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Grateful Dead Hour no.
18
Week of January 2, 1989
Part 1 26:30
Interview: Phil Lesh
St. Stephen 6/15/76 Beacon Theater, NYC
Interview: Phil Lesh
Playing in the Band 7/29/88 Laguna Seca
Part 2 26:24
Interview: Phil Lesh
Passenger - Terrapin Station
Interview: Phil Lesh
Africa - John Coltrane, The Africa Brass Sessions, Vol.
2
Grateful Dead Hour no.
19
Week of January 9, 1989
Side 1 25:15
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
In the Midnight Hour - 8/22/87 Angels Camp CA (with Carlos Santana,
guitar)
Iko Iko->
All Along the Watchtower - 8/23/87 Angels Camp CA (with Carlos
Santana, guitar)
Side 2 27:06
Truckin' - Squalls, No Time
(Dog Gone Records DOG 0001, 1988)
Q: Who would you choose to play the other band members in the movie
of the life of the Grateful Dead? - Grateful Dead Talk to Themselves
(Arista ADP-9630, 1987)
Dear Mr. Fantasy->
Playing in the Band->
Morning Dew - 8/23/87 Angels Camp CA
Santana was on the bill both days (along with David Lindley
and El Rayo-X) at the Calaveras County Fairgrounds in Angels Camp,
California, August 22 and 23, 1987, and Carlos Santana sat in on
guitar for the last couple of songs in the first sets of both
shows.
Interesting reading of Truckin' by Squalls, from their recent
album No Time (Dog Gone Records, P.O. Box
1742, Athens GA 30603). Thanks to nethead Richard Baum for sending it
in. Grateful Dead Talk to Themselves is a
promotional disc put out to radio stations by Arista in Summer '87 to
coincide with the release of In the Dark) -
DG
Grateful Dead Hour no.
20
Week of January 16, 1989
Feel Like a Stranger - 3/2/87 HJKL
Fennario
It's All Over Now - 3/1/87
Diamond Joe - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Almost
Acoustic
Mississippi Halfstep->
Promised Land
Quinn the Eskimo - 3/3/87
Hell in a Bucket - 3/1/87
Grateful Dead Hour no.
21
Week of January 23, 1989
Samson and Delilah
Dark Star->
The Other One->
Dark Star jam
Stagger Lee
Good Lovin'
Casey Jones -> Johnny B. Goode
Bill Graham band intros - 12/31/78 Winterland
Grateful Dead Hour no.
22
Week of January 30, 1989
Side 1 25:14
Walkin' Blues
Bird Song
Jack Straw 12/28/88 Oakland Coliseum
Side 2 28:18
Mason's Children - Henry Kaiser, Alternate
Versions (SST CD 237, 1989)
Uncle John's Band->
I Need a Miracle 12/28/88 Oakland Coliseum
Mason's Children is a late-'60s-vintage song which the Grateful
Dead performed live a few times but never put out on record. This one
is from a 3-inch compact disc by Henry Kaiser, Alternate Versions
(SST Records). It's a remix of the version that appeared on last
year's lp Those Who Know History Are Doomed to Repeat It,
featuring keyboard overdubs by former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom
Constanten and lead vocal and a guitar solo by yours truly. - DG
Grateful Dead Hour no.
23
Week of February 6, 1989
Turn On Your Lovelight - 12/28/88 Oakland Coliseum
New Year's Wishes
Wang Dang Doodle w/ Clarence Clemons
West L.A. Fadeaway w/Clarence Clemons - 12/31/88 Oakland
Coliseum
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Cold Rain and Snow
Cassidy
Don't Ease Me In - 12/31/88 Oakland Coliseum
New Year's Wishes
Grateful Dead Hour no.
24
Week of February 13, 1989
New Year's Countdown->
Sugar Magnolia->
Touch of Grey (12/31/88) (w/ Clarence Clemons)
Interview with Steve Marcus of the GDTS office
Oh, the Wind and the Rain - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band,
Almost Acoustic
The Wheel->
Gimme Some Lovin'->
All Along the Watchtower - 12/31/88
New Year's Eve Greetings
Got to Serve Somebody - Dylan and the Dead
Grateful Dead Hour no.
25
Week of February 20, 1989
Side 1 26:57
Morning Dew->
Sunshine Daydream - 12/31/88 Oakland Coliseum Arena
Uncle John's Band Workingman's Dead
Salt Lake City - Bob Weir, Heaven Help the
Fool
Side 2 28:17
Queen Jane, Approximately - 12/29/88 Oakland Coliseum
Arena
Wharf Rat->
*Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad->
*One More Saturday Night - 12/31/88 Oakland Coliseum Arena
* with Clarence Clemons, saxophone
Grateful Dead Hour no.
26
Week of February 27, 1989
Side 1 27:47
Alabama Getaway->
Promised Land
Tons of Steel
I Need a Miracle->
Cumberland Blues->
drums - 4/19/87 Irvine Meadows
Side 2 27:39
Mississippi Halfstep->
Franklin's Tower
Ramble On Rose
Box of Rain - 4/19/87 Irvine Meadows
Grateful Dead Hour no.
27
Week of March 6, 1989
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.
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 the book
Playing in the
Band. 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.
"Little Red Rooster" has been a double slide-guitar showcase
for the Dead all through the U80s. HereUs a recording of it by the
guy who wrote it: Willie Dixon.
Side 1 27:31
Mickey Hart talks about Pigpen 11/11/84 (1)
Big Boss Man
Bertha
Next Time You See Me
Sugar Magnolia
Casey Jones - 2/23/71 Capitol Theatre, Portchester NY
Side 2 26:46
Little Red Rooster - Willie Dixon, I Am the Blues
Mickey Hart talks about Pigpen 11/11/84 (2)
Hard to Handle
Me and Bobby McGee
King Bee - 2/24/71 Capitol Theatre, Portchester NY
Grateful Dead Hour no.
28
Week of March 13, 1989
Side 1 26:58
Cold Rain & Snow;
Hell in a Bucket
Beat It On Down the Line->
Promised Land - 2/12/89 Forum, Inglewood CA
Big River - 2/11/89 Forum, Inglewood CA
Side 2 26:42
Estimated Prophet->
MIDI jam - 2/11/89
Wharf Rat - 2/10/8
The band turned their second set inside out at the Forum on
February 11. Following Estimated Prophet, which usually leads to Eyes
of the World and then into less structured realms, the drummers took
a break and left guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, bassist Phil
Lesh and keyboardist Brent Mydland to do some exploring together with
their respective computer music interfaces. The quartet continued
through Brent's new ballad, I Will Take You Home (which is likely be
part of the new album which the band is working on), and then they
left the stage to Billy Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, who were joined
by the Moreira family (Airto, Flora Purim and their daughter, Diana)
for some wild vocals and percussion - and then the band went into
Eyes of the World.
Another interesting statistic: This Big River was played without
another cowboy song attached for the first time in about ten years...
- DG
Grateful Dead Hour no.
29
Week of March 20, 1989
Side 1 26:27
Looks Like Rain 7/26/87 Anaheim Stadium
Bombs Away - Bob Weir, Heaven Help the Fool
"And now the polka, you worms - and play as you've never
played before in your life!"
Mexicali Blues - 5/26/73 Kezar Stadium, San Francisco
The Race is On - Reckoning
Louie, Louie 5/1/88 Frost Amphitheatre, Palo Alto
CA
Side 2 25:08
Truckin'->
Crazy Fingers->
Samson & Delilah 5/1/88 Frost Amphitheatre
The Kingsmen had a big hit with "Louie, Louie" (written by Richard
Berry) in 1963. Their incomprehensible vocal performance made the
record a legend among pubescent suburban boys of the time - although
no one could quote anything specific, we were sure they were singing
something deliciously dirty. Since then, just about everybody who has
ever plugged in a guitar has taken a crack at it. The song has been
recorded thousands of times; Rhino Records released a Best of Louie,
Louie compilation (including Richard Berry's original, the Kingsmen
single and versions by the Sandpipers, Black Flag, the Rice
University Marching Owl Band (!), and others) in 1983, and Bay Area
college radio station KFJC aired more than 300 versions of the song
during "Maximum Louie, Louie" in August of 1983. The Grateful Dead
introduced "Louie, Louie" in the second set at the Hartford Civic
Center April 5, 1988, with three- (or was it four-) part harmony on
the choruses and Brent Mydland singing the verses. I heard Richard
Berry sing "Louie, Louie" a couple of years ago at the Sweetwater in
Mill Valley with a band that included Ry Cooder on guitar. Berry's
version is slower, swingin'er, downright romantic; the version Brent
and the boys played was more like Richard Berry than the Kingsmen.
"Louie, Louie" only appeared a few more times in 1988 - the last
one was at Madison Square Garden on September 20 (thanks, Mal) -
possibly because the band started working on new songs of their own
right after that.
"Bombs Away" is the opening cut on Bob Weir's 1978 solo album,
Heaven Help the Fool, recorded on the heels of the Dead's Terrapin
Station with the same producer, Keith Olsen, in the same LA studio.
That's the late Keith Godchaux playing piano on "Mexicali Blues."
He played with the Grateful Dead from 1971 until February, 1979.
Brent joined in April of that year - hey, it's almost his Tenth
Aniversary!
"The Race Is On" is from Reckoning, a live album of acoustic
performances recorded in September and October, 1980 at San
Francisco's Warfield Theatre and Radio City Music Hall in New York.
-DG
Grateful Dead Hour no.
30
Week of March 27, 1989
Part 1 26:11
Weir: Could I have a follow spot, please?... This
gentleman presented me with this... pussy willow....and we're going
to respond in kind by doing our most requested number.
El Paso
The Rub
Dark Star-> - 4/28/71 Fillmore East, NYC
Part 2 24:45
Morning Dew - Bonnie Dobson at Folk City
St. Stephen->
Not Fade Away->
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad->
Not Fade Away - 4/28/71 Fillmore East, NYC
Grateful Dead Hour no.
31
Week of April 3, 1989
Part 1 25:34
Ripple
Cumberland Blues
Morning Dew
Me & My Uncle - 4/28/71 Fillmore East, NYC
Part 2 24:44
Mama Tried - The Best of the Best of Merle
Haggard
Hey Pocky Way
China Cat Sunflower->
I Know You Rider->
One More Saturday Night - 4/30/88 Frost Amphitheatre, Palo Alto
CA
The guitars are slightly out of tune as the band begins "Ripple,"
but by the time Jerry Garcia starts singing both he and Bob Weir have
adjusted their instruments, and although their tuning remains a
little tentative throughout the song the performance is a warm one.
The definitive recording of this song can be found on the GD's 1971
studio album American Beauty.
Merle Haggard first achieved heavy name recognition among the rock
generation with his jingo anthem "Okie from Muskogee" ("...'n we
don't take our trips on ell-ess-dee..."). The song drew at least two
responses from Bay Area musicians: Nick Gravenites's "I'll Fix Your
Flat Tire, Merle" and the Youngbloods' parody "Hippie from Olema." My
attitude toward Haggard changed when I became a fan of country music.
Asleep at the Wheel and Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
brought Nashville, Bakersfield, Bluegrass, Louis Jordan, Texas swing
and bebop to the party, and all of a sudden us hippies had some
culture in common with the author of "Okie" and "The Fightin' Side of
Me." Haggard's tributes to Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys are a
real treat.
According to DeadBase, Bob Weir started performing "Mama Tried" in
June of 1969 at a San Francisco gig billed as "Bobby Ace and the
Cards from the Bottom." Other Weir choices from that period include
Buck Owens' "Tiger by the Tail," a couple of Everly Brothers numbers,
and the Beatles' "I've Just Seen a Face." The book doesn't mention
whether Garcia played six-string or pedal steel. Acoustic sets became
pretty frequent for the next couple of years, and the country/cowboy
material has remained in the band's repertoire ever since.
"Hey Pocky Way" is a Neville Brothers tune, with Brent Mydland
singing lead. "China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider-> One
More Saturday Night" was the encore, believe it or not, of the Dead's
performance at the Frost Amphitheatre on April 30, 1988. I think Weir
had to change guitars in the last song of the second set, so the show
may have seemed incomplete to the band. Anyway, they came back with
this extraordinary capper and made sure everybody got off before they
left the stage. - DG
Grateful Dead Hour no.
32
Week of April 10, 1989
Part 1
Let It Grow - 11/4/77 Hamilton NY
Interview with Jerry, Bob, Mickey, Huey Lewis, Bill Graham and the
organizer of the "In Concert Against AIDS" benefit in May, 1989.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band,
Almost Acoustic
Part 2
Turn On Your Lovelight - Bobby Blue Bland
Slow Train - Dylan and The Dead
Phil Lesh intro: the Jones Gang
Samson and Delilah->
Cold Rain and Snow - 11/4/77 Hamilton NY
Grateful Dead Hour no.
33
Week of April 17, 1989
Part 1
Estimated Prophet - 3/18/77
Dancin' in the Streets w/ horns - GD single
Easy to Slip - Bob Weir, Heaven Help the Fool
Tennessee Jed (2/26/77)
Part 2
Garcia interview on composing and writing 'Terrapin'
Hunter about the inspiration for 'Terrapin'
Terrapin ->
At a Siding->
drums- 3/18/77
Garcia interview
excerpt from Terrapin Station album
Deal - 2/26/77
Grateful Dead Hour no.
34
Week of April 24, 1989
Part 1 25:25
All New Minglewood Blues
Not Fade Away - 3/18/77 Winterland
Part 2 24:44
Burger: Your honor, we've heard the testimony of this witness that
the first part of this tape has been edited or tampered with.
Mason: All this working on the tape, this cutting and splicing, must
have been important.
Witness: I should think you'd be grateful.
Burger: Well, we're not grateful, mister. I should like this tape
entered in evidence and marked for the people exhibit D. Let's listen
to it again, shall we? Lieutenant, turn it up with the volume
high.
St Stephen->
Around and Around - GD 3/18/77 Winterland
Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track->
Jack O'Roses->
Terrapin Station - Robert Hunter, Jack O'Roses
Grateful Dead Hour no.
35
Week of May 1, 1989
Part 1 23:54
Dupree's Diamond Blues
Jack Straw - 10/21/88 Reunion Arena, Dallas
Tons of Steel - In the Dark (Arista ARCD
8452, 1987)
Happy birthday, Brentski!->
Wang Dang Doodle - 10/21/88 Reunion Arena, Dallas
Part 2 26:45
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan,
Bringing It All Back Home
All Along the Watchtower->
Stella Blue->
Sugar Magnolia - GD 10/21/88 Reunion Arena, Dallas
Grateful Dead Hour no.
36
Week of May 8, 1989
Part 1 25:29
Crowd: WE WANT PHIL!!!
Weir: Phil says no prisoners.
Greatest Story Ever Told->
Devil with a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly - 9/9/87 Providence
RI
Channel n News
Late for Supper->
Spidergawd->
Eep Hour - Jerry Garcia, Garcia
Gomorrah - Jerry Garcia Band, Cats Under the
Stars
Part 2 26:23
China Cat Sunflower->
I Know You Rider
Playing in the Band->
China Doll - 9/9/87 Providence RI
Grateful Dead Hour no.
37
Week of May 15, 1989
The creators of the Grateful
Dead's 1987 video So Far talk to the press. And for you
tape collectors: one of the all-time great performances of "Sugaree,"
plus the first electric "Ripple" since 1971.
Part 1 22:08
Jerry Garcia, Len Dell'Amico and Bob Weir talk about
So Far and In the
Dark NYC 9/14/87
Queen Jane, Approximately - Dylan & the
Dead (Columbia 45056, 1988)
Part 2 25:58
Sugaree - 3/18/77 Winterland
Claire: I want to get married again.
Grant: You hear that?
Claire: Come on, is that so much to ask? To show me how much you love
me?
Grant: No, no, it's perfectly easy. We'll just go out and find a nice
dead minister... a dead band - maybe the Grateful Dead. Should be a
night to remember.
One More Saturday Night
Ripple - 9/3/88 Capitol Center, Landover MD
Grateful Dead Hour no.
38
Week of May 22, 1989
Part 1 23:11
The Music Never Stopped
jam->
The Other One - 9/12/88 Spectrum, Philadelphia
Part 2 26:28
Receptionist: I'm sorry, but I can't keep Dr. Garcia
waiting all afternoon.
Erica: Well, if you will just give us a little more time, I'm sure
that Mr. Hunter will be here any minute.
Receptionist: I'm afraid I can't keep juggling Dr. Garcia's schedule.
Man Smart, Woman Smarter->
Eyes of the World
Good Lovin' - 9/12/88
Grateful Dead Hour no.
39
Week of May 29, 1989
Part 1 28:08
Me & My Uncle->
Mexicali Blues - 5/7/89 Frost
Rain and Snow - Pentangle, Reflection
He's Gone->
snakey jam - 5/7/89 Frost
Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
Part 2 24:48
The Other One->
Black Peter->
Lovelight - 5/7/89 Frost
Grateful Dead Hour no.
40
Week of June 5, 1989
Part 1 23:35
They Love Each Other
The Race Is On
West LA Fadeaway
Hey Pocky Way - 5/6/89 Frost
Part 2 26:38
Wharf Rat->
Around & Around->
Not Fade Away - 5/6/89 Frost
Ripple - Chris Hillman, Morning Sky
Grateful Dead Hour no.
41
Week of June 12, 1989
Featuring an interview with Famous Deadhead
David Crosby
Part 1 25:26
Almost Cut My Hair - David Crosby 12/31/86 HJK,
Oakland
The Wall Song - Crosby & Nash 11/11/71 (studio rough) with Jerry
Garcia, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann
Part 2 25:16
Bird Song - 2/11/89 Forum, Inglewood CA
Eight Miles High - Byrds, Fifth
Dimension
U.S. Blues - 12/31/86 Henry J. Kaiser, Oakland
Grateful Dead Hour no.
42
Week of June 19, 1989
Part 1 26:30
Brown-Eyed Women
Box of Rain
Don't Ease Me In
Beat It On Down the Line
Weir dedicates it to Bill Graham:
Sugar Magnolia 12/31/72 Winterland, San Francisco
Part 2 25:15«
Truckin' 12/31/72 Winterland, San Francisco
Grateful Dead Hour no.
43
Week of June 26, 1989
The Grateful Dead were out of circulation for the second half of
1986, while Jerry Garcia recovered from the diabetic coma that felled
him in July. The band re-emerged in December with three shows at the
Oakland Coliseum and a four-show New Year's Eve run at HJK. All of
these shows had a very affectionate, "So glad you made it" feel to
them, and stuff like the last verse of Candyman took on a little
extra meaning: Hand me my old git-tar/Pass the whiskey 'round/Won't
you tell everybody you meet/That the candyman's in town.
Part 1 25:03
Candyman;
Desolation Row
U S Blues - 12/31/86
Part 2 25:43
Tiger Rose - Robert Hunter, Tiger
Rose (Rykodisc RCD 10115, 1989. Original version
released 1975. Vocals recut 1988; digital remix by Tom Flye)
Terrapin
Gimme Some Lovin';
When Push Comes to Shove 12/31/86
Grateful Dead Hour no.
44
Week of July 3, 1989
Interview
with Phil Lesh
Part 1 25:51
Phil Lesh interview pt 1
MIDI jam - GD 5/6/89 Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford CA
Phil Lesh interview pt 2
Bird Song - GD 2/11/89 Forum, Inglewood CA
Part 2 26:38
Phil Lesh interview pt 3
Box of Rain->
Cold Rain & Snow - GD 9/12/88 Spectrum, Philadelphia
Eyes of the World - GD 2/23/74 Winterland, SF
Grateful Dead Hour no.
45
Week of July 10, 1989
Part 1 26:50
Introduction by Bill Graham;
Around & Around
Here Comes Sunshine
Ship of Fools - 2/23/74 Winterland
That's What Love Will Make You Do - Jerry Garcia,
Garcia
Part 2 25:33
Jack Straw
Deal
Promised Land->
Bertha->
Greatest Story Ever Told - 2/23/74
Saturday, February 23, 1974 at Winterland in San Francisco was the
second concert of three-day run during which the band played what
turned out to be their last public performance of Here Comes Sunshine
and introduced Ship of Fools, It Must Have Been the Roses, and the
finished version of U.S. Blues.
This concert was recorded on quarter-inch two-track tape (at 7.5
inches per second), which was the state of the art fifteen years ago.
The shortcomings of the tape are for the most part the fault of the
stage gear - an occasional rattle in the bass cabinets, for example.
Bill Graham introduces the band in his inimitable style, with a
dramatic pause parting the artist's name down the middle. The mix is
a little unstable in the first song, but it settles down after that.
These shows took place around the time Jerry Garcia was working on
his second solo album, Garcia (Round Records RX102, 1974, due out on
CD from Grateful Dead Merchandising later this year). That's the one
which is often referred to as 'Compliments of Garcia' because the
radio and review copies had the words 'Compliments of' stamped above
the title. And so what if his first two albums were both named
'Garcia' - by this time Chicago was already up to Roman numeral VII!
Grateful Dead Hour no.
46
Week of July 17, 1989
Part 1 25:04
Jack Straw
Fennario;
Walkin' Blues - 12/27/87 Oakland Coliseum Arena
My Brother Esau - B side of "Touch of Grey"
Silvio - Bob Dylan, Down in the Groove
Part 2 26:07
Ramble On Rose
Uncle John's Band->
Estimated Prophet - 12/27/87
Bob Dylan picked up a notebook of Robert Hunter's lyrics at the
Grateful Dead's studio. He set "Silvio" and "Ugliest Girl in the
World" to music and included them both on Down in the Groove, to
Hunter's surprise and delight. Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Brent
Mydland contributed background vocals to "Silvio."
Grateful Dead Hour no.
47
Week of July 24, 1989
Scarlet Begonias->
Fire on the Mountain - 3/18/77 Winterland
St. Stephen->
Mason's Children - 2/2/70 St Louis
Next Time You See Me - 12/12/69 Thelma Theater, LA
Comes a Time
One More Saturday Night
Casey Jones - 10/19/71 Minneapolis
Grateful Dead Hour no.
48
Week of July 31, 1989
Uncle John's Band->
He was a Friend of Mine
Alligator->
Drums->
We Bid You Goodnight->
Alligator->
Caution 12/12/69 Thelma Theater L.A.
Grateful Dead Hour no.
49
Week of August 7, 1989
Money Money
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider - 5/17/74 P.N.E Coliseum, Vancouver BC
Prelude->
Weather Report (Part One)->
Let It Grow - 7/19/74 Selland Arena, Fresno CA
Grateful Dead Hour no.
50
Week of August 14, 1989
Feel Like a Stranger
He's Gone->
Little Star->
Jam->
It's All over Now, Baby Blue (encore) - 4/15/83 Rochester NY
The Wheel - Garcia (first solo
album)
Not Fade Away >
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad >
Around and Around >
Johnny B. Goode - 4/15/83
Grateful Dead Hour no.
51
Week of August 21, 1989
Maggie's Farm->
Cumberland Blues - 10/3/87 Shoreline
Dire Wolf - Workingman's Dead
I Know You Rider
Silver Threads and Golden Needles - 6/5/70 Fillmore West
Friend of the Devil
Me and My Uncle
Black Peter
Bird Song - 8/24/72 Berkeley Community Theater
Grateful Dead Hour no.
52
Week of August 28, 1989
Happy Birthday Bobby->
U.S. Blues 10/16/74 Winterland, SF
Jam - 7/27/73 Watkins Glen soundcheck
The Other One ->
Cryptical Envelopment->
New Potato Caboose->
jam on 13 beats - 10/12/68 Avalon Ballroom, SF
Grateful Dead Hour no.
53
Week of September 18, 1989
Part 1 33:45
China Cat Sunflower->
I Know You Rider
Playing in the Band->
Uncle John's Band->
Playing in the Band jam 8/19/89 Greek Theatre, U.C. Berkeley
Part 2 19:39
Black-Throated Wind - Steal Your Face
(Grateful Dead Merchandising GDCD4006, originally released 1976)
Interview: Phil Lesh
The Other One 8/19/89
Grateful Dead Hour no.
54
Week of September 25, 1989
Part 1 25:43
Scarlet Begonias
Me and Bobby McGee
It Must Have Been the Roses
Big River 10/16/74 Winterland, San Francisco
Part 2 31:26
Playing in the Band
Grateful Dead Hour no.
55
Week of October 2, 1989
Part 1 30:40
Doin' That Rag
Hard to Handle
...That's It for the Other One - 6/5/69 Carousel Ballroom, SF
Part 2 21:12
/China Cat Sunflower->
Sittin' on Top of the World->
Dark Star... - 6/5/69
The Wheel - Jerry Garcia, Garcia
(GDCD4003, originally released 1972)
Grateful Dead Hour no.
56
Week of October 9, 1989
Part 1 15:22
Estimated Prophet - 5/8/77 Cornell University, Ithaca NY
King Solomon's Marbles - Blues for Allah (GDCD4001, orig rel 1975)
Part 2 37:47
St. Stephen->
Not Fade Away->
St. Stephen->
Morning Dew - 5/8/77 Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Grateful Dead Hour no.
57
Week of October 16, 1989
Part 1 18:28
Iko Iko - 8/18/89 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
Where in the Greek Are You?
Looks Like Rain - 8/18/89 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
Part 2 36:10
Terrapin->
percussion
jam->
Crazy Fingers
Lovelight
I Bid You Good Night - 8/18/89 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
Post-show interview with Phil Lesh
Grateful Dead Hour no.
58
Week of October 23, 1989
Part 1 19:36
Rex Radio excerpt: Phil Lesh, Gary Lambert, Jerry Garcia P
1989 Ralph J. Gleason Memorial Award
Libya Blues (excerpt) Peter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics
Ensemble with Don Cherry
Attics of My Life - American Beauty (Warner Bros. 1893, 1970)
Part 2 32:50
Disaster message
Scarlet Begonias->
Touch of Grey->
Fire on the Mountain - 7/13/84 Greek Theatre, Berkeley
Grateful Dead Hour no.
59
Week of November 6, 1989
Part 1 19:52
"Victim or the Crime" part 1 - Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir
interviewed by Bonnie Simmons
Victim or the Crime - Built to Last (Arista ARCD-8575, 1989)
"Victim or the Crime" part 2 - Lesh, Garcia, Weir
Built to Last - Built to Last
Part 2 34:01
Playing in the Band->
percussion->
jam - 2/5/89 Henry J. Kaiser, Oakland
I Will Take You Home - Built to Last
Bonnie Simmons: For one reason or another we seem to have gotten off on
"Victim or the Crime" -
Lesh: Gotten off on it?
Simmons: Can you tell me your version of how "Victim or the Crime" came
about?
Garcia: Well, I think the first time Weir showed it to me was when we
played with Joan Baez at an AIDS thing in the city, and he - I listened
in amazement and said, "God, that's got pretty angular changes, doesn't
it?"
It's fascinating because it defies, almost, any effort to play freely
through it. You can't do it. You have to know it, it's that simple. It
has changes in it, and they're very strict, and they have lots of real
dissonant moments. So the angularity of it was fascinating to me, the
tonality was, because it's one of those things where you really have to
stretch to figure out something appropriate to play to add to the tonal
mood of the tune.
The text of it - I don't believe I've ever actually listened to all
the words to it. Ever. I have the gist of it; by now I probably could
recite it if I really had to, but the text of it is more of the same in
a way: it doesn't have a whole lot of light in it. It's very dense, and
it's angst-ridden to boot.
Weir: "Victim or the Crime" I wrote with Gerrit Graham. The chorus came
to me one night, and I sat on it for a couple weeks, looking at it, and
I was down visiting Gerrit - he lives in LA - and I showed it to him and
he said, "Hey, listen, can I run off with this for a night? I'll be
right back with it." He came back the next day, and he had two verses
and a bridge fleshed out from that chorus, and we did a little bit of
hammering on it - hardly any - and then I put music to it, and that
happened, though the music was really pretty damn complicated, it
happened real fast. It happened inside of two hours, I think.
Then we started trying to soften up some of the stuff that we knew we
were going to encounter resistance with, like the J-word. We tried to
come up with stuff like "Patience runs out on the monkey," or then we
tried to take it all the way that direction - "Patience runs out on the
bunny." But none of that worked. Then the whole rest of the song just
wouldn't stand up, because it has an integrity about it that's - you
know, you can't dick with it.
Garcia: It seemed to me when we were starting to record it, in order to
save it from an effort to make it more attractive, I thought that what
would work with the song would be to just go with it, to go with the
angularity and the sort of asymmetrical way it's structured, and play to
expose that. An early possibility that occurred to me was that this
would be an interesting song to do something really strange with.
And this is where Mickey, of course, comes into the picture, 'cause
he's one of the guys that holds down the strangeness corner, and he's
always a willing accomplice in these ideas. So I thought the Beam,
which is an instrument that people feel about about the way they feel
about "Victim or the Crime," the tune - I thought, let's take two of the
things that really have a huge potential for really upsetting people -
Simmons: A polarization tool -
Garcia: Absolutely! - and let's combine them in a happy marriage.
Something that will be a real horror show. And it's turned out to be
strangely beautiful. I really enjoy it, now.
Garcia: When me and Mickey started working on the ending, I was sitting
there listening and I said, "You know, I may be going crazy, but I'm
starting to like this..."
Simmons: I am too. (laughs) Initially I thought it was one of the
oddest things I could ever imagine.
Garcia: Well, it certainly is strange. It's one of Weir's stunningly
odd compositions, but it's also very adventurous. It's uncompromising;
it's what it is, and the challenge of coming up with stuff to play that
sounds intelligent in the context has been incredible, but also
appropriately gnarly. I think we've done a nice job on the record with
it. It works. Whatever it is, it works! I'm real happy with it
because it was one of those things that was like "What are we going to
do with this?" It's like having a monster brother that you lock in the
attic. It's like a relative that you - "God, I hope nobody comes over
when he's eating"...
Simmons: I think you put it in a perfect place.
Garcia: It's something like that... That's one of the things that makes
the Grateful Dead fun.
Phil Lesh: I didn't particularly care for the song for the attitude of
the song when I first heard it, and I was kind of wishing that Bob had
written something new, frankly, for the album. But I have to admit it's
grown on me. It's grown on me, and I've found things to play in it,
whereas first it was a just question of going boom-boom-boom-boom. I'm
beginning to hear the music in it now. So I don't really dislike the
song. I don't quite understand why Bob feels he has to sing this song -
but I'll defend to the death his right to sing it.
And to have us play it, too.
If he can make it stick.
Bob Weir: There is a ponderosity about it that a lot of people consider
pompous, and perhaps it is pompous. There's that part of all of us.
The questions posed in this song are not unique to this boy. If being
pompous is what it takes to actually express this sort of thing - and
you know, it's something I feel and it's something that I kind of want
to take a peek at. It's, as far as I can see, human nature, and I don't
think I'm doing anything intensely meaningful here, but I'm at least
trying to get to something that's maybe a little knottier than Sugar
Magnolia.
Garcia: We've got a handle on it, I think, now, and there's also places
for us to take it. So I think it may open up into something truly
monstrous. It may turn into something truly monstrous in the future,
and certainly the recorded version works.
Grateful Dead Hour no.
60
Week of November 13, 1989
Featuring an interview with Tom Constanten, keyboardist with
the Grateful Dead from 1968 to early 1970.
Part 1 21:48
Tom Constanten part 1
Cold Rain and Snow - Tom Constanten, Fresh Tracks in Real Time
Dark Star (excerpt) 4/28/71 Fillmore East
Tom Constanten part 2
Part 2 30:19
Turn On Your Lovelight 12/12/69 Thelma Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Grateful Dead Hour no.
61
Week of November 20, 1989
Part 1 33:36
Funiculi Funicula
Help on the Way->
Slipknot!->
Franklin's Tower - 6/9/77 Winterland, San Francisco
Part 2 18:37
How Built to Last Was Made pt. 1
Standing on the Moon - Built to Last (Arista 8575, 1989)
How Built to Last Was Made pt. 2
Blow Away - Built to Last
Grateful Dead Hour no.
62
Week of November 27, 1989
Part 1 25:27
Truckin'
I Second That Emotion
Sugar Magnolia - 4/29/71 Fillmore East
Loser - Jerry Garcia, Garcia (GDCD4003, orig. rel. 1972)
Part 2 29:15
Alligator->
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad->
Cold Rain and Snow - 4/29/71
Grateful Dead Hour no.
63
Week of December 4, 1989
Grateful Dead with HORNS!
Part 1 34:55
Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
Prelude;
Weather Report Suite Part 1;
Let It Grow->
Stella Blue - 9/14/73 Civic Center, Providence RI
Part 2 20:34
Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead, Wake of the Flood
Sugar Magnolia
One More Saturday Night - 9/14/73
Grateful Dead Hour no.
64
Week of December 11, 1989
Part 1 27:20
Jack Straw
Row Jimmy
When I Paint My Masterpiece
DupreeUs Diamond Blues - 11/7/87
Henry J Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland CA
Part 2 25:46
Interview: John Barlow and Brent Mydland
We Can Run - Built to Last "We want Phil!"
Box of Rain
Cassidy;
Might as Well - 11/7/87
Grateful Dead Hour no.
65
Week of December 18, 1989
Part 1 32:18
Shakedown Street->
Uncle John's Band - 12/26/79 Oakland Auditorium
Oh Mommy - Brewer and Shipley, Tarkio Road
Jerry Garcia, pedal steel guitar
Transverse City - Warren Zevon, Transverse City
Jerry Garcia, electric guitar
Last Lonely Eagle - New Riders of the Purple Sage
Jerry Garcia, pedal steel; Mickey Hart, drums
Danger Man - David Bromberg,Wanted Dead or Alive
Jerry Garcia, electric guitar; Phil Lesh, bass;
Bill Kreutzmann, drums; Keith Godchaux, piano
Part 2 22:35
You Win Again
Bottle Let Me Down
Why Don't You Love Me?
*Riot in Cell Block #9
**Goin' Down - Elvis Costello and Friends 4/24/89 Sweetwater, Mill Valley
* Commander Cody, lead vocal
** Sammy Hagar, lead vocal
The second half of this program is from a mono soundboard feed from the
PA at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley. It was an anniversary party for
Village Music, 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 Austin De Lone (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.
Grateful Dead Hour no.
66
Week of December 25, 1989
Part 1 28:22
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Truckin' - 10/19/71 Minneapolis
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo - Steal Your Face
Part 2 26:37
That's It for the Other One - 10/19/71