KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon 2/3/07 – playlist and program notes

What Is the Secret of Your Success? – Jerry Garcia studio play 11/10/76

Viola Lee Blues – Grateful Dead 4/6/69 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco

This concert was broadcast on KPFA (not sure if it was live or on tape). The power onstage was cut before the end of the song!

Catherine Russell – backstage interview + onstage interview 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, NYC
New Speedway Boogie – Catherine Russell 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, NYC
High Time – Holmes Brothers w/ Catherine Russell 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, NYC

New Speedway Boogie: Catherine Russell, vocals; Larry Campbell, mandolin; Popsy Dixon, tambourine; Lee Hudson, bass.

High Time: The Holmes Brothers (Sherman Holmes, bass and vocals; Weldell Holmes, guitar and vocals; Popsy Dixon, drums) with Catherine Russell, vocal

The American Beauty Project was produced by David Spelman. Multitrack recording by Elija B. Torn, mixed by David Spelman. Additional recording by Brian Miksis.

Wave to the Wind – Grateful Dead rehearsal 2/17/92

Not the song, but a rehearsal of the groove. I hope you think it’s worth hearing.

US Blues – Grateful Dead 5/25/74 U.C. Santa Barbara Stadium

First song of the show sounds weird, as is typical for this era: Kidd was setting levels and building the mix. Here comes the bass!

Mexicali Blues
Deal
Jack Straw
Scarlet Begonias
Beat It on Down the Line
Brown-Eyed Women
Me and My Uncle
Sugaree
El Paso
China Cat Sunflower->
I Know You Rider
Around and Around – Grateful Dead 5/25/74 U.C. Santa Barbara Stadium

Greetings to my friend and musical hero Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth, who is recovering today from surgery. He’s a great fiddle player, and as I found out last month, a hell of a record producer, too!

Railroad Earth – Railroad Earth, Elko

Help on the Way->
Slipknot! (with interviews)->
Not Fade Away – Grateful Dead, Live at the Cow Palace: New Year’s Eve 1976

Mama Tried
The Race Is On – Bob Weir w/ David Nelson and Tom Stern 4/28/86, Wolfgang’s, San Francisco

This show was called “Time for a Friend,” a fund-raiser organized by John Taber for Kevin Dunn, a BGP family member who was having serious health problems. Tom Constanten opened, followed by the Tim Ware Group, David Nelson and Tom Stern, the Whitey Melvin Quartet, and Kingfish with Bob Weir. Bobby sat in with Nelson and Stern and did four songs with the Whitey Melvin Quartet, and he also did a solo acoustic set (all of which you’ll hear today).

Misty
Twilight Time
C.C. Rider
Fever (w/ Ana Rizzo, vocals) – Bob Weir w/ the Whitey Melvin Quartet 4/28/86, Wolfgang’s, San Francisco

Let’s Spend the Night Together – Jerry Garcia Band 11/17/75 Keystone Berkeley

Jerry’s Breakdown->
Pig in a Pen – Tony Trischka 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, NYC

Playing in the Band – Grateful Dead, Live at the Cow Palace: New Year’s Eve 1976

Might as Well – Grateful Dead 10/2/76 Cincinnati (Live at the Cow Palace bonus disc)

I tried to get some copies of the bonus disc for the fund-raiser, but they were all sent out to customers who pre-ordered the Cow Palace set and are no longer available.

Cassidy – Ace recording in progress
Bob Weir talks about “Cassidy” 12/06
Cassidy – Grateful Dead 7/13/76 Orpheum Theater, San Francisco

That Would Be Something
Dear Prudence
Octopus’ Garden
Come Together – Jerry Garcia Band fooling around during a recording session 11/26/75

Dark Star – Grateful Dead 5/15/70 Fillmore East, NYC

Backstage interview with Lisa Gutkin
Onstage interview of Lorin Sklamberg by John Schaefer
Cumberland Blues – Klezmatics 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, NYC

Shakedown Street->
Money for Gasoline – Bob Weir and Ratdog 11/17/06 Jannus Landing, St Petersburg FL

This Ratdog show is a 3-CD set, and it’s one of our thank-you gifts today. If you can make a $75 pledge to KPFA you can get a copy! Call 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732 or pledge online. Big thanks to RatDogLive for this gift.

Cosmic Charlie – Grateful Dead 5/15/70 Fillmore East, NYC
Give Me a Ride – Joseph Langham and Each Others’ Legend, from Live from Berkeley: Performances from KPFA’s Dead to the World
Silver Threads and Golden Needles – Grateful Dead 5/15/70 Fillmore East, NYC

Petrified Man
The River
Tired of Being Right
Brown-Eyed Women
Train on the Brain
Into the Dawn
Tennessee Blues
Black Cat
Jackaroe (David Gans, lead vocal)
The Blacksmith
Dupree’s Diamond Blues
City Boy
Like to Be Alone
Hot Kranski
Cumberland Blues – The Waybacks live in the KPFA performance studio

Immense thanks to Tony Ferro, who cames in early to prepare, sets up all the gear for the live broadcasts, creates an excellent sound mix, and then stays late to put it all away. He does it for the love of the music and for the love of KPFA, and he doesn’t get paid a cent for it. It is a tremendous privilege to have live music on KPFA, and Tony’s work here is examplary. Thanks also to Joel Sachs, who helped with the setup but couldn’t stick around for the broadcast, and to Tony’s young assistant, Brendan Krepchin.

(Break for the KPFA evening news)

Poison Ivy
Big Iron
Youngblood
Easy to Slip
Spoonful
City Girls
The Winners
Festival – Bob Weir w/ Kingfish 4/28/86 Wolfgang’s, San Francisco

Kingfish: Barry Flast, keyboards; Ana Rizzo, vocals; Steve Evans, bass; David Perper, drums; Matthew Kelly, harmonica & vocals; Steve Kimock, lead guitar

They Love Each Other – Jerry Garcia Band 11/18/75 Keystone Berkeley

Onstage interview: Steven Bernstein and John Schaefer
New Speedway Boogie->
?&*$@#(*%!->
Uncle John’s Band->
!%*(#@$*&?->
Ripple – Sex Mob 1/21/07 American Beauty Project, NYC
Backstage interview: Steven Bernstein

Call from a listener during the Sex Mob piece: “This sucks! Play some Dead!”

Here’s the thing: if you’re going to make that call, the appropriate thing to say is: “I don’t like this.” Obviously I don’t think it sucks, or I wouldn’t have played it on the radio. And the couple thousand people at the Winter Garden didn’t think it sucked when they gave Sex Mob a standing ovation after it was over, nor did the dozen or more musicians at the side of stage think it sucked when they expressed their enthusiastic responses to Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Tony Scherr, and Calvin Weston after their performance. If you didn’t like it, I understand. Not everybody is going to like all the music I play on the marathon.

Anyway, here’s some Dead:

Bird Song – Grateful Dead 3/26/87 Hartford Civic Center

China Cat Sunflower->
I Know You Rider
Cumberland Blues
Hard to Handle
Beat It on Down the Line
Morning Dew
Good Lovin’ – Grateful Dead 5/15/70 Fillmore East, New York City

Golden Days – Vince Welnick w/ Tom Lattanand 1/7/06 Forestville CA (home studio)

So Long Jerry – Ween

Jorma Kaukonen – onstage interview with John Schaefer
Operator – Jorma Kaukonen and friends 1/21/07 American Beauty Project, NYC

Barry Mitterhoff, mandolin; Larry Campbell, fiddle; Byron House, bass

Cassidy’s Cat – David Gans and John Skehan 1/19/07 house concert, Randolph NJ

Heaven Help the Fool
This Time Forever
Desolation Row
Victim or the Crime->
Throwing Stones – Bob Weir solo acoustic 4/28/86 Wolfgang’s, San Francisco

Josephine – Bob Weir w/ Kingfish 4/28/86 Wolfgang’s, San Francisco

St. Stephen->
The Old Bush->
The Tattoo->
The Okarina – Wake the Dead, Blue Light Cheap Hotel

This CD is available as a thank-you gift if you make a $60 donation to KPFA. Call 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732, or donate online.

Bob Weir tells a story about Bill Graham on New Year’s Eve 1990
Excerpts from pre-midnight radio broadcast, with the voices of Bari Scott, Ken Nordine, Jack Ellis, Dan Healy, and David Gans
Not Fade Away – Grateful Dead 12/31/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena

Jim Lauderdale – Backstage interview, then an onstage interview with John Schaefer
Black Peter – Jim Lauderdale 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, NYC

Jim Lauderdale, guitar and vocal; John Leventhal, guitar; Catherine Russell, vocals; Larry Campbell, mandolin; Lincoln Schliefer, bass

Crazy Peg and Darby Doyle – Jim Lauderdale, Headed for the Hills

Headed for the Hills is a whole CD of songs written by Robert Hunter and Jim Lauderdale. They’ve been writing again in recent months; I sure hope we get another CD soon.

Crazy Fingers – Grateful Dead 6/9/76 Boston (Live at the Cow Palace bonus disc)

Foolish Heart
Looks Like Rain
Eyes of the World->
Drums->
Space->
Gimme Some Lovin’->
All Along the Watchtower->
Stella Blue->
Lovelight
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US Blues – Grateful Dead 12/28/89 Oakland Coliseum Arena

Cadillac (with Bob Weir) – Keller Williams, Dream

Your Way Home – Donna the Buffalo, Positive Friction

As things wind down (although it’s gonna be while before I slow down enough to sleep), I want to extend my gratitude to David Spelman, the organizer of the American Beauty Project. He stayed up late several nights this week to mix the multitrack recordings and upload them to my server so I could play them on the marathon. It was a splendid event, and it was great to be able to feature that music on this broadcast.

Thanks also to Brian Miksis, who made stereo recordings of the event and forwarded parts of his tapes; the onstage interviews with emcee John Schaefer were provided by Brian.

And Marc Evans, aka Clearlight, who moderated the chat room for the entire fifteen hours.

And once again, thanks to Tony Ferro for his tremendous contribution in engineering the live performance by The Waybacks. And Joel Sachs and Brendan Krepchin, who assisted Tony.

Brad Serling at nugs.net and Johh Whalen at gdradio.net – thank you for webcasting our program and bringing it to more heads than ever!

And to all of you who listened and especially those who contributed – a total of around $25,000 for the day. I’ll post the exact totals when I get ’em.