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Grateful Dead Hour no. 361
By David Gans
Week of August 21, 1995
Since this feature was inaugurated a little over a year ago, I have been getting requests to post the series of programs I produced in 1995 following Jerry Garcia's untimely passing.
Here is the first of those shows, which includes the memorial ceremony that was held at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on August 13, four days after Jerry died.
The 2/18/71 "Dark Star Jam" became known as "Beautiful Jam" when it was included in the boxed set So Many Roads (1965-1995). It takes the band from the first-ever live performance of "Wharf Rat" into the second verse of "Dark Star," and it remains to this day one of the most beautiful passages of Grateful Dead improvisation I have ever heard.
- DG
P.S. A reader did the research about the poem Paul Kantner read and posted the information below. It's "For The Good Of All" by Otto Rene Castillo. Paul confirmed this in email today, too.
8/13/95 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
MEMORIAL CEREMONY for Jerry Garcia
Grateful Dead 3/18/95 Spectrum, Philadelphia
IT'S ALL TOO MUCH->
IKO IKO
Grateful Dead 2/18/71 Capitol Theatre, Portchester NY
DARK STAR JAM
You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the GD Hour web site. 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@dead.net
Thanks for listening!
David Gans
gdhour@dead.net
Love is Real!
you're the best! I'm so grateful for this.
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Hey Pauly!
Thanks...For the Good of ALL!
xo~xo~xo~xo~safely home, forsure.
In lovingkindness,
burningsweetlysherbearx~~~
PS 15 years later we still need to remember NOT
to lose the meaning of...LOVE.
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love, love, love...love is all you need, xo
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I just wanted to bump this program up into the "recent" list. It includes the memorial for Jerry at Golden Gate Park on 8/13/95.
This is the musical nourishment my soul needs. This particular show is the essence of what it was to have gone along on the ride. It is still delivering or can
can deliver cool, clear , beautiful memories of the sunny slopes of long ago.
...my senior year of high school, and I was fortunate to have been catching the dead whenever they came to the NY area for the past four years. I was cooking pasta and my little sister walked into the kitchen and said, "hey, that guitar player you like just died." I knew immediately. I turned off the stove and walked into the living room where my sister was watching MTV, and there was Kurt Loder giving the news.
Not sure what to do, I got in my car, lit a cigarette and just started driving the back roads through the woods. I put on 92.3 K-Rock, which was playing live dead all day, and in between songs taking phone calls of people expressing their sadness and gratitude. I parked by a small pond and cried listening to Brokedown Palace.
Thank you for playing this memorial which I am hearing for the first time. And I agree that the Dark Star transition from 71 absolutely sings Jerry's spirit...
So grateful, everyday.
for playing this one again. When I first heard it back then it helped me to deal with his passing . I always spent the shows on my feet, spinning into the wonderful space that only the Dead could take me to. I injured my ankle two years ago, and have used a crutch to work and get around with, and didn't know when I would be able to dance and spin as i used to. Tonight when listening to this show again I got the inspiration to sit on a revolving stool. I CAN SPIN AND DANCE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was finally able to really experience the music as i used to. spinning away , into the space that only the Dead could take me too, that I haven't full been able to for years. Thank you, Jerry for the inspiration tonight, for the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right, for my miracle today. Thank you David, for all you have done over the years.
for bringing us back to that day. It was sad in may ways...the leader of the band was gone, our way of life was gone...it was never the same again, but at least some ARE keeping it alive.
Thanks everyone!
very nicely put.
I know everyone is going to focus on the memorial and that Dark Star Jam, but don't skip over that version of Iko Iko. It's one of the highlights of '95, IMHO.
Is there any way i can hear this via stream or d/l? or will it need to be played again on the DH hour at some time? thank you