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Dead to the World 8/30/06

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Estimated Prophet->
Terrapin->
drums->
“Raven” space->
The Wheel->
Truckin’->
Stella Blue->
Around and Around->
Good Lovin’ – Grateful Dead 4/19/82 Baltimore Civic Center

Ripple – Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra, MTO Volume 1
The Levee’s Gonna Break – Bob Dylan, Modern Times
Colorado – Railroad Earth, Elko
White Bird – Sam Bush, Laps in Seven
Guns or Butter – Hot Buttered Rum, Well-Oiled Machine

Here’s a link to the Keith Olbermann rant I raved about at the start of the program. I am seriously ready for the Bush regime to be driven from office and given a taste of the misery they have inflicted on the world.

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Planet drum tour details

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

See GDTSTOO for ordering info.

Planet Drum featuring Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, Giovanni Hidalgo will perform on the following dates:

Wednesday, September 20 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA.
Doors open at 7:30 PM. Showtime is 8:00 PM.
All seats are reserved.
Mail order tickets are available at $ $53.00 per ticket.

Friday, September 22 at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, CA.
Doors open at 7:30 PM. Showtime is 8:00 PM.
General admission. All ages are welcome.
Mail order tickets are available $40.00 per ticket.

Saturday, September 23 at the Nob Hill Masonic in San Francisco, CA.
Doors open at 7:00 PM. Showtime is 8:00 PM.
All seats are reserved. Will Call on the night of the show only.
Mail order tickets are available at $ $63.00 per ticket.

Sunday, September 24 at the Van Duzer Theatre in Arcata, CA.
Showtime is 8:00 PM.
All seats are reserved.
Mail order tickets are available at $ $48.00 per ticket.

Friday, September 29 at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland, OR.
Doors open at 7:00 PM. Showtime is 8:00 PM.
General admission. All ages are welcome.
Mail order tickets are available $42.50 per ticket.

A taper section will be provided for all reserved only shows.

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Grateful Dead Hour #936

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Week of August 28, 2006

Part 1  37:33
Grateful Dead 4/19/82 Civic Center, Baltimore MD
ESTIMATED PROPHET->
TERRAPIN->
DRUMS->
“RAVEN” SPACE

Part 2  18:47
Kettle Joe’s Psychedelic Swamp Review 6/8/06 Shoals Theater, Florence AL
FRANCE
New Riders of the Purple Sage 4/8/06 Mystic Theater, Petaluma CA
RIPPLE with Robert Hunter

This week’s underwriters:

MagnoliaFest, a festival of American roots music October 19th through 22nd at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, just across the Georgia line. Performers include Donna the Bufalo, the Sam Bush Band, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Duhks, The Waybacks, and many many more. Information is available at 904-249-7990 and www.magmusic.com 

eDeadshop, an online store offering t-shirts, hats, stickers, tie-dyes, gifts, and other officially icensed merchandise from the Grateful Dead, Phish, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, and many others.

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Dead to the World 8/23/06

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Till the Morning Comes
Hard to Handle
Mama Tried
Dire Wolf
Cold Rain and Snow
Me and My Uncle
Dark Hollow
Viola Lee Blues->
Cumberland Blues
Uncle John’s Band – Grateful Dead 10/31/70 SUNY Stony Brook NY

Jus’ Like Mama Said->
Mississippi Halfstep->
The Other One – Ratdog 8/19/06 Gathering of the Vibes, Mariaville NY

Tennessee Jed – Bruce Robison, Eleven Stories
Four Strong Winds – David Gans w/ Donna Jean Godchaux et al. 8/19/06 Gathering of the Vibes, Mariaville NY
Expose – Guy Clark, Workbench Songs
 Excerpt from Everything Was Right: The Beatles’ Revolver
Tomorrow Never Knows – GD 5/25/92 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View CA

Everything Was Right: The Beatles’ Revolver is a two-hour documentary produced by Paul Ingles, with commentary by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, musician Shawn Colvin, music writer Jim DeRogatis, and many others, including yours truly. It’s airing on various public radio stations around the country, and will be available on Ingles’ web site in December. My thanks to Paul for inviting me to participate in this excellent program, and to Paul and PRI for permission to broadcast this segment.

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“Four Strong Winds” with Donna Jean

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson), recorded Saturday 8/19/06 at Gathering of the Vibes.

David Gans – guitar & vocals
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay – vocals
Jeff Mattson – electric guitar
Tom Circosta – electric guitar
Klyph Black – bass
Joe Ciarvella – bass

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More recent DG live music

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Surely You Jest 8/17/06 Sellersville Theater

It’s Gonna Get Better 8/14/06 with the Shockenaw Mountain Boys

King of the Road 8/12/06 with the Shockenaw Mountain Boys

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Grateful Dead Hour #935

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Week of August 21, 2006

Part 1  26:47
Grateful Dead 10/31/70 SUNY Gym, Stony Brook NY
TIL THE MORNING COMES
HARD TO HANDLE
MAMA TRIED
DIRE WOLF
COLD RAIN AND SNOW

Part 2  29:03
Grateful Dead 10/31/70 SUNY Gym, Stony Brook NY
ME AND MY UNCLE
DARK HOLLOW
VIOLA LEE BLUES->
CUMBERLAND BLUES
UNCLE JOHN’S BAND

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the Fool’s Paradise Festival, September 8 and 9 at Camp Minglewood in Central Southern New York – an all-inclusive outdoor festival including RV, tent camping and meals, as well as a limited number of VIP packages. Fool’s Paradise Festival includes Les Claypool, Particle, Jazz Mandolin Project, Herring Rodgers and Sipe, The Machine, and many more.

And from BackstageAuctions.com, presenting a 2006 Rock Art Poster Auction featuring hundreds of original Bill Graham and Family Dog posters, dozens of vintage Grateful Dead posters, as well as the private collection of the art director who designed posters for Bill Graham since the 1980s. The auction begins August 20 and runs online for a week. 

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“Shove in the Right Direction” 8/13/06

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Shove in the Right Direction 8/13/06 w/ Tim Carbone, John Skehan and Andy Goessling of Railroad Earth.

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Grateful Dead Hour #934

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

Week of August 14, 2006

Part 1 25:55
Grateful Dead 9/18/90 Madison Square Garden, New York City
ROW JIMMY
DESOLATION ROW

Part 2 30:25
Grateful Dead 9/18/90 Madison Square Garden, New York City
TO LAY ME DOWN
PROMISED LAND
Grateful Dead 5/25/92 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View CA
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
Excerpt from Everything Was Right: The Beatles’ Revolver
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

Everything Was Right: The Beatles’ Revolver is a two-hour documentary produced by Paul Ingles, with commentary by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, musician Shawn Colvin, music writer Jim DeRogatis, and many others, including yours truly. It’s airing on various public radio stations around the country, and will be available on Ingles’ web site in December. My thanks to Paul for inviting me to participate in this excellent program, and to Paul and PRI for permission to broadcast this segment.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

The Fool’s Paradise Festival – September 8 and 9 at Camp Minglewood in Central Southern New York, featuring Les Claypool, Particle, Jazz Mandolin Project, Herring Rodgers and Sipe, The Machine, and many more.It’s an all-inclusive outdoor festival including RV, tent camping and meals, as well as a limited number of VIP packages.

MagnoliaFest, a festival of American roots music October 19th through 22nd at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, just across the Georgia line. Performers include Donna the Buffalo, the Sam Bush Band, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Duhks, The Waybacks, and many many more. Information is available at 904-249-7990 and www.magmusic.com

Friends of Nature and Knowledge Festival August 25 through 27 in Bean Blossom, Indiana, featuring Victor Wooten Band, Umphrey’s McGee, Honkytonk Homeslice, Assembly of Dust and more than a dozen more. Tickets include camping & two nights of music.

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Tour diary 8/12/06

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Last night I played a private party out in northwestern New Jersey – same place I played last summer, and again I was joined by John Skehan of Railroad Earth for most of the evening (last year I had John and also Andy Goessling of RRE).  It was a truly peak experience from the first note – an excellent sound system set up in the living room of my host’s home, the keg and party chatter outside on the deck so the room I was in was for people who wanted to hear the music.

I started out solo, and the muse was as generous as could be.  One gift after another.  It had a lot to do with the fact that the monitor speaker was of sufficient quality that I could hear the full range of my guitar, which enabled me to take full advantage of the range of sounds I get with the Mama Bear preamp.

It also helped that tinydancer was there in her Stevie Nicks regalia, interpreting the music and adding her own desires to the creative flux.  (I knew Ruth wanted to hear “Quarter to Five,” “Echolalia,” and “Lazy River Road”).  My friend Paul I. was there, too, and he also reflected generous energy into the performance.  So did the others in attendance – it was a well-wired human circuit, and I was able to take full advantage of all the available juice.

Skehan brought another measure of wonderfulness to the equation.  He was ready for anything, and we spent a significant part of the performance playing entirely free-form music, building loops from almost arbitrary snatches of melody.  There was one jam that I intended to start with one particular harmonic idea, but while I was doodling to get my guitar sound I grabbed a bar of a G chord thing and we were off and running.

The evening was recorded in two modes – soundboard and ambient.  There is some distortion on the soundboard recording, which I may or may not be able to deal with, but the guy who made the other recording reported in this morning that he is very happy with the result.  I’ll have that recording in a few days.

So.  Two excellent gigs to start off a tour that promises nothing but even better times to come.  Today I play the Fountain House with the Shockenaw Mountain Boys (John, Tim, Andy and Grubb from Railroad Earth); I’ll do some more one-on-one with John, and I’ll play with the quartet, too.  These guys all have big ears and a deep understanding of the story we’re here to tell.

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