From Jambands.com:
The Grateful Dead Hour Turns 20
The Grateful Dead Hour will celebrate its 20th anniversary of weekly, nationwide broadcasting on Saturday, February 19, 2005 with a radio marathon from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. PST. Hosted by David Gans, the show will be broadcast live on KPFA 94.1 FM in the Bay Area and KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno, CA. The broadcast may also be heard online at
http://www.nugs.net, http://www.kpfa.org and
http://www.kfcf.org.David Gans? first broadcast on the radio was February 18, 1985 on the KFOG Deadhead Hour. On February 19, he will feature some of his favorite musical moments, interviews and other material from the Grateful Dead Hour archives, as well as some recently-unearthed gems.
Very cool. Thanks for the heads up
No prob all just wanted to share. This show was the source of many a tape back in the day. I have listened to this show for just abt 18 yrs. now. wow that\'s a thought.
they used to play that show out here on whcn 105.9 for years and then the changed format to an easy listening rock channel. Havent heard it since. Used to be my sunday night ritual!
I used to tape that show years ago. Have over 400 tapes. Quite a few gems!!!! Damn crappy radio!!!
Originally posted by FrankZappa
they used to play that show out here on whcn 105.9 for years and then the changed format to an easy listening rock channel. Havent heard it since. Used to be my sunday night ritual!
wasn\'t that different? i thought that was WHCN\'s own thing -
DeadZone or something.. i could be wrong.. i usually am..
WHCN had two hours of Dead for a while. David Gans\' show for the first hour, followed by the DJ\'s picks for the second hour
Man, commercial radio sucks in CT now!
College stations, NPR = good
The rest = crap
back in the day.....when times were alot simpler..
8-11am,psychedelic sunday.with the dead set from 10-11 on plr
8-10pm,the dead zone on hcn
Don\'t forget Jamnation on Sunday nights, damn I miss that show.....
fuckkk.jamnation!!!yea..what ever happened to all the good
**** we had?
Clear Crap Communications and there yuppy "that doesn\'t make us rich" attitudes :no:
Hey thanks for that info, Wow just like some of you, I go way back with the dead hour. Every week on sunday\'s in my dorm in college brings back memories. Thanks!
Grateful Dead hour in the Uk? Now that would really be something. Touch of Gray was of course the only Dead song to ever get any airplay here.
Got my revenge though on radio stations by playing Europe 72 in its entireity over three consecutive weeks when I was a dj on the late night college radio Friday rock show. We only had about 100 regular listeners, but I always did my best to play as much obscure psychedelia like Kaleidoscope, The Seeds, (and everything on the Nuggets album) etc in between the expected Purple, Zep, Maiden, Motorhead etc. Best bit was that people started asking for more studio Dead - my copy of Skeletons got a lot of play and when I left, those original copies of Europe 72 and Nuggets came with me. Lucky they did as a year later the station closed and the stations collection was impounded by the college authorities and god knows what happened to it.