released an album on Whirled Records in 1984This blog does not typically assess live concert tapes, whether well known or not, since...
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Sons And Daughters, American Documentary Films, 1967 (Jon Hendricks with The...
Jon Hendricks, backed by the Grateful Dead, recorded the songs "Sons And Daughters" and "Fire In The City" in October, 1966 for the soundtrack of the Sons And Daughters documentary. The tracks were...
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Go Ahead and Bob Weir 1987-88 (Brent Mydland III)
Tipitina's, in New Orleans, where Go Ahead played in March 1987Go Ahead 1987-88The band Go Ahead, featuring Grateful Dead members Brent Mydland and Bill Kreutzmann, had begun as somewhat of a necessity...
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Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia South Bay Landmark Guide (So Many Roads I)
On Halloween, 1969, The Grateful Dead and The New Riders Of The Purple Sage played the newly-opened Loma Prieta Room at the Student Union at San Jose State University. In 2014, San Jose State...
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Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Stanford Landmark Guide (So Many Roads II)
998 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, in August 2009. This is the building that housed The Big Beat, site of the December 1965 Acid Test.So Many RoadsGrateful Dead Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Stanford...
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Grateful Dead Contribution To The Space Program (Avalon Ballroom 1966)
The iconic Kelly/Mouse poster for the Avalon Ballroom concerts of September 16-17, 1966, featuring the Grateful Dead and the Oxford CircleWe tend to assume that the Internet is a sort of permanent...
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Hoffman's Bicycle>Bycycle 1968-69 (The Secret Life Of Dan Healy)
A Berkeley Barb ad for the New Orleans House, a club at 1505 San Pablo. Howard Wales and A.B. Skhy headlined the weekend shows on October 18 and 19, 1968, and Hoffman's Bicycle opened for them. A...
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2015 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Grateful Dead Bracket Analysis
When the Grateful Dead came to campus, as they did at the University of Cincinnati on April 3, 1970, you never knew if unsavory characters like Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters might just show up as...
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Album Economics: Contemporary Live Albums From 1971 (Skull And Roses)
The front cover of Grateful Dead, a live double-lp released on Warner Brothers Records in October 1971. and colloquially known as Skull And Roses (for the iconic Kelly/Mouse cover)The double live album...
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Grateful Dead Performance List January-June 1967
The Gathering Of The Tribes, The Human Be-In, at the Polo Grounds in Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967I have been working on this list for my own purposes, so I thought I would post it. Since there...
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Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Landmark Guide: Oakland
The Oakland Auditorium in 1917, two years after it was builtThe Grateful Dead are correctly known as the archetypal San Francisco band. Their roots were in Palo Alto, even if nearby Menlo Park had just...
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The Smokey Grass Boys (1966-67)
A poster for the Smokey Grass Boys at 40 Cedar Alley in San Francisco, December 29-31, 1966. Poster by and courtesy of Rick ShubbOld And In The Way only played a few dozen shows in 1973, and they only...
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Go Ahead with Brent Mydland and Bill Kreutzmann Tour History 1986 (Brent...
The poster for the Go Ahead show at The Omni in Oakland, on December 19, 1986 (from GD Archives)Brent Mydland was always in the shadow of the other members of the Grateful Dead, because he was always...
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Russian River To McHenry Library (via Tennessee)
A poster for the 1967 premier of Robert Nelson's film The Great BlondinoIn 2008, the Grateful Dead organization offered up their historical material to University libraries. The primary contenders were...
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Boston April 2, 1973 Robert Hunter and David Nelson ("Crooked Judge")
A Village Voice ad from February 20, 1978, advertising the Jerry Garcia Band and the New Riders Of The Purple Sage (and Robert Hunter and Comfort, unbilled) at the Suffolk Forum in Commack, NY on March...
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Opened Twice For The Grateful Dead
The poster from Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, CA, for the May 9-10, 1987 shows featuring Ry Cooder opening for the Grateful Dead. Jorge Calderon was probably Cooder's bassist at the timeOne of my...
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