Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1189
GD Hour on the air in Bella Vista CA
KKRN 88.5 Bella Vista CA (in far northern California, near Burney) just signed on for the first time, and the Grateful Dead Hour is on their schedule Fridays at 3pm. Viva community radio!
WAMC press release
NEW PROGRAM CHANGES FOR WAMC
WAMC Northeast Public Radio has some exciting program changes starting this weekend with the Grateful Dead Hour on Sunday evening. These
changes come as a direct response to member requests and suggestions.
“It’s actually pretty funny,” said Alan Chartock, President and CEO of WAMC. “During the last fund drive, I took no prisoners. ‘Okay,’ I said to the listeners. ‘Do you want the opera or should we take it off and play the Grateful Dead? As usual, the opera folks came through like gangbusters, but we sure heard from a lot of Grateful Dead lovers. Now we can have it all. Where else are you going to hear both the opera and the Grateful Dead?”
The Grateful Dead Hour will air Sundays at 10 p.m. It will replace the Piano Jazz series because host Marian McPartland is retiring.
“I am delighted to have the Grateful Dead Hour on the air all over the northeast,” says David Gans, the program’s host. “The Dead toured this region heavily in the early ’70s, changing lives every time they played. The music lives on, and it is my privilege to be the one who puts it on the air. Enjoy!” More information about the program is available at https://www.gdhour.com
WAMC’S Bluegrass Time with Nick Barr will move to the 9 p.m. hour on Sundays; effective July 5th The Roundtable will be going back to their three hour format from 9 a.m. to noon; Vox Pop will be going back to the 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. hour; and 11 a.m. Speakers Corner programs are moving back to 1 p.m. These perennial favorites include Car Talk, Alternative Radio, The Commonwealth Club, The Power of Words, Moth Radio, Radiolab, and In Conversation with Alan Chartock.
To find out more about program changes, program descriptions and station information, check out our monthly program guide on-line at https://www.wamc.org/prog-onlineguide.html.
Member-supported WAMC Northeast Public Radio broadcasts news, informational and cultural programming to listeners in portions of seven
northeastern states. WAMC is an award winning producer of regionally based programming and an affiliate of National Public Radio, American
Public Media, and Public Radio International.
WAMC-FM 90.3 FM, Albany; WAMC, 1400 AM, Albany; WAMK 90.9 FM, Kingston; WOSR, 91.7 FM, Middletown; WCEL, 91.9 FM, Plattsburgh; WCAN, 93.3 FM, Canajoharie; WANC, 103.9 FM, Ticonderoga; WRUN, 90.3 FM, Remsen-Utica; WAMQ 105.1 FM, Great Barrington, MA; WWES 88.9 FM, Mt. Kisco; 90.1 WANZ Stamford, NY,93.1 FM, Troy; 99.3 FM, Oneonta; 97.1 FM, Hudson; 107.1 FM, Warwick; 107.7 FM, Newburgh; 103.9 FM, Beacon; 96.5 FM, Ellenville; 106.3, Middletown; 102.1, Highland, NY and 90.9 FM, Milford, PA.; 97.3 FM, Cooperstown and on-line at https://www.wamc.org; www.facebook.com/wamcradio; www.twitter.com/wamcradio
GD Hour on the air in Chicago!
We’re back on the air in (the northwest suburbs of) Chicago!
WZCM-FM 101.5 Schaumburg IL – Monday 7pm and Wednesday midnight (late Tuesday evening, that is).
The complete station list is posted at gdhour.com/stations.html
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1188
Week of June 27, 2011
Part 1 27:50
Grateful Dead 4/2/89 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA
IKO IKO
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
DIRE WOLF
IT’S ALL OVER NOW
Part 2 29:05
Grateful Dead 4/2/89 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA
WE CAN RUN
BROWN-EYED WOMEN
QUEEN JANE, APPROXIMATELY
Jerry Garcia Band, from Garcia Plays Dylan
POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET
This JGB performance of Bob Dylan’s “Positively Fourth Street” is from the brief tenure of Nicky Hopkins, who was in the band from July 1975 until New Year’s Eve of that year. I’ve been reading Julian Dawson’s excellent biography of the legendary keyboardist, And on piano… Nicky Hopkins. Hopkins was a wreck during this period, but his playing was spectacular much of the time. I recommend the book, from which you will learn that if you listened to rock music at all in the ’60s and ’70s, you heard Nicky Hopkins. Rolling Stones, the Beatles (piano solo on the single version of “Revolution”), and so many more. The “selected performances” section of Hopkins’ wikipedia entry is a good place to start.