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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1858

Week of April 29, 2024 Part 1 32:51 Grateful Dead, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings (Rhino) TRUCKIN’-> JAM (5/19/74) Dead & Company 7/7/23 The Gorge, George WA (nugs.net) VIOLA LEE BLUES Part 2 22:23 Grateful Dead 3/27/86 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland ME JACK STRAW FENNARIO MINGLEWOOD
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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1857

Week of April 22, 2024

Part 1 26:29
Grateful Dead 7/27/74 Civic Center, Roanoke VA
US BLUES->
PROMISED LAND
BROKEDOWN PALACE

Tom Constanten, Through the Listening Glass (tomconstanten.com)
ROBERTO CLEMENTE

Part 2 29:24
Grateful Dead 7/27/74 Civic Center, Roanoke VA
NOT FADE AWAY->
GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD->
JOHNNY B GOODE

Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros 1/24/24 Riviera Maya, Mexico
BIG RIVER with Sturgill Simpson

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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1856

Week of April 15, 2024

Part 1 29:41
Grateful Dead 7/27/74 Civic Center, Roanoke VA
CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER->
I KNOW YOU RIDER
ME AND MY UNCLE
RAMBLE ON ROSE
BIG RIVER

Part 2 26:04
Dead & Company 6/28/23 Saratoga Springs NY (nugs.net)
LOST SAILOR->
SAINT OF CIRCUMSTANCE

Grateful Dead, Blues for Allah (Rhino)
CRAZY FINGERS

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Lights-Sound-Dialog: Grateful Dead in Boulder 1969-1981

Join Colorado Music Experience on Friday, April 26 at Fiske Planetarium for “Lights • Sound • Dialog — Grateful Dead • Boulder 1969-1981.”

This select symposium on the Grateful Dead’s visual and audio improvisation is in the context of the band’s four concerts on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus—at the University Memorial Center (1969), Folsom Field (1972 and 1980) and the CU Events Center (1981). Grateful Dead scholar David Gans, Micheal Sebulsky from the CU College of Music, and musician Kenny Passarelli (whose band Conal Implosion opened for the Dead at the 1969 performance) will perform and skillfully deconstruct the Dead’s musical improvisations from those shows, and representatives from Spontanuity will recreate their psychedelic light show from 1969 on the Fiske Planetarium dome—using archival assets from the original event! Two shows, 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $35 + $1.50.

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1855

Week of April 8, 2024

Part 1 39:46
Grateful Dead 7/27/74 Civic Center, Roanoke VA
ME AND BOBBY McGEE
TENNESSEE JED
PLAYING IN THE BAND

Part 2 15:45
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Hempsteader: Live At The Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, New York, June 25, 1976 (Omnivore Recordings)
PORTLAND WOMAN

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