“Loser” (Grateful Dead) Vee Ellsbury 4/9/23 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Vee Ellsbury, of Wiitch Tiit, Eleven Moons, and other bands, turned in this rendition of the Hunter/Garcia tune “Loser” at Byron’s Bar in Pomeroy on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 in the third set.

The night was billed as Todd Partridge And Friends, and the friends did Partridge solo tunes, Matt Arthur solo tunes, and a reunion of the King Of The Tramps. “Loser” came almost at the end of the night, and the crowd’s noise level was getting higher, which our mics faithfully captured, but yours truly thought it was a stellar performance.

It isn’t really unusual for artists to work in a Dead tune or two into their gigs at Byron’s, the place being “The Deadhead Capitol Of Iowa”, but they’re often not songs in their regular rotations and mistakes do happen. Vee demonstrated that this one IS well within her wheelhouse, to understate that.

I stole her photo from her Facebook profile: she attributes it to Josh Weitzel, whom I do not know. I beg forgiveness for the theft but I can’t find my own photos from the night (I live in chaos).

The exquisite violin is Kathryn Severing Fox.

(recordist’s note: Jerry Garcia didn’t always include the “sweet susie” phrase in live performances. As far as I’m concerned, this is the authentic version.)

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Vee Ellsbury by Josh Weitzel

Website: Byron’s Bar

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“Sugaree”, Bruce Katz Band, Byron’s Bar, 3/13/22

Byron’s Bar being, well, The Deadhead Capital Of Iowa, the Bruce Katz Band played this wonderful version of “Sugaree”, 1971, by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, released on Garcia’s solo album of 1972

Bruce Katz Band

Bruce Katz Band:
Bruce Katz, keyboards
Aaron Lieberman, guitar, vocals
Liviu Pop, drums

Images in the video are from Rainy Day Music’s early eBay days-all licensed merchandise that we handled (except for one hand-made item) .

Much thanks for Katz for his encouragement of our recording project.







Uncle John’s Band at Byron’s, David G. Smith 8/15/21

When somebody plays Grateful Dead at Byron’s, it’s special

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Further: Smith also did this number in September 2019. A very noisy wedding party had crashed the performance. Here’s our original recording of that.

But since then, we’ve learned that we knock out some of the noise by mixing down to mono:







Grateful Dead Swag We Have Sold At eBay

“And I knew without askin’ she was into the blues” -Robert Hunter

This is me being cryptic and subliminal and quite understated yet still bombastic in about five directions at the same time.

All of these items were licensed, except the handmade Jerry & Pig On Plaster With Hemp Macrame Hanger, by me.

The 1975 black and white Garris Fiddler is still for sale, quantities exist

Buy Those Here

Fillmore Card BG 026 Jefferson Airplane Grateful Dead 5 x 7 9/2/66

This is a very early eBay photo from Rainy Day Music. It was from the film era when I had to shoot the photo, hope I got it, mail the film to some processor and wait for it to come back on a CD. At the time I was shooting random things from the display case under relatively low light.

Record of the date of sale and amount is lost.

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3 Grateful Dead Decals Stickers Steal Your Face Space Morris Night Day

3 Grateful Dead Steal Your Face Decals

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Grateful Dead Decal Skeleton And Roses

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New vinyl decal, Grateful Dead Skeleton And Roses by Stanley Mouse, image size about 4 1/4″ x 5 3/4″ (overall dimensions of merchandising card somewhat larger), manufactured and fully licensed by Yujean Stickems.
3 Available:













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