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Chart performance of Jerry Garcia Reflections (1976) and Jerry Garcia Band Cats Under the Stars (1978)

Jerry said regularly over the years that he was disappointed with Cats Under the Stars' performance, and that it took his heart out of recording for a while. I think of the white space under the Reflections series "The Blob of Jerry's Disappointment". Disappointment is always the difference between expectations and outcomes. We can see Cats' underperformance here, even against Reflections, which didn't do all that well, either.

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Jerry being his own 'quippie, photo credit Michael Parrish. See his post at the cryptdev blog for color (heh heh, see what I did there?): https://cryptdev.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-riders-of-purple-sage-at-peninsula.html. The dates are wrong - 5/19/70 is correct: https://jerrybase.com/events/19700519-01

https://jerrybase.com/venues/223 four known JG gigs at the School, which David Torbert, John Dawson. This was a K-8! I think it's the only school of that type Garcia played - plenty of high schools and loads of colleges.

Corry Arnold [dates not correct in title/text]: https://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-riders-of-purple-sage-peninsula.html

For the book I am writing, I have been digging in with Jerry Garcia's spoken words in interviews and recorded conversations. Here's the distribution of events I have been able to capture. Not all have transcripts. Most do, but many are partial and some have nothing at all beyond knowing an event occurred.

Once Fate Music is getting ready for publication I will be posting access to all of these materials for folks to play around with using LLMs and whatnot.

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