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Sycamore Slough String Band – April shows

Thursday, April 12, 9pm: Boris Garcia and SSSB at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA Friday, April 13: Boris Garcia and SSSB at Don Quixote’s International Music Hall, Felton CA Wednesday, April 18, 8pm: SSSB at Iron Springs Pub and Brewery, 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax CA. No cover! Thursday, April 26, 7pm PDT: SSSB performs live at TRI Studios. Free stream at https://www.tristudios.com Friday, April 27, 9pm: Grandpa Banana’s Band and SSSB at Aubergine After Dark, 755 Petaluma Avenue, Sebastopol CA. 707-827-3460 Sunday, April 29, 4-7pm (NOTE AFTERNOON HOURS!): SSSB and Ragged Glory at the Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA. All ages! Sliding scale $6-10 Sycamore Slough String Band is an acoustic quartet playing the music of the Grateful Dead (and occasionally some other stuff). David Gans (guitar), David Thom (mandolin and guitar), Fiddle Dave Muhlethaler (guess!), and Roger Sideman (bass). Everybody sings! Video clips from our debut recording, First Rehearsals: Jackaroe New Speedway Boogie
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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1227

Week of March 26, 2012

Part 1 21:46
Mickey Hart, Rolling Thunder
THE MAIN TEN (PLAYING IN THE BAND)
New Riders of the Purple Sage, 17 Pine Avenue
SIX OF ONE
Firesign Theatre, Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
TEMPORARILY HUMBOLDT COUNTY

Part 2 34:32
Grateful Dead March 26, 1973 Civic Center, Baltimore MD
BROWN-EYED WOMEN
EL PASO
CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER->
I KNOW YOU RIDER
LOOKS LIKE RAIN
DON’T EASE ME IN

I am very sorry to report that we lost one of the counterculture’s sharpest and funniest minds: Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theater.

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Nice letter from a listener

Email from Doug White, posted with permission. He heard his friend Jason Rappaport’s guest DJ appearance on last night’s Dead to the World. (You can listen on the KPFA archive until April 4; the playlist is posted here).

Hey man. I’ve never written you before but I have seen you live at the Fillmore doing a poster room show before TLG for a Rex benefit. I loved your interpretations of the songs and I’m a fan for sure. I also love the Tales from the Golden Road on Sirius.

I never got to see Jerry live. It is something that I’ve regretted ever since I became a Deadhead in 1990. I was always saying “I’ll catch them next time”. Since I was living in Richmond, VA and relatively poor at the time it was difficult to be able to afford to travel. If only I knew about the scene and the unity of the Deadhead culture at that time. I am thankful I got to see so many Other Ones, The Dead, Furthur, Phil and Friends, and Ratdog shows since and learn more about my fellow Deadheads. I guess my point is that through your public appearances, gigs, radio shows etc…. I get to live vicariously through someone that was there when Jerry was there. For that I tip my bottle, I throw on some tunes and salute you.

Anyway the reason for my note is that I heard your broadcast stream with guest DJ Jason Rappaport and I loved the show. I know Jason (And Ethan) from the TLG scene and Jam Cruise and I had no idea those guys were such naturals on the radio. I thoroughly enjoyed your show and I appreciate everything you do for the Dead community and for charitable organizations. When I got to hear my friends do a radio show with you it was certainly one of my musical high-points this year. Jason did a great job and the show was a blessing during a hard work week for me. Jason and Ethan are two of my favorite West-Coasters and it is great that your common charity brought you all together to broadcast a great show for a fan like me.

Doug

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