Category: Grateful Dead Records

  • The Bard on WLIR (Long Island), March 1978

    http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/RobertHunter1978-03WLIRInterviewRoslynNY.html Robert Hunter 1978-03-xx* Roslyn, New York unknown hotel (Hunter’s room) Interview by Denis McNamara for 92.7 WLIR-FM Garden City, New York (M?-FM) “Sunday At 9:00” radio program -expanded edition- (3 shows/parts) “A Conversation With Robert Hunter” Not sure how close in time this was to the 3/12/78 Long Island show with JGB, NRPS, and…

  • Twenty-Four Performances in Twenty-Four Days: April 6-30, 1973

    update: commenter RoG has brought two more gigs to my attention, Wed-Thurs April 25-26 with JGMS at Keystone, so the title has changed from “Twenty-Two” to “Twenty-Four”. All the more remarkable. update2: oh yeah, I forget to mention another little detail from this period: on April 19th, the Dead decided to start up their own…

  • On lead guitar and vocals, Mr. Jerry Garcia

    Bill Graham: Good evening. We welcome you, on behalf of the group. We should introduce … We should thank United Artists and Mr. Ron Rakow. I should make it official. Mr. Rakow is the President of Round Records. He asked if I could be here this evening, and I said ‘I’d like twelve dollars and…

  • Reading Notes: Dupree 1974

    Zoo World, January 31, 1974. “Cover photo captured by Mario Algaze the afternoon of a Leas Campbell presentation of the Grateful Dead at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Fla.”, December 18 or 19, 1973. A clean-shaven Jerry Garcia in Tampa, Florida, December 18 or 19, 1973. Photograph by Mario Algaze, published in Zoo World, January…