Taft Auditorium, 317 East 5th Street, Cincinnati, OH

Capacity 2500
The building was completed in 1928 from plans by Harry Hake and Charles Kuck.  It replaced the Gothic structure that had been designed by Hamilton and McLaughlin in 1858.

The building is now named the Taft Theater but continues to have live shows including comedian acts, children's shows, musicians, and theater performances.

All seats are unobstructed, giving every seat a clear view of the stage. It is part of the Masonic Temple Building at Fifth and Sycamore streets.[1] It is home to the Cincinnati Children's Theatre. As of 2010, it is operated by Music & Event Management Inc., a subsidiary of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Music & Event Management Inc. also operates Riverbend Music Center and PNC Pavilion. The theatre will undergo up to $3 million worth of upgrades and renovations for air conditioning, seating, restroom improvements and other amenities.
It is used for Broadway shows, concerts, comedy and other special events.

10/30/71 New Riders Of The Purple Sage and Grateful Dead

1.)^Singer 2005, p.70.

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

Frenchy's, 29097 Mission Blvd., Hayward, CA

Frenchy's dated back to at least 1962.(3)
It "was an oddity, the hippest club in an unhip area."

On May 21, 1966, The Mothers backed Neil Diamond here!

6/18/65 Warlocks (Phil Lesh's first gig)
and three other unknown dates in 1965
"Phil Lesh says, "My first gig was across the bay in Hayward. We had an oral deal for two or three nights, and the first night was my first night in the band.There was nobody there-I guess the guy had expected us to draw automatically or something.
We took all our equipment home with us that night because they wouldn't guarantee security for it, and when we came back the next night there was a saxaphone, accordian, and guitar trio playing. Either we were so bad-which was possible-or the club owner was just desperate, but we had to be replaced."(1)(2)
Phil's first show was at Frenchy's, in Hayward, on June 18, 1965. The band was not invited back.(1)

9/3/79 Reconstruction
"The Grateful Dead played Madison Square Garden from September 4-6, so it's unlikely Garcia was in town. This may have been a show with Jerry Miller. Incidentally, Frenchy's was the very same venue from which the Warlocks were hired for a three day booking and then fired, reputedly on June 18, 1965. A Monday night at Frenchy's would be a good place for the band to try out its "new look" without Garcia. The show was subtitled "Merl Saunders And Friends," I think as an indicator of fans as to what to expect."(4)

1.)^Gans, David, Playin' In The Band, pg. 37.
2.)^McNally, Dennis, Long Strange Trip, pg. 84.
3.)^Arnold, Corry, 2011-09-16, Summer 1965, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2011/09/summer-1965-top-of-tangent-117.html
4.)^Arnold, Corry, 2012-11-01, Reconstructing Reconstruction, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/11/reconstructing-reconstruction-january.html

Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State Street, Columbus, Ohio

Capacity 2770
Originally known as Loew’s Ohio, the Ohio Theater is built atop the site of Columbus’s original city hall, destroyed in a 1921 fire.

The Ohio Theater was designed by the noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb.

It was furnished by New York decorator Anne Dornan, one of the first women to graduate from the Columbia School of Architecture. Dornan traveled around the world to select art and furnishings, even going on a safari to find appropriate decorations for the "Africa Corner" in the lower lounge of the Ohio. Approximately $1,000,000 was spent on art and furnishings -- more than the cost of the building itself!

1928

Built by the Loew's and United Artists movie theater chains, the Spanish Baroque movie palace opened on March 17, 1928. The first film shown there was The Divine Woman, a silent film with Greta Garbo. Unfortunately, Loew did not get to see the grand opening, having died six months before.

It featured its own orchestra and Robert-Morton theater organ (still in use today). In addition to movies, deluxe variety shows graced the stage, with performers that included Milton Berle, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, and Jack Benny.

Regular stage shows were discontinued in 1933 and the orchestra was disbanded. However organist Roger Garrett continued to perform daily at the "Mighty Morton" and occasional live appearances by stars including Judy Garland and Jean Harlow were featured on the stage.

In 1944, when Roger Garrett was inducted into the army, live organ music was discontinued.
In 1966, members of the American Theatre Organ Society began restoring the Robert Morton and playing the organ for shows again.^[3]

The final event, other than "Play Dirty" to be held in the theater was to be this concert by Roger Garrett on the Morton. Roger was the second Resident Organist of the Ohio, holding the position from 1933-1942.

Here is an excerpt from the book "The Ohio Theatre Golden Jubilee" which describes in words better than I can come up with a bit about the event:

"... on Sunday, February 16, the final significant event in the theatre's long life as a Loew's movie palace took place: a farewell concert on the theatre's famed Morton organ. Roger Garrett, for years the regular organist for the Ohio and the last organist to appear regularly at a Downtown Columbus movie theatre, returned for what was to be a nostalgic farewell.
The event was indeed nostalgic, ending as Garrett and the Morton sank into the orchestra pit with the swelling sounds of "Auld Lang Syne" filling the vast spaces of the Ohio..."
 
Loew's closed the theater in 1969 and it was threatened with destruction before being saved and renovated by the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA). The original building was completely restored during the 1970's.

The Ohio Theater was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
There is also an Ohio Theater in Cleveland and Mansfield, Ohio.

10/31/71 New Riders Of The Purple Sage and Grateful Dead
3/14/76 Jerry Garcia Band

1.)^http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/OH01.pdf
2.)^Bishop, Mary; et. al. (1978). The Ohio Theatre: 1928- 1978. Columbus Association of Performing Arts.
3.)^http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html

Target Center, 600 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN

Capacity 19,000
Originally built in 1990. The City of Minneapolis purchased the arena in 1995.
In 2004 Target Center underwent a major renovation that saw the replacement of all 19,006 of its original seats plus the addition of nearly 1,500 new seats as well as the reconfiguration of the lower bowl to make the arena more fan-friendly.

11/24/91 Jerry Garcia Band

Big Al's Gashouse, 4335 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA

Big Al's Gashouse was a pizza-and-beer joint, affiliated with similarly named places in North Beach and around the Bay Area (there really was a "Big Al"). Big Al's was another pizza place, like The Tangent or Magoo's, but at least it was connected to the City, if not really part of it.
The exact date of the Warlocks gig (or gigs) is unknown, but McNally and Jackson (in The Illustrated Trip) place it in August 1965.
Big Al's Gashouse burned down in January 1966. It was eventually replaced by a suburban hipster bar called The Trip, which opened in November 1966, but by that time the Warlocks were very far past that road.(1)

Ashtray:
http://s286.beta.photobucket.com/user/THEMISTERSMILEY/media/ASHTRAYS%20-%20California%20SF%20Bay%20Area/DSCF0360.jpg.html

8/65 Warlocks

1.)^Arnold, Corry, Lost Live Dead, 2009-09-06, North To San Francisco, http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2009/09/north-to-san-francisco-warlocks-in.html

Ken Kesey's, 9 Perry Lane, Palo Alto, CA

There is an area on the west side of Alameda and Foothill Expressway on Alpine Road. It borders the Stanford Golf Course. There used to be a bunch of small cottages there. It is near what is now called Stowe Lane. We were aware of the scene, and cruised back there on a few occasions, because we had heard that Kesey and others lived there. That is where there was a Perry Lane. They were not streets, they were just dirt drives with small signs on wooden posts.(1)

Some of the most memorable gigs took place on Perry Lane, a little street located between Vine and Leland. This was Menlo Park's "little Bohemia." Author Thorstein Veblen lived there, and so did Ken Kesey, while he was writing "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Kesey and his cohorts, known as the Merry Pranksters, would often close down the street for the festivities. Garcia and Lesh would come there to party and jam.
"They were big block parties, starting around noon and going into the night. Musicians would often show up," remembers Vic Lovell, 58, a Menlo Park psychologist who was at several of them. "We used to have Afro-Cuban jazz jam sessions."
The parties would often have a theme, like a Hawaiian Luau or the "Perry Lane Olympics" on the Fourth of July. "I remember Phil Lesh (the Dead's bassist) showing up to play the jazz trumpet. That's where I got the idea he wanted to be a serious musician," Lovell says. "He was tall and lean, playing modern jazz."
Palo Alto resident Bob Cullenbine was also there for the Perry Lane Olympics. "We had treasure hunts, games, partying, smoking and drinking," he says.(2)

1965

1.)^Gunderson, Robert, 2010-05-21, comments, http://inmenlo.com/2010/02/07/menlo-parks-musical-lore-jerry-the-dead-vince-and-more/
2.)^Palo Alto Weekly, 1993-05-12, "Dawn of the Dead- A Tour of the Grateful Dead's Midpeninsula roots"

The Orphanage, 807 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA

Under the name Varni's Roaring Twenties, the club was known for "The Girl On The Swing", where comely young ladies would swing over the stairwell in the center of the room.
Their calling card was a naked girl on a swing who, indeed, swung over the entire building. The club had briefly gone away from Topless in 1966, but had rapidly returned.

Varni's Roaring Twenties, August 16, 1964

San Francisco Chronicle May 6, 1967

From looking at the ad (in the May 6, 1967 San Francisco Chronicle) its clear that they have borrowed the iconography of the Fillmore posters, with the wobbly letters and the promise of a light show.
Their house band at the time was a group called The New Salvation Army Banned, a Haight Street group who had been playing there almost every night since at least March.(1)
Michael Wilhelm of The Charlatans confirmed me that his band played there at Roaring 20s as house band for six weeks during circa March-April 1967, before The New Salvation Army Banned.(2)

On Sunday, May 14, The Roaring 20s had a special event, promoted in that day's Chronicle (above), The Artists And Models Bal Masque. The blurb helpfully points out that tickets will be available to the public. Another listing says that the Jerry Hahn Trio (a jazz group) and Notes From The Underground (a Berkeley Folk-Rock group) would also be playing.

As The Orphanage, however, the club became North Beach's premier rock spot for a hot minute during the early seventies.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards showed up during the wee hours to catch reggae greats Toots and the Maytalls one night in 1975, the same year that friends of deejay Tom Donahue gathered at the club to hold a wake. The Tubes played without costumes or makeup for the first time that night and Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary), of all people, opened the event, which lasted until the early morning hours of the next day.(excerpt from Joel Selvin's book)

Now known as the Arnold Laub Building, it houses The Armstrong Law Firm.
The building is in the heart of the historical Jackson Square district. It has 18' ceilings and lots of light with brick & timber construction.The property includes operable windows.

2/6/73 Merl Saunders
2/7/73 Merl Saunders
4/23/73 Old And In Way[6]
The Rowan Brothers opened.
Jerry plays a RB-250 Gibson Mastertone banjo.[5]

4/30/73 Old And In Way
Jerry plays a RB-250 Gibson Mastertone banjo.[5]

8/30/75 Keith and Donna Band
Knock On Wood, Farewell Jack, I've Got Jesus, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, I Can't Turn You Loose, Sweet Baby, Strange Man, Tough Mama, My Love For You, Showboat, Come See About Me
Jerry's first public use of the TB1000A #51 guitar.
"Garcia started using the Travis Bean in 1975 but not until after the summer. 9/28/75 is the first Dead show with the Bean (TB1000A). He started using it a couple of weeks before that with the Keith and Donna Band on 8/30/75. The Boogie at the time was a cut and dry Mark I 1x12" combo. They came wired with preamp out 1/4 inch jack underneath the chassis. Garcia could take the preamp signal and step it up to the volume he needed with an external power amp such as the McIntosh. Then he ran the speaker outs on the Mac to any number of extension cabinets loaded with his speaker du jour at the time. Between 1975 and 1976 he went through 3 different guitars before settling on the Travis Bean TB500 for the later half of 76."[4]

Orphanage, San Francisco, CA
1.)^Arnold, Corry, 2010-01-18, http://rockarchaeology101.blogspot.com/2010/01/807-montgomery-san-francisco-roaring.html
2.)^Ceriotti, Bruno, 2011-05-02, http://rockarchaeology101.blogspot.com/2010/01/807-montgomery-san-francisco-roaring.html
3.)^T., Stella, History Of Montgomery Street, 2010-11-28, http://goarticles.com/article/History-of-Montgomery-Street/3725928/
4.)^http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/1188
5.)^Schoepf, Frank, 2014-04-16, email to author.
6.)^Scenedrome, Berkeley Barb, 1973-04-20-26, pg. 18, Joseph Jupille Archives.

Big Beat Club, 998 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA

Owner Yvonne Modica, quite an interesting figure in her own right, had been a successful restaurant and night club entrepreneur in the Bay Area since the 1950's.
According to Yvonne Modica's obituary, one of the innovations of The Big Beat was a "breakfast show" from 2 to 6 am on Saturday and Sunday mornings, where no liquor was served. Apparently musicians would finish their other gigs, and come to jam and hang out until the early hours. Breakfast shows were a regular feature of Jazz clubs in San Francisco and later there were a number of rock or soul breakfast shows around the Bay Area, including at Winchester Cathedral in Redwood City, Frenchy's in Hayward or Modica's other club, The Trip in San Mateo, which opened later in 1966.

While the well-kept building is now vacant, it still looks very much like the 1960s pizza parlor and dance club where the Dead played an acid test. The location of the club, in a then deserted industrial district near Highway 101.(1)
Although The Big Beat continued to exist, it dropped completely off the psychedelic radar. The club was open at least until Spring 1968. Charlie Musselwhite performed here on March 24, 1968.

12/18/65 Grateful Dead
Seven days after they first performed as the Grateful Dead.
Ironically enough, The Big Beat's lasting fame came the weekend before it opened, when Ken Kesey's crew rented the place for a party, and the Grateful Dead played at The Acid Test.(1)
Held in a metal warehouse west of the railroad tracks, the event at the "Big Beat Club" was one of Kesey's Acid Tests.
"There were lots of people with their faces painted and a real carnivalesque feeling," remembers Nelson, now a San Francisco songwriter. "It was like a burgeoning rave scene, a million raves thrown into one."
"The Big Beat came out of nowhere. This is where everybody played, the next step from the coffeehouses," Williams says.
But before the Pranksters got on their now-famous bus, they treated the Peninsula to public acid tests. Spencer, a Perry Lane resident, was at the first one, in a warehouse down by the mudflats off Bayshore Road. He said it was the Grateful Dead's first big public performance.
"So was Neal Cassidy, among other soon to be infamous folks (the Dead, but they might have been the Warlocks at that point, and all the Pranksters). He and his girl-friend were having an argument at one point...very entertaining for the rest of us!"(2)
Interestingly, someone who attended recalls two stages on opposite sides of the building (a common arrangement, making it easy to switch over to a new band) and an all-girl band who alternated with the Dead.

1.)^Rock Prosopography 101, 2009-08-14, http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/2009/08/december-18-1965-big-beat-palo-alto.html
2.)^ Bell, Margaret, 2009-09-01, http://www.paloaltoonline.com/square/index.php?i=3&t=551#add_comments

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
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2012-05-24, Lost Live Dead
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The Offstage, 970 S. First Street, San Jose, CA

"OK so down we went to the San Jose area where we stayed with Paul and David together in a sort of communal house with Paul Foster in Redwood Estates, a suburb of San Jose. I played one show at the Off Stage, opening for Dino Valenti, and made $10.00, which covered us for a few days. "(Steve Mann)

Paul Kantner attended Santa Clara University from 1959-61, where he first meet Jorma Kaukonen, who would one day become lead guitarist of Jefferson Airplane. "I left Santa Clara after three semesters and moved on to the ever-so-pagan San Jose State," Kantner chuckles. Already a budding singer/guitarist, he gravitated to a downtown San Jose folk club called The Offstage, a place where he and Kaukonen would give guitar lessons.

"A computer guy named Paul Foster-a really good artist and one of the progenitors of the Bay Area's graphics scene-actually put up the money for The Offstage," says Kantner. Everybody played there, he adds, including David Crosby and future Quicksilver Messenger Service (and Jefferson Starship) member David Freiberg, performing with his girlfriend in a duo called David & Michaela. "It was all quite incestuous back then," recalls Kantner of the local music scene and seeing a young Jerry Garcia play a Palo Alto folk club called The Tangent. (1)

The Stanford Daily February 28, 1963

The Stanford Daily March 1, 1963

After the Folk Music Theatre in San Jose was transformed into the Offstage, Kantner and some of the other folkies set up the Folklore Center in a corner of the club, "selling guitar picks, strings and marijuana." Kantner also started booking acts for the club, including Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (with future members of the Grateful Dead) and David Crosby. 
 JFK's assassination in 1963 "proved the linchpin point of our generation," said Kantner, and "almost switched the universe--What R. Crumb calls the Space-Time Motherfucking Continuum -- over 180 degrees. Everything that was before was not after that." Soon Kantner was introduced to LSD by someone who brought it to the Offstage along with a Fender guitar and amplifier, with reverb and vibrato. "Went off into the cosmos," Kantner recalls.(2)

"I came up through the early Folk Music scene, first in the duo "Orpheus' Children" with Eilleen Gammill, playing gigs with Pig Pen McKernen (Grateful Dead) at the Off Stage in San Jose and solo gigs at coffeehouses like Coffee and Confusion and The Coffee Gallery in North Beach; and later playing with "The South Gate Singers". I helped organize the 1964 College of San Mateo Folk Festival where we shared the stage with Jerry Garcia & "The Black Mountain String Band", and "The Liberty Hill Aristocrates," with Peter Albin (pre Big Brother and the Holding Co.); and Jessie "Lone Cat" Fuller, who wrote San Francisco Bay Blues."(3)

Paul Grushkin's "The Art Of Rock" on p 57 has a nice reproduction of "The Folio, a broadsheet for the Offstage Folk Music Theater at 970 S 1st Street, right in the pancreas of San Jose" for September 1964.

Among the performers that month were Paul Kantner, Jerry Kaukonen "best blues, wondrous guitar" and The Liberty Hill Aristocrats. Show times were 9pm, 9:25, 10:20, 11:40 and midnight. There's a tuition list with phone numbers down the left hand side.

Guitar Lessons
Jerry Kaukonen
John Massey
Geoff Lovin
Jerry Garcia
Paul Suso(illegible)

Banjo Lessons
Paul Kantner
Pete Grant
Jerry Garcia

The Jug Band definitely played a few other places, such as The Off Stage in San Jose, but one of their last gigs was at a  "Hootenanny" at the Peninsula YMCA in Redwood City, on January 16, 1965 (there is a chance they played one final gig a few weeks later at College Of San Mateo).

Kantner and Freiberg eventually moved back up north and started a series of folk clubs, where they performed, gave music lessons, and hung out. Crosby occasionally traveled up the coast to play at clubs like The Tangent in Palo Alto, the Offstage in San Jose, and the Cabal in Berkeley.(4)

From Ray Allen's book, Gone To The Country

For a time it was the Thien-Kym Restaurant. In 2012 the address is now the Vinh Hing Bakery‎.

9/64 banjo and guitar lessons (7)
12/64 Sandy Rothman, Scott Hambly
"...a Dec '64 show at the Offstage with Rothman & Hambly again, but then gave it up for years."(1)

"Paul Foster, who for a time ran the Offstage Club in San Jose, says, "I had a problem with him. I didn't book him very often because he was kind of snotty to the audience; he treated them terrible." According to Garcia, "We always had a sort of abuse-the-audience attitude. Once they were in there, they were yours and you could do whatever you wanted to them! That was part of the fun of playing those little clubs."(6)

1.)^Light Into Ashes, comments, 2011-12-18, http://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2011/12/may-1964-noncommissioned-officers-club.html
2.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia:An American Life, pg. 59, http://www.blairjackson.com/chapter_three_additions.htm
1.)^Cost, Jed, Inductee - Paul Kanter, founder of Jefferson Starship, http://www.sanjoserocks.org/i_starship.htm
2.)^Tamarkin, Jeff, Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, 2003
3.)^Ehret, Stephen, http://www.stephenehretmusic.com/about.htm
4.)^Zimmer, Dave, Dilz, Henry, Crosby Stills Nash:The Biography, pg 23
5.)^ Allen, Ray, Gone To The Country, pg 153 
6.)^Jackson, Blair, Garcia, An American Life, pg 59 
7.)^Grushkin, Paul, The Art Of Rock, pg. 57.