A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Week of October 27, 2014 Part 1 22:55 Grateful Dead 9/20/82 Madison Square Garden, New York City DUPREE’S DIAMOND BLUES IT’S ALL OVER NOW NEVER TRUST A WOMAN Part 2 32:30 Jerry Garcia Band, GarciaLive vol 5 (12/31/75) HOW SWEET IT IS (TO BE LOVED BY YOU) Grateful Dead 9/20/82 Madison Square Garden, New York … Read more
CC Rider – Jerry Garcia Band, GarciaLive vol 5 (12/31/75) Phone interview with John Byrne Cooke, author of On the Road with Janis Joplin Train Boogie #1 – various artists, Festival Express train tour, Summer 1970 New Potato Caboose – Grateful Dead 10/22/67 Winterland, San Francisco Fat Bottom Girls Don’t Look Back Tennessee Won’t Get … Read more
Week of October 20, 2014 Part 1 31:45 Grateful Dead 9/20/82 Madison Square Garden, New York City SHAKEDOWN STREET-> MINGLEWOOD CANDYMAN-> EL PASO Part 2 24:15 Grateful Dead, Spring 1990 (The Other One) (3/18/90) IKO IKO JUST A LITTLE LIGHT Jerry Garcia Band, GarciaLive vol. 5 (12/31/75) THEY LOVE EACH OTHER I wrote the liner … Read more
Fund drive! Please donate online at kpfa.org or call 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732. For a $75 pledge, we’ll send you a copy of Wake Up to Find Out; for $60, a KPFA t-shirt! Playing the Band-> Hully Gully – Grateful Dead 10/16/81 Melkweg, Amsterdam Iko Iko – Grateful Dead, Spring 1990 (The Other One) (3/18/90) Brokedown … Read more
The improvisational ensemble that began when Phil Savell and I jammed at a holiday party last December has been developing nicely. We now have a name – The Known Unknown (web site and all that are coming soon) – and a stable quartet at the core: Phil Savell and David Gans on guitars, Zach Partain … Read more
Week of October 13, 2014 Part 1 34:52 Grateful Dead 3/28/69 Student Center, Modesto Junior College DEATH DON’T HAVE NO MERCY TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT Part 2 20:57 Grateful Dead, Wake Up to Find Out (3/29/90) DARK STAR Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, … Read more
We are playing TONIGHT (Thu 10/9) at The Monkey House in Berkeley! Post by Steve Silberman.
I was invited to post on Dead for a Year about a favorite piece of Grateful Dead music, and I chose to write about the big second-set jam of 5/19/74. Visit Dead for a Year and check it out!
Week of October 6, 2014 Part 1 24:38 Grateful Dead 3/28/69 Student Center, Modesto Junior College DARK STAR Part 2 30:13 Grateful Dead 3/28/69 Student Center, Modesto Junior College ST. STEPHEN-> THE ELEVEN Mickey Hart, Rolling Thunder THE MAIN TEN (PLAYING IN THE BAND) Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from The … Read more
Fund drive! Please donate online at kpfa.org or call 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732. For a $75 pledge, we’ll send you a copy of Wake Up to Find Out; for $60, a KPFA t-shirt! Turn On Your Love Light – Grateful Dead, Wake Up to Find Out (3/29/90) Jefferson Army – The Mother Hips 1/9/13 KPFA Performance … Read more