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 October 14, 1996Guest: David NelsonDavid Nelson Band, Keeper of the KeyTHE WHEELJerry Garcia Acoustic Band 1987 (unreleased)RAGGED BUT RIGHTBlack Mountain Boys 3/6/64BAREFOOT NELLIEMORE TO…Week of July 3, 1995Grateful Dead 8/1/94 The Palace at Auburn Hills MIJAM->ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER->STELLA BLUE->SATISFACTIONGrateful Dead/Pink FloydBRICKSHAKE #7Grateful Dead 8/1/94 The…
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…
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."…
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.
The first…