Unlike so many other shows from this time period, we have three other data sources on the 2/16/74 Berkeley show. Anyway, Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders are listed for Saturday 2/16 and Sunday 2/17, the second night also billing Paul Pena ( Hayward Daily Review, February 15, 1974, p. There's nothing in the record available to me t hat points toward any of these. I wonder if the Passaic show was canceled early enough that the Keystone was still free? Or if Freddie held it open for them "just in case"? Or if someone had been planned and got bumped.
I am trying to determine if there's anything odd about the listings that might suggest that they were booked late, after an east coast gig had been canceled, but I find nothing unusual. 51) list Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders for February 16th-17th, with Paul Pena billed for the second night as well. The ever-reliable listings in the Hayward Daily Review -and, BTW, if anyone knows Kathie Staska and/or George Mangrum, who wrote the amazing "Rock Talk by KG" column for many years for that paper, please send them over here!- from the February 15th edition (p. The Empirical Terrain of the 2/16/74 Berkeley show And instead of a 2/16/74 show in Passaic, we instead find the Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders band, as so many Saturdays before and following, at the Keystone, 2119 University Avenue in Berkeley, CA, 94704. That's it beyond the Bay Area for this band during this timeframe. (As an aside, I have more or less ruled out the possibility of OAITW gigs in Camp Springs, NC on September 1-2, 1973 and the even less-likely Harpers Ferry, WV on September 7th.) I can only conclude that the planned gig 1) had some record company money behind it, and/or 2) related, reflected Jerry's desire further to build his non-GD audience base out east. To my knowledge this would be the second John Scher-produced GOTS show, after the Old And In The Way gig in Passaic on June 6, 1973. Then the Septemgig at John Scher's Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ the next night in front of the GD tour starting in Nassau on September 7th. Who knows the story behind that one? I haven't checked The Sources, but it's got to be interesting. Bay Belle in NYC Harbor, immortalized in the film "Hells Angels Forever". So finding a listed gig in the middle of this range is pretty interesting, all the more so since, unlike those shows, there was no (planned) GD activity out east around the same time. Beyond the Bay Area, they had done the May 29-30, 1973 shows at the Ash Grove in Santa Monica, CA and the September 5-6 Hells Angels and Cap Theatre shows, before canceling gigs at the University of Iowa ( 10/20/73) and San Diego State ( 11/18/73).Īfter 9/6/73, JGMS wouldn't get back out of state (and to the core northeast) until July 1-3, 1974. What's noteworthy about this canceled gig, I think, is that the Jerry Garcia/Merl Saunders group was not touring much beyond the Bay Area, and not at all off the west coast, at this point. Date context: why an east coast gig on 2/16/74 would have been noteworthy So, I'll (I) go again through the date context (including why an east coast gig would have been especially interesting), (II) run through some of the empirical terrain around the Berkeley gig, (III) give the key points I extract from my listen, and (IV) post my listening notes.
It'll be a little repetitive vis-a-vis the first post, but I want to round out the picture more satisfactorily. I irresponsibly dropped a few notes about the replacement show for the night, and here I follow up on those bits and pieces. LN jg.jgms.1644Ī few days ago I posted about an advertised but canceled Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders band gig (Kahn and Kreutzmann rounding things out) scheduled for 2/16/74 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ.
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