Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
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logblog giveaway: Ratdog Live CDs
I’ve got a small stack of CDs to give away, courtesy of Ratdog Live.
It’s the 3/31/06 show at the Hampton Beach NH Casino, featured in GD Hour #922.
Disc 1
1. Maggie’s Farm > (14:50)
2. Shakedown Street > (11:40)
3. Big River (5:52)
4. She Says > (8:59)
5. Liberty (7:04)
6. Lost Sailor > (10:13)
7. Saint of Circumstance (8:07)
8. Hell in a Bucket (9:34)
Disc 2
1. El Paso (8:10)
2. Me and My Uncle (5:13)
3. Even So > (10:12)
4. October Queen > (14:15)
5. Uncle John’s Band (10:16)
6. West LA Fadeaway (12:26)
Disc 3
1. Jam > (6:59)
2. Come Together (7:02)
3. Sugar Magnolia (11:12)
4. E: Attics of My Life (6:41)
If you want a copy, email me the name and nationality of Ratdog’s bass player. First come, first served.
And please do pay a visit to Ratdog Live – they have most of Ratdog’s live shows available for purchase, and the mixes sound very good to my ears.
Grateful Dead Hour #922
Week of May 22, 2006
Part 1 28:47
Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta
SUGAREE
KANSAS CITY
FENNARIO
MY BROTHER ESAU
Part 2 27:33
Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta
RAMBLE ON ROSE
CASSIDY
Bob Weir and Ratdog 3/31/06 Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach NH
JAM->
COME TOGETHER
The Ratdog show is available from Ratdog Live.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the 10,000 Lakes Festival, July 19 through 22 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. 10KLF features Phil Lesh & Friends, Trey Anastasio, The String Cheese Incident, The Benevento Russo Duo featuring Mike Gordon, Keller Williams, Railroad Earth, Umphrey’s McGee, MMW, and many more. Information on camping and and tickets at www.10KLF.com
And from New England Framing & Fine Art, presenting original artwork by Jerry Garcia, Stanley Mouse, and Robert Crumb, handmade Grateful Dead mandalas by Gordon Merrick. The art show runs at their studio in Stowe, Vermont, through June 30. The opening celebration on May 27 includes live music. More information is available at www.mainlymasters.com
Additional support comes this week from The Black Crowes, on tour all summer long with Robert Randolph & The Family Band and Drive-By Truckers. The Black Crowes nationwide tour starts Saturday, June 10th at White River Amphitheatre in Seattle and ends August 12th at Red Rocks. more information at blackcrowes.com and livenation.com
“Two Cents” re the NSA
I’m in the SF Chronicle’s “Two Cents” reader-response column again today.
The question was, “Ever say anything on the phone you don’t want the NSA to hear?”
My favorite answer was from Jo-Anna Pippen:
I’m sure in the last four years I’ve said: “Michael Moore, shotgun, Internet, ACLU, Berkeley, indicted, Hillary, drugs, cell, data, gay marriage, SpongeBob, peace, France, oligarchy, bomb, cell, Cheney, contraception, AT&T, Democrat, 29 percent, White House, turd blossom, tequila, Jeb, firewall, NBC and New York Times.” I’m probably on a watch list already.
Support the Grateful Dead Hour
Hello, friends and listeners –
This is another of my periodic requests for direct support from the people who listen to the GD Hour.
The business is reasonably stable, on what I’d characterize as a very gradual downslope over the last few years. But we’ve had a couple of financial hits recently – I had to replace my main computer just before the end of the year, and I had two very large repair bills to deal with in the last month or so. There isn’t much headroom in our cash flow over here.
So I’m asking all of you who listen to the show to make a “radio shareware” contribution to help keep the GD Hour alive.
You can send a check or money order to:
Truth and Fun, Inc.
484 Lake Park Ave. #102
Oakland CA 94610-2730
or use PayPal
You can always find this information online at gdhour.com/support.html
Thank you for listening, and thank you for your support!
One more thing: the GD Hour is always looking for underwriters to support the program – ideally, on a long-term basis. This is public-radio style underwriting, which is not advertising per se, but if you have a product or service that you’d like the listeners to know about, you can make them aware with this sort of message. If you’d like to know more about sponsoring the Grateful Dead Hour on a national basis, short- or long-term, please contact Dave Weissman.
Thank you for listening, and thank you for any support you can give us.