Grateful Dead Hour no. 1132

Week of May 31, 2010

Part 1 30:24
Grateful Dead 11/15/72 Music Hall, Oklahoma City
CANDYMAN
BIG RIVER
SUGAREE
EL PASO
BOX OF RAIN

Part 2 25:01
Interview: Sam Cutler
Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead
NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE

Sam Cutler was the tour manager for the Rolling Stones’ 1969 tour, documented in the film Gimme Shelter and the live album Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (recently reissued in a deluxe package with some video footage and additional tracks). He was intimately involved in the planning and execution of the free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, where things went so horribly wrong, and after the Stones left him to face the authorities (and the Hell’s Angels) in the aftermath, Cutler went to ground at Jerry Garcia’s house and then went to work for the Grateful Dead.

Cutler, who has lived in Australia for many years, was in the States recently to promote his memoir, You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates – a terrific book.

This interview will conclude in next week’s program.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the All Good Festival July 8-11 in Masontown, West Virginia. Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, Widespread Panic, Umphrey’s McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Old Crow Medicine Show, George Clinton and P Funk, Keller Williams, Railroad Earth, Dr. Dog, and dozens more – with no overlapping sets. Information and tickets are available at allgoodfestival.com

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