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Grateful Dead Hour: Radio’s Weekly Dose of Dead
David Gans is the producer and host of The Grateful Dead Hour, a syndicated weekly radio program currently airing on dozens of stations across the U.S., including most major markets. The hour-long show features unreleased live material from the Dead's private vaults, but it's a lot more, too. Gans has made it a point to diversify the shows' content, so that listeners can not only add rare, vintage recordings to their collections but get some idea of "where the Dead are coming from."
Deadheads are familiar with musical segues that the Grateful Dead institutionalized over the years, to the point where the fans could actually shorthand them. China Cat Sunflower~I Know You Rider simply became China Rider; Estimated Prophet~Eyes of the World became Estimated Eyes, and Scarlet Fire was the contraction of Scarlet Begonias~Fire on the Mountain. Well, in 1991 at Shoreline Amphitheater, the perpetrated one of the biggest musical non sequiturs of their career, inserting Victim or the Crime in the middle of Scarlet Fire. Find out how they pulled it off on this week’s Grateful Dead Hour, plus the conclusion of the 1976 Capitol Theater, Passaic show wherein they cover Chuck Berry, Woody Guthrie, and Buddy Holly.
