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.
I’m trying to raise money to finish a CD project, and so I’d like to sell some items from my closet. I have these Grateful Dead Hour t-shirts (designed and printed by Norm Ruth and The Deluxe Team) in limited sizes and colors… The first Grateful Dead Hour t-shirt. White only; Small and Medium only. … Read more
In this letter, a public response to an email from someone named Sean, Hunter says explicitly something I have believed/known for years: “Play the recordings. I put as many clues there as I could. In a way, they are one long letter to the Grateful Dead.” More excerpts: In the aftershock of the tragic death … Read more
Week of June 5, 2006 Part 1 29:01 Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta TERRAPIN-> DRUMS Part 2 27:19 Grateful Dead 4/17/69 (Download vol. 12) DARK STAR Bobby “Blue” Bland, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: The … Read more
Week of May 29, 2006 Part 1 31:30 Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta ROW JIMMY PROMISED LAND David Gans and Friends 8/13/05 Gathering of the Vibes, Mariaville NY SING ME BACK HOME Dave Alvin, West of the West LOSER Part 2 23:50 Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta SCARLET BEGONIAS-> TOUCH OF GREY MAN … Read more
I’ve got my 20 winners. Thanks for writing in, folks, and thanks for reading the logblog!
I’ve got a small stack of CDs to give away, courtesy of Ratdog Live. It’s the 3/31/06 show at the Hampton Beach NH Casino, featured in GD Hour #922. Disc 1 1. Maggie’s Farm > (14:50) 2. Shakedown Street > (11:40) 3. Big River (5:52) 4. She Says > (8:59) 5. Liberty (7:04) 6. Lost … Read more
Week of May 22, 2006 Part 1 28:47 Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta SUGAREE KANSAS CITY FENNARIO MY BROTHER ESAU Part 2 27:33 Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta RAMBLE ON ROSE CASSIDY Bob Weir and Ratdog 3/31/06 Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach NH JAM-> COME TOGETHER The Ratdog show is available from Ratdog Live. … Read more
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
Week of May 15, 2006 Part 1 37:11 Grateful Dead 4/17/72 Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark SUGAR MAGNOLIA-> CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS)-> JOHNNY B. GOODE Part 2 19:09 Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, So What SO WHAT (Take 1, 12/6/90) Donna the Buffalo, Positive Friction FAMILY PICTURE Michael Peter Smith, Live at Dark-Thirty … Read more
Week of May 8, 2006 Part 1 32:49 Grateful Dead 4/17/72 Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark DARK STAR Part 2 24:01 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones 2/15/06 KPFA Performance studio, Berkeley CA CHENNAI WHO’S GOT THREE? WHISTLE TUNE Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, The Hidden Land SUBTERFUGE A few weeks ago, I posted some notes … Read more