Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Generosity, 1981 Union Street, San Francisco, CA

What once was The Generosity, 1981 Union Street, San Francisco, CA

A 3700 square foot free standing Victorian located between Buchanan Street and Charlton Court.

In a recent interview on the Jake Feinberg Show (promoting his new album, "Romancing the Bass"), Tony Saunders has discussed this time period a little bit. The relevant bit starts around 34:35 of the hour long interview. I transcribe some of it here.

"[Garcia] would show up at my Dad and my gigs with Aunt Monk. He was playing little places. He played on Union Street in San Francisco at this place called The Generosity. It was tiny. And he would just show up with his amp in his car, show up, come in and play. He never wanted any money. He just wanted to play. And when you talk about him learning … we played a Stanley Clarke song one night … but the song just went all over the place. And he came up to me and he shook my hand and he said ‘Tony, that was a good one, because I couldn’t just do what I thought that I could do. I couldn’t just play along and every time I went to go, when I felt comfortable, I really liked that. That was a great song.’ And a lot of the songs that they played in Legion of Mary, we played them at first with the Aunt Monk group. And Jerry … he would play them first there, and then he would transpose them over to the groups with my Dad."

When Feinberg asks (@ 35:35) who was in the group, Tony says “At first it was E.W. Wainwright, myself, my Dad and … most of the times Jerry would come sit in and be the guitar player. Another young guitar player, Chris Hayes, who went on to play with Huey Lewis and the News for twenty years.” (As an aside, Tony had earlier said that his first gig with his Dad and Jerry, when he was 18 (ca. 1974) was at the Inn of the Beginning.(1)

At some point, and maybe still, it was called Earthly Goods, a women's apparel store.

Lululemon (www.lululemon.com), a yoga-inspired athletic apparel store is also located here now, 2012.



Jerry performed here on
2/14/75 Legion Of Mary
5/9/75 Legion Of Mary





1.)^Jerry Garcia's Middle Finger, 2011-11-23, LN jg1975-05-09.aunt-monk.84mins.aud-castelli-motb-0144.107829.flac1644

1 comment:

  1. Below I paste a list of not-known-to-be-Garcia dates that I have gathered (rather sporadically) for the Generosity:

    19730311 Sunday Mitch Woods and his Red Hot Mama
    19730408 Sunday Mitch Woods and His Red Hot Mama
    19730504 Friday Mitch Woods and His Red Hot Mama
    19730511 Friday Mitch Woods and His Red Hot Mama
    19730713 Friday Mitch Woods and His Red Hot Mama
    19730714 Saturday Peter Spelman
    19730715 Sunday Mitch Woods and His Red Hot Mama
    19740215 Friday John Shine
    19740216 Saturday Sundance
    19740217 Sunday Sundance
    19740614 Friday Peter Spelman and Spelbound
    19740615 Saturday Peter Spelman and Spelbound
    19740707 Sunday Merl Saunders
    19740814 Wednesday Alice Stuart
    19740901 Sunday Alice Stuart
    19740907 Saturday Merl Saunders
    19740925 Wednesday Alice Stuart
    19741004 Friday Aunt Monk
    19741018 Friday Mark Naftalin and Friends
    19741019 Saturday Ana Rizzo and the A Train
    19741020 Sunday Ana Rizzo and the A Train
    19741025 Friday Clover
    19741026 Saturday Ana Rizzo and the A Train
    19741122 Friday Ana Rizzo and the A Train
    19750110 Friday Aunt Monk
    19750117 Friday Road Hog
    19750122 Wednesday Alice Stuart
    19750124 Friday Alice Stuart
    19750131 Friday Alice Stuart
    19750207 Friday Luis Gasca
    19750228 Friday Ted Ashford Group
    19750427 Sunday Alice Stuart
    19750510 Saturday Aunt Monk
    19750723 Wednesday Sundance
    19750727 Sunday Alice Stuart
    19750730 Wednesday Sundance

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