Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
David Nelson w/ Rubber Souldiers 9/17
You can hear the complete set here. Grateful Dead Hour #939
Week of September 18, 2006
Part 1 22:15
Grateful Dead 7/17/88 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA
SPACE->
GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD->
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
Part 2 33:05
Jon Shain, Home Before Long
PRETTY PEGGY-O (aka FENNARIO)
Grateful Dead 7/17/88 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA
BELIEVE IT OR NOT->
THROWING STONES->
NOT FADE AWAY
7/17/88 was a benefit for the Rex Foundation.
Support for the Grateful Dead comes this week from:
The film Dreadheads: Portrait of a Subculture, an insider look at an outsider culture, featuring interviews with Bob Weir, Jimmy Herring, David Schools and more. The movie trailer, screening information and film reviews are available now at www.dreadheads.com. The just-released DVD is available from the website and at retailers nationwide.
The band Great Caesar’s Ghost, offering its new release One More Ride, which includes original music and interpretations of the Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers, and many blues greats as well as a guest appearance by guitarist G.E. Smith. Great Caesar’s Ghost sample audio tracks and more information are available at www.greatcg.com
Meeting with the Rhino people
Last week three guys from Rhino took a bunch of guys from northern California out for dinner to talk about Grateful Dead music. David Lemieux, Jeffrey Norman, Gary Lambert, Steve Silberman, Blair Jackson and I were there, along with Peter McQuaid (former CEO of GDP), Hale Milgrim (longtime Deadhead and veteran music industry exec), and Jimmy Edwards, Gregg Goldman, and James Austin of Rhino.
It was a great conversation. These guys really want to do justice to this body of work, and they were warmly receptive to all the ideas we were batting around.
It’s way too soon to talk about specifics, and of course it remains to be seen how much of the talk will be translated into action and, uh, product. But I am optimistic. After decades of dealing with the profoundly dysfunctional GD organization, I am excited to be communicating with people who seem to have both a constructive and professional mindset and a deep respect for the unique treasure that’s been dropped into their midst.
There is no intentional withholding of music – it just took a long time to complete the business transaction (the details of which were not revealed at this dinner, of course) and the Rhinoids are not going to rush into things.
There is (as was hinted at in a recent email from jerrygarcia.com) a very cool release in the works. I can’t tell you what it is, but I can tell you it isn’t the 11/73 Winterland set. (I sure hope they get that out soon – I was there for two of those those!).
Stay tuned.
BTW, James Austin’s first GD show was in LA in 1969 (I can’t remember the exact date and venue), and he was at the Hollywood Palladium on 8/5 and 8/6/71. He counts the 8/6 Palladium show w/ that “Hard to Handle” as one of his all-time favorite live music moments ever.
Call for papers on the Grateful Dead phenomenon
I’ve been attending this conference for the last couple of years. It’s real scholarship, but it ain’t dry and academic. Great fun, actually. I’ve promised to give a presentation on “meta-Dead” and “anti-Dead” music at the 2007 meeting. – DG
The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association 28th annual meeting
February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Registration: https://www.h-net.org/~swpca/
Join us at the tenth gathering of the Grateful Dead Caucus at the SWPCA, featuring a host of nationally recognized scholars, special events, live music, and more, in both formal and informal settings. Opportunities for papers to be published!
Our keynote speaker this year is Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow!
Possible topics:
The Haight-Ashbury, the counterculture, and the Dead
The lyrics and music of the Dead
The sociology of the Deadhead experience
Myth and ritual in the Grateful Dead Experience
New Journalism and the Dead
The Grateful Dead, Jambands, and Related Music
* And more.
All approaches welcome! Contact (November 1 deadline):
Nicholas Meriwether MeriwetN@gwm.sc.edu
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Gary Burnett gburnett@mailer.fsu.edu
College of Information
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Rhythm Devils tour dates announced
From GDTS-Too:
The Rhythm Devils, featuring Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Steve Kimock and Mike Gordon, will play the following shows:
Tuesday, October 17 at the Sunoco Theatre, Harrisburg, PA.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Show time is 7:30 PM.
All seats are reserved. A taper section will be provided.
Mail order tickets are available at $48.00Â per ticket.
Wednesday, October 18 at the Starland Ballroom,
Sayersville, NJ. Details to be posted soon.
Thursday, October 19 at the Lifestyle Pavilion, better known
as the PromoWest Pavilion, Columbus, OH.
Doors open at 7:00 PM. Show time is 8:00 PM.
All ages are welcome. This is a general admission show.
Mail order tickets are available at $31.00Â per ticket.
Tuesday, October 24 at the Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Show time is 7:30 PM.
All ages welcome. This is a reserved seat show. A taper
section will be provided. Mail order tickets are available
at $43.00 per ticket.
We expect more show to be posted soon.
Go to GDTSTOO.COM for more info.