A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
I saw some kids at the Greek on my way to the show… you know how everyone’s out there holding signs, “I need a ticket?” Nowadays they don’t even need to hold up a sign – they just have to make believe they’re holding up a sign. – Harry Popick, July 1984
We’re auctioning photos, posters, a Grateful Dead Spring 1990 boxed set, and other cool stuff including an opportunity to make chocolate truffles at Barlovento in Oakland – all for the benefit of KPFA, home of Dead to the World. The auctions are happening on Facebook. Click here and place your bids!
The playlist is posted here.
Here’s another of a series of preview pieces for tomorrow’s KPFA marathon: More info Here. Saturda 2/23/13, 9am to 1 am PT, broadcast on KPFA 94.1 in northern California and KFCF 88/1 in Fresno, and webcast via gdradio, nugs.net, and kpfa.org
We’re pitching media all over the place to promote Saturday’s KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon. Jon Brooks at KQED had an interesting angle: he asked me to list “five Grateful Dead songs you should know.” I was, of course, happy to oblige.
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 dishes. Chocolatier Pete Brydon has become a friend over the years, and he has donated Jerry on Broadway posters (from his previous life as a … Read more
Wes Lang, who did the cover art and packaging for the Grateful Dead’s Spring 1990 boxed set, has donated a signed and numbered boxed set and a poster of the “Warrior Skull”cover art for the auction. Come on by and place a bid!
We’re auctioning photos and other cool stuff for the KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon (Sat Feb 23, 9am to 1am). Auctions are up now and will run until Wednesday, March 6 at noon PT. Auctions are happening on Facebook. Check ’em out here!
KPFA‘s annual Grateful Dead Marathon fund-raising special. Click here for info!
An account of how my book Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead turned him on to the Dead: [a friend] asked if I had ever listened to the Grateful Dead. I had a Warner Brothers sampler album that had one song by them on it (a live version … Read more