Dead to the World 11/21/07

Interview with Mickey Hart Down the Road – Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box Happiness Is Drumming Sweet Sixteens – Diga Rhythm Band, Diga Drums (Excerpt) – Grateful Dead, Fillmore West 1969 The Eleven (Rehearsal) – Grateful Dead, 1968 Spanish Jam – Grateful Dead 1/27/68 Eagle’s Auditorium, Seattle WA Move On – Ollabelle, Live at the Outpost, … Read more

Grateful Dead Hour #1000

Week of November 19, 2007 Part 1 33:34 Interview: Mickey Hart Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box DOWN THE ROAD Diga Rhythm Band, Diga HAPPINESS IS DRUMMING SWEET SIXTEENS Interview: Mickey Hart Grateful Dead, Fillmore West 1969 DRUMS (Excerpt) Interview: Mickey Hart Grateful Dead, 1968 THE ELEVEN (Rehearsal) Interview: Mickey Hart Part 2 21:19 Interview: Mickey Hart … Read more

American Beauty Project

The American Beauty Project (Ollabelle, Jim Lauderdale, Catherine Russell, Teresa Williams, Larry Campbell, and David Gans) perform Friday 11/16 at 8pm in Amherst MA as part of Unbroken Chain: The Grateful Dead in Music, Culture and Memory. More info (including tickets) here. I’m participating in panel discussions in the morning and afternoon; the event continues … Read more

Grisman on DTTW this week

I’m goin’ on the road for a week, but Tim Lynch has lined up a treat for this week’s DTTW! David Grisman and I had such a nice time talking on KPIG the other day that we’ve decided to do it again. The Dawg will join me on KPFA this Wednesday night from 8pm-9pm PST. … Read more

Grateful Dead Hour #999

Week of November 12, 2007 Part 1 25:41 Obray Ramsey, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead RAIN AND SNOW Mutilaudio by David Gans BRICKSHAKE #7 Grateful Dead, So Many Roads (1965-1995) EYES OF THE WORLD (10/19/74) Part 2 29:44 Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead HERE COMES SUNSHINE MIGHT … Read more

Rex Foundation launches a blog

This just in via email from the Rex Foundation: Dear Friends, In 1983, the same year the Rex Foundation began, Buckminster Fuller announced, “We can now solve all the problems of hunger and need across the world, having all the available resources and technology; all that we need is the political will.” Perspectives on The … Read more

Dead to the World 11/7/07

jam – Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1 bonus disc (11/8/79 Landover MD) Dancin’ in the Streets-> Franklin’s Tower – Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1 (11/9/79 Buffalo NY) Shakedown Street – Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1 (10/25/79 New Haven CT) Jam (including “I Bid You Good Night” … Read more