Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Mickey Hart Band summer tour
Dark Star Dan & Co at 12 Galaxies 4/15
From: Dan McGonagle
Subject: Grateful Dead Night – Tuesday 4-15-08
w/GD lyricist John Perry Barlow, Stu & Pat, & Betty Cantor-Jackson – 12 Galaxies – SF, CA
“Dead & Taxes”
That’s what we’re calling our Grateful Dead Night event, folks. So come on over and share your US Tax Payer Blues with friends and family on Tuesday, April 15 @ 12 Galaxies in the San Francisco Mission District.
We’re especially honored to have Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow come down and spend an hour or so talking, telling stories, discussing current events, and possibly a Q&A session with the audience. John has written lyrics for many of your favorite Grateful Dead/Bob Weir songs such as “Cassidy”, “Let It Grow,” “Estimated Prophet,” “The Music Never Stopped,” “Hell in a Bucket,” “Lost Sailor,” “Saint of Circumstance,” and many, many more. His lyrics from “Throwing Stones” or “We Can Run” are as relevant today as the day they were written.
This night will also feature an awesome acoustic set or two from Stu Allen (JGB/Melvin Seals/Workingman’s Ed) & Pat Nevins (Workingman’s Ed/Ragged Glory) covering Jerry, Neil, Gram Parsons, etc. For those who missed them last time, an “Acoustic Crazy Fingers” basically sums it up. There’s a reason Stu Allen plays guitar for Melvin Seals & JGB. We’re still working out the exact logistics of the night, but it will be posted soon.
We’ll also have legendary Grateful Dead/Legion of Mary/Jerry Garcia Band/Reconstruction engineer-producer Betty Cantor-Jackson (“Betty Boards”) here this evening to help mix sound and just be there in support of Dead Night…
We’ll end the last portion of the night with a rockin’ set from my personal archive of music.
We’d like to think this event kicks-off the official “Dead-Head Season” of Spring and Summer shows featuring DSO, Phil, RatDog, JGB/Melvin, Donna Jean, etc., etc., and we’re charging $7 for this event. For over 10 years we kept Nickie’s Dead Night less than other events at $5, but with all the extra things we now offer, it is no longer possible. This was a tough decision for us, but we still feel we’re offering an excellent night of De[a]dicated entertainment at a great value. And we’re still cheaper than sitting on your arse at a movie theater.
Dead Night can only happen if people show up. We only do this periodically so please come out, shake yer bones, burn some calories, meet some rock & roll legends and, most importantly…
Support your local Dead Night!
Doors at 8PM. Events start around 8:35 or so.
Many blessing to all!
-Dark Star Dan
PS: Please forward this to a friend. We rely heavily on community word-of-mouth to support these events…
KUNV fund drive a big success
Email from George Lyons in Las Vegas:
Just wanted to extend a
HUGE THANK YOU
to everyone that donated to the KUNV SPRING 2008 FUND DRIVE!
tonight on The Lyons Den, we raised $5700.00, A NEW RECORD FOR A SUNDAY NIGHT!!!!!
The Grateful Dead Hour brought in $1345.00 on Saturday Night!I THINK WE GOT VERY CLOSE TO OUR $50,000.00 GOAL FOR SPRING 2008!
your continued support helps KUNV TO STAY ALIVE ON THE FM AIRWAVES!
THANK YOU!!!!
WOW!!!!
THE SUPPORT OF OUR RESOURCES ARE CRUCIAL, ALL OF THEM!
MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE!
And my thanks, as well, for supporting the Grateful Dead Hour on KUNV!
Grateful Dead Hour #1020
Week of April 7, 2008
Part 1 27:55
Grateful Dead, Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings
BIG RIVER
THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
WEATHER REPORT SUITE
Part 2 29:00
Grateful Dead, Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings
LOOSE LUCY
LOOKS LIKE RAIN
HERE COMES SUNSHINE
See this earlier post for my comments on this wonderful new boxed set.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
Grateful Dead Productions, announcing the release of Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings, a 9-disc set containing every note recorded at the legendary San Francisco venue on November 9, 10, and 11, 1973. Mastered in HDCD from the original 2-track reels using a state-of-the-art restoration technique, Winterland 1973 captures the post-Pigpen Dead at a creative peak on their home turf. Audio samples, historical documents, message board, and details of a limited-edition bonus disc are available now at dead.net.
The 10,000 Lakes Festival, July 23 through 26 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. 10KLF features Phil Lesh & Friends, Mickey Hart Band, Dark Star Orchestra, The Flaming Lips, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and over fifty additional acts. More information and tickets for the 10,000 Lakes Festival are available at 10klf.com
Woodstock Trading Company, a brick-and-mortar as well as an online store offering clothing, posters, incense, tye dyes, and gifts from the Grateful Dead and numerous other bands. The store is located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and online at woodstocktradeco.com.
Correction: not a Strat!
It’s been pointed out by several astute observers that, contrary to what I wrote (since corrected) in a previous post, Jerry Garcia was playing his “Wolf” guitar and not a Stratocaster at Winterland in 1973.
My point is unaffected, though: the pickups in the Wolf were similar in design and wiring to the Fender Stratocaster Jerry had played previously, and my characterization of his sound as “crystal-clear” is still very much the point.
Here’s what Jerry told Blair Jackson and me about his guitar sound in 1981:
Gans: How come you gave up Les Pauls?
Garcia: I got bored with them. I felt that I really didn’t have any place else to go on them.
Gans: So you switched to a Strat?
Gacia: Yeah. It was more of a challenge. It wasn’t that I wanted to lose the SG part of my playing, but my reasoning was something along the lines of “I think that no matter what guitar I play I won’t have any trouble getting a sweet sound,” you know, even though the most difficult thing to produce on a Strat is a sweet sound. What I really wanted was to be able to get some of the metallic clang that strats have. I like that first position, the clankiness–
Gans: You can fingerpick Fenders betters too.
Garcia: Yeah. Well, they have better string-to-string separation because–they don’t mush up on you the way Gibsons do, and it was that clarity that I was looking for, too–that crispness that you associate with country-and-western guitar players. I was wanting to have something in between those two worlds.
Blair’s excellent book Dead Gear is a good place to look for more info on this and other technical matters.
Thanks to Jerry Moore and the others who noted my error. I stand corrected!