By David Gans

Week of August 28, 1995

Continuing with the series of five programs following Jerry Garcia's death in the summer of 1995.

This show is a collection of favorite musical moments. Impossible to cover all of Jerry's musical facets in an hour, of course.

I played "Louis Collins" on the night Jerry died, because I thought it was one of the sweetest and best-recorded Jerry vocals ever. It's a bonus track on on a sampler CD from David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label. Another version of this song from the same session was released in 2000 on The Pizza Tapes.

The 9/29/89 revival of "Death Don't Have No Mercy" was an electrifying moment, and the last truly mind-blowing Jerry guitar solo I recall witnessing personally. It was later included in the boxed set So Many Roads (1965-1995)

This wonderful 10/19/74 "Eyes of the World" also wound up on So Many Roads. It is heard in the Grateful Dead Movie, and I highly recommend the new multitrack mix of the song that appears on the Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack, released in 2004.

- DG

Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Tony Rice, from 100% Handmade Music
LOUIS COLLINS

Grateful Dead 9/29/89 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mtn View CA
DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY

Grateful Dead 5/28/76 (rehearsal)
ATTICS OF MY LIFE

Grateful Dead 7/17/88 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA
BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Grateful Dead 10/19/74 Winterland, San Francisco
EYES OF THE WORLD->
CHINA DOLL

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

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