Every Wednesday we present another show from the archives of the Grateful Dead Hour - "A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of the Grateful Dead." Since 1985, the show has featured exclusive interviews, music from the roots and branches of the band's musical family tree, and of course a generous helping of unreleased live and studio recordings.

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

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    Week of May 4, 1998

    Featuring an interview with Vince Welnick, who joined the Grateful Dead as keyboardist and vocalist in the fall of 1990 after a long career with multimedia satirical…

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    Week of August 5, 2002

    Second of two parts featuring an interview with Dennis McNally, who was the Dead's publicist from 1984 on, upon the publication of his authorized biography of the…

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    Week of July 29, 2002

    First of two parts featuring an interview with Dennis McNally, who was the Dead's publicist from 1984 on, upon the publication of his authorized biography of the…

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    Week of June 26, 2000

    Conclusion of a two-parter, requested by Andy Muenz.

    Featured: WMBR's original master monaural recording of the Dead's free show at MIT on May 6, 1970,…

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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 613

    Week of June 19, 2000

    First of a two-parter, requested by Andy Muenz.

    I had an opportunity to restore and digitize WMBR's original master monaural…