Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Long-drive listening
Betty Cantor-Jackson on Live Dead
Grateful Dead Records just announced the release of a high-quality vinyl boxed set of the first five Grateful Dead (studio) albums. In honor of that announcement, here’s an excerpt of a March 2010 interview with Betty Cantor-Jackson, talking about an album that isn’t in this set because it was reissued on high-quality vinyl a while back: Live Dead.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1140
Week of July 26, 2010
Part 1 24:22
Grateful Dead 10/21/83 Centrum, Worcester MA
MY BROTHER ESAU
BIG RAILROAD BLUES->
PROMISED LAND
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Dead to the Core
NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE
Part 2 31:25
Grateful Dead 10/21/83 Centrum, Worcester MA
SCARLET BEGONIAS->
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
The Grateful Dead Hour is made possible in part this week by the Hoxeyville Music Festival August 20-22 in Wellston, Michigan. Rhythm Devils featuring Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart of The Grateful Dead; Keller Williams; Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe; The New Deal; Steve Kimock Crazy Engine; Todd Snider; Greensky Bluegrass; Moonalice; Cornmeal; and dozens more. Information on camping and tickets available at www.hoxeyville.com
A plug for Jim Dunlop guitar strings
I picked up a couple of sets of Jim Dunlop guitar strings at a music store in Petaluma last fall and fell in love with them immediately! They got in tune and stayed in tune, and they sounded great for several hours of intense playing.
I mentioned this fact to Henry Kaiser, and he put me in touch with the company. They sent me some strings and asked me to keep telling everybody about ’em. So although I’m not an official endorser, I feel compelled to disclose that Jim Dunlop is giving me strings in return for my saying good things about them online. But I wouldn’t be in this arrangement with them unless I really liked the strings.
I now have Jim Dunlop strings on four instruments: My main touring guitar, a Rick Turner Renaissance RS-6 (with a magnetic pickup in addition to the original piezoelectric “acoustic” pickup); a Martin D-35; a ’56 Les Paul Junior; and a Turner Model 1.
“Ecology Blues”
I was transferring some old reels today and found my very first recording session, made in my family’s living room in San Jose in May of 1970. I was 15 years old. So please be kind when you listen!