On Sunday, January 20, 4-6pm PST, the Grateful Dead Channel debuts a monthly live show called Tales from the Golden Road. Gary Lambert and I will co-host, and we’ll deal with a variety of subjects – history, music, the world around us, etc.
Here’s the press release that Sirius sent out:
SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today the debut of a monthly live roundtable show hosted by Grateful Dead experts David Gans and Gary Lambert on SIRIUS’ exclusive Grateful Dead Channel. “Tales from the Golden Road” will premiere this Sunday, January 20 at 4 p.m. ET, with an encore January 21 at 10 a.m. ET on the Grateful Dead Channel, SIRIUS channel 32.
In the premiere episode of “Tales from the Golden Road,” Gans and Lambert will be joined by Grateful Dead and RatDog guitarist Bob Weir, longtime Grateful Dead publicist and historian Dennis McNally, and the producer of the Trips Festival film, Eric Christensen. The roundtable discussion will focus on the early era of the Grateful Dead and the Trips Festival, a three-day event in 1966 that involved some of the earliest Dead performances chronicled in Christensen’s film. The two-hour monthly show will invite Grateful Dead fans to call in and participate.
The Grateful Dead Channel, dedicated to the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead, launched exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio in 2007. The channel features music spanning the entire career of the Grateful Dead with unreleased concert recordings and original shows hosted by band members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. The channel also features archival interviews with Jerry Garcia and contributions from Grateful Dead expert David Gans and Dead archivist David Lemieux.
And here’s Gary’s writeup on DeadNet.
Listeners calls will be part of the deal, too.
If you’re not a subscriber yet, you can sign up for a three-day online freebie here.
We play three complete live shows every day, plus David Lemieux’s “This Day in Grateful Dead History” musical feature, an in-depth interview every weekend, and of course tons of great Grateful Dead music every hour of every day!
David,
Can you ask the people at SIRIUS when Sattelite Radio will come to Europe?
I can’t wait. I am sure SIRIUS would love to have another possible 300,000,000 listeners.
In the meantime I will give to KPFA (and would do so even with the SIRIUS).
Sam
Here is a question…if you can pass it on.
“When the Grateful Dead were asked to play at the Trips Festival what were the expectations, a paying gig, a night out…or?”
Sam in Sweden
You can subscribe now via the Internet. No idea when or if the satellite service will go global.
I have sampled Sirius on line before. The best they can do is just 128 kbs and you have to pay extra for it. Nobody wants to be interrupted, by some idiot every 90 minutes, asking if they’re still listening.
Best to pay for a satellite receiver and not worry about this BS. They also have hardware for home use and a rooftop antenna, which is not even as large as those Direc TV dishes…
Satellite Radio did not gain so much popularity as expected, maybe because of the reason that it is expensive.:,.
Hi David,
Just got back from SF Civic shows…wow! Wonderful! On a past Tales show you mentioned the fall tour show in New York that stood out (well, they all do…) but I can’t remember which venue. I believe it was Madison Square. This is Maureen, Lieutenant Starbutt turned Admiral from “Confessions of a Dead Head”. Thanks, David…love you and the show. Happiest of New Year’s to you and yours!
Madison Square Garden 11/10/11 is the one I really liked. Happy new year!