58 years ago on March 13th, 1968 along with Cream, the audience was blown out with the volume and showmanship of Blue Cheer at the Selland Arena at the Fresno Convention Center in Fresno
🎨 Dale "Sogy" Oftedal
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in illinois at northwestern university, on drummer ronnie tutt’s 38th birthday. audience tapes of early & late shows, notes, etc.: heads.social/@bourgwick/1... #garciafreaksunite
ah try to see what Edoardo Genzolini says, he also published the recordings
You're right,
at a pivotal moment in the history of rock.
Thanks, @corry342.bsky.social
Even Jerry and Mickey attended their show and were thrilled
March 11, 1968, the time the Grateful Dead opened for Cream at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California
Also Tom Constanten sat in with the Dead for this show
🎨 Jim Ford
His charisma and brilliance were a fundamental contribution to the early days of the Grateful Dead
Remembering RON “Pigpen” MCKERNAN, a founding and forever member of the Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia Band
live on stage at the Stone, San Francisco, CA, 3/8/80
youtu.be/mlybeZJvaXQ?...
Making It Better at the Cotati Cabaret
RECONSTRUCTION
Cotati, CA, 1979
March 8
archive.org/details/jg79...
March 9
archive.org/details/jg79...
I don't know where to start
They're all so iconic
Jim Marshall, Bob Minkin, Jay Blakesberg, Ed Perlstein, Rosie McGee...
📷 Harald Hatschgy Jaberg 3/27/81 Essen, Germany
7/21/74 Hollywood Bowl
📷 Ron Rakow
Your president
John Angus
Hi Fred,
when are you going to get rid of that crazy guy?
Jerry Garcia Band
The Stone, San Francisco, CA, 3/7/80
archive.org/details/jg80...
"No matter what comes down, the mission always looks the same"
Reconstruction
Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio, CA, 3/7/79
archive.org/details/jg79...
were you present?
March 4-5, 1977: The Rolling Stones perform two unannounced concerts at the El Mocambo Club in Toronto, Canada
April Wine opened for the Stones, who appeared on the bill under the name "The Cockroaches"
youtu.be/76rs7bczlrQ?...
100%
Woah! Historic moment
What a day to be alive
March 3, 1967, The First Annual Love Circus took place
The show for this was performed at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco with Grateful Dead, (Gratful) Moby Grape, The Loading Zone and the Blue Crumb Truck Factory. The show went on from 7 PM to 7 AM
🎨Donna Herrick
March 3, 1968 the Grateful Dead closed off Haight street with two flatbed trucks and played for two hours and the rest is History!
📷 Jim Marshall
Oh yes, there are others
always irreverent
Free Turf!
The Grateful Dead Don't Have No Mercy on this day
March 2, 1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
archive.org/details/gd19...
Fred
I just finished eating
baked lasagna
and meatballs in tomato sauce with a hard-boiled egg inside.
Salute Meredith
Good morning Red
#GratefulDead
Family Dog On The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA, 3/1/70
archive.org/details/gd19...
a rare Big Boy Pete
high heat version of TIFTOO relentlessly pulsing at a full
and Dancin' In The Streets with the Tighten Up jam are the highlights
