1982-02-17 [Wed]

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Jerry Garcia - electric guitar (lead), vocals
Bob Weir - electric guitar (rhythm), vocals
Phil Lesh - electric bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums, perc
Mickey Hart - drums, perc
Brent Mydland - keyboards, vocals
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Benefit Concert
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  • gratefulseconds: When Phil Met Jill: February 17, 1982 Rex Benefit at the Warfield
  • Benefit for lots of different causes (on the eventual Rex model): American Friends Service Committee; Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic; the Mayor's Youth Fund; Senior Escort Outreach Program; Marin Act in San Rafael; the Mattole (Humboldt County) Watershed Support Group; Meta Tanty, Inc., a spiritual Native American community; Seva, whose main project is treating blindness in Nepal; the Research Into Lost Knowledge Organization of England; the Naropa School for Disembodied Poets [sic: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, h/t Steve Silberman]; and campaigns to halt the Peripheral Canal. See "The Dead in benefits," San Francisco Examiner, January 23, 1982, p. A8.
  • Historical
  • Death of Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917).
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    Weather
    High: 61.1 °F
    Low: 53.0 °F
    Feels Like High: 61.1 °F
    Feels Like Low: 53.0 °F
    Wind Speed: 12.8 mph
    Humidity: 95.3 %
    Moonphase: 0.81
    Partly cloudy throughout the day.
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