Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Bob Weir & friends jam 2/5/11
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1168
Week of February 7, 2011
Part 1 34:36
Grateful Dead 10/1/76 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis IN
BIG RIVER
BROWN-EYED WOMEN
IT’S ALL OVER NOW
SCARLET BEGONIAS
PROMISED LAND
Part 2 20:49
Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 4 no 2 (4/1/88)
DEAL
ESTIMATED PROPHET
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the Wanee Music Festival April 14-16 at the Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. The Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, Robert Plant and The Band of Joy, The Steve Miller Band, Warren Haynes Band, 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann, Ween, Mike Gordon, Hot Tuna, Keller Williams, Taj Mahal, The Radiators, Melvin Seals & JGB, and dozens more. Tickets are available now at livenation.com or waneefestival.com.
Jerome AZ joins GD Hour network
KCRJ 1670 AM “Gulch Radio” in Jerome, Arizona, airs the GD Hour at 9:00 pm (Mountain Time) Saturdays, starting tonight!
New CD by Ponder
My friend Ira Marlowe turned me on to a CD he produced, titled A Little Bit Sane. The artist is Ponder, and all the songs are by its principal, Amos Glick.
The CD is a nicely varied collection, each track with a flavor and atmosphere all its own. Glick avoids the tropes so grievously overused by so many songwriters, and comes across sounding like what he is: a thoughtful, peace-lovin’ Jewish leftist hippie pothead clown. In short, my kind of guy.
“Minstrel Caravan” could be about Grateful Dead Tour, or the Chautauqua; “Homegrown” is the rant of a garrulous dope grower; “Sweet Confused” and “Got to Be a Way” look at confusing contemporary days from different angles; in “Overrated” and “Old Country,” he looks at himself from different angles; and the first of these songs to earn a slot in rotation on my Brain Radio, “Our Kisses Are Waltzes,” is a perfect evocation of that sweet ache at the beginning of a love.
Worth a click, and a listen. I promise.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1167
Week of January 31, 2011
Part 1 27:45
Grateful Dead 10/1/76 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis IN
BERTHA
MAMA TRIED
DEAL
CASSIDY
FRIEND OF THE DEVIL
Part 2 27:15
Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 4 no 2 (3/31/88)
SCARLET BEGONIAS->
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
Doobie Brothers, World Gone Crazy
YOUNG MAN’S GAME
I have a special place in my heart for 1970s rock legends the Doobie Brothers. I knew them before they were famous. My friend, the late Dave Shogren, was their very first bass player, and I used to hear them rehearsing in a basement in San Jose, California. I enjoyed watching their climb to fame and fortune through a great number of personnel and musical changes. I was delighted to hear this new CD, World Gone Crazy, with original front men Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons contributing terrific songs, brilliant singing, and a powerful three-guitar lineup aided by the great John McFee. Here are some photos I took of the Doobie Brothers on their “Farewell tour” in 1982.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the Wanee Music Festival April 14-16 at the Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. The Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, Robert Plant and The Band of Joy, The Steve Miller Band, Warren Haynes Band, 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann, Ween, Mike Gordon, Hot Tuna, Keller Williams, Taj Mahal, The Radiators, Melvin Seals & JGB, and dozens more. Tickets are available now at livenation.com or waneefestival.com.