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02/01/2025

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01/01/2025

Just a reminder that we'll be LIVE with all the action when Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros bring us into the New Year from Fort Lauderdale. We're not set up to take phone calls tonight, but feel free to post your New Year's greetings and wishes here!

29/12/2024

https://gratefulretreats.com

612-834-1775

Welcome to the spiritual party! Unforgettable Experience Welcome to Grateful Retreats, where the beauty of humanity’s vibrations and the magic of the Grateful Dead converge to create an unforgettable experience. Inspired by the experience/vibrations I received at my first Grateful Dead show in St....

29/12/2024

https://gratefuldrag.com

BERTHAshe’s a GRATEFUL DRAG band "Nashville's BERTHA gives the Dead an irreverent, joyful makeover" - Rolling Stone "The musicians of BERTHA are proving that drag queens and the Grateful Dead are not such strange bedfellows" -Yahoo Entertainment Upcoming Shows: One More Saturday Night (10-21-23) T...

29/12/2024

29/12/2024

https://www.samgrismanproject.net/about

A NOTE FROM SAM The music that my father David Grisman and his close friend, Jerry Garcia, made in the early 90s (in the house that I grew up in) is not only some of the most timeless acoustic music ever recorded, it also triggers my oldest and fondest musical memories. What I find most inspiring ab...

29/12/2024

https://gratefulhotel.com

The Grateful Hotel has grown from all the years combined. They melt into a dream in this inspired boutique hotel, come along and enjoy the experience.

29/12/2024

Today on Tales: Last show of 2024! We'll send this year off with some recollections of another notable December 29th you might recall hearing about; we'll hear from our friends at the Grateful Hotel in Costa Rica about some of their plans for 2025; and we'll check in with our friend Sam Grisman, who's got some exciting things brewing. We always look forward to hearing from listeners, as well. Tell us how the holidays are going for you, let us know your New Year's plans, or just talk about anything Grateful Dead-related. The number is 888-897-4748.

28/12/2024

https://yourtripisshort.bandcamp.com/album/our-trip-is-short-vol-8-jerry-breathes

Released every year since 2017 on December 28th, the Our Trip Is Short compilation series showcases a natural network of experimental-minded jamband fans who actively strive to push the boundaries of both the Phish and the Grateful Dead canon. Each edition is compiled and mastered by Hausu Mountain co-founder Doug Kaplan (MrDougDoug), and features artwork by Alaina Stamatis (who designs as Fad Albert & co-owns Western Mass-based record store Deep Thoughts). Throughout the years, tracks have traversed through styles including but not limited to bizarro electronics, ambient / drone, audio collage / plunderphonics, spoken word / comedy, dub reggae, chiptune, and acid house, balanced out by more traditional song-oriented approaches and live improvisations.

Our Trip Is Short Vol. 8: Jerry Breathes contains over two hours
of tributes from some of our most devoted alumni and a few new
friendly faces. The Hausu Mountain universe shines brightly with
Mukqs's disorienting, rapid-panning collage work, MindSpring
Memories (Angel Marcloid / Fire-Toolz) slowing down Phish ballads
to slush speeds, and MrDougDoug's signature clown calliope MIDI
arrangements. Massacusetts-based Dead tribute band Owsley's Owls deliver a time-dialating version of "Space" that perfectly melts into Chicago-based trio TRAYSH's extra spacey vision of Phish's "What's The Use". Meanwhile, NYC-based jam pranskters Ace Bandage blaze through a series of "The Other One" jams that melt into a gorgeous saxophone and synth take of "Rubin &
Cherise" before getting back on the bus. Chicago- based quartet nonband also probe the infinite depths of "The Other One," landing on a bombastic cover of Neil Young's "Cortez The Killer." Nonband members Joel Berk and Corey Lyons also appear as ragenap and Dathon. Striving to emulate Phish and the Dead's bold selection of covers as a form of spiritual alliance, Joel & Corey chose to include their version of Alice Coltrane's “Journey in Satchidananda" on this year's compilation.

15 track album

23/12/2024

Joe Zimmerman, who called in about this, sent the photo!

22/12/2024

Robert Hunter and I wrote this song together!

SHUT UP AND LISTEN

You're so busy talkin'
You never find out
What ev'ryone else
Is keepin' quiet about
You're so busy knockin'
You don't understand
The door's wide open
Don't go breakin' your hand

CHORUS:
Shut up & listen
A minute or two
Shut up & listen
You could pick up a clue
Shut up & listen
Doot'n doo doo
Shut up & listen
Yeah I'm talkin' to you

Shut up and listen
Or you may never learn
Why pigs don't fly
And why water don't burn
Why you can't find a cop
When it's a cop you need
Why you can't grow gators
From crocodile seed

CHORUS

Walking in the storm
With my ear to the blast
Thinkin' each moment
Could be my last
A small still voice
Seemed to beckon within
So quiet in there
You'd hear the drop of a pin
I asked what it wanted,
Said what do you crave?
It said: nothin' but the first dance
On your grave
I reached for the faucet
And I turned off the storm
Crawled under the bed
To consider reform

CHORUS

You don't pay attention
You don't analyze
An ounce of comprehension's
Worth a ton of surmise
Shut up and listen
And it may come clear
Why the key to your hope’s
Is the thing that you fear

CHORUS

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22/12/2024

To those who might be new to the genius and beauty of Zakir Hussain's music, or if you're familiar with his work with Mickey Hart and would like to dive in deeper, here's a selected discography:

Zakir Hussain Selected Discography 1971 SHANTI, Atlantic 1972 ROLLING THUNDER, Grateful Dead Records/Warner Bros. 1975 KARUNA SUPREME, MPS 1975 SHAKTI, Columbia 1976 A HANDFUL OF BEAUTY, SHAKTI, Columbia 1976 DIGA, DIGA RHYTHM BAND, Shout! Factory 1977 NATURAL ELEMENTS, SHAKTI, Columbia 1980 WHO’S...

22/12/2024

http://russanixter.com

22/12/2024

https://quiet-at-the-show.printify.me/products

22/12/2024

Today on Tales: A very full show, with lots to talk about. We'll remember a great musician and a dear friend, Zakir Hussain, who left us far too soon last Sunday at 73; later in the first hour we'll check in with Russ Anixter, leader of New York's Hippie Big Band and hear something from their brand new album; and we'll have a preview of tonight's broadcast (airing at 8:30 ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+) of The Kennedy Center Honors, including some of the interviews GL got on the red carpet at the event on December 8th, a song from the Grateful Dead portion of the event, and a phone visit with Don Was, who assembled and led the excellent house band for the tribute.

Even with all that, we still should have more than enough time for input from you out there. Share your holiday plans, tour stories, questions and more, by calling 888-897-4748.

📷: Finale of the Kennedy Center Honors, Washington DC, 12/8/24