December 27, 1995
To Lay Me Down-> Playing in the Band - Grateful Dead 12/27/81 Oakland Auditorium Beautiful jam - GD 2/18/71 Capitol Theater, Portchester NY Jerry Garcia memorial - 8/13/95 Golden Gate Park The Wheel - Garcia Mandolin Rain-> That Would Be Something-> Brokedown Palace - Bruce Hornsby 9/1/95 Westbury NY An American Adventure - Robert Hunter (from Sentinel) read by David Gans Black Peter-> Around and Around-> Johnny B. Goode - GD 12/3/81 Madison WI
December 20, 1995
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da->
Christmas Time Is Here Again - Beatles
Run Rudolph Run - Grateful Dead 12/14/71 Ann Arbor MI
Winter Wonderland - Roches, We Three Kings
Heat - Kronos Quartet (Heat
soundtrack)
The Intro and the Outro - Bonzo Dog Band
Morning Dew - Grateful Dead 5/22/77 Hollywood FL (Dick's
Picks 3)
Do Not Go Gentle - Jorma Kaukonen, The Land of
Heroes
Smokin' Hole - Radiators
Listening to Music - A Child's Garden of
Grass
California Scheming - Mary Schmary
Young Americans - David Bowie
Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
The Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook
Me and My Uncle->
Big River
Fennario
Looks Like Rain
Stagger Lee
Minglewood
Candyman
I Need a Miracle - Grateful Dead 10/18/78 Winterland
December 13, 1995
Beatles Reunion Blues - Mike Scott
Golden Slumbers->
Carry That Weight->
The End - Beatles, Abbey Road
Here Come Those Tears Again - Jackson Browne,
The Pretender
Don't Get Me Wrong - Pretenders
It's Me Again, Jah - Luciano
Where Did Your Heart Go? - Was (Not Was)
Scarlet Begonias->
Fire on the Mountain - Grateful Dead 9/2/78 Meadowlands
Arena
Rain Montage
Media Mentions montage
From the Heart of Me
Samson and Delilah
jam->
Wharf Rat->
Truckin' - GD 10/18/78 Winterland
Man Smart, Woman Smarter - Robert Palmer
December 6, 1995
Help on the Way->
Slipknot!->
Franklin's Tower
The Music Never Stopped
Blues for Allah - Under Eternity Blues Band 11/22/95
Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
China Cat Sunflower->
I Know You Rider
Hard to Handle
Casey Jones
King Bee
Uncle John's Band->
He Was a Friend of Mine - Grateful Dead 12/12/69 Thelma Theater, Los
Angeles
November 29, 1995 guest host: Joel Sachs
November 22, 1995 guest host: Russ Jennings
November 15, 1995
Almost Cut My Hair - CSNY, from the CSN box These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Mary Schmary, Flex Your Estrogen The Gospel According to James - Apricot Jam, Preserved Machines - Lothar and the Hand People Guinnevere - CSN box Broke My Baby's Heart - Paul Butterfield's Better Days live 1973 Drown in My Own Tears - Ray Charles Live jam - Casady, Kaukonen, Garcia, Kreutzmann 9/8/70 Lazy Lightning->Supplication - Dick's Picks vol. 3 Human Highway - CSNY (unreleased acoustic version) Laughing - David Crosby, If I Could Only Remember My Name Alabama - Neil Young Box of Rain - Grateful Dead, American Beauty Everybody's Been Burned - Graham Nash solo acoustic Eep Hour - Garcia et al. studio jam
November 8, 1995
Blue Grass Twist - Early Dawg
Caliente - David Grisman Quintet,
Dawganova
Ripple - Grateful Dead, American Beauty
Swanee - David Grisman and Martin Taylor,
Tone Poems II
Teasin' the Frets - Tone Poems II
So What - Garcia & Grisman 9/7/93 NPR studios
Overture - David Grisman and Andy Statman, Mandolin Abstractions
White House Blues - Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys, from Mountain Music Blue Grass Style
Sophronie - Jimmy Martin, You Don't Know My
Mind
Bags' Groove - Garcia & Grisman 5/92 Warfield Theater,
SF
'Round Midnight - Miles Davis, 'Round About
Midnight
Chelsea Bridge - Ben Webster, The Verve
Years
In a Mellotone - Duke Ellington, The Blanton-Webster
Band
Over the Rainbow - Tone Poems II
Sitting in Limbo - Garcia & Grisman 5/92
Caroline (w./ David Grisman) - Eric Rawlins and David Gans,
Home
By Morning
Mairzy Doats - Tone Poems II
Goin' Places - Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti
Shalom Aleichem - David Grisman and Andy Statman, Songs
of Our Fathers
November 1, 1995
It's a Man's World->
Wang Dang Doodle - Ratdog 9/2/95 Warfield Theater, SF
Sweet Old World - Emmylou Harris, Wrecking
Ball
Hymn to Her - Pretenders, The Isle of
View
Chance in a Million - Zero, Chance in a
Million
Girl on LSD - Tom Petty
Wacky Tobacky - NRBQ, Peek-A-Boo
Estimated Prophet->
Eyes of the World->
jam->
St. Stephen->
jam->
Not Fade Away->
Black Peter->
Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead 10/29/77 DeKalb IL
October 25, 1995
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan Unplugged Tangled Up in BLue - Indigo Girls, 1200 Curfews Sparkling in the Sand - Tower of Power, Live and in Living Color Tupelo Honey - Edlos, A Cappella Country Lovely Rita - Big Daddy, Sgt. Pepper's Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly, from The Music Never Stopped Tico Tico - David Grisman Quintet, Dawganova Little Red Rooster Every Little Light Twilight Time KC Moan Young Blood Eternity The Winners Heaven Help the Fool-> drums-> bass solo-> Victim or the Crime-> Throwing Stones - Ratdog 9/2/95 Warfield Theater, SF
Dark Star->
Playing in the Band (reprise)->
Dark Star - 9/20/90 Madison Square Garden
Dark Star - 3/2/69 Fillmore West
It Must Have Been the Roses - Jerry Garcia, Reflections
Brokedown Palace - Henry Kaiser, Eternity Blue
Slipknot!->
Franklin's Tower - 10/9/76 Oakland Stadium
Down in the Willow Garden - Art Garfunkel, Angel Clare
Standing on the Moon->
Good Lovin' - 8/16/91 Shoreline
Dead to the World - September 13, 1995
Foolish Heart 6/8/90 Cal Expo
JG re David Grisman, from a JGB radio special (vinyl, promo from Arista 1991)
Rusian Lullaby - Garcia-Grisman
Dark Star - 4/8/72 Empire Pool, Wembley, England (from Glastonbury Fayre
album)
To Lay Me Down - Garcvia
He's Gone->
Truckin'->
Nobody's Fault jam->
drums->
The Other One->
I Know You Rider - 3/31/73 Buffalo War Memorial
Someone Else's Blues - David Bromberg, Wanted Dead or Alive
Promised Land Sugaree Jack Straw China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider - 8/24/72 Berkeley Community Theater Cumberland Blues - Cache Valley Drifters, Step Up to Big Pay! Bird Song Tennessee Jed Introducing Keith and Donna Playing in the Band Casey Jones Dark Star-> Morning Dew - 8/24/72 Berkeley Community Theater
Uncle John's Band - 12/26/79 Late for Supper/Spidergawd - Garcia jam - 9/21/72 Spectrum, Philadelphia Rubin and Cherise - Cats Under the Stars Bob Young's JG tribute from KPFK Mississippi Moon - Garica, Compliments "Drums and Space" - poem by Barry Smolin Cats Under the Stars - JGB,C.U.T.S. jam - 2/24/73 Iowa City Dennis McNally on the phone jam-> Not Fade Away-> jam-> Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad - 5/19/74 Portland Coliseum
Drums and Space Now he's gone And gone too the blessing of his presence Gone the plain spontaneity Gone the delicate elegance Gone the lunatic doodlings Gone the miraculous bastions Gone the manic placid dance Gone the mystical candor Gone the transcendental intensity Gone the naughty raucous chaos Gone the haunting lostness Gone the heady impressions Gone the festive message Gone the trippy sinful gist Gone the grumpy uncle Gone the happy rabbi Gone the moody buddha Gone the sly smiling santa Gone the complex knowledge Gone the all things possible Gone the honest promise Gone the future evolutions Gone the future forever Gone Gone with pallid finality He's gone and nothing's going to bring him back No nothing's left but drums and space Our sadness and our gratitude at last But if the purpose of the journey Is the journey to a purpose The inevitable end of everything Then go Jerry Go off to your next destiny Go away engaged in the great translation Go take your place on the playground Go find all your old friends Go spawn the long forgotten Go spread the best epic yet Go track the everlasting vastness Go watch it all happen Go to it Go be who you are (Like you always taught us Like the essence of your lesson ever: Be who you are) Yes go be who you are The rehearsal is over Go jam a stratospheric passage Go blow the most heroic solos Until nothing's left but drums and space Shred the heavens man We'll be listening for you --Barry Smolin 9 August 1995 From michaelz@zoka.com Thu Aug 31 20:25:38 1995 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 20:26:36 -0800 From: michaelz@zoka.com (Michael Z.) Subject: Transcript: Dennis McNally on KPFA, 8/30/95 [long] This is my transcript of the 10-minute phone conversation between David Gans and Dennis McNally, GD publicist, on yesterday's "Dead to the World" broad- cast on KPFA, Berkeley. I'm posting this in the interests of propagating some "official" information from the band (even if it does come from the P.R. flak, and is noteworthy more for what is *not* known yet). I have no doubt the silly rumors will continue on r.m.g -- some are actually fun (if not taken too seriously) -- it's a jungle in here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dead to the World" KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley CA 8/30/95, 7-9pm PDT Transcript: Dennis McNally phone call David Gans: The person on the line with me here, folks, is Dennis McNally, the publicist of the Grateful Dead and the official historian of the Grateful Dead. Dennis McNally: Ah, yeah. DG: And I just basically wanted you to call in and say hello, and tell us how you're doin' and if you know anything, what we oughta know, et cetera. DM: Um, well, you know, we're hangin' in there. It's still busy, you know. Not to gripe a lot, because there's more important things around, but it's still darn busy. There's *not* a lot to say, you know, I've said this so many times -- and I apologize, because I get a lot of reporters who are either (a) convinced that I'm holding back or (b) fed up with what I'm saying, and I don't mind saying *I'm* semi-fed up with it, too, just 'cause the repeti- tion's getting much -- and that is very simply, and quite truthfully: the band, outside of the immediate and obvious things of doing the funeral -- the private funeral -- and then the public ceremony in the park, for which David [Gans] and Dick [Latvala] did the really cool thing, which was of course the whole point of it, which was to listen to music and think about things -- the only two decisions the band has really made were to cancel the fall tour and to, as I have been putting it, put the business structure into partial hiber- nation, and to leave things organized to carry on with what's essential while basically they sit back and think about what they want to do. That is really it.* A couple of them have been off with their families, away from Marin, and so I haven't really talked with anybody except Bobby, and as I say, the band hasn't made any decisions, which is not always very satisfactory to Deadheads wanting to know, well, what's going on right now, right now, and I don't say as I blame 'em, uh, being somewhat interested in it *myself*. . . DG: I can imagine. . . DM: . . . but nobody knows. And anybody who tells you, "Well, *I hear. . .*" is absolutely BSing you, you know, really and truly, because, um, nobody in the band has -- other than the really immediate and urgent decisions that had* to be made a couple of weeks ago -- they haven't been together, I don't believe they've really particularly talked; the only bits of news I can tell you is, among other things -- news which I imagine David's talked about, but quite frankly, I don't know -- and that is that there'll be a really cool CD coming out, which is *long* planned, I mean it's not hot-breaking news, planned certainly before Jerry died, and that is what's being called "The Hundred-Year Hall," the Jahrhundert Halle show from April 26. . . DG: 1972. DM: . . .1972, a really cool, what in effect is a really cool "Europe '72" outtake. That'll be out September 26th, and because, also coincidentally, we had, the band had decided to distribute Grateful Dead records through Arista now, through a larger distribution setup, that [CD] should be really easy to get hold of, for all of you that will hear this that might not necessarily be real close to a big record store. DG: Well, and it'll also be available through the usual 800 number, right? DM: And the 800 number [1-800-225-3323] and all that good stuff. DG: We were talking a little bit about the autopsy report, and how interest- ing it is that the various columnists and axe-grinders thought that it was, you know, important to make note that Jerry was a drug user, when in fact it seems like it was the cigarettes and cheeseburgers that had more to do with his demise. DM: People have been calling me and asking me that, obviously, well, for a long time -- and I've said it a thousand times, and I know that they didn't think that I was telling the truth -- that what I worried about with him was side effects of his lifestyle and quite frankly, not drug use. And alas and alack, I was right. As we said August 9th, and will say, he died of a heart attack. I think you probably would have read -- David's probably mentioned the, uh, autopsy noted that two out of the three arteries that went to his heart were 85 percent blocked, which is. . . DG: Wow. DM: . . .not a way you can live; you can't live with that and uh, his body, uh, didn't. Obviously, as somebody who loved him and who also wanted very much for him to face things, what I'm gonna remember is *where* he died, and he died in a rehab center, out of his own choice, by his own -- you know, because he drove himself there, because he recognized that he had to change things and frankly, that's* what I'm gonna remember. The rest is, frankly, real boring. What he made, a commitment to his art and to his muse and to his life and his family -- and of *that* I am proud. DG: So, Dennis, regardless of what the band's plans are, are you thinkin' about writin' that book yet? DM: Oh, yeah, it's getting a little closer [laughs]. Yeah, you know, I got asked by Jerry to be the band's biographer a loooong time ago. . . DG: About 15 years ago now, isn't it? DM: Now, it's right up on 15 years. And 11 years ago, he asked me to be the publicist, because *they* needed one and *I* needed a job, which sounded okay to me at the time, and I recognized then, as now, that I could not be on the road and a part of the business structure of the band *and* write a hist-- you know, a reasonable history that's fair. I'm not going to tell every stinking story I know, obviously, because -- there's not that many *good* ones, frankly. Most of the good, juicy stories are kind of silly human weak- ness rather than anything. . . DG: You have to leave a few for *Parish's* memoirs, I think. DM: Hey! You know, he'll have a few stories. But at any rate, um, yes, I in- tend to start working, basically, as soon as the phones *stop* ringing 400 times a day. It will still be a couple of years of writing before I can even think about, uh, you know -- so it ain't gonna be soon. There're gonna be plenty of potboilers for your delectation, ranging from the incredibly lame, like the one that will be out in a couple of months from Rolling Stone -- I don't know, it may not even be lame, but the fact is, the indecent haste with which it's coming out is. . . DG: Well, I got a number of phone calls from publishers asking all sorts of ridiculous things. DM: Oh, yeah, and David, you're not the only one, believe me. [Laughs] DG: Oh, I know it. I and my colleagues have been comparing notes quite a bit. DM: And they're all convinced that there's money to be made here, so -- Quite frankly, the lowest taste, from I guy I actually respect, was on August 10th, I got a call offering me a job, which was, uh, kind of hard for me to believe. DG: Wow. DM: But at any rate, uh, all I can say is good luck to everybody. It's a, huh - churning something out in a couple of months is gonna add to the world's pile of bound pages, rather than -- I don't know how much it's gonna con- tribute... DG: Well, the trick is for all of us out there in the audience to figure out what's worth reading and what's not, given the amount of stuff that's likely to come out over the next six -- my attitude, and most of my professional Deadhead journalist friends have all agreed with this, is that if it's worth doing, it's worth doing in a proper time span, and not doing in this im- mediate wake of Jerry's demise, you know. DM: And you know, the fact is, um, and I have no inside knowledge, *believe* me, but, you know, a number of people were running around saying, *if* this group of musicians were to play again, they *couldn't* be the Grateful Dead. My comment was, that's what everybody said in 1973, when Pigpen died. DG: Look, I don't know *why* people think that; I think it's sort of colos- sally missing the point to claim that Jerry's death kills the Grateful Dead. I mean, the DNA was in all of them, right? DM: It was a collective group of amazing musicians, and the point of its coolness was when there were no individuals left, not even in the band, not even in the room, not even in the audience -- we were one interesting group mind. DG: *Exactly.* DM: And, uh, you know. . . DG: So who knows?! DM: It's a very *open* universe. DG: Well, my attitude toward that is that I don't even want to register an opinion with the band members, I want them to decide for *themselves* if they want to continue. DM: Which they will. [Laughs] DG: Oh, I'm sure they're getting tons of unwelcome input about it. DM: Oh, probably, although you know, it's like -- only *they* have a vote... DG: That's right. DM: . . .so we'll wait and see. DG: Well, Dennis, thanks for calling in . . . DM: You're welcome. DG: . . .I'm going to play a bunch of music for the next half-hour, and if you're smart, you'll turn on your radio because I think you're gonna like this. DM: Okay, promise. DG: Thanks, Dennis. Take care. DM: Bye-bye.
Interview + Foolish Heart - Built to Last Simple Twist of Fate - JGB Live Talk Bird Song - KFOG Warriors Jam (1990 w/ Branford Marsalis) Cigarettes and Coffee - JGB, from the SMOKE Soundtrack Talk Uncle John's Band - Stanford Marching Band Alligator-> Caution - 8/23/68 Shrina Auditorium, LA Talk Clouds - Sanjay Mishra w/ Jerry Garcia Talk
Open #9 (Dark Star) Knockin' on Heaven's Door 11/7/87 Remembering Jerry #1 Death Don't Have No Mercy 9/29/89 Remembering Jerry #3 Eyes of the World->China Doll 10/19/74 Bird Song - Gans, Carnahan and Petrie (live) Brokedown Palace (same) Ripple (American Beauty) Eulogies from the Polo FIeld 8/13/95 Over the Hills (Robert Hunter, Tiger Rose) Remembering Jerry #2 I'll Take a Melody (JG, Reflections)
Guest Elizabeth Zipern, author of _Cooking with the Dead_, with a discussion of the parking lot "crisis" and calls from listeners. Scarlet Begonias - Sublime, 40oz. to Freedom Mama Tried - Merle Haggard, from The Music Never Stopped Monsoon - Sanjay Mishra w/ Jerry Garcia
Big River Loser Looks Like Rain Jack Straw Fennario Deal Lazy Lightning-> Supplication - 5/11/77 St. Paul Civic Center
Eyes of the World-> Man Smart, Woman Smarter - 10/17/94 Madison Square Garden Crazy Fingers (work in progress) - 2/19/75 at Ace's Crazy Fingers (work in progress) - 3/5/75 at Ace's Crazy Fingers - One from the Vault
RIOT coverage: interview with Cmeron Sears, phone calls form listeners Uncle John's Band-> jam-> Around and Around - 5/11/77 St. Paul Civic Center
DARK STAR->
FALLING STAR - David Gans and Henry Kaiser 6/11/95
Sweetwater, Mill Valley CA
SCARLET BEGONIAS->
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN->
GOOD LOVIN'
BROKEDOWN PALACE - 5/11/77 St. Paul Civic Center
Jockomo (Iko Iko) - Larry Williams (1957 single) Casey Jones China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider Mama Tried; High Time Good Lovin' - 5/14/70 Merramec Community College, Kirkwood MO Wang Dang Doodle - Rob Wasserman, Bob Weir, Lou Reed, Bruce Cockburn Stagger Lee - Tooloos 12/19/76 Keystone Berkeley Detoxify - John Allair Cleans House Shake, Rattle and Roll - Tooloos 12/19/76 High Place - John Allair Cleans House Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - 5/14/70 Here Comes Sunshine Eternity - 4/2/95 Pyramid, Memphis Sugaree Mr. Charlie Black Throated Wind Deal Chinatown Shuffle - 5/11/72 Rotterdam All Along the Watchtower-> Stella Blue-> Satisfaction Liberty - 8/1/94 The Palace at Auburn Hills MI Attics of My Life - 5/14/70
NEWTilaudio Take Me to the River - 4/1/95 the Pyramid, Memphis Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Alabama Getaway - 3/30/95 the Omni, Atlanta Dire Wolf - 9/10/74 Alexander Palace, London Cumberland Blues New Speedway Boogie - 5/14/70 Merramec Community College, Kirkwood MO The Race Is On Wake Up Little Susie Uncle John's Band - date/venue unknown, early 1970
Open I Know You Rider Cold Jordan - 5/15/70 Fillmore East The Person You Were Meant to Be - Apricot Jam 4/15/95 Fox Theater, Boulder CO Gyuto Monks feature by Catherine Girardeau Morning Dew Good Lovin' Dire Wolf Next Time You See Me - 5/15/70 Fillmore East
Prelude-> Weather Report pt. 1-> Let It Grow-> Spanish jam-> Eyes of the World-> China Doll - 7/19/74 Selland Arena, Fresno CA
Post-UJB jam - 3/27/95 Omni, Atlanta jam-> The Last Time-> Visions of Johanna-> One More Saturday Night - 3/18/95 Spectrum, Philadelphia
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Garcia Band, from the SMOKE soundtrack You Win Again - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, Swing Low, Sweet Mandolin Unbroken Chain - 3/23/95 Charlotte NC It's All Too Much-> Iko Iko - 3/18/95 Spectrum Hornsby and the drummers - 3/23/95 jam-> Days Between - 3/23/95
Intro by Dick Latvala Dark Star-> Philo Stomp - 10/28/72 Public Hall, Cleveland Dark Star-> Philo Stomp-> jam - 10/18/72 Fox Theater, St. Louis
Part 1 24:15 Touch of Grey-> Greatest Story Ever Told Let It Grow - 6/6/92 Rich Stadium, Buffalo NY Part 2 29:20 jam-> The Other One-> The Wheel-> Throwing Stones-> One More Saturday Night - 6/6/92 Rich Stadium, Buffalo NY
Part 1 43:00 Open Shakedown Street-> Bertha-> Playing in the Band-> Terrapin 5/7/80 Barton Hall, Ithaca NY Man Smart, Woman Smarter - C.J. Chenier, Too Much Fun (brand new album!) Part 2 4:35 Alabama Getaway 5/7/80 Barton Hall, Ithaca NY Brown-Eyed Women - Pontiac Bros., Fiesta en la Biblioteca
March 22, 1995
1.Segment 1 8:01 Open Unbroken Chain (1974 rehearsal) 2.Segment 2 15:17 Gyuto Monks feature: excerpts from Freedom Chants from the Roof of the World Interview with Richard Kohn Press conference with Mickey Hart 3. Segment 3 32:39 Grateful Dead at SNACK 3/23/75
Interview with Dick Latvala and excerpts from Dick's Picks #2 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad-> Not Fade Away - 10/31/71 Columbus OH (Dick's Picks #2) Unbroken Chain - Joe Gallant and Illuminati, Code of the West Long Time Gone - David Crosby, It's All Coming Back to Me Now Cumberland Blues - Cache Valley Drifters, Step Up to Big Pay Rider - The Big Three, from Troubadours of the Folk Era
Salt Lake City - Grateful Dead 2/21/95 Delta Center, Salt Lake City Skelvis! the soundtrack - Mutilaudio by David Gans Lori Abrams, sign language interpreter jam-> Visions of Johanna-> Sugar Magnolia - GD 2/21/95
It Hurts Me Too - Eric Clapton, From the Cradle Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin (solo acoustic demo), 18 Essential Songs Beat It On Down the Line - GD 3/30/68 Carousel Ballroom China Cat Sunflower-> Crazy Fingers-> I Know You Rider Playing in the Band-> drums - 7/29/88 Laguna Seca