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 August 20, 2007 Part 1 16:49 Hot Buttered Rum, Live in the Northeast CUMBERLAND BLUES Steep Canyon Rangers, Lovin’ Pretty Women DON’T EASE ME IN The Byrds, Never Before I KNOW MY RIDER (I Know You, Rider) The Derailers, Under the Influence of Buck JOHNNY B. GOODE Part 2 38:36 Grateful Dead 3/9/81 … Read more
Week of August 13, 2007 Part 1 33:31 Grateful Dead 3/9/81 Madison Square Garden, New York City CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER-> I KNOW YOU RIDER SAMSON AND DELILAH SHIP OF FOOLS Part 2 21:24 New Riders of the Purple Sage DIRTY BUSINESS GARDEN OF EDEN LAST LONELY EAGLE Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this … Read more
Week of August 6, 2007 Part 1 41:01 Grateful Dead 6/20/87 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA JAM-> GIMME SOME LOVIN’-> ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER-> THE WHEEL-> THE OTHER ONE-> WHARF RAT-> SUGAR MAGNOLIA Part 2 14:24 Boris Garcia 7/6/07 Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville OH SCOOTCH Interview: Bob Stirner Boris Garcia 7/6/07 Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, … Read more
Week of July 30, 2007 Part 1 19:02 Grateful Dead 6/20/87 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA SPACE-> IKO IKO Steve Mann, Alive and Pickin’ TROUBLE IN MIND (with Janis Joplin) ELEPHANT SONG EAST COLORADO (aka Spike Driver Blues) Part 2 35:53 Grateful Dead 6/20/87 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA LOOKS LIKE RAIN-> DEAL-> DRUMS-> SPACE June 20, … Read more
Week of July 23, 2007 Part 1 34:23 Grateful Dead 4/15/89 The Mecca, Milwaukee WI SPACE-> I WILL TAKE YOU HOME-> ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER-> MORNING DEW Part 2 21:32 Grateful Dead 4/15/89 The Mecca, Milwaukee WI ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT Excerpt from Playboy After Dark Collection Two Interview: Hugh M. Hefner and Jerry Garcia … Read more
DeadNet today unveils a podcast of GD Hour #794, originally broadcast the week of 12/8/2003. We’re putting up a new download of an old GD Hour every Wednesday. Download it, enjoy it, and comment on it right there on the download page. Enjoy!
Week of July 16, 2007 Part 1 33:55 Grateful Dead 4/15/89 The Mecca, Milwaukee WI PLAYING IN THE BAND-> TERRAPIN-> DRUMS Part 2 21:00 Grateful Dead, Three from the Vault (2/19/71) SMOKESTACK LIGHTNIN’ Jerry Lawson and Talk of the Town WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD Jerry Lawson was for decades the lead singer of The Persuasions. … Read more
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has an interview with Bear, aka Owsley Stanley, who made the best acid, helped the Grateful Dead get started, and practically invented concert sound. The name Owsley became a noun that appears in the Oxford dictionary as English street slang for good acid. It is the most famous brand name in … Read more
The beautiful new DeadNet today introduces a new weekly feature: podcasts from the Grateful Dead Hour archive. Analise Dubner created a beautiful image for the landing page. First up is program #793, the first of a four-part series featuring an interview with Steve Parish on the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Home Before … Read more
Week of July 9, 2007 Part 1 27:57 Grateful Dead 4/15/89 The Mecca, Milwaukee WI WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE QUEEN JANE, APPROXIMATELY BLOW AWAY-> PROMISED LAND Part 2 27:58 Grateful Dead 4/15/89 The Mecca, Milwaukee WI CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER-> I KNOW YOU RIDER New Riders of the Purple Sage Live New Year’s Eve 2006 … Read more