Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1043
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: Grateful Dead Productions, announcing Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978, two audio CDs and a DVD with 13 songs plus a bonus feature called “The Vacation Tapes,” all in a deluxe package. Orders placed via dead.net by September 29 will receive a bonus CD packed with more music from the legendary Egypt shows. More information and sample audio at dead.net GDP also announces Road Trips volume 1 number 4, From Egypt with Love – a companion release to the new Egypt set featuring highlights of the band’s October 1978 run at Winterland. Two CDs plus a limited edition bonus disc, with several special guests and a very rare live performance of “If I Had the World to Give.” You can order Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 and From Egypt With Love together. For more information, sample audio, and ordering link visit the official web site, dead.net. MagnoliaFest, a festival of American roots music October 23th through 26th at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, just across the Georgia line. KBM with Bill Kreutzmann, Melvin Seals, Donna Jean and the Tricksters, Peter Rowan, Donna the Buffalo, David Gans, and many many more. Information and tickets at 904-249-7990 and magmusic.com, where you will also find information on Music Farmers, a documentary about MagnoliaFest, available on DVD. magmusic.com.
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Don’t let me hear any of that crap about how all politicians are the same, voting only encourages them, etc. That’s how we got into this mess.
New York Times editorial about McCain-Palin
It was bad enough that Ms. Palin’s performance in the first televised interviews she has done since she joined the Republican ticket was so visibly scripted and lacking in awareness.
What made it so much worse is the strategy for which the Republicans have made Ms. Palin the frontwoman: win the White House not on ideas, but by denigrating experience, judgment and qualifications.
The idea that Americans want leaders who have none of those things — who are so blindly certain of what Ms. Palin calls “the mission†that they won’t even pause for reflection — shows a contempt for voters and raises frightening questions about how Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin plan to run this country.
…. The interviews made clear why Americans should worry about Ms. Palin’s thin résumé and lack of experience. Consider her befuddlement when Mr. Gibson referred to President Bush’s “doctrine†and her remark about having insight into Russia because she can see it from her state.
But that is not what troubled us most about her remarks — and, remember, if they were scripted, that just means that they reflect Mr. McCain’s views all the more closely. Rather, it was the sense that thoughtfulness, knowledge and experience are handicaps for a president in a world populated by Al Qaeda terrorists, a rising China, epidemics of AIDS, poverty and fratricidal war in the developing world and deep economic distress at home.
“Rockin the Cradle: Egypt 1978” Preview on Sirius
David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist and the daily host of Today in Grateful Dead History on SIRIUS’ Grateful Dead channel, will host an hour-long premiere preview special highlighting the much-anticipated Egypt 1978 release.
Celebrating the Dead’s legendary performance at the foot of the Gizeh pyramids, this extraordinary release is not available to the public until September 30th, but you’ll get to hear the newly remastered music before anyone else!
September 17 at 7:00 pm ET with encore presentations on Mon Sept. 22nd at 7am, Wed Sept. 24th at 3PM, Fri. Sept. 26th at 6PM, Sat. Sept. 27th at 12AM ET, Sat. Sept. 27th at 4PM, Sunday Sept. 28th at 7PM ET.
Oakland Rocks for Change
“Dig as deep as you can to get through the next 60 days.”
-Excerpt from Barack Obama to staff members
Music for Democracy would like to invite you to an exclusive pre-concert reception.
Oakland Rocks For Change is on Tuesday night, September 16th at the Malonga Casquelourd Center (formerly Alice Arts Center) at 7pm. Our performers include Hot Buttered Rum w/ Michael Kang of String Cheese Incident, Maria Muldaur, Tuck & Patti, Tommy Castro, Blame Sally, David Gans and comedian Marga Gomez as MC.
OAKLAND ROCKS FOR CHANGE is more than just a star-studded concert and a great way to spend an evening – it could actually influence the outcome of the election! Proceeds from this event will support upcoming GET OUT THE VOTE efforts in key battleground states taking place in these final days of the campaign. In this extremely close election, involving new Democrats through unique and innovative methods such as music concerts will make all the difference.
Our VIP COCKTAIL RECEPTION is from 5:30pm – 6:30pm preceding our main event. This will be an exclusive event to find out more about Music For Democracy and our work across the country and a great opportunity to meet the performers.Â
VIP tickets are $1000 and include tickets for (2) for the cocktail reception with the performers, and front row seats for the concert.
AUCTION:
We are thrilled to be auctioning off several items of note:
* A Guitar Signed by Beatles’ Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Sir George Martin
* A One-of-a-kind framed original photograph of Senator Obama coming directly by way of his personal photographer, David Katz
* Artwork donated by some of the East Bay’s best
* A Guitar Signed by all the nights’ performers
This is not an event to miss. The evening will not only be enjoyable, but all proceeds will go directly to Get Out the Youth Vote in key swing states like Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, and New Mexico.
To attend our VIP Cocktail Reception please email margaret@musicfordemocracy.org or call Margaret at: (415) 706-3177
We’re excited to see you there!