Dead tour ticket info announced

From GDTS TOO: Happy New Year! The Dead, featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined by Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti, will play the following shows: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. Reserved seats are available at $93.00, $69.00 and $53.50 per ticket. Doors open at … Read more

American Beauty Project in NYC 1/16

From the Lincoln Center web site: The American Beauty Project: The Music of the Grateful Dead Friday, January 16, 2009 8:30 PM The Allen Room American Songbook “Even in their absence, the Grateful Dead can pack a hall.” — The New York Times Two of the Grateful Dead’s most defining studio albums, Workingman’s Dead and … Read more

Sad news regarding the KPFA archive

Memo from the KPFA music director: On Monday, the new licensing agreement between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and SoundExchange about royalties for music on the web goes into effect. For this reason, we can no longer archive music shows for more than 14 days. As it is, we can tell from our web stats … Read more

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1060

Week of January 12, 2009 Part 1 14:26 Emory Joseph, Fennario: Songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter RAMBLE ON ROSE Donna Jean and the Tricksters NO BETTER WAY Grateful Dead, Birth of the Dead THE ONLY TIME IS NOW Part 2 41:59 Grateful Dead 7/13/89 RFK Stadium, Washington DC HELL IN A BUCKET COLD … Read more

MK = A-OK

This just in from Maile Hatfield, wife of Mark Karan: Just wanted to share the joy… Mark has just gotten the results of his latest MRI.. ALL CLEAR!!! That’s one year now… and we’re grateful every day. Now on with the music!!!!! He’ll be performing with RatDog in Jamaica later this month, then working to … Read more

Dead to the World 1/7/09

Sugar Magnolia-> Uncle John’s Band-> Wharf Rat-> Good Lovin’-> Sugaree Scarlet Begonias-> jam-> Come Together-> Dark Star-> Not Fade Away – New Year Eve’s Band (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Jeff Chimenti, Steve Molitz, Kenny Brooks, John Molo, Jay Lane, Mark Karan, Jackie Greene, Barry Sless) 1/1/09 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco