A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Hello, friends and listeners – This is another of my periodic requests for direct support from the people who listen to the GD Hour. The business is reasonably stable, on what I’d characterize as a very gradual downslope over the last few years. But we’ve had a couple of financial hits recently – I had … Read more
(Click here for audio excerpts. This transcript is permanently archived at gdhour.com) Mickey Hart and Ram Rod March 3, 1983 Interview with David Gans San Rafael, California Hart: I have a responsibility to Ram Rod. He knows what I’m capable of. If I don’t give everything, I think I’d be letting him down. He takes … Read more
Fantasy Records has just released Well-Matched: The Best of Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia. I picked the tracks, and Blair Jackson wrote the excellent liner notes. Mystery Train • Lonely Avenue • Merl’s Tune • Positively Fourth St. • After Midnight • Welcome to the Basement • Space • I Second That Emotion (previously unreleased) … Read more
The WELL‘s Grateful Dead community, which began to create itself online on March 1, 1986, celebrated its birthday with a potluck at the Log Cabin in San Anselmo, California. Tons of photos, sound and text will be coming soon. For starters: DG’s photos John’s photos Emily’s photos Dan’s photos Julie’s photos Franklin posted a video … Read more
Justin Kreutzmann is trying to get his Backstage Pass video released on DVD, with bonus footage. From his blog, Rock and Reel: Some of you might remember a Grateful Dead home video I did a number of years ago called Backstage Pass. The concept was to take all the bits and pieces of home movies … 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
After years of growing like a weed, with no organization or structure to speak of, dgans.com has finally been put into some semblance of order. Drop by and take a look!
Hello listeners! I’ve got half a dozen copies of a 16-song sampler CD for The Pretenders‘ boxed set Pirate Radio, courtesy of Rhino Records. Pirate Radio is four CDs and a DVD; 81 tracks and 19 videos; 15 previously-unreleased tracks. Excellent music! Chrissie Hynde is one of the greats. First six people to email me … Read more
I had many requests to rebroadcast the “Days Between” composite that first aired in 1994 (GDH 297, week of 5/30/94; rebroadcast in GDH 367, week of 10/2/95); I played it again in GDH 913 (week 0f 3/20/06), and now I’ve posted it for your perpetual listening pleasure. Enjoy! This composite is taken from the 3/28/94 … 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