A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
PLACE YOUR BID IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST. Thanks! Bidding starts at $100, please. Auctions end at noon PST on Thursday, February 6. Photo of Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, taken by Rosie McGee in 1969. 8×10, flush-mounted on 2mm black-edged styrene, signed by the photographer. More by Rosie McGee here.
PLACE YOUR BID IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST. Thanks! Bidding starts at $100, please. Auctions end at noon PST on Thursday, February 6. Photo by Bob Minkin: Jerry Garcia playing the Wolf! Brendan Byrne Arena, NJ, October 1989 11 x 14, printed on Epson Professional Luster paper. Signed by Bob Minkin. Not matted … Read more
PLACE YOUR BID IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST. Thanks! Bidding starts at $100, please. Auctions end at noon PST on Thursday, February 6. Photo by Kirk West, “Taken from the flagman stand of the 1/2 mile dirt race track of the fairgrounds.” Grateful Dead 6/16/74 Iowa State Fairgrounds. 11×14 b&w signed & numbered … Read more
PLACE YOUR BID IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST. Thanks! Bidding starts at $100, please. Auctions end at noon PST on Thursday, February 6. Photo by Jay Blakesberg: Jerry Garcia 12/10/92 11×14, unframed More of Jay’s photos at https://blakesberg.com
PLACE YOUR BID IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST. Thanks! Bidding starts at $500, please. Auctions end at noon PST on Thursday, February 6. I am a regular consumer of Barlovento Chocolates. I buy them at the Grand Lake Farmers’ market on Saturdays and eat a little bit every evening while I do the … Read more
Berkeley’s pioneering listener-supported radio station, KPFA, presents its annual Grateful Dead fund-raising marathon on Saturday, February 8, 2014 from 9:00 am to 1:00 am PST. Host David Gans promises a bounty of unreleased and previously-unheard music by the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, and related artists. There will be a live performance (musicians TBA) from the … Read more
Mastering (and mixing!) engineer Jeffrey Norman explains how he combined audience and soundboard recordings of the 11/30/80 Grateful Dead show for the new release Dave’s Picks volume 8 Listen here, and comment below. BTW, the guy who did the matrix mix that inspired Jeffrey, whose name JN couldn’t remember at the time of the interview, … Read more
I did an interview with Joey Spehar on WYEP’s (Pittsburgh public radio station) Morning Mix on August 9, talking about Jerry’s musical and cultural legacy. It runs about 18 minutes and you can hear it here.
Fellow Traveler: A Rock & Roll Fable by James D. McCallister Fellow Traveler is as worthy a document of the latter-day Grateful Dead experience as any I’ve read, fictional or historical. I think it will work as well for people who aren’t steeped in the Deadhead culture as it does for those who are. McCallister … Read more
Excellent interview with Louis C.K. in the current Rolling Stone (but I can’t find a public URL for it). He says something about how he performs that I think is also a good explanation of why I (and my inspiration, the Grateful Dead) prefer to do it differently every time rather than settle on one … Read more