A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Mark Karan, guitarist of Ratdog and leader of Jemimah Puddleduck Weather Report Suite – Ratdog 3/19/07 Ram’s Head Live, Baltimore MD Money for Gasoline – Ratdog 3/24/07 Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro NC Tennessee Jed – Ratdog 3/9/07 Beacon Theater, New York City All Along the Watchtower – Mark Karan, Bob Weir, Pete Sears, Narada Michael Walden, … Read more
Week of April 16, 2007 Part 1 26:42 Grateful Dead 9/19/90 Madison Square Garden, New York City JACK STRAW BERTHA ME AND MY UNCLE-> BIG RIVER Part 2 30:08 Grateful Dead 9/19/90 Madison Square Garden, New York City IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN Tony Trischka, … Read more
Salon has a piece on the fate of “Dylan Hears a Who,” a brilliant cultural mashup of Bob Dylan and Dr. Suess that unfortunately ran afoul of copyright law. Tangled up in Seuss When a musician recorded “Green Eggs and Ham” in the voice of vintage Bob Dylan and posted it online, the Grinch estate … Read more
Last week I received a copy of David Bromberg‘s new solo acoustic CD Try Me One More Time (Appleseed Recordings APR CD 1099), which contains several songs of interest to the GD audience. I’ll be featuring “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” in GD Hour #971, and I may … Read more
Bertha Promised Land Candyman CC Rider Althea Me and My Uncle-> Big River Dupree’s Diamond Blues It’s All Over Now West LA Fadeaway Throwing Stones; Deal – Grateful Dead 9/17/82 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland ME Some different lyrics in this early performance of “West LA Fadeaway”: Didn’t want to be uptight about it… Here’s … Read more
It isn’t officially on the schedule yet, but WKNC 88.1 in Raleigh NC has been broadcasting the Grateful Dead Hour on Sunday afternoons between 4 and 6 pm. Not sure which of the two hours it’ll settle in, so tune in at 4 and see what you get. If all goes well, this will become … Read more
From Yahoo news: A former manager for the Grateful Dead has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for tax evasion, prosecutors said. Ronald Leon Rakow, 69, was ordered to begin his prison term in June for evading payment of $2.2 million in taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. attorney’s office … Read more
The story of Joshua Bell in the DC Metro (which I mentioned on Sunday) has been making the rounds. The URL has been passed around among musicians from coast to coast, and talked about on some mailing lists I’m on, and everyone I’ve gotten it from has given it a pretty warm response. In some … Read more
Mark Karan, guitarist of Ratdog and leader of Jemimah Puddleduck, will be my guest on KPFA’s Dead to the World Wednesday, April 18, 8-10pm. We’ll listen to some highlights from Ratdog’s spring tour, check out some Puddleduck, take some calls, and maybe even get a taste of a recording project he’s been working on. KPFA … Read more
A friend in The WELL pointed to a story in the Washington Post by Gene Weingarten: Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out. The setup: World-famous violinist Joshua Bell set up like any other busker in Washington’s L’Enfant Plaza metro … Read more