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 10, 1999

    Middle episode of a three-week series presenting the complete show of June 23, 1988 at Alpine Valley.

    As noted in last week's post, the sound man fed the…

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    Week of May 3, 1999

    By request, a three-week series presenting the complete show of June 23, 1988 at Alpine Valley.

    Weird thing about this recording: Sound man Dan Healy, that…

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    Week of March 18, 1991

    A February 1991 KPFA interview with Grateful Dead sound man Dan Healy. He talks about the revival of "New Speedway Boogie" (a fresh performance of which…

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    Week of July 29, 1991

    "Tradition always starts as heresy." - David Grisman

    This program began as the January 1991 installment of Rex Radio(later Eyes of Chaos, Veil of Order…

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    Week of December 6, 1999

    Derived from an appearance by David Nelson on my KPFA show,…