A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Playlist, program notes, and discussion of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Week of January 14, 2008 Part 1 28:15 Grateful Dead, Live at the Cow Palace New Year’s Eve 1976 PLAYING IN THE BAND Ian and Sylvia: The Complete Vanguard Recordings LADY OF CARLISLE Part 2 27:10 Grateful Dead 12/10/71 Fox Theater, St Louis MO NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME TENNESSEE JED EL PASO BIG RAILROAD … Read more
Week of January 7, 2008 Part 1 16:00 Grateful Dead, Two from the Vault (August 1968) THE ELEVEN Part 2 39:25 Grateful Dead 12/10/71 Fox Theater, St Louis MO BERTHA ME AND MY UNCLE MR. CHARLIE LOSER BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE SUGAREE JACK STRAW
This is one of my occasional pleas for direct listener support. The Grateful Dead Hour continues to plug along in the radio business, adding a station here and losing a station there. We just lost WXRT, our biggest affiliate, after nearly 20 years on the air. That’s a big one. We’re also about to lose … Read more
Just a reminder that we post a show from the Grateful Dead Hour archives on DeadNet every Wednesday morning. Today’s post is GD Hour #65, which includes highlights from an April 1989 show at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley CA, with Jerry Garcia and others joining Elvis Costello and friends. You can search the GD … Read more
Hanging the show, originally uploaded by dgans. Rita and I hung our joint photo show at the Nomad Cafe today. It’ll be up the entire month of January. Water Textures Photographs by Rita Hurault and David Gans Nomad Cafe 6500 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland CA Through January 2008 Reception Sunday, January 13, 2-4pm
DSC03941, originally uploaded by lesterlyn. Photo by Lynda Lester of last year’s Grateful Dead caucus at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association meeting in Albuquerque NM. It’s a wonderful gathering – smart people present real scholarly papers on Dead-related subject matter, and we all attend and discuss; in the evenings we dine together and talk some … Read more
IT’S THE END OF AN ERA. “ALMOST 20 YEARS SINCE THE DEAD HOUR DEBUTED ON XRT: JANUARY 12, 1988. SINCE THEN, IT’S A BEEN LONG STRANGE TRIP. (sorry) AND WE’VE ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE OF BEING THE RADIO HOME OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD HOUR ON XRT. NOWADAYS, YOU’VE NEVER HAD MORE OPTIONS FOR LISTENING TO THE … Read more
Week of December 31, 2007 Part 1 23:00 Grateful Dead 6/30/74 Civic Center Arena, Springfield MA NOT FADE AWAY-> GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD-> ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT Part 2 31:55 American Beauty Project 11/16/07 UMass Amherst SUGAR MAGNOLIA NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE TILL THE MORNING COMES RIPPLE Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. … Read more
Week of December 24, 2007 Part 1 21:29 Grateful Dead 6/30/74 Civic Center Arena, Springfield MA US BLUES-> TRUCKIN-> JAM Part 2 33:26 Grateful Dead 6/30/74 Civic Center Arena, Springfield MA EYES OF THE WORLD-> JAM-> STELLA BLUE Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: Grateful Dead Productions, announcing the first of … Read more
December 21, 2007 Originally uploaded by Grand Lake