1975-06-11 [Wed]

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Keystone, Berkeley, CA

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Jerry Garcia - electric guitar, vocals
Merl Saunders - keyboards, vocals
John Kahn - electric bass
Martin Fierro - saxophone, flute
Guest Musicians
unidentified-19750611-Eddie (complete show) - drums

Partial Show:
Wicked Messenger [1]

[1] Only known performance (by JGMS) and final time played by any act last known performance on 1975-05-15 by LOM
Run
JGMS - Keystone Berkeley June 1975 #2
Also Appearing
Paul Pena
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Notes
  • Sue: band takes $500 or 80% total gross door receipts. Contract names "Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia & Friends". Tutt had finished Elvis tour in Memphis the night before and we have long guessed he didn't play this show (because they used JGMS rather than LOM band name), and then a fragment of evidence appeared --Betty and Rex's 7/6/75 reel #4 box-- suggesting a drummer named Eddie. Eddie Bayers says it was not him. We thought it might be Merl's cousin Eddie Moore, but no longer think so. As of early 2024 we think it might have been Eddie Marshall, who played with the Pointer Sisters around this time and with whom Tony Saunders has recorded. But we are not certain.
  • Jim Powell attended and recalls "they played Wicked Messenger and that they played it at a pace significantly faster than any of the Legion of Mary performances on tape. Its pace was much closer to the arrangement they played with Dylan in 87, maybe a little faster -- driven. It was certainly the best performance of that song I ever heard, by Jerry or anybody".
  • ref: June 1975 Keystone calendar, billing Garcia & Saunders
  • ad: San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Datebook, June 8, 1975, p. 29
  • mention: Berkeley Independent-Gazette, June 9, 1975, p. 9
  • listing: San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 1975, p. 33
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    Weather
    High: 68.1 °F
    Low: 56.0 °F
    Feels Like High: 68.1 °F
    Feels Like Low: 56.0 °F
    Wind Speed: 17.2 mph
    Humidity: 77.9 %
    Moonphase: 0.07
    Partly cloudy throughout the day.
    Time
    9:00 PM