Week of October 1, 2007
Part 1 22:28
Bob Weir and Ratdog 8/12/07 Boarding House Park, Lowell MA
On the Road reading by Dennis McNally
MEXICALI BLUES
Part 2 32:57
Bob Weir and Ratdog 8/12/07 Boarding House Park, Lowell MA
HE’S GONE->
THE OTHER ONE (with Dennis McNally)
On August 12, Bob Weir and Ratdog performed in Lowell, Massachusetts as part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, a seminal work of Beat literature by Jack Kerouac. Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally, who grew up in Lowell and wrote biographies of both Kerouac and the Grateful Dead, read excerpts from the original manuscript of On the Road, accompanied by Ratdog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. Gary Lambert posted a colorful account of this event in the features section of Dead.Net, titled “Out We Jumped In The Warm Mad Night (with Neal, Jack and RatDog).”
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
Rhino Records, presenting Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, a four-CD chronicle of the San Francisco Sound with tracks from all the major icons of the era and some worthy gems you probably never heard, presented in a 120-page coffee table-style book with essays, notes, and rare photos. Information and audio samples of Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 are available at rhino.com
The Echo Project, happening outside of Atlanta, Georgia October 12 – 14 and featuring three nights of camping and music from Phil Lesh & Friends, The Flaming Lips, moe., Umphrey’s McGee, The Disco Biscuits, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Tea Leaf Green & dozens of others.
ArSeaEm Recordings, an artist-friendly record label, presenting the double live CD New Riders of the Purple Sage New Year’s Eve 2006, recorded, mixed and produced by Bob and Betty. The New Riders of the Purple Sage features David Nelson, Buddy Cage, Michael Falzarano, Ronnie Penque, and Johnny Markowski. Audio clips, downloads, and more information are available at NRPSlive.com and in the iTunes music store.
David:
Great inspired choice for the dead.net gd hour of the week. The 11/78 Cleveland show was the second show I attended and was really unique and special.
Thanks.
Now for my complaint. Too much Ratdog. I have said it before and I will repeat my beef. I really do enjoy the non-Dead material you provide, but it still is the Grateful Dead Hour, and I do not want to hear Ratdog so much. In fact, I can go see them if I want to hear them, but I no longer can see the GD.
Anyway, I think you do a great job and thank you for letting me air my complaint.
I must disagree with Pomo. The Grateful Dead Hour is still primarily Grateful Dead, but members of the Grateful Dead are still creating new music and new happenings nowadays, and I feel that these deserve occasional airing on the Grateful Dead Hour once in a while as well, especially a show that was as special of an event as this Jack Kerouac/Neal Cassady tribute by Ratdog was. This was no run-of-the-mill show.
Before the musical performance, Bob Weir and Dennis McNally came out for a spoken segment in which Bob related his personal memories of Neal Cassady to the audience, including what he found inspiring about him, about living with him, taking driving lessons from him(!), and about how he wrote The Other One about him on the night that he died. I aired this segment on my radio program two days after the concert. The program can be streamed on this archive file below through mid-November. The Cassady talk segment is aired about an hour and a half into the radio show (after a musical tribute set to David Crosby on his birthday), and I segued it into The Other One from the concert.
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Lost_and_Found_20070814_1200.m3u
I am a reporter with the MetroWest Daily News, of Framingham, MA, whih is owned by the Community Newspaper Company.
I would like very much to speak with Dennis McNally. If he gets this message, would he please e-mail me.
Thank-you,
chris bergeron