Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Library of Congress images on flickr
Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection. The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer. You’re invited to help describe photographs in the Library of Congress’ collection on Flickr, by adding tags or leaving comments.Take a look – some great stuff up there and more to come.
“Songwriters extravaganza” in San Rafael Feb 22
Friday, February 22, 8pm: The Songwriters Extravaganza featuring David Gans, Ira Marlowe, and Mario DeSio. What we’re promising here is an evening of smart, soulful, funny, passionate, compassionate, literate and humane original music from three mature, accomplished Bay Area songwriters. The Belrose Theatre, 1415 5th Avenue, San Rafael CA. $18 advance $20 day of show. Tickets by phone at 415-389-5072 or online from Murphy Productions.
Wanna help us draw a crowd? Download the poster, print some out, and spread ’em around. Thanks in advance!
Jerry Moore’s microphones
Did an interview yesterday with Grateful Dead taper and Relix Magazine co-founder Jerry Moore, which will air on Sirius Satellite Radio next weekend.
Today on Sirius, we debut a monthly “talk show” (with music, natch) called Tales from the Golden Road. We’ll be talking with Eric Christensen, director of an excellent documentary called The Trips Festival. Also joining the converstation will be Grateful Dead and Ratdog guitarist Bob Weir and historian Dennis McNally,. Tales from the Golden Road airs from 4 to 6 pm Eastern Time on Sirius 32, The Grateful Dead Channel.
If you aren’t a Sirius subscriber yet, you can get a three-day free trial here.
Grateful Dead Hour #1009
Week of January 21, 2008
Part 1 13:43
New Riders of the Purple Sage 3/17/73 SUNY Stonybrook
ALL I EVER WANTED
SWEET LOVIN’ ONE
Part 2 42:42
Grateful Dead 4/21/86 Berkeley Community Theater
TOUCH OF GREY
ESTIMATED PROPHET->
EYES OF THE WORLD->
JAM->
MAYBE YOU KNOW
This is one of the most unusual second sets you’ll ever hear. The first odd thing you might notice is Brent Mydland’s rather eccentric high harmony in “Touch of Grey.” He’s a little loose during “Estimated Prophet” and a high-speed “Eyes of the World” that’s pretty characteristic of the period, and then… and then when Jerry and Bob and Phil leave the stage for the drums, Brent Mydland stays out there with Mickey and Bill. He plays along with the upbeat groove for a while, and then everybody stops, and then Brent starts up a funkier thing – with a weird little vocal snippet repeating over and over. The drummers stay with Brent, doing their best to keep it musical. Eventually Brent starts singing his song “Maybe You Know,” and it becomes clear that he’s pretty out of it. After one final outburst of the song, the rest of the band is back onstage and Jerry launches into “Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad.” And from then on, it’s pretty cool music again for the rest of the set – which you’ll hear in next week’s show.
The New Riders songs are from a new archival release, produced by Rob Bleetstein and released by Kufala.com. Excellent show!
“Tales from the Golden Road” on Sirius
On Sunday, January 20, 4-6pm PST, the Grateful Dead Channel debuts a monthly live show called Tales from the Golden Road. Gary Lambert and I will co-host, and we’ll deal with a variety of subjects – history, music, the world around us, etc.
Here’s the press release that Sirius sent out:
SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today the debut of a monthly live roundtable show hosted by Grateful Dead experts David Gans and Gary Lambert on SIRIUS’ exclusive Grateful Dead Channel. “Tales from the Golden Road” will premiere this Sunday, January 20 at 4 p.m. ET, with an encore January 21 at 10 a.m. ET on the Grateful Dead Channel, SIRIUS channel 32.
In the premiere episode of “Tales from the Golden Road,” Gans and Lambert will be joined by Grateful Dead and RatDog guitarist Bob Weir, longtime Grateful Dead publicist and historian Dennis McNally, and the producer of the Trips Festival film, Eric Christensen. The roundtable discussion will focus on the early era of the Grateful Dead and the Trips Festival, a three-day event in 1966 that involved some of the earliest Dead performances chronicled in Christensen’s film. The two-hour monthly show will invite Grateful Dead fans to call in and participate.
The Grateful Dead Channel, dedicated to the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead, launched exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio in 2007. The channel features music spanning the entire career of the Grateful Dead with unreleased concert recordings and original shows hosted by band members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. The channel also features archival interviews with Jerry Garcia and contributions from Grateful Dead expert David Gans and Dead archivist David Lemieux.
And here’s Gary’s writeup on DeadNet.
Listeners calls will be part of the deal, too.
If you’re not a subscriber yet, you can sign up for a three-day online freebie here.
We play three complete live shows every day, plus David Lemieux’s “This Day in Grateful Dead History” musical feature, an in-depth interview every weekend, and of course tons of great Grateful Dead music every hour of every day!