A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
In my early days on the KFOG Deadhead Hour, when I had a lot more time and smoked a a bit more dope, I used to spend days putting together little radio plays with material I grabbed from TV news, etc. One of my favorites was a two-part show I did using audio from The … Read more
Robert Hunter reports on the New Riders show in Petaluma: 4.8.06 Just got back from the New Riders show at the Mystic in Petaluma. It sure took me back. Packed out house singing along lustily on songs they didn’t know they loved so much and suddenly discovered they did. Friends crawled out of the woodwork … Read more
This photo can also be found on my flickr page, along with other images from Jamm in Jamaica.
Really nice interview with Bobby, by Brita Belli, in the Fairfield County Weekly. An excerpt: Fairfield Weekly: In [the film] Festival Express you come across as the innocent, naïve 22-year-old. Was that train trip a turning point for you? BW: Well, it was a great ride, I’ll tell you. It was the ride of a … Read more
greetings, all: i have been trying to have my question answered for a couple of years now, without success. finally, i decided a grateful dead blog may hold my answer. a few years back, i came across an lp – a saint-saens recording, and on the cover was bertha. so what i am trying to … Read more
I’ve got a few copies of Railroad Earth‘s excellent new live double CD, Elko, left over after the KPFA marathon. I’ll send copies to the first four people who send email to me with the name of RRE’s first CD. Include your snailmail address, please. Please put “logblog” in the “subject:” line of your email … Read more
My name is Nabe. I’m an old Japnese Deadhead. I’ve been to the Dead shows 12 times only. I had enjoyed your program The Grateful Dead Malathon on last Sunday in Japan. It’s a small community of Deaheads in Japan,but Good old community. There were so nice party named Oshino Dead : Jerry Garcia 10th … Read more
Very nice article about Donna the Buffalo by Jim Harrington in today’s San Jose Mercury News. An excerpt: “Our music is . . . not easily pegged,” says vocalist-guitarist Jeb Puryear, 38, from his home near Ithaca, N.Y. “In fact, I have a hard time explaining what we do. It’s not like our sound is … Read more
Check this out from youTube! A live “Viola Lee Blues” from 1967 Gary Lambert just posted these comments about the video in The WELL: The stage looks too big (and high) to be the Fillmore of that period. I think it may well be a Monterey Pop outtake, which would make this a very significant … Read more
I wish all who read this the very best for 2006. I can’t upload the next GD Hour yet because the power is out here in Oakland. We lost power for a couple of hours yesterday morning, momentarily a number of times last night. The juice was on when we got up this morning, but … Read more