A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Today is the day I send my book manuscript in! It’s called This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead. I wrote it in collaboration with my friend and colleague (and neighbor) Blair Jackson. It is set to be published in the fall of 2015 by Flatiron Books. This … Read more
Week of December 8, 2014 Part 1 32:01 Grateful Dead 2/23/74 Winterland, San Francisco SHIP OF FOOLS JACK STRAW DEAL PROMISED LAND-> BERTHA-> GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD Part 2 23:46 Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia, Keystone Companions MY FUNNY VALENTINE Kingfish SUPPLICATION The 2015 Dave’s Picks subscription series kicks off with 2/24/74, so I’m playing … Read more
Touch of Grey-> Greatest Story Ever Told Jackaroe Little Red Rooster Stagger Lee Queen Jane, Approximately The Last Time Cassidy Deal – Grateful Dead 2/25/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena Don’t Be Scared – Fancy von Pancerton, Don’t Kid Yourself Emily Yates interview It’s Just Happening – Emily Yates live in the KPFA studio Go Out and … Read more
We really need rain in northern California. It’s raining in Oakland right now, and I hope it goes on for a few days. Here’s a little “rain” montage…
Week of December 1, 2014 Part 1 11:36 David Nelson Band, Once in a Blue Moon DIFFERENT WORLD-> ONCE IN A BLUE MOON Part 2 44:14 Grateful Dead 2/23/74 Winterland, San Francisco AROUND AND AROUND DIRE WOLF ME AND BOBBY McGEE SUGAREE MEXICALI BLUES HERE COMES SUNSHINE BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE The first … Read more
My pal Ari Fink asked me (and my Tales from the Golden Road cohost, Gary Lambert) to pick some seminal tracks to play on the Jam_On Channel‘s “Roots of the Jam Weekend,” airing now through Sunday (11/30/14). Here are the four pieces I contributed: Dark Star – Live Dead, recorded 2/27/69 The Grateful Dead didn’t … Read more
Week of November 24, 2014 Part 1 25:23 Grateful Dead 2/24/74 Winterland, San Francisco WEATHER REPORT SUITE-> ROW JIMMY Part 2 30:11 Grateful Dead 10/25/69 Winterland, San Francisco TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT w/ Stephen Stills David Nelson Band, Once in a Blue Moon FILM AT ELEVEN The first quarterly release of the 2015 Dave’s … Read more
The Grateful Dead Hour will air Saturdays at 11pm Eastern time on WALH 106.7 FM in Wilmington, Ohio starting November 29. WALH streams live at walhradio.com The current station list is posted at gdhour.com/stations.html
Joanna Manqueros hosted Dead to the World on July 30, 2014, and interviewed Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company). Listener Damien Palermo was kind enough to transcbie the talk. Enjoy! Joanna Manqueros (host): Jerry Garcia was born in 1942. What was he doing in 1962? You brought some stuff in that’s really cool … Read more
Two very interesting articles I’ve read this week offer glimpses of the state of the music business. A while back, Peter Case posted on Facebook that he was starting a label. I wrote to him: “Pretty soon it’s going to be ‘one man, one label.’” And he replied: “Yeah, it’s like the fall of the … Read more