Dead to the World 6/14/06: for Vince Welnick

Note: a podcast version of this broadcast, in 9 segments, is available for download.

Golden Days->
Stella Blue – Missing Man Formation 7/6/96 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
White Punks on Dope – Tubes World Tour
Interview with Vince by Gary Lambert 2/13/92
jam w/ Branford Marsalis – Grateful Dead 12/31/91 Oakland Coliseum Arena
Phone interview with Todd Rundgren
Feel It – Todd Rundgren, Nearly Human
Sunny Afternoon->
Tomorrow Never Knows – The Affordables 7/26/92 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View CA
Interview with Vince Welnick 3/25/98
Here Comes Sunshine – Missing Man Formation 4/25/98 Humboldt State University, Arcata CA
Phone interview with Prairie Prince
Come and See Me – The Beans, circa 1971
Up from the Deep – Tubes 3/7/74 KPFA studios
Boy Crazy – The Tubes, recorded at His Master’s Wheels in San Francisco 1974 (unreleased)
Phone interview with Bob Weir
Way to Go Home – Bob Weir and Ratdog 6/10/06 Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa CA
Home of the Angels – Jerry Lawson w/ Vince Welnick (unreleased)
Phone interview with Jerry Lawson
Ship of Fools – Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead
jam – Grateful Dead 9/16/90 Madison Square Garden, New York City
It’s Man’s World – Valentines 2/14/95 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
Phone interview with Tom Constanten
Theme from a Wooly Place – The Tubes (unreleased studio performance)
Interview with Vince Welnick 6/21/96
Phone interview with Michele Rundgren
Sushi Girl – The Tubes, The Completion Backwards Principle
True Blue – Missing Man Formation 4/25/98 Humboldt State University
Phone interview with Robin Sylvester
Hey Bulldog->
Scarlet Begonias – Missing Man Formation 4/25/98 Humboldt State University
Samba in the Rain – Vince Welnick, Missing Man Formation
Phone interview with Steve Kimock
Astral Weeks – Missing Man Formation 12/5/96 Los Angeles
It’s All Too Much – Grateful Dead 3/18/95 Spectrum, Philadelphia

Steve Kimock’s comments on the passing of Ram Rod and Vince Welnick

The Tubes are hosting a tribute to Vince Welnick Sunday July 9, 8pm at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco. “Open to fans and friends… bring Vince photos and stories to tell!

Please visit The Tubes Project and vincewelnick.com

Special thanks to these kind folks for their assistance in preparing this broadcast: Michele Rundgren, Mike Lawson, Stephen Barncard, Fran Bennett, Gary Lambert, Charlie Miller, Steve Silberman, Henry Kaiser, Tom Lattanand, Jerry and Julie Lawson, Bev Rice, Arielle Phares, Greg Koerner, Robbie Freeman. And extra special thanks to Larry Kelp, host of Sing Out!, for allowing me to fill his time slot with this program.

Looking back over the playlist, I’m somewhat surprised to find so little Grateful Dead music. I listened to a lot of GD, and produced a couple of CDs full, but I wanted to make sure The Tubes were represented – and remember, Vince was with the Tubes for 20 years and with the Grateful Dead for five. I found so much pleasure and musical merit in the Affordables and Missing Man that it felt better, as the evening unfolded, to center on that material. I’ll probably play more of the music I gathered on next week’s show – and also more of the interviews I excerpted. I’ll also post more on the web site, and link to it here on the logblog.

And lastly, an extra heaping helping of thanks to Michael Yoshida, chief engineer at KPFA. When I went to work this morning, planning to load the tribute into my digital audio workstation for editing and mastering to CD, the first DAT – three hours – BROKE! Michael told me to bring it over to the station this afternoon; he performed the very delicate task of splicing the tape back together. The show is now being loaded into the Sonic, and all is well. So everybody sing it with me: Thank you, Michael Yoshida!