A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
From GDTSToo: Bill Kreutzmann with Oteil Burbridge, Bass and Scott Murawski, Guitar will play the following shows: Wednesday, May 28 at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI. Doors open at 8:00 PM. Show time is 9:00 PM. All ages welcome. This is a General Admission show. Mail order tickets are available at $18.00 per ticket. ======== … Read more
Some music from the Rubber Souldiers rehearsal Tuesday 5/6: Girl I Feel Fine Dr Robert Paperback Writer Rain The show is Wednesday 5/7, 8pm at the Iron Springs Pub and Brewery, 765 Center Blvd., Fairfax CA. No cover! Come early and have a great meal before the show! David Gans – guitar and vocals; Lorin … Read more
This is the official press release on REX, the download-only collection of GD covers by Keller Wiliams, Jeff Austin, and Keith Moseley, released to benefit the Rex Foundation. You’ll hear “One More Saturday Night” and “Bird Song” from this release on GD Hour #1026, week of May 19. WILLIAMS RELEASES REX (LIVE AT THE FILLMORE): … Read more
The Golden Voice of the Great Southwest needs our help. More info and regular updates on the blog. Saturday, May 3, 7:30 pm (Doors open at 6:45) Bellingham (WA) Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. Performers: Linda Allen, Artis the Spoonman, Marie Eaton and Janet Peterson, Joules Graves, Mike Marker, Tim McHugh, Geof Morgan, Mark Ross … Read more
Chopin, the Dead, the Mothers, and more – quite a range! Doug Hagman, who jams frequently with Tom Constanten in his band Terrapin Flyer, posted a link to this video on DeadNet Central.
Oh man, Michelle Obama! On Countdown just now, a clip of her shutting down Meredith Vieira’s vacuous question about Rev Wright: “I think Barack has spoken so clearly and eloquently about this… We gotta move forward. This conversation doesn’t help my kids, you know, it doesn’t help kids out there who are looking for us … Read more
New York Times obit of Albert Hofmann Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid. He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as … Read more
From relix.com: UC Santa Cruz Library will be Grateful Dead Central by Rich Simon ….Chancellor Blumenthal drew intellectual parallels between the psychedelic rock band and the University. “The Grateful Dead and UC Santa Cruz share a common history,” he explained, in prepared statements that drew sometimes awkward references to Dead culture. “Both were founded the … Read more
Lorin and Chris and I are delighted to have Robin Sylvester – a genuine English rocker who grew up on the Beatles – joining Rubber Souldiers on bass at the Iron Springs Pub and Brewery on Wednesday, May 7. Showtime is 8pm, and there’s no cover charge! Come to Iron Springs (765 Center Blvd., Fairfax … Read more
SF Weekly tackles the important question: It was initially unclear whether one famous item of apparel would be part of the archive: Bob Weir’s famous cutoff denim shorts. While Catherine Bach may have introduced them into pop culture in her role as the leggy cousin of Bo and Luke Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard, … Read more