A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Taper Rich Selleseth emailed to let me know the January 24 show at Connecticut Yankee – Zac Matthews and me, on a bill with Garrin Benfield and Joshua Zucker – is currently a “staff pick” on archive.org. You can download or stream here. Comments (here or on that page) welcome!
This week’s archival GD Hour post is the middle installment of a three-part series presenting the complete show of 6/23/88, the last night of a four-show run at Alpine Valley. The GDH555 page includes a story from an anonymous ‘head who was there at Alpine for the entire run. Well worth reading.
Three cities join the GD Hour network this week: KKID-FM 92.9 Rolla MO – Saturday 2pm Day and time of broadcast have not yet been determined for this returning duo – stay tuned. WZZU-FM 97.9 Lynchburg VA WZZI-FM 101.5 Roanoke VA The GD Hour station list is posted here
The January 31 KPFA marathon playlist is posted here. Thanks to all who contributed to KPFA, hung out in the chat room, came to the station to take pledges – and those who weren’t able to give to KPFA but listened to the music and contributed to the vibe. You can still contribute to KPFA, … Read more
Part 2 of my interview with Randy Ray has been posted on jambands.com. And here’s a link to part 1, posted in December.
Week of February 2, 2009 Part 1 13:23 Jerry Garcia Band WAITING FOR A MIRACLE The Best of Delaney and Bonnie and Friends GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD Part 2 43:02 New Year’s Eve Band 12/31/08 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco CA SUGAR MAGNOLIA-> UNCLE JOHN’S BAND-> WHARF RAT New Year Eve’s Band: … Read more
Check out Stu Levy’s amazing “grid photos” and his other wonderful images. He did me at home and at KPFa a few years ago, and it’s on this page.
WUTC Chattanooga TN is dropping the GD Hour after this weekend. According to station manager Mark Colbert: …we’re going to start all live musical programming at 8 PM (M-S). We’ve been adding more news and informational programming through-out the day (M-S). We’ve seen an increase in listenership across our schedule including weekends. In the near … Read more
GD Hour #130 was posted recently on DeadNet (we post a show from the GDH archives every Wednesday). And just now I stumbled across a transcript of the KPFA show from which the GDH broadcast was excerpted. My guest was Dan Healy, who was at that time the sound man for the Grateful Dead. So … Read more
Hey friends, don’t forget the annual KPFA GD Marathon this coming Saturday, January 31, 10 am to 1 am pacific time. I’ve got some rare recordings to share, including 10/14/77 and 6/27/76 soundboards. More information here, and that’s where the playlist will be posted as it happens. Broadcast live on KPFA 94.1 in northern California … Read more