Today I have an interview with local trombone player Karl Bartlett about his all star album BETTER TIMES – and his CD release party Sunday at the Sweetwater. Tune in at 10am PST on one of these DHLTV channels:
Join us LIVE this morning as I chat with Pete Sawyer & The Left Hand Monkey Wrench Gang! Several members of the band will be joining me to talk about the show next week.
On Sunday August 13, 1995 there was a very large gathering at the Polo Fields in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park – a memorial for Jerry Garcia, who’s passing a few days earlier on August 9th, 1995 brought forth a tsunami of grief from the worldwide Deadhead community. This official gathering , with fans, family, and his Grateful Dead bandmates came together very quickly, and had a huge turnout, with people flocking in from all over.
I was there. I had already missed a couple days of work on the 9th and 10th, and had gotten chastised by my manager, that it is not OK to take time off when a celebrity passes. I tried to explain how much bigger this was, but to no avail. I had to agree to not be paid for those days, not allowed to use sick time as family bereavement leave I had started this corporate 9-5 gig at the beginning of 1995, and was also taking a massage therapist certification course, trying to develop a new career beyond selling shirts in the lot. I hadn’t gone to many Dead shows in ’95 because of work and school, my final run being the 3 shows at Shoreline in June of ’95.
On Sunday morning, August 13th, on the bus on my way to a day of classes at massage school, I realized I needed to be in Golden Gate Park at the Jerry memorial that day more than I needed to be in class. I was on a bus headed from Venice Beach to Culver City, several hundred miles south of GGP. I did not have a car, but I did have a couple hundred dollars in the bank because of my day job. Going on a feeling, I transferred buses to one headed to LAX (Los Angeles International Airport). I went straight to Southwest airlines and was able to buy a one way ticket to Oakland that left soon, I was wearing only gym shorts and a t-shirt, had a backpack with a set of massage table sheets and my anatomy textbook , and maybe $100 left on my bank card. From OAK I got the Bart to the city, and then a bus to Golden Gate Park, and was able to join the memorial gathering. It took me about 3 hours from the time I left home to the time I was in Golden Gate Park. In these pre-smartphone days, I was pretty pleased with my knowledge of public transportation to get myself there on a whim. bus>bus>plane>bus>train>bus>park!
It felt very important to me to be there. I saw the altar, and lots of friends. It felt connected. Was so glad I went, Though I quickly realized I had to get home too. I found some people i kind of knew who were headed back to the LA area from the memorial, and was back home and in bed in the wee hours of Monday morning.
I made it in to work somehow by 9am. My manager called me into her office. She said she had seen the memorial on the news the night before, and had wondered if I was there. I told her I had been. She said she was glad I went. After seeing it on the news she said she realized this was more than just a celebrity passing, that this was my tribe, and we suffered a great loss. She apologized for not understanding when I took time off the week before.
___ (~);} ___
While we remember the sadness, don’t stay stuck there. 28 years later, we still miss Jerry. But we have all lived and loved and grown so much since then. The music never stopped, and we all keep on keepin’ on.
Thank you Jerry , for all the love you brought and all the light you have shed. Grateful for the friendships and memories made along the way, all the people i have met, and experiences I have had, because of the Grateful Dead. – happycat! Deadheadland, California Sunday August 13, 2023
You know our love will not fade away! Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack are back at it this September. Led by Bobby Weir alongside Don Was, Jay Lane and Jeff Chimenti and joined by The Wolfpack, a string and brass quintet featuring Alex Kelly, Brian Switzer, Adam Theis, Mads Tolling and Sheldon Brown, along with Barry Sless on
Sept 8 – Park City, UT+ Sept 10 – Franklin, TN* Sept 12 – Simpsonville, SC* Sept 13 – Charlottesville, VA Sept 15 – Saratoga Springs, NY* Sept 16 – Mansfield, MA* Sept 17 – Forest Hills, NY* Sept 19 – South Burlington, VT Sept 20 – Bridgeport, CT* Sept 22 – Clarkston, MI* Sept 26 – Columbus, OH Sept 27 – Philadelphia, PA Sept 28 – Baltimore, MD
+Park City Song Summit Festival (already on sale) *Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival
Dead & Company – The Final Tour Oracle Park San Francisco, California Sunday, July 16, 2023
I Bertha jm bw > Good Lovin’ bw > Loser bw High Time ob Samson & Delilah bw Althea jm Dear Mr. Fantasy jm > Hey Jude (reprise) Bird Song bw jm
II Help on the Way jm > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower jm Estimated Prophet bw > Eyes of the World bw > Drums/Space > Days Between bw > Cumberland Blues all > Sugar Magnolia bw
Encore: Truckin’ bw > Brokedown Palace > Not Fade Away all
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour LIVE FROM ORACLE PARK!
Get the stream here https://deadheadland.com/nugs (Link in bio too)
Streaming on via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #deadtour #CouchTour 🛋️✨🧳
Ultimate Dead & Company Video Playlist All the Set Openers from this past tour, Gary And David’s Dead Air Interviews, plus many hours more from past shows and tours! Enjoy!
Tune in tonight around 7pm PDT, they will post the Openers for set 1 & 2 to YouTube and Facebook. Or watch the full show streaming live – https://deadheadland.com/nugs use this link to purchase your streams, or try a Nugs subscription, and they will give Deadheadland a little something for sending you their way. Grateful! DHL | (~);}
Dead & Company – The Final Tour Oracle Park San Francisco, California Friday July 14, 2023
I Not Fade Away all > Shakedown Street bw Cold Rain and Snow jm Ramble on Rose bw Brown Eyed Women jm New Speedway Boogie bw > Wharf Rat bw > Don’t Ease jm
II China Cat Sunflower bw I Know You Rider bw jm > He’s Gone be jm > Scarlet Begonias bw > Fire On The Mountain ob > Drums/Space (Cumberland/Dark Star Jam)> Standing on the Moon bw > Casey Jones bw jm > U.S. Blues jm bw
Encore: Knocking on Heaven’s Door bw
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour #CouchTour ️✨麟
Dead & Company – The Final Tour The Gorge George, Washington Saturday July 8, 2023
I Half Step Mississippi Uptown Toodle-loo bw Here Comes Sunshine jm > Next Time You See Me jm > Loose Lucy bw Friend of the Devil jm bw They Love Each Other jm > Lost Sailor bw > St. Of Circumstance bw
II Playing in the Band bw > The Wheel jm bw > Playing in the Band (Reprise) St Stephen bw jm > William Tell Bridge bw > The Eleven bw Drums/space > Dark Star all > Althea bw Stella Blue bw > One More Saturday Night
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour #CouchTour 🛋️✨🧳
Streaming on https://LIVEDEAD.CO via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #deadtour
Dead & Company – The Final Tour Ruoff Music Center Noblesville, IN Tuesday June 27, 2023
I Bertha jm bw > Good Lovin’ bw It Must’ve Been The Roses jm Big River bw > Dark Star v2 bw (countrified) Next Time You See Me jm > Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Bird Song bw Don’t Ease Me In all
II Iko Iko bw Sugaree jm > China Cat Sunflower bw> I Know You Rider all > Uncle John’s Band all > Drums/Space > Hell In A Bucket bw > Wharf Rat bw > Turn On Your Lovelight bw
E: Touch of Grey bw jm
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour #CouchTour 🛋️ ✨ 🧳
Streaming on https://LIVEDEAD.CO via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #deadtour
Dead & Company Hollywood Casino Amphitheater Maryland Heights, MO Wednesday June 7, 2023
1 Let the Good Times Roll jm jc > Big River bw Friend of the Devil bw jm They Love Each Other jm Black Throated Wind bw Big Railroad Blues jm > Dark Star > Johnny B. Good bw
Setbreak show “Dead Air” with Gary Lambert & David Gans featuring: Adam Theis
2 Eyes of the World bw > Dark Star > Fire On The Mountain ob > Shakedown Street > Drums / Space > The Eleven bw > Death Don’t Have No Mercy bw > Going Down The Road Feeling Bad all
Encore: Knockin’ On Heavens Door bw jm
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour #CouchTour 🛋️ 🧳 Streaming on https://LIVEDEAD.CO via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #DeadTour 📸 from stream
Dead & Company Jeffy Lube Live Bristol, VA Saturday June 3, 2023
Set 1 Here Comes Sunshine jm > Half-Step Mississippi Uptown Toodle-loo bw > He’s Gone bw jm > Mr. Charlie jm Brown Eyed Women jm > Dear Prudence bw Turn On Your Lovelight bw
Set 2 Deal jm > Scarlet Begonias bw > Playing in the Band all > Cumberland Blues all > Uncle John’s Band all Drums / Space > Milestones > Days Between bw > Throwing Stones bw > One More Saturday Night bw
Encore: Ripple bw jm
DHLTV is reporting from Dead & Company’s Final Tour via #CouchTour 🛋️ 🧳
Streaming on https://LIVEDEAD.CO via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #DeadTour
Dead Air: Gary Lambert & David Gans talk to David Lemieux:
Dead & Company Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday May 23, 2023
I Feel Like a Stranger bw Alabama Getaway jm Ramble on Rose bw Dear Mr. Fantasy bw jm > Hey Jude (reprise) all Dark Star (v1) bw > Cumberland Blues bw jm > Casey Jones jm bw
Set break Gary Lambert and David Gans “Dead Air” interview with LP Giobbi
II Here Comes Sunshine jm Scarlet Begonias bw > Viola Lee Blues all > Spanish Jam > Dark Star (v2) bw > Fire On The Mountain ob > Drums and Space > I Need a Miracle bw > Death Don’t Have No Mercy > U.S. Blues jm
Encore: Ripple jm bw
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour, #CouchTour Streaming on LIVEDEAD.CO via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #DeadTour
Dead & Company The Forum Inglewood, California Saturday May 20th
I Bertha jm > Good Lovin’ bw Brown Eyed Women jm > Jack Straw bw jm High Time ob Mr. Charlie jm > Bird Song jm > Don’t Ease Me In jm
II Althea jmb> The Other One bw > Lady With a Fan jm> Terrapin Station bw > The Other One bw > Drumz* mh jl ob sp > Space> Stella Blue bw > Help on the Way jm > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower jm
E: Brokedown Palace jm bw
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour, #CouchTour Streaming on LIVEDEAD.CO via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #DeadTour
*with Steve Parish
Archive recording Dead & Company The Kia Forum – Inglewood, CA May 20, 2023 (Saturday)
I Shakedown Street > bw Cold Rain & Snow jm Half Step Mississippi Uptown Toodle-loo bw They Love Each Other jm St. Stephen all > William Tell Bridge > The Eleven bw > Deal
II Sugaree jm > New Speedway Boogie bw > Eyes of the World bw > Estimated Prophet bw > Drums jl mh on > Space > The Wheel all > Wharf Rat bw > Sugar Magnolia be
Black Muddy River jm
DHL reporting from Dead & Company Final Tour, #CouchTour Streaming LIVEDEAD.CO via Nugs.TV @nugsnet Tune in, Turn on, and drop into #DeadTour
VIDEO: Bob Weir, Billy Strings, Margo Price | Stay All Night | Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday | Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood California, Sunday April 30, 2023
VIDEO: Billy Strings – “Whiskey River” “Stay A Little Longer” | Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday | Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood California | Saturday April 29, 2023
New Orleans Suspects at the Joy Theatre New Orleans, Louisiana
VIDEO: George Porter Jr. & Billy Kreutzmann | “They Love Each Other” | New Orleans Suspects at the Joy Theatre New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday April 29, 2023 Photos provided by Larry Harris for DHL:
VIDEO: Bob Weir, Billy Strings, Mickey Raphael | “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” | Willie’s 90th Birthday | Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood CA | Saturday April 29, 2023 |
👆 photos taken from nugs.net stream. Watch an interview with Bill Kreutzman and the beginning of the show:
Billy & The Kids Thursday 4/27/2023 Saenger Theatre New Orleans, Louisiana
Billy and The Kids Bill Kreutzman drums Aaron Manger keyboards Reed Mathis bass/guitar James Casey sax Tom Hamilton Guitar and special guests George Porter Jr. bass, Molly Tuttle guitar/vocals, Jeff Franco drums
Set I
Good Times Roll * > am ( Cars) Truckin’ > rm Scarlet Begonias th rm Fire on the Bayou # > (Neville Brothers) Sugaree # gpj China Doll ^ mt Sunflower, Vol. 6 ^ + > mt (Harry Styles) Bird Song ^ mt White Rabbit ^ mt (Jefferson Airplane) Tangled Up in Blue ^ th (Dylan)
Setbreak 10:00pm CT
Set II ^ Get Back th (The Beatles) Help on the Way > th Slipknot! > Eyes of The World > th Standing on the Moon mt Dead Flowers th (Rolling Stones) Franklins Tower rm Forever Young james (Dylan) Take Me to the River th (Al Green) Drums > Iko Iko (Dixie Cups) band Intros th
* First time Played # George Porter Jr. bass guitar (Reed played guitar) ^ Molly Tuttle guitar (acoustic set 1, electric set 2) + First time played B&TK, MT has covered it before
Setlist support: Mark Palmer
This Billy and the Kids show was a fun mix of Grateful Dead classics, and some fun covers, including some surprises, like The Cars Let The Good Times Rolland Harry Styles Sunflower, Vol.6. Guest Molly Tuttle got to sing several songs, such a treat, and she joined the band for much of the first set on acoustic guitar, and all of the second set on electric.
A big highlight was James Casey’s vocals on the Bob Dylan song Forever Young.
Stream Video from Skull and Roses 2023 queued to the start of the Phil Lesh and Friends set on Sunday 4.23.2023
Setlist Phil Lesh and Friends Sunday April 23, 2023 – Skull and Roses Fest
Phil Lesh and Friends Sunday April 23, 2023 Skull and Roses Fest 💀 🌹
Jessica Masons Children pl > St. Stephen > Ballad of Elizabeth Reed China Cat Sunflower gl > Shakedown Street jc > New Speedway Boogie nc Viola Lee Blues pl Blue Sky db
Donor Rap & Band intro’s pl
Encore: Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) gl Brokedown Palace jh I Know You Rider all 🎻 Sugar Magnolia gl
Phil Lesh bass 🎸 Grahame Lesh 🎸 Duane Betts 🎸 Jason Crosby 🎹 🎻 John Molo 🥁 James Casey 🎷 Natalie Cressman trombone Jen Hartswick 🎺
Setlist: Phil Lesh and Friends | Skull and Roses Festival Day 4 | Saturday April 22, 2023 Phil Lesh – bass guitar, Grahame Lesh – guitar, Duane Betts – guitar, Jason Crosby – keyboards, JohnMolo – drums, James Casey – saxophone, Natalie Cressman – trombone, Jen Hartswick – trumpet
Phil Lesh and Friends will also be playing later today, Sunday April 23, closing out the 5th and final day of the Skull & Roses Festival.
Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo pl Brown Eyed Women db Liberty gl Althea db Cassidy gl nc Bird Song pl Deal db
Set 2: Help on the Way jc > Playing in the Band gl > Lady With a Fan gl pl > Terrapin Station gl pl Cumberland Blues all Jack Straw pl gl Slipknot! Franklin’s Tower all
Donor Rap pl Encore: Ripple all
If you missed it last night, watch it now, the stream is still available:
Phil Lesh and Friends Live from Skull and Roses 4.22.23 Set 1
Phil Lesh and Friends Live from Skull and Roses 4.22.23 Set 2
Bob Dylan – Only A River (Live) April 20, 2023 – Nagoya, Japan (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)
Only a River is a song recorded by Bob Weir off of his album Blue Mountain – it was written by Josh Ritter
When I learned yesterday that Mr. Dylan had sung a song that I’d written, I was washed over with a feeling that that can only be described as a cousin of vertigo. So many songs, and all of them rambling around out there. Somehow, this one found Dylan’s pasture. How beautiful.
“I am speechless”, Josh Ritter (@joshritter) retweeted when he got the note that Bob Dylan sang ‘Only A River’ in Nagoya, Japan on April 20, 2023. And he added “I wrote that song in the stairwell of my dorm in college, 25 years ago. Music is a blessed traveler.” Next day he tweeted “When I learned yesterday that Mr. Dylan had sung a song that I’d written, I was washed over with a feeling that that can only be described as a cousin of vertigo. So many songs, and all of them rambling around out there. Somehow, this one found Dylan’s pasture. How beautiful. I wrote Only a River in my dorm in college. Like all my favorites, it came unbidden, and I just wrote it down. Many years later, as I got the amazing opportunity to work with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, this song rose to the top of the pack, asking to be let out the door. I sent it to Weir and Josh Kaufman, who beautifully arranged and recorded and performed the song that Dylan eventually must have heard”.
Bob Weir | Only a River | Etown performance with Steve Kimock
Album cut of Only a River – Bob Weir, Blue Mountain 2016
Saturday 4/22 “New Year’s Eve~Earth Day 🌎”: (All times PT & subject to change) 11:30am- David Gans 12pm- No Simple Highway 1pm- Brown Eyed Women 2:15pm- Dogs In A Pile 3:30pm- The Alligators 4:45pm- Electric Waste Band w/Bill Walton 6:15pm- Circles Around The Sun 8pm- Phil Lesh & Friends
Phil Lesh and Friends Sunday December 17, 2023 The Fillmore San Francisco CA
Stu Allen 🎸 Stanley Jordan 🎸 Grahame Lesh 🎸 Adam MacDougall 🎹 John Molo 🥁 Phil Lesh bass 🎸
Set 1 The Wheel pl gl sa (chorus acapella) > Here Comes Sunshine sa > Viola Lee Blues pl gl sa Lazy River Road sa Me and My Uncle gl Jack-A-Roe sa > Bird Song pl gl sa
Set 2 Cosmic Charlie pl gl sa Jack Straw gl pl > Dark Star (v2) pl gl sa > Crazy Fingers gl > Dark Star Revolution sa Somewhere Over the Rainbow sj > The Wheel pl gl sa
Phil Lesh and Friends Friday December 15, 2023 The Fillmore San Francisco CA
Stu Allen 🎸 Stanley Jordan 🎸 Grahame Lesh 🎸 Adam MacDougall 🎹 John Molo 🥁 Phil Lesh bass 🎸
Set 1 The Wheel (chorus acapella) pl gl sa > Stagger Lee sa Uncle John’s Band all Mountains of the Moon pl > Let it Grow gl Big Railroad Blues sa Pride of Cucamonga pl
Set 2 Unbroken Chain pl > My Favorite Things (Stanley!) Passenger sa gl > Dark Star pl gl sa (v.1) > Born Cross Eyed gl Standing on the Moon sa Sugar Magnolia gl