Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
This week’s Tapers Section
* Dark Star 5/7/72 * Truckin’>Drums>The Other One>He’s Gone 5/13/72 * Truckin’>Nobody’s Jam>The Other One>Mind Left Body Jam>Row Jimmy 5/12/74 * Uncle John’s Band>Space>Wharf Rat>Around and Around 5/11/77 * Playing in the Band Jam>Drums>Not Fade Away>Comes a Time>Playing in the Band 5/12/77 * Samson and Delilah>Bertha 5/13/77 * Scarlet Begonias>Fire on the Mountain 5/7/78 * Franklin’s Tower 5/9/78 * Minglewood Blues, Candyman 5/13/78 * Ship of Fools>Estimated Prophet>He’s Gone>Caution Jam>Drums 5/12/80Kudos to David Lemieux for this terrific “This week in GD musical history” feature, which he posts every Monday. All the previous ones are available, too, so if you haven’t visited the page in a while you can catch up on a wealth of fine music. P.S. Regarding the 5/7/72 Dark Star, here is a web page about the Bickershaw Festival, posted by Mike Plumbley.
Fader magazine to feature Jerry Garcia
According to mediabistro, Fader magazine is about to publish an issue devoted to Jerry:
Yes, you read that correctly. Fader, the well-regarded music magazine that is known for its indie cred and double covers, is set to publish its third annual “icon” issue honoring a single, influential artist. This year: Jerry Garcia.If Garcia seems like a weird choice for a magazine that normally spotlights emerging, even fringe-y artists, he is. The issue, hitting stands (and iTunes) next week, includes “as told to” style interviews full of untold stories and reflections on Garcia’s bandmates and friends, including Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Adams Garcia, the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, David Grisman, Ornette Coleman, manager Richard Loren and the Dead’s legendary soundman Dan Healy — all of which sounds like it could be any copy of Relix, ever.
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Grateful Dead Hour #972
Week of May 7, 2007
Part 1 28:04
Interview: Phil Lesh re trio jams
Grateful Dead 9/19/90 Madison Square Garden, New York City
JAM->
DRUMS
Part 2 28:21
Grateful Dead 9/19/90 Madison Square Garden, New York City
SPACE->
GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD
New Riders of the Purple Sage Live New Year’s Eve 2006
I DON’T KNOW YOU
CONTRACT
The Grateful Dead Hour is made possible in part this week by:
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, now in paperback, edited by David G. Dodd and Alan Trist with illustrations by Jim Carpenter and published by Free Press. Offering literary, historical, and cultural references to The Grateful Dead lyrics, this is a complete collection of all the songs you know — and some you don’t. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is available now wherever books are sold.
Backbeat Books, presenting GRATEFUL DEAD GEAR: The Band’s Instruments, Live Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions, 1965-1995 by Blair Jackson. Grateful Dead Gear goes deep in showcasing the Dead’s technology, musical equipment design, studio recording techniques along with extensive photos and interviews about the band’s sonic evolution. Available wherever books are sold.
Dead Symphony, an orchestral tribute to the music of the Grateful Dead. Performed by the Russian National Orchestra and conducted by composer Lee Johnson, Dead Symphony is available now via download at digital music service providers around the globe. More information and audio samples are available at deadsymphony.com
“Four Corners” music video
I’ve made a little music video from pictures I took on tour in Utah last February, with “Four Corners” as the soundtrack. It’s a track from my new CD Twisted Love Songs.