A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Our “Water Textures” photo exhibit at the Nomad Cafe gets a “Don’t miss” in today’s San Francisco Chronicle 96 Hours magazine. One of Rita’s photos is included (click on the thumbnail to enlarge), and it looks great! Here’s a link to all the images on flickr – but you really need to see ’em printed … Read more
St. Stephen-> The Eleven-> Death Don’t Have No Mercy – Grateful Dead, Two from the Vault (Expanded) (August 1968) Interview with Mark Karan 12/19/07 Here’s a transcript of the interview. Caren Armstrong live in the KPFA studio: Heart of My Own All the Help Ride Leaving Lincoln County HeartStrings Monkey and the Engineer – Jesse … Read more
This is one of my occasional pleas for direct listener support. The Grateful Dead Hour continues to plug along in the radio business, adding a station here and losing a station there. We just lost WXRT, our biggest affiliate, after nearly 20 years on the air. That’s a big one. We’re also about to lose … Read more
Just a reminder that we post a show from the Grateful Dead Hour archives on DeadNet every Wednesday morning. Today’s post is GD Hour #65, which includes highlights from an April 1989 show at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley CA, with Jerry Garcia and others joining Elvis Costello and friends. You can search the GD … Read more
Hanging the show, originally uploaded by dgans. Rita and I hung our joint photo show at the Nomad Cafe today. It’ll be up the entire month of January. Water Textures Photographs by Rita Hurault and David Gans Nomad Cafe 6500 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland CA Through January 2008 Reception Sunday, January 13, 2-4pm
DSC03941, originally uploaded by lesterlyn. Photo by Lynda Lester of last year’s Grateful Dead caucus at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association meeting in Albuquerque NM. It’s a wonderful gathering – smart people present real scholarly papers on Dead-related subject matter, and we all attend and discuss; in the evenings we dine together and talk some … Read more
I did another of my Mutilaudio experiments last night, exploring the musical commonalities of “US Blues” and “Scarlet Begonias”. It needs a title. Suggestions welcome.
For those of you that were unable to make it, we will be webcasting the Donna the Buffalo show from Huntsville Alabama starting at 10 pm cst. The chatroom will open early, and you can listen at www.haveyouherdradio.com Please bear with us as we work thru any technical issues that may arise. Have a Safe … Read more
IT’S THE END OF AN ERA. “ALMOST 20 YEARS SINCE THE DEAD HOUR DEBUTED ON XRT: JANUARY 12, 1988. SINCE THEN, IT’S A BEEN LONG STRANGE TRIP. (sorry) AND WE’VE ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE OF BEING THE RADIO HOME OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD HOUR ON XRT. NOWADAYS, YOU’VE NEVER HAD MORE OPTIONS FOR LISTENING TO THE … Read more
Last night we saw a terrific documentary on Jug Band music, “Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost” by Todd Kwait. Anyone who is interested in the Grateful Dead will want to see this film, because the Grateful Dead began as a jug band and retained a lot of material from that era throughout their career – “Viola Lee … Read more