A Few Summer of Love celebration sites of interest

SFGate: Summer of Love 40 Years Later

SFToday: Summer of Love

Wikipedia: Summer of Love

Grateful Dead Hour no. 976

Week of June 4, 2007

Part 1 43:48
Grateful Dead 12/26/81 Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland CA
SPACE->
TRUCKIN'->
BLACK PETER->
AROUND AND AROUND->
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT

Part 2 12:37
Grateful Dead 12/26/81 Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland CA
DON'T EASE ME IN
The Waybacks 2/3/07 KPFA Performance Studio
DUPREE'S DIAMOND BLUES

Purchase:

Melt Into A Dream 6/9/07

Grateful Dead - 6/14/85 Greek Theater, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (20th Anniversary show)
1. Morning Dew ->
2. Playin' In The Band ->
3. China Doll ->
4. Drums

The Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
5. Danko-Manuel

The Marvelettes - Time Life R&B 1967
6. The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

Cream: Those Were The Days (live) CD 3
7. N.S.U. (live 3/10/68 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA)

The Lisa Jayne June Mardi Gras Silent Auction

For those of you reading this in the Mt. Baker area, come out and support Lisa Jayne, one of the nicest, most down to earth people I know up here.

For those of you out of the area interested in helping out, contact me at my email acct
and I'll put you in touch with the right folks to take care of it.

Robert



MARDI GRAS IN JUNE?

All traditions will be flaunted at The Lisa Jayne June Mardi Gras Silent Auction
& Spaghetti Feed

Lisa Jayne has three kids, has a mortgage, has a career on hold, and has breast cancer

You CAN help!

Here’s how…

So come out Friday, June 15th
Deming Log Show Grounds, Cedarville Rd., Deming
(doors open at 6: oopm and Entry is Free!)
Come Marvel at the Silent Auction, Kiddie Carnival
Spaghetti Feed and DJ for a Family- Oriented Celebration
Dinner’s optional , but available for $7 adults/$3 kids under 10/free kids 3 and younger

Costumes are Optional , but Clothing’s a must!


Bring Family, Friends, Cash, Checks, or Major Credit Cards

About this space and the radio station

Life throws you curve balls sometimes, we got a puppy in April, took on some extra work and I have had to let this space slide a bit.

Please note: The radio staion itself always changes at least once a week, no matter what happens here or the website.

Hopefully I'll be back here more often soon...

Robert

Grateful Dead Hour no. 968

Grateful Dead Hour
Week of April 9, 2007
Part 1 30:19
Ratdog 2/14/07 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
FEEL LIKE A STRANGER
Ratdog 2/18/07 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC
THE GOLDEN ROAD->
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

Part 2 26:01
Ratdog 2/11/07 House of Blues, Las Vegas NV
HERE COMES SUNSHINE
TERRAPIN FLYER

Melt Into A Dream 4/14/07

Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson: Winter In America
1. H20gate Blues

Grateful Dead - Rockin' The Rhein with The Grateful Dead 4/24/72 Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany
2. Dark Star ->
3. Me & My Uncle ->
4. Dark Star

Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
5. Eskimo Blue Day

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: Were Only In It For The Money
6. Telephone Conversation

Quicksilver Messenger Service: What About Me
7. What About Me

Country Joe & The Fish: The Collected...1965-1970
8. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine

David Grisman Quintet: Dawg's Groove
9. Limestones

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys : Live Recordings 1956-1969
10. Raw Hide

Remember shopping in record stores...

The lost art of record shopping

By Jeff Herrin
Rocky Mount Telegram

Sunday, April 08, 2007

On a recent trip to Georgia, I spent about an hour in the record shop where Michael Stipe met Peter Buck in 1979, beginning a friendship that led to the creation of R.E.M.

That's the kind of name drop that 15 or 20 years ago might have triggered a response along the lines of: "You were at Wuxtry Records in Athens?!"

Today, the more likely reaction would be: "They still have record stores somewhere?!"

Baby boomers left behind plenty of embarrassing artifacts in our long-ago youth – butterfly bowties, AMC Gremlins, plaid everything – but we knew how to celebrate, worship and respect the almighty album.

Record stores weren't just places to spend paper route money. They were practically houses of worship – incense hitting you as you walked through the doors, black-light posters framed like stained-glass windows, the holy soundtrack of our generation on a turntable, always spinning near the cash register.

100 million iPods sold

An Apple milestone: 100 million iPods sold

Technology company transforming entertainment world but faces risks

ANALYSIS

By Allison Linn

Senior writer

MSNBC

Updated: 1:27 p.m. PT April 9, 2007

Allison Linn Senior writer • Profile • E-mail

Apple Inc.’s announcement Monday that it has sold 100 million of its iPod music players marks more than just a business milestone for the once-struggling computer company.

The remarkable sales figure also is evidence that Apple has, in just a few short years, played a major role in transforming a fringe technology into a mainstream phenomenon — spawning massive ripple effects in both the music and technology industries.

What’s more, analysts say, Apple’s more recent forays into selling movies and TV shows — and, soon, its own cell phone — could be poised to transform those industries as well.

Save Internet Radio!

Another useful article related to Radio Memeworks about the propsed rate changes affecting internet radio and how to save it.

A good article from my streaming provider, Live365.com about the propsed rate changes for internet streaming radio stations. If passed this will effectively kill internet radio as we know it, turning it into yet another media outlet controlled by the few who care little about choice or niche genre's or even good music for that matter.

That means Radio Memeworks as well could be shut down due to costs I cannot afford and Clear Channel isn't even paying. It's patently unfair and designed to shut down choice.

Due to pressure from the RIAA, Live365.com instituted major changes in the last year to make sure artists are getting paid the correct royalties. No more no name tracks on stations or stations broadcasting one artist. They care, and I certainly do about providing credit where it is due.

The music business's predatory attacks on the wave of the future, internet music/radio/downloading/podcasts, reminds me of the hollering and shouting over cassettes, VHS & BETA, CD's...etc. It's the same old, same old.

Face it the business model is changing. The major labels are slumping, independent artists are thriving with the new technology. Few of them are getting rich, but the playing field is more level after the last 15 or so years of total crap immersion in music (Backstreet Boys, Justin Timberlake, Brittiney, Kenny G and soft pablum of that ilk.)

What's truely great about Live365.com is the level of choice. Satellite is nice, but can you tune into nothing but Jazz from the 20's & 30's, or the Psychedelic sounds of the 60's, or Japanese pop music, or a classical station devoted entirely to modern composers, or fusion of the 70's, or downtempo of the 90's & 00's? Or how about a station that plays a little of all of that and more?

That's what's at stake beyond my own little slice of musical heaven.

Music is far too important to be left to the beancounters to deicide what you should hear.

I consider it an act of war on human consciousness.

The dark ages lurk right outside the light in the shadows waiting...Go to sleep, watch American Idol, shop till you drop, move along...there's nothing to see here!

Rock & Roll Love Letter: Sucking in the 70's

An interesting article that points out just what is wrong with the music business today. Granted I don't agree much with her musical choices, but the larger point she is making is valid.

Sucking in the '70s

How deep is your love?

By KATE SULLIVAN

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - 7:45 pm

As you’ve heard, the record industry as we know it is dying. And it’s even worse than it looked a few months ago. CD sales are down 20 percent from last year. Based on the inverse relationship between record sales and gas prices, I can only conclude America’s oil refineries are secretly owned by a cabal of record executives desperate to recover their losses on Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy.

The major record labels have laid a lot of the blame on illegal downloading, and they are surely on to something. I don’t want to argue them on that. I don’t even want to bash them. (It’s no fun anymore!)

Instead, I want to listen to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40. You can hear it every weekend on XM Satellite Radio. They broadcast vintage episodes, without commercials. It’s a fine way to spend a Saturday morning.

And for anyone who’s been wondering, What the fudge has happened to music? the show is also shocking. Stunning. Sobering and intoxicating at the same time. If you think pop music is bad today, you will positively weep blood when you hear what used to pass for bad.

Consider the episode they played a couple weeks ago — on March 10, I believe. It was the same episode aired exactly 29 years ago, in 1978. Just a random week in a random month, in a year not particularly remembered for great pop — and an era that was long derided for supposedly sucking.

Music today should suck so good. To wit (insert Kasem’s voice here): “On AT 40 this week, here’s the record that takes the biggest drop. It moves all the way from No. 11 down to No. 26! It’s Queen, and ‘We Are the Champions.’”

Real sucky, right? It’s only Queen. It’s just fucking “We Are the Fucking Champions,” falling to No. 26...read more here

Grateful Dead Hour #967

Grateful Dead Hour no. 955
Week of January 8, 2007

Week of January 8, 2007 or later

Part 1 25:50
Grateful Dead, Live at the Cow Palace: New Year's Eve '76
DEAL
Interview: Donna Jean Mackay
Interview: Bob Weir
Grateful Dead, Live at the Cow Palace: New Year's Eve '76
GOOD LOVIN'->
SAMSON AND DELILAH
Interview: Bob Weir

Part 2 29:20
Grateful Dead, Live at the Cow Palace: New Year's Eve '76
HELP ON THE WAY->
NOT FADE AWAY->
MORNING DEW
(With talk from Bobby and Donna Jean)

Melt Into A Dream 4/7/07

Happy Easter, Oestre!

Jerry Garcia Band: Pure Jerry #6 (3/18/78)
1. Cats Under The Stars
2. I'll Be With Thee
3. Lonesome and a Long Way From Home
4. Palm Sunday

David Nelson Band w/David Gans: 4/13/03 Area 51 Soundtest 3D, Indian Springs, NV
5. Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore

Grateful Dead: Rockin' The Rhein with The Grateful Dead (3/24/72)
6. Dark Star ->
7. Me & My Uncle ->
8. Dark Star ->
9 Wharf Rat ->
10. Sugar Magnolia

David Grisman Quintet: Dawg's Groove
11. Limestones
12. My Friend Dawg

Melt Into A Dream 3/31/07

Estimated Prophet: Grateful Dead: 3/18/77 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA
Terrapin Station ->
Alhambra ->
Drums

Good Shepard - Hot Tuna: 3/12/02 Century Ballroom, Seattle, WA DSBD
Tomcat Blues

The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) - Ratdog: 12/17/05 Showbox, Seattle, WA

Mountain Jam Part I -> Allman Brothers Band: Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival 7/3/70
Rain Delay ->
Mountain Jam Part II

Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Jerry Garcia Band: After Midnight, Kean College, Union, NJ 2/28/80
The Harder They Come
Mission In The Rain

From David Gans's logblog:

Grateful Dead Hour #966

March 25th, 2007

Week of March 26, 2007

Part 1 38:04
Interview: David Lemieux
Grateful Dead, Live at the Cow Palace New Year’s Eve 1976
I BID YOU GOOD NIGHT
Interview: David Lemieux
Grateful Dead 1/2/72 Winterland, San Francisco
GOOD LOVIN’->
CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER->
GOOD LOVIN’
Interview: David Lemieux

Part 2 18:46
Interview: David Lemieux
Grateful Dead 1/10/70 Golden Hall, San Diego CA
HARD TO HANDLE
Ratdog 2/11/07 House of Blues, Las Vegas
MAMA TRIED
Ratdog 2/14/07 Fillmore, San Francisco
BROWN-EYED WOMEN

David Lemieux was the Grateful Dead’s archivist for many years, and he continues to work w/ GD music as we move into the next phase. He is posting The Tapers’ Section, a weekly essay with audio, on DeadNet every week. Check it out! All the entries, and all the music, are archived, so you can catch up now and read the new one every Monday.

Guitar Camp Offers More Than 'Kumbaya'

Nice story about Jorma Kaukonen & Fur Peace Ranch

By Michael Ventre

MSNBC contributor

Updated: 7:21 a.m. PT March 28, 2007

Michael Ventre

At most camps, they sit around and sing “Kumbaya.” At the Fur Peace Ranch, they’re more likely to sing “Baby, Please Don’t Go” or “Nine Pound Hammer” or just about anything by the Rev. Gary Davis.

Located in the hilly farmland of southeastern Ohio, about two hours from Columbus, the Ranch was not created as a place for kids to hold potato sack races but rather for adults to polish their guitar and music skills. Dreamed up by world renowned guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and his wife Vanessa as far back as 1989, the camp has gradually evolved since then into an oasis for pickers who can escape their jobs and families for a long weekend as they indulge their fretboard fanaticism while eating well and making new friends.

Note to regular visitors/listeners

My wife has been very ill in the past month, and as a result I haven't been as all over my radio station tasks as usual.

Bear with me, I'm slowly getting back up to speed.

And remember, I always change the playlist at least once a week, no matter what.

Peace
Robert

Grateful Dead Hour # 965

Week of March 19, 2007

Part 1 28:08
Grateful Dead 8/4/67 O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada
NEW POTATO CABOOSE
VIOLA LEE BLUES

Part 2 28:12
Grateful Dead 8/5/67 O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Canada
TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT
ALLIGATOR
Jorma Kaukonen, Stars in My Crown
LATE BREAKING NEWS
MIGHTY HARD PLEASURE

Melt Into A Dream 3/24/07

Grateful Dead - 3/17/77
Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA

It's All Over Now
Sugaree
New Minglewood Blues
Peggy-O
Cassidy

The Waybacks w/Bob Weir 4/28/06
4/28/06 Merle Fest - main stage, Wilkesboro, NC

Tomorrow Never Knows
Cumberland Blues

New Riders of the Purple Sage 1/24/07
Stubb's Bar-B Que - Austin, TX

Last Lonely Eagle
Henry
Goin' To Mississippi *
How Long Blues *
Got My Mojo Workin' *
Absolutely Sweet Marie

*w/Pinetop Perkins

Grateful Dead 3/14/83
Club Front, San Rafael, CA

Help on the Way ->
Slipknot
(Rehersals)

Earth bakes in hottest quarter on record

• By Veronica Smith in Washington
• March 16, 2007

THE Earth has just experienced its warmest December-February since records began 128 years ago, adding fire to global warming concerns.

A US government agency reported a record warm January worldwide pushed average temperatures to 0.72C above normal for the 20th Century.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it was the highest average temperature for the period since records began in 1880.

The report came less than a month after a UN panel said that global warming was almost certainly caused by human activity and several governments and international bodies have sounded the alarm over the need to cut carbon emissions.

Grateful Dead Hour # 963

Grateful Dead Hour no. 963
Week of March 5, 2007

Part 1 29:28
Jim Lauderdale 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, New York City
BLACK PETER
Sex Mob 1/21/07 American Beauty Project, New York City
NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE->
UNCLE JOHN'S BAND->
RIPPLE

Part 2 26:52
Grateful Dead 12/31/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena
DRUMS->
SPACE

Melt Into A Dream 3/10/07

Shortened show today

Eyes of the World - Ratdog: 2/17/07 Moore Theater, Seattle, WA
The Mountain Song - Paul Kantner's Wooden Ship 12/30/92, Musicians Exchange, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Hijack ->
Have You Seen The Stars Tonight ->
Starship
Ship of Fools/It Must've Been the Roses - Elvis Costello: Stolen Roses - Songs of the Grateful Dead
Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead: 6/26/93 Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Dark Star - David Grisman Quintet: Stolen Roses - Songs of the Grateful Dead
Golden Road - Kettle Joe's Psychedelic Swamp Revue: 8/19/06 Gathering of the Vibes, Mariaville, NY

The Day The Music Died?

Internet radio in jeapordy - corporate greed

From Save Net Radio's website:
On Friday March 2nd 2007, the Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for Internet Radio stations. The rates are retroactive to January of 2006.

The new rates are far higher than any industry experts expected. In fact, if they remain unchanged, bankruptcy looms for many online radio stations.

The new rates essentially levy a tax of $0.0011 per performance. Now, that doesn't sound bad does it. But consider this. Each hour, the average radio station plays 16 songs. So that's about 1.76c per hour, per listener. A station with 500 listener average would be hit with fees of $211 per day, $6,336 a month or $76,000 a year.

This amount of money is beyond the resources of all but the very wealthiest of corporations. Many of the internet radio stations are run by enthusiasts and hobbyists. These small stations are the ones bringing new music, and old favorites to you every day. Music you can't hear on corporate-owned terrestrial stations.

Could this be the day the music died?

Grateful Dead Hour no. 962

Week of February 26, 2007

Part 1 31:48
Grateful Dead 12/31/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena
NOT FADE AWAY->
EYES OF THE WORLD

Part 2 24:02
Grateful Dead 12/31/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena
DARK STAR

Melt Into A Dream 3/3/07

Due to grave illness very close to home, there was no Melt Into A Dream this week. We'll be back next week for sure.

My wife is fine and home, all is good. Blessed and Thankful!

Grateful Dead Hour # 961 - aired 2/24/07

Grateful Dead Hour

Grateful Dead Hour no. 961
Week of February 19, 2007

Part 1 21:57
Grateful Dead 12/27/77 Winterland, San Francisco
ESTIMATED PROPHET->
HE'S GONE

Part 2 32:53
Grateful Dead 12/27/77 Winterland, San Francisco
TRUCKIN'->
WHARF RAT->
AROUND AND AROUND

Melt Into A Dream 2/24/07

Interview with Paul Kantner by Steve Silberman


(Originally aired on Dead To The World 10/5/05 on KPFA in Berkeley, CA - for those of you who missed it you can listen to it here or download it here)

Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? (excerpt) - Blows Against the Empire (remaster)
Wasn't That a Time? (excerpt) - The Weavers, from Washington Square Memoirs
Mau Mau - Blows Against the Empire (remaster)
Lilith's Song - Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra (remaster)
Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? - Blows Against the Empire (remaster)
Sunrise - Blows Against the Empire (remaster)
Hijack - Blows Against the Empire (remaster)
A Child is Coming - Blows Against the Empire (remaster)
Million (excerpt) - Sunfighter
Jerry Garcia guitar montage - Excerpts from
Walkin' - Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun
Across the Board - Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun
Sketches of China - Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun
When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves - Sunfighter
Your Mind Has Left Your Body - Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun
The Mountain Song - composite of two tracks from PERRO bootleg
Holding Together (excerpt) - Sunfighter
Plastic Fantastic Lover - Jefferson Starship Galactic Reunion (live) 2/05

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High Flying Bird - Jefferson Airplane: 8/5/67 O'Keefe Center, Ontario, Canada
Let's Get Together - Jefferson Airplane: 8/5/67 O'Keefe Center, Ontario, Canada
The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil - Jefferson Airplane: 5/19/67 Men's State Polytechnic College, San Luis Osbisbo, CA

The Fat Angel - Tom Constanten: Morning Dew

Lazy River Road - Grateful Dead: 6/26/93 Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Days Between - Grateful Dead: 6/26/93 Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.

Photo of Paul Kantner taken during the interview with Steve Silberman

Courtesy of David Gans, who has an excellent collection of pictures up here. Everything from landscapes, portraits, to live concert photos, including some excellent rare Grateful Dead related shots.

Highly Recommended!

Fly Jefferson Ariplane

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the release of the Jefferson Airplane's psychedelic masterpiece Surrealistic Pillow, we are having a special edition of Melt Into A Dream this coming weekend.


Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.

We both were born in 1967 and in terms of the musical world we inhabit it couldn't be a more critical year. 1966 was the grace year, Revolver, the MerryPranskters & the Acid Tests, the 1rst Airplane album: Takes Off, the evolving scene in the Haight at it's full flower. Late in 66, Grace Slick left the Great Society, joined the Jefferson Airplane, recorded Surrealistic Pillow with them, all of this within a few months. In February 1967 the album came out and the world woke up to what was going on in theHaight specifically and in the counterculture generally. (Painting with broad strokes here...)White Rabbit & Somebody to Love would forever become part of the cultural lexicon. Grace recently joked that she still gets nice royalty checks for White Rabbit.

To celebrate this and to kick off our year long celebration of the magic that was that pivotal year in the evolution of music, we offer up SteveSilberman's fantastic 2005 interview with Paul Kantner. It originally aired on KPFA in Berkeley, CA during David Gans's Dead To The World. We are indebted to David for providing these discs.

Celebrating the remastering of Blows Against The Empire, one of our favorite albums,Kanter sat down for a comprehensive conversation with noted journalist Steve Silberman. Interspersed with music, this is a great piece to begin with, as it also covers the life and times of the San Francisco scene, from the early 60's to the present.

Airs this Saturday, 2/24/07 at 9PM PST, immediately following the Grateful Dead Hour, hosted by David Gans.

We hope you'll tune in soon!

P.S.:This is the first in a series of broadcasts celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. Later in the year we'll look into Monterey Pop and the Summer itself: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and other 67 psychedelic masterpieces, a look inside the Haight Ashbury and the San Francisco sound.

Grateful Dead Hour no. 960

Grateful Dead Hour no. 960
Week of February 12, 2007

Part 1 35:01
Grateful Dead 12/27/77 Winterland, San Francisco
COLD RAIN AND SNOW
LAZY LIGHTNIN'->
SUPPLICATION
Interview:
BLAIR JACKSON

Part 2 19:49
Grateful Dead 12/27/77 Winterland, San Francisco
SCARLET BEGONIAS->
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN

Let's move along, there's nothing to see here

Record warmest January ever.

(whistling past the graveyard...)

Melt Into A Dream 2/17/07

Great American String Band - 6/13/74 Keystone Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1. Russian Lullaby

Dark Star Orchestra - 5/19/06 State Theater, Falls Church, VA
2. Visions of Johanna

Quicksilver Messenger Service - 8/1/70 Family Dog at the Beach, San Francisco, CA
3. Who Do You Love

Grateful Dead - 12/28/82 Oakland Auditorium Arena, Oakland, CA
4. Lazy Lightning ->
5. Supplication ->
6. Deal

Allman Brothers - 2/13/70 Fillmore East, New York City, NY
7. Mountain Jam

Melt Into A Dream 2/11/07

Grateful Dead - 2/11/70 Fillmore East, New York City, NY
1. Turn On Your Lovleight (With members of the Allman Brothers and Peter Green)
2. Uncle John's Band

Great American String Band - 6/13/74 Keystone Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
3. Band Intro's
4. I'll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards
5. My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid

Big Brother & The Holding Company - 2/12/67 California Hall, San Francisco, CA
6. Catch Me Daddy
7. Ball & Chain
8. I KNow You Rider

Quicksilver Messenger Service: Sons Of Mercury, Best Of 1968-1975
9. Gold & Silver

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (2003 Remaster w/bonus tracks)
10. She Has Funny Cars

(This album turns 40 years old this month)

Grateful Dead - 2/11/70 Fillmore East, New York City, NY
11. Dire Wolf (Early Show)
12. High Time (Late Show)

Allman Brothers Band - 2/13/70 Fillmore East, New York City, NY
13. Trouble No More

Grateful Dead Hour # 959

Grateful Dead Hour no. 959
Week of February 5, 2007

Part 1 16:51
Interview: Tiff Garcia

Part 2 39:29
New Riders of the Purple Sage 11/29/06 KPFA performance studio
LOCHINVAR
LAST LONELY EAGLE
HENRY
GARDEN OF EDEN
WHISKEY
PANAMA RED

Found on deadnet central, originally appeared in The Nantucket Independent:

Howarth resurrects the Dead
BY MARLI GUZZETTA

Restoration is an art form on Nantucket. Houses, boats, shorelines – everything seems to have a shot at resurrection here. And so maybe it makes perfect sense that when Jamie Howarth moved to Nantucket year-round in 2002 he founded Plangent Processes. Using patented technology, the company removes irregularities from old audio recordings — the flutter and the “wow” — to restore the recordings to their original sound quality.

On Jan. 20, Rhino Records will release a fully re-restored performance of the Grateful Dead’s 1976 New Year’s Eve show at the Cow Palace, employing Plangent’s “Clarity” techniques.

“The buzz out there has always been that this was a good show,” Howarth said. “It was kind of a transitional show between old Dead and new Dead, with ‘Bertha’ and ‘Morning Dew’ on one side, and ‘Help is on the Way’ and ‘Slipknot!’ on the other.”

Jeffrey Norman is a mixing engineer who has worked for Grateful Dead Productions for 20 years; included in his body of work are a restoration of the re-release of “The Grateful Dead Movie” on DVD as well as a nine-CD release of the band’s four-day Fillmore concert in 1969. He worked with Howarth on the Cow Palace re-release.

ROB BENCHLEY/The Independent file Jamie Howarth, founder of Plangent Processes, in his Nantucket studio.
“The Cow Palace show is an excellent example of the mid-70s band,” Norman said. “The Dead went through many transitions and eras that involved slight personnel changes and styles. This show has almost a jazz flavor — it’s a very elegant representation of that era. By the time it gets into the second set, it’s quite a voyage. …and Jamie’s process does add sparkle.”

Commissioned by Grateful Dead Productions and Rhino Records, the Cow Palace show marks the first record business project for Plangent, which has restored “Oklahoma!” “West Side Story,” “South Pacific” and “Young Frankenstein” for Fox Video and Sony/MGM.

A former Hit Factory engineer and post-production supervisor for ABC, Howarth said that Plangent’s first clients were film companies because the film industry is far less conservative with spending right now than is the music industry.

“The record business is conservative right now. There’s fear of downloading, and there’s less money out there, so they’ve been slow to catch on to this,” said Howarth, who was initially frustrated by the fact that high-end audio engineers were interested in the Plangent process, while labels weren’t. “The film industry was fascinated by it, because it had a real physical problem with film breaking down in the can. And when film breaks down, it stretches, and there’s a tremendous amount of speed variation.”

Whether it’s working on old film or old music, Plangent brings the entire old recording to a clear and consistent speed.

“One of the big problems with recording in general is how to keep the machinery on a steady speed. In a live performance, the instruments are perfectly steady. In the case of tape, you’re asking a piece of plastic to negotiate its way through a miniature golf course of metal, wires and so on. When the tape is moved through the recorder, if it runs fast or slow, you’ll get warbles, wow and flutter,” Howarth explained. “We were interested in building something that would solve this problem. … One of recording’s useless artifacts turns out to be useful as a clock. With digital signal processing, we can use that clock to retime the digitized audio and remove microscopic speed variations that resulted from the mechanics of the tape machine.”

Using the Internet as a meeting place, Howarth recruited the services of professionals from all over the world — mathematicians at Cambridge, UK, film professionals in Los Angeles and engineers in New York City — to perfect his technology.

Original material is best for retiming old audio, and Howarth had first-generation 16-track recordings of the Cow Palace show for the restoration — previews of which are available on YouTube. (Google “12-31-76 Cow Palace,” and the YouTube results will show.)

“Jerry Garcia was in great shape emotionally, and theatrically. There are a couple of beautiful vocal performances, and the Clarity process lends quite a bit of help to that,” said Howarth, who added that a listener can now hear many details of the music that were inaudible due to interference.

Howarth said his process of audio restoration reenergizes the “gestalt” of the original recording.

“The finished product sounds like a live broadcast. … The emotional punch is there; you don’t feel like you’re listening to a recording,” Howarth said. “That’s the whole purpose of hi-fiaudio —to break down the barriers between the performer and the listener and minimize the intrusion of the artifice.”

Plangent’s next job is to restore Elvis Presley’s “Wild in the Country” for 20th Century Fox.

Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow - 40th Anniversary

"It's as surrealistic as a pillow"

Apparently that's what Jerry Garica said after hearing an early pre-production version of it. He should know, he served as "musical and spiritual advisor" on it. Though to this day, no one is actually sure just how much he did on that record.

This month we celebrate it's 40th anniversary of release, with lots of tracks from the CD (Legacy version - remastered, with bonus tracks) and we'll re-air Steve Silberman's 2005 interview with Paul Kantner at some point this month on a Saturday night after the Grateful Dead Hour(details later.)

We also have some live JA tracks and rarities that we will be sharing all month long.

Feed your head!
Robert

Grateful Dead Hour #958

Grateful Dead Hour no. 958
Week of January 29, 2007

Part 1 28:08
Grateful Dead 11/14/73 San Diego Sports Arena
EYES OF THE WORLD->
THE OTHER ONE->
WHARF RAT

Part 2 27:12
Grateful Dead 11/14/73 San Diego Sports Arena
ME AND MY UNCLE
GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN' BAD->
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
moe., The Conch
WIND IT UP
Y EAUX MASSA

2/3/07 Melt Into A Dream

Grateful Dead - Live at the Cow Palace New Years Eve 1976
1. Good Lovin' ->
2. Samson & Delilah

Ken Nordine - Devout Catalyst
3. Inside Of Is

Jerry Garcia Band - 2/6/72 Pacific High Recording, San Francisco, CA
4. Save Mother Earth ->
5. Imagine

John Phillips - Phillips 66
6. Me & My Uncle

Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
7. Me & Bobby McGee

Manfred Mann - Chapter Two: The Best of the Fontana Years
8. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)

Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree
9. Shake Sugaree

Garth Hudson - The Sea To The North
10. Dark Star

Grateful Dead - Dick Picks #4 (2/13&14/70 Fillmore East, New York City, NY)
11. Intro by Zacherle
12. Casey Jones
13 Dancin' in the Streets

Media Mail shipping

Yesterday was kind of hard for me.

I pre-ordered the new Grateful Dead release from 12/31/76 so I could get the bonus disc, and well I live about 50 minutes one way from the nearest independent or corporate retail outlet that would've had it. Net-> snail mail is how we do most of our non-food shopping.

I forget how much extra the expidited shipping was but something like another $6-10 dollars. Being a cheap ass on a tight budget, I chose the less costly method of shipping.

All week I've been reading posts by folks who have got it, and Saturday morning I trooped off to the post office to see if it was there. Nope, still not.

I wanted so to share and to listen myself last night on Melt Into A Dream, but alas, it was not meant to be.

I knew better from the delayed shipping time on the last thing I ordered from gdstore.com, the 1969 Fillmore West Box Set. Media mail takes a long time.

Knowing that I knew this potentially could happen made it kind of hard.

My bad
R

PS - In the better late than never dept. Provided it arrives this week, we'll play a bit next week.

Grateful Dead Hour # 957 & Melt Into A Dream 1/27/07

Grateful Dead Hour no. 957
Week of January 22, 2007

Part 1 21:40
Grateful Dead 11/14/73 San Diego Sports Arena
TRUCKIN'->
JAM->
THE OTHER ONE (part 1)

Part 2 34:10
Grateful Dead 11/14/73 San Diego Sports Arena
THE OTHER ONE->
BIG RIVER->
JAM
Mickey Hart's Mystery Box
ONLY THE STRANGE REMAIN
Mickey Hart & Bob Weir circa Feb 1983 (unreleased)
ONLY THE STRANGE REMAIN

Melt Into A Dream 1/27/07

Grateful Dead - 1/24/71 Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
1. Turn On Your Lovelight ->
2. Not Fade Away ->
3. Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad ->
4. Turn On Your Lovelight ->
5. Drums
(Mickey's next to last show before leaving the band unitl 10/20/74)

Dark Star Orchestra w/Steve Kimock 6/7/05 Teaneck, NJ
6. Bertha

Jerry Garcia Band: Pure Jerry # 7 11/9/91 Coliseum, Hampton, VA
(entire show with Bruce Hornsby on piano)
7. Shining Star
8. Don't Let Go
9. What A Wonderful World

Phil Lesh and Friends: Live at the Warfield
10. Dark Star (pt 1)

Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (Box Set)
11. Right Off (Take 10)

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold As Love
12. EXP
13. Up From The Skies

Harry Belafonte: Pure Gold
14. Maltida

Phil Lesh and Friends: Live at the Warfield
15. Dark Star (pt2)

Grateful Dead: 2/2/68 Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
16. Cryptical Envelopment ->
17. The Other One ->
18. Cryptical Envelopment ->
19. Clementine

Radio Memeworks - Bloggin' the station

Hi all,

This will be the place where we post information relevant to Radio Memeworks. Most importantly the setlists for the Saturday special show we run after the Grateful Dead Hour.

Any news of note or links of interest will also be posted here.

Peace
Robert

http://www.radiomemeworks.com