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Grateful Dead Hour #938

Week of September 11, 2006 Part 1 18:42 Bruce Robison, Eleven Stories TENNESSEE JED Grateful Dead 7/17/88 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA BOX OF RAIN VICTIM OR THE CRIME Part 2 37:08 Grateful Dead 7/17/88 Greek Theater, Berkeley CA CRAZY FINGERS-> PLAYING IN THE BAND-> UNCLE JOHN’S BAND-> DRUMS This Greek Theater show was a benefit for the Rex Foundation and was broadcast live on KPFA. Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: MagnoliaFest, a festival of American roots music October 19th through 22nd at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, just across the Georgia line. Performers include Donna the Bufalo, the Sam Bush Band, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Duhks, The Waybacks, David Gans, and many many more. Information is available at 904-249-7990 and www.magmusic.com 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
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Rock the Earth benefit in SF 9/17

Bay Area Musicians Collaborate to Rock the Earth!


RtE Board Member Sean McNamara
with David Gans

Colorado-based nonprofit Rock the Earth announces a benefit concert featuring many of Northern California’s finest musicians on Sunday, September 17 from Noon to 6:30 in the Jerry Garcia Amphitheatre in San Francisco’s McLaren Park. The benefit is free, but a donation of $25 is recommended, with proceeds benefiting Rock the Earth’s ongoing efforts to Defend the Planet One Beat at a Time.

Artists include:

• Rubber Souldiers, including David Gans, Chris Rowan and Lorin Rowan (the Rowan Bros), Robin Sylvester (Ratdog), Barry Sless (Phil Lesh and Friends) and Adam Perry (The Love X Nowhere), with very special guests including David Nelson and Martin Fierro

• Blue Turtle Seduction

• Mark Karan’s Buds, including Pete Sears (Flying Other Brothers), Robin Sylvester (Ratdog), Jimmy Sanchez (Flying Other Brothers), and Jay Lane (Ratdog)

• Zoo Station

• The Trespassers

For directions to McLaren Park and the Jerry Garcia Amphitheatre, visit https://www.jerryday.org/directions.html. This event is sponsored by Gone Global Productions.

Rock the Earth is a Colorado-based environmental nonprofit organization that works closely with the music industry and its fans to defend America’s precious natural resources. Rock the Earth is currently involved in litigation against the National Park Service in an effort to protect wilderness qualities in Grand Canyon National Park.

Rock the Earth has partnered extensively with bands and musicians such as Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Michael Franti and Spearhead, and Bon Jovi.

For more information about the benefit concert and Rock the Earth’s ongoing projects, visit www.RockTheEarth.org or contact Marc Ross at 412-953-6280.

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Dead Letters vol. 3

Volume 3 of Dead Letters is here! (As I post this, the web site is way out of date, but maybe by the time you read it the site will be current.)

DEAD LETTERS: Essays on the Grateful Dead Phenomenon is edited by Nick Meriwether. This issue includes my October 1984 interview with Bill Graham, and:

  • The Taoist Perspective in “Weather Report Suite” by Melinda Belleville
  • How Did the Song Go? Tracing the Roots of the Grateful Dead’s Cover Songs by Eric Levy
  • “What’s Become of the Baby?” The Dead After Garcia by Daniel J. Dasaro
  • Reviews of the Grateful Dead Movie soundtrack, Dick’s Picks vol. 36, Searching for the Sound, Home Before Daylight

And more. This is a legitimate scholarly publication, but the writing is not so dry and academic. I know most of the contributors from attending the Grateful Dead caucus of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association a few times, and I can vouch for their ‘head cred and their grasp of the pleasures of the GD experience.

Copies of volume 3 can be ordered for $15.95 plus $2.95 S&H for first copy, $1.59 for each one after that. Send check or money order to:

Nicholas Meriwether
Oral Historian
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

To inquire about the pricing of volumes 1 and 2, contact Nick via email.

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Grateful Dead Hour #937

Week of September 4, 2006

Part 1  45:16
Grateful Dead 4/19/82 Civic Center, Baltimore MD
SPACE->
THE WHEEL->
TRUCKIN’->
STELLA BLUE->
AROUND AND AROUND->
GOOD LOVIN’

Part 2  10:04
Grateful Dead 4/19/82 Civic Center, Baltimore MD
BROKEDOWN PALACE
The Essential Johnny Cash (1955-1983)
BIG RIVER
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from 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

And 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. Screenings are scheduled for September and October in Athens, Atlanta, Raleigh, Denver, Boulder and other cities. The movie trailer, screening information and film reviews are available now at dreadheads.com.  The just-released DVD is available from the website and at retailers nationwide.

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