Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
KPFA Grateful Dead auction winners!
For your KPFA pledge: BEST OF THE GD Hour vol. 2
I just got the news I have been waiting for since I don’t remember when: one of our thank-you gifts for the KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon this Saturday will be a download-only Best of the Grateful Dead Hour, volume 2.
Grateful Dead 5/19/74 Coliseum, Portland OR
TRUCKIN’->
JAM->
NOT FADE AWAY->
GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
Grateful Dead 7/19/74 Selland Arena Fresno CA
WEATHER REPORT SUITE->
SPANISH JAM->
EYES OF THE WORLD->
CHINA DOLL
This is some of my all-time favorite Grateful Dead music. Portland ’74 was one of the first tapes I got out of the vault when I started doing the radio show in 1985, because I had attended that show and had only heard an audience recording. The jams out of Truckin’ are unique and thrilling! I was also there at the Fresno ’74 show, and again, I got the soundboard tape for the radio show because I remembered being really impressed with “Weather Report Suite” and the jams that followed.
We’re still ironing out the details, so I don’t yet know what donation will be required to get this, but everyone concerned wants this to be a successful fund-raiser and I want everyone to have this great music! So I hope you’ll tune in at 9 am Pacific Time on Saturday and stay with us for the full 16 hours, ’cause I have tons of great music you’ve probably never heard before. And other fun stuff, too!
I am profoundly thankful to Mark Pinkus and David Lemieux for making this possible.
New live “Shove” on tunes page
Had a sweet time at the Sleeping Lady in Fairfax CA last night. Lots of surprising jams, including the one at the end of “Shove in the Right Direction.” Enjoy!
And please check out the other free downloads on the tunes page.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1169
Week of February 14, 2011
Part 1 16:00
Furthur 12/31/10 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco
VIOLA LEE BLUES->
THE GOLDEN ROAD
Part 2 40:26
Furthur 12/31/10 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco
WE LOVE YOU->
SUGAR MAGNOLIA->
THE WHEEL->
UNCLE JOHN’S BAND
David Gans, The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best
THE BOUNTY OF THE COUNTY
The Furthur New Year’s Eve show is available via download from livedownloads.com and on CD from Furthur Live.
“We Love You,” the opening song of the midnight set, is a 1967 Rolling Stones single. John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang background vocals. When I was working on the Jerry Garcia boxed set All Good Things in 2003, I heard a snippet of conversation during a 1975 recording session in which Jerry raved about this record, calling it “my favorite single of all time. “Wonderful, amazingly crazy fucking single. I love it! …. Too weird for its time… powerful as can be.” I couldn’t hear the other side of the conversation, but I believe he was talking with Nicky Hopkins, who was the piano player on “We Love You” and was in the first edition of the Jerry Garcia Band. (There’s a biography of Hopkins coming out very soon: …and on piano: Nicky Hopkins, by Julian Dawson. I’m expecting to interview the author.)
Rounding out this week’s show is a song from my 2008 CD The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best, co-written with my wife, Rita Hurault. It’s all about shopping at the farmers’ market. To your health!