This week the Golden Road takes us back to October 4th, 1970 and the fabled Winterland for music by the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, the Quicksilver Messenger Service, Hot Tuna, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage (October 4th, 1970 was of course the day that Janis Joplin died, so what was to be a festive show turned into a somber event). We will have the entire Dead set this week and a taste of the other bands on the bill plus Janis too. And a shout out to Chuckles from the Dead Net Central days for his hand getting out this recording!
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Attention all ‘76 Weenies! This week the Golden Road takes us back to Fall 1976 for Grateful Dead music recorded live at the Capital Centre in Washington, DC on September 25th and the Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse on September 28th. These shows were released as Dick’s Picks Volume Twenty and it makes up this week’s music, which will include a few tracts from the Cap Centre and the second set from Syracuse.
Btw: Back in the olden days of DeadNetCentral (DNC), those of us who liked 1976 Grateful Dead were deemed '76 Weenies. Then, I am a very proud '76 Weenie!
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This week the Golden Road takes us to the Big Apple, New York City, for the Grateful Dead recorded live at Madison Square Garden on September 18, 1987. MSG hosted fifty-two Grateful Dead concerts and this week’s offering was one of the best all time MSG shows and is certainly a candidate for the best show of 1987, Garcia’s comeback year! This is a terrific show with loads of great playing, that is capped off by a massive Morning Dew!
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This week the Golden Road takes us to the Great Pyramid of Giza. That’s right we’re crossing the Great Pond with the Grateful Dead for their September 1978 Egyptian concerts. We find it hard to believe, but these famed gigs were played forty years ago this weekend. While hardly stellar performances by the band, the expedition to Egypt was a trip of a lifetime for the Dead and the many fans who made the journey. And did we mention the September 16th show (tonight’s show), was played under a full moon and a lunar eclipse! We also have music from Mickey Hart’s way cool release The Music of Upper and Lower Egypt to round out this edition of the Golden Road.
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This week on the Golden Road, we have Grateful Dead music from the brand-new Dave’s Picks 27, recorded live on September 2nd, 1983 at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Featured this week is the better part of the shows very fine second set. And as Phil Lesh said: “Citizens of Boise. Submit or perish. You’re a conquered people!”
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We here at the Golden Road have dedicated most of August 2018 to celebrating Jerry Garcia and his musical legacy. These past few weeks have been a great ride for us! And guess what? We have room for one more Garcia show this month. And since it is Labor Day Weekend (already? where did summer go?), we thought it a no-brainer that the Golden Road take us to the Merriweather Post Pavilion for music from the Jerry Garcia Band’s 1989 Labor Day concerts. These shows- September 1st & 2nd, 1989- were JGB’s only foray into this legendary amphitheater. Yours truly was at these shows and I can attest they were amazing and that tonight’s recordings captured Jerry at his best! Collectively these very fine JGB shows are known as "Jerryweather."
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Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia began their long musical partnership in 1961 as the duo Bob & Jerry. Known mostly as the Grateful Dead’s primary songwriter, Hunter also had a solo career and Hunter was often joined by Garcia in the studio on these various solo projects, where they recorded some very fine music together. We here at the Golden Road thinks it’s about time to dig into to these wonderful musical collaborations by our musical heroes. Accordingly, this week we are highlighting music recorded together by Bob & Jerry with songs selections that runs the gamut from Bob & Jerry in May 1961 to Hunter’s 1970s albums Tales of the Great Rum Runners and Tiger Rose to Hunter’s 1980 LP Jack O’ Roses to the Jerry Garcia Band backing up Robert Hunter to a taste of acoustic Jerry from the February 1986 Marin Vet show. Lots of good tunes this week folk!
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This week on the Golden Road, we have a special show featuring the music of legendary blues-rock guitarist Roy Buchanan. Roy was known as the “The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World,” and he left his mortal coil thirty years ago this week. Sadly, Roy’s music is now largely forgotten. However, we here at the Golden Road are trying to remedy this dire situation this week by serving you all up a big healthy portion of some of his finest sounds for your musical enjoyment and edification!
This show was for me and the people of Pittsburgh, Pa who loved their adopted son Roy Buchanan!
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This week on the Golden Road, we havethe second part of our annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Extravaganza! Last week, we featured all Jerry Garcia Band music, and this week we have all Garcia sung Grateful Dead songs. We delivered some pretty epic JGB songs last week, and we promise to serve up some more epic Dead jams this week with tunes spanning Garcia’s long career with the band.
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