A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Week of November 2, 2015 Part 1 41:33 Grateful Dead 3/14/82 Recreation Hall, UC Davis CA ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT-> SUGAREE ME AND MY UNCLE-> MEXICALI BLUES BIRD SONG > LITTLE RED ROOSTER Part 2 14:48 Grateful Dead, 30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story (10/3/76) SCARLET BEGONIAS Support for the Grateful Dead … Read more
Publication date is November 10. Here is the Goodreads page for the book, and here is the publisher’s page. Both include links to several purchase options. Publisher’s Weekly gave us a good review: This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead Blair Jackson and David Gans Flatiron, $32.99 (528p) … Read more
We had a great time saluting One from the Vault at the original venue on the 40th anniversary of the show! Here is a link to the video archive on moonalice.com Here is a link to a “matrix” (audience and soundboard mix) recording by Michael Zelner Here is a link to the torrent version of … Read more
The backdrop from the 1975 show will be in the house in 2015! August 13 2015/1975: A celebration of 40 years since the Grateful Dead’s legendary “One From The Vault” performance @ GAMH This special evening features Mark Karan, Robin Sylvester, James Nash, Neil Hampton, David Gans, Totally Dead (Will McCosker – drums, Dave Gantenbein … Read more
Greatest Story Ever Told Deal Mr. Charlie Black Throated Wind China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider Mexicali Blues Tennessee Jed The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion) Me and Bobby McGee Loser Big Boss Man Jack Straw Big Railroad Blues Looks Like Rain Casey Jones – Grateful Dead March 22, 1972 Academy of Music, New … Read more
Week of March 23, 2015 Part 1 14:56 Grateful Dead, Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings (5/23/72) PLAYING IN THE BAND Part 2 39:26 Grateful Dead 6/14/87 County Fairgrounds, Ventura CA HELL IN A BUCKET-> SUGAREE TONS OF STEEL RAMBLE ON ROSE ME AND MY UNCLE-> MEXICALI BLUES Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this … Read more
Joanna Manqueros hosted Dead to the World on July 30, 2014, and interviewed Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company). Listener Damien Palermo was kind enough to transcbie the talk. Enjoy! Joanna Manqueros (host): Jerry Garcia was born in 1942. What was he doing in 1962? You brought some stuff in that’s really cool … Read more
Week of October 20, 2014 Part 1 31:45 Grateful Dead 9/20/82 Madison Square Garden, New York City SHAKEDOWN STREET-> MINGLEWOOD CANDYMAN-> EL PASO Part 2 24:15 Grateful Dead, Spring 1990 (The Other One) (3/18/90) IKO IKO JUST A LITTLE LIGHT Jerry Garcia Band, GarciaLive vol. 5 (12/31/75) THEY LOVE EACH OTHER I wrote the liner … Read more
This link will take you the playlist and relevant links.
TODAY’S THE DAY! I’ll be on KPFA from 9 am to 1 am PST playing lots of Grateful Dead-related music. And only the best, mind you! Also airing on KPFK and its related frequencies in southern California, and webcasting via gdradio.net, nugs.net, kpfk.org, kpfa.org, and kfcf.org Phone in your pledge at 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732, or … Read more