A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans This message came from the Folk Alliance Western Region mailing list, by way of Bruce Hayden. If you don’t know who Utah Phillips is, educate yourself – the man is a national treasure. And check out his collaborations with Ani DiFranco, too. From: Steve Baker [program director of KVMR Nevada City CA] Sent: Friday, February … Read more
Reminder: tomorrow is the annual KPFA Grateful Dead fund-raising marathon. Please pass this info along to your communities everywhere! Saturday, February 9, 2008, 9 am to 1 am pacific time It’ll be webcast via DeadNet and nugs.net and gdradio.net and of course kpfa.org – tune in if you can, and please spread the word! Pledge … Read more
DeadNet will stream the entire KPFA marathon on Saturday! GDP and DeadNet have kindly offered several gifts to listeners who support KPFA on that day: $50 gift cards for the DeadNet store Road Trips vol 1 no 2 – October 1977 highlights 10% of all sales of Dick’s Picks during the marathon will be donated … Read more
Wow! Found his over on DeadNet: Jerry and Bob w/ Los Lobos singing “This Land Is Your Land”!
This is a fund-raising special. Please call 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732 to support KPFA, or you can donate online. Playing in the Band – Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart et al. 2/4/08 Warfield Theater, San Francisco (“Deadheads for Obama”) Read Gary Lambert’s report of this event on DeadNet. And here’s my report. I wasn’t able … Read more
Grateful Dead Hour #58, originally broadcast the week of October 23, 1989, is up on DeadNet for your streaming pleasure. This episode includes a powerful Scarlet Begonias-> Touch of Grey-> Fire on the Mountain from 7/13/84 at the Greek, plus an excerpt from Phil Lesh’s Rex Radio show in which the Ralph J Gleason Award … Read more
Email sent out today by John Bergan at Grateful Graphics (who will be donating several hundred dollars’ worth ofgift certificates to the KPFA marathon this Saturday, btw): Grateful Graphics Gazette Volume 4, Issue 1 For the first time in the history of this newsletter, we must put out an EXTRA edition cause that is what … Read more
Rich Simon’s report on yesterday’s press conference and show. I don’t know how “much sought-after” the Deadhead vote really is, but what the hey. I hope every Deadhead votes, regardless of who they vote for. Democracy works best when everybody participates.
This is an edited version of a post I made on The WELL yesterday, in a discussion with (among others) a guy who is constantly raging about the evils of America. Much of what he says is valid, but he’s the kind of guy who has no solutions – just complaints. Seems to me some … Read more
I gotta poke around and find the original post, but these responses are interesting for starters. Andrew Sullivan: “Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters” The Deadheads and Turnout: Uh-oh