A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans As reported earlier, the anual KPFA GD marathon is scheduled for Saturday, January 28, 9 am to 1 am PST. We’ll have a live performance from the Papermill Creek Rounders (David Nelson, Banana, and friends) in the afternoon. Bob Weir and Ratdog had to postpone their live performance due to an injury to keyboardist Jeff … Read more
Week of January 9, 2006 Part 1 20:51 Grateful Dead 2/4/70 Family Dog on the Great Highway, SF (Download vol. 8) ST. STEPHEN-> NOT FADE AWAY-> ST. STEPHEN Grateful Dead 12/31/70 Winterland, San Francisco (Download vol. 8) MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come SITTING IN LIMBO Part 2 35:59 Grateful Dead … Read more
The Papermill Creek Rounders (David Nelson, Ed Neff, Banana, Paul Knight and a player to be named later) will perform at 2:00 pm on marathon day. Ratdog will play at around 7:00 in the evening. All times Pacific!
In today’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle, regarding the revelations about the Bush administration spying on American citizens in blatant and unashamed violation fo the Constitution, Jon Carroll writes: ….what I can’t get is the Bush administration’s hysterical reaction to the revelations. A presidential spokesman named Trent Duffy said, “The fact that al Qaeda’s … Read more
NOTE: The original air day/time have been changed. KUNV 91.5 FM, the broadcast service of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, joins the GD Hour network starting Saturday the 7 th at 9:00 pm. Very special thanks to George Lyons, host of The Lyons Den (Sundays 8 pm to midnight)!
This just in: Bob Weir and Ratdog will perform live on the KPFA marathon January 28!
Check this out from youTube! A live “Viola Lee Blues” from 1967 Gary Lambert just posted these comments about the video in The WELL: The stage looks too big (and high) to be the Fillmore of that period. I think it may well be a Monterey Pop outtake, which would make this a very significant … Read more
Dead to the World – January 4, 2006 Beat It on Down the Line Bird Song Jack Straw Box of Rain Don’t Ease Me In Me and Bobby McGee Tennessee Jed Around and Around – Grateful Dead 12/12/72 Winterland, San Francisco Dark Star-> St. Stephen-> The Eleven – Grateful Dead 2/27/69, Live at the Fillmore: … Read more
When my head starts to hurt from the arduous mental gymnastics required to make sense of the Bush Admninistration’s actions and explanations, I often turn to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll. Today is one of those days. Jon has given us an imaginary interview with a real dangerous man. Perhaps you have been unable … Read more
Week of January 2, 2006 Part 1 37:22 Grateful Dead 4/1/91 Coliseum, Greensboro NC SPACE-> DARK STAR-> PLAYING IN THE BAND (REPRISE)-> BLACK PETER-> LOVELIGHT Part 2 18:58 Grateful Dead 4/1/91 Coliseum, Greensboro NC IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE Shimmy Shack HARD HEADED WOMAN The Bobs, Rhapsody in Bob WHITE ROOM Shimmy Shack is … Read more