Grateful Dead Hour no. 365

By David Gans

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Grateful Dead Hour by David Gans

Week of September 18, 1995

The last of five programs produced after Jerry Garcia's death in the summer of 1995.

Two days after Jerry died, the Fillmore was opened up and Deadheads invited, by word of mouth, to come in and mourn together. I collected a great variety of stories and expressions of grief, more of which are included in this program

"Bird Song and "Brokedown Palace" are from a live broadcast on KPFA in Berkeley (my home station). Danny Carnahan and Robin Petrie subsequently broke up their act; Carnahan went on to found an excellent band called Wake the Dead, specializing in Celtic-style interpretations of Grateful Dead songs, often intertwined with jigs and reels. The band has released three CDs.

Grateful Dead 2/14/68 Carousel Ballroom, SF
THAT'S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE->
NEW POTATO CABOOSE->
BORN CROSS-EYED->
SPANISH JAM->
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August 11, 1995 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco
Remembering Jerry Garcia (part 1)

Danny Carnahan, Robin Petrie and David Gans 8/16/95 KPFA performance studio
BIRD SONG
BROKEDOWN PALACE

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David Gans

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great program sequence

On October 1st, 2008 Jaime said:

David

Thanks for putting on this entire sequence of programs from that special - ironically - month in time in many of our lives

These programs kind of take you back into that place in time in 95 in which something ocurred which no one ever thought it d be so ( ? ) soon . I thought Jerry had at least another 10 years on earth , phisically

Thanks again for the genuine deadication friend

regards

Jaime Andrés G

the good stuff

On October 6th, 2008 cactuswax said:

wow, thanks again DG.
You and yr cohorts' tribute at the end is truly beautiful and touching indeed.

afterthoughts

On October 7th, 2008 Jaime said:

Oh , and the installment / material from 68 is , for me a top 10 in jams ive heard from that period . And to think you thought of that back in 1995

' There is no higher religion that the Truth ' . Elena Petronila Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine.

What is this girl they interviewed talking about!?

On October 23rd, 2008 grateful99 said:

She said she met Jerry and they talked about the spiritualism of Nazism and the influence it still has today and he was big into that!?

Can someone please enlighten me if I misunderstood something here!?

Nazism is Spiritual?! Jerry was into that!?

Nazism

On December 23rd, 2008 Little Ben Clock said:

I don't think the woman means Jerry Garcia was interested in Nazism - I think she means that he was very interested in talking about spirituality and historical reasons for the way it developed.

Or something like that...

By the way

On December 23rd, 2008 Little Ben Clock said:

Thank you for posting these Jerry Commemoration shows David. I've been listening to them over the last two days and have found them incredibly moving. Sad, but also very hopeful and joyous.

I'm twenty-four years old and live in Australia so I'm about as far away from ever seeing the Grateful Dead or being involved in the group as is possible for someone who loves the music. Needless to say I can't listen to the Grateful Dead Hour aside from the dead.net streams so I'm very grateful that they are available. Listening to this set of shows has been a great experience. I can't imagine what it must have been like within the Dead community at the time these were initially broadcast. I suppose I can't realy imagine what it was like being within the community and going to shows at all since I've never experienced it. Even so, thanks to your programme, I've been able to learn what the community was (and still is) like and have been introduced to a lot of periods of Dead music that I hadn't invested much time in.

Despite all the negative vibes that have appeared in recent years (mainly due to people's reaction to all the archive.org and vault stuff), your show is a warm, friendly reminder that, in the end, it's ok to turn on the music and float away. While it's inevitable that the community won't be the same now that the band no longer performs regularly, it's still important that people work hard to maintain the culture and to educate others about the music and the history of the group, the times and the people. You've obviously worked for the majority of your life to do this and I'm sure that, even if you don't always see the appreciation, it's there in everyone who listens to your show and shall remain for as long as we listen to Grateful Dead music - forever!

AK

Thank you, AK

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On December 23rd, 2008 dgans said:

It's been a privilege to serve the music all these years. It's a wonderful think that someone like you can become a Deadhead from a generation and half a planet away.

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