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Jerry Garcia in Concert

📷 Ron Rakow/Retro Photo Archive

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Happy birthday to Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Adams Garcia.

Photo by Ron Rakow, taken on 7/2/67.

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Neal Cassady - Legendary Beat icon, driver of the Psychedelic Ken Kesey bus Furthur on their famous 1963 cross country trip photographed in the 2nd floor parlor room at the Grateful Dead’s Haight Asbury headquarters- 710 Ashbury St in San Francisco in 1967. Cassady is also immortalized in the Dead song “The Other One” with the lyric “The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began…There was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land” - Photo ©️Ron Rakow

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Ron Rakow on His Early Days Documenting Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead

Ron Rakow on His Early Days Documenting Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead

(© Ron Rakow/Retro Photo Archive) ** The cover of the current Relix features a photo of Jerry Garcia taken by Ron Rakow, while the Grateful Dead were recording their debut self-titled record in 1967. It is among a treasure trove of images that has been tucked away in Rakow’s garage over the past few decades. Rakow was a Wall Street arbitrageur, who relocated to San Francisco in 1965. He would…

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Grateful Dead Monthly: Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA 8/13/75

On Wednesday, August 13, 1975, the Grateful Dead played their first show in almost a year at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

The venue that became the GAMH was built in 1907 as part of the city-wide rebuild following the renowned earthquake in 1906. It was reputedly designed by a French architect, and funded by a crooked politician, Chris “Blind Boss” Buckley, who called it Blanco’s after a notorious brothel on North Africa’s Barbary Coast. The venue was later renamed the Music Box by fan dancer Sally Rand, who bought it in the 1930s, and it kept that tag until it closed during World War II.

After the war, the venue reopened as Blanco’s again, but fell into decline over the next few decades and was nearly demolished. In 1972, it was refurbished and became the GAMH.

The band had “retired” after a string of shows at Frisco’s Warfield Theater at the end of October 1974. The reason, per San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, was “to rest, recuperate, rethink, and one hopes, regroup” after a grueling period of running their own record label and touring with the Wall of Sound. Around that time, guitarist Jerry Garcia was having fun on his side projects with organist Merl Saunders and bassist John Kahn, and admitted that he preferred playing in small bars more than stadiums.

Tbh, it wasn’t much a retirement. The Dead played a benefit show at Kezar Stadium with Bay-area heavyweights the Jefferson Starship and Santana on March 23, 1975, then decamped to guitarist Bob Weir’s home studio to record their next album, Blues for Allah. The GAMH hosted Garcia’s Legion of Mary on the Fourth of July of 1975, and it was an easy call to book the Dead there a month later, so they could debut their new material. 8/13/75 was an invite-only show, attended by mostly music industry bigwigs, and it was the smallest venue for the band since March 1967 (Fugazi Hall in SF).

This show was broadcast live on FM radio a few weeks after it happened, and immediately bootlegged on vinyl under the title Make Believe Ballroom (Urubouros Deedni Mublasaron).

In 1991, the Dead released an official version, One from the Vault, which was the first complete concert to emerge from their famed archive. The intro by promoter and GD-pal Bill Graham on OFTV is goose-bumps awesome. Graham says the band members one-by-one as they riff behind him. He ends with “Will you welcome, please, the Grateful Dead!” as they launch into a tight version of the triad that opens Blues for Allah – Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower. ECM’s research reveals that the actual intro was longer; Graham talked about winning a coin flip with the head of the band’s label, Ron Rakow, and getting $100 for his services.

The music here speaks for itself. There are plus versions some chestnuts – It Must’ve Been the Roses, Eyes of the World, Sugaree, Big River, and GDTRFB. But it’s the yet-to-be released songs that get most of the attention – H>S>F, obviously, as well as The Music Never Stopped, Crazy Fingers (with an Other One Jam), and the twenty-minute Blues for Allah suite that closed the show.

Because it’s an official release, OFTV is on Spotify. Here’s the widget.

Thanks, as always, to Ed for his hard work. He just went to the NE with his band, Bear’s Choice, and he’s now catching some well-deserved rnr away from the office. So great that he helped put this one together before he hit the road.

More soon.

JF

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Possible Titles For The Dead's New Broadway Musical*

Possible Titles For The Dead’s New Broadway Musical*

Lady with a Phantom of the Opera. Cats (Under The Stars). The Philtasticks. How to Succeed in Show Business Without Really Trying and While Killing Multiple Keyboardists. The Best Little Whorehouse in Marin County. Olompali! The Producers (starring Lenny Hart and Ron Rakow). Bring in da Nitrous, Bring in da Funk. Kinky Birkenstocks. Guys And China Dolls. Hello, Bobby! God Damn, do I Declare…

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Kid Charlemagne, 1967

Photo by Ron Rakow

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They've Got Five Years

They’ve Got Five Years

Speaking on behalf of all* Enthusiasts, TotD would like to congratulate Phil and Jill Lesh on Terrapin Crossroad’s fifth anniversary. 70% of all restaurants close during their first dinner service, so this is an accomplishment; doubly so for a Grateful Dead For example, the place has not: Burned down. Gone bankrupt. Been stolen by Ron Rakow. It’s been Phil’s lifelong dream to own a restaurant,…

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Wake It Up, Baby This guy should've called Rakow.

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Where Are They Now? Shocker.