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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 912

    Week of March 13, 2006

    Two requests in one show!

    John Jensen wrote: "Could you post the Dead Hour where you were shuffling through your iPod and found a cool version of 'Blues for Allah'?"

    It's the 8/13/75 debut performance of "Blues for Allah," and it's pretty damn cool!

    Shortly after the Grateful Dead played their "final shows" at Winterland in October 1974 (brilliantly documented in The Grateful Dead Movie), the band convened in Bob Weir's brand new home studio and began developing new material in a highly collaborative manner. In addition to the challenging and unconventional title track and Phil Lesh's instrumental "King Solomon's Marbles," Blues for Allah also includes "The Music Never Stopped," a consistently wonderful live show-stopper, and the beautiful "Crazy Fingers." The remastered edition includes several jams and work tapes from these sessions. One from the Vault is the complete concert of 8/13/75 in a tiny San Francisco venue, The Great American Music Hall, where the band premiered the new album; Dan Healy mixed the multitrack tapes in the early '90s, kicking off the band's program of releasing concert material from their archive.

    Other treats from my iPod adventure included two non-Dead songs: a track from Rodney Crowell's powerful CD The Outsider, and a wonderful, soulful song from Georgia singer-songwriter Ralph Roddenbery.

    This GD Hour also includes some unreleased live Grateful Dead, natch: three songs from the spring tour of 1989, which allows me to satisfy Jim Ackerman's request for "Standing on the Moon" in the bargain.

    Enjoy!

     

    Grateful Dead 3/31/89 Greensboro NC
    LOSER
    VICTIM OR THE CRIME
    STANDING ON THE MOON

    Grateful Dead, One from the Vault
    BLUES FOR ALLAH

    Rodney Crowell, The Outsider
    DON'T GET ME STARTED

    Ralph Roddenbery Band, Let It In
    THAT'S GONNA LEAVE A MARK

     

    Take a look at the GD Hour program logs and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour@dead.net

    Thanks for listening!
    David Gans
    gdhour@dead.net

    Listen Now

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    a very good program
    I always love a good / strong Loser . The Greensboro is definitely delightful ( the guitar solo is i think the standout factor in that song ] And Jerry did 3.4 stars out of 5 Again , that song sounds great when Jerry just RIPS a SICK solo . i.e. 8-20.87 UT . 5.8.77. NY . One from April 71 , portchester perhaps . The Victim is gorgeous and SICK . Good ear DG . Mr. Gans, do the Dead community a small and nice favour and dig out DH 350 , beautiful Schoolgirl , and Alabama - as well as the remaining broadcast . When time and duties permit , please bless us with that excellent broadcast . Take me to the river is on it , and it's one of my favourite songs that debuted in 1995 GD music . Come on all , lets request that show , as it has mind numbing versions of those tunes i mentioned , just kidding . But you ll know what i mean when you HEAR it yerself Nice greeting you all , from just above the tropic of capricorn . It so happens I am sick of being a man. And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie houses dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes. The smell of barbershops makes me break into hoarse sobs. The only thing I want is to lie still like stones or wool. The only thing I want is to see no more stores, no gardens, no more goods, no spectacles, no elevators... Excerpt , "Walking around" by Pablo Neruda [ 1935 )
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Week of March 13, 2006

Two requests in one show!

John Jensen wrote: "Could you post the Dead Hour where you were shuffling through your iPod and found a cool version of 'Blues for Allah'?"

It's the 8/13/75 debut performance of "Blues for Allah," and it's pretty damn cool!

Shortly after the Grateful Dead played their "final shows" at Winterland in October 1974 (brilliantly documented in The Grateful Dead Movie), the band convened in Bob Weir's brand new home studio and began developing new material in a highly collaborative manner. In addition to the challenging and unconventional title track and Phil Lesh's instrumental "King Solomon's Marbles," Blues for Allah also includes "The Music Never Stopped," a consistently wonderful live show-stopper, and the beautiful "Crazy Fingers." The remastered edition includes several jams and work tapes from these sessions. One from the Vault is the complete concert of 8/13/75 in a tiny San Francisco venue, The Great American Music Hall, where the band premiered the new album; Dan Healy mixed the multitrack tapes in the early '90s, kicking off the band's program of releasing concert material from their archive.

Other treats from my iPod adventure included two non-Dead songs: a track from Rodney Crowell's powerful CD The Outsider, and a wonderful, soulful song from Georgia singer-songwriter Ralph Roddenbery.

This GD Hour also includes some unreleased live Grateful Dead, natch: three songs from the spring tour of 1989, which allows me to satisfy Jim Ackerman's request for "Standing on the Moon" in the bargain.

Enjoy!

 

Grateful Dead 3/31/89 Greensboro NC
LOSER
VICTIM OR THE CRIME
STANDING ON THE MOON

Grateful Dead, One from the Vault
BLUES FOR ALLAH

Rodney Crowell, The Outsider
DON'T GET ME STARTED

Ralph Roddenbery Band, Let It In
THAT'S GONNA LEAVE A MARK

 

Take a look at the GD Hour program logs and let us know what you'd like to hear. Feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour@dead.net

Thanks for listening!
David Gans
gdhour@dead.net

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Submitted by Jaime on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 23:11

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I always love a good / strong Loser . The Greensboro is definitely delightful ( the guitar solo is i think the standout factor in that song ] And Jerry did 3.4 stars out of 5 Again , that song sounds great when Jerry just RIPS a SICK solo . i.e. 8-20.87 UT . 5.8.77. NY . One from April 71 , portchester perhaps . The Victim is gorgeous and SICK . Good ear DG . Mr. Gans, do the Dead community a small and nice favour and dig out DH 350 , beautiful Schoolgirl , and Alabama - as well as the remaining broadcast . When time and duties permit , please bless us with that excellent broadcast . Take me to the river is on it , and it's one of my favourite songs that debuted in 1995 GD music . Come on all , lets request that show , as it has mind numbing versions of those tunes i mentioned , just kidding . But you ll know what i mean when you HEAR it yerself Nice greeting you all , from just above the tropic of capricorn . It so happens I am sick of being a man. And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie houses dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes. The smell of barbershops makes me break into hoarse sobs. The only thing I want is to lie still like stones or wool. The only thing I want is to see no more stores, no gardens, no more goods, no spectacles, no elevators... Excerpt , "Walking around" by Pablo Neruda [ 1935 )