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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 99

    Week of August 13, 1990

    Grateful Dead 10/3/87 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View CA
    STELLA BLUE

    Grateful Dead 6/8/90 Cal Expo, Sacramento
    EASY TO LOVE YOU

    Interview: John Barlow

    Grateful Dead 6/26/88 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA
    GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES

    Interview: Brent Mydland/Jerry Garcia (Deadhead Hour 4/8/85)

    Grateful Dead 4/22/79 Spartan Stadium, San Jose
    JACK STRAW

    Interview: Dan Healy

    Phone calls from listeners

    Silver
    MUSICIAN (IT'S NOT AN EASY LIFE)

    Phone calls

    Grateful Dead 3/18/90 Hartford Civic Center
    JUST A LITTLE LIGHT

    This is the first of a three-part show that originated as a live broadcast on KPFA in Berkeley on the day after Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland was found dead at his home.

    Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the GD Hour web site. Let me know if there's a particular program you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net

    Thanks for listening! David Gans
    gdhour [at] dead.net

    Every Wednesday, we post a program from the Grateful Dead Hour archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment.

    Listen Now

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    I was finishing up a month long bike trip and was in a van headed into San Francisco of all places when we heard the news about Brent on the radio. The Height was in morning. Thanks David for all the years (and tapes!)
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    16 years 6 months ago
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    Davidthanks so much I am listening to about 3 shows a day to 'catch up" Enjoy every one of them. And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee
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    16 years 10 months ago
    It takes me back to then
    I remember listening to this on KPFA at the time and listening to it now takes me right back. I'm old enough to remember Keith and Pigpen, this was just as sad. All the keyboard players brought so much into the band and I loved them all. Still do. As sad as it may seem the music still makes me feel good. Thanks David!!!
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Week of August 13, 1990

Grateful Dead 10/3/87 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View CA
STELLA BLUE

Grateful Dead 6/8/90 Cal Expo, Sacramento
EASY TO LOVE YOU

Interview: John Barlow

Grateful Dead 6/26/88 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA
GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES

Interview: Brent Mydland/Jerry Garcia (Deadhead Hour 4/8/85)

Grateful Dead 4/22/79 Spartan Stadium, San Jose
JACK STRAW

Interview: Dan Healy

Phone calls from listeners

Silver
MUSICIAN (IT'S NOT AN EASY LIFE)

Phone calls

Grateful Dead 3/18/90 Hartford Civic Center
JUST A LITTLE LIGHT

This is the first of a three-part show that originated as a live broadcast on KPFA in Berkeley on the day after Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland was found dead at his home.

Your requests are requested! Browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the GD Hour web site. Let me know if there's a particular program you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net

Thanks for listening! David Gans
gdhour [at] dead.net

Every Wednesday, we post a program from the Grateful Dead Hour archives for your enjoyment and enlightenment.

Listen Now

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Submitted by comesatime on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 11:20

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David, Thank you for the work you do; and the generosity you show through your vocation. Though I am old enough to have been on the bus from the start, I had a later in life intro to the Dead; and that intro was provided by the Grateful Dead Hour. Imagine me in 1996 or so, after seeing my one show in Pittsburgh 6-30-95, and discovering this wondrous, amazingly performed music! The euphoria of that discovery never would have come, but for your sharing: which introduced me to this world I so love now. Thank you, again, David.
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Submitted by Golden West on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 11:54

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This number really epitomizes the 70's sound to me. If it's sound is not a time capsule back 30 years I don't know what is. Brent really sounds like somebody from back then.....Dan Fogelburg?
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Submitted by GRTUD on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 15:28

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Brent was more than a little light. Thanks Gans, good job. "If the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?"
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Submitted by GratefulGigi on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 15:36

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Brent will always be dearly missed
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Submitted by TigerTrance on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 18:36

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The Brent era was the best overall vocal sound and best overall band sound. Now, they didn't jam like they did in '69 or 72-74, but he added so much color and the band just sounded wonderful. You were the best Brent.
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Submitted by GRTUD on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 14:18

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You gotta love her call, so sweet. Every time I hear it, I feel like she's talking to me, when she says, "love you all..." makes me feel good, even though it's just my imagination, once again. Thanks again, Imagination, David Gans and the Grateful Dead. "If the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?"
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Submitted by bbbills2008 on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 12:01

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hey dave i live in eriepa, and we dont getthe deadhour on sunday night is there anything you can do about that ty alongtime deadhead
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Submitted by darkstartheoth… on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 04:36

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I remember listening to this on KPFA at the time and listening to it now takes me right back. I'm old enough to remember Keith and Pigpen, this was just as sad. All the keyboard players brought so much into the band and I loved them all. Still do. As sad as it may seem the music still makes me feel good. Thanks David!!!
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Submitted by BobbaLee on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 12:47

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Davidthanks so much I am listening to about 3 shows a day to 'catch up" Enjoy every one of them. And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee
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Submitted by fractal plane on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 16:36

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I was finishing up a month long bike trip and was in a van headed into San Francisco of all places when we heard the news about Brent on the radio. The Height was in morning. Thanks David for all the years (and tapes!)