Week of February 27, 1989
Grateful Dead 4/19/87 Irvine Meadows, Irvine CA
ALABAMA GETAWAY->
PROMISED LAND
TONS OF STEEL
I NEED A MIRACLE->
CUMBERLAND BLUES->
DRUMS
MISSISSIPPI HALFSTEP->
FRANKLIN'S TOWER
RAMBLE ON ROSE
BOX OF RAIN
Selections from the first and second sets, in no particular order.
David Kerr requested this show, and your requests are most welcome, too! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, www.gdhour.com. Let me know if there's a particular program you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net
Thanks for listening! David Gans
gdhour [at] dead.net
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still makes me wanna dance
I know I'm among friends here...my soul lies bare. A common criticism from my contemporaries is "the Grateful Dead just can't rock" followed by "their music all sounds the same". Ever find yourself in that conversation? Since both those statements are nonsense, we move on to other discussion and ultimately other contemporaries. For proof - as if its needed - along comes a show and a set like this!
Thanks 2 Davids - Kerr and Gans
Keep dancin'
A very nice 87
Thanks for digging this out. Makes me wish I was listening to the radio more during college, at least 1 hour a week the final year;->
ringing in the year
i'll never forget new year's 86-87 when david put together that spectacular montage to ring in the new year. gives me chills to listen to it still. 87 was a rocking one, even if the jams were not the longest or most exploratory...thanks for representing that year, dg.
G.D.F.F.- - -Oh,
G.D.F.F.- - -Oh, GOOD-TIMES,GOOD-TIMES!!!!!!!!!
Old radioshows
What have happened to the pre-1988 radio shows??
I remember listening to at least one show during a seven weeks stay in the Bay Area some 21+ years ago. The one I remember had Phil Lesh as a guest, talking about his interest in Thelonious Monk.
I also have an old tape with another show from about the same time. Among the songs played are one called "Marsmellow Road" by Mickey Hart och Barry Melton.
My main question is why those older radio shows are not included in the counting, i.e. why is a september 1988 show number 1??
Numbering of shows
The answer to that question is revealed in the text accompanying GDH500, the next one published on this page. Here's a sneak preview:
This "500th" show is actually somewhere closer to the 600th hour of GD-related radio programming I had produced. As I noted in the hoopla surrounding GD Hour #1000, my first broadcast was on February 18th, 1985 on the KFOG Deadhead Hour in San Francisco. I was one of several area Deadheads assisting original host M. Dung with the show at that time (the others were Paul Grushkin, author of The Official Book of the Dead Heads, and Dr Richard Raffel); later that year I was asked to take responsibility for the show, and then other radio stations started asking if they could carry it, too. The band gave their blessing, and that's how I inadvertently became the producer and host of a nationally syndicated radio show. I started numbering them in 1987 and got up to #55 before a commercial syndicator got involved in September 1988 and started the numbers over again from 1.
So there are unnumbered shows, produced by myself and others, going back to November 1984. The "national Deadhead Hour" shows, numbered 1 through 55, ran from the summer of '87 to the summer of '88.
I have a couple of my early KFOG Deadhead Hour programs in the queue for this site.
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Dead deadmike:
Most of my old KFOG Deadhead Hours are on reel-to-reel tape that needs to be restored. One of these days I'll get to 'em....
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and lemme tellya
having been in the studio for that Phil show, I can personally attest that it was memorable on many levels!