Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Grateful Dead Hour #904
More KPFA marathon news
As reported earlier, the anual KPFA GD marathon is scheduled for Saturday, January 28, 9 am to 1 am PST.
We’ll have a live performance from the Papermill Creek Rounders (David Nelson, Banana, and friends) in the afternoon. Bob Weir and Ratdog had to postpone their live performance due to an injury to keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.
I’ve got some uncirculated GD concerts to play in their entirety, and a lot of very special treats that I’m sure you’ve never heard before. Here are some clues:
The event will be webcast via nugs.net, kpfa.org, and kfcf.org
Marc Evans will moderate a chat room, as he has for the last several years, and I will post on this blog as the day progresses.
We’re still in the process of lining up thank-you gifts for contributors. We’re expecting a nice array of CDs, books, t-shirts, and who knows what else. I have a copy of the 10-CD Fillmore West 1969 boxed set that we’ll be auctioning – not sure yet how that’ll work. I might set it up on eBay with a closing date of January 28.
Grateful Dead Hour #903
Week of January 9, 2006
Part 1 20:51
Grateful Dead 2/4/70 Family Dog on the Great Highway, SF (Download vol. 8)
ST. STEPHEN->
NOT FADE AWAY->
ST. STEPHEN
Grateful Dead 12/31/70 Winterland, San Francisco (Download vol. 8)
MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER
Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come
SITTING IN LIMBO
Part 2 35:59
Grateful Dead 12/10/73 Coliseum, Charlotte NC (Download vol. 8)
TRUCKIN’->
NOBODY’S FAULT BUT MINE->
EYES OF THE WORLD->
BROKEDOWN PALACE
This month’s download is two separate items: the nearly-complete show from 12/10/73 (incomplete songs on the 2-track master tape aren’t included) on two discs, and a single-disc compilation of 1970 material (mostly February 4) mixed from 16-track masters. “Monkey and the Engineer,” which turned up in the 1980 acoustic sets, is an old favorite of Weir’s, written by Jesse “The Lone Cat” Fuller, who also contributed “Beat It on Down the Line” to the GD repertoire. This is, according to archivist David Lemieux, the only complete electric performance of the song in the archive.
“Sitting in Limbo,” from the soundtrack CD of the great 1972 reggae movie The Harder They Come, was part of Jerry Garcia’s solo repertoire for many years. A search of The Jerry Site shows an August 1974 debut for the song; it was also in the Garcia-Grisman repertoire and appears in the film Grateful Dawg. The Harder They Come soundtrack CD also includes one of my all-time favorite songs in any genre, “Sweet and Dandy” by Toots and the Maytals.
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Ratdog live on the KPFA marathon!
This just in: Bob Weir and Ratdog will perform live on the KPFA marathon January 28!