From Dark Star Dan McGonagle:
Hey friends & family…
Our next Grateful Dead Night will be on Wednesday, June 25 at 12 Galaxies in the SF Mission district. We are very honored to have legendary GD crew member & JGB manager Steve Parish coming down to do a spoken word tribute of his many years traveling with Jerry Garcia and the GD. He will be accompanied by a keyboard player – I believe it will be composer George Michalski – for this performance.
Much like with John Perry Barlow, this is the real deal for us at GDN. It’s a great honor to have Steve come down and hang with us in this intimate space to share with us his personal stories and experiences. Arguably, no one spent more time with Jerry Garcia over the last 20 years of his life than on the road with Steve Parish and the GD. Let’s not let him down and have a great turn-out.
To put things into perspective; Steve was Jerry’s guitar tech, the last line of defense to get near Jerry -a brother- and “best man” at his wedding in the early 90’s. Steve was also the last friend to see Jerry Garcia alive on August 08, 1995. Please come out and share a little love with big Steve.
For more on Mr. Parish:
https://deadnews.blogspot.com/2005/11/where-are-they-now-steve-parish.html
https://www.dead.net/features/jerry-garcia-steve-parish
We’ll have a mic set up for a Q & A session after his performance. Check out Steve’s book, Home Before Daylight – My Life On The Road With the Grateful Dead. It’s a lot of fun to read this book.
We’re also very happy to have Stu Allen (JGB/Melvin Seals/Workingman’s Ed) & Pat Nevins (Workingman’s Ed/Ragged Glory) back for their fifth acoustic engagement of just about everything good – Dead, Neil, Dylan, Van, Graham, Beatles, and more. We’ll be starting at 9:00 pm to maintain Steve’s schedule so please get there early and let’s build-up some great energy .
I’ll both open and close the night with the usual mix of Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Jerry Acoustic Band, Grateful Dawg and all things related. We won’t be straying too far from all things Dead this week.
We have nothing scheduled for July so this may be the last Dead Night until Friday, August 01 (w-Montana Slim!)
So come meet Steve, hear some great music, Shake yer bones, and have a real good time!
Doors @ 8PM – Cover is $7
12 Galaxies is a dead-head owned and operated nightclub and a very friendly ‘head space where we can all congregate and stay close. We have no set formula on how or when we will do these nights. We just kind of look at the calendar and see if it fits and feels right. It’s wide open as to how it will evolve in regards to music, art, performances, vending, special guests, spoken word, plays/skits, video, open mic/forums, special events, etc… this is our community, let’s let it grow.
“Support your local Dead Night!â€
2565 Mission St @ 22nd – SF, CA
*-Dark Star Dan
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