A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Betty Cantor-Jackson, longtime member of the Grateful Dead production team, tells of meeting George Harrison in a London recording studio in 1970. She gave him a bit of advice that worked out well for all of us.
Not Fade Away-> Happy Birthday-> Not Fade Away – Furthur and Friends 3/12/10 Bill Graham Civic Aud, SF (Phil Lesh’s birthday party) The 3/12 show is for sale via livedownloads, along with many more Furthur recordings. Brickshake #7 – Mutilaudio by David Gans Might as Well Samson and Delilah Help on the Way-> Slipknot!-> Drums-> … Read more
Week of March 15, 2010 Part 1 31:07 Introduction Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 3 no 2: Austin 11-15-71 JACK STRAW DARK STAR-> EL PASO-> DARK STAR Part 2 25:43 Grateful Dead 9/27/76 War Memorial, Rochester NY THE OTHER ONE-> WHARF RAT Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Grateful Dead Productions, … Read more
Big thanks to these kind souls who chipped in to buy new monitor speakers for the KPFA performance studio! Moonalice Marc Evans Paul Mosher Sandy Sonnenfelt Dario Birindelli Barbara Gabel R. David Guidry Hamlin Endicott Andy Cahn Classic Kicks, Inc. Jeff Mitchell Steve Golston Eric Eichorn Grateful Dread Design Daniel Frederick E.J. Service Jennifer Neal … Read more
Promised Land They Love Each Other El Paso Deal Looks Like Rain Row Jimmy It’s All Over Now Loser Lazy Lightnin’-> Supplication Brown-Eyed Women The Music Never Stopped – Grateful Dead 9/27/76 War Memorial, Rochester NY The Wheel – Railroad Earth, Retrospective I’ll Take a Melody – Jerry Garcia Band, Let It Rock (11/75 Keystone … Read more
SNEAK PREVIEW and special event screenings of SAINT MISBEHAVIN’: THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE to benefit the film’s release and Camp Winnarainbow at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, CA! WHO: Saint Misbehavin’ himself – Wavy Gravy – and the filmmakers and stars of the film WHAT: Screening and Special Event to benefit the film’s release … Read more
Week of March 8, 2010 Part 1 19:59 Introduction The Jerry Garcia Collection, volume 2: Let It Rock (Keystone Berkeley, November 17-18, 1975) LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER Part 2 34:56 Grateful Dead 9/27/76 War Memorial, Rochester NY MIGHT AS WELL SAMSON AND DELILAH HELP ON THE WAY-> SLIPKNOT!-> DRUMS
This is from the Folk Alliance Region-West mailing list, where we have been talking about the Grateful Dead for the last few days. Reproduced here with the permission of its author, Duff Ferguson: i was a late arrival to this phenomenon, attending my first show in the late 80s at Giant’s Stadium in New Jersey, … Read more
“My mission,” says Gans, “is to put the Grateful Dead’s best foot forward every week and explore the roots and branches of that tree, keep people up to date on what they’re doing now, and go back to dig out the coolest stuff from the archives. There’s just no downside.” I am particularly fond of … Read more
Responding to a request from a guy who is researching a book on Van Halen, I scanned my October 1981 interview with producer Ted Templeman. Interesting and sad to read now, with Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker and Jerry Wexler and all those other great record men gone. “I’m an officer of the company…. if … Read more