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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1553

Week of June 25, 2018 Part 1 20:31 Grateful Dead 6/9/90 Cal Expo, Sacramento CA BLACK MUDDY RIVER Grateful Dead 6/22/73 PNE Coliseum. Vancouver BC HERE COMES SUNSHINE Part 2 34:27 Dead & Company 6/1/18 BB&T Pavilion, Camden NJ JACK STRAW-> COLD RAIN AND SNOW CASSIDY-> JACK STRAW Grateful Dead have announced a boxed set featuring six shows from the Pacific Northwest in 1973 and 1974. I was at one of them (5/19/74 in Portland) and I’ve heard most of the other shows, too. GREAT stuff! This recording of 6/22/73 is not from the new set – it’ll sound even better after Jeffrey Norman gets through with it. Preorder now at dead.net/pacificnorthwest
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York. Just announced at The Cap is Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band on Thursday, September 6, featuring special guests Eric Krasno and Nicki Bluhm. Tickets are available now! Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1552

Week of June 18, 2018

Part 1 7:34
Joe Craven and the Sometimers, Garcia Songbook (Blender Logic)
GOMORRAH

Part 2 47:20
Grateful Dead 6/9/90 Cal Expo, Sacramento CA
DRUMS->
SPACE->
DEAR MR. FANTASY->
HEY JUDE->
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER->
STELLA BLUE->
TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

Peter Shapiro’s Dayglo Presents. The music of the Grateful Dead will ring out this summer in New York City’s parks! On Thursday, July 19, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead plays Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell. And on Wednesday, September 5, Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band return to Central Park SummerStage. Tickets and more info at bricartsmedia.org and cityparksfoundation.com/summerstage

The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York. Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band perform with special guests Eric Krasno and Nicko Bluhm at The Cap on Thursday, September 6. Tickets are on sale now! Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1551

Week of June 11, 2018

Part 1 13:26
Dead & Company 5/30/18 Xfinity Center, Mansfield MA
ALABAMA GETAWAY
IT’S ALL OVER NOW

Part 2 42:16
Grateful Dead 6/9/90 Cal Expo, Sacramento CA
VICTIM OR THE CRIME->
TOUCH OF GREY->
LOOKS LIKE RAIN->
TERRAPIN STATION

Dead & Company kicked off their summer tour in Massachusetts on May 30, and the set list included these two old favorites that are new to this band’s repertoire. Dead & COmpany concert recordings are available in a variety of formats from livedead.co, and tickets for the summer tour (which continues through July 14) are available from deadandcompany.com

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York. Founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh returns to The Cap on Thursday, September 6 to perform with The Terrapin Family Band with special guests Eric Krasno and Nicki Bluhm. Tickets are available now! Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com

Peter Shapiro’s Dayglo Presents. The music of the Grateful Dead will ring out this summer in New York City’s parks! On Thursday, July 19, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead plays Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell. And on Wednesday, September 5, Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band return to Central Park SummerStage. Tickets and more info at bricartsmedia.org and cityparksfoundation.com/summerstage

DeadCo/GDH ticket giveaway: July 11, 13, and 14

Winners for July 11 are Rob and Seth; winners for July 13 are Adam and Marilyn; winners for July 14 are Karen and Mike. Thanks to all who entered!!

Dead & Company summer tour ticket giveaway!

I’ve got two pairs for each show on the upcoming tour. We’re gonna offer them one show at a time. Note: this is admission only. Just a pair of tickets. You have to get yourself to the show and all that.

Let’s do the last three shows all at once: Wednesday, July 11 at the Isleta Amphitheater in Albuquerque, and Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14 at Folsom Field in Boulder CO. You may enter for all three shows but you can only win one.

Send email to deadco@well.com with the show date in the Subject line and your name, address, and phone number in the body of the message. We’ll pick our winners at random in a couple of days, and then I’ll announce the next giveaway. I have the tickets, and will mail them out well in advance of the show.

PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Posting a reply here on the blog does not get you entered in the contest.

And PLEASE NOTE: We’re doing one show at a time, in chronological order. Entries for other shows will be discarded. And you may only enter once for each show!