Dead to the World

Playlists, program notes, and discussion of Dead to the World (Wednesdays 8-10pm on KPFA 94.1 Berkeley CA)

KPFA auction item: Fall-Winter 1994-1995 laminated pass

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Auction to benefit KPFA listener-sponsored radio. Laminated backstage pass for the Grateful Dead Fall 1994-Winter 1995 tour, from the collection of David Gans. Bidding starts at $50.00. Post your bid in the comments section below and check back often! Auction ends Sunday, February 1, 2015, at noon Pacific time. Proceeds go to KPFA. The annual … Read more

KPFA auction item: Summer 1995 laminated pass

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Auction to benefit KPFA listener-sponsored radio. Laminated backstage pass for the Grateful Dead Summer 1995 tour, from the collection of David Gans. Bidding starts at $50.00. Post your bid in the comments section below and check back often! Auction ends Sunday, February 1, 2015, at noon Pacific time. Proceeds go to KPFA. The annual KPFA … Read more

KPFA Grateful Dead marathon 1/31/15

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KPFA‘s annual Grateful Dead fund-raising marathon happens Saturday, January 31, from 9 am to 1 am. Sixteen hours of music, talk, fun, and fundraising. I’ll be conducting this excursion with some help from Tim Lynch, my cohost on KPFA’s Dead to the World. We’ll have plenty of great unreleased Grateful Dead music, highlights from live … Read more

Dead to the World 12/17/14

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I’m Dreamin’ of a Wet Christmas – Christmas Jug Band, Jugology Interview with Dennis McNally, author of On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom Don’t Ease Me In – Henry Thomas, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead Blue Yodel #9 – Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Been … Read more

Dead to the World 12/3/14

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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

Peter Albin interview by Joanna Manqueros

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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

Dead to the World 11/19/14

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(Started an hour late following the Pacifica National Archive fund-raiser) Weather Report Suite-> Row Jimmy – Grateful Dead 2/24/74 Winterland, San Francisco In Memory of Elizabeth Reed – Allman Brothers Band, The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings Six Feet of Snow – Leftover Salmon, High Country Some Iko – Butler-Bernstein and the Hot 9, Viper’s Drag … Read more

Dead to the World 10/22/14

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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

Dead to the World 10/15/14

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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

Dead to the World 10/1/14

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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