Made a last minute choice to swing up to Menlo Park after work to a little place called Bar Loretta, tucked inside a restaurant called Left Bank, apparently on the site Magoo’s Pizza Parlor, the site of the first proto-Grateful Dead show sixty years ago.
Billed as the Warlocks still, the show featured the first appearance of replacement bass player, Phil Lesh, according to lore.
The event was a benefit for a play called “Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission,” apparently about the iconic guitarist, songwriter, singer, and bandleader’s childhood.
It featured music and a bit of history, with musical performances from a bunch of talented musicians, including a duo known as Effie Zilch and my pal and record producer, David Gans, and a conversation between David and another old friend of mine, Nicholas Meriwether.
I made an Irish exit at the end but it was a nice moment the brought a lot of the motley strands of my life together.
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