Barbary Coast Room, International Room, Women's Gym, Commons Lawn, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA

Capacity 375

On May 3, 1993, S.F.S.U. Student Center's Barbary Coast Room was dedicated to Jack Adams and renamed Jack Adams Hall.(1) Jack Adams was a beloved member of the SFSU community for over 20 years and is remembered for his hard work and dedication to both the campus and AIDS community. A year after his graduation he joined SFSU as the properties manager, and later the stage manager for the school of Creative Arts.
In 1982 he was appointed assistant director of the Student Union, a position he would hold until his untimely death nearly ten years later.
Adams resigned in July 1992 because of his declining health due to AIDS-related complications. He passed away on November 21, 1992 at the age of 47.

Jerry performed here on
9/30/66 Grateful Dead
The "Whatever It Is" Trips Festival was held indoors and outdoors, over three days, according to the poster.(2)
Stewart Brand, was the promoter. The S.F.S.C. Acid Test was quite an event and was held in several different places on the campus. Ken Kesey came up from Mexico to attend, escorted by several of the Hell’s Angels, and he made numerous broadcasts from S.F.S.C.’s underground radio broadcast booth. This was the last legal Acid Test; LSD was made a controlled substance on October 6, 1966.(3)
On this night it took place in the International Room, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Light Castle (9:00pm to 3:00am)(4)

10/1/66 Grateful Dead
On this night it was held in the Women's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA: San Andreas Fault Finders, Dino Valenti, Universal Parking Lot, Congress Of Wonders (John Lennon Readings), Ken Kesey (with Freewheelin' Frank on harmonica and Kesey's cousin Dale on violin), Bill Ham Lightshow, Grateful Dead (9:00pm to 5:00am)(4)


10/2/66 Grateful Dead
Common's Lawn, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Committee, Congress Of Wonders (12:00am to 3:00pm)(4)

Stereo Control Room Master (recorded 4:00am - 6:00am)
 October 2, 1966
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1.)The Head Has Become Fat Rap

2.) A Mexican Story: 25 Bennies

3.) A Tarnished Galahad

4.) Get It Off The Ground Rap >

5.) It's Good To Be God Rap >

6.) Nirvana Army Rap >

7.) The Butcher Is Back

8.) Acid Test Graduation Announcement

9.) Send Me To The Moon >Closing Rap

Credits on 10/2/66:

Voices: Ken Kesey and Hugh Romney

Guitar: Ken Kesey

Violin: Dale Kesey

Organ: Jerry Garcia

Engineering: Steve Newman, Ken Kesey, Mountain Girl

Venues listed in the program are(4):
Common's Lawn
Education 117
Gallery Lounge
International Room
Lowell High School Field
Men's Gym
Sculpture Yard
Women's Gym 125
Women's Gym

The “Whatever It is” performances are as follows(5):  
30 September 1966
Sculpture Yard, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Demon Lover, Anonymous Artists of America, The Infinite Painting & The Universal Structure
4:00pm on

30 September 1966
International Room, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Light Castle
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Gallery Lounge, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Don Garrett (9:00pm), Chloe Schott (10:00pm and 1:00am), Poetry Reading (11:00pm), Paul Robertson Jazz Band (12:00pm), Congress of Wonders (2:00am), Ron Boise Musical Sculpture and Artwork of Dion Wright, Bob Branaman, Bruce Connor and Karen Koslow
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Women's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bill Ham Light Show, Wildflower, Blue House Basement, J Baldwin's Tensed Membrane Screen, Rock Workshop
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Men's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bernie Gunther (of the Esalen Foundation) Sensory Awakening (10:00pm and 1:00am), Robert Baker Cosmic Comic (12:00pm), The Merry Pranksters, Don Buchla
 9:00pm to 3:00am

The Buchla Box

30 September 1966
Women's Gym 125, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bob Beck Light Show
9:00pm to 3:00am

30 September 1966
Education 117, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Film Guild Movies
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Men's Pool, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Water Polo (12:00am), Light Show and Open Swimming (2:00pm)
12:00am on

01 October 1966
Common's Lawn, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Wildflower, Anonymous Artists of America, Blue House Basement (from 12:00am), The Committee (2:30pm), Robert Baker (4:00pm), San Francisco Mimi Troupe perform "Olive Pips" (5:00pm)
12:00am on

01 October 1966
Lowell High School Field, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
SF State v Santa Clara (Football - The Little Big Game)
1:30pm on

01 October 1966
Sculpture Yard, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
The Final Solution, Demon Lover, The Infinate Painting & The Universal Structure
4:00pm on

01 October 1966
International Room, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
??????
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Gallery Lounge, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Don Garrett, Ron Boise Musical Sculpture and Artwork of Dion Wright, Bob Branaman, Bruce Connor and Karen Koslow.
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Women's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
San Andreas Fault Finders, Dino Valenti, Universal Parking Lot, Congress Of Wonders (John Lennon Readings), Ken Kesey (with Freewheelin' Frank on harmonica and Kesey's cousin Dale on violin), Bill Ham Lightshow, Grateful Dead
9:00pm to 5:00am

01 October 1966
Men's Gym, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
The Merry Pranksters, Don Buchla. A planned Jefferson Airplane and Paul Butterfield Blues Band after midnight performance was never held due to police intervention intervention.
9:00pm to 3:00am

01 October 1966
Education 117, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Film Guild Movies
Day and Night
02 October 1966
Common's Lawn, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Grateful Dead, The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities with Mimi Farina, The Committee, Congress Of Wonders
12:00am to 3:00pm

01 October 1966
Women's Gym 125, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Bob Beck Light Show
9:00pm to 3:00am

02 October 1966
Education 117, S. F. State College, San Francisco, CA
Film Guild Movies


3/3/82 Jerry Garcia Band (Barbary Coast Room)
Afternoon show.

1.)^http://www.sfsustudentcenter.com/about/heroes.php
2.)^http://www.deadlists.com/posters/1960s/19660930a.html
3.)^http://www.classicposters.com/Grateful_Dead/poster/Other_California/SFT.1966.09.30
4.)^The Yellow Shark, comments, 2013-02-07, http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2013/02/barbary-coast-room-and-commons-1650.html

5.)^5.)^Hannan, Ross, email to author, 2013-02-07.

Stanford Frat Parties, Palo Alto, CA

The actual addresses where these Fraternity parties took place is unknown.

5/61 Robert Hunter(3)
1963 Zodiacs
Jerry and Pigpen were also playing occasionally in an electric blues/rock group called The Zodiacs, fronted by a guitarist named Troy Weidenheimer. "while Jerry was teaching folk guitar, Troy was teaching electric guitar; he was known around town,", say Eric Thompson. Troy had an R+B band  that played Stanford frat parties  and Jerry sometimes played bass in it  and Pigpen was the singer.(1)

Sara Garcia: “For money, Jerry had played in a rock & roll band with Troy Weidenheimer. They played fraternity parties. What they had to put up with was awful.”(5)

Bob Weir: "Garcia had done a few electric gigs with Pig in a band called the Zodiacs before I'd ever known them, and so they had a little experience with R&B."

Garcia later spoke at length about Troy Weidenheimer’s influence on him:
“Troy taught me the principle of ‘hey – stomp your foot and get on it.’ He was a great one for the instant arrangement…fearless for that thing of ‘get your friends and do it,’ and ‘fuck it if it ain’t slick, it’s supposed to be fun.’ He had a wide-open style of playing that was very, very loose; like when we went to play gigs at the Stanford parties, we didn’t have songs or anything, and he would just say ‘play B-flat,’ you know, and I’d play bass, and we’d just play along and he’d jam over the top of it; so a lot of my conceptions of the freedom available to your playing really came from him. He would take chorus after chorus, but he directed the band right in the now… We never rehearsed or anything ever, we would just go to the shows and play – and he was so loose about it, he didn’t care, he just wanted it cookin’ so he could play his solos; and he was just a wonderful, inventive, and fun, good-humored guitar player. One of the first guys I ever heard who exhibited a real sense of humor on the guitar. He was quite accomplished. I mean, in those days he was certainly the hot-rod guitar player of Palo Alto, as far as electric guitar was concerned. While I was a folkie and all that…”(4)

“Jerry would let me know when a playing opportunity was coming up [and] we four would load us and our instruments into that old car and go anywhere we could play… We played a lot of little gigs, usually at no pay. Sometimes it would just be a house party. Sometimes a coffeehouse in San Francisco… We’d just pile in the car, get there, set up and play, get in the car and go home… You just played as much as you could. Sometimes they even fed you. They seldom paid you.”
“Troy Weidenheimer taught guitar over at Swain’s House of Music in Palo Alto. He would get together with us from time to time…(1)

"I never kept track of how many or for who or where they were. We didn’t care. We’d just pile in the car, get there, set up and play, get done, get in the car and go home.  You didn’t think  “archival”.  You just played as much as you could."(2)

1.)^The Zodiacs, http://archive.org/post/335048/the-zodiacs
2.)^Van Maastricht, Norm, http://jerrywrite.blogspot.com/
3.)^McNally, Dennis, A Long Strange Trip, pg. 33, http://books.google.com/books?id=sWCRWJnTTF8C&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=norm+%22pogo%22+fontaine&source=bl&ots=lLFJsUVMPm&sig=FqvZvbs75rnMhO99EEiRHc-dvio&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wlNaUIWBBaS6yAGbloGAAQ&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=norm%20%22pogo%22%20fontaine&f=false

Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA

Capacity 1200
Just across Highway 12 from the Sonoma County Fairgrounds this building contains the Auditorium, dining room, Lodge room, North Room,Judge's Chamber, and Conference Room.

6/17/66 Grateful Dead (Thunder Machine Production)
6/18/66 Grateful Dead (Thunder Machine Production)
6/27/69 Grateful Dead and Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band
6/28/69 Grateful Dead
"The first night (June 27), after CGSB and Hot Tuna (Jorma, Jack, Joey) had played their sets, Mickey Hart had not yet arrived. It might seem that the Dead would be unconcerned, since Bill Kreutzmann can hold down the drum chair quite well on his own. For whatever reason, the Dead invited CGSB drummer Tom Ralston to sit in with the band until Hart arrived. Ralston was originally from Michigan (where he was in a band called The Renegades), had migrated to Berkeley and played with the group Sky Blue before joining CGSB, and he later played with Country Joe McDonald for some time.
Although an accomplished drummer, Ralston was quite surprised to be asked to sit in with the Dead with no preparation. Hart arrived after a few numbers, but it was a memorable night for the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band. Since so many Dead tapes are accessible, you can decide for yourself what you think of Ralston’s drumming—he certainly doesn’t embarrass himself. No one precisely recalls when Hart arrived and stepped in, but it was certainly before “Dire Wolf” (the 8th song of the first set) which was later released on an archival cd."(1)

Grateful Dead, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Joey Covington, Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band.
Jerry Garcia played pedal steel guitar with CGSB during one of these shows, probably the first night. Kaukonen and Casady were not yet calling themselves Hot Tuna. On the first night, Mickey Hart had not arrived at the show on time, and Tom Ralston joined Bill Kreutzmann in drumming for the Dead for the first few numbers. One song from June 27, 1969 (“Dire Wolf”, with Bob Weir on lead vocals and Jerry Garcia on pedal steel) was even released by the Dead, on the 2003 CD re-release, but it is unclear if Ralston actually played on it. Since it appears to be the 8th number in the set, foggy memories suggest that Hart had arrived and retaken his drum chair by this time. At the time, Jerry Garcia had just purchased his pedal steel guitar and was just beginning to work with John “Marmaduke” Dawson and David Nelson on the band that would become the New Riders of The Purple Sage. During Grateful Dead sets, Garcia played pedal steel guitar on a few numbers with the Dead, but he was clearly looking for new opportunities to test his chops, and thus he offered to sit in.

Brian Voorheis doesn’t recall the precise set list, but he does remember the country styled songs they were playing, some of which Jerry would have sat in on:
Who Will Buy The Wine (from Skiffle album), A-11 (a Buck Owens tune about a jukebox selection that makes him cry ), How High's The Water, Mama? (a Johnny Cash classic sung by Gary), County Fair (a Gary Salzman original ),and I may have done Johnny Cash's There You Go - can't remember if I was doin it yet. There could also have been Gary's other originals, (It's Hard To Keep Your Head Above The) Waterline, and I Couldn't Marry Juana (Cause I Couldn't Get Her Out Of Mexico).

1.)^SonomaPicMan, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonomapicman/6953240580/

Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA

Capacity 1960
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Marin County Civic Center is a national- and state-designated historic landmark. Wright's 770th commission, the Civic Center is the last and one of the most important works by this internationally acclaimed architect who has been described as "one of the most creative architectural geniuses of all time" and "the most original architect the United States has ever produced." Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9, 1959, at the age of 92, and did not see his vision completed. Taliesin Senior Architect Wesley Peters and San Francisco Bay Area Taliesin Architect Aaron Green directed the completion.

Groundbreaking for the Civic Center Administration Building took place in 1960, after Wright's death and under the watch of Wright's protégé, Aaron Green, and was completed in 1962. The Hall of Justice was begun in 1966 and completed in 1969.

Veterans Memorial Auditorium opened in 1971, and the Exhibit Hall opened in 1976.

A battle between factions of the Marin County Board of Supervisors played out through the selection of the site and the architect, the financing of the project and its eventual completion. The Marin County Civic Center is a state and National Historic Landmark. The main Civic Center building has been nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage List[3] as a part of ten properties by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The selection of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 to design the Civic Center was controversial. The Civic Center project was Wright's largest public project, and encompassed an entire campus of civic structures. The post office was the only federal government project of Wright's career. Wright's design borrowed ideas and forms from Wright's Broadacre City concept, first published in 1932.[4]

The nearby Veterans Auditorium was designed by the Taliesin Associated Architects and was completed in 1971 in a manner compatible with the main complex.[4] The auditorium was designed for use by the county fair with a combination of flat-floor exhibition space and tiered seating spaces, using a compromise plan devised by Wesley Peters, George Izenour and Aaron Green.[7] The main hall seats 1960[8] in an amphitheater arrangement. A separate Showcase Theater seats 300, and the exhibition hall can accommodate up 2000 patrons.[9]

11/28/75

12/9/81

6/2/73 Merl Saunders (Marin Civic Auditorium)
2/18/78 Jerry Garcia Band
10/30/83 Grateful Dead
10/31/83 Grateful Dead
3/28/84 Grateful Dead
3/29/84 Grateful Dead
3/31/84 Grateful Dead
4/1/84 Grateful Dead
9/29/84 John Kahn
2/28/86 John Kahn
11/14/86 John Kahn
2/20/87 Jerry Garcia Band
4/26/88 Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band

3.)^"Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings". World Heritage Center: Tentative Lists. UNESCO.
4.)^Woodbridge, Sally B.. "National Historic Landmark Nomination Form: Marin County Civic Center". National Park Service.
7.)^Green, Aaron G. and de Nevi, Donald P. An Architecture for Democracy: The Marin County Civic Center, Grendon Publishing, 1990. , pp. 104-105
8.)^"Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium". San Rafael Patch
9.)^Rapaport, Richard (February 1, 2011). "Frank Lloyd Wright’s Civic Center Flip Side". San Rafael Patch

Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA

Capacity 2625
Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts is widely considered to be one of the two or three finest concert halls in the world, alongside Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Vienna's Großer Musikvereinssaal. All three concert halls are renowned for their exceptional acoustics.
The architects, McKim, Mead & White of New York, engaged Wallace Clement Sabine, a young assistant professor of physics at Harvard, as their acoustical consultant, and Symphony Hall became one of the first auditoria designed in accordance with scientifically derived acoustical principles. Stage walls slope inward to help focus the sound. With the exception of its wooden floors, the Hall is built of brick, steel, and plaster, with modest decoration. Side balconies are very shallow to avoid trapping or muffling sound, and the coffered ceiling and statue-filled niches along three sides help provide excellent acoustics to essentially every seat.

Symphony Hall was inaugurated on October 15, 1900, with an inaugural gala led by music director Wilhelm Gericke, after the Orchestra's original home (the Old Boston Music Hall) was threatened by road-building and subway construction.

In 2006, due to wear and tear, the concert stage floor was replaced at a cost of $250,000. The process used original methods and materials, including hard maple, a compressed wool underlayment and hardened steel cut nails, hammered home by hand. The vertical grain fir subfloor from 1899 was in excellent shape and was left in place. The nails used in the new floor are made using the same equipment that produced the originals. Even the back chanelling on the original maple top boards was replicated to help preserve the acoustics of the Hall. The old floorboards were converted into handcrafted pens that are available to the public on a necessarily limited basis.
The 16 replicas of Greek and Roman statues are related in some way to music, art, or literature. They were placed in the niches as part of an appreciation of the frequently quoted words, "Boston, the Athens of America," written by Bostonian William Tudor in the early 19th century. The Symphony Hall organ, an Aeolian Skinner designed by G. Donald Harrison and installed in 1949, is considered one of the finest concert hall organs in the world.
The hall's leather seats are still original from 1900.

A couple of interesting points for observant concert-goers: Beethoven is the only composer whose name was inscribed on one of the plaques that trim the stage and balconies; the other plaques were left empty since it was felt that only Beethoven's popularity would remain unchanged. The initials "BMH" for "Boston Music Hall", as the building was originally to have been called, appear on the stairwell banisters at the Huntington Avenue side, originally planned as the main entrance. The old Boston Music Hall was gutted only after the new building, Symphony Hall, was opened.(1)

1/26/72 Howard Wales
1/27/72 Howard Wales

1.)^The History of Symphony Hall, http://www.bso.org/brands/symphony-hall/about-us/historyarchives/the-history-of-symphony-hall.aspx?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CJsBEIwQMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bso.org%2FHome%2FBranding%3Fbrand%3D6426%26linkForward%3D26645&ei=LEy8T8r2L6qFiALqx4GTDg&usg=AFQjCNFztbctt91JouTh4PlV5izCv9eWuA&sig2=F7WXxBYXP0ZGVJFEUHULsA

Veteran's Hall, 282 High Street, Sebastopol, CA

Capacity 700
3/22/78 Jerry Garcia Band

Swain's Music Store, 451 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA

More and more, the band began borrowing their instruments from Swain's House of Music. Pauline Swain, who still works in the music store at 451 University Ave., says she and her husband, Robert, lent instruments to the band "because we liked to help young musicians." Sometimes the band would practice in the store. Other times, they would take the instruments up to La Honda, where they would hang out with Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. More often than not, "when the instruments were returned, they came back looking like they had been in a pig pen," says Swain, making reference to McKernan's nickname.
Swain, who keeps a file of newspaper clippings on the Dead, also remembers when Garcia asked her secretary how to spell "grateful." He didn't know if the word was "greatful" or "grateful."
"All my secretary could say was, 'Jerry, with a name like that, you'll never go anywhere.'"(1)

"Lorna Shashind's parents owned Swain's. Swain's might have been in the same location as Melody Lane in our store's first year or so of business."(2)

In 2012 it's now an Apple Computer Store.

1965

1.)^Palo Alto weekly, 1993-05-12, "Dawn of the Dead- A Tour of the Grateful Dead's Midpeninsula roots"
2.)^Shashinda, Lorna, 2009-01-11, http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-47030.html

Keystone (Sophie's), 260 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA

Located in the block between Cambrige Ave/Birch St and California Ave./Park Blvd., the space itself has been in transition since it was built. It was about a mile away from downtown, in the old "Mayfield" downtown.
The building housed the Purity Market, then a Natural Food Store, starting in the late 1960s.
Then it was transformed into a German restaurant called the Zinzannati Oom Pah Pah Lounge.
In the early 70's until late 1976 it was Sophie's, a club where Jerry played. By the mid-'70s, it had morphed into the Keystone Palo Alto, a music hall.
Before its makeover in 1977, the Keystone Palo Alto (and Sophie's before it) had the stage at the opposite end of the hall and was all on one level. Clearly the Keystone crew invested heavily to give it a more upscale feel, with better sight lines for patrons.(3)
Keystone Palo Alto had three levels, with a stainless steel dance floor in front of the stage and two raised levels of seating. There was no sawdust on the floor, and a full bar, setting it apart from the Keystone Berkeley. Also, while The Stone had a full bar and multiple levels, parking at both The Stone and Keystone Berkeley was difficult, and the neighborhoods were sketchy. Finally, The Stone and Keystone Berkeley competed with a variety of San Francisco and East Bay clubs that were very different than the Keystone Palo Alto.

David Lindley and El Rayo-X's first stop on their first tour. Jackson Browne came out for three encores. They were staying at the Flamingo Hotel on El Camino and staked the place out. The night clerk actually confirmed they were staying there. Met DL and El Rayo along with Jackson. They all autographed the album cover promos we snatched from the gig. DL signed it "thanks for the drugs."(Dave Barber)  

The Keystone Palo Alto was located on 260 S. California Ave in Palo Alto, about a mile South of Downtown. Parking in those days was easy, and the streets were quiet and safe (and dead as a doornail). Palo Alto was well within the range of a huge population of music fans in San Jose who would not have been as likely to come to San Francisco for all but the biggest shows. Conversely, while San Jose in those days--a place that manufactured silicon chips, rather than just designed them--was full of noisy pickup joints with danceable bands, there was very little in the way of serious, original music clubs. As a result, quite a few acts would play The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco but then play Keystone Palo Alto to cover the South Bay. (http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/search/label/Keystones)

The Ramones at Keystone Palo Alto November 24, 1984

• June 12, 1986
  Section: Local
  Page: 1B
  
  KEYSTONE PALO ALTO TO CLOSE JULY 6 

  ROCK MAY ROLL TO NEW HOME IN SAN JOSE
  S.L. Wykes, Mercury News Staff Writer
  
  It's a place where Huey Lewis could let loose and sing an unaccompanied version of the 1934 kitsch classic "Winter Wonderland" and get away with it. It's a place where Bruce Springsteen could bring his Mom and leap on stage for an impromptu set of Chuck Berry classics. It's a place that carried on a tradition in live rock 'n' roll.
  It's the famous Keystone Palo Alto, and it will close on July 6, perhaps to be reborn in San Jose.
  'There's a couple places we're talking to" in San Jose, Keystone owner Bobby Corona said Wednesday. He would not specify locations. At the Keystone, "we developed a very sleepy, small market into the most successful live venue in the South Bay," he said. But the time has come for larger space and less driving time for the club's fans in San Jose, he said. Corona sold the club's lease to a group of 30 investors known as Innovative Leisure.
  The Palo Alto club will be converted into a recorded-music dance club called The Vortex, Corona said. The stainless-steel floor, left over from the California Avenue building's previous life as a grocery store, will be pulled up and tiled over. By August, new carpeting and paint in gray, black and white will be in place for the transformation. Corona's company, Keystone Family Inc., also operates The Stone in San Francisco. And, he said Wednesday, he plans to reopen a Keystone club in Berkeley.
  Over the years, the club evolved into a special place for rock music, and according to one San Jose radio personality, Corona and his father made it happen. ''They always knew how to run it just right," KSJO-FM's Laurie Roberts said. "They always picked class acts and handled them in a classy way."
  The audience also got a fair shake in the Keystone's operations, she said. "Even when I was just a part-timer at the radio station, a peon, and went as a regular person, I liked it best. They had a great stage, and you could see real well." The Coronas "know talent and they know business," Roberts said. "And they can wheel and deal with the best of them." She said she was an "East Bay kidlet" when she began to read about Keystone events, and later, as a college student in Chico, she drooled over shows she couldn't get to.
  By then, the Keystone was booking groups on their way up -- such as Blondie, The Cars, The Tubes, John Lee Hooker, Tom Petty and The Talking Heads. And occasionally, someone like Neil Young or Bruce Springsteen would show up unannounced and play for stunned but grateful audiences. KSJO has sponsored several events at the Keystone. And the station's senior account executive, Jeff Siegel, is not happy about its demise.'' It's been one of the last live rock 'n' roll venues in the South Bay; a good way for young talent to showcase their group," he said. "Everybody's into the dance-club format, a cocktail-hour format."
  That's pretty much what will replace the Keystone, said David C. Siegel, one of two principal investors in Innovative Leisure. Siegel, 28, and a Stanford Business School graduate, had worked in management for high-tech start-up companies before forming the corporation in February. ''We want it to be a place where it will be comfortable for someone to come and not feel threatened," he said.
  Bob Brown, Palo Alto zoning administrator, said complaints from residential and commercial neighbors of the Keystone had made him come close to calling for a review of the Keystone's permit to operate as a nightclub. But the new management, catering to an older and more sedate crowd, pleases him. "I think it will be excellent."
  The Keystone Palo Alto was known as Sophie's until 1977 when a pair of managers long associated with Keystone Berkeley took over the nightclub and changed the name.

  
  

  It's a place where Huey Lewis could let loose and sing an unaccompanied version of the 1934 kitsch classic "Winter Wonderland" and get away with it. It's a place where Bruce Springsteen could bring his Mom and leap on stage for an impromptu set of Chuck Berry classics. It's a place that carried on a tradition in live rock 'n' roll.(2)

  

  When Bruce Springsteen showed up, they even charged him at the door!!... Clarence Clemmons was playing that night, and Bruce jumped up on stage and did several songs with him. It was very cool! and there was hardly anyone there that night. After the show, I got to hang out with Bruce backstage, he was very nice and I got his autograph on Clarence's program. (Kari Huggins Toro)

  Big Bob had a policy if any bands wrote on the walls of the "dressing room" he would lock up their gear until they cleaned it up. I remember Bobby used to run with a guy named Victor who managed Greg Khin and ran Bezerkley Records. (Adrienne Diane Dena Weisman)

...One time SLAYER drove up from LA to play at Palo Alto & during their soundcheck Bob told them they needed to turn down cause he thought it was too loud !!..AMAZINGLY, Slayer told him to FUCK OFF & they left & went home & didn't even play that night !!!(Harald Oimoen)

 The club would hire the offensive line from Standford to bounce big shows. She said she hired John Elway a couple of times. Probably, the only time he worked. (Robert Reynolds)

After that, the club became the Vortex, a dance hall.Jacek and a partner (Cristoff) bought out the other Vortex partners, then it became The Edge in 1989. He still co-owns a number of nightclubs, including The Agenda in San Jose.

Later on, some of the shows with older crowds meant everyone had money and were all buying drinks. VERY profitable nights. Jacek got greedy, thinking he could replicate that on a regular basis as a jazz club.There had been a succession of failed jazz clubs in downtown Palo Alto. Took a year to remodel. If failed, then reverted to The Edge.

Then it was sold to an absentee owner, who disrespected the key employees; cut back on security, irking the neighbors; alienated their regular customers; attracted a massive gang clientele, resulting in massive gang riots, pissing off the police. It resulted in two major police deterrence actions after talks with the club didn't work. We're talking 100 officers from various regional department, street closings, a helicopter, SWAT sharpshooters on roofs, etc. The few customers that actually went through the gauntlet found a nearly empty club, which they promptly left. It didn't last much longer after that. 

The former site of Keystone Palo Alto and The Edge nightclubs may boast an impressive musical history but since November 2005, new hot spot Illusions Fayrouz has taken nightlife entertainment to the next level with the addition of a Lebanese-Mediterranean menu.

The former Keystone Palo Alto

Publication Date: Friday, August 13, 2004

Shooting-suicide on Shoreline
Mountain View police is investigating a shooting that seriously injured a woman on Tuesday and the apparent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, who is the suspect.
Police got a call around 2:30 p.m. from the woman, reporting she had been shot in the parking lot behind the Gold's Gym at 1400 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Responding to the scene, police found the woman seriously injured by a gunshot to her upper torso. She was subsequently transported to an area hospital for treatment, according to police spokesperson Jim Bennett.
Preliminary investigation suggests that the suspect drove up in his vehicle while the victim was in hers, fired a handgun and hit her with at least one bullet, Bennett said.
A short time later, Bennett said police found the suspect dead in his vehicle, parked in the A/B lot of the Shoreline Amphitheatre. His cause of death appeared to be a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound, Bennett said.
The woman is said to be in her 40s. The ex-boyfriend and suspect was identified as Robert Corona, 73, of Redwood City, by the county medical examiner's office.

-- Bay City News

Freddie just had his 75th birthday party last February...http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=723498&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=1644565624&id=1644565624&ref=pf
...he & Sandy are still together.In 2011 it was called Illusions.

The building was demolished in October 2013.

1/23/75 Merl Saunders (Sophie's)
Paul Pena opened.

3/14/75 Merl Saunders (Sophie's)
Gil Draper walked from his store, with the Travis Bean guitar, to Sophie's, where he knew Jerry was performing that night. He shows Jerry the guitar during soundcheck and Jerry says no. The drummer, Ron Tutt, says, "Robben Ford plays one". The next day Jerry was at the store to buy it.[24]

9/18/75 Jerry Garcia Band (Sophie's)
Jerry plays the guitar Wolf.
Nicky Hopkins first performance with the Jerry Garcia Band.

1/9/76 Jerry Garcia Band (Sophie's)
I: All By Myself, Goodnight Irene, Fur Elise, Right Back Together, Please Send Me Someone To Love, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Tore Up Over You
II: Neighbor Neighbor, United Our Thing Will Stand>Classified, Please Come Home, Fandango, Let It Rock, Road Runner
James Booker on piano.
"Thank you very much. This is my first appearance here, and I must say I feel flattered in being so well rec-- --accepted. I love you all from A to Z - I love you that much, and further beyond. As a matter of fact, I'd like to do a song I wrote, that contains those lyrics, named So Swell When You're Well This song was recorded by Aretha Franklin and Fats Domino." Stage talk. Booker: "Oh, we'll come back to that [laughs sheepishly]." They roll into Train To Cry. "I'd like to dedicate this whole set to one of my stronger influences, Mr. Ray Charles." After the song, can hear Jerry call "Hey Booker!"[23]

1/10/76 Jerry Garcia Band (Sophie's)
I: All By Myself>Classified>Right Place Wrong Time>United Our Thing Will Stand, You Are My Sunshine, Junco Partner, Drown In My Own Tears, Tore Up Over You
II: It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Goodnight Irene, Let It Rock, Right Back Together, Road Runner
James Booker on piano.

2/15/76 Jerry Garcia Band (Sophie's)
I: The Harder They Come, Friend Of The Devil, Mission In The Rain, Who Was John, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, How Sweet It Is
II: Catfish John, Tore Up Over You, My Sisters And Brothers, I Want To Tell You, Moonlight Mile, Talkin' Bout You

11/8/76 Merl Saunders (Sophie's)

11/16/76 Jerry Garcia Band (Sophie's)
I: The Way You Do The Things You Do, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, After Midnight, Who Was John, Mission In The Rain, Stir It Up, Midnight Moonlight
II: Tore Up Over You, Friend Of The Devil, Don't Let Go>Strange Man, Stop That Train, Ride Mighty High
Jerry plays a Travis Bean guitar.
"I bumped into Jerry as he left the stage at the end of the show. We hit chests, he had a Travis Bean guitar strapped to it. I said "Nice show." He said, "Thanks!"[6]

"Jerry's last Sophie's gig...
"Late in 1976 I went down to what once was Sophie's in Palo Alto- I rode my bike down to Palo Alto and had all day to hang around & be miserable waiting around, so I happened to be there when the truck rolled up, and Parrish and Kidd began loading in the amps & stuff. I got into a discussion (for lack of anything real to discuss?) with Steve, about the "fact" the roadies had had to become members of the Stagehands Union- oops, wrong thing to say: "Don't talk to me about Union Guys!" he sneered. So I asked who was drumming, and it was Ron Tutt, who I thought was probably the best match of any of the Garcia Band drummers.
Anyway I wheeled my bike in and locked it in the back hall, as I had always done when the place was Sophie's and which they never gave me any crap about. Done with that, I was there in the hall, and Donna walked through & Steve introduces me- "This guy's been here all day!" Having the chance I got to talk with her for about half an hour over a margarita, with Richard Loren at the table with us, about my own musical ambitions, and all. When that time was up she excused herself and went backstage and the band came out, played and I had a wonderful time singing half-drunkenly along from the side of the stage, up in the front of the floor. And I had something of a harmonic resonance thing happening with Keith also- it was just one of those things.
Anyway, when the gig was over, I am unlocking my bike in the hall and who walks through but Garcia, just as the Keystone security guy is trying to give me a hard time about leaving my bike there "is that your bike?" "Well, it had BETTER be!" As Jerry passes, about all I could manage was a "howsit going?" and he gives me a great beaming smile, reaches out and shakes my hand with an enthusiastic "ALL-RIGHT!" I got the bike unlocked and I'm wheeling it out after him into the parking lot, and there with their lights revolving eerily into the night are five Palo Alto cop cars. "Aw shit, man, THERE THEY ARE!", he said. It was at this point I seriously had to reconsider the halfhearted idea I had had of Jerry being my 'hero", after all, if this guy is as afraid of the cops as any of us on the street are, and he can't just make them disappear with a wave of his all-powerful hands, maybe it'd be better thinking of him as "friend" instead of "hero?"
He heads over to his Corvair and gives me a "Well, see ya!" as he gets in and we go our separate ways into the insecure night time of Palo Alto under the gaze of the policia...I also noticed that this was the first time it had ever happened, meeting anyone, he seemed to absolutely RADIATE music from his being, as though it was a palpable part of his aura. "You could see the notes flying out of his head if you ran into him in the hall", said Hank Harrison once. Well, that was exactly the experience. I have had it only one other time (meeting Jorma's friend Tom Hobson) - I think there are folks in this life who really DO have such a gift of music that it really IS the essence of their being, and Jerry really was one of those special people."[5]

1/23/77 Jerry Garcia Band (Formerly Sophie's)
Michael DeJong opened.
Freddie Herrera promoted all the shows from here on.

1/28/77 Jerry Garcia Band
This show was canceled.[8]

2/6/77 Jerry Garcia Band (Formerly Sophie's)
I: They Love Each Other, Stop That Train, Simple Twist Of Fate, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Stir It Up, Mystery Train, How Sweet It Is
II: I'll Take A Melody, The Way You Do The Things You Do, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Tore Up Over You, Tangled Up In Blue
Promoter Freddie Herrera

4/8/77 Jerry Garcia Band
Terry Horn, Rogers and Burgin opened.

4/9/77 Jerry Garcia Band
I: They Love Each Other, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Stir It Up, Simple Twist Of Fate, Mystery Train, The Way You Do The Things You Do
II: Midnight Moonlight, Tore Up Over You, Tangled Up In Blue
Terry Horn, Rogers and Burgin opened.
An unknown guitar player sits in for The Way You Do The Things You Do and Tore Up Over You.

7/2/77 Jerry Garcia Band
I: The Harder They Come, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Simple Twist Of Fate, Mystery Train
II: Sitting In Limbo, Russian Lullaby, Tore Up Over You, Tangled Up In Blue

7/3/77 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, Midnight Moonlight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
II: The Harder They Come, Simple Twist Of Fate, Mystery Train, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Tangled Up In Blue

7/23/77 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, Stop That Train, Mystery Train, Simple Twist Of Fate, The Way You Do The Things You Do
II: They Love Each Other, Sitting In Limbo, Tore Up Over You, My Sisters And Brothers, Stir It Up, Tangled Up In Blue

7/24/77 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, That's What Love Will Make You Do, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
II: The Way You Do The Things You Do, Stir It Up, Mystery Train, Friend Of The Devil, Midnight Moonlight

7/28/77 Jerry Garcia Band
After Midnight, Tore Up Over You, Stir It Up, Mission In The Rain, Don't Let Go, The Way You Do The Things You Do, Stop That Train

12/22/77 Jerry Garcia Band
Comfort with Robert Hunter opened.

12/23/77 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Second That Emotion, Love In The Afternoon, Tore Up Over You, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
II: Midnight Moonlight, They Love Each Other, Don't Let Go>Other One Jam>Don't Let Go
Robert Hunter and Comfort opened (Billed as Comfort/Hunter).
KZSU FM broadcasted the first set.
"There is an interesting story about why only part of this show circulates on FM. KZSU (Stanford University radio station) arranged to broadcast this show live on their station. During the set break, the Stanford DJ played some punk rock music. He cut back during Midnight Moonlight that opened Set 2, but soon after came on the air and declared Jerry "boring" and switched back to playing punk rock music. Thus the rest of the show was never broadcast."[9]

6/18/78 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, They Love Each Other, Mystery Train, Tore Up Over You
II: Mission In The Rain, Let Me Roll It, Gomorrah, I'll Be With Thee, Midnight Moonlight
E: Rhapsody In Red
Jerry plays the Ibanez MC500/SP Tree Of Life 1977 electric guitar.

10/7/78 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Second That Emotion, It Ain't No Use, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Mystery Train, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
II: Tore Up Over You, Let Me Roll It, Gomorrah, Love In The Afternoon, I'll Be With Thee, Rhapsody In Red
"Garcia, Keith and Donna (GD) were working at Club Front on Shakedown Street during the day, gigging with JGB at night."[7]

10/8/78 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, Simple Twist Of Fate, Mystery Train
II: Love In The Afternoon, Mission In The Rain, Gomorrah, The Harder They Come, Midnight Moonlight
"They were doing Simple Twist of Fate, when a young woman, late teens or early 20's, climbed up on Jerry's side of the stage. A stage hand was moving towards her, as she walked towards Jerry, when he turned to her, just as he was singing the last verse, and sang the line "She was born in spring, but I was born too late...Blame it on a simple twist of fate." and she was mesmerized, melted, and the stage hand gently took her hand and walked her off stage. It was so gentle, and amazing... I'll never forget that."[13]

11/3/78 Jerry Garcia Band
I: The Harder They Come, Mission In The Rain, Simple Twist Of Fate, Tore Up Over You, Love In The Afternoon
II: So What?, That's Alright Mama, Gomorrah, I'll Be With Thee, Rhapsody In Red, Rubin And Cherise
Keith and Donna's last show.

11/4/78 Jerry Garcia Band
This show may have been canceled.

2/28/79 Reconstruction
3/1/79 Reconstruction
4/28/79 Reconstruction
Tellin' My Friends, I'll Take A Melody, Nessa, Do I Move You, Struggling Man, Long Train Running

5/30/79 Reconstruction
I: Lovely Night For Dancing, Someday Baby, Lyinda, I Just Want To Stop, The Mohican And The Great Spirit
II: That's What Love Will Make You Do, Tellin' My Friends, Make It Better, Fast Tone, I'll Take A Melody, Another Star, Dear Prudence

6/16/79 Reconstruction
I: Tellin' My Friends, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Nessa, Do I Move You, I'll Take A Melody
II: Lovely Night For Dancing, What You Won't Do For Love, Welcome To The Basement, When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, Fast Tone, Dear Prudence

6/17/79 Reconstruction
I: Make It Better, I Just Want To Stop, Struggling Man, Another Star, That's What Love Will Make You Do
II: Tellin' My Friends, Someday Baby, Lyinda, Ain't That Lovin' You, Sama Layuca

6/22/79 Reconstruction
Fast Tone, It Ain't No Use, Tellin' My Friends, The Jealous Kind, What You Won't Do For Love, Long Train Running, Struggling Man, Make It Better, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Dear Prudence

7/7/79 Reconstruction
I: Tellin' My Friends, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Do I Move You, Another Star, Struggling Man, Make It Better
II: Lovely Night For Dancing, I'll Take A Melody, Nessa, I Just Want To Stop, The Mohican And The Great Spirit, Dear Prudence
Alice Stone opened.

7/8/79 Reconstruction
Make It Better, Someday Baby, Soul Roach, What You Won't Do For Love, Lyinda, It Ain't No Use, Tellin' My Friends, The Jealous Kind, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Fast Tone, Dear Prudence
Chris Rowan opened.

8/4/79 Reconstruction
This show was canceled.

8/5/79 Reconstruction
This show was canceled.

9/15/79 Reconstruction
I: Tellin' My Friends, Struggling Man, Lovely Night For Dancing, Nessa, Make It Better, That's What Love Will Make You Do
II: Another Star, What You Won't Do For Love, Someday Baby, Fast Tone, Ain't That Lovin' You>Dear Prudence

9/29/79 Reconstruction
Jerry didn't show up for this gig.
"..there was a night when he didn't show up for a gig., which was done purposely, I think. It was sabotaged [Saunders won't say by whom]. They didn't tell him there was a gig to get to. And shortly after that he and John started a different group and I sort of lost touch with him."[14]

According to John Kahn, the band "didn't seem to be headed anywhere for us. It was stuck in a bag. Without putting anybody down, it was just a period of non-growth musically, I thought, and Jerry thought so too. We dealt with it like Jerry dealt with a lot of things - we just sort of ditched it. We hid and just didn't have any gigs for a long time, and then we started another band. It wasn't very well done... Jerry was supposed to do that one himself, because I'd been the guy that fired Kreutzmann to get Tutt. So it was his turn, but of course he wouldn't do it."
Martin Fierro: "Merl and I got dropped without as much as a fanfare or a warning. I went to Steve Parish and said, 'Hey man, when's our next gig?' ...And he's like, 'Didn't you hear? You got fired a month ago.' 'What?' 'Legion of Mary doesn't exist anymore.' I was so sad and disillusioned and it took me a few years to get over it... I didn't see [Jerry again] for maybe 15 years..."
And what Saunders told Jackson:
'Though Merl admits it hurt "to get thrown out of the group I started," he doesn't believe Garcia was the instigator of the change. "I think it was professional jealousy. And it had nothing to do with Jerry. It was the power that Jerry and I had together. It was a big force. And some people were threatened by it. Sometimes things happened and Jerry didn't even know about them. Sometimes something would happen and he'd know about it and just turn his head. In this case, I don't think he initiated it, but he let it happen."[15]

10/14/79 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, They Love Each Other, Let It Rock, Deal, After Midnight, I'll Take A Melody
II: Money Honey, Love In The Afternoon, That's Alright Mama, Russian Lullaby, Positively 4th Street, The Harder They Come

11/16/79 Jerry Garcia Band
I: After Midnight, Catfish John, Simple Twist Of Fate, How Sweet It Is
II: Sugaree, They Love Each Other, That's Alright Mama, Sitting In Limbo, Tore Up Over You

12/20/79 Jerry Garcia Band
Love In The Afternoon, Let It Rock, Simple Twist Of Fate, That's Alright Mama, How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, After Midnight, Tore Up Over You

12/21/79 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, They Love Each Other, Russian Lullaby, After Midnight
II: How Sweet It Is, Postively 4th Street, Deal
E: The Harder They Come
Bill Belger Band opened.

1/20/80 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sitting In Limbo, That's Alright Mama, Friend Of The Devil, Tore Up Over You
II: The Harder They Come, Russian Lullaby, When I Paint My Masterpiece, After Midnight>Eleanor Rigby>After Midnight

8/9/80 Jerry Garcia Band[27]
I: Sugaree, Catfish John, Money Honey, Tangled Up In Blue
II: The Harder They Come, Mission In The Rain, Jam*, Dear Prudence, Midnight Moonlight

8/10/80 Jerry Garcia Band[26]
1/22/81 Jerry Garcia Band
Let It Rock, Simple Twist Of Fate, Like A Road, Sitting In Limbo, I'll Take A Melody
Melvin Seals debut.

1/23/81 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, They Love Each Other, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Mississippi Moon, Deal
II: The Harder They Come, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Russian Lullaby, Dear Prudence, Midnight Moonlight
For both 1-22/23-81 "I was sitting at the table with Dick and his friend from Pahoa, HI. I don't remember exactly who was playing -- beside Jerry and John. What I do remember about many shows in the 1980 era was Ozzie Allers and Jimmy Warren, both playing at the same time. I remember the guy in front on stage right would be playing some smaller keyboard set up and the other guy who was more center stage and in the back by John Kahn was playing this really tiny keyboard. I don't remember who was who. I know I was glad that one of them departed and then glad when the other on departed -- and they had Melvin!"[10]

4/24/81 Jerry Garcia Band
I: After Midnight, They Love Each Other, It's No Use, Mississippi Moon, Tangled Up In Blue
II: Mission In The Rain, The Harder They Come, Simple Twist Of Fate, Tore Up Over You, Midnight Moonlight

5/27/81 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, Wonderful World, Simple Twist Of Fate, Tangled Up In Blue
II: I'll Take A Melody, Tore Up Over You, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Dear Prudence, Midnight Moonlight

5/28/81 Jerry Garcia Band
The Harder They Come, Mission In The Rain, Let It Rock, Midnight Moonlight, Russian Lullaby

7/24/81 Jerry Garcia Band
8/23/81 Jerry Garcia Band
I: The Way You Do The Things You Do, They Love Each Other, Second That Emotion, Mississippi Moon, Roadrunner, Deal
II: The Harder They Come, Don't Let Go, Simple Twist Of Fate, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Tangled Up In Blue

10/25/81 Jerry Garcia Band
I: The Way You Do The Things You Do, I'll Take A Melody, Simple Twist Of Fate, Second That Emotion, Mystery Train, Tangled Up In Blue
II: Sugaree, Catfish John, Mississippi Moon, Don't Let Go, Midnight Moonlight
This tour was billed as "The Return Of Ron Tutt" on the Grateful Dead's telephone hotline at the time.[16]

12/17/81 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, They Love Each Other, Simple Twist Of Fate, Second That Emotion, Tangled Up In Blue
II: The Harder They Come, Don't Let Go, Valerie, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Dear Prudence, Midnight Moonlight

2/4/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Mississippi Moon, Mystery Train, Valerie, Deal
II: Second That Emotion, Sugaree, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Dear Prudence, Tangled Up In Blue
"My first west coast JGB show was at the Keystone Palo Alto was on Feb. 4th, 1982. I left my spot front row at Jer's feet to go to the bar, and just to the left of where I bellied up was John Belushi talking to Al Franken. Wasn't about to interrupt them so I headed back to try and get close to my spot and was pleasantly surprised (for an east-coaster) to see that, despite the fact that I wasn't with anyone else that I knew, my spot on the rail was there waiting for me, as if I'd never left!"[22]

2/5/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: The Way You Do The Things You Do, Sitting In Limbo, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Simple Twist Of Fate, Second That Emotion
II: Mission In The Rain, Roadrunner, Valerie, Tore Up Over You, Tangled Up In Blue

2/27/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: The Way You Do The Things You Do, I'll Take A Melody, Simple Twist Of Fate, Let It Rock, Deal
II: The Harder They Come, Mission In The Rain, Valerie, Dear Prudence, Tangled Up In Blue

5/14/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, I'll Take A Melody, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Love In The Afternoon, Run For The Roses
II: Mission In The Rain, Valerie, Mystery Train, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Dear Prudence, Tangled Up In Blue

5/15/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, They Love Each Other, It's No Use, Mississippi Moon, Run For The Roses
II: The Way You Do The Things You Do, Don't Let Go, Russian Lullaby, The Harder They Come, Midnight Moonlight

6/12/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: I'll Take A Melody, The Way You Do The Things You Do, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Valerie, Run For The Roses
II: Second That Emotion, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Russian Lullaby, Tore Up Over You, Dear Prudence, Tangled Up In Blue

10/22/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, I'll Take A Melody, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Simple Twist Of Fate, Deal
II: They Love Each Other, Valerie, Love In The Afternoon, Tough Mama, Dear Prudence, Run For The Roses

10/23/82 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, It's No Use, Second That Emotion, Run For The Roses
II: Roadrunner, The Harder They Come, Valerie, Dear Prudence, Midnight Moonlight

2/26/83 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, Valerie, Run For The Roses, Deal
II: Sugaree, They Love Each Other, Let It Rock, Dear Prudence, Tangled Up In Blue

2/27/83 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Run For The Roses, Love In The Afternoon, Second That Emotion, Simple Twist Of Fate, Deal
II: Mission In The Rain, The Harder They Come, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Midnight Moonlight

7/20/83 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Cats Under The Stars, Catfish John, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Mississippi Moon, Run For The Roses
II: Mission In The Rain, Love In The Afternoon, Dear Prudence, Tangled Up In Blue

11/12/83 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Catfish John, Simple Twist Of Fate, Cats Under The Stars, Run For The Roses
II: Rhapsody In Red, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Don't Let Go, Deal

3/2/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, They Love Each Other, Cats Under The Stars, Dear Prudence, Run For The Roses
II: Mission In The Rain, The Harder They Come, Gomorrah, Rubin And Cherise, Tangled Up In Blue

3/9/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Second That Emotion, Love In The Afternoon, Valerie, Run For The Roses, Deal
II: Cats Under The Stars, They Love Each Other, Russian Lullaby, Tore Up Over You, Midnight Moonlight

5/11/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, They Love Each Other, Run For The Roses, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Cats Under The Stars
II: Rhapsody In Red, Mission In The Rain, Love In The Afternoon, Dear Prudence, Tangled Up In Blue
"Well, I couldn’t find my ticket stub, but I found the next best thing, a copy of the recording that Larry made that night. Mark me down for 5/11/84. There are places that I can clearly hear myself shouting over the music.  What a newbie!
I was nineteen years old and most of my live music experience was arena rock and roll shows, such as Tom Petty, Def Leppard, Van Halen, etc.
We arrived at the Keystone, which is a non-descript building in a slightly run-down area of town.  When we walked in, I remember thinking that the place was so small that there was no way that a band could make any money playing there.  I am not even sure the bar held 200 people.
Well, the place was packed and Jerry and his band came out and played How Sweet It Is, and I was hooked.  I had never listened to any of Jerry’s non-Dead stuff, so I really didn’t know what to expect.
The entire show was kind of surreal. It was such a small place to perform, Jerry and the band were clearly enjoying themselves, and there was a very strong sense of warmth and intimacy, which I had never experienced at a live performance.  Everyone was smiling and dancing and having a wonderful time.  It was a special evening which I will never forget. I remember the trip home, where Larry drove us over the San Mateo Bridge, going flat-out in his new Supra. Quite an evening."[21]

7/28/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: I'll Take A Melody, Get Out Of My Life Woman, Run For The Roses, Love In The Afternoon, Deal
II: Cats Under The Stars, Like A Road, Tore Up Over You, Gomorrah, Midnight Moonlight

7/29/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, They Love Each Other, Second That Emotion, Tangled Up In Blue
II: The Harder They Come, Mississippi Moon, Don't Let Go, Midnight Moonlight

8/26/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, They Love Each Other, Run For The Roses, Get Out Of My Life Woman, Tangled Up In Blue
II: Mission In The Rain, Love In The Afternoon, Dear Prudence, Don't Let Go, Midnight Moonlight

8/27/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Cats Under The Stars, Catfish John, Simple Twist Of Fate, Run For The Roses, Deal
II: I'll Take A Melody, The Harder They Come, Don't Let Go, Midnight Moonlight

9/18/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Sugaree, Cats Under The Stars, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Tangled Up In Blue
II: Rhapsody In Red, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Get Out Of My Life Woman, Gomorrah, Midnight Moonlight

9/19/84 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Run For The Roses, Love In The Afternoon, Second That Emotion, Mississippi Moon, Deal
II: Mission In The Rain, Dear Prudence, Rubin And Cherise, Midnight Moonlight

12/10/84 Jerry Garcia Band
"Michael Hedges opened and his guitar was stolen out of his van during Garcia's set...JJ: Your latest release "Oracle" was inspired by the return of a long lost or stolen guitar? MH: It was about 1982 , and I had just made "Breakfast In The Field", my first record. That album was recorded with a Somogyi guitar and another guitar made by Kenneth Dubourg from Baltimore. It was a nice guitar because it was the first real handmade instrument I had seen when I was at the Peabody Institute. The music stores in town carried nice Martin's and Gurian's but this Dubourg was a one of a kind, and in fact it was experimental in design with less bracing. It was kind of the classic story where the guy keeps returning to the guitar store to play the same instrument. I had no money because I was in school, but finally I got enough bucks to get it and when I went to the music store it wasn't there! I talked to the owner of the store who put me in touch with the luthier who helped me track down the woman who had purchased it. It turns out she wasn't that particular, she just liked the guitar . Kenneth Dubourg offered her another one of his instruments which she didn't mind trading for so I could have the guitar she had bought. I had played several of his guitars and there was definitely something about that one that was ringing like a bell for me, inside. I wrote several tunes from my first record on that instrument as well as some others that got lost when that guitar was stolen. I had made "Breakfast In The Field" and was on tour when it was stolen at a Jerry Garcia show at the Stone Club in Palo Alto. I was pretty heartbroken because I had written my wedding song, "Woman Of The World" on that guitar. We move to 1995 , and I got a note backstage at a show from someone who thought they had my guitar. It had changed hands several times, it was broken where the headstock meets the neck, and someone had been repaired it by wrapping dental floss around it. There were cracks as well, so I was glad to see it , but on the other hand I was heartbroken and I didn't want to look at the thing. A friend of mine was at that show in Ashland and he was on his way to Palo Alto , so I gave it to him and asked him to take it to Grypheon Guitars in Palo Alto figuring they would know what to do with it. I eventually got it back just like new! It rang , and everything was so nice that I even began remembering a few tunes I had written on it but had never recorded, as well as writing a few new things which gave me the tunes to fill out the "Oracle" record."[19]

6/3/85 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, They Love Each Other, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Mississippi Moon, Deal
II: I'll Take A Melody, Simple Twist Of Fate, Midnight Moonlight
Ron Price opened.
Jerry plays a Modulus guitar.[17][18]

8/10/85 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Get Out Of My Life Woman, Like A Road, It's No Use, Run For The Roses, Deal
II: Rhapsody In Red, Dear Prudence, Rubin And Cherise, Midnight Moonlight

8/11/85 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Cats Under The Stars, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Run For The Roses, When I Paint My Masterpiece, How Sweet It Is
II: Sugaree, They Love Each Other, Gomorrah, Midnight Moonlight
"I heard a story about David Kemper. Apparently he brought a video camera backstage at a show and was filming everything. Parish told him to put the camera down, he kinda laughed it off and kept filming. Parish then slapped the camera out of his hands, breaking it. Shortly thereafter he was fired. Dang shame on that."[12]

9/28/85 John Kahn (acoustic)
I: Deep Elem Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Little Sadie, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Jack-A-Roe, Run For The Roses
II: Rubin And Cherise, She Belongs To Me, I've Been All Around This World, Bird Song, Ripple, Goodnight Irene
Jerry plays a Takamine guitar.

10/7/85 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Get Out Of My Life Woman, They Love Each Other, Run For The Roses, Love In The Afternoon, Tangled Up In Blue
II: When I Paint My Masterpiece, Think, Rubin And Cherise, Gomorrah, Deal

10/8/85 Jerry Garcia Band
I: How Sweet It Is, Think, Simple Twist Of Fate, That's What Love Will Make You Do, Run For The Roses
II: Cats Under The Stars, Mission In The Rain, Rubin And Cherise, Gomorrah, Midnight Moonlight

12/21/85 Jerry Garcia Band
I: I'll Take A Melody, Get Out Of My Life Woman, Like A Road, Dear Prudence, Run For The Roses
II: How Sweet It Is, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Rubin And Cherise, Gomorrah, Midnight Moonlight
"I stood five feet from him the whole night. He didn't open his eyes once. He also stood at the mike, or one step back or at his amp. Not much movement. The show was great AND I got one of his guitar picks. I was very polite to a stagehand. He got the pick, looked at it and said "I haven't given one of these away in seven years" and handed it to me."[4]

12/22/85 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Cats Under The Stars, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Think, Deal
II: The Harder They Come, Sugaree, Run For The Roses, Mississippi Moon, Midnight Moonlight

1/16/86 John Kahn (acoustic)
II: Dire Wolf, Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie, Bird Song, She Belongs To Me, Ripple, Goodnight Irene
Jerry plays a Takamine guitar.

3/9/86 Jerry Garcia Band
I: I'll Take A Melody, Get Out Of My Life Woman, Like A Road, Run For The Roses, Deal
II: Cats Under The Stars, Mississippi Moon, Gomorrah, Russian Lullaby, Midnight Moonlight

5/18/86 Jerry Garcia Band
I: I'll Take A Melody, Simple Twist Of Fate, Get Out Of My Life Woman, Mississippi Moon, Love In The Afternoon, Deal
II: Cats Under The Stars, Mission In The Rain, Dear Prudence, Rubin And Cherise, Gomorrah, Midnight Moonlight

5/19/86 Jerry Garcia Band
I: Think, They Love Each Other, Like A Road, Run For The Roses
II: How Sweet It Is, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Cats Under The Stars, Rubin And Cherise, Midnight Moonlight

Keystone Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
1.)^http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/search/label/Keystones, Arnold, Corry, January 9-10, 1976: Sophie's, Palo Alto, CA: The Jerry Garcia Band with James Booker, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/05/january-9-10-1976-sophies-palo-alto-ca.html
2012-05-24, Lost Live Dead
2.)^San Jose Mercury News, 1986-06-12, KEYSTONE PALO ALTO TO CLOSE JULY 6 ROCK MAY ROLL TO NEW HOME IN SAN JOSE
3.)^crypdev, 2011-11-05, http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/11/jerry-garcia-band-keystone-scheduling.html
4.)^Rosman, Loren, comments, 2013-10-27, https://www.facebook.com/
5.)^Immaculately Gone, comments, http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/1205
6.)^Angus, Harry, author, 2013-12-07.
7.)^Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger, 2013-12-04, http://jgmf.blogspot.com/
8.)^Garcia Tomorrow Only, Oakland Tribune, January 28, 1977, p. 30., http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/2397
9.)^http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/1298
10.)^Knudsen, Jeff, comments, 2011-12-11, LN jg1981-01-23.jgb.all.aud-latvala.97205.flac164, 2011-12-06, http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/12/ln-jg1981-01-23jgballaud.html
11.)^Wykes, S.L.,  Mercury News Staff Writer, San Jose Mercury News (CA), June 12, 1986 Section: Local Page: 1B
12.)^frogdance, comments, 2014-01-14, Other Stuff, http://www.philzone.org/
13.)^milobender, comments, 2008-04-01, General Discussion, http://www.rukind.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=311&t=4309&start=15
14.)^Saunders, Merl, Jackson, Blair, Garcia:An American Life, pg. 307, Reconstructing Reconstruction, January-February and August-September 1979, 2012-11-01, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/11/reconstructing-reconstruction-january.html
15.)^Light Into Ashes, comments, 2012-11-06, Reconstructing Reconstruction, January-February and August-September 1979, 2012-11-01, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/11/reconstructing-reconstruction-january.html
16.)^Corry342, comments, 2010-12-30, JGB: early 1980s drummers and backup singers, 2010-12-29, http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/12/jgb-early-1980s-drummers-and-backup.html?showComment=1296383994855#comment-c94905313472382853
17.)^Waltah, comments, 2014-03-29, Garcia, http://www.deadnetcentral.com/webx?7@763.uf16aRtFmV5.6@.ee7b152/51308
18.)^Jackson, Blair, Golden Road no. 7, Summer 1985, p. 9.
19.)^http://www.solidairrecords.com/AMR_interviews/hedges.html, http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/1731
20.)^McDonough, Jack, Palo Alto Club Fights To Book Acts, 1978-01-07, Billboard 90, pg. 32, 36.
21.)^Curry, Jeff, 2014-08-27, email to author.
22.)^Robinson, Jonathan, comments, 2015-01-07, Grateful Dead Tour Veterans 1980's, facebook.com
23.)^Booker, James, Flight Of The Bumblebee: LN jg1976-01-09.jgb.all.sbd-tjs.8386.shn2flac, 2015-01-18, http://jgmf.blogspot.com/
24.)^Draper, Gil, 2015-04-01, telephone interview with author.

Suzy Wood's parents lot behind the main house, Debbie Lane, Belmont, CA

After Boar's Head gatherings, Suzy Wood, Carlmont High Class of 1960, often hosted parties at her parent's large, lovely home on Debbie Lane, on a hill above the College of Notre Dame in nearby Belmont. "The way the house was setup, there was an extra lot behind the house, sort of secluded by fences and bushes, and we go hang out back there and pass hats and collect change and somebody would go off and buy gallons of wine, Wood says."That was a place that summer where there was a lot of partying, for as long as anybody could stand to lie around drinking wine. I don't remember Jerry being into drinking particularly."
"My father was very intrigued by him", she continues. "Even though Jerry was a dropout, because of the kind of intelligence and charm and insight that he had, he always seemed more like a leader than a bad guy. My Dad thought he was a wonderful person but he'd say, "Why doesn't he do something with his life?"(1)

"Yeah, we would play at the Boar’s Head and then, afterwards there would, of course, be a “cast party.” It’d be over at somebody’s house; you’d go over there, everybody’d bring their instruments and we’d play all night and just fool around and all that kind of stuff..."(2)






Jerry played here in
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1.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia: An American Life, pg. 40
2.)^Nelson, David, KBOO Community Radio, Interview With David Nelson
2009-05,

Sullivan Stadium (Foxboro Stadium), 1 Patriot Place, Foxborough, MA

Capacity 55,000

In 1971, Schaeffer Stadium was constructed for a little more than $6 million. The name has changed (twice), but for the past 29 seasons the "home" venue has remained the same.

William H. "Billy" Sullivan, to ensure the long-term viability of pro football in New England, established one of the nation's first naming-rights agreements in 1970 when he persuaded Schaefer Brewing Co. to put its name on the facility. The price: a whopping $150,000.

Foxboro Stadium (originally Schaefer Stadium, formerly Sullivan Stadium, commonly Foxborough Stadium) was an outdoor stadium, located in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Although the official spelling of the town's name is "Foxborough", the shorter spelling was used for the stadium.[3]
The site was selected when the owners of Bay State Raceway donated the land, midway between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. Ground was broken in September 1970, and it was built in less than 11 months at an announced cost of $4,000,000, (later determined to be about $7.1 million, or $37.5 million in 2007 dollars) a bargain price, even at the time, for a major sports stadium. This was because the Patriots received no funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the town of Foxborough. Because of this, and also the era in which it was designed and built, it had very few amenities — the type that became commonplace at football stadiums in the 1990s — such as individual seating, "club seats", luxury suites, and deluxe locker rooms for the teams.
During Kiam's ownership of the Patriots, ESPN anchor Chris Berman humorously referred to the facility as "Shaver Stadium", lampooning Kiam's ownership of Remington Razors.
When this agreement expired in 1983, Anheuser-Busch took over the rights, but instead of putting the name of one of its brands of beer on the stadium, agreed to name it Sullivan Stadium in honor of the Sullivan family, majority owners of the Patriots. After the family sold their majority interest in the team to Victor Kiam, the stadium was officially renamed "Foxboro Stadium."

By the late 1990s Foxboro Stadium had become functionally obsolete by modern NFL standards. The facility was built cheaply as a "bare bones" stadium and had very few modern amenities. It also lacked luxury boxes, a major source of revenue for other teams in the league, and most patrons had to sit on backless aluminum benches as only a small fraction of the stadium had actual seats (painted blue, red, and white near the 50-yard line). With a capacity of just over 60,000, it was one of the smallest stadiums in the NFL.
After 31 NFL seasons, Foxboro Stadium was demolished in January 2002, after the conclusion of the 2001 season (in which the Patriots won their first Super Bowl). The last game played in the stadium—"The Tuck Rule Game"—was played in a snow storm; a Patriots win against the Oakland Raiders, which famously featured an overturned fumble call based on the tuck rule in the final minutes. The stadium's former site became the parking lots of its successor, Gillette Stadium, before being developed into the open-air shopping center Patriot Place.


Jerry performed here on
7/4/87 Grateful Dead Bob Dylan (Sullivan Stadium)
7/2/89 Los Lobos Grateful Dead (Sullivan Stadium)
7/14/90 Grateful Dead (Foxboro Stadium)




3.)^http://www.patriots.com/search/index.cfm?ac=searchdetail&pid=3109&pcid=41

Sweetwater, 153 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, CA

The Sweetwater is the legendary Mill Valley music club which for over 30 years had been the premier live music location in the North Bay.

The bar is lit with a dim, orange lighting scheme. And it was filled choc-o-bloc with chairs and tables.

Live musical performances by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, The String Cheese Incident, John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, plus many others [1]. There were typically at least 4 to 5 musical acts booked per week making it a popular local hangout.[1) The Sweetwater also featured an open mike night on Mondays that had occasionally featured surprise performances by well-known artists such as Gregg Allman, Train and others.
The band Hot Tuna recorded two live albums at Sweetwater in the early 1990's[3]featuring guest performances by local figures such as Bob Weir and Wavy Gravy.
BBC Television shot a documentary at the club featuring John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt and Ry Cooder.
In 2004, the establishment faced eviction by landlords who needed to raise the rent to more than what the owners claimed they could pay.Through donations the bar was saved and its lease was renewed when the owners of the building generously offered new terms. It was not however disputed that the new rent was fair and the owners of the Sweetwater entered into a month to month lease.[1)
In September 2007 Sweetwater closed because the landlord of the building found it necessary to renovate the somewhat run-down property and declined to offer the club terms for a new lease after the renovation's anticipated completion.[3] The owners of the building were also the long time owners of a very popular Italian restaurant next door that had been established in the 1960's. A spokesman for the family that owned the building and restaurant said at the time that the building would undergo long-overdue repairs and maintenance and that the new Sweetwater owners knew about renovation plans since their lease had expired two years previously. "We've been in this community for 45 years," he said. "If we wanted to throw the Sweetwater out, we would have done it a long time ago."(2)

In 2012 it's located in the Masonic Hall at 19 Corte Madera Avenue in Mill Valley, the Sweetwater Music Hall offers food, drinks, and a broad spectrum of live music and entertainment


Jerry performed here on
4/24/89 Elvis Costello
12/17/90 David Grisman





1.)^Selvin, Joel, Sour note at Sweetwater prompts outpouring of support, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/18/DDGM35LTCQ1.DTL#ixzz1veamIAne, 2004-03-18
2.)^Selvin, Joel, Longtime club Sweetwater set to close Sept. 1, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/08/DDEGREBHN.DTL#ixzz1vebKjmDG, 2007-08-09, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/09/DDEGREBHN.DTL

(Seashore) Performing Arts Center, Turn Road, Old Orchard Beach, ME

Capacity 15000


Built in 1985 and formerly known as the Ballpark, SEAPAC was booked by Providence's Frank Russo from 1989 to 1991.

The 48.7 acres of land The Ballpark sits on today, and approximately 100 acres that surround The Ballpark lot, was purchased by the town in the 1970’s. The town used some of the land to build the police and fire stations and the schools. After construction of the facilities was completed, lots of open space remained. In 1983, the town decided to sell about 50 acres to Jordan Kobritz so he could build a park for his professional baseball team. In order to secure financing for the project, the town agreed to co-sign the loan with Mr. Kobritz. After three seasons of baseball, Mr. Kobritz sold the team and left town. Old Orchard Beach was required to pay back the 2.2 million dollar loan. The town would reacquire the land after paying off the debt.

In 1989, the town decided to help pay back the money it owed by leasing the ballpark to the Seashore Performing Arts Center (SeaPAC). SeaPAC was run by Dale Blow and Frank Russo. For three years, from 1989 to 1991, Mr. Blow and Mr. Russo mostly used the venue for music shows. An up and down relationship with the town and complaints from citizens about traffic and noise caused the relationship between the town and SeaPAC to end.

In 1993 a new business, Ballpark Productions, owned by Old Orchard Beach native Archie St. Hilaire, entered into an agreement with the town to produce concerts and family-oriented events at The Ballpark. The town leased the venue to Ballpark Productions from April to October in the years 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997. Mr. St. Hilaire chose not to renew the lease after 1997. Shortly after Ballpark Productions stopped producing events, Ed Anderson leased The Ballpark for three years because he wanted to bring a professional soccer team to town. He never did and the facility has not been used since.(1)

“The Ballpark” which used to be the home of the class AAA Maine Guides (Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians). In recent years, the Ballpark underwent major renovations after sitting idle for nearly a decade. The entirety of the renovations were possible only through the volunteer work, donations, and determination of the local community.(2)



Jerry performed here on
9/13/89 Jerry Garcia Band





1.)^The Old Orchard Beach Ballpark, http://www.oldorchardbeachballpark.com/HistoryUpTo2003.html
2.)^Futures League Adds Old Orchard Beach, ME, http://www.oldorchardbeachballpark.com/index.html