Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Two Sycamore Slough String Band shows online
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1254
Week of October 1, 2012
Part 1 27:40
Interview: Rosie McGee
Grateful Dead, Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings (5/11/72)
THE STRANGER (TWO SOULS IN COMMUNION)
Talk
Interview: Rosie McGee
The Grateful Dead
COLD RAIN AND SNOW
Part 2 28:15
Interview: Rosie McGee
Grateful Dead, Two from the Vault (8/24/68)
NEW POTATO CABOOSE
Interview: Rosie McGee
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Grateful Dead Game – The Epic Tour, an online game that creates new ways to experience the legacy, music and art of the Grateful Dead. Fans are encouraged to create their own customized Dancing Bear, and take their Bear on a virtual trip through Grateful Dead time and space. More information and free registration are available at www.gratefuldeadgame.com.
The WELL abides
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll is my friend and neighbor, here in Oakland and also in cyberspace. Here is his column about our online home, The WELL, which recently survived a major challenge and is now owned by a group of its users. We’re both hoping to bring some smart, articulate, curious, and generous people into the deep, informative, and constructive conversation we’ve been participating in for 25 years and counting.
One of the points of the Well is to test your hypothesis against the worldviews and life experience of others. People sometimes spend considerable effort researching their responses; that’s part of the social capital. Be a jerk online, and your social capital is reduced.
I hope you’ll read the whole column, and I hope you’ll consider joining the WELL. It’s been a great place for me to learn and laugh and grow, and we’re always happy to welcome thoughtful new people.
Register to vote, and then VOTE!
The deadlines to register to vote are coming! If you have moved since the last time you voted, or never registered, now is the time.
Just visit to complete a voter registration application online. It takes only a couple minutes!
If you need more information about ID requirements, absentee balloting, early voting or anything else, visit HeadCount.org.
Thanks!
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1253
Week of September 24, 2012
Part 1 27:50
Grateful Dead 9/18/87 Madison Square Garden, New York City
KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR
Talk
Interview: Rosie McGee
Grateful Dead, Birth of the Dead
CAN’T COME DOWN
Interview: Rosie McGee
Part 2 28:37
Interview: Rosie McGee
Grateful Dead (aka Skull and Roses)
BERTHA
Interview: Rosie McGee
Grateful Dead, Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966 (3/12/66)
CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS)
First of two parts featuring an interview with Rosie McGee, who first met the Grateful Dead in late 1965, joined the tribe at the Muir Beach Acid Test, lived with Phil Lesh for more than four years, and worked in various Dead-related enterprises for many years. Along the way, she took a lot of photos, nearly 200 of which appear – along with a warmly-told memoir of her participation in those heady times – in her new electronic book, Dancing with the Dead: A Photographic Memoir.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Grateful Dead Game – The Epic Tour, an online game that creates new ways to experience the legacy, music and art of the Grateful Dead. Fans are encouraged to create their own customized Dancing Bear, and take their Bear on a virtual trip through Grateful Dead time and space. More information and free registration are available at www.gratefuldeadgame.com.