Week of July 28, 2008
Part 1 25:58
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, and Tony Rice, from 100% Handmade Music, volume 1
LOUIS COLLINS
Jerry Garcia, Garcia
THE WHEEL
Grateful Dead 6/20/91 Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston MI
THROWING STONES->
IKO IKO
Part 2 30:27
Grateful Dead 6/20/91 Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston MI
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER->
STANDING ON THE MOON
HE’S GONE
This week marks Jerry Garcia’s 66th birthday, and next week is the 13th anniversary of his passing. The program begins with Jerry, David Grisman and Tony Rice performing “Louis Collins,” which is both thematically appropriate and one of the most beautiful vocal performances Jerry ever recorded. I played it on KFPA the night he died. We also hear “The Wheel,” one of many masterpieces in the Hunter-Garcia catalog.
And then we go to Pine Knob in Michigan to get started on the second set of June 20, 1991, which you’ll hear in its entirety over the next couple of weeks. It’s a unique set, beginning with Throwing Stones and then segueing abruptly into Iko Iko. Tom Donaldson reminded me of this performance when I was in Ptttsburgh to play at the Thunderbird Cafe on TD’s Dead Night July 6. This entire concert is available for download from the GD online store.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Roy Schneider and the Roadside Turtle Rescue. Friendly, funny, smart American songs in a down-home style. On CDBaby.com and royschneider.com