Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
“Progressive”
GD Hour #500 up on DeadNet
Just a reminder that we’re posting a show from the Grateful Dead Hour archives on DeadNet every Wednesday.
Today’s offering is GD Hour #500, a mixed bag of exclusives and firsts – including a reprise of Greatest Pump Song Ever Wrote, the first radio piece I ever produced, and the legendary Mickey Hart “rap” version of “Fire on the Mountain.”
Check it out – and if there’s a show from GD Hour history you’d like to hear, send email to gdhour (at) dead (dot) net. You can search the GD Hour logs on the GD Hour search page that David Newhouse has kindly created, and/or you can browse the log archive on the GD Hour home page.
Revolution #9/11
From Gary Lambert:
The fabulous New Jersey radio station WFMU, via its equally fabulous blog, is having a “Rudy Remix” contest, in which listeners are invited to have at clips of Benito Giuliani’s countless repetitions of “September 11,” and turn them into audio art.
My entry is now on the blog, and also here
The page with all the entries is here.
Grateful Dead Hour #1002
Week of December 3, 2007
Part 1 25:36
Interview: Alec Palao
The Warlocks (aka Grateful Dead), from Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
CAN’T COME DOWN
Grateful Dead (unreleased studio rough mixes 1968)
DARK STAR
BORN CROSS-EYED
Interview: Alec Palao
Grateful Dead, from Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
THE GOLDEN ROAD (To Unlimited Devotion)
Grateful Dead, Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966
CREAM PUFF WAR
Part 2 29:19
Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1
ALTHEA
Grateful Dead 6/30/74 Civic Center Arena, Springfield MA
GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
CUMBERLAND BLUES
DIRE WOLF
Alec Palao is the producer of Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, a terrific four-disc compilation bound into a book that’s loaded with informative text and rare photos. He appeared on a four-hour KPFA fund-raiser with “Sing Out!” host Larry Kelp and me on October 17. You can listen to that broadcast by going to the KPFA archives and selecting October 17, 2007, and selecting Dead to the World and then Sing Out!. Alec brought in the two unreleased GD studio takes we hear in this week’s GDH, and he had some other treats that didn’t make it into Love is the Song We Sing, including a single of “Walk on the Water” by the Golliwogs, who later became Creedence Clearwater Revival and recorded the song again.
Support for the Grateful Dead hour this week comes from:
Grateful Dead Productions, announcing the first of a new series of Grateful Dead live concert releases titled Road Trips. Each CD set will include a historical essay and rare photos along with carefully remastered music from the original recordings. Volume 1 number 1 spotlights the Dead’s fall 1979 tour of the east coast, with highlights from half a dozen shows plus a limited-edition bonus disc. Information, cover art, reviews and message board are online at dead.net
The Jam in the Dam music festival in Amsterdam, Holland March 16 thru 19 at the legendary Melkweg music hall, where the Grateful Dead played in 1981. Dark Star Orchestra, Umphrey’s McGee, the Disco Biscuits, Tea Leaf Green, Perpetual Groove, and Lotus. It’s an intimate festival in one of the great cities of the world. Information, video clips, reviews, message board and tickets are available at jaminthedam.com
eDeadshop.com, an online store offering t-shirts, hats, stickers, tye dyes, gifts and other rock and roll holiday gifts from such acts as the Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Santana, & Pink Floyd. More information and complete product catalog can be found at eDeadshop.com.
Jerry plays with Octopus
Posted by Kevin McCormick, brought to my attention by Steve Silberman.