Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1064
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: Relix Magazine, featuring an exclusive cover story on THE DEAD with band members interview by some of the musicians they influenced: Phil Lesh interviewed by David Schools of Widespread Panic, Bob Weir by Keller Williams and Mickey and Billy by Billy Martin from MMW. Relix is on newsstands online at relix.com. The Suwannee SpringFest, a festival of American roots music March 26th through 29th at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, just across the Georgia line. Donna the Buffalo, the Emmitt Nershi Band, The Duhks, The Lee Boys, Darrell Scott, Darol Anger & Mike Marshall, The Gourds, David Gans, and many many more. Information is available at 904-249-7990 and magmusic.com, where you will also find information on Music Farmers, a documentary about MagnoliaFest and the Suwannee SpringFest, now available on DVD.
“Growing Up Dead”
Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead
I haven’t seen the book yet, but it looks intriguing. And here’s the blurb from Dennis McNally:
“The hardest part of being the Grateful Dead’s publicist was convincing the media that Dead Heads were diverse, thoughtful, and not infrequently accomplished. If I’d just had a copy of Peter Conners’ Growing Up Dead, I could have simply handed it out. The Dead Head subculture was rich and fascinating, and this book is a terrific documentation of it.”
And from the book’s web page:
Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late ’80s to the mid-’90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners’s journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes of live Grateful Dead concerts. A teenager living in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, he became exposed to an entirely new way of life, and friends who were enjoying more freedom and less parental guidance. At the age of 16, he attended his first Grateful Dead concert on June 30, 1987 – he was hooked. Between 1987 and 1995, Conners would attend Dead ‘shows’ all over the United States….
DG & Zac 1/24/09 is “staff pick” on archive
Taper Rich Selleseth emailed to let me know the January 24 show at Connecticut Yankee – Zac Matthews and me, on a bill with Garrin Benfield and Joshua Zucker – is currently a “staff pick” on archive.org. You can download or stream here. Comments (here or on that page) welcome!
GDH 555 (6/23/88) on DeadNet
This week’s archival GD Hour post is the middle installment of a three-part series presenting the complete show of 6/23/88, the last night of a four-show run at Alpine Valley. The GDH555 page includes a story from an anonymous ‘head who was there at Alpine for the entire run. Well worth reading.