Grateful Dead Hour

Grateful Dead Hour http://www.dead.net/features/gdhour GD Radio Hour landing page en Grateful Dead Hour no.254 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-254 <h3>Week of August 2, 1993</h3> <p>Featured: an interview with <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com" target="_blank">David Grisman</a> and three unreleased live Garcia-Grisman performances from May of 1992. </p> <p>Jerry Garcia & David Grisman 5/92 Warfield Theater, SF<br /> <strong>SITTING IN LIMBO</strong></p> <p>David Grisman Quintet, <em>Dawgwood</em><br /> <strong>JAZZIN' WITH JOE BOB</strong><br /> Jerry Garcia & David Grisman 5/92<br /> <strong>DAWG'S WALTZ</strong></p> <p><em>Enrique Coria</em><br /> <strong>SONS DE CARRILOES</strong></p> <p><em>Old and In the Way</em><br /> <strong>OLD AND IN THE WAY</strong></p> <p>David Grisman,<em> Mondo Mando</em><br /> <strong>MONDO MANDO</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia & David Grisman 5/92<br /> <strong>SHE BELONGS TO ME</strong> </p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh254_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-254#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:52:28 -0500 ccasal 15246 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.778 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-778 <h3>Week of August 18, 2003</h3> <p>Concluding the second set of 6/25/85, which we started in last week's podcast. Also in this week's post, a couple of excerpts from the then-new <em>Dick's Picks Picks volume 29</em>, a 6-CD set with two shows from the band's amazing Spring 1977 tour.</p> <p>"Samson and Delilah" is preceded by a hilarious comedy bit: as the band prepared to begin the second set at the Fox Theater in Atlanta on May 19, guitarist Bob Weir announced to the audience: "Before we get started, maybe we should all take part in an exercise - a simple exercise: I want every one of you out there to stand up real slow, put your hands in the air, and turn around real slow. And don't try anything funny 'cause I've got you covered. Thank you."</p> <p>As the crowd laughs and cheers, drummer Bill Kreutzmann is heard to say, "That wasn't good enough!"</p> <p>One wonders what backstage discussion gave rise to this great moment in Grateful Dead history. It was one of my favorite bootleg tapes for years, and I had played it on the GD Hour twice before, so I was very happy when it showed up in an <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=e20c6d21-dfe9-47b1-bd76-bdb30e85969f">official release</a>.</p> <p>Enjoy!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/25/85 Blossom Music Ctr, Cuyahoga Falls OH<br /> <strong>SPACE-><br /> THE WHEEL-><br /> PLAYING IN THE BAND-><br /> CHINA DOLL-><br /> SUGAR MAGNOLIA<br /> TOUCH OF GREY</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=e20c6d21-dfe9-47b1-bd76-bdb30e85969f"><em>Dick's Picks vol. 29</em></a> (May 19 & 21, 1977) <strong>SAMSON AND DELILAH TENNESSEE JED</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">>Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">>gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">>GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans </p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh778_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-778#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:16:59 -0500 ccasal 15217 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.777 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-777 <h3>Week of August 11, 2003</h3> <p>By request, this week and next we'll hear some unreleased Grateful Dead music: the complete second set of 6/25/85. Also in this week's post, some music from the soundtrack of Bob Dylan's weird and wonderful movie <em>Masked and Anonymous.</em> Bob starred in the film along with an all-star cast that included Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson, and many more. And tons of great music.</p> <p>"Diamond Joe," featured here, is also heard (sung by David Nelson) on the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band album <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Almost_Acoustic.htm" target="_blank"><em>Almost Acoustic</em></a>; I've always loved that song - and the rest of the CD, too. </p> <p>Enjoy!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/25/85 Blossom Music Ctr, Cuyahoga Falls OH<br /> <strong>GIMME SOME LOVIN'-><br /> CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER-><br /> I KNOW YOU RIDER-><br /> PLAYING IN THE BAND-><br /> DRUMS</strong></p> <p>From the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319829/" target="_blank"><em>Masked and Anonymous</em></a> Soundtrack CD<br /> <strong>DIAMOND JOE</strong> - <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com" target="_blank">Bob Dylan</a><br /> <strong>ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS </strong>- <a href="http://www.loslobos.org/" target="_blank">Los Lobos</a><br /> <strong>DOWN IN THE FLOOD </strong>- Bob Dylan</p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>. </p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh777_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-777#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:10:50 -0500 ccasal 15216 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.295 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-295 <h3>Week of May 16, 1994</h3> <p>By request, more from 10/27/79 at the Cape Cod Coliseum.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/27/79 Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth MA<br /> <strong>HE'S GONE-><br /> JAM-><br /> THE OTHER ONE<br /> NOT FADE AWAY-><br /> BLACK PETER-><br /> AROUND AND AROUND</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh295_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-295#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:46:11 -0500 ccasal 15198 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.294 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-294 <h3>Week of May 9, 1994</h3> <p>By request, excerpts from two excellent 1979 shows: 10/27/79 at the Cape Cod Coliseum, and 7/1/79 at the Seattle Center Arena.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/27/79 Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth MA<br /> <strong>DANCIN' IN THE STREETS-><br /> FRANKLIN'S TOWER<br /> ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/1/79 Seattle Center Arena<br /> <strong>PASSENGER<br /> SHAKEDOWN STREET</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh294_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-294#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:25:33 -0500 ccasal 15134 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.269 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-269 <h3>Week of November 15, 1993</h3> <p>By request, excerpts from the famous "stealth" Grateful Dead show, where the band was billed as "Formerly the Warlocks"! Plus a track from a wonderful Garcia-Grisman CD.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/9/89 Coliseum, Hampton VA<br /> <strong>FEEL LIKE A STRANGER<br /> BUILT TO LAST<br /> WE CAN RUN<br /> THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd9.html" target="_blank"><em>Not for Kids Only</em></a><br /> <strong>THREE MEN WENT A-HUNTING</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/9/89 Coliseum, Hampton VA<br /> <strong>DARK STAR</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh269_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-269#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 26 May 2009 11:24:31 -0500 ccasal 15069 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.809 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-809 <h3>Week of March 22, 2004 </h3> <p>And the conclusion of the second set of 3/1/87 at HJK, plus some more tracks from the then-new Jerry Garcia boxed set. <p><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=08a17521-ad4e-481b-8062-72449055a322"><em>All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions</em></a><strong><br />SUGAREE<br />MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS</strong> </p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA<strong><br />THE OTHER ONE-><br />BLACK PETER-><br />AROUND AND AROUND-><br />GOOD LOVIN'<br />~<br />DON'T EASE ME IN</strong> </p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>. </p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh809_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-809#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 11 May 2009 18:16:06 -0500 ccasal 14922 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.808 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-808 <h3>Week of March 15, 2004 or later</h3> <p>Continuing with the complete second set of 3/1/87, and a live track from my favorite guitar-god band, <a href="http://www.moe.org" target="_blank">moe.</a></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA <strong>BLACK MUDDDY RIVER</strong><br /> <strong>HE'S GONE-></strong><br /> <strong> DRUMS</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.moe.org" target="_blank">moe.</a> 10/3/03 Orange Peel, Ashland OR (Instant Live CD) <strong>REBUBULA</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh808_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-808#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 11 May 2009 18:02:41 -0500 ccasal 14921 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.807 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-807 <h3>Week of March 8, 2004 or later</h3> <p> This week we begin a three-week series encompassing the complete second set of 3/1/87 at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center (formerly the Oakland Auditorium). This was the first night of a Sunday-through-Tuesday run in the grungy East Bay arena that became our home base after the demise of Winterland. </p> <p> Sound man Dan Healy wasn't impressed with the fact that I had a contract with the Dead to do the Grateful Dead Hour, and although he grudgingly allowed me to plug a cassette deck into the soundboard feed for this run, it was the only time. Nothing was easy in dealing with the Dead and their crew. (And by the way, thanks to Bob Menke for lending me his Sony D-5 to do this.) </p> <p> The music was terrific. There was something amiss at the San Francisco Civic in January - as anyone who heard the band's wild stab at the Beatles' "Get Back" on 1/28 can attest - so it was greatly reassuring to hear the GD hit the ground running at the Kaiser a month later. </p> <p> And if I remember correctly, it was during this run of shows that <a href="/herbie-greene">Herbie Greene</a> did the shoot for the <a href="/archives/1987/photos/grateful-dead-bob-dylan-0">Dylan-Dead tour photo</a>. </p> <p> Also in this show: a phone interview with Donna Jean Godchaux, who had just released a CD called <em>At the Table</em>with her family group, <a href="http://www.heartofgoldband.com/%22" target="_blank">The Heart of Gold Band</a>. This is a sweet and spiritual album that I liked a lot, especially the songs by <a href="http://www.heartofgoldband.com/bios/brian.htm">Brian Godchaux</a>, one of which is featured in this program. As I write this in April 2009, Donna Jean is on the road with a new ensemble, <a href="http://www.donnajeangodchauxband.com/" target="_blank">The Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson</a>. I attended their debut performance at Camp Zoe on April 17, and I give 'em an enthusiastic thumbs-up. </p> <p> And: a track from the boxed set <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=08a17521-ad4e-481b-8062-72449055a322"><em>All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions</em></a>, which was about to be released. </p> <p> Enjoy! </p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA<br /> <strong>HELL IN A BUCKET-><br /> SCARLET BEGONIAS-><br /> FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN<br /> SAMSON AND DELILAH</strong></p> <p><em>All Good Things: Jerry Garcia's Studio Recordings</em><br /> <strong>THAT'S A TOUCH I LIKE</strong></p> <p>Interview: <a href="http://www.donnajeangodchauxband.com" target="_blank"><strong>Donna Jean Godchaux</strong></a></p> <p>Heart of Gold Band, <em>At the Table</em><br /> <strong>INDIAN TIME<br /> LITTLE RED-HAIRED GIRL</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh807_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-807#comments GD Radio Hour Thu, 07 May 2009 16:58:35 -0500 ccasal 14774 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.928 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-928 <h3>Week of July 3, 2006</h3> <p>Bob Weir has collaborated with <a href="http://www.waybacks.com" target="_blank">The Waybacks</a> many times in recent years, including a kick-ass <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/264736564" target="_blank">"Weirbacks"</a> set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in October 2006. I like this band a lot - they're wildly inventive musicians, and they have a reputation for doing interesting things at music festivals. For example, their recent appearance at MerleFest included a performance of The Rolling Stones' <em>Sticky Fingers</em> with guest John Cowan.</p> <p>Here we have some Waybacks and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans/257498947" target="_blank">Weirbacks</a> from Merlefest 2006, plus a great take on "Cumberland Blues" with fiddle giant Darol Anger, and a track from the band's then-new CD. Their latest is <em><a href="http://www.waybacks.com/detail/588/" target="_blank">Loaded</a></em>.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p><a href="http://www.waybacks.com" target="_blank">The Waybacks</a> with Bob Weir 4/28/06 Merlefest, Wilkesboro NC<br /> <strong>BIG IRON<br /> CASEY JONES</strong><br /> The Waybacks w/ guests 4/29/06 Merlefest, Wilkesboro NC<br /> <strong>BRIGHT PLACE<br /> LIKE A ROLLING STONE</strong></p> <p>The Waybacks, <em>From the Pasture to the Future</em><br /> <strong>THE PETRIFIED MAN</strong><br /> The Waybacks w/ <a href="http://www.darolanger.com/" target="_blank">Darol Anger</a> 10/2/05 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco<br /> <strong>CUMBERLAND BLUES</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists - by song title, show date, guest name, etc - at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh928_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-928#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:29:14 -0500 ccasal 14773 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.445 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-445 <h3>Week of March 31, 1997</h3> <p>This week's show features a 1996 live performance by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Murray_(jazz_musician)">David Murray</a> Octet with guests Bob Weir and Phil Lesh.</p> <p>A bay area native, Murray was a founder of the World Saxophone Quartet and has recorded and performed in a zillion configurations and contexts. He worked with Bob Weir, Taj Mahal, and others on a stage musical about the life of baseball legend Satchel Paige that so far hasn't seen the light of day. Murray sat in with the Grateful Dead, playing tenor sax and bass clarinet, at Madison Square Garden on September 22, 1993, and again at the Oakland Coliseum on February 26, 1995. He played with the Jerry Garcia Band at MSG on November 12, 1993. In 1996, Murray released an album titled <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Dark_Star_Murray.htm">Dark Star - The Music of the Grateful Dead</a></em>. I was asked to contribute liner notes (from the "Dead" perspective; Howard Mandel provided a jazz scholar's take); an excerpt:</p> <blockquote><p>The Dead was a player’s band and a composer’s band. Given their long-term commitment to real-time inventiveness, they had to come up with songs that could keep their own interest as well as that of their fiercely attentive audience while remaining open enough to permit excursions into the unknown and ungoverned. This is a band that loved to jam and took composition seriously, and neither aspect of their creativity took a back seat to the other. <p> Their philosophy of performance allowed every player to invent his part anew at any time, and melodic and rhythmic interest could come from everywhere. David Crosby calls it “electronic Dixieland”: everybody has lots of room to blow and everybody invents at once. By being good listeners as well as good players, they were able to create spontaneous musical structures of impressive complexity - and then either truck on into another song or just blow everything away and start something new without a look behind.</p> <p> So for a guy like David Murray, himself a force of nature with a tremendously diverse palette – just look how many configurations he works with on a regular basis – crossing paths with the Grateful Dead is a glorious opportunity for two (somewhat overlapping) audiences to deepen the discourse and <em>turn each other on</em>.</p> <p> Murray is collaborating with Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir on a stage musical that follows the parallel tracks of jazz musicians and black baseball players through the 20th Century by telling the story of the legendary pitcher Satchel Paige. It was inevitable, and most welcome, that Murray would sit in with the Dead, and it happened at Madison Square Garden September 22, 1993. Blues harp legend James Cotton was onstage that night, too.</p> <p> The Dead were using an earpiece monitor system that allowed the musicians to speak directly to each other while the music was playing, so Murray got plenty of cues from guitarists Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia and bassist Phil Lesh. “They laid it out for me like a blanket,” Murray recalls. “They opened it up for me and gave me all the room I wanted.”</p> <p> Not only was the Dead’s audience the largest Murray has ever appeared before, but they were also the most attentive and responsive. “When I played a solo, I could see bodies moving with my saxophone. They were with every note. It was phenomenal, and I loved it.”</p> <p> The evening – and the music, and the musicians – made a deep impression on David Murray, and this record is the happy result.</p> <p> In preparing for these sessions, Murray studied several dozen songs from the Dead’s hundred-plus-title working repertoire, mindful of the needs of the music and always conscious of the line between jazz and rock’n’roll. “I picked tunes that were intrinsically and esthetically comfortable for me to play in a jazz format,” he explains. By studying a number of different performances of a given tune, Murray has been able to distill the spirit of the Dead’s music, integrate some specific melodic notions that were transitory in the continuous flow of Dead music but well worth the attention they get here, and – as important as anything that happens in an endeavor such as this – preserve the <em>fun</em> that lies at the heart of this music.</p> </p></blockquote> <p>(And a personal note: Murray sat in with my band, then called Crazy Fingers, at Sweetwater in Mill Valley on January 30, 1994. I found myself standing onstage between Murray and guitarist Henry Kaiser, trying to find my way into a roaring torrent of sound. It was a peak experience for me! Bob Weir also sat in that night, but I wasn't on stage with him.)</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>The music:</p> <p>David Murray Octet 3/6/97 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco <br /><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"> DARK STAR</span> with Phil Lesh and Bob Weir <br /><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"> CHINA DOLL</span> with Bob Weir <br /><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"> SHAKEDOWN STREET</span> with Bob Weir</p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh445_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-445#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:31:57 -0500 ccasal 14688 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no.1 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1 <p><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">Grateful Dead Hour no. 1 </span><br /> <h3><span style="font-weight: normal" class="Apple-style-span">Week of September 5, 1988</span></h3> <p>This week we hear a November 1987 interview with <strong>Jerry Garcia</strong> by <a href="http://www.yoyow.com/marye/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Mary Eisenhart</strong></a>, a longtime Deadhead and a good friend of mine who is also the <a href="/forum">forum manager</a> here on Dead.Net. The <a href="http://www.yoyow.com/marye/garcia.html" target="_blank">full transcript</a> is posted on Mary's web site; portions appeared in BAM Magazine, and Mary was kind enough to allow me to broadcast parts of it in the very first episode of my nationally syndicated radio show, the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a>.</p> <p>This program is being circulated in the DeadNet forums. <a href="/forum/grateful-dead-hour-1-9-5-88-vine">Click here</a> to find out more and sign up for a copy if you're interested.</p> <p>An important note about this interview, from Mary's post in the <a href="/forum/grateful-dead-hour-1-9-5-88-vine">vine topic</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>....this [interview] certainly highlights the difference between doing interviews for print (which this was, originally) and broadcast. Let's just say if you INTEND to do an audio interview, learn from my lame example and do not say "uh-huh" at 30-second intervals.</p> </p></blockquote> <p>My commercial syndication deal lasted exactly one year. Since September 1989, I have distributed <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">the Grateful Dead Hour</a> myself to a combination of Public, college, community, and commercial stations. The complete station list is <a href="http://www.gdhour.com/stations.html" target="_blank">here</a>, along with a list of other Grateful Dead radio programs.</p> <p>5/2/70 was released in 1997 as<a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=e7eb9ac0-d232-4cda-83cf-eb7559730948"> <em>Dick's Picks vol. 8</em></a></p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p><strong>The music:</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia Band, <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=7165e37b-5ce1-44d0-a7df-4148f45c3a41">Cats Under the Stars</a><br /> <strong>CATS UNDER THE STARS<br /> GOMORRAH</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/18/78 Winterland, San Francisco<br /> <strong>TERRAPIN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, 1968 studio single<br /> <strong>DARK STAR</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 5/19/74 Portland Coliseum<br /> <strong>SCARLET BEGONIAS</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=e7eb9ac0-d232-4cda-83cf-eb7559730948">5/2/70 Binghamton NY</a><br /> <strong>VIOLA LEE BLUES-><br /> FEEDBACK-><br /> I BID YOU GOOD NIGHT</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh001_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1#comments GD Radio Hour Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:27:28 -0500 ccasal 14538 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 1046 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1046 <h3>Week of October 6, 2008</h3> <p>This week's archival post features an August 2008 interview with Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, recalling the Dead's 1978 trip to Egypt. She talks about how amazed she was to learn the band was going to take this trip and how it felt to be there, and she tells some wonderful stories about a trip down the Nile after the shows. And more!</p> <blockquote><p>"It was so much fun to be in such a vastly different culture, and dig on it, and appreciate it. And to this day I still want to go back to Egypt so badly; it's so in my heart. And so I'm hoping that one day that will come to pass, that I can go back there."</p> </p></blockquote> <p>The music is from <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/roadtripsv1n4.aspx">Road Trips vol 1 no 4: From Egypt with Love</a></em>, taken from a five-night run that the band played at Winterland after they returned from Egypt.</p> <p> By the way, Donna Jean is hitting the road this spring with <a href="http://www.donnajeangodchauxband.com/" target="_blank">The Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson</a>. I'm looking forward to hearing them at <a href="http://www.campzoe.com/springjam5.html" target="_blank">SpringJam</a> in Missouri later this month. Enjoy!</p> <p><strong>The music:</strong> </p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/roadtripsv1n4.aspx">Road Trips vol 1 no 4: From Egypt with Love</a></em><br /> <strong>I NEED A MIRACLE<br /> I GOT MY MOJO WORKIN'-><br /> THE OTHER ONE<br /> PASSENGER<br /> FENNARIO</strong></p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour@dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh1046_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1046#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:21:49 -0500 ccasal 14501 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 1002 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1002 <h3>Week of December 3, 2007</h3> <p> Featured: an interview with Alec Palao, producer of <a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=165564" target="_blank"><em>Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970</em></a>. From Rhino's catalog page:<br /> <blockquote> <p>....Released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the psychedelic, free-spirited Summer Of Love - that began just after the historic Monterey Pop Festival in June '67 - <em>LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965 - 1970 </em>weighs in at 77 tracks totaling over 4-_ hours of music.... The 4-disc compilation, produced by rock historian Alec Palao, comes in the form of a deluxe hardbound book with 120 pages of sumptuous, rarely seen photos, plus track notes by Palao and essays by Ben Fong-Torres, a writer and editor at <em>Rolling StoneMagazine</em> during its earliest days (and many years after), and music journalist Gene Sculatti, all three with deep roots in the S.F. Bay area. </p> </p></blockquote> <p>This program was excerpted from a live broadcast on KPFA, in which I collaborated with "Sing Out!" host Larry Kelp on an extended interview with Palao. From Alec's <a href="http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=354" target="_blank">bio on the Ace Records page</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Writer, musician and full-time rock'n'roll fanatic, and Ace's man on the west coast. As token 1960s expert, work for the label includes, amongst many others, critically-acclaimed collections on the Charlatans and Sly Stone, as well as the recent Zombies box set "Zombie Heaven". Intensely proud of his garage-psychedelic Nuggets From The Golden State series, but has been recently creeping into fellow consultants' territories with soul and 1950s rock packages: he loves it all. Enjoys fondling master tapes, and also regards performing with the likes of the Chocolate Watchband and Beau Brummels as an important part of the "archive research".</p> </p></blockquote> <p>Included here, also courtesy of Alec Palao, are unfinished Grateful Dead studio tracks, "Dark Star" and "Born Cross-Eyed" (eventually released as the A and B sides of a single), and a recording I made of Robert Hunter reciting the words he spoke at the very end of the studio recording of "Dark Star."</p> <p>Rounding out the show are "Althea" from the then-new <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=f364f6fb-f988-4aee-88f8-0eb2bf647733"><em>Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1</em></a>, and a couple of songs from 6/30/74, which was broadcast in its entirety over a period of several weeks.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p><strong>The music:</strong></p> <p>The Warlocks (aka Grateful Dead), from <a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=165564"><em>Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970</em></a><br /> <strong>CAN'T COME DOWN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead (unreleased studio rough mixes 1968)<br /> <strong>DARK STAR<br /> BORN CROSS-EYED</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, from <a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=165564" target="_blank"><em>Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970</em></a><br /> <strong>THE GOLDEN ROAD (To Unlimited Devotion)</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966</em><br /> <strong>CREAM PUFF WAR</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=f364f6fb-f988-4aee-88f8-0eb2bf647733"><em>Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1</em></a><br /> <strong>ALTHEA</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/30/74 Civic Center Arena, Springfield MA<br /> <strong>GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD<br /> CUMBERLAND BLUES<br /> DIRE WOLF</strong></p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour@dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh1002_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1002#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:06:52 -0500 ccasal 14448 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 384 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-384 <h3>Week of January 29, 1996</h3> <p>By request:</p> <blockquote><p>I saw the GD twice only, and they were the last two shows, in my hometown, Chicago. I was in high school then, and the experience changed my life (understatement). In the years before that show and the heady years after, your show always accompanied me. I remember, though, 1 show in particular, a show that I taped, copied, wore out, and eventually lost. The ghost of a melody from that show has stayed with me through these years (I can hum it PERFECTLY). At the time it was probably my first Goin' Down the Road, but I've often reflected upon it as being the BEST of my life. The lilting finisher by Jer is what I'm after. Delicate, sublime ending - It makes my skin tingle just to think of it. I haven't heard it all these years, but I'm pretty sure the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Dead Hour</a> was 384, October 18 1974, based on your comprehensive on-line archive. If there are any holes in the schedule, I would LOVE to hear that lick again.... -Tyler Hartz</p> </p></blockquote> <p>The second half of this program features Dead-related music from <a href="http://www.henrykaiser.net/" target="_blank">Henry Kaiser</a>, and a track from a GD roots compilation Henry and I produced, <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Music_Never_Stopped.htm" target="_blank">The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead</a></em>. And my professional recording debut, as lead singer and lead guitarist on "Mason's Children."</p> <p>Enjoy! <br /> - DG</p> <p>The music:</p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/18/74 Winterland<br /> <strong>NOT FADE AWAY-><br /> GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN' BAD-><br /> ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT<br /> US BLUES</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.henrykaiser.net/" target="_blank">Henry Kaiser</a> and Friends 11/25/95 <a href="http://wcl.org/" target="_blank">West Coast Live</a> <br /> <strong>SILVIO</strong></p> <p>Obray Ramsey, from <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Music_Never_Stopped.htm" target="_blank">The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead</a></em><br /> <strong>RAIN AND SNOW</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.henrykaiser.net/" target="_blank">Henry Kaiser</a> and Friends 11/25/95 <a href="http://wcl.org/">West Coast Live</a> <br /> <strong>LOSER</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.henrykaiser.net/" target="_blank">Henry Kaiser</a>, <em><a href="http://www.henrykaiser.net/eb.html" target="_blank">Eternity Blue</a></em><br /> <strong>MASON'S CHILDREN</strong></p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh384_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-384#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:17:58 -0500 ccasal 14355 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 169 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-169 <h3>Week of December 16, 1991</h3> <p><strong>Interview: <a href="/band/bill-kreutzmann">Bill Kreutzmann</a> & <a href="http://www.bobbralove.com/" target="_blank">Bob Bralove</a></strong> talk about <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Infrared_Roses.htm" target="_blank"><em>Infrared Roses</em></a>.</p> <p>Bob Bralove joined the Grateful Dead's technical team in 1987. A fine musician in his own right (his most recent release, <em><a href="http://bobbralove.com/Stories.html" target="_blank">Stories in Black and White</a></em>, is a collection of solo piano improvisations), Bob served as the band's computer-music expert, assisting all the players with their digital sound libraries so Jerry could play the "trumpet" or the "bassoon" onstage, etc. He worked onstage at every Dead show, assisting all the players with their digital sounds, and sometimes participated in the performance from his unseen spot behind the drummers. On the <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Terrapin_Limited_Edition.htm" target="_blank">Terrapin Station) Limited Edition</a></em> CD, Bralove is credited (along with Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann) on the cleverly-titled "And," which falls between "Drums" and "space."</p> <p>This interview celebrated the release of <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Infrared_Roses.htm" target="_blank"><em>Infrared Roses</em></a>, a collection of pieces Bralove derived from recordings of the Dead's "Drums" and "space" improvisations. The full transcript is posted<a href="http://www.gdhour.com/transcripts/kreutzmann-bralove_911031.html" target="_blank"> here</a>.</p> <p>The music:</p> <p>Grateful Dead, <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Infrared_Roses.htm" target="_blank"><em>Infrared Roses</em></a><br /> <strong>INFRARED ROSES<br /> LITTLE NEMO IN NIGHTLAND (Excerpt)<br /> RIVER OF NINE SORROWS (Excerpt)<br /> RIVERSIDE RHAPSODY</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Almost_Acoustic.htm" target="_blank">Almost Acoustic</a></em><br /> <strong>OH, THE WIND AND RAIN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/23/74 Cow Palace, San Francisco CA<br /> <strong>SHIP OF FOOLS<br /> PRELUDE-><br /> WEATHER REPORT pt. 1-><br /> LET IT GROW</strong></p> <p>The 3/23/74 show was released in February 2002 as <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Dicks_Pick_24.htm" target="_blank"><em>Dick's Picks vol. 24</em></a></p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh169_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-169#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:58:57 -0500 ccasal 14319 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 1012 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1012 <h3>Week of February 11, 2008</h3> <p>This week's archival <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> post is a salute to the film <em>Chasin' Gus' Ghost</em> by Todd Kwait. From the movie's <a href="http://chasingusghost.com/" target="_blank">web site</a>: </p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p><em>Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost</em> is a documentary film on the history of Jug Band Music. It traces the roots of American music beginning with Gus Cannon and Cannon’s Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band and the Dixieland Jug Blowers from the 1920’s, and weaves a tapestry through interviews, live performances, archival footage, and photographs showing their influence on the ever-popular folk and rock movements of the 1960’s.</p></blockquote> <p>The Grateful Dead began as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug_band" target="_blank">jug band</a>. Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (who appears in the film), and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan were members of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_McCree%27s_Uptown_Jug_Champions_(album)" target="_blank">Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions</a>. The exact name and spelling seemed to change from gig to gig, but that's the name of the band that was recorded by Pete Wanger and Wayne Ott in July of 1964; that tape was <a href="http://www.vidkid.com/McCree.html" target="_blank">released in 1998 by Grateful Dead Records</a> but is now out of print. </p> <p>As you'll learn in this program the <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_of_American_Folk_Music" target="_blank">Anthology of American Folk Music</a></em>, aka the Harry Smith Anthology, was a hugely important source of inspiration and material for the Dead and many of their contemporaries. </p> <p>The music: </p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/30/66 Vancouver BC<br /> <strong>STEALIN</strong>' </p> <p><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_McCree%27s_Uptown_Jug_Champions_(album)" target="_blank">Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions</a></em><br /> <strong>ON THE ROAD AGAIN<br /> THE RUB (AIN'T IT CRAZY)<br /> BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE</strong> </p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/16/66 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco<br /> <strong>NEW NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES<br /> VIOLA LEE BLUES<br /></strong></p> <p>Blind Lemon Jefferson, from <em><a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2426" target="_blank">Anthology of American Folk Music</a></em><br /> <strong>SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/29/66 Vancouver BC<br /> <strong>ONE KIND FAVOR</strong></p> <p>Williamson Bros and Curry, from <em><a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2426" target="_blank">Anthology of American Folk Music</a></em><br /> <strong>GONNA DIE WITH MY HAMMER IN MY HAND</strong></p> <p>John Sebastian and David Grisman, <em><a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd67.html" target="_blank">Satisfied</a></em><br /> <strong>JOHN HENRY</strong></p> <p><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_McCree%27s_Uptown_Jug_Champions_(album)" target="_blank">Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions</a></em><br /> <strong>THE MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER</strong></p> <p>(P.S. There's a wonderful illustrated children's book of "The Monkey and the Engineer," including a biography of the songwriter, Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller. <a href="http://www.monkeyandtheengineer.com/" target="_blank">Check it out.</a>)</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh1012_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1012#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:14 -0500 ccasal 14232 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 239 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-239 <h3>Week of April 19, 1993</h3> <p>Requested by Michael Sims.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/17/93 Capitol Center, Landover MD<br /> <strong>LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS<br /> DARK STAR-><br /> JAM (WITHOUT JERRY)</strong></p> <p><em>Blow, Boys, Blow (Sea Songs and Shanties)</em><br /> <strong>HANDSOME CABIN BOY</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/17/93 Capitol Center, Landover MD<br /> <strong>HANDSOME CABIN BOY-><br /> THE OTHER ONE-><br /> DAYS BETWEEN-><br /> GOOD LOVIN'</strong></p> <p>This is the band's third performance of "Days Between," one of the last Hunter-Garcia songs and to my mind one of the greatest.</p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>. </p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh239_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-239#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:38:51 -0600 ccasal 14196 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 310 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-310 <h3>Week of August 29, 1994</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 2/2/68 Crystal Ballroom, Portland OR<br /> <strong>VIOLA LEE BLUES</strong></p> <p>Little Junior Parker<br /> <strong>NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>American Beauty</em><br /> <strong>OPERATOR</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/2-3/68 Crystal Ballroom, Portland OR<br /> <strong>THAT'S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE-><br /> CLEMENTINE-><br /> GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL</strong></p> <p>I've gotten several requests for this show, which features some feral Dead music from the <em>Anthem of the Sun</em> era.</p> <p>Also included is Junior Parker's 1957 recording "Next Time You See Me," which Pigpen sang with the GD to great effect, and Pig himself singing his song "Operator" on <em>American Beauty</em>. I wonder why they didn't do that one live more often? I'm only aware of one performance, at the Fillmore East on 9/18/70.</p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh310_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-310#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:02:59 -0600 ccasal 14156 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 158 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-158 <h3>Week of September 30, 1991</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 12/19/69 New Old Fillmore, San Francisco<br /> <strong>MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER<br /> LITTLE SADIE<br /> LONG BLACK LIMOUSINE<br /> I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.countryjoe.com/" target="_blank">Country Joe McDonald</a>, <em><a href="http://www.countryjoe.com/super.htm">Superstitious Blues</a></em><br /> <strong>STARSHIP RIDE</strong><br /> <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Pistol_Packin_Mama.htm" target="_blank">Good Old Boys</a>, <em>Pistol Packin' Mama</em><br /> <strong>DEEP ELEM BLUES</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/19/69 New Old Fillmore, San Francisco<br /> <strong>THAT'S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE-><br /> UNCLE JOHN'S BAND</strong></p> <p>Some acoustic and electric excerpts from 12/19/69 in San Francisco.</p> <p> "Long Black Limousine" is pretty rare in GD history - written by Bobby George and Vern Stovall, recorded by Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Bobby Bare, and others. When it turned up in early 2008 on a double-CD set titled <em><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/buy-stuff/detail/gram-parsons-with-the-flying-burrito-bros/live-at-the-avalon-ballroom-1969.html" target="_blank">Gram Parsons with The Flying Burrito Bros Live At The Avalon Ballroom 1969</a></em> - from a pair of shows in which the Burritos opened for the Dead at the Avalon - I emailed Bob Weir to ask if that's where he learned the song.</p> <p>"Both sets include 'Long Black Limousine,' which you sang in acoustic sets with the GD a few times after that," I wrote. "And 'You Win Again' was in there, too, which Jerry adopted. Was this encounter an influence on your foray into honky tonk music?"</p> <p>Bobby's reply:</p> <blockquote><p>Not really; we'd been into that stuff since the beginning (Buck Owens, George Jones...) and it was just gonna come out sooner or later. Jerry and I had a bunch of country and gospel tunes we had worked up on days off on the road for fun, and when the Burritos came out, I think we were already doing these tunes in an an acoustic set here or there. That was why it seemed to us that they would be a good pairing with us.</p> </p></blockquote> <p>Jerry Garcia plays acoustic guitar on "Starship Ride" and several other songs on Country Joe McDonald's 1990 CD <em>Superstitious Blues</em>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Pistol_Packin_Mama.htm" target="_blank">Pistol Packin' Mama</a> was a bluegrass labor of love for longtime Hunter & Garcia pal and New Riders of the Purple Sage founder David Nelson. Nelson and bassist Pat Campbell supported three genuine legends: Frank Wakefield (mandolin, vocals), Don Reno (banjo, vocals), and Chubby Wise (fiddle). Garcia produced; Dan Healy engineered; they recorded at Mickey's and mixed at Weir's. The album came out on the Dead's Round Records in 1976, and was later released on CD. Great stuff. Here's what Nelson wrote in the Round Records newsletter (preserved on deaddisc.com):</p> <blockquote><p>In two days we had 25 songs down on tape, and upon listening back, some of the tastiest, most fun, and liveliest bluegrass ever recorded! I felt like a kid with dreams of the big leagues who was approached by Mantle, DiMaggio, and Ruth and told "well sure we'll play with you, and all your friends too!"</p> <p> These three guys wrote the book on banjo, mandolin and fiddle. Chubby Wise is the dearly loved daddy of the country fiddle. He played on the sessions which are today regarded as the definitive bluegrass music. Don Reno is a phenomenal all round musician as well as one singer, guitar picker, and innovator in the highest degree.</p> <p> What can I say about Frank Wakefield? He's Brer Rabbit jumping through the briar patch, in the flesh. I'd have to quote Oxford's Dictionary and say, "luxuriously prolific, virtuosity abounding, technical ability overflowing with spirit."</p> </p></blockquote> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh158_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-158#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:35:03 -0600 ccasal 14104 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 556 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-556 <h3>Week of May 17, 1999</h3> <p>Conclusion of a three-week series presenting the complete show of June 23, 1988 at Alpine Valley. </p> <p>As noted earlier, the sound man fed the vocals and Jerry's guitar into an automatic panning device that swished from the left speak to the right and back again fairly rapidly.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/23/88 Alpine Valley, East Troy WI<br /> <strong>JAM-><br /> I NEED A MIRACLE-><br /> GIMME SOME LOVIN'-><br /> ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER-><br /> MORNING DEW<br /> ~<br /> *BLACKBIRD-><br /> BROKEDOWN PALACE</strong></p> <p>John Cohen, <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/1.html" target="_blank"><em>Stories the Crow Told Me</em></a><br /> <strong>THE STORY THAT THE CROW TOLD ME</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.rat-dog.com" target="_blank">RatDog</a> with Charlie Musselwhite, from <em>Fish Tree Water Blues</em> <strong>TAKE ME TO THE RIVER</strong></p> <p><em>* first public performance</em></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh556_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-556#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:32:50 -0600 ccasal 14020 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 555 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-555 <h3>Week of May 10, 1999</h3> <p>Middle episode of a three-week series presenting the complete show of June 23, 1988 at Alpine Valley.</p> <p>As noted in last week's post, the sound man fed the vocals and Jerry's guitar into an automatic panning device that swished from the left speak to the right and back again fairly rapidly. Several correspondents have verified that the sound was indeed that way in the venue (I knew it couldn't have just been on the recording!).</p> <p>Here's an email from a listener (who prefers to remain anonymous) who was there for the entire five-day, four-show Alpine '88 Grateful Dead run.</p> <blockquote><p>Hello David - </p> <p>I know that you <a href="/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-554">asked a simple question</a> regarding Healy’s sound weirdness for this show. I was at the show and though I have some pretty strong memories as to certain aspects, I’m unsure as to the mix issue. If none of us in attendance manages to recall for sure, I guess an audience recording would have the answer.</p> <p>Anyhow, I hope you don’t mind if I share a few memories of this night, as well as others from this run, as I feel as they relate directly to the energy, and the sound, of this rather amazing show.</p> <p>I grew up in the Chicago area and Alpine was a favorite venue. The ’82 shows were fantastic (life changing in some basic way), and I actually flew back from the remote southwest for the reunion shows in ’02 (?). Alpine ’88 was a four show run – two nights, a day off, two nights. I was really looking forward to this – I’d seen the Hampton shows that spring and they had been completely superb and amazing.</p> <p>By 1987 and ‘88 I was going to school in Ohio but would still make the pilgrimage up to Alpine.</p> <p>This was the year that the scene outgrew Alpine - the two lane highway that served the venue completely locked up, people stuck for hours and hours, a real mess. Way too many people. Free-for-all (for both better and worse) camping on the golf course (I don’t think you needed a ticket to camp there). And then the real zinger was the heat, near/over 100 degrees during the day for, I think, the entire run – and not desert heat but upper Midwest oppressiveness. A small cotton towel soaked in the ice water of a cooler – courtesy of my youngest brother’s good friends who (thank god) recognized me as I walked through the campground - felt indescribably delicious the afternoon before the second show and probably saved me from heat exhaustion.</p> <p>I had pavilion seats for the whole run. To the left of the board the first two nights. First night a good show though at the time nothing special. I eventually fell in love with Foolish Heart (1st time played that night) but at the time I didn’t grasp it. Second night I had to flee my seat because of the invasion of the super-inconsiderate, super-high, seat crashing, ever expanding number of teenagers (2+ to a seat). Between sets found a bunch of my friends high on the hill, lots of air and space and we had a sweet dance-hug fest for the second set (despite the Victim [2nd time played – new to us], another song whose power definitely grew on me, it had its place, but never one that I might call a favorite.) I’m not sure but I think we spent the off day “in” Lake Geneva (so to speak).</p> <p>Refreshed, we were really psyched for the third night. Our seats were definitely better – maybe 12 rows out on Jerry’s side, not directly in front, towards the right a bit. Still really, really good. Should be a great night, right? Yet in the end all I can say about that show was yikes, and not in any good sense.</p> <p>No clear memory of the first set – nice set list and I imagine we enjoyed it. But the 2nd set was a whole different kettle of fish. (I’ll be the first to admit that how one perceives a show can be intensely personal and subjective – so my thoughts here, particularly as to the last two nights are no more, no less than my own and shared at the time by my good friends who were seated near me.)</p> <p>Midway through pre-drums I felt that something was wrong with Jerry energetically. At this point in time, it’s hard to be more specific than that, but things simply were not right, noticeably out of balance. As the show progressed, they came out of Space into The Wheel. There is probably no other song in the Grateful Dead canon that means as much to me as The Wheel. The Alpine 82 version is to me sacred music – it was that version that truly ushered the song into my psyche. [Another side note – my first show was 2-3-78 Dane County (DP-18) where they played the only Wheel for a long stretch. I also saw the last one in Memorial Stadium in Seattle where it came out of a huge and vastly powerful drum/space.] However, this time there seemed to be no power, it was empty.</p> <p>At some point during The Wheel, a roadie comes out to adjust Phil’s vocal mic – it was pretty clear that they were going to segue into Gimme Some Lovin’, which as you know along with Watchtower and the Wheel formed a killer grouping of post-space songs that appeared time and again in ’87 (ie Alpine) and ’88 (ie Hampton).</p> <p>But then Jerry immediately drops into Stella Blue. The whole band was caught by surprise. Phil and Bob are staring at him and it’s not that they’re pissed – as he muddles into the song I sense that they are growing genuinely frightened that Jerry was having some kind of medical episode (heat? diabetic crash? drugs? all three?). It appeared to me that they were literally on the verge of halting the song and walking over to help him – one of those “Is there a doctor in the house?” moments). And Jerry just kept stumbling on, oblivious, in some nebulous other-world. Truly scary to me and my friends and from what we could tell the band also. In the end they got through Stella and finished the set. That Jerry sang the encore surprised us. Though shaky, he at least seemed to have pulled out of whatever space he’d been in.</p> <p>After the show we were incredibly depressed. We ran into some of those friends I’d spent night 2 with, once again they had been up on the hill, and one of them started raving about how beautiful Stella was (that subjective thing once again) and we just looked at him and said something to the affect that he was crazy as we described what we had seen up close. Ouch.</p> <p>The next day pre-show we were having lunch in some small town park – still freaked at what we had experienced the night before. One of us had bought a newspaper, out of Milwaukee probably, it may have had an article about the Alpine shows. At some point we decided to check out Jerry’s horoscope for the day. It said in part (this is from memory but possibly a direct quote):</p> <div align="center"> <p> <em>A gift lost will soon be recovered.</em></p> </div> <p>Wow. We could only hope.</p> <p>The Fourth Night </p> <p>All of which brings me to the night in question. We were cautiously optimistic and had been blessed with excellent seats – I was about 6 rows out directly in front of Jerry, by chance my good friends were straight behind me maybe four rows back. The band seemed somewhat serious despite the Iko opener – the previous night clearly on their mind. I remember this tiny flub in Roses, what normally would have been no big deal in the slightest. But this time a look of incredible anxiety flashed over Jerry’s face, like he’s thinking oh no its happening again. But they found their place and glimpsed fear passed. The rest of the first set seemed well played, short but strong.</p> <p>As they came out onto the stage for Set II, Brent was clearly way fired up (I loved Brent – as one of my brother’s friends put it he was “all hands on deck!”). Pocky Way was new to me (my friends recognized it as a Neville’s tune, I did not) – it kicked ass. And then on to what was (for us) easily the most powerful new composition of that run “Believe It or Not.” In the context of the previous night, not to mention Jerry’s near death less than two years before, the whole air to the song simply floored us. “Making music together, though the words I forgot. You know that I love you, believe it or not.” The raw emotion with which he’s nearly shouting the final chorus – “You know that I LOVE YOU! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!” He was singing right into our hearts. Kind of left me all choked up then - still does. Man Smart, He’s Gone, drum/space, Miracle (yeah we really felt that we needed one), all sweet. Then the ripping Gimme Some Lovin’ that went missing the night before. A snarling Watchtower.</p> <p>And then Morning Dew. Whew doggies! This was a big one. Once again the nearly yelled raw emotion of the vocals. (“I thought I heard a young man moan this morning! I THOUGHT I HEARD A YOUNG MAN MOAN TODAY!”) And then that final chorus before the climax jam (“I guess it doesn’t matter anyWAYYYY!”) And as Jerry screams into that final jam this kid hops up on stage and walks over to Jerry and just stops maybe three feet away and stands there, arms at his side, totally non-threatening. Staring (it seemed) at Jerry’s picking hand as if witnessing the hand of god himself. Completely entranced as Jerry digs in even deeper. Finally a roadie comes over (arm around the shoulder?) and gently leads the kid off. And then a young woman jumps on stage, ducks past a roadie, runs over to Jerry and slides in crosslegged next to him! Jerry’s unfazed, completely blazing. </p> <p>Another member of the crew leads her off. Incredible, crazy, cathartic energy being released as the song flies to a close. This Dew was a (yet another) jaw-dropping moment (so very many over the years.) One of the friends four rows back described afterwards how his aura shot through the top of his head and he was suddenly watching that climactic outpouring from twenty feet in the air. Yeah – it was pretty wild. Nowdays, it occurs to me that “time” had to have been really elastic for a couple minutes there at the end, given my memory of that sequence when compared with how fast it builds and finishes as I listen to it now.</p> <p>For the encore Bobby came back on stage carrying an acoustic guitar – to my knowledge something that hadn’t occurred for a few years.</p> <p>Another friend, the sweetie of mr. aura, said afterwards she immediately knew they were going to play Blackbird, no reason why, she just knew it. Why would she think that, seeing as they had never played it before and this was to be one of only two times? Over the years I’ve read several comments as to how sloppy and poor Blackbird was. These folks completely miss what it was about that night. We felt it was a very special and spontaneous gift. Serious worries had been laid to rest, the band was giddy, as were many of us in the crowd. Clearly not very rehearsed and none of us gave a hoot about that – it was beautiful. Brent began laughing so hard at one point that he fell off the piano bench! All of us were laughing also. And then when you think the song has drawn to a close in all of its ragged glory, that final verse and chorus and the crowd goes way quiet and its crystalline and its perfect – “You were only waiting for this moment to be free. You were only waiting for this moment to be free. You were only waiting for this moment to be free. . . .”</p> <p>Brokedown Palace was gorgeous and speaks for itself. As I listen now to Brent’s harmonies on this version, it strikes me he was riding shotgun for Jerry on this show, deeply concerned, greatly relieved, very emotionally present, for Jerry, his dear friend.</p> <p>Yes, a gift lost, recovered.</p> <p>Back to Healy and the sound. Given all this, it seems to me that it’s not a coincidence that Healy would juice the sound in some way for that night - maybe he saw it as his own way to get the energy back in balance - right left right left right left right left. Whatever his reasons, this board sure sounds magical to me. I’ll be interested to hear whether he had the pa mixed the same (seems funny that I can’t recall given how present I felt at this show).</p> <p>Thanks David for your time and all you’ve given us over the years. <br /> Cheers</p> </p></blockquote> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/23/88 Alpine Valley, East Troy WI<br /> <strong>HEY POCKY A-WAY<br /> BELIEVE IT OR NOT*<br /> MAN SMART, WOMAN SMARTER<br /> HE'S GONE-><br /> DRUMS</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd9.html"><em>Not for Kids Only</em></a><br /> <strong>WHEN FIRST UNTO THIS COUNTRY</strong></p> <p> <em>* first public performance</em> <p> </p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh555_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-555#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:31:18 -0600 ccasal 13965 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 554 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-554 <h3>Week of May 3, 1999</h3> <p>By request, a three-week series presenting the complete show of June 23, 1988 at Alpine Valley.</p> <p>Weird thing about this recording: Sound man Dan Healy, that irrepressible experimenter, fed the vocals and Jerry's guitar into an automatic panning device that swished from left to right and back again about 60 times a minute. It seems unlikely that this effect was used on the recording but not in the house - anyone who attended that show recall hearing this weird effect?</p> <p>All of set 1 in this week's post; set 2 will come in the next two weeks.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/23/88 Alpine Valley, East Troy WI <strong>IKO IKO<br /> MINGLEWOOD<br /> IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES<br /> ME AND MY UNCLE-><br /> MEXICALI BLUES<br /> STAGGER LEE<br /> WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE<br /> BIRD SONG-><br /> PROMISED LAND</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh554_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-554#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:35:12 -0600 ccasal 13892 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 130 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-130 <h3>Week of March 18, 1991</h3> <p>A February 1991 KPFA interview with Grateful Dead sound man <strong>Dan Healy</strong>. He talks about the revival of "New Speedway Boogie" (a fresh performance of which opened the show) and the possible revival of other material resulting from the introduction of Vince Welnick to the band and a general atmosphere of reassessment that characterized that moment.</p> <p>Calls from listeners: Why no free concerts? Why does the band seem to pay new material more on the east coast than at home? Healy talks about ongoing development of sound system and related gear; tells of having special guests sprung on him minutes before the second set; how the tapers' section came to be: "'Dan, <em>your</em> tapers are causing trouble.'" </p> <p>Call about Vince Welnick, the keyboardist who joined the band a few months earlire. Will Vince ever get to play a B3 on tour? Vince still has "slack and space to get into the groove.... he's doing extremely well." Problems amplifying the organ on a rock'n'roll stage.... Vince is the regular keyboard player; if and when Bruce has opportunities to do stuff, he will be with us." </p> <p>Offers a sneak preview of <em>One from the Vault</em>, recorded at a release party for <em>Blues for Allah</em>.</p> <p>Talks about hearing issues and an event he is doing for <a href="http://www.hearnet.com/" target="_blank">H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers)</a>. Introduces a recording made backstage at the Oakland Coliseum Arena during the December 1990 New Year's run: <a href="http://wordjazz.com/" target="_blank">Ken Nordine</a> accompanied by Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, and Hamza El-Din; and mentions a record he produced with Ken Nordine with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & band backing him (recorded 2/14/91 and later released as <em>Devout Catalyst</em>).</p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/19/91 Oakland Coliseum<br /> <strong>NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE</strong></p> <p>Ken Nordine (recorded backstage at the Oakland Coliseum Arena the week of <strong>FEEL FREE</strong></p> <p>Phil Lesh<br /> <strong>PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead,<em> One from the Vaul</em>t (8/13/75 Great American Music Hall, SF)<br /> <strong>HELP ON THE WAY-><br /> SLIPKNOT!</strong></p> <p>Ken Nordine 12/30/90 backstage at the Oakland Coliseum w/Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart and Hamza El-Din<br /> <strong>FLIBBERTY JIB</strong></p> <p>And here is the text of Phil Lesh's message to Deadheads: </p> <blockquote><p>Hi, this is Phil Lesh with a new message for Deadheads. Much of it will probably be familiar, but I would like to add something to our usual list of requests. Yes, it's still important for Deadheads to cooperate with certain rules. It's critical, for instance, that you not come to shows without a ticket, and that you not arrive at venues before the parking lots open. It's also essential that we don't have business - legal or otherwise - going on at shows, and in addition to the no-vendung rule, the no camping rule must continue. THat said, I really want to urge everyone in this scene - all of us - to be more mindful, to be more conscious of the way we're creating our journey together. In heavy times such as these it seems particularly important to act with some grace, so that we don't just survive, but do it with style.</p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/" target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net" target="_blank">gdhour@dead.net</a>. </p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh130_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-130#comments GD Radio Hour Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:19:56 -0600 ccasal 13817 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 149 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-149 <h3>Week of July 29, 1991</h3> <p> <i>"Tradition always starts as heresy." - David Grisman</i> </p> <p> This program began as the January 1991 installment of <i>Rex Radio</i>(later <i>Eyes of Chaos, Veil of Order</i>), a monthly music program hosted by Phil Lesh and Gary Lambert on KPFA in Berkeley. The occasion was the Rex Foundation's grant of the 1990 Ralph J. Gleason Award to mandolinist and "<a href="http://www.dawgnet.com" target="_blank">Dawg Music</a>" creator David Grisman. </p> <p> There is a complete <a href="http://www.rexfoundation.org/grisinterview.html" target="_blank">transcript of the original Rex Radio broadcast</a> on the <a href="http://www.rexfoundation.org" target="_blank">Rex Foundation</a>'s web site. </p> <p> Phil Lesh explains the origin and purpose of the Ralph J. Gleason Gleason Award in the program: </p> <p> <blockquote>The Gleason Award was instituted by the Rex Foundation about three years ago to reward outstanding effort in the less well-travelled areas of music. It's named for Ralph Gleason because in Ralph's career as a journalist in San Francisco, and with Downbeat and various national magazines, he was one of the foremost proponents of the more unusual and less travelled byways of music. He was a man with open ears and an open mind who could generally hear the best in any kind of music. An so in that spirit, we have in the past awarded the prize to Alan Lomax for his work in rescuing folk music from an early grave, and to Peter Apfelbaum of the Hieroglyphics Ensemble for creative work in melding what you might call a new kind of world music, with elements of jazz and popular music and various rhythmic structures of music worldwide - more ethnic music. And so in that same spirit, we're honoring this year David Grisman for his contributions to making a new language out of widely separated original elements.</blockquote> </p> <p> Hosts Lesh and Lambert interview Grisman, and when Jerry Garcia falls by a little later the two old friends share some warm recollections. Garcia and Grisman met in 1964 at Sunset Park in West Grove, Pennsylvania. "They didn't have festivals then," Grisman recalls. "They just had these parks, where every Sunday they'd have a couple of bluegrass bands playing." </p> <p> "I remember it well," Garcia said. "That was me and Sandy Rothman's big bluegrass summer adventure." </p> <p> "That's the primary place where the Grateful Dead taper deal kinda comes from," Garcia added. "They used to provide rows of outlets at the front of the stage, and you could bring your Wollensak (open-reel tape recorder)..." </p> <p> Grisman gave the incipient Grateful Dead their first bit of national press: a short item in <i>Sing Out!</i> Magazine mentioning that Garcia had started an electric band (then known as the Warlocks). </p> <p> Also covered: the founding of Old and in the Way - "The Stinson Beach Bluegrass Irregulars." The <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Old_&_In_The_Way.htm" target="_blank">Old and in the Way page on the GD Family Discography</a> quotes Garcia in a 1973 interview: ....It's been eight years since I've played banjo. We all used to be heavily into bluegrass, so we got together a little over a month ago, started playing and then decided, 'Shit, why don't we play a few bars and see what happens.' </p> <p> The music:<br /> <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Muleskinner_Potpourri_Of_Bluegrass_Jam.htm" target="_blank"><i>Muleskinner, A Potpourri of Bluegrass Jam</i></a><br /> <strong>RAIN AND SNOW</strong> </p> <p> Grateful Dead 9/20/70 Fillmore East <br /> (Acoustic, w/ David Grisman and David Nelson, mandolin)<br /> <strong>BIG RAILROAD BLUES</strong> </p> <p> Grateful Dead 9/20/70 Fillmore East<br /> (Acoustic, w/ David Grisman, mandolin)<br /> <strong>RIPPLE</strong> </p> <p> Grateful Dead, <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=ac49efba-d26c-4cb3-aeda-a70ac75d9ce0"><i>American Beauty</i></a><br /> <strong>FRIEND OF THE DEVIL</strong> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Old_&_In_The_Way.htm" target="_blank"><i>Old and In the Way</i></a><br /> <strong>KISSIMMEE KID</strong> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd2.html" target="_blank"><i>Jerry Garcia/David Grisman</i></a> <br /> <strong>TWO SOLDIERS <br /> GRATEFUL DAWG <br /> RUSSIAN LULLABY</strong> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Old_&_In_The_Way.htm" target="_blank"><i>Old and In the Way</i></a> <br /> <strong>MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT</strong> </p> <p> Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/"target="_blank">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>. </p> <p> Thank you for listening!<br /> - David Gans </p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh149_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p><br class="clear" /> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-149#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:53:56 -0600 ccasal 13631 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 585 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-585 <h3>Week of December 6, 1999</h3> <p>Derived from an appearance by David Nelson on my <a href="http://www.kofa.org" target="_blank">KPFA</a> show, <a href="http://dttw.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Dead to the World</a>, on August 18, 1999.</p> <p>Best known for his work with the <a href="http://www.nrps.net" target="_blank">New Riders of the Purple Sage</a>, David Nelson is one of Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's oldest musical buds. They played folk music and bluegrass together in the early '60s, and in this interview Nelson also reveals that he was a founding member of the <a href="http://chasingusghost.com/" target="_blank">jug band</a> that became the Grateful Dead, <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Mother_Mccrees.htm" target="_blank">Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions</a>.</p> <p>In the interview Nelson talks about the founding of the <a href="http://www.nelsonband.com" target="_blank">David Nelson Band</a>. "I met [guitarist/pedal steel Barry Sless, keyboardist Mookie Siegel, and bassist Bill Laymon] in another group that we were in in the early '90s, a tribute to the Grateful Dead called the Dead Ringers.... You can only do that for so long, and then we decided to do my material. Why didn't I think of that?" I thought the Nelson Band was just about the best thing going, but they had a hard time making ends meet on the touring circuit.</p> <p>About three years ago, the New Riders of the Purple Sage re-formed, with David Nelson and Buddy Cage (who replaced Jerry Garcia on pedal steel in 1971) joined by guitarist Michael Falzarano (famed for his work with Hot Tuna), and drummer Johnny Markowski and bassist Ronnie Penque from Stir Fried. That band has had much better fortunes on the club and festival circuits!</p> <p>Barry Sless currently divides his time between <a href="http://www.moonaliceband.com/" target="_blank">Moonalice</a> and Phil Lesh and Friends, and Mookie Siegel is a full-time member of <a href="http://www.donnajeanandthetricksters.com" target="_blank">Donna Jean and the Tricksters</a>. Bill Laymon was seriously ill for a couple of years; I saw him in December 2008 when we both played a <a href="http://www.kinkaitfoundation.org" target="_blank">benefit concert</a> in Santa Rosa CA, and he's looking and sounding great now!</p> <p>The David Nelson Band reconvenes when schedules permit, and they continue to make terrific music together.</p> <p>Notes on a couple of the songs in this show:</p> <p>"Impressionist Two-Step" is a wonderful song by Pop Wagner. You can hear his version on his CD <a href="https://cdbaby.com/cd/popwagner2" target="_blank"><em>Disco on the Bayou</em></a>, and here's a <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=34240439" target="_blank">video</a> of Wagner performing the song. </p> <p>"Edge of the Wire" is a David Nelson composition. This live performance is from one of a handful of <a href="http://www.phillesh.net" target="_blank">Phil Lesh and Friends</a> shows that included Nelson and his DNB bandmates Barry Sless and Mookie Siegel.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p><a href="http://www.nelsonband.com" target="_blank">David Nelson Band</a>, <em>Visions Under the Moon</em><br /> <strong>NO SOUVENIRS</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.nelsonband.com" target="_blank">David Nelson Band</a>, <em>Keeper of the Key</em><br /> <strong>IMPRESSIONIST TWO-STEP</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.thenewriders.com" target="_blank">New Riders of the Purple Sage</a>, <em>The Adventures of Panama Red</em><br /> <strong>PANAMA RED</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.thenewriders.com" target="_blank">New Riders of the Purple Sage</a>, <em>Powerglide</em><br /> <strong>DIM LIGHTS, THICK SMOKE (And Loud, Loud Music)</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.thenewriders.com" target="_blank">New Riders of the Purple Sage</a>, <em>Live on Stage</em><br /> <strong>I WILL NEVER MAKE YOU BLUE</strong></p> <p>Phil Lesh and Friends 7/3/99 Warfield Theater, SF<br /> <strong>EDGE OF THE WIRE</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.nelsonband.com" target="_blank">David Nelson Band</a> 7/6/99 Powerhouse, Sebastopol CA<br /> <strong>RAG MAMA RAG</strong></p> <p>Every Wednesday, we post a program from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment. You can browse or search the playlists at <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">gdhour.com</a> or on the <a href="http://gdh.davidnewhouse.com/">GD Hour Search page</a>, and let me know what program(s) you'd like to hear by emailing me at <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for listening!</p> <p>- David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh585_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p><br class="clear" /> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-585#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:51:28 -0600 ccasal 13552 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 978 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-978 <h3>Week of June 18, 2007</h3> <p>Featured: the conclusion of an interview with Ratdog guitarist <a href="http://www.markkaran.com" target="_blank">Mark Karan</a> edited from a live broadcast on KPFA's <a href="http://dttw.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Dead to the World</a> on April 18, 2007.</p> <p>This show includes some (as-yet) unreleased studio tracks: two songs recorded for <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985052/" target="_blank">Guitar Man</a></em>, a documentary about a Marin County guitar trader named Michael Indelicato (to be released in 2009); and a 2004 recording of Randy Newman's "I Think it's Gonna Rain Today" by Mark's band Jemimah Puddleduck. You'll also hear another hot live track from Ratdog's Spring 2007 tour, and two songs that Mark played live during the interview. </p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Bob Weir, Mark Karan, et al., unreleased studio recording<br /> <strong>ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER</strong></p> <p>Delaney Bramlett, Mark Karan et al., unreleased studio recording<br /> <strong>LOVE IN VAIN</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.markkaran.com" target="_blank">Jemimah Puddleduck</a>, unreleased studio recording<br /> <strong>I THINK IT'S GONNA RAIN TODAY</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rat-dog.com" target="_blank">Ratdog</a> 3/9/07 Beacon Theater, New York City<br /> <strong>MISSISSIPPI HALFSTEP</strong></p> <p>Mark Karan 4/18/07 KPFA studio<br /> <strong>SHE<br /> MEMPHIS RADIO</strong></p> <p>What do you want to hear from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour</a> archive? Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh978_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-978#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:44:59 -0600 ccasal 13378 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 977 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-977 <h3>Week of June 11, 2007</h3> <p>Featured: part 1 of an interview with Ratdog guitarist <a href="http://www.markkaran.com" target="_blank">Mark Karan</a> edited from a live broadcast on KPFA's <a href="http://dttw.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Dead to the World</a> on April 18, 2007.</p> <p>The music in this hour includes some kick-ass live Ratdog from the spring tour (listen to the audience going crazy after "Tennessee Jed"!), and a sneak preview of the about-to-be-released <em>Three from the Vault</em>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rat-dog.com" target="_blank">Ratdog</a> 3/19/07 Ram's Head Live, Baltimore MD<br /> <strong>WEATHER REPORT SUITE</strong></p> <p>Ratdog 3/24/07 Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro NC<br /> <strong>MONEY FOR GASOLINE</strong></p> <p>Ratdog 3/9/07 Beacon Theater, New York City<br /> <strong>TENNESSEE JED</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em><a href="/:http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=3f56a929-9084-4134-a90a-019950d6d416%22">Three from the Vault</a></em> (2/19/71)<br /> <strong>LOSER</strong></p> <p>What do you want to hear from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour</a> archive? Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh977_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-977#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:32:31 -0600 ccasal 13377 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 541 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-541 <h3>Week of February 1, 1999</h3> <p>A little more of the 8/30/80 music that we heard in last week's podcast, plus an unreleased live track from the 1998 Other Ones tour and a favorite from <em>Europe '72</em>.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/30/80 Spectrum, Philadelphia<br /><strong>ESTIMATED PROPHET-><br />EYES OF THE WORLD</strong> </p> <p>The Other Ones 7/24/98 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View CA<br /><strong>BIRD SONG</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=9cb635cb-45f1-4c14-ab46-b08bb21cadee">Europe '72</a></em><br /><strong>HE'S GONE</strong></p> <p>What do you want to hear from the <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour</a> archive? Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br />David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh541_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-541#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:15:27 -0600 ccasal 13337 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 540 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-540 <h3>Week of January 25, 1999</h3> <p>The conclusion of an interview with <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Carol+Brightman" target="_blank">Carol Brightman</a>, author of <em>Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure</em>. And some unreleased Grateful Dead music, of course!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/30/80 Spectrum, Philadelphia<br /><strong>SCARLET BEGONIAS-></strong><br /><strong>FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN<br />CC RIDER<br />RAMBLE ON ROSE</strong></p> <p>Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br />David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh540_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-540#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:27:10 -0600 ccasal 13260 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 539 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-539 <h3>Week of January 18, 1999</h3> <p>GD Hours 539 and 540 (to be posted next week) include an interview with <a href="http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Carol+Brightman&source=an&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=4&ct=title&cad=author-navigational" target="_blank">Carol Brightman</a>, author of <em>Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure</em>. Here is the blurb I wrote for the book: </p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>I enjoyed this book immensely. Brightman's perspective is valid and necessary, coming as it does from outside the enchanted realm but with access to intimate details of life at the harrowing center. Speaking as a peer, an authoritative voice bent on illumination rather than scandal or hagiography--seeking, I think, to understand her own story in the light of the Dead's as well as vice versa--Brightman explores how and why "the fierce attachments of radicals seemed to have melted into air [while] this fringe group ... was turning into something like a national monument." <em>Sweet Chaos</em> places the Grateful Dead in the context of the political zeitgeist, which the band and their followers often seem bent on ignoring forever. Anybody who ever wondered about the Dead and the Deadheads should read <em>Sweet Chaos</em> to understand why the significance of this culture cannot--and should not--be underestimated.</p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Carol+Brightman" target="_blank">Brightman</a> was an anti-war activist in the '60s and later the biographer of the writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McCarthy_(author)" target="_blank">Mary McCarthy</a>. She sometimes wondered why so many of the committed social-change movements of the '60s were crushed or co-opted, or just fizzled out, while the Grateful Dead's hedonistic, tribal road show grew and throve and wound up a cultural institution.</p> <p>Brightman's perspective is not entirely that of an outsider: her sister, Candace, was the Dead's lighting designer for 25 years, and so Carol saw her share of shows and spent time with the band and other family and crew members.</p> <p>Carol and I talked in Chicago in December 1997; <a href="http://wordjazz.com/" target="_blank">Ken Nordine</a> was kind enough to let us do the interview in his studio. There's a complete transcript of the interview <a href="http://www.levity.com/gans/brightman.html">here</a>.</p> <p>You might also appreciate this <a href="http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/29/Carol-Brightman-page01.html" target="_blank">online interview</a> with Brightman that took place around this time. Here's an excerpt in which she explains how she came to write this book:</p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p> The catalyst was my agent, Lucy Kroll, who happened to be Jerry's agent for film projects (mainly "Sirens of Titan"), and John Kahn's godmother. She was close to the GD scene, all 80 years of her. AFter I finished the biography of Mary McCarthy I was hungry to do something about my own generation, and was thinking of writing about the Movement's relations with Vietnam and Cuba. But I was exhausted by the seven years work on WRITING DANGEROUSLY, or not ready to take it on. Lucy had proposed a biography of Jerry Garcia (something that had come to her in a dream, she said). I wasn't interested but it got me thinking about what I saw as the larger story, the so-called "phenom," and where it fit in American culture. This was early 1992. A few years before I had written a grant proposal for a book to be called "Period Pieces," about political events in the 60s and had added a chapter about the Grateful Dead, almost as an afterthought, dimly perceiving that there was this 'other sixties' that my sister had always represented, and wouldn't it be neat to put it all under the same tent. It was shortly after Touch of Grey, and the Dead's extraordinary longevity had finally struck me (this after seeing them on and off over the years). The proposal wasn't accepted and I went back to WD and editing BETWEEN FRIENDS (the McCarthy-Arendt correspondence). <p> </p> <p>Them's some facts. But the deeper question--WHY?--is harder to answer. After Potter accepted the GD proposal (the same publisher, btw, of two previous books of mine, including WD), and I started going to shows with notebook in hand, inteviewing band members and staff, reading up on GD literature, trying to see something significant in the giant stadium crowds, and the singalong music, I felt increasingly uncertain about what I had taken on. I would swing back and forth from feeling like a fraud to feeling intensely bored, and neither feeling was conducive to hot pursuit of a creative project.</p> <p>I kept trotting out my reasons: I was challenged by the fact that nobody outside the GD world wanted to look at this amazing story. I was intrigued and challenged by the snootiness of highbrow critics. I really did want to know how the band, along with this yeasty community, which I was finding far more complex than it appeared at first, survived for three decades. I believed the Dead came from a somewhat rarefied corner of the 60s, hardly representative, it seemed to me, of the real fire in the streets which emanated from civil rights and antiwar struggles.</p> <p>Then gradually, as I wrote and discarded one chapter after another, I began to hit something solid that was probably there all along but which I could only stumble on via the shit-detector test that is a certain kind of writing. I started to keep stuff. Ironically, or maybe not, the first pages that would appear in the final book was that recollection of being under the bombing in North Vietnam in 1967 that begins Chapter 11. That was my little war story and I had been haunted by it for thirty years. Putting it in a book about the GD was like hiding it. It seems a bit coy, but when I wrote it I knew I could write the rest of the book. I wouldn't have to fake anything. I could tap into the real questions I had about the Dead, and the questions I had about the ghosts in my past. At the same time, I began to let in a little bit more of Deaddom, via interviews with deadheads, and via the tapes they started sending me. I began to listen to the music, and enjoy the drug stories like poetry. I liked writing about the Acid Tests, both the CIA's original acid tests, one of which in Menlo Park first turned Kesey and Hunter on, and the SF parties that turned the Grateful Dead down their fateful path--as if this was some lost piece of planet 60s that I was recovering for myself and other politicos of the era. </p> </p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p>And here's <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080103_carol_brightman_on_the_1960s/" target="_blank">a review by Brightman of three '60s histories</a>, posted in January 2008 on truthdig.com.</p> <p>I emailed Brightman to ask her what she's up to today. She's about to publish another book:</p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>SCOUTING THE PERIMETER is the story of how the US tried to transform sugar-rich Cuba into its first imperial possession, and failed. Then it tried to turn Alaska into a source of oil for the empire it had acquired... and failed again. My ancestors and their crones crowd the early years of these two tales, and their part is told as fiction. The final chapters cover my own experience in both Cuba and Alaska, and are written in first-person... prophesies included.</p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p>The music in this program includes the last part of set 1 of 10/15/94, heard in <A HREF="http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-538">GDH 538</a>, and a studio demo of "Victim or the Crime" by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_and_the_Midnites" target="_blank">Bobby and the Midnites</a>, recorded several years before the song became part of the Grateful Dead repertoire.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Bobby and the Midnites (unreleased demo)<br /> <strong>VICTIM OR THE CRIME</strong></p> <p> Grateful Dead 10/15/94 Madison Square Garden, New York City<br /> <strong>EASY ANSWERS; DEAL</strong> <p> </p> <p>Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a> </p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> - David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh539_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-539#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:34:33 -0600 ccasal 13259 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 538 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-538 <h3>Week of January 11, 1999</h3> <p>This week's post is a sort of prelude to the next two, which feature an interview with author <a href="http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Carol+Brightman" target="_blank">Carol Brightman</a>. The unreleased live GD music here is from one of the better shows of the fall 1994 tour. Next week's post includes the conclusion of this set.</p> <p>Enjoy!<br /> - DG</p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/15/94 Madison Square Garden, New York City<br /> <strong>SHAKEDOWN STREET<br /> LITTLE RED ROOSTER<br /> STAGGER LEE</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia Band, <em>Cats Under the Stars</em><br /> <strong>LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/15/94 Madison Square Garden, New York City<br /> <strong>BLACK-THROATED WIND<br /> JUST LIKE TOM THUMB'S BLUES<br /> CANDYMAN</strong></p> <p>Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh538_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-538#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:50:38 -0600 ccasal 13238 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 284 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-284 <h3>Week of February 28, 1994</h3> <p>This week's archival post is an interview with bassist <a href="http://www.robwasserman.com/" target="_blank">Rob Wasserman</a>. The bassist was a musical partner of Bob Weirfor several yeasr starting in the late '80s; they started out as a duo and gradually grew it into the band Ratdog (where he was replaced a few years ago by Robin Sylvester). Wasserman was a member of the <a href="http://www.dawgnet.com/" target="_blank">David Grisman Quintet</a> for several years, and has also performed and recorded with Lou Reed and many others.</p> <p>The occasion of this interview was the release of <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/ot/Trios.htm" target="_blank>Trios</a></i>, which followed <i><a mce_thref=">Solo</a></em> (1983) and <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/ot/Duets.htm" target="_blank">Duets</a></em> (1988). Wasserman was very generous with unreleased treats in this program, including an early recording of "Eternity" with Bob Weir and Willie Dixon, who composed the song together.</p> <p>Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman (unreleased)<br /> <strong>TAKE ME TO THE RIVER</strong> </p> <p>Rob Wasserman (with Neil Young and Bob Weir), <em>Trios</em><br /> <strong>EASY ANSWERS</strong></p> <p>Rob Wasserman, Brian Wilson, Sam Phillips (unreleased demo)<br /> <strong>FANTASY IS REALITY</strong></p> <p>Rob Wasserman, Jerry Garcia, Edie Brickell (unreleased)<br /> <strong>IMPROV FROM MARS</strong></p> <p>Rob Wasserman, Willie Dixon, Bob Weir (unreleased)<br /> <strong>ETERNITY</strong></p> <p>Rob Wasserman, Trios (bonus cut from foreign edition)<br /> <strong>THREE GUYS NAMED SCHMO</strong></p> <p>Rob Wasserman, Branford Marsalis, Bruce Hornsby, Jerry Garcia (unreleased commercial soundtracks)<br /> <strong>VEGAS<br /> JOE'S<br /> CAVE</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh284_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-284#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:37:48 -0600 ccasal 13215 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 97 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-97 <h3>Week of July 30, 1990</h3> <p>Another Merl Saunders interview from the GD Hour archive. This program contains the same "Mystery Train" we heard in past week's podcast; at the time of this interview (1990), it had not been released; Merl gave it to me on a cassette as a special treat. </p> <p>- DG</p> <p>Garcia-Saunders 10/31/74 Memorial Gym, University of San Francisco<br /> <strong>HE AIN'T GIVE YOU NONE</strong></p> <p>Merl Saunders, <em>Blues from the Rainforest</em><br /> <strong>BLUES FROM THE RAINFOREST<br /> SUNRISE OVER HALEAKALA</strong></p> <p>Merl Saunders (clavinet); Jerry Garcia (guitar,vocal); Vassar Clements (fiddle); David Grisman (mandolin); John Kahn (bass); Bill Kreutzmann (drums) - studio jam circa 1972 <strong>MYSTERY TRAIN</strong> </p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh097_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-97#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:58:51 -0600 ccasal 13163 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 489 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-489 <h3>Week of February 2, 1998</h3> <p>San Francisco keyboardist Merl Saunders was a musical partner of Jerry Garcia's starting in 1970. As you'll hear in this interview, their work together was tremendously enriching to the guitarist. The recorded output of their collaboration is quite impressive, as the <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Merl_Saunders.htm" target="_blank">discography on deaddisc.com</a> attests.</p> <p>When Jerry was recovering from his diabetic coma in 1986, it was Merl who went to his bedside every day to help him recover his musical consciousness and retrain his nerve paths.</p> <p>Merl suffered a stroke in 2002 that put an end to his performing career. Complications from an infection ended his life on October 24, 2008.</p> <p>This week's archival GD Hour post features an interview with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merl_Saunders" target="_blank">Merl Saunders</a> on the occasion of the release of <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Keepers.htm" target="_blank">Keepers</a>. The opening track on that CD is a studio recording of "Mystery Train" featuring Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Vassar Clements and John Kahn of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_and_in_the_Way" target="_blank">Old and in the Way</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for a lifetime of warm, inspiring music, Merl. It was a pleasure to know you.<br />- DG</p> <p>Merl Saunders and Friends, Keepers<br /><strong>MYSTERY TRAIN<br />GEORGIA ON MY MIND</strong><br /><strong>GEE, BABY, AIN'T I GOOD TO YOU?</strong></p> <p><em>Merl Saunders Live:</em> <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Still_Having_Fun.htm" target="_blank"><em>Still Having Fun</em></a><br /> <strong>SUGAREE</strong></p> <p>Merl Saunders, <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Fiesta_Amazonica.htm" target="_blank"><em>Fiesta Amazonica</em></a> <strong>AYAHUASCA ZONE</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh489_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-489#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:14:40 -0600 ccasal 13138 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 767 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-767 <h3>Week of June 2, 2003</h3> <p>More unreleased music from the awesome Europe '72 tour (continued from last week's post), plus a track that is unrelated to the Grateful Dead except for the fact that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035106/">Allan Arkush</a>, executive producer of the NBC TV series <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284718/" target="_blank"><em>Crossing Jordan</em></a>, is a longtime Deadhead who worked at the Fillmore East and hired Jerry Garcia to be the "voice" (it was actually Jerry's guitar) of a robot in his film <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082507/" target="_blank">Heartbeeps</a></em>. Allan is currently working on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813715/" target="_blank"><em>Heroes</em></a>. And of course Richard Thompson is an amazing musician whose work you should know, if you're not already a fan. </p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 4/16/72 Aarhus, Denmark<br /> <strong>TRUCKIN'-><br /> OTHER ONE JAM-><br /> ME AND MY UNCLE-><br /> THE OTHER ONE-><br /> NOT FADE AWAY</strong></p> <p><a href="http://richardthompson-music.com/" target="_blank">Richard Thompson</a>, from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008PX87" target="_blank"><em>Crossing Jordan (Music from the NBC Television Series)</em></a><br /> <strong>SEASON OF THE WITCH</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans </p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh767_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-767#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:34:59 -0500 ccasal 13025 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 766 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-766 <h3>Week of May 26, 2003</h3> <p>A couple of sweet rarities and some unreleased music from the awesome Europe '72 tour. What's not to love?</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/10/93 rehearsal<br /> <strong>DAYS BETWEEN</strong></p> <p>Bob Weir home demo (date unknown)<br /> <strong>JACK STRAW</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 4/16/72 Aarhus, Denmark<br /> <strong>GOOD LOVIN'<br /> CUMBERLAND BLUES<br /> EL PASO<br /> DEAL</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans </p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh766_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-766#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:29:37 -0500 ccasal 13024 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 385 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-385 <h3>Week of February 5, 1996</h3> <p>Requested by Trent Henley, who shares my appreciation of the late-'79 Grateful Dead.</p> <p>"I, Flagpole" is one of my "Mutilaudio" digital audio art pieces. Making fun of Capitol Hill bloviators will never go out of style, even if the content of their blather changes from year to year.</p> <p>Also featured is a nice cover of "Liberty" produced by my friend and collaborator, Peter Simon, for a series of compilation records he's put out on his home island, Martha's Vineyard.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/28/79 Oakland Auditorium<br /> <strong>ALABAMA GETAWAY-><br /> GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.dgans.com/mutilaudio/" target="_blank">Mutilaudio</a> by David Gans<br /> <strong>I, FLAGPOLE</strong></p> <p>Mischief, from<em> The Vineyard Sound vol 2</em><br /><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"> LIBERTY</span></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/28/79 Oakland Auditorium<br /> <strong>TERRAPIN-><br /> PLAYING IN THE BAND</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh385_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-385#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:54:42 -0500 ccasal 12974 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 366 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-366 <h3>Week of September 25, 1995</h3> <p>Several people requested that I continue past the five-part Jerry Garcia memorial series with the next one, an all-music program featuring excerpts from (as it happens) my fourth Dead concert: August 24, 1972 at the Berkeley Community Theater.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/24/72 Berkeley Community Theater<br /> <strong>BIRD SONG<br /> DARK STAR-><br /> MORNING DEW </strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh366_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-366#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:31:10 -0500 ccasal 12938 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 365 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-365 <h3>Week of September 18, 1995</h3> <p> The last of five programs produced after Jerry Garcia's death in the summer of 1995. </p> <p> Two days after Jerry died, the Fillmore was opened up and Deadheads invited, by word of mouth, to come in and mourn together. I collected a great variety of stories and expressions of grief, more of which are included in this program </p> <p> "Bird Song and "Brokedown Palace" are from a live broadcast on <a href="http://www.kpfa.org" target="_blank">KPFA</a> in Berkeley (my home station). Danny Carnahan and Robin Petrie subsequently broke up their act; Carnahan went on to found an excellent band called <a href="http://wakethedead.org/" target="_blank">Wake the Dead</a>, specializing in Celtic-style interpretations of Grateful Dead songs, often intertwined with jigs and reels. The band has released three CDs. </p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/14/68 Carousel Ballroom, SF<br /> <strong>THAT'S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE-><br /> NEW POTATO CABOOSE-><br /> BORN CROSS-EYED-><br /> SPANISH JAM-><br /> FEEDBACK</strong> </p> <p>August 11, 1995 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco<br /> <strong>Remembering Jerry Garcia (part 1)</strong></p> <p>Danny Carnahan, Robin Petrie and <a href="http://www.dgans.com" target="_blank">David Gans</a> 8/16/95 <a href="http://dttw.gdhour.com">KPFA</a> performance studio<br /><strong>BIRD SONG<br /> BROKEDOWN PALACE</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh365_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-365#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:13:52 -0500 ccasal 12895 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 364 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-364 <p>Grateful Dead Hour #364<br /> <h3>Week of September 11, 1995</h3> <p> Continuing with the series of five programs following Jerry Garcia's death in the summer of 1995. </p> <p> All of this music was played at the memorial in Golden Gate Park on August 13, 1995. </p> <p> The story from <a href="http://www.chethelms.com/" target="_blank">Chet Helms</a> was collected at the Fillmore on August 11. </p> <p> - DG </p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/23/68 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles<br /> <strong>ALLIGATOR-><br /> CAUTION</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/2/69 Fillmore West<br /> <strong>DOIN' THAT RAG</strong></p> <p>Remembering Jerry at the Fillmore Auditorium 8/11/95<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Helms" target="_blank"><strong>CHET HELMS</strong></a> <strong>REMEMBERS</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/24/73 U of I Field House, Iowa City<br /> <strong>JAM & BASS SOLO</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh364_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-364#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:55:00 -0500 ccasal 12819 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 363 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-363 <h3>Week of September 4, 1995</h3> <p> Continuing with the series of five programs following Jerry Garcia's death in the summer of 1995. </p> <p> Two days after Jerry died, the Fillmore was opened up and Deadheads invited, by word of mouth, to come in an mourn together. I brought my portable recorder and asked people to "tell me a story." Some of the results are included here. </p> <p> - DG </p> <p>Grateful Dead 11/7/87 Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland<br /> <strong>KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR</strong></p> <p>August 11, 1995 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco<br /> <strong>Remembering Jerry Garcia (part 1)</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 1968 (date and venue unknown)<br /> <strong>ST. STEPHEN</strong></p> <p>August 11, 1995 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco<br /> <strong>Remembering Jerry Garcia (part 2)</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 9/21/72 Spectrum, Philadelphia<br /> <strong>DARK STAR JAM</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh363_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-363#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:28:45 -0500 ccasal 12731 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 362 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-362 <h3>Week of August 28, 1995</h3> <p>Continuing with the series of five programs following Jerry Garcia's death in the summer of 1995.</p> <p>This show is a collection of favorite musical moments. Impossible to cover all of Jerry's musical facets in an hour, of course.</p> <p>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 <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd41.html" target="_blank"><em>The Pizza Tapes</em></a>.</p> <p>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 <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/So_Many_Roads.htm" target="_blank">So<em> Many Roads</em> (1965-1995)</a></p> <p>This wonderful 10/19/74 "Eyes of the World" also wound up on <em>So Many Roads</em>. It is heard in the<em> Grateful Dead Movie</em>, and I highly recommend the new multitrack mix of the song that appears on the <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Grateful_Dead_Movie_Soundtrack.htm" target="_blank"><em>Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack</em></a>, released in 2004. </p> <p>- DG</p> <p>Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Tony Rice, from <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/1.html" target="_blank">100% Handmade Music</a><br /> <strong>LOUIS COLLINS</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 9/29/89 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mtn View CA<br /> <strong>DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 5/28/76 (rehearsal)<br /> <strong>ATTICS OF MY LIFE</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/17/88 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA<br /> <strong>BELIEVE IT OR NOT</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/19/74 Winterland, San Francisco<br /> <strong>EYES OF THE WORLD-><br /> CHINA DOLL</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh362_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-362#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:38:20 -0500 ccasal 12733 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 361 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-361 <h3>Week of August 21, 1995</h3> <p> 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. </p> <p> 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. </p> <p> The 2/18/71 "Dark Star Jam" became known as "Beautiful Jam" when it was included in the boxed set <em>So Many Roads (1965-1995)</em>. 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. </p> <p> - DG</p> <p><span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span"> 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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p>8/13/95 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco<br /> <strong>MEMORIAL CEREMONY for Jerry Garcia</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/18/95 Spectrum, Philadelphia<br /> <strong>IT'S ALL TOO MUCH-><br /> IKO IKO</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/18/71 Capitol Theatre, Portchester NY<br /> <strong>DARK STAR JAM</strong></p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh361_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-361#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:00:34 -0500 ccasal 12699 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 350 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-350 <h3>Week of June 5, 1995</h3> <p>Requested by Jaime in the discussion of last week's archival program, a few highlights from the spring 1995 tour.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 4/1/95 The Pyramid, Memphis TN<br /> <strong>TAKE ME TO THE RIVER</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/27/95 The Omni, Atlanta GA<br /> <strong>JAM<br /> SO MANY ROADS</strong></p> <p>Chuck Berry<br /> PROMISED LAND</p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/30/95 The Omni, Atlanta<br /> <strong>TOUCH OF GREY<br /> GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL<br /> ALABAMA GETAWAY</strong></p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh350_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-350#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:23:16 -0500 ccasal 12670 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 557 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-557 <h3>Week of May 24, 1999</h3> <p>Jarde Austin asked for this one. "I just cant get enough of what I call 'Dirty Dead,'" He wrote. "Those early blues drenched jams and especially the rarities like 'Hey Little One' just make me smile from ear to ear." He ain't the only one!</p> <p>Dick Latvala brought me this orphan reel, and it is indeed some great stuff from the early days. Enjoy!</p> <p> Grateful Dead ??/??/66, venue unknown<br /> <strong>SHE'S ON THE ROAD AGAIN</strong><br /> <strong>NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME</strong><br /> <strong>I KNOW YOU RIDER</strong><br /> <strong>HEY LITTLE ONE</strong><br /> <strong>COLD RAIN AND SNOW</strong><br /> <strong>KING BEE-></strong><br /> <strong>CAUTION (Do Not Stop on Tracks)</strong><br /> <strong>STEALIN'</strong> </p> <p> Grateful Dead, <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=a11f7aab-b519-4544-a642-f3589ea91c36">Dick's Picks vol. 1</a></em> (12/19/73 Tampa FL)<br /> <strong>HERE COMES SUNSHINE</strong> </p> <p> Bob Weir, <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=5105dcac-b461-47e7-b4bf-649f8798b230">Ace</a></em> MEXICALI BLUES </p> <p> Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email </p> <p> Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net </p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh557_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-557#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:52:30 -0500 Jonathan Lane 12644 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 705 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-705 <h3>Week of March 25,2002</h3> <p>Michael Higgins requested this one. It's all about the compilation CD <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=5ac4261a-6636-4f80-a51e-db05c3fa6d9e"><em>Postcards of the Hanging: Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan</em></a>, which it was my privilege to produce for Grateful Dead Records.</p> <p>Bob Dylan's co-manager, Jeff Rosen, was kind enough to allow me to play some rough mixes of unheard rehearsal tapes on the radio to help promote this CD. Wonderful music!</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p><strong>Interview with compilation producer David Gans by Gary Lambert</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=5ac4261a-6636-4f80-a51e-db05c3fa6d9e"><em>Postcards of the Hanging: Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan</em></a><br /> <strong>ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER</strong></p> <p>Bob Dylan and Grateful Dead - rehearsals May-June 1987<br /><strong>STEALIN'<br /> OH BOY<br /> JOHN BROWN<br /> FOLSOM PRISON BLUES<br /> GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY<br /> HIDEAWAY/CC RIDER</strong></p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh705_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-705#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:48:02 -0500 ccasal 12595 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 912 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-912 <h3>Week of March 13, 2006</h3> <p>Two requests in one show!</p> <p>John Jensen wrote: "Could you post the Dead Hour where you were shuffling through your iPod and found a cool version of 'Blues for Allah'?"</p> <p>It's the 8/13/75 debut performance of "Blues for Allah," and it's pretty damn cool! </p> <p>Shortly after the Grateful Dead played their "final shows" at Winterland in October 1974 (brilliantly documented in <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076104/" target="_blank">The Grateful Dead Movie</a></em>), the band convened in Bob Weir's brand new home studio and began developing new material in a highly collaborative manner. In addition to the challenging and unconventional title track and Phil Lesh's instrumental "King Solomon's Marbles," <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=e6372c42-c65d-4589-b42a-567ebf111e2c">Blues for Allah</a></span> also includes "The Music Never Stopped," a consistently wonderful live show-stopper, and the beautiful "Crazy Fingers." The remastered edition includes several jams and work tapes from these sessions. <em>One from the Vault</em> is the complete concert of 8/13/75 in a tiny San Francisco venue, The Great American Music Hall, where the band premiered the new album; Dan Healy mixed the multitrack tapes in the early '90s, kicking off the band's program of releasing concert material from their archive.</p> <p>Other treats from my iPod adventure included two non-Dead songs: a track from Rodney Crowell's powerful CD<em> The Outsider</em>, and a wonderful, soulful song from Georgia singer-songwriter Ralph Roddenbery.</p> <p>This <a href="http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com">GD Hour</a> also includes some unreleased live Grateful Dead, natch: three songs from the spring tour of 1989, which allows me to satisfy Jim Ackerman's request for "Standing on the Moon" in the bargain.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p> </p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/31/89 Greensboro NC<br /><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">LOSER</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">VICTIM OR THE CRIME</span><br /><strong> STANDING ON THE MOON</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=5d766615-ea71-4650-ada2-c466d85260e3">One from the Vault</a></em><br /><em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=e6372c42-c65d-4589-b42a-567ebf111e2c&CategoryGuid=6a5cebb0-29d3-41b9-9c5e-1ea88199b136"></a><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">BLUES FOR ALLAH</span></em></p> <p><a href="http://www.rodneycrowell.com" target="_blank">Rodney Crowell</a>, <em>The Outsider</em><br /><strong>DON'T GET ME STARTED</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.ralphroddenbery.com" target="_blank">Ralph Roddenbery Band</a>, <em>Let It In</em><br /><em><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">THAT'S GONNA LEAVE A MARK</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour@dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh912_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-912#comments GD Radio Hour Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:49:37 -0500 ccasal 12591 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 1019 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1019 <h3>Week of March 31, 2008</h3> <p>This program originated as a live interview on the <a href="/kpfa">KPFA fund-raising marathon</a> February 9. The amazing saga of <a href="http://www.billcutler.com">Bill Cutler</a>'s CD <em>Crossing the Line</em> is recounted in a <a href="/features/dead-world-roundup/bill-cutler-lot-help-his-friends">story by Blair Jackson</a> here on DeadNet, and here you get to hear Bill tell it himself, with ample musical illustrations. </p> <p>Grateful Dead, <a href="/features/release-info/wait-over-winterland-1973-box-has-arrived"><em>Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings</em></a><strong><br />BLACK THROATED WIND</strong></p> <p>Interview: Bill Cutler</p> <p><em>Kingfish</em><br /> <strong>HOME TO DIXIE</strong></p> <p>Bill Cutler, <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=a765a3fb-f2a6-484e-a14b-e8f150c0cc7d&CategoryGuid=2206c138-36f5-4223-8944-d5aea1767a2e"><em>Crossing the Line</em></a><br /> <strong>ROCKINGHAM MILL<br /> RIDIN' HIGH<br /> ENGINE 99<br /> SAILIN' MAN<br /> STARLITE JAMBOREE</strong></p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour@dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh1019_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1019#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:30:46 -0500 ccasal 12439 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 1000 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1000 <h3>Week of November 19, 2007</h3> <p>Featured: an interview with <a href="http://www.mickeyhart.net" target="_blank">Mickey Hart</a>, and a sampling of some of his CDs, recently reissued by <a href="http://www.shoutfactory.com/browse/152/mickey_hart.aspx" target="_blank">Shout! Factory</a>.</p> <p>Mickey talks about the early days of the Grateful Dead and recounts a particularly amusing conversation he had with Bill Graham back in the day.</p> <p><em>Mickey Hart's Mystery Box</em><br /> <strong>DOWN THE ROAD</strong></p> <p>Diga Rhythm Band, <em>Diga</em><br /> <strong>HAPPINESS IS DRUMMING<br /> SWEET SIXTEENS</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>Fillmore West 1969</em><br /> <strong>DRUMS (Excerpt)</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 1968<strong><br />THE ELEVEN (Rehearsal)</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 1/27/68 Eagle's Auditorium, Seattle WA<br /> <strong>SPANISH JAM</strong></p> <p>Take a look at the <a href="http://gdhour.com/logs.php" target="_blank">GD Hour program logs</a> and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour@dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh1000.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-1000#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:32:47 -0500 ccasal 12438 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 820 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-820 <h3>Week of June 7, 2004</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 3/1/69 Fillmore West<br /> <strong>DUPREE'S DIAMOND BLUES<br /> MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON<br /> DARK STAR</strong></p> <p>Joel Harrison, from <em><a href="http://www.newyorkguitarfestival.org/cgi/show.cgi?db=content&uid=default&view_records=1&ID=110&Group=gh&mh=1" target="_blank">Guitar Harvest, Vol. 1</a></em><br /><strong>BLACK MUDDY RIVER</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.grahamparker.net/albums.php" target="_blank">Graham Parker</a>, <em>Your Country</em><br /><strong>SUGAREE</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/20/89 Spectrum, Philadelphia<br /><strong>CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE</strong></p> <p><em><a href="http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=78091" target="_blank">The Very Best of Jackson Browne</a></em><br /><strong>FOR EVERYMAN</strong></p> <p>*</p> <p>Requested by Carrick Linthicum."What a smoking show."</p> <p>"Dupree's Diamond Blues" and "Mountains of the Moon" are on the three-disc <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Fillmore_West_1969_Compilation.htm" target="_blank">Fillmore West 1969</a></em> compilation, and of course all of 3/1/69 appears on <em><a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Fillmore_West_1969_The_Complete_Recordings.htm" target="_blank">Filmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings</a></em>, both of which were released in 2005 and appear to be out of print at the moment.</p> <p>The Grateful Dead were on the road on October 17, 1989, the day the <a href="http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29/" target="_blank">Loma Prieta earthquake</a> knocked down a bunch of structures back home in northern California. Acknowledging the tragedy, The Dead played Rodney Crowell's song "California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On)" twice, on October 20 and 23, 1989, and released the earlier performance on tape to local radio stations. The original appears on Crowell's 1978 debut album, <a href="http://rodneycrowell.com/music.php" target="_blank"><em>Ain't Livin' Long Like This</em></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/">Jackson Browne</a>'s "For Everyman" isn't Dead-related at all, but it's one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite California singer-songwriters, so when it came out on this beautifully-remastered compilation, I tossed it into the show in hopes of turning some new listeners on to one of the greats.</p> <p>Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh820_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-820#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:11:45 -0500 ccasal 12401 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 343 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-343 <h3>Week of April 17, 1995</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 1/22/68 Eagle's Auditorium, Seattle<br /> <strong>ALLIGATOR</strong> </p> <p>Grateful Dead 1/20/68 Municipal Auditorium, Eureka CA<br /> <strong>CLEMENTINE-><br /> NEW POTATO CABOOSE-><br /> BORN CROSS-EYED-><br /> SPANISH JAM-><br /> CAUTION JAM-><br /> DARK STAR</strong></p> <p>Request by Dennis Gore. Kick-ass jamming from the period that gave us <em>Anthem of the Sun!</em></p> <p>"Clementine" didn't stay in the GD repertoire very long. We used the 2/2/68 performance for the boxed set <em>So Many Roads (1965-1995)</em>; this one is cool, too.</p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>. </p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh343_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-343#comments GD Radio Hour Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:52:53 -0500 ccasal 12378 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour - KFOG http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-kfog <h3>Week of March 23, 1987</h3> <p>Money Changes Everything part 1</p> <p><em>Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel</em><br /> <strong>MONEY MONEY</strong></p> <p>Money Changes Everything part 2</p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/3/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA<br /> <strong>SAINT OF CIRCUMSTANCE</strong></p> <p>Money Changes Everything part 3</p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/17/86 Oakland Coliseum Arena<br /> <strong>SHIP OF FOOLS</strong></p> <p>Interview with John Barlow part 1</p> <p>Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen<br /> <strong>LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS</strong></p> <p>Interview with John Barlow part 2</p> <p>Don Henley, <em>I Can't Stand Still</em><br /> <strong>DIRTY LAUNDRY</strong></p> <p>Interview with John Barlow part 3</p> <p>The Call, <em>Modern Romans</em><br /> <strong>THE WALLS CAME DOWN</strong></p> <p>Interview with John Barlow part 4</p> <p>Laurie Anderson, <em>Home of the Brave</em><br /> <strong>LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS</strong></p> <p>I had a request to play something from the original KFOG Deadhead Hour, which started in November 1984 and where I did my first radio show on February 18, 1985.</p> <p>This episode is typical of the sort of thing I was doing in those days: the first half is "Money Changes Everything," an audio collage of music snippets of political and cultural stuff from TV and radio. The second half is an interview with John Barlow, Bob Weir's songwriting partner, in which he plays some of his favorite songs and we talk about writing, philosophy and of course the Grateful Dead.</p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/kfog-dh_870323.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-kfog#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:45:42 -0500 ccasal 12345 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 268 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-268 <h3>Week of November 8, 1993</h3> <p>9/13/93 Spectrum, Philadelphia</p> <p><strong>HELL IN A BUCKET<br />JACKAROE<br />THE SAME THING</strong></p> <p><strong>TUBULAR BELLS SPACE-><br />EASY ANSWERS-><br />DAYS BETWEEN-><br />GOOD LOVIN'</strong></p> <p>By request of Mike Perko (again), more of 9/13/93 - some highlights from set 1, and from set 2, the one-of-a-kind "space" jam built around a theme from Mike Oldfield's seminal 1973 instrumental <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells" target="_blank"><em>Tubular Bells</em></a>.</p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh268_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-268#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:43:59 -0500 ccasal 12274 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 266 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-266 <p>Grateful Dead Hour #266<br /> <h3>Week of October 25, 1993</h3> <p>9/13/93 Spectrum, Philadelphia<br /> <strong>SCARLET BEGONIAS-><br /> FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN<br /> PLAYING IN THE BAND-><br /> DARK STAR-><br /> TERRAPIN </strong></p> <p>Another all-music show, by request of Mike Perko (again). And look at that list! Come back next week for more of 9/13/93.</p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh266_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-266#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:31:50 -0500 ccasal 12242 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 611 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-611 <h3>Week of June 5,2000</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 5/12/80 Boston Garden<br /> <strong>LAZY LIGHTNING-><br /> SUPPLICATION<br /> FAR FROM ME<br /> MINGLEWOOD<br /> ESTIMATED PROPHET-><br /> HE'S GONE-><br /> JAM</strong></p> <p>An all-music show, requested by Mike Perko. Enjoy!</p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh611_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-611#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:36:29 -0500 ccasal 12188 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 573 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-573 <h3>Week of September 13, 1999</h3> <p>Conclusion of a three-part GD Hour broadcast in memory of <a href="http://dicklatvala.com/" target="_blank">Dick Latvala</a>, the Grateful Dead's tape archivist, who passed away in the summer of 1999.</p> <p>This program began as a live broadcast on KPFA on August 11, 1999.</p> <p><em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=24adadbb-d32f-485f-a523-6b720307d4a1"><strong>DICK'S PICKS VOL. 7</strong></a></em> feature</p> <p><strong>Dick's Intro 4/19/95</strong><br /> Grateful Dead 10/28/72 Public Hall, Cleveland OH<br /> <strong>DARK STAR-><br /> PHILO STOMP-><br /> JAM-><br /> SUGAR MAGNOLIA</strong></p> <p>Dick and I thought up the name "Philo Stomp" for a bass solo that Phil Lesh performed several times in 1972. I was pleasantly stunned recently to hear it on a tape of 2/26/77 in San Bernardino, California; I'll be playing that one on the GD Hour in the very near future.</p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh573_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-573#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:20:52 -0500 ccasal 12110 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 572 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-572 <h3>Week of September 6, 1999</h3> <p>Part 2 of a three-part GD Hour broadcast in memory of <a href="http://dicklatvala.com/" target="_blank">Dick Latvala</a>, the Grateful Dead's tape archivist, who passed away in the summer of 1999.</p> <p>This program began as a live broadcast on KPFA on August 11, 1999.</p> <p>Phone calls from listeners and friends of Dick Latvala.</p> <p>Interview with Dick Latvala 2/96 regarding <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=fd6fd18f-3ed7-44d9-b32b-ad8c259061d4"><em>Dick's Picks vol.4 </em></a>. Excerpts from "Alligator," "The Other One," "China Cat Sunflower."</p> <p>Interview with Dick Latvala 4/95 with <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=9cef0435-f3de-46df-b8e4-a8e866739f53">Dick's Picks vol. 2</a></em> montage and excerpts. </p> <p>You can browse or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh572_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-572#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 21 May 2008 10:44:40 -0500 ccasal 12065 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 571 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-571 <h3>Week of August 30, 1999</h3> <p>This is the first of a three-part GD Hour broadcast in memory of <a href="http://dicklatvala.com/" target="_blank">Dick Latvala</a>, the wonderful crazy Deadhead who was hired in 1985 to take care of the Grateful Dead's tape archive, and later became the namesake of the <em>Dick' Picks</em> series of live concert releases.</p> <p>As you will hear in the program, Dick was working with Blair Jackson, Steve Silberman and me on the boxed set <em><a href="http://deaddisc.com/disc/So_Many_Roads.htm" target="_blank">So Many Roads: 1965-1995</a></em>, filling our heads with possibilities as we struggled to pack thirty years of musical development into a 5-CD compilation, when he had a heart attack. He remained in a coma for several days before departing this life.</p> <p>Dick Latvala was a hero to Deadheads everywhere because of the work he did in serving this music we all love so much. He is loved, and he is missed.</p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em><a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=59ae1d94-d8ba-441e-8e51-2d56c32257cf">Dick's Picks vol. 14</a></em> (12/2/73)<br /> <strong>MORNING DEW</strong></p> <p><strong>TRIBUTE TO DICK LATVALA</strong> part 1:<br /> Interview with Dick when <em>Dick's Picks vol 1</em> was released ... How Dick became a Deadhead ... got paid to take psychedelics in a clinical study ... worked as a mailman ... moved to Hawaii ... What made the Dead more special than the other bands on the SF scene ... how he got into collecting tapes ... kept notes on every tape he collected ... Dick's work in support of the <em>So Many Roads</em> boxed set project ... Phone interview with <a href="http://www.thenewriders.com">David Nelson</a> ... post from John Cutler: "Tonight I ask that all who have been touched by Dick and wish to celebrate his unique and special life adopt Bob's toast: <strong>Latvala!</strong>” Dick's first meeting with the GD at Red Rocks in 1979 ... Closing of Winterland was the most powerful day of his life ... “Primal Dead” ... hired as the archivist ... origin of the Dick's Picks series... how he made his choices and how the process worked ... </p> <p>Grateful Dead, <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=a11f7aab-b519-4544-a642-f3589ea91c36"><em>Dick's Picks vol. 1</em></a> (12/19/73)<br /> <strong>HERE COMES SUNSHINE</strong></p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh571_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-571#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 20 May 2008 13:57:31 -0500 ccasal 12048 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 317 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-317 <h3>Week of October 17, 1994</h3> <p>I'm posting this show at the request of Jaime Gomez, a resident of Chile who lived in Iowa for several years and saw the Grateful Dead in the summer of 1994.</p> <p>This is an all-music show (hooray!). For a while during the course of my weird business relationship with the Dead organization, I wasn't allowed to play complete sets on the Grateful Dead Hour. So in this program I swapped in the Europe 72 version of "Ramble on Rose". Bureaucrats, mumble-mumble...</p> <p>A highlight of this set is "Eternity," written by Bob Weir in collaboration with blues great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dixon" target="_blank">Willie Dixon</a>. I found Bob Weir's account of the collaboration on the <a href="http://deaddisc.com/songs/Eternity.htm" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Family Discography</a> site:</p> <blockquote><p>I had this chord progression and melody that I wanted to run by Willie to see if he liked it .... he did, so he started dashing off words. He wanted me to run a certain section by him again and stuff like that, and we started working on a bridge. Then he dashes off this sheet of lyrics and hands it to me. Now I'm really stoked to be working with the legendary Willie Dixon and I'm prepared for just about anything.</p> <p>He hands these lyrics to me and I'm reading through them. And they seem, you know, awfully simplistic. Like there wasn't a whole lot to them....</p> <p>....Now he wants me to read through it and sing the melody I have and see if they fit. And so I started singing through these simplistic lyrics, and that simplicity takes on a whole other direction.</p> <p>By the time I had sung through them, it's like my head is suddenly eons wide. I can hear what's happening just sort of echoing around in there and I'm astounded by the simple grace of what he has just presented to me. I'm sitting there with my mouth open literally, and Willie's laughing. He's just sitting there laughing, saying, 'Now you see it. Now you see it. That's the wisdom of the blues.'</p> </p></blockquote> <p>Grateful Dead 9/17/94 Shoreline, Mtn View CA<br /> <strong>JACK STRAW<br /> FENNARIO<br /> THE SAME THING<br /> WEST LA FADEAWAY<br /> QUEEN JANE, APPROXIMATELY </strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>Europe 72</em><br /> <strong>RAMBLE ON ROSE</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 9/17/94 Shoreline, Mtn View CA<br /> <strong>ETERNITY-><br /> DON'T EASE ME IN</strong></p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh317_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-317#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 09 May 2008 19:15:56 -0500 ccasal 11934 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 519 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-519 <h3>Week of August 31, 1998</h3> <p>Interview with David Grisman recorded live on the air at KPFA July 29, 1998, at the time of the release of the Jerry Garcia-David Grisman CD <em>So What</em>, a collection of jazz instrumentals.</p> <p>The first song in this broadcast, Take 1 of Miles Davis' "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_What_%28instrumental%29" target="_blank">So What</a>," was the first piece of music Jerry and Dawg recorded in David's studio with the David Grisman Quintet's rhythm section, Jim Kerwin (bass) Joe Craven (percussion).</p> <p>Grisman also tells the story of how he and Jerry met in 1964 when they were young bluegrass freaks, "chasin' the high lonesome sound around with [their] tape recorders"; how he came to play mandolin on "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple" in the sessions for the Grateful Dead's<em> American Beauty </em>(1970); and how their latter-day collaboration began with a couple of chance meetings in 1990.</p> <p>We also hear a few selections from the first (and I'm pretty sure only) comedy release on Grisman's Acoustic Disc label: <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd31.html" target="_blank"><em>Buh-Doom!</em></a>, by the legendary session drummer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine" target="_blank">Hal Blaine</a>.</p> <p>And friends, I swear it was a complete surprise to me when Grisman invited me to play my then-new CD single, "<a href="http://www.trufun.com/perfectible/monica/" target="_blank">Monica Lewinsky</a>." I had brought a copy to give to him, and the next thing I knew he was asking me to play it on the air.</p> <p>And as a lagniappe at the end of the broadcast, David tells a sweet story about how his composition "16/16" got its name.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://dawgnet.com" target="_blank"><em>David Grisman</em></a> interviewed on KPFA's <a href="http://dttw.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Dead to the World</a> July 29, 1998</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, <em>So What</em><br /> <strong>SO WHAT (Take 1 12/6/90)</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>American Beauty</em><br /> <strong>FRIEND OF THE DEVIL</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, <em>So What</em><br /> <strong>BAGS' GROOVE (Take 5 11/24/92)</strong></p> <p>Hal Blaine, <em>Buh-Doom!</em><br /> <strong>DRUMMERS<br /> RAT IN A PAWN SHOP<br /> ACCORDION PLAYER<br /> OVER THE RAINBOW</strong></p> <p>David Gans and the Broken Angels<br /> <strong>MONICA LEWINSKY</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, <em>So What</em><br /> <strong>16/16</strong></p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!</p> <p>David Gans<br /> gdhour@dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh519_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-519#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 06 May 2008 11:00:59 -0500 ccasal 11897 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 027 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-027 <h3>Week of March 6, 1989</h3> <p> This week's program features live Grateful Dead music recorded February 23-24, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Portchester, New York - including, by popular demand, four numbers featuring Ron "Pigpen" McKernan on the lead vocals, organ and harmonica. </p> <p> Pigpen was a blues freak who hooked up with Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia in the early Sixties to form Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, and it was his idea to get a rhythm section and some electric instruments and turn it into a blues band that they called the Warlocks and later the Grateful Dead. His health forced him to quit performing with the band in 1972. I learned a lot about him when I interviewed the other band members for my book <em><a href="http://www.trufun.com/books/" target="_blank">Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead</a></em>. In a 1984 interview - which was long before I had any idea I'd be working on this radio program, so the recording conditions were a little less than first-class - Mickey Hart talked about Pigpen as a musician and as a friend. </p> <p> Also: "Little Red Rooster" was a double slide-guitar showcase for the Dead all through the ‘80s. Here’s a recording of it by the guy who wrote it: Willie Dixon. </p> <p> <strong>Mickey Hart talks about Pigpen 11/11/84</strong> </p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/23/71 Capitol Theatre, Portchester NY<br /> <strong>BIG BOSS MAN<br /> BERTHA<br /> NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME<br /> SUGAR MAGNOLIA<br /> CASEY JONES</strong> </p> <p>Willie Dixon, <em>I Am the Blues<br /></em><strong>LITTLE RED ROOSTER</strong></p> <p> Grateful Dead 2/24/71 Capitol Theatre, Portchester NY<br /> <strong>HARD TO HANDLE<br /> ME AND BOBBY McGEE<br /> KING BEE</strong> </p> <p> You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a> </p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh027_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-027#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:12:21 -0500 ccasal 11871 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 319 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-319 <h3>Week of October 31, 1994</h3> <p>Conclusion of the two part interview with Steve Silberman and David Shenk, authors of <em>Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads</em>. More info in <a href="/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-318">last week's entry</a>.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/6/74 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City NJ<br /><strong>EYES OF THE WORLD</strong></p> <p>David Crosby, Jerry Garcia et al (unreleased)<br /><strong>KIDS AND DOGS</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/1/79 Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh PA<br /><strong>NOT FADE AWAY</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/16/88 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA<br /><strong>BIRD SONG</strong></p> <p>Note: "Kids and Dogs" was released not long ago on David Crosby's boxed set <a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77628"><em>Voyage</em></a>. </p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> <a href="mailto:gdhour@dead.net">gdhour@dead.net</a></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh319_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-319#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:22:47 -0500 ccasal 11828 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 318 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-318 <h3>Week of October 24, 1994</h3> <p>Featured: The first half of a two-part interview with Steve Silberman and David Shenk, authors of <em>Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads</em>, taken from a live broadcast on KPFA.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 11/10/85 Meadowlands, E. Rutherford NJ<strong><br />CASSIDY<br /> FEEL LIKE A STRANGER<br /> MISSISSIPPI HALFSTEP-><br /> I KNOW YOU RIDER</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia, David Crosby et al, January 1971 (unreleased)<strong><br />LOSER</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.levity.com/digaland" target="_blank">Steve Silberman</a>'s articles appear regularly in Wired, Dwell, the Shambhala Sun, and other magazines. Recently, he has written about neurologist Oliver Sacks and music, the health of veterans returning from the war in Iraq, and the Jewish/Buddhist teacher and author Sylvia Boorstein.</p> <p>Steve is very pleased to say that after ten years of trying, he was finally successful in convincing the powers that be to officially release "Kids and Dogs," a luminous 1970 recording by David Crosby and Jerry Garcia. The song appears on Crosby's 3-CD box set <em><a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77628" target="_blank">Voyage</a></em> -- which Steve helped create -- and on the enhanced version of Crosby's masterpiece <em><a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=73204" target="_blank">If I Could Only Remember My Name</a></em>, which features performances by members of the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and others.</p> <p><a href="http://www.davidshenk.com/" target="_blank">David Shenk</a> Writes:</p> <blockquote><p>Here's an update on what I've done in the 14 years since this crazy fun book: I've written four other books: <em>The Forgetting</em>, <em>The Immortal Game</em>, <em>Data Smog</em>, and <em>The End of Patience</em>. The Los Angeles Times called <em>The Forgetting</em> "A remarkable addition to the literature of the science of the mind." <em>he Immortal Game</em> was hailed as "superb" by The Wall Street Journal. <em>Data Smog</em> was praised by The New York Times as an “indispensable guide to the big picture of technology's cultural impact.” Sven Birkerts called <em>The End of Patience</em> “Exhilarating . . . a startling glimpse of where we are.” Most meaningfully of all, Steve has liked my books.</p> <p>I've also contributed to National Geographic, Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Gourmet, Wired, The American Scholar, NPR and PBS. I've advised the President's Council on Bioethics, co-founded the "Technorealism" movement, and directed four short films on Alzheimer's. In 2004, the PBS documentary <em>The Forgetting</em> won an Emmy. Coolest of all, by far, my original term "data smog" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. (That's immortality, baby).</p> <p> Right now, I'm working on a book about the new science of genetics, talent and intelligence. It's a very hopeful book that shows -- contrary to popular myth -- that we are not born with strict genetic limitations on capabilities and IQ. You can find out more than you'd ever want to know about me at <a href="http://davidshenk.com" target="_blank">davidshenk.com</a>.</p> </p></blockquote> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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<a href="mailto:%20gdhour@dead.net"> gdhour [at] dead.net</a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh318_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-318#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:50:00 -0500 ccasal 11772 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 164 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-164 <h3>Week of November 11, 1991</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 9/16/78 Sound and Light Theatre, Cairo, Egypt (with Hamza El-Din)<br /> <strong>OLLIN ARAGEED<br /> FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN-><br /> IKO IKO</strong></p> <p>The "UNCLE BOBO" incident: <strong>Bob Weir, Bill Graham</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>One from the Vault</em><br /> <strong>HELP ON THE WAY-><br /> SLIPKNOT!-><br /> FRANKLIN'S TOWER</strong></p> <p>BILL GRAHAM REMEMBERED: <strong>Wavy Gravy, Dr. David E. Smith, Thom O'hair, Mickey Hart, Robin Williams</strong></p> <p>Concert promoter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Graham_%28promoter%29">Bill Graham</a> died in a helicopter crash on a rainy night in October 1991, along with his girlfriend, Melissa Gold, and his pilot, Steve Kahn. </p> <p>Dr. David E. Smith was the founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. His long-out-of-print memoir <em>Love Needs Care</em> is well worth reading if you can find a copy. Thom O'hair, now deceased, was the program director at KSAN in its heyday, back in that time when FM radio was the community listening post of the counterculture. Wavy Gravy is <a href="http://www.campwinnarainbow.com">Wavy Gravy</a>, of course. The insane/delightful actor/comedian Robin Williams is a San Francisco native, and he - along with hundreds of other Bay Area luminaries - spent November 3, 1991 at Golden Gate Park, grieving and celebrating with the rest of us at a memorial event titled <A HREF="http://www.musicman.com/rt2/lalo.html">Laughter, Love and Music</a>.</p> <p>* * *</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <A HREF="http://www.gdhour.com">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! </p> <p>David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh164_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-164#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:15:08 -0500 ccasal 11684 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 261 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-261 <h3>Week of September 20, 1993</h3> <p> <strong>OREGON TRAIL MIX</strong> <p>Grateful Dead 8/21/93 Autzen Stadium, Eugene OR<br /> <strong>BIRD SONG-><br /> PROMISED LAND</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/21/93 Autzen Stadium, Eugene OR<br /> w/ Huey Lewis, harmonica<br /> <strong>TRUCKIN'-><br /> GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL-><br /> SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING</strong></p> <p>"Oregon Trail Mix" is a radio play written by Jack Ellis and featuring the voices of Jack Ellis, Mary Weatherly, Sue Ellis, Ken Nordine, and me. We went to Eugene to broadcast the August 21 and 22 shows live on KLCC (with tons of help from KLCC's "Dead Air" hostess Deb Trist and other KLCC staffers), and Dan Healy thought it would be fun to create a piece of radio drama for the occasion. Dan played it over the PA at Autzen Stadium, too!</p> <p>Huey Lewis was in town to appear as Elvis Presley (!) in Ken Kesey's play "Twister," which was presented at the Armory not far from Autzen Stadium. The play was a weird twist on "The Wizard of Oz"; I wish I remembered anything about the play.</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh261_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-261#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:03:13 -0500 ccasal 11595 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 503 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-503 <h3>Week of May 11, 1998</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 8/1/73 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City<br /> <strong>DARK STAR-><br /> EL PASO </strong> </p> <p><strong>The DEAD at CANDLESTICK 4/93</strong></p> <p><strong>AN ALTERNATIVE ANTHEM</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/29/77 Winterland (Dick's Picks vol. 10)<br /> <strong>TENNESSEE JED</strong></p> <p>Ruth Allison requested this show for the Jerry-Bobby-Vince "Star Spangled Banner" and a montage of media coverage of the event. I think the quote of the day is Jerry telling a reporter, "We're like bad architecture and old whores: eventually you get respectable if you're around long enough."</p> <p>"An Alternative Anthem" was my not-terribly-successful attempt to stitch together a new set of patriotic images.</p> <p>And: the "Dark Star" from Jerry's 31st birthday ain't too shabby.</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh503_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-503#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:57:34 -0500 ccasal 11594 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 388 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-388 <h3>Week of February 26, 1996</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 2/66 (?) unknown venue<br /> <strong>GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL-><br /> YOU DON'T LOVE ME-><br /> GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>DICK LATVALA</strong> with excerpts from <em>Dick's Picks vol. 4</em></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>Dick's Picks vol. 4</em> (2/13-14/70)<br /> <strong>CASEY JONES</strong></p> <p> Trent Henley requested this show, and I am always happy to hear the voice of our dear departed friend, vault archivist Dick Latvala.</p> <p>Dick brings in a terrific early 1966 performance that he calls the first example he had found of the band slipping a song into the middle of the jam in another song.</p> <p>In the second half of the show, we introduce <em>Dick's Picks volume 4,</em> from the Fillmore East February 13 and 14, 1970. Dick also explains the process of getting his Picks released.</p> <p> You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh388_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-388#comments GD Radio Hour Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:06:17 -0500 ccasal 11556 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 630 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-630 <h3>Week of October 16, 2000</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 8/6/74 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City NJ<br /> <strong>THE OTHER ONE-><br /> goin' down the road feelin' bad-><br /> SUNSHINE DAYDREAM<br /> US BLUES</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/26/69 McFarlin Auditorium, SMU, Dallas TX<br /> <strong>THE MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER<br /> LITTLE SADIE<br /> LONG BLACK LIMOUSINE<br /> I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD<br /> THE MASTER'S BOUQUET<br /> BLACK PETER</strong></p> <p><a href="/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-631">Program #631</a> included the end of the acoustic set of 12/26/69. Many people wrote to request the previous show, with the beginning of that set. Here it is!</p> <p>What would you like to hear? Browse and/or search the program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br />David Gans<br /> gdhour (at) dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh630_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-630#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:00:37 -0600 ccasal 11522 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 634 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-634 <h3>Week of November 13, 2000</h3> <p><a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd2.html"><em>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman</em></a><br /><strong>ARABIA</strong></p> <p>Interview: David Lemieux and Jeffrey Norman</p> <p><a href="/features/ladies-and-gentlemen-grateful-dead-lp-front"><em>Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead</em></a><br /><strong>MINGLEWOOD<br />RIPPLE<br />DARK STAR<br />CASEY JONES</strong></p> <p>After opening with the extended instrumental from the first Garcia-Grisman CD, this show moves on to the conclusion of our interview with archivist David Lemieux and engineer Jeffrey Norman regarding their work on the April 1971 multitrack compilation <em>Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead</em>.Former keyboardist Tom Constanten dropped back in for a jam on April 28, and his participation adds some nice swirling magic to one of my all-time favorite Dark Stars. The St. Stephen/Not Fade Away sandwich that follows (although not on this broadcast) is also one for the books. This show circulated on much-loved tape for years; getting to hear it mixed and mastered in pristine state-of-the-art HDCD was and is a thrill. <em>Ladies and Gents...</em> also includes the great Alligator->GDTRFB->Cold Rain and Snow from 4/29/71 (last show at the Fillmore East, last Alligator) and many other gems.</p> <p>Your requests are requested and your wishes are wished for! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br />gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh634_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-634#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:52:17 -0600 ccasal 11485 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 633 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-633 <h3>Week of November 6, 2000</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 12/26/69 McFarlin Auditorium, SMU, Dallas TX<br /><strong> NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE<br /> LOVELIGHT</strong></p> <p>Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead (April 1971)<br /><strong> GOOD LOVIN'</strong> (excerpt)</p> <p>Interview: <strong>David Lemieux and Jeffrey Norman</strong></p> <p>Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead (April 1971)<br /><strong> I'M A KING BEE</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>David Lemieux and Jeffrey Norman</strong></p> <p>"You just had it done to you by the Grateful Dead, ladies and gentlemen, the Grateful Dead!" the promoter says at the end of the 12/26/69 show. Well said, says I!</p> <p>Part 2 of this program is part 1 of an interview with archivist David Lemieux and engineer Jeffrey Norman, who collaborated to produce the wonderful 4-CD set <em>Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead</em>. Taken from the band's last run at the Fillmore East in April 1971, this collection includes one of my all-time favorite "Dark Stars," which you'll hear in next week's <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a> post here on <a href="/features/gdhour">DeadNet</a>.</p> <p>Your requests are requested and your wishes are wished for! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh633a_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-633#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:18:28 -0600 ccasal 11467 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 632 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-632 <h3>Week of October 30, 2000</h3> <p><strong>Bob Weir</strong> interview Part 2<br /> Including excerpts from "Evening Moods":<br /> <strong>TWO DJINN<br /> CORRINA</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.dgans.com/discography/persuasions" target="_blank"><em>Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead</em></a><br /><strong>LIBERTY</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/26/69 McFarlin Auditorium, SMU, Dallas TX<strong><br />ME AND MY UNCLE<br /> DARK STAR</strong></p> <p> Your requests are welcome! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh632_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-632#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:54:37 -0600 ccasal 11398 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 631 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-631 <h3>Week of October 23, 2000</h3> <p><strong>Bob Weir</strong> interview Part 1<br /> Including excerpts from Ratdog's new CD, <em>Evening Moods</em><br /> <strong>OCTOBER QUEEN</strong><br /> <strong>ASHES AND GLASS</strong><br /> <strong>ODESSA</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/26/69 McFarlin Auditorium, SMU, Dallas TX<br /> <strong>UNCLE JOHN'S BAND<br /> CASEY JONES<br /> HARD TO HANDLE<br /> COLD RAIN AND SNOW<br /> CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER-><br /> HIGH TIME</strong></p> <p>At the start of the interview with Bob Weir, you'll hear me saying some extremely positive things about the then-new CD by Bob Weir and Ratdog, <a href="http://deaddisc.com/disc/Evening_Moods.htm"><em>Evening Moods</em></a>. I wasn't just buttering him up: Except for "Corrina," which dated back to the last three years of the Grateful Dead's career, <em>Evening Moods</em> is all new material - and every song is a winner. (You can <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=67a65e97-8118-47cd-95a8-334ed51b112c&CategoryGuid=5916daae-a70d-4161-ae44-4b6f2c9d7a48">order it from the DeadNet store</a>.) </p> <p>The December 1969 excerpt begins at the end of an acoustic set that happened because (as the band explained at the start of the show) drummer Bill Kreutzmann's flight was late. That's why we hear Bob Weir say, "And now, the man who's responsible for all this: Bill Kreutzmann!" What follows is some damn fine Grateful Dead music!</p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh631_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-631#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:14 -0600 ccasal 11389 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 58 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-58 <h3>Week of October 23, 1989</h3> <p><strong>Rex Radio excerpt:</strong> Phil Lesh, Gary Lambert, and Jerry Garcia present the 1989 Ralph J. Gleason Memorial Award to Peter Apfelbaum</p> <p><strong>Libya Blues</strong> (excerpt) - Peter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble with Don Cherry</p> <p><strong>Attics of My Life</strong> - Grateful Dead, <em>American Beauty</em></p> <p><strong>Scarlet Begonias-></strong><br /> <strong>Touch of Grey-></strong><br /> <strong>Fire on the Mountain</strong> - Grateful Dead 7/13/84 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA</p> <p>This week's archival includes an excerpt from Rex Radio (later known as <em>Eyes of Chaos/Veil of Order</em>), a monthly program on <a href="http://www.kpfa.org" target="_blank">KPFA</a> (Berkeley CA) hosted by Phil Lesh and Gary Lambert. </p> <p>Here's Phil: "The <a href="http://www.rexfoundation.org" target="_blank">Rex Foundation</a> is a philanthropic organization which donates money that... the Grateful Dead earns through the donation of our services. The money is distributed as we see fit, generally speaking, mostly to environmental organziations - percentage-wise I'd say environmental and health-related things get most of the money. We also support ... creative activity in music and recording of unusual music - just about anything that you can name that hippies love."</p> <p>Rex gives three awards each year: the Ralph J. Gleason Award, the Jerry Garcia Award, and the Bill Graham Award. The <a href="http://rexfoundation.org/awardsmaster.html" target="_blank">listings on the Rex site</a> don't go back to 1989, for some reason - but please click on that link for an explanation of the meaning of the three gifts.</p> <p>The recipient of the 1989 Ralph J Gleason award was Berkeley jazz musician <a href="http://www.peterapfelbaum.com/" target="_blank">Peter Apfelbaum</a>. Gary Lambert keeps in touch with Peter, so I asked him for an update:</p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>Since receiving the Rex Foundation's Ralph J. Gleason award in 1988, Peter Apfelbaum has remained true to the musical vision that earned him Rex's highest artistic accolade. Like so many of his fellow distinguished alumni of Berkeley High School's jazz education program, Peter migrated to New York City, where he has been a vital member of that city's thriving improv music community since the late 1990s. He has recorded and/or performed live with a wide variety of musicians in various genres, including Charlie Hunter, Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, the Josh Roseman Unit, Levon Helm, Cyro Baptista's Beat the Donkey, Harry Belafonte, the late Don Cherry, and many more. Fans of Trey Anastasio might remember Peter as a key member of the great 10-piece band that toured with Trey a few years back. <p> </p> <p> Peter currently leads an updated version of the Hieroglyphics Ensemble, the remarkable jazz/world fusion big band that he formed shortly after graduating from high school some 30 years ago. Now called the New York Hieroglyphics, the group brings together some of Peter's oldest musical friends from the Berkeley days who now reside on the East Coast, as well as some stalwarts of the New York scene. The 2005 New York Hieroglyphics album <a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19827" target="_blank"><em>It Is Written</em></a> reveals that Peter Apfelbaum's creative light burns as bright as ever.</p> </p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh058_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-58#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:55:14 -0600 ccasal 11364 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 393 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-393 <h3>Week of April 1, 1996</h3> <p>Grateful Dead+Jefferson Airplane 9/7/69 Family Dog, SF<br /> <strong>PEGGY SUE<br /> THAT'LL BE THE DAY<br /> JOHNNY B. GOODE<br /> BABY WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO?<br /> PIPELINE/BIG RAILROAD BLUES<br /> LOUIE LOUIE-><br /> BLUE MOON</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 11/10/85 Meadowlands Arena, E Rutherford NJ<br /> <strong>TOUCH OF GREY-><br /> HELL IN A BUCKET-><br /> SUGAREE</strong></p> <p>Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and drummer/vocalist Joey Covington join the GD for a weird and wonderful set at the Family Dog on the Great Highway in San Francisco.</p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh393_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-393#comments GD Radio Hour Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:58:15 -0600 ccasal 11339 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 101 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-101 <h3>Week of August 27, 1990</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 3/18/90 Hartford Civic Center<br /> <strong>Iko Iko</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/11/89 Forum, Inglewood CA<br /> <strong>We Can Run</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 4/17/82 Hartford Civic Center<br /> <strong>Shakedown Street</strong><br /> <strong> post-Saint jam</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/3/87 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View CA<br /> <strong>Bird Song</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/21/88 Reunion Arena, Dallas TX<br /> <strong>jam-></strong><br /> <strong>I Will Take You Home</strong></p> <p>This is the conclusion of a three-part tribute to Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland, who died in July 1990.</p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh101_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-101#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:36:43 -0600 ccasal 11331 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 100 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-100 <h3>Week of August 20, 1990</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 7/29/88 Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey CA<br /> <strong>BLOW AWAY</strong></p> <p>Excerpt from Deadhead Hour 4/8/85<br /> Interview: <strong>Jerry Garcia/Brent Mydland</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 10/10/82 Frost Amphitheatre<br /> <strong>FAR FROM ME</strong></p> <p> Interview: <strong>Brent Mydland</strong> <p> </p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/23/90 World Music Thtr, Tinley Park IL<br /> <strong>GOOD TIME BLUES</strong></p> <p>Excerpt from KFOG Deadhead Hour 4/8/85<br /> Grateful Dead 8/28/81 Long Beach Arena<br /> <strong>JAM</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Brent Mydland</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 9/10/83 Santa Fe Downs<br /> <strong>JAM</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/15/84 Greek Theatre, Berkeley<br /> <strong>DON’T NEED LOVE</strong></p> <p><em>Bobby and the Midnites</em><br /> <strong>BOOK OF RULES</strong></p> <p>This is the second of a three-part tribute to Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland, who died in July 1990.</p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh100_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> <p> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-100#comments GD Radio Hour Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:59:24 -0600 ccasal 11309 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 99 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-99 <h3>Week of August 13, 1990</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 10/3/87 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View CA<br /> <strong>STELLA BLUE</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/8/90 Cal Expo, Sacramento<br /> <strong>EASY TO LOVE YOU</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>John Barlow</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/26/88 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA<br /> <strong>GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Brent Mydland/Jerry Garcia </strong>(Deadhead Hour 4/8/85)</p> <p>Grateful Dead 4/22/79 Spartan Stadium, San Jose<br /> <strong>JACK STRAW</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Dan Healy</strong></p> <p>Phone calls from listeners</p> <p><em>Silver</em><br /> <strong>MUSICIAN (IT'S NOT AN EASY LIFE)</strong></p> <p>Phone calls</p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/18/90 Hartford Civic Center<br /> <strong>JUST A LITTLE LIGHT</strong></p> <p>This is the first of a three-part show that originated as a live broadcast on KPFA in Berkeley on the day after Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland was found dead at his home.</p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh099_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> <p> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-99#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:55:15 -0600 ccasal 11302 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 65 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-65 <h3>Week of December 18, 1989</h3> <p><strong>Shakedown Street-><br /> Uncle John's Band (reprise)</strong> - <a href="http://dead.net">Grateful Dead</a> 12/26/79 Oakland Auditorium</p> <p><strong>Oh Mommy</strong> - <a href="http://www.brewerandshipley.com/">Brewer and Shipley</a>, <em>Tarkio Road</em><br /> Jerry Garcia, pedal steel guitar<br /> <strong>Transverse City</strong> - <a href="http://www.warrenzevon.com/">Warren Zevon</a>,<em> Transverse City</em><br /> Jerry Garcia, electric guitar<br /> <strong>Last Lonely Eagle</strong> - <a href="http://www.nrps.net"><em>New Riders of the Purple Sage</em></a><br /> Jerry Garcia, pedal steel; Mickey Hart, drums<br /> <strong>Danger Man</strong> - <a href="http://www.davidbromberg.net/">David Bromberg</a>, <em>Wanted Dead or Alive</em><br /> Jerry Garcia, electric guitar; Phil Lesh, bass;<br /> Bill Kreutzmann, drums; Keith Godchaux, piano</p> <p><strong>You Win Again<br /> Bottle Let Me Down<br /> Why Don't You Love Me?</strong><br /> <strong>*Riot in Cell Block #9</strong><br /> <strong>**Goin' Down</strong> - Elvis Costello and Friends 4/24/89 Sweetwater, Mill Valley</p> <p> * Commander Cody, lead vocal<br /> ** Sammy Hagar, lead vocal</p> <p>This show opens with the brilliant double encore of 12/26/79 at the Oakland Auditorium (later released as <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=f03d41d1-01d1-477d-92ba-1c25c7a04383&CategoryGuid=a7b282e6-dfd4-42a2-b62b-d33057e65c42" target="_blank"><em>Dick's Picks vol. 5</em></a>, and then we hear four recordings by other artists featuring one or more members of the Grateful Dead. </p> <p>Brewer and Shipley were famous for "One Toke Over the Line," from the same album as this track, but it wasn't Jerry playing pedal steel on the big hit. (According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkio_%28album%29" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, players on <em>Tarkio</em> included bassist John Kahn and drummer Bill Vitt, both of whom played with Jerry and Merl Saunders in the early '70s; Kahn played bass in Jerry's side bands for the rest of their days.)</p> <p>The second half of this program is from a mono soundboard feed from the PA at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, California. It was an anniversary party for <a href="http://www.villagemusic.com/" target="_blank">Village Music</a>, and Elvis and friends were the scheduled performers. The band included James Burton, the legendary lead guitarist who backed the first Elvis and Ricky Nelson (and was a member of Emmylou Harris's first Hot Band); Burton's classmate Jerry Scheff on bass; and Bay Areans <a href="http://www.marinij.com/liberatore/ci_4484259" target="_blank">Austin De Lone</a> (keyboards) and Scott Mathews (drums). Other guest musicians included Nick Lowe, Charles Brown, Kim Wilson, Mitch Woods, Jeff Burton (James's son), Annie Sampson, Commander Cody, Sammy Hagar, Pete Sears, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir.</p> <p>I have an especially fond memory of this April '89 event: I had the privilege of introducing Elvis Costello to Jerry Garcia - and, even cooler than that, introducing Jerry to one of his heroes, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burton" target="_blank">James Burton</a>.</p> <p>Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh065_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> <p> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-65#comments GD Radio Hour Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:58:58 -0600 ccasal 11221 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 424 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-424 <h3>Week of November 4, 1996</h3> <p><strong>Interview: PHIL LESH and JOHN CUTLER talk about</strong> <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=493933a8-ce8e-419b-8b48-1f4b47f3e0d9&CategoryGuid=a7b282e6-dfd4-42a2-b62b-d33057e65c42"><strong>Dozin' at the Knick</strong></a></p> <p>Grateful Dead, Dozin' at the Knick<br /> <strong>Blow Away (3/26/90)</strong></p> <p><strong>Space-><br /> the wheel-><br /> All Along the Watchtower-><br /> Stella Blue (3/24/90)</strong></p> <p>Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh424_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> <p> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-424#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:27:38 -0600 ccasal 11212 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 41 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-41 <h3>Week of June 12, 1989</h3> <p>David Crosby 12/31/86 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA <br /> <strong>Almost Cut My Hair</strong></p> <p>Crosby & Nash 11/11/71 (studio rough) with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann <br /> <strong>The Wall Song</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/11/89 Forum, Inglewood CA <br /> <strong>Bird Song</strong></p> <p>The Byrds, Fifth Dimension <br /> <strong>Eight Miles High</strong></p> <p><strong>Grateful Dead 12/31/86 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA <br /> US Blues</strong></p> <p> This week's show features a wonderful interview with famous Deadhead David Crosby recorded on May 2, 1989. Crosby and the Grateful Dead go way back, and a large part of this conversation is about David's love for the Dead's music. </p> <p> David Crosby opened the NYE '86 show with a solo acoustic set, from which you hear "Almost Cut My Hair." </p> <p> Also in there is a studio rough of "The Wall Song" from a Crosby & Nash recording session on November 11, 11/71, with Graham Nash on piano; David and Jerry on guitars; Phil Lesh on bass; and Bill Kreutzmann on drums. </p> <p> Crosby's first solo album, <em>If I Could Only Remember My Name</em>, was reissued recently in a <a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=73204">deluxe package with a CD and an audio DVD</a>. It is a truly brilliant record, with contributions from members of the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane, and Santana, plus David Freiberg, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, and others. Great songs, great performances, and a great recording. </p> <p> <strong>From the introduction to the radio show:</strong> </p> <p> I have a snapshot in my mind of of New Year's Eve 1986 at the Henry J. Kaiser auditorium, walking into a room backstage and seeing Jerry Garcia and David Crosby engaged in conversation. We almost lost those two guys in '86, but there they were, big as life. </p> <p> Six months earlier David was in jail and Jerry was in a coma. Two of this generation's most beloved souls found themselves skidding toward heaven, but each made the decision to turn that wheel before it was too late. </p> <p> While Crosby was in prison I collected greetings from several of his northern California friends in a book and sent it to him. I learned later that he was deeply touched by these messages from these people he had loved and lost during his years of enslavement to cocaine, and when I met him face to face in 1987 Crosby greeted me like an old friend. </p> <p> And I feel like a friend, even though we didn't meet til recently. With the Byrds and then with Crosby, Stills and Nash, Crosby's music has always been precious to me. His singing and/or songwriting credits are almost too numerous to mention, including "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Eight Miles High," "Wooden Ships," "Guinnevere," and "Long Time Gone," to name but a few. (The first disc of Crosby's boxed set <em><a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77628" target="_blank">Voyage</a></em> tells you all you need to know, really, but the rest of the set is pretty damn wonderful, too.) In the '60s, rock and roll wasn't just music, it was the bulletin board and the grapevine of a generation, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were heroes who gave their fans political and musical inspiration in equally generous measure. </p> <p> The story turned sour for Crosby in the '80s, as drugs crowded everything else out of the picture and he exhausted the love and patience of the people around him. The quality of his performances suffered, his songwriting output dropped to zero, and even his most loyal friends believed he was as gone as you can get and still have a heartbeat. </p> <p> Crosby had to go to prison to get clean, but as he wrote in his autobiography, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Long-Time-Gone-David-Crosby/dp/0385245300" target="_blank">Long Time Gone</a></em> [by Crosby and Carl Gottlieb. Doubleday, 1988], he doesn't regret a minute of that time because it brought him back to life and music. </p> <p> At the time this radio show was created, Crosby had just finished a tour featuring music from his solo album <em>Oh Yes I Can</em>. He came to the Truth and Fun studios for this interview; I kept my cool at the time, but I don't mind telling you that David Crosby is one of the musical heroes of my life. What else can I say but "So glad you made it!" </p> <p> <strong>And here is a transcript of the interview in the radio show:</strong> </p> <p> David Crosby: [Paul] Kantner and I and David Freiberg used to live together, down in Venice. I went and started the Byrds with McGuinn and them, and then Paul started the Airplane. And then David got together with those people and started Quicksilver. So I was tapped into each new band that started in San Francisco. And as soon as there was a Grateful Dead, I heard about it. And we had played up here - the Byrds - at the Peppermint Tree. You haven't lived until you've seen us trying to do something like "Chimes of Freedom" with two girls dancing topless on either side of us. "Don't you guys know something with a beat?" [laughter] Total mismatch. I think I heard about Garcia playing even before that down in Palo Alto, at some little club down there. But as soon as they started playing, we started to hear about them, and then I went to visit 'em when they were still living on Ashbury [in San Francisco]. I liked them right away, because they were totally outrageous and obviously completely crazed. And that was just my style. I remember thinking, God, this kid Weir is too young to be in this band, isn't he? I mean, do you have like a note from his parents or something? </p> <p> Crosby: That record, If I Could Only Remember My Name... I was just coming off of Deja Vu [Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young], and I had carte blanche. I got to put together exactly whatever the hell I wanted. And I invited the craziest people I knew. Jerry Garcia is responsible for that record a very great deal. He was there night after night after night after night after night after night after night. </p> <p> Q: Doing what? </p> <p> Crosby: Oh, thinking, listening, talking - you know, acting as a friend, saying "Hmmm, man, what if you, how did you, why don't you try a little more, and...." And he would play. He played on a lot of stuff. That record is the only place on record, that I know of, that he and [Jefferson Airplane and later Hot Tuna guitarist] Jorma Kaukonen ever played together. On "Song With No Words." That's one of the first times that [Garcia] did pedal steel too. I think the first time he put it on a record was on Deja Vu, on "Teach Your Children." But he played it on "Laughing" [on If I Could Only Remember My Name...], too. A beautiful, strange thing that he played. Lesh played great on that too. And Joni [Mitchell] sang this one beautiful, little strange thing on it - ooh! </p> <p> "Cowboy Movie" is Crosbosis mixed with Grateful Dead-itis in perfect fashion. What I like is when it goes to the bridge... </p> <p> I've done several things with them that got me off. They played a lot on "What Are Their Names?" That was just a jam. I walked out in the room, started playing a lick. Then Jerry comes out in the room, starts playing, and you hear him start to play. Then Neil [Young] comes out in the room and starts to play. Then Phil [Lesh] comes out in the room and starts to play... and then Michael Shrieve, who played drums for Santana, comes in and sits down and starts playing drums. And that was how we made the record. I had those words that I wrote on an airplane, and I didn't know what to do with them. I was listening to this track and I realized that there's a place where the track goes up and then [claps hands] cuts away and leaves a space, and then it comes back in again. And that space is exactly the length of these words: </p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>I wonder who they are<br />The men who really run this land<br />And I wonder why they run it<br />With such a thoughtless hand<br />What are their names<br />And on what streets do they live<br />I'd like to ride right over this afternoon and give them<br />A piece of my mind<br />About peace for mankind<br />Peace is not an awful lot to ask</p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p> Crosby: Oh, man, I couldn't have done it with anybody else. The only time when we ever really got organized was on "The Wall Song." That was pretty organized, 'cause it goes through a lot of changes. And so we learned that and actually played it like an arrangement. </p> <p> One of the best periods in my life, musically, was a period of time when I was very frustrated about Crosby, Stills and Nash, and it wasn't working. I was living in Mill Valley, and Bobby [Weir] lived in Mill Valley. They were trying to rehearse, and I would go over and drag along my Stratocaster and cause trouble. I would go in and they would be trying to record, even, and I would cause trouble. I would go in and say, "Aah, you guys don't have a real rhythm guitar player." [laughs] Which endeared me to Bob forever, I'm sure. But I would go in there and, you know, just be crazed and try and involve myself with them, because they were so into all what I think is important about music. They were into the music, you know. They didn't let the peripheral stuff pull 'em away from it. They didn't give a hoot how much money something made; they didn't give a damn what the reviews were; they were not in it for chicks, glory, money, fame; they did not make the "I must be smart - look how many people are listening to me" mistake; they kept intensely focused on music. And I loved that. That was just what I, how I felt about stuff. That was my set of values, and I needed that affirmation very strongly at that point, because I had just had this enormous taste of huge money and crazedness and... I wasn't sure, you know, what was what. I'd been in Hollywood, you know what that's... Hollyweird... That was when we started playing that eleven that became their song "The Eleven" and became the beginning of my song "Low Down Payment." I didn't even know it was in eleven until they counted it for me. I had no idea. I'd start playing that.. and they would.... "Oh, okay..." [scats a little eleven-beat phrase]... It was all what I loved about music the most. </p> <p> Q: I always thought Crosby, Stills and Nash should have been a little more willing to open up and play looser things, like from song to song. </p> <p> Crosby: After the beginning, we didn't trust each other that much. At the beginning we did. </p> <p> Q: And what happened? </p> <p> Crosby: Hmm... money, chicks, glory, fame, drugs. Values change, people change... people don't stay the same. </p> <p> Crosby: The fascinating thing about [the Grateful Dead], I think, aside from the fact that they have always understood.... they came out of the period when folk music still had an impact on them, and they understand about telling the tale. See, they're more concerned with telling the tale than they are with polish. They always have been. They want to make you feel something. But I think the really most innovative thing about the band is... Everybody else thinks in terms of block chords and pedal tones, bass lines, normal kind of structures. These guys have evolved a thing where each guy is playing a running line all the time. There's three of them at a very minimum and then the percussion. That's electronic Dixieland. </p> <p> In this case you've got three running lines all the time. The keyboard player, traditionally, in the Dead has been the only guy who was tacking it down to reality at any point, you know. But what you've got is Jerry and Phil and Bobby playing these three weaving lines. And it's this incredibly fluid music. What happens in the best of it is that you submerge your ego and you understand that several people can achieve a telepathic or near-telepathic union playing music and speak with one voice. I heard a symphony orchestra when I was a little kid, and I was so completely overwhelmed by it that it made a deep imprint on me. The power of music made by the cooperation of musicians - I was only about four or five years old, and it bowled me over. It was like a wave. The power of a symphony orchestra playing in front of me. And I saw all the elbows moving the same time, all the little tweedly-tweets at the same time, all the little little drum things going at the same time, and I said "I get it!" And it's never left me. I'm stuck with it. I love to make music with other human beings. </p> <p> *** </p> <p> Crosby recently reunited with fellow Byrds Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman for a handful of concerts. They had so much fun that they're talking about making a record together: </p> <p> Crosby: [This story] starts off kinda grubby but it winds up good. Some unscrupulous people, and I use the words carefully, got hold of [Byrds co-founder] Michael Clarke. These are the same people that put Gene Clark on the road as The Byrds. I was unhappy about that, but it was marginally valid because at least he was a singer-songwriter and one of the people who started the band. It wasn't good, which was why I wasn't happy about it. It was quite bad, as a matter of fact. But it was marginally valid, in a certain way. You could find a way to justify it. These same people got hold of Michael, and he had fallen on hard times, and... he did it. They put him on the road as the Byrds. Well, okay. If it doesn't have Roger McGuinn in it, it's not the Byrds. I don't care who else it's got, including me - if it doesn't have Roger McGuinn in it, it isn't the Byrds. He is the heart and soul of the Byrds - always has been, always will be. There isn't any question about that. I'm not belittling my contribution or Gene's or Christopher's, or even Michael's. Roger is the central issue. It's the way he reads a song. He's the one who took those songs and made 'em feel like that. He has a certain rhythmic feel and a certain way of reading a song. A certain understanding... He's a brilliant guy, you know. He has a genuinely enormous talent. Then I had this horrible thought and checked it out, and I found out that they were going to try and copyright the name. These sleazeballs. </p> <p> Q: Had you guys never done that? </p> <p> Crosby: Roger had held onto it for a while, but had let it slip, and so it was up for grabs. I said, "What if they copyright the name?" And they said, "Aw they wouldn't do that." I said, "I think they're going to. If they have a band on the road, they can do it. I said, "I don't want that to happen. Then we can't have it. I don't care if I own it at all, but I think it should be in Roger's hands." Christopher agreed with me, and Roger agreed with me, and so I said, "Look, why don't we just beat 'em to the punch?" And they said okay. I was surprised. But we didn't do it through managers or, you know, third parties. I just said, "Hey look, let's be real. Let's just do it." So we got together. Here's where it gets good. Okay, the first confession is, I had forgotten how good Roger is. He's brilliant. He's better now than he was then. The last time I played with Chris, he was a kid. Now he's been through like three or four hit bands - </p> <p> Q: The Desert Rose Band - </p> <p> Crosby: Yeah. They're strong. And Chris is strong. He's confident; he knows what the hell he's doing. And we buried the hatchet a long time ago. He's been my friend for a long time, and so has Roger. And there's a difference in me, too. When we parted company, it was my fault. It wasn't their fault. They threw me out for a reason. I really was being sort of impossible. I wanted to spread my wings. I wanted to be the center of attention. You know, I was jealous of Roger. I was a growing singer-songwriter. I was starting to write really good songs, and I didn't feel that I had the attention and the recognition that I deserved. I was in ego conflict with them. Now I've got nothing to prove. Anybody that doesn't know I can play and sing hasn't been listening. I can now contribute what I was supposed to contribute. </p> <p> Q: Where did you play? </p> <p> Crosby: San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, and Ventura. [Los Angeles Times critic Robert] Hilburn, who never says anything nice about anybody except Springsteen, said we were fantastic. But that's not the point. There were other people there who said we were really good, whose opinions matter to me more. Tom Petty came, and sang "Rock and Roll Star" with us and said, "Man, you guys are so good I can't believe it." And he's a real Byrds fan. And he's a great musician, and a really nice guy too. And he wasn't shucking. Later on, Elliot Roberts [Bob Dylan's manager] told me that Dylan had been there and had been raving about it for days. He snuck in with his hood over his head, brought three kids... But anyway, the point is we had a great time. So if the managers don't screw it up, and if the record companies don't screw it up - we're all signed to different record companies, and we've all got all these different people with their own agendas - if none of those people screw it up, you'll hear it. It'll be good. </p> <p> Q: Are you going to make a record? </p> <p> Crosby: I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, consider this: We have this thing that we do, okay: it starts with the way Roger grasps hold of a song, and his rhythmic feel and his reading of the tune. Then it comes with me being one of the stranger harmony singers of our time, you know. Then it comes with Hillman not knowing how to play bass. He's a mandolin player; he doesn't know bass lick one. He plays a running line. He's playing mandolin three octaves down. [laughter] </p> <p> Q: That's an interesting approach. Does he know Lesh? [laughter] </p> <p> Crosby: There's a lot of similarity, in a way. They're musically different people - their conception is different - but the fact is, neither one of them knows any bass licks. Okay, so there is this certain - it's not a formula, but there's a certain set of influences, and we've only ever applied that to one great writer: Bob Dylan. And one Pete Seeger tune ["Turn, Turn, Turn!"]. What happens when you do that to a Randy Newman song? </p> <p> Q: Wow. </p> <p> Crosby: Yeah, that's what I said. What happens when you do it to Tracy Chapman, who writes these beautiful, sparse, wonderful songs about real stuff? </p> <p> Q: ...There are a lot of great writers out there. </p> <p> Crosby: That's what I was thinking. The idea slays me completely, so... I'm hoping - but it would be easy to go down the tubes in Hollywood, you know. </p> <p> Q: Is there anything you'd like to say to the Deadheads of America? </p> <p> Crosby: They must be real perceptive people, man, because they see and love something that's wonderful and genuine and crazed and completely undependable and outrageous and going for the peaks, you know. I figure that if they love it, you know, they're lucky to have something that good to love. </p> <p> *** </p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh041_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> <p> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-41#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:56:57 -0600 ccasal 11205 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 501 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-501 <h3>Week of April 27, 1998</h3> <p>Grateful Dead (composite of 3/28/94 and 4/4/94) <br /> <strong>DAYS BETWEEN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/16/66 Fillmore Auditorium, SF <br /> <strong>CREAM PUFF WAR</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.dgans.com/mutilaudio/">Mutilaudio</a> <br /> by David Gans and Peter Barsotti <br /> <strong>NEW YEAR'S EVE 1987</strong></p> <p>Interview 1/97 <br /> <strong>Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 5/26/93 Cal Expo, Sacramento CA <br /> <strong>PLAYING IN THE BAND</strong></p> <p>Mutilaudio by David Gans <br /> <strong>BRICKSHAKE #7</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman 5/92 (unreleased) <br /> <strong>16 x 16</strong> </p> <p> This is the sequel to last week's show...</p> <p> As I said in the intro to <a href="/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-500" target="_blank">GDH500</a>, "I thought I'd put together some stuff that you heard first on the Grateful Dead Hour, and some things you probably wouldn't have heard otherwise." GDH501 has more of these firsts and exclusives. </p> <p> "Days Between" is one of the last songs Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter wrote together, and it is one of my all-time favorites. A sober but unsentimental look back - I think of it as a companion piece to Hunter's poem "<a href="http://www.hunterarchive.com/files/Poetry/Sentinel.html#s35" target="_blank">An American Adventure</a>" - both pieces dealing with the history of the Grateful Dead form the perspective of age and wisdom. </p> <p> The 7/16/66 "Cream Puff War" came from a reel that my friend Dave Angress brought over in January 1994. A friend of his had had it in the closet since his family occupied an old scout camp in Marin County following the Dead's occupancy there. There were four reels in the stash, one of which was a copy of Charles Ives' Fourth Symphony (transcribed from an LP). The others were Grateful Dead music. These reels wound up in the Grateful Dead vault where they belonged, and I believe some of the music was included on the two-CD set <em>Birth of the Dead</em> in the boxed set <em>The Golden Road (1965-1973)</em>. </p> <p> In the late fall of 1986, I got a call from Peter Barsotti, one of Bill Graham's principal creative aides, inviting me to create a sound montage for Bill's midnight ride on New Year's Eve. It was an honor and a thrill! Peter came over with some records and a bunch of great ideas, and we went to work. The result was pleasing enough that I was invited to do it again the next two New Year's Eves. The 1987 edition, included here, related to the theme of the midnight pageant, with Tony Bennett's classic "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" as the central thread (although we ducked "San Francisco" at the end, since the event took place in Oakland. Peter's instruction to me was simple: take a room full of really high people right over the top! </p> <p> The interview with Mountain Girl is a short excerpt from a longer talk that aired on KPFA on March 19, 1997. I plan to play this conversation on <a href="http://www.sirius.com/gratefuldead" target="_blank">Sirius Satellite Radio</a> in the near future. </p> <p> The Cal Expo '93 "Playing in the Band" speaks for itself: that three-day run of shows was pretty damn satisfying throughout, and this jam in particular recalled the mind-melts of old. </p> <p> "Brickshake #7" is another of my <a href="http://www.dgans.com/mutilaudio" target="_blank">Mutilaudio</a> digital audio art pieces - this one shuffles "Shakedown Street" ad Pink Floyd's "Anther Brick in the Wall" together like a pack of cards. </p> <p> And finally, "16 x 16" is from a collection of unreleased live Garcia-Grisman performances recorded at the Warfield Theater in May 1992, given to my by Grisman to share with you nice folks. Ther's an excellent studio version of "16 x 16" on the Garcia-Grisman CD <a href="http://www.davidgrisman.com/acd_html/acd33.html" target="_blank"><em>So What</em></a>. </p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">GD Hour web site</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh501_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> <p> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-501#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:17:43 -0600 ccasal 11180 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 500 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-500 <h3>Week of April 20, 1998</h3> <p>Documentary by David Gans<br /> <strong>GREATEST PUMP SONG EVER WROTE</strong></p> <p> Grateful Dead 4/6/71, 5/3/72, 2/23/74, 9/20/90<br /> <strong>PUMP SONG/GREATEST STORY Composite</strong> <p> </p> <p>Grateful Dead 6/27/69 Veterans Auditorium, Santa Rosa CA<br /> <strong>SLEWFOOT<br /> CASEY JONES<br /> DIRE WOLF</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/11/93 Rosemont (IL) Horizon<br /> <strong>FLIBBERTY JIB/ISLAND (With <a href="http://www.wordjazz.com" target="_blank">Ken Nordine</a>)</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.dgans.com/mutilaudio/" target="_blank">Mutilaudio</a> by David Gans and Gary Lambert<br /> <strong>HANDLE</strong></p> <p>ID by David Crosby</p> <p>David Crosby and Jerry Garcia<br /> <strong>KIDS AND DOGS</strong></p> <p><a href="http://levity.com/digaland/" target="_blank">Steve Silberman</a> 11/7/94 Icon Byte, San Francisco<br /> <strong>THE DRUM CIRCLE</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.mickeyhart.net" target="_blank">Mickey Hart</a> (unreleased)<br /> <strong>FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN</strong></p> <p> I had a request for the legendary Mickey Hart "rap" "Fire on the Mountain," which has been broadcast several times over the course of the <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">Grateful Dead Hour</a>'s history. This one was easier to get to than the first airing, which is archived in PCM digital form on a video cassette. One o' these days I'll get those Betas transferred... </p> <p> 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 <em>The Official Book of the Dead Heads</em>, 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. </p> <p> As I said in the intro to GDH500, "I thought I'd put together some stuff that you heard first on the Grateful Dead Hour, and some things you probably wouldn't have heard otherwise." GDH501, to be posted next week, has more of these firsts and exclusives. </p> <p> "Greatest Pump Song Ever Wrote" is the documentary I produced for my first appearance on the KFOG Deadhead Hour. "Greatest Story Ever Told" opens Bob Weir's 1972 solo album <em>Ace</em>, but an earlier version appears on Mickey Hart's 1972 solo album <em>Rolling Thunder</em> as "The Pump Song." I had interviews with Weir, Hart, and lyricist Robert Hunter talking about how this song came to be, and Mickey did me the gigantic favor of inviting me up to his studio, hauling out the multitrack master of "The Pump Song," and soloing up the individual tracks. The song began with a recording of a pump on his ranch, to which Mickey added some log drums; he then gave the tape to Bob with a challenge to turn it into a song. Hunter added lyrics, which Weir altered a bit (e.g. "Moses come ridin' up on a guitar" became "...on a quasar"). Bobby also changed the title; "That song was 'Moses,'" Hunter told me. I followed the documentary with a composite of the song edited together from four very different-sounding live renditions. </p> <p> The 1969 live GD excerpt includes a rare country cover of "Old Slewfoot," an early "Casey Jones" from before the intro was worked out, and "Dire Wolf" with Bob Weir singing lead while Jerry Garcia played pedal steel. </p> <p> "Kids and Dogs," a lovely multitracked instrumental duet by David Crosby and Jerry Garcia, was brought to my attention by Deadhead author and Crosby confidant <a href="http://levity.com/digaland/" target="_blank">Steve Silberman,</a> who learned of its existence via a bootleg tape of an unreleased early-'80s Crosby solo album and made it his business to tell the world about it. Steve's campaign came to fruition a year so ago when the song was included on the Crosby boxed set <a href="http://rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77628"><em>Voyage</em></a>. </p> <p> Steve Silberman also appears in the program reading his poem "The Drum Circle," the text of which you can read on <a href="http://levity.com/digaland/drumcircle.html" target="_blank">his web page</a>. </p> <p> "Flibberty Jib" is from a guest appearance by Ken Nordine at the Rosemont Horizon on March 11, 1993. Ken was famous in the 1950s and '60s for a unique form of poetry with music that he calls <a href="http://www.wordjazz.com" target="_blank">Word Jazz</a> (and which he still creates to this day). Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and sound man Dan Healy were huge fans of Ken Nordine's work. We met him in 1990 and invited him to join us for the live broadcast of New Year's Eve, and then in February of 1991 he made a CD called <em>Devout Catalyst</em> with the Garcia-Grisman band backing him. Ken also co-anchored the New Year's Eve 1991 broadcast. </p> <p> "Handle" is a bit of <a href="http://www.dgans.com/mutilaudio/" target="_blank">digital audio art</a> that I made with my pal Gary Lambert, editor of the Grateful Dead Almanac and one of the editors of this web site you're reading right now. We found half a dozen performances of this great Otis Redding song and shuffled 'em together like a deck of cards. After we finished the work we realized that we'd left out one very cool cover of the song, from <em>Toots in Memphis</em>. </p> <p> And of course, we have the legendary unreleased Mickey Hart "rap" version of "Fire on the Mountain," from an unreleased 1974 studio recording that featured Jerry Garcia on guitar and I'm not sure who else. I got a copy of M Dung's reel, which he got from Mickey's master. This track really oughta see the light of day officially some time. </p> <p> Enjoy! </p> <p> Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh500_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-500#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:41:46 -0600 ccasal 11151 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 026 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-026 <h3>Week of February 27, 1989</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 4/19/87 Irvine Meadows, Irvine CA</p> <p><strong>ALABAMA GETAWAY-><br /> PROMISED LAND<br /> TONS OF STEEL<br /> I NEED A MIRACLE-><br /> CUMBERLAND BLUES-><br /> DRUMS<br /> MISSISSIPPI HALFSTEP-><br /> FRANKLIN'S TOWER<br /> RAMBLE ON ROSE<br /> BOX OF RAIN<br /> </strong></p> <p>Selections from the first and second sets, in no particular order.</p> <p>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, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh026_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-026#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:24:45 -0600 ccasal 11128 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 312 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-312 <p>Grateful Dead Hour no. 312<br /> <h3>Week of September 12, 1994</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 9/19/70 Fillmore East, New York City<br /> <strong>ST. STEPHEN-></strong><br /> <strong>NOT FADE AWAY-></strong><br /> <strong>LOVELIGHT</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>Without a Net</em><br /> <strong>LET IT GROW</strong></p> <p> Concluding our three-week run of awesome 1970 recordings, this show features a wild, F-word-laden "Lovelight." We present it here as it was broadcast; given the context, I didn't want to put plain ol' "bleep tones" in there, so I used sound effects in those spots. </p> <p> Pigpen was doing one of his classic salacious raps, and when he uttered that word, Bobby stepped up and said, "Pigpen, did you say 'fuck'?" </p> <p> I said "FUCK!" he roared, and the band put the pedal to the metal. </p> <p> At the end of the show, the audience was out of its mind. The applause went on for a very long time, the house music came up (the Youngbloods again, "Get Together"), and eventually Phil and Pig came out to tell the audience Bobby had lost his voice, etc. Pigpen sent them home with one last profane exhortation, the house music came up, and eventually the crowd settled down and began to leave the building. After "Get Together" ends, you hear one guy scream one last thing: "Casey Jones!" </p> <p> I had to abridge the post-show events for broadcast, but you get the gist of it. </p> <p> Your requests are welcome! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh312_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-312#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:35:46 -0600 ccasal 11109 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 311 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-311 <h3>Week of September 5, 1994</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 9/19/70 Fillmore East, New York City<br /> <strong>DARK STAR</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/20/94 Deer Creek Music Thtr, Noblesville IN<br /> <strong>CHILDHOOD'S END</strong><br /> Grateful Dead 6/19/94 Autzen Stadium, Eugene OR<br /> <strong>IF THE SHOE FITS</strong><br /> Grateful Dead 9/20/70 Fillmore East, New York City<br /> <strong>CASEY JONES<br /> CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER-><br /> I KNOW YOU RIDER</strong></p> <p> This show is a sequel to <a href="/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-241">GDH 241</a>, posted last week - more of the 1970 reels brought to me by Alan Mande and Mark Morris in 1994. </p> <p> This is a wonderful, rich "Dark Star" that passes through a jam on the theme of the Youngbloods' "Darkness, Darkness" and also a nice "China Cat" jam. The rest of the sequence is in GDH 312, which we'll post next week. </p> <p> Also included are two songs that Phil Lesh introduced to the Grateful Dead repertoire in 1994: "Childhood's End" and "If the Shoe Fits." </p> <p> Your requests are welcome! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh311_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-311#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:27:53 -0600 ccasal 11093 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 241 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-241 <h3>Week of May 3, 1993</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 11/23/70 Anderson Theatre, New York<br /> <strong>MAMA TRIED</strong><br /> <strong>TRUCKIN'-></strong><br /> <strong>THE OTHER ONE</strong><br /> <strong>UNCLE JOHN'S BAND</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, Europe '72<br /> TENNESSEE JED</p> <p>Grateful Dead 9/18/70 Fillmore East<br /> <strong>OPERATOR</strong><br /> <strong>DANCIN' IN THE STREETS</strong></p> <p> In the winter of 1993 I got a call from my friend Alan Mande, who worked on the stage of the Fillmore East in 1970. He had some reels to share! They were recorded by members of the crew in the "E" shop under the stage. I'm not sure who did what, but John Chester shipped these tapes to Mark Morris, and Alan and Mark brought them to me for transfer and broadcast. </p> <p> These were copies of the master reels, not the originals. I'm not sure who has the masters. But the performances and the recordings sounded great to me! </p> <p> According to the entries at <a href="http://www.deadlists.com">deadlists.com</a>, the material listed as 11/23/70 Anderson Theater might actually be 11/16/70 Fillmore East. From the 11/16/70 entry on that site: </p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>According to Corry Arnold, on 11/14/70 at the Fillmore East after Frank Zappa's performance Grace Slick came on stage and announced on behalf of Bill Graham that the Dead and the Airplane would be playing a surprise concert at the Fillmore East on Monday, November 16th. On the 16th the very pregnant Slick was unable to make the gig but Hot Tuna substituted for the Airplane. This is why this show does not appear in ads and playbills etc. <p> </p> <p> Richard Volet writes: "Fillmore East, fall 1970 (maybe earlier that year?) Before Mickey Hart left, after T.C. left. The concert was originally billed as Airplane/Dead, but the Airplane broke up right then (I believe that week) and Hot Tuna took their place. I remember Hot Tuna playing with Will Scarlett on Harmonica, but I think without Papa John Creach. The New Riders played next, with Garcia on pedal steel. The Dead set included Dear Mr. Fantasy with Stevie Winwood on vocal and organ, and guest appearance also of Tom Constanten on Dark Star/Saint Stephen. This was with two drummers. (I also remember Garcia playing a Gibson SG and Weir playing a hollow body Guild.) "</p> </p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p> The music in this program is all I got from these two shows. Alan and Mark also delivered an amazing reel of 9/19/70 - Dark Star-> St. Stephen-> Not Fade Away-> Lovelight. This is the famous "Pigpen, did you say 'fuck'?" Lovelight, heard (censored, I'm afraid) in GD Hours 311 and 312. Guess I'd better get those onto this site ASAP! </p> <p> Your requests are welcome! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh241_podcast.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-241#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:24:29 -0600 ccasal 11027 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 114 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-114 <h3>Week of November 26, 1990</h3> <p><strong>Mardi Gras prep 2/27/90:</strong> Curly & Co.</p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/27/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena<br /> <strong>GOOD TIMES</strong></p> <p><strong>Mardi Gras prep 2/27/90:</strong> Mermaid crew</p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/27/90<br /> <strong>SUGAREE</strong></p> <p><strong>Mardi Gras prep 2/27/90:</strong> Sewing a hat for the 26-foot jester<br /> <strong>Mardi Gras prep 2/27/90:</strong> Wishes from the heart come true</p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/27/90<br /> <strong>WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/27/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena<br /> <strong>PARADE</strong><br /> <strong>IKO IKO</strong><br /> <strong>MAN SMART, WOMAN SMARTER</strong></p> <p>Mardi Gras was a major holiday in Deadland, and for several years in the late 80s and early '90s the staff of Bill Graham Presents collaborated with the Deadheads to create a parade to celebrate the occasion in psychedelic style. In February 1990, I brought my recording rig and walked around among the various parade crews as they prepared for the big night.</p> <p>Your requests are welcome! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening!</p> <p>David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh114.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-114#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:24:27 -0500 ccasal 10952 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 57 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-57 <h3>Week of October 16, 1989</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 8/18/89 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA<br /><strong>IKO IKO</strong></p> <p><strong>Where in the Greek Are You?</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/18/89 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA<br /><strong>LOOKS LIKE RAIN<br />TERRAPIN-><br />PERCUSSION<br />JAM-><br />CRAZY FINGERS<br />LOVELIGHT<br />I BID YOU GOOD NIGHT</strong></p> <p><strong>Post-show interview with Phil Lesh</strong></p> <p>The Greek Theater, on a hillside on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, directly across from the Golden Gate, was a spectacular place to see a Grateful Dead show - or any performance. I saw almost all of the latter-day GD shows there (not the '67 or '68 shows, alas), and it was never less than a splendid experience. (See <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/09/11_greek.shtml" target="_blank">this article</a> for more on the Greek Theater, which opened in 1903.) </p> <p>The music in this week's GD Hour is from the second-to-last Dead show at the Greek: Friday, August 18, 1989. That run of shows was slightly off-kilter - the usual Friday-through-Sunday sequence was moved up a day after the tickets went on sale due to a scheduling conflict with the University of California, which owns and operates the Greek. So the Sunday show was moved to Thursday, and this Friday show was the middle night of the run. </p> <p>After several years of attending shows there, many Deadhead tribes had settled into favorite spots and could be found in their usual places at every show. I took my portable tape recorder with me one day and asked some folks why they were where they were. "Where in the Greek Are You?" is a three-minute montage of the responses. </p> <p>You'll also hear a brief excerpt of a post-show interview with Phil Lesh, talking about the return of "I Bid You Good Night after an 11-year absence from the repertoire. Several Greek shows (6/22/86, 7/15-17/88, and 8/17-19/89) were broadcast live on KPFA, conveniently located just down the hill from the UC campus, so we usually had a band member or two stop by for a chat before, during, or after. </p> <p>The '88 and '89 Greek shows were also benefits for the <a href="http://www.rexfoundation.org" target="_blank">Rex Foundation</a>, which continues to do good works in the world - please visit their web site. </p> <p>Your requests are welcome! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">http://www.gdhour.com</a>. 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 </p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br />gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh57a.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-57#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:01:00 -0500 ccasal 10922 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 87 http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-87 <h3>Week of May 21, 1990</h3> <p>Grateful Dead 3/19/90 Hartford Civic Center<br /><strong>BOX OF RAIN<br />FOOLISH HEART</strong></p> <p>Interview <strong>Mickey Hart</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/19/90 Hartford Civic Center<br /><strong>JAM -><br />CHINA DOLL -><br />GIMME SOME LOVIN' -><br />GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN' BAD -><br />AROUND AND AROUND</strong></p> <p>The second of two parts.</p> <p>Mickey Hart is interviewed by WHCN afternoon drive personality Lich, who asks (among many other questions) about a rumor that Phil Lesh is planning to leave the band after the October European tour. "There's nothing to these rumors," Mickey replies. "Maybe somebody's out there trying to cause unrest...."</p> <p>The rumor persisted for a couple of months, until Phil put it to rest in a speech from the stage at Cal Expo in June: "It's a bullshit lie!"</p> <p>Interviews and music courtesy of WHCN Hartford. Special thanks to Bob Smith.</p> <p>This show was requested by Michael Borgerding. Your requests are welcome, too! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">www.gdhour.com</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh87.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-hour-no-87#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:58:19 -0500 Analise Dubner 10902 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour No. 86 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-86 <h3>Week of May 14, 1990</h3> <p>Interview:<strong>Dan Healy</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/19/90 Hartford Civic Center<br /><strong>HELL IN A BUCKET<br />BROWN-EYED WOMEN<br />PICASSO MOON</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, <em>Workingman's Dead</em><br /><strong>EASY WIND</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/19/90 Hartford Civic Center<br /><strong>IT'S ALL OVER NOW<br />DEAL</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Bob Weir</strong></p> <p>By request, a pair of GD Hour programs featuring highlights of WHCN's broadcast of the GD show from the Hartford Civic Center March 19, 1990.</p> <p>WHCN was one of my first affiliates! I had started helping original host M. Dung with the KFOG Deadhead Hour in 1985, along with Richard Raffel and Paul Grushkin; eventually the station asked me to take over producing and hosting the program, and in early 1987 I started getting calls from other stations around the country asking if they could carry it, too. WCHN was one of the first, along with WNEW in New York and a classic rock station in San Diego whose call letters I can't recall.</p> <p>By the time of this episode, I had done a year of commercial "barter" syndication and then gone back to independent distribution. WHCN remained an affiliate for many years, and Program Director Bob Bittens and DJ Bob Smith very kindly offered to share the recordings of their broadcast with the national audience.</p> <p>Afternoon drive personality Lich does the talking for 'HCN. In addition to some fine music, we hear a pre-show interview with sound man and radio freak Dan Healy, who describes the process of making a PA system fit the acoustics of each venue the band plays and explains why outside gigs tend to sound better than indoor venues.</p> <p>Lich interviews Bob Weir between sets. Asks about a rumor that the band had been rehearsing "Unbroken Chain" - which didn't actually surface until almost exactly five years later. Bob Explains why it's harder to make a bass into a MIDI instrument.</p> <p>Next week: highlights of set 2, plus an interview with Mickey Hart.</p> <p>This pair of shows was requested by Michael Borgerding. Your requests are welcome, too! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com" target="_blank">http://www.gdhour.com</a>. 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</p> <p>Thanks for listening! David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh86.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-86#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:56:05 -0500 Analise Dubner 10874 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 406 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-406 <h3>Week of July 1, 1996</h3> <p>Ratdog, from <em>Furthur</em> (Hybrid Recordings HY20012, 1996)</p> <p><strong>I NEED A MIRACLE</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 11/20/78 Cleveland Music Hall</p> <p><strong>JAM-></strong></p> <p><strong>JACKAROE</strong></p> <p><strong>PLAYING IN THE BAND-></strong></p> <p><strong>SHAKEDOWN STREET-></strong></p> <p><strong>IF I HAD THE WORLD TO GIVE</strong></p> <p>"I Need a Miracle" is a studio recording by an early lineup of Ratdog: Bob Weir on guitar and vocals, Rob Wasserman on bass, Jay Lane on drums, and the great Johnnie Johnson on piano.</p> <p>Johnson's story is a colorful one: He was playing jazz and blues in St. Louis in 1952, fronting the Sir John Trio. When his guitarist fell ill on New Year's Eve, according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Johnson_(musician)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, "Johnson, searching for a last minute replacement, called a young man named Chuck Berry, an ex-convict and the only musician Johnson knew who because of his inexperience, would likely not be playing on New Years Eve. Johnson was right. Although a limited guitarist, Berry added vocals and showmanship to the group. Since Bennett would not be able to play again because of his stroke, Johnson hired Berry as a permanent member of the Trio."</p> <p>Chuck Berry was destined to become one of the legends of rock'n'roll music. He went to Chicago and got himself a record deal, and from then on Johnson was in Berry's band rather than vice versa. He is said to have been the inspiration for the song "Johnny B. Goode," even though he was a piano player and not a guitarist. (But it was Lafayette Leake who played on Berry's original recording of "Johnny B. Goode."). In addition to "Johnny B. Goode," Chuck Berry contributed "Around and Around" to the GD songbook, and "Let It Rock" to the Garcia Band repertoire. The GD tried "Let It Rock" exactly once, in Florida in 1974; I thought it was a cool performance, but it never happened again, for whatever reason.)</p> <p>There's a great tribute film on Chuck Berry, <em>Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll!</em> It's available on DVD. Taylor Hackford directed the film, which features footage of a tribute show plus interviews with many of the performers. Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James, and many other greats appear.</p> <p>I'm not sure how Bob Weir and Johnnie Johnson crossed paths - I emailed Bobby but haven't heard back yet. But Johnson was in Ratdog for around a year; he was replaced by Jeff Chimenti, who continues in the keyboard chair to this day.</p> <p>The piece of tape from 11/20/78 is of unknown provenance, given to me by Jim Wise. According to <em><a href="http://www.deadlists.com" target="_blank">DeadLists.com</a></em> only this passage circulates in soundboard form - but it's an absolutely unique Grateful Dead set: opening set 2 with a jam into "Jackaroe," the sequence of "Playing in the Band" into "Shakedown Street," and the rarely-played Hunter-Garcia ballad "If I Had the World to Give." I've never heard the audience recording of this show, but it seems like it might be worth pursuing. You just gotta poke around.</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com/">gdhour.com</a>. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!</p> <p>David Gans</p> <p>gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh406.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-406#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:34:01 -0500 Analise Dubner 10853 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour #715 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-715 <h3>Week of June 3, 2002</h3> <p>From the intro to this program: "This week I'd like you to meet a musician who recorded and toured with the Grateful Dead from 1970 to 1975 and then disappeared from the scene for more than 25 years. His name is Ned Lagin, and he is the creator of the album Seastones (released in April 1975 on the Dead's Round Records (RX 106); reissued in an expanded edition in 1991 (Rykodisc RCD 40193)), which featured Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, David Crosby, and Grace Slick. Ned appeared on my KPFA fund-raising marathon on February 3, 2001, with a recording of a jam that took place on his biurthday, March 17, 1975. This radio appearance led to a longer interview, which appeared as a new chapter in the revised edition of my book Conversations with the Dead, published in April 2002 by Da Capo Press."</p> <p>Ned Lagin, David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann 3/17/75 (unreleased studio recording)<br /><strong>NED'S #1</strong></p> <p>Ned Lagin & Phil Lesh 9/18/74 Dijon, France<br /><strong>SEASTONES</strong></p> <p>Ned Lagin, David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann 3/17/75 (unreleased studio recording)<br /><strong>NED'S #4</strong> <p>I've posted a transcript of the original 2/3/2001 KPFA interview at at <a href="http://www.gdhour.com/transcripts/lagin.010203.html">http://www.gdhour.com/transcripts/lagin.010203.html </a></p> <p>I spoke with Ned a couple of months ago. He's been working on an remix of Seastones and a couple of other musical adventures. I told him I'm ready to put him on the air again as soon as he's ready with any or all of these works.</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, gdhour.com. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear - email your requests to gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p> <p>Thanks for listening!</p> <p>David Gans</p> <p>gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh715.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-715#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:53:39 -0500 10827 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour #382 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-382 <p>Week of January 15, 1996</p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/3/81 Dane County Coliseum, Madison WI <br /><strong>BLACK PETER-><br />AROUND AND AROUND-><br />JOHNNY B. GOODE<br />IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE</strong></p> <p>Robert Hunter, from <em>Sentinel</em> (Penguin Books, 1993)<br /><strong>AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE</strong> read by David Gans 12/27/95 <p>I don't know what was in the water that night in Madison, but the jam out of Black Peter was just wild and then the band followed it with a Chuck Berry twofer - hot stuff! And capped the show with Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."</p> <p>Robert Hunter's poem "An American Adventure" is a wonderful account of the Grateful Dead's own history, published in his 1993 collection of poetry, <em>Sentinel</em>. I read it live on KPFA one night, with a montage of jammy GD music as a sonic bed. Hunter recorded a CD of readings from <em>Sentinel</em>, released by Rykodisc in 1993, but "An American Adventure" was not included. The <a href="http://www.hunterarchive.com/files/Poetry/Sentinel.html#s35">full text of the poem</a> is available, along with the rest of <em>Sentinel</em>, on Hunter's web site, <a href="http://www.hunterarchive.com">hunterarchive.com</a>. (Sentinel appears to be in print: see <a href="http://ppi-pwf.texterity.com/ppi/literature2004/?pg=28">http://ppi-pwf.texterity.com/ppi/literature2004/?pg=28</a> ). </p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com">gdhour.com</a>. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh382.mov" class="audio">Listen Now </a></p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br />David Gans<br />gdhour [at] dead.net</p></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-382#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:33 -0500 PatRhino 10799 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 301 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-301 <p>Week of June 27, 1994</p> <p>Guest: <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com">David Grisman</a></p> <p>David Grisman and Tony Rice, Tone Poems<br /><strong>TURN OF THE CENTURY</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman live 1992 (unreleased)<br /><strong>16x16</strong></p> <p>David Grisman and Tony Rice, Tone Poems<br /><strong>SONG FOR TWO PAMELAS</strong></p> <p>Eric Thompson and David Grisman (unreleased)<br /><strong>RAIN AND SNOW</strong></p> <p>David Grisman and Tony Rice, Tone Poems<br /><strong>O SOLE MIO</strong></p> <p>David Grisman, Hot Dawg<br /><strong>NEON TETRA</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman live 1992 (unreleased)<br /><strong>OH, THE WIND AND THE RAIN</strong></p> <p>David Grisman and Tony Rice, Tone Poems<br /><strong>SWING '42</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia and David Grisman live 1992 (unreleased)<br /><strong>BAGS' GROOVE</strong></p> <p>David Grisman is a mandolin player who was a longtime friend and collaborator of Jerry Garcia's. According to Dennis McNally in A Long Strange Trip, Jerry and David met and picked together at a bluegrass festival Sunset Park, Pennsylvania in June of 1964 (during the summer Jerry and Sandy Rothman spent traveling the country with a tape recorder!). Grisman later gave the Warlocks their first press mention, in Sing Out! magazine, calling the not-yet-GD "the best rock-and-roll group [he] heard in California." When Grisman moved to California permanently in 1970, he told me, he happened upon a baseball game between the Dead and the Jefferson Airplane, whereupon Jerry invited David to add some mandolin to the record the band was working on. That's how Grisman came to play on "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple." (Grisman tells this tale, with musical accompaniment, in the excellent documentary Anthem to Beauty, available on DVD.)</p> <p>In 1973, Garcia (banjo) and Grisman joined with guitarist Peter Rowan (who goes back to the early '60s with Grisman as well), bassist John Kahn, and fiddle legend Vassar Clements to form <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_and_In_The_Way">Old and In the Way</a>, a bluegrass-plus band whose first album, released on the Dead's Round Records label in 1975, was for many years the best-selling bluegrass album in history. "Dawg Music," the name Grisman gave to the stylistic hybrid he has developed over the last 30+ years, comes from the nickname he had in O&ITW. (Jerry was known as "Spud," by the way.)</p> <p>Jerry and David lost touch for many years, but reconnected in 1990 through a chance encounter. After getting together to play some music in Grisman's Marin County studio, they did some recording and put a band together for some gigs. Jerry Garcia and David Grisman was released in 1991 on Grisman's Acoustic Disc label, and the pair (backed by Joe Craven and Jim Kerwin of the David Grisman Quintet) recorded and performed together many times in the last five years of Jerry's life. Visit <a href="http://jerrygarcia.com/discography.html">jerrygarcia.com</a> and/or the <a href="http://www.acousticdisc.com">Acoustic Disc web site o</a>r the CDs (Not For Kids Only is a favorite of mine).</p> <p>David's daughter, Gillian Grisman, made a film called Grateful Dawg, a warm portrait of the men's friendship and musical collaboration - well worth checking out on DVD. (You'll find the <a href="http://www.deadnetstore.com/Commerce/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductGuid=cabb5d0f-b75f-43f5-8390-c73b6950cf5c&CategoryGuid=cbed81a1-819b-423b-be2e-53aa23077500">Grateful Dawg soundtrack</a> in the DeadNet store, too.)</p> <p>This interview with Grisman, recorded live at KPFA in May of 1994 and broadcast on the national GD Hour the week of June 27, focused on Tone Poems, the first of a series of recordings in which Grisman and a partner - guitarist Tony Rice in this case - assembled a collection of vintage instruments (including, according to the Acoustic Disc web page, "a 1939 Martin D-45 guitar (valued at $100,000) paired with a priceless, one-of-a-kind 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson A-5 mandolin") - making the point that "It ain't the car, it's the driver, folks.... Musicians tend to sound like they sound; it doesn't matter that much what the instrument is...."</p> <p>Grisman was also kind enough to bring in some unreleased live Garcia-Grisman, recorded at the Warfield Theater in May of 1992, and a duet with Eric Thompson on "Rain and Snow" that was later released on the expanded CD edition of <a href="http://ericandsuzy.com/eric.htm">Thompson's Real</a> </p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, gdhour.com. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!</p> <p>David Gans</p> <p>gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Program time 53:40</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh301.mov" class="audio">Listen now</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-301#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:52:17 -0500 10786 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 421 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-421 <p>Week of October 14, 1996</p> <p>Guest: David Nelson</p> <p>David Nelson Band, Keeper of the Key<br /><strong>THE WHEEL</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band 1987 (unreleased)<br /><strong>RAGGED BUT RIGHT</strong></p> <p>Black Mountain Boys 3/6/64<br /><strong>BAREFOOT NELLIE<br />MORE TO BE PITIED<br />JERRY'S BREAKDOWN<br /></strong><br />David Nelson Band, Limited Edition<br /><strong>BORN SIDESTEPPER<br /></strong><br />Jerry Garcia 11/62 College of San Mateo<br /><strong>LITTLE BIRDIE</strong></p> <p>High Country w/ Jerry Garcia 2/69 Matrix, SF<br /><strong>SOLDIER'S JOY</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead (unreleased 1969 studio recording)<br /><strong>BARBED WIRE WHIPPING PARTY</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band 1987 (unreleased)<br /><strong>TURTLE DOVE</strong></p> <p> <p>David Nelson is one of Jerry Garcia's oldest musical pals. They played together in folk and bluegrass bands on the San Francisco Peninsula in the early 1960s, along with Robert Hunter, Eric Thompson, and others. Nelson was a founding member of the <a href="http://nrps.net">New Riders of the Purple Sage</a>, a pioneering country-rock band fronted by singer-songwriter John "Marmaduke" Dawson and featuring Jerry on pedal steel guitar. Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart played with the NRPS at first, too, and the Dead's engineer/producer Bob Matthews played bass for a while.</p> <p>The New Riders toured with the Dead in 1970 and 1971, presenting marathon shows that opened with acoustic sets by GD/NRPS combinations, followed by NRPS and then the electric GD. The Riders became successful enough on their own that it was necessary to become an independent band; pedal steel guitarist Buddy Cage, who was playing with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_and_Sylvia">Ian and Sylvia</a> when they all took that "Might as Well" ride on the <a href="http://www.festivalexpress.com/">Festival Express</a> in 1970, signed on with the New Riders, joining the core of Marmaduke, David Nelson, bassist Dave Torbert (who later played in Kingfish with Bob Weir) and drummer Spencer Dryden (late of the Jefferson Airplane).</p> <p>Nelson left the New Riders in 1982. At Jerry's request, he served as Bob Dylan's guitar technician on the Dylan-Dead tour in the summer of 1987, and Jerry recruited him for the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, which opened for the electric JGB at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in New York City.</p> <p>In the early 1990s, Nelson hit the road with the ridiculously great and tragically underappreciated <a href="http://www.nelsonband.com">David Nelson Band</a>, with bassist Bill Laymon, guitar/pedal steel genius Barry Sless, keyboardist Mookie Siegel, and various drummers. That's what was happening when Nelson appeared on KPFA on July 31, 1996, an edited version of which became Grateful Dead Hour #421, originally broadcast the week of October 14, 1996. Nelson brought some recordings of his early days with Garcia, Hunter, and company, as well as some unreleased live material form the JGAB's 1987 shows.</p> <p>Nelson also treated us to a rare bit of studio weirdness called "Barbed Wire Whipping Party," a very high experiment conducted with the aid of the 16-track recorder in the San Mateo, California studio where the Dead were working on Aoxomoxoa.</p> <p>"Hunter said, 'I want you to get some people for voices, and I want you to read these lines like chants - say them over and over again, and we'll make tape loops put of them,'" Nelson recalled. "One of them was 'Push it and pull it and push it and pull it,' and another was 'Meat, meat, gimme my meat! Meat, meat, gimme my meat!' ... He had this idea to make loops of all this stuff and fade them in and out, and read this poem, 'Barbed Wire Whipping Party.' You can barely hear it - it's an odd mix. Oddly enough, it's an odd mix.... 'The barbed wire whipping party in the razor blade forest! No is permitted... the other day I went to Mars and talked to God, and he said, "Hang in there" ...'</p> <p>"Betty Cantor set up a microphone and Matthews had rigged the recorder so that anything that goes into this microphone is repeated 16 times. Three or four of us were standing there with headphones, and Betty says, 'Stay in the general area.' And we heard, 'area area area area.' So we start chanting, 'Area area area area, stay in the general area...' And the rest is chaos."</p> <p>Also present at this interview was <a href="http://barncard.com/">Stephen Barncard</a>, the recording engineer/producer who made timeless magic with David Crosby and his pals on If I Could Only Remember My Name, recorded American Beauty, and produced several albums by the New Riders.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, gdhour.com. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br />David Gans<br />gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Program time 51:31</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh421.mov" class="audio">Listen Now </a></p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-421#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:58:05 -0500 PatRhino 10759 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 354 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-354 <p>Week of July 3, 1995</p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/1/94 The Palace at Auburn Hills MI<br /><strong>JAM-><br />ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER-><br />STELLA BLUE-><br />SATISFACTION</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead/Pink Floyd<br /><strong>BRICKSHAKE #7</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 8/1/94 The Palace at Auburn Hills MI<br /><strong>LIBERTY</strong></p> <p>August 1, 1994 was Jerry Garcia's 52nd birthday. I have a vague recollection of a playing card-themed backstage pass or maybe some other party favor...</p> <p>"Brickshake #7" is a piece of digital audio art that sort of shuffles the Grateful Dead's studio recording of "Shakedown Street" (from the album of the same name) and Pink Floyd's "Just Another Brick in the Wall" together like a deck of cards. I've done other pieces along these lines, including one that combines seven or eight different artists' performances of "Hard to Handle." I call the art form "Mutilaudio," and you can hear more examples at http://www.dgans.com/mutilaudio/ .</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, gdhour.com. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br />David Gans<br />gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh354.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-354#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:05:23 -0500 PatRhino 10691 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 341 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-341 <p>The Phil Lesh-Bobby Petersen composition "Unbroken Chain" was released on the 1974 album From the Mars Hotel, but the band never performed it live until the spring of 1995. To herald the debut, but without a recording of it yet in hand, I played a 1974 studio performance of the song (I don't know if it was a rehearsal or an outtake), from a cassette of unknown origin.</p> <p>The balance of this program is a nice chunk of the second set of 5/4/86 at Cal Expo - "A generous sequence of songs, very enthusiastically-played," as I said in the back-announce.</p> <p>You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, <a href="http://www.gdhour.com">gdhour.com</a>. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Thanks for listening!<br />David Gans<br />gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><strong>Grateful Dead Hour no. 341<br />Week of April 3, 1995</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead, 1974 studio recording<br /><strong>UNBROKEN CHAIN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 5/4/86 Cal Expo, Sacramento CA<br /><strong>JAM-><br />UNCLE JOHN'S BAND-><br />PLAYING IN THE BAND-><br />I NEED A MIRACLE-><br />WHARF RAT-><br />AROUND AND AROUND-><br />GOOD LOVIN'</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh341.mov" class="audio">Listen Now.</a></p> <p><strong>Time 52:24</strong></p> <p class="messages"><strong>Please note</strong> that beginning today (08.22.2007) all GD Hour audio streams are served via a new media player in both Windows Media Audio and QuickTime Audio formats. </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-341#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:48:44 -0500 PatRhino 10600 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 332 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-332 <p>This was an edited version of a "rain"-themed program originally broadcast on KPFA (Berkeley CA) on January 11, 1995, "in the middle of a disastrous California rainstorm."</p> <p> Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><strong>Grateful Dead Hour no. 332</strong><br />Week of January 30, 1995</p> <p><strong>RAIN</strong> montage<br />Grateful Dead 10/3/87 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mtn View<br /><strong>LOOKS LIKE RAIN-><br />TERRAPIN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead (live multitrack - 10/4/70 I'm pretty sure)<br /><strong>COLD RAIN AND SNOW</strong></p> <p>Robert Hunter, Tales of the Great Rum Runners<br /><strong>KEYS TO THE RAIN</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 3/23/74 Cow Palace, San Francisco<br /><strong>WEATHER REPORT SUITE</strong></p> <p>This "Weather Report Suite" was later released on Dick's Picks vol. 24</p> <p><strong>Podcast time 51:58</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh332.mov" class="audio">Listen Now.</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-332#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:29:36 -0500 10560 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 242 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-242 <p>I think this is the only time I ever built a Grateful Dead Hour show around a single song, but hey - "Dark Star" is a huge part of what the Grateful Dead is all about. </p> <p>The first thing you hear is a studio recording of "Dark Star" that was released as a single in April of 1968, with "Born Cross-Eyed" (according to the <a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Dark_Star_Born.htm">Grateful Dead Discography</a>, a different mix of the <em>Anthem of the Sun</em> track) on the B side.</p> <p>As the track fades at the end, you hear a bit of Jerry Garcia banjo, and lyricist Robert Hunter's voice reading these words:</p> <blockquote style="margin: 0.5em 1em ! important"><p><em>Spinning a set of stars through which the tattered tails of axis rolls about the waxen wind of never set to motion in the unbecoming round about the season hardly matters nor the wise through which the stars were set in spin.</em></p></blockquote> <p>Hunter wrote those words out for me during an interview on December 12, 1977. "I moved out to New Mexico about the time the Grateful Dead really started working as an entity," he told me. "I wrote 'Alligator' and 'China Cat [Sunflower],' and... mailed them back, and they set them to music."</p> <p>After returning to San Francisco, Hunter said, "I ran into Phil [Lesh], who said they were going to Rio Nido [on the Russian River, north of San Francisco] to play a gig. I went along, heard the music to 'Dark Star,' and wrote part of the words that day. </p> <p>"Garcia asked me how I'd like to be 'lyricist in residence' for the Dead. I thought it was pretty far out, but I might like it fine. I thought of myself as a serious writer, and rock'n'roll wasn't exactly what I had planned for myself, but things were changing. It seemed like it might be a nice thing to do."</p> <p>Hunter laughed and said again, "A nice thing...</p> <p>"I had written lyrics off and on since I was seventeen," Hunter continued, "but I fancied myself a short-story writer and a novelist. I never thought I was writing rock'n'roll, and I didn't think of the Grateful Dead as a rock'n'roll band. I thought we were creating a new form; I still do, to some degree. There was a feeling of a pregnant <em>somethingness</em> happening." </p> <p>My transcript ends there, but note I wrote on the same page as Hunter's "spinning a set of stars" text says that he finished the "Dark Star" lyric in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, a few blocks from the Dead's home at 710 Ashbury Street. </p> <p>Regarding the 2/2/70 "Dark Star," as I said in my narration: "I've always liked this particular version of this improvisation: very sweet and lyrical."</p> <p>The December 1992 "Dark Star" is edited together from two performances: the band played the first half on December 12 and then "finished" it four nights later. I thought it would be fun to combine them for a radio broadcast, so I found appropriate musical moments later in the 12/12 performance and earlier in 12/16's, and merged them seamlessly. December 16, 1992 was later released as <em>Dick's Picks Volume 27</em>.</p> <p>One more note about "Dark Star": In an interview on March 5, 1983, Bill Kreutzmann told me: "'Dark Star' was a free entity. It had a head, it had chords - but man, it could be played in a straight feeling, a shuffle feeling. It just <em>changes</em>. It was a total mood indicator: you can tell how everybody was feeling by the way that song was played."</p> <p> Thanks for listening!<br /> David Gans<br /> gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><strong>Grateful Dead Hour no. 242</strong><br />Week of May 10, 1993</p> <p>Grateful Dead, What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been<br /><strong>DARK STAR</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 2/2/70 Fox Theatre, St. Louis<br /><strong>DARK STAR</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 12/12/92 and 12/16/92<br /><strong>DARK STAR</strong></p> <p><strong>Time 52:28</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh242.mov" class="audio">Listen Now.</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-242#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:00:00 -0500 PatRhino 10511 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 796 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-796 <p>This week's archival GD Hour podcast concludes both the interview with legendary GD roadie Steve Parish and the first set of 7/18/90.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>David Gans<br />gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><strong>Grateful Dead Hour no. 796</strong><br />Week of December 22, 2003</p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/18/90 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville IN<br /><strong>BROWN-EYED WOMEN<br />CASSIDY<br />DEAL</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Steve Parish</strong></p> <p>Bob Weir and Ratdog 11/3/03 Vic Theater, Chicago IL<br /><strong>WEATHER REPORT SUITE</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh796.mov" class="audio">Listen now</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-796#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:00:00 -0500 PatRhino 10468 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 795 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-795 <p>This week's archival GD Hour podcast continues the interview with legendary GD roadie Steve Parish upon the publication of his memoir, Home Before Daylight. The music is part 1 of the first set of 7/18/90, sadly one of the last with keyboardist Brent Mydland, who died shortly after the band came home from the tour. We'll hear the rest of this set, and the conclusion of the Parish interview, in next week's episode.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p>Grateful Dead Hour no. 795</p> <p>Week of December 15, 2003</p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/18/90 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville IN</p> <p><strong>HELP ON THE WAY-><br />SLIPKNOT!-><br />FRANKLIN'S TOWER<br />MINGLEWOOD BLUES</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Steve Parish</strong></p> <p>Grateful Dead 7/18/90 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville IN</p> <p><strong>EASY TO LOVE YOU<br />FENNARIO<br />WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Steve Parish</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh795.mov" class="audio">Listen now</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-795#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:28:50 -0500 PatRhino 10394 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 794 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-794 <p>GD Hour #794 is the second installment of a four-part series featuring an interview with Steve Parish, the legendary GD roadie who was also the manager of the Jerry Garcia Band for the last decade or so of its existence. The occasion was the publication of Steve's memoir, <em>Home Before Daylight</em>.</p> <p>Speaking of <em>Home Before Daylight</em>, news recently surfaced that a movie is in the works. According to <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/07/06/the-grateful-dead-movie-coming-soon-dont-eat-the-brown-movie-tickets/">Rolling Stone</a>:</p> <div style="margin-left: 10px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 0.9em">...now moviegoers can start preparing for the most acid-soaked tale of them all: <em>Home Before Daylight</em>, a film based on the formative years of The Grateful Dead. The movie will be adapted from a book by Steve Parish, who has some real credentials: He was a Dead roadie for 35 years.</p> <p>The story, which has already been endorsed by Dead guitarist Bob Weir, will chart the history of the band, focusing on those times they chilled with Ken Kesey and Jefferson Airplane in the Haight-Ashbury days. We're totally stoked for this film, if just to see who gets cast as Grace Slick (please not Lindsay Lohan).</div> <p>This show also features one of my all-time favorite Grateful Dead performances, from the second set of <a href="/show/may-19-1974">5/19/74 in Portland</a>. I was there that night, and this was one of the first tapes I went for when they let me into the vault in 1985 to get music for the radio show.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>gdhour [at] dead.net</p> <p><strong>Grateful Dead Hour no. 794</strong><br />Week of December 8, 2003</p> <p>Grateful Dead 5/19/74 Coliseum, Portland OR:</p> <p><strong>TICO TICO</strong><br /><strong>TRUCKIN'-></strong><br /><strong>JAM-></strong><br /><strong>NOT FADE AWAY-></strong><br /><strong>JAM-></strong><br /><strong>GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN' BAD</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Steve Parish</strong></p> <p>Jerry Garcia, <em>Compliments</em></p> <p><strong>LET IT ROCK</strong></p> <p>Interview: <strong>Steve Parish</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh794.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-794#comments GD Radio Hour Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:00:27 -0500 PatRhino 10290 at http://www.dead.net Grateful Dead Hour no. 793 http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-793 <p>GD Hour #793 is the first of a four-part series featuring an interview with Steve Parish, the legendary GD roadie who was also the manager of the Jerry Garcia Band for the last decade or so of its existence. The occasion was the publication of Steve's memoir, <em>Home Before Daylight</em>.</p> <p>Grateful Dead Hour no. 793<br />Week of December 1, 2003</p> <p>Grateful Dead 4/17/71 Princeton NJ<br /><strong>GOOD LOVIN'</strong><br />Interview: Steve Parish<br />Jerry Garcia, <em>Cats Under the Stars</em><br /><strong>CATS UNDER THE STARS</strong></p> <p><a href="http://rhino.edgeboss.net/qtime/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh793.mov" class="audio">Listen Now</a> </p> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-793#comments GD Radio Hour Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:53:43 -0500 10152 at http://www.dead.net