WZZU/WZZI moved the Sunday morning rebroadcast of the GD Hour to 9am, effective this week.
WZZU-FM 97.9 Lynchburg VA Tuesday 10pm
WZZU-FM 97.9 Lynchburg VA Sunday 9am
WZZI-FM 101.5 Roanoke VA Tuesday 10pm
WZZI-FM 101.5 Roanoke VA Sunday 9am
Week of March 30, 2009
Part 1 35:55
Introduction
Grateful Dead, To Terrapin (5/28/77)
BERTHA->
GOOD LOVIN’->
SUGAREE
PASSENGER
Part 2 20:30
Jorma Kaukonen, River of Time
OPERATOR
Railroad Earth12/31/08 Aladdin Theater, Portland OR
WARHEAD BOOGIE
The excerpts from the new complete-show release To Terrapin in this week’s program don’t do justice to the excellence of the performance. You gotta hear this second set! Last show of a very long and productive spring tour introducing several songs recorded for Terrapin Station, including the title track and “Estimated Prophet,” both instant classics.
Jorma Kaukonen performed “Operator” in a wonderful two-day GD tribute, The American Beauty Project, that took place in New York City in January of 2007. (Read my report here.) It was a perfect match of performer and song, and Jorma obviously agreed because he has kept the song in his repertoire ever since. And now here’s a fine studio recording of “Operator.”
I raved about the recordings of Railroad Earth‘s New Year’s run a few weeks ago. “Warhead Boogie” is from the 12/31/08 show. All three of the year-end shows are great, and available for download. This band continues to deliver the goods – check ‘em out!
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Grateful Dead Productions, announcing a full show release titled To Terrapin: Hartford May 28, 1977, the complete concert mastered in HDCD from the original two-track reels. To Terrapin documents the final show of the much-praised spring tour. It’s available April 7. More information, audio samples, discussion board and more at dead.net
jambands.com has an interview with Tim Carbone, who produced The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best and Boris Garcia‘s Once More Unto the Bliss. He’s also the fiddle and guitar player of Railroad Earth. Great read.
Just got this email from Donna Jean Godchaux:
Welcome to Spring!
We are totally psyched to be starting our first tour in a couple of weeks.
We’ve been in rehearsal in Alabama and New York and have welcomed keyboardist Mark Adler into the DJGB fold. Mark Adler is not a conventional rock keyboard player. In fact, he is a distinguished film composer (he scored last summer’s indie hit “Bottle Shock” and the upcoming feature documentary “Food, Inc.”). He succeeded Keith Godchaux on the keys for the original, early-80s Heart of Gold Band, and was in the revised HOG Band in 2004. He also worked as a music editor for people like Milos Forman, David Lynch, and Francis Ford Coppola on projects like “Amadeus,” “Blue Velvet,” and “Godfather III.” He’s a regular at the Sundance Film Festival and has won an Emmy.
Our tour begins in MO and OK, and we are also very excited to be playing our first show on Long Island, home of Jeff and Joe, at Mulcahy’s in Wantagh, (to help you get in the mood for the Dead show at Nassau Coliseum the next night) not to mention all the great festivals we’ll be at (GOTV, Gratefulfest, & more!). So come on out and join us as we play rock ‘n roll and lots more, delivered with Muscle Shoals-trained soul and inspiration, plus fine originals with a nod to Donna Jean’s deep roots & lots of Grateful Dead songs too.
Tour Dates
4/17  Fri. Springjam 5 Camp Zoe, Salem, MO  573 858-3333 featuring the Schwag, the New Riders, Moonalice, David Gans
4/18 Â Sat Fly Trap Music Hall Tulsa, OK Â 918 794-0238
4/23 Â Thu. Mulcahy’s Wantagh, NY Â 516 783-7500
4/26 Â Sun. Ukranian American Cultural Center of NJ Whippany, NJ 973 585-7175
5/1 Fri. Free Midnight Show at McFadden’s One Citizen’s Bank Way, Philly Right after the Dead’s Spectrum show, right across the street.
7/4 & 7/5 Sat.&Sun. Gratefulfest Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville, OH 440 548-2716
7/23 Â Thu. Gathering of the Vibes Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT
7/31 – 8/2 Fri., Sat. & Sun. Golden Road Music & Arts Fest Belvedere at Waterfront Park, Louisville, KY
The full schedule is on our web site, donnajeangodchauxband.com
The Suwannee SpringFest is happening this weekend! Rubber Souldiers will perform Friday afternoon on the Amphitheater Stage, and again (under the guise of “David Gans and Friends”) Saturday evening in the Music Hall. Fellow Souldiers Chris and Lorin Rowan will do their wonderful duo thing, too. I perform solo Friday morning, 10 am on the Amphitheater Stage. Also appearing: Donna the Buffalo, Emmitt Nershi Band, The Duhks, The Lee Boys, Darrell Scott, Darol Anger & Mike Marshall with Väsen, Blueground Undergrass, Dread Clampitt, and many more! It all happens at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park at Live Oak, Florida, just south of the Georgia line.
More gigs, solo and with Rubber Souldiers:
Tuesday, March 31, 6-10pm: Rubber Souldiers perform at the Annual Kickoff Dinner/Fundraiser for the 20th Larkspur Flower and Food Festival. American Legion Hall, 500 Magnolia Ave. Larkspur CA (Formerly the Larkspur Cafe Theatre). Tickets $30 including dinner, wine, and live music. No host bar. For reservations Call Joanie Connor, LCA President: 415-924-3808
Thursday, April 2, 9:00pm: Rubber Souldiers Revue at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley CA. $10. 510-525-5099
April 17-18: SpringJam 5 at Camp Zoe, Salem MO. The Schwag, NRPS, Donna Jean Gochaux, Moonalice, DG, and more.
Thursday, April 23: Rubber Souldiers (acoustic) open for Greensky Bluegrass and Great American Taxi at the Mission Rock Cafe, 817 Terry Francois Blvd., San Francisco
Friday, May 1: DG plays in the Poster Room at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Railroad Earth is the headliner! DG plays before the show and during the set break.
Thursday, May 7, 9am to 1pm: Marin Farmers’ Market, at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael CA.
Saturday, May 9, 9:30am to 1:30pm: Grand Lake Farmers’ Market, at Splash Pad Park, Lake Park and Grand Avenues, Oakland CA.
Friday, May 15: DG and Zac Matthews at the Nomad Cafe, 6500 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland (near the Berkeley line).
Sunday, May 17: Rubber Souldiers, the Raveups, and others perform “’60s British Explosion Unplugged!” at the Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison Street, Berkeley
May 22-24: Desert Rocks Music Festival, Moab UT. ALO, Hot Buttered Rum, The Mother Hips, The Motet, and more.
July 4 weekend: Grateful Fest at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville OH. Dark Star Orchestra and many more!
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My CD The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best is getting airplay all over the country. If you aren’t hearing it on your local AAA, Americana, or jamband station/show, please help the cause by requesting it! And of course, buying a copy. Info, reviews, audio samples, and several ways to buy it (either all at once or individual tracks) here.
Rubber Souldiers is a Beatles “jam band” with Lorin Rowan, Chris Rowan, David Gans, and friends.
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As always, more info at dgans.com/gigs.html
10/18/08 – house concert at Jim Roe’s.
Chris and Lorin’s niece, Amanda Rose, caught us backstage preparing for our performance at the Rex Foundation benefit.
Week of March 23, 2009
Part 1 39:54
Introduction
Grateful Dead 7/23/90 World Music Theater, Tinley Park IL
SPACE->
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER->
STANDING ON THE MOON->
AROUND AND AROUND->
GOOD LOVIN’
Part 2 16:01
Grateful Dead 7/23/90 World Music Theater, Tinley Park IL
THE WEIGHT
Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel
I’M SITTIN’ ON TOP OF THE WORLD
The Grateful Dead
SITTIN’ ON TOP OF THE WORLD
The deaddisc.com entry for “Sittin’ on Top of the World” shows dozens of entries going back to the Mississippi Sheiks in 1930. I heard an Al Jolson song by that same title when I was a pup, and although it appears to be an entirely different song, it’s a related sentiment. This new recording by Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel is similar in flavor to the arrangement by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys; the Grateful Dead’s arrangement, which appeared on their 1967 debut album and stayed in the repertoire until some time in 1972, was a whole ‘nother take on the song. And for yet another take on this theme, see Cream’s lugubrious reading on Wheels of Fire. The Dead revived it for their 2004 tour, and Phil Lesh and Friends played it in 2006.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the Rothbury Festival, July 2 through 5 in Rothbury, Michigan featuring The Dead, Bob Dylan and his Band, The String Cheese Incident, Willie Nelson and Family, and many more. Tickets, layaway plan & VIP package information are available now at rothburyfestival.com.
Thanks to Rich Selleseth for putting this up. Torrent is hosted here.
David Gans
3/3/09 Sawbucks, Las Vegas NV
Thanks to the Las Vegas Jam Band Society
San Rafael Swell->
Birthday Tripper->
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Ship of Fools->
In Another World
Like a Dog->
Terrapin->
River and Drown
Who Killed Uncle John?
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Cassidy’s Cat->
An American Family
Down to Eugene
Lazy River Road
The Bounty of the County
Surely You Jest
Quarter to Five (For Tina Loney)
Brokedown Palace
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Sovereign Soul->
Blue Roses
A fan’s notes. Excerpt:
There only two camps as far as the Grateful Dead were concerned. You either loved em or you hated them. Hip journo’s and most of Camden Town had an affection for their Kesey/Keroac credentials but Ritchie Blackmore took a different view. Wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with ‘‘if the Grateful Dead can make [it], anyone can’’ Deep Purple’s infamous guitarist reckoned that playing extended Chuck Berry riffs for a couple of hours was not a sign of gifted musicians.
New Riders and GD are on the May 7 page.