A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Playlists, program notes, and discussion of Dead to the World (Wednesdays 8-10pm on KPFA 94.1 Berkeley CA)
Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings will perform live on KPFA this Wednesday, May 3, 8:30 to 9:30 pm PDT. In addition to the usual webcasts on kpfa.org and kfcf.org, this set can be heard on nugs.net as well. We’ve got room for a few more people in the studio audience. If you’d like to join … Read more
And speaking of The Waybacks: Roy Schneider’s Humble Stumble comic strip mentions The Waybacks and Jerry Garcia today. I’ve met Roy a couple of times at the Suwannee SpringFest and MagnoliaFest. He’s a musician himself, and he’s used the Suwannee fests (with a different name) as a setting a couple of times. Nice feller. I … Read more
Jam-> Come Together – Ratdog 3/31/06 Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach NH Cumberland Blues – The Waybacks 3/11/06 Freight and Salvage, Berkeley CA Petrified Man From the Pasture to the Future Ninety-One When You Are Near Hot Krinski The Shape I’m In Savannah Blacksmith Monkey Pants – The Waybacks 3/8/06 KPFA Performance Studio Jackaroe – The … Read more
Rain – Mutilaudio by David Gans Dark Star-> Sugar Magnolia-> Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)-> Johnny B. Goode – Grateful Dead 4/17/72 Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Don’t Get Me Wrong Middle of the Road – The Pretenders, Pirate Radio (boxed set) Raised By Hippies – I See Hawks in LA, California Country Sugaree … Read more
I’ve spent several hours last night and today cleaning up a terrific recording that has just come into circulation: Grateful Dead 4/17/72 at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark. The third disc is Dark Star-> Sugar Magnolia-> Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)-> Johnny B. Goode. There was quite a bit of digital noise … Read more
Dark Star-> St. Stephen-> I Know It’s a Sin-> St. Stephen That’s It for The Other One-> Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) – Grateful Dead 4/17/69 Washington University, St. Louis MO (Download #12) Lonesome LA Cowboy – New Riders of the Purple Sage 10/7/05 Joyous Lake, Woodstock NY Taught to Be Proud – Tea … Read more
Tonight: The new GD download is a CD and a half of 4/17/69, plus two songs from a 1/23/69 rehearsal. I’m listening to a killer “Other One” right now. I’ll play a good sampling of this two-disc set in the first hour tonight, and then get into some of the music I heard on my … Read more
Bill Kreutzmann and his son, Justin, are coming to KPFA tonight to talk and play some recordings. Bill has some Jazz he recorded in Hawaii, plus some Serial Pod (w/ Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon) recorded last December, and we’ll listen to some Grateful Dead as well, of course. Justin has a recording of Rachel … Read more
Between sets, the Ratdog boys came into the control room and took some calls from listeners. Listen to it! (15 megabyte MP3) That’s Jay Lane standing up w/ a headphone in his ear. Photo by Susana Millman Standing: Mark Karan in the red shirt; Robin Sylvester with the long hair. Photo by Susan J. Weiand … Read more
Sorry I didn’t get this up before the broadcast, but it was crazy in there and I never even got my laptop out of the backpack. Bob Weir and Ratdog live in the KPFA performance studio! Jam -> Jack Straw -> Dark Star -> Odessa -> Lazy River Road -> Jam -> Silvio -> Tequila … Read more