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