tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post6132122334747500555..comments2024-03-25T06:33:12.809-07:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: Grateful Dead Live FM Broadcasts 1971 (FM IV)Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-38742358414394413242022-02-05T07:36:25.564-08:002022-02-05T07:36:25.564-08:00Hi all, I have many GD FM broadcasts posted on FM ...Hi all, I have many GD FM broadcasts posted on FM Radio Archive, along with many other bands and artists from many music genres:<br />https://archive.org/details/fmradioarchive?query=grateful+dead&sort=-addeddate<br />You'll find Garcia & Saunders, Kingfish, Phil & Friends and even Jackie Greene here, please check it out and tell your friends. Thanks, Kim Paris - Creator & Curator, FM Radio Archive (and former Dead Ahead columnist for BAM magazine during the mid-70s)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509010042854819569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-49089041373967670542020-07-12T09:26:11.032-07:002020-07-12T09:26:11.032-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09060299891002722814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-20096479894164406472019-07-01T02:03:30.008-07:002019-07-01T02:03:30.008-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Arthur Teknikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463371868412583763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-15082326572592866512019-05-20T08:41:30.121-07:002019-05-20T08:41:30.121-07:00Regarding the WABX broadcast of the 10/23/71 show ...Regarding the WABX broadcast of the 10/23/71 show in Detroit, I was at that concert. Near the end of the NRPS set, they announced that they were on the air, so at least part of their set was broadcast. Keith Soltyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11022139065377254628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-81843539985020268132018-06-17T11:52:37.452-07:002018-06-17T11:52:37.452-07:00Duly noted---perhaps it was considered redundant a...Duly noted---perhaps it was considered redundant after 10/23 in Detroit?...dovetailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10177472684682355542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-64303780903514991132018-06-16T21:19:42.118-07:002018-06-16T21:19:42.118-07:00Apparently there wasn't a radio broadcast at A...Apparently there wasn't a radio broadcast at Ann Arbor. Maybe Warner Bros. didn't think it was much of a market? Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-7628116138653100122018-06-16T10:23:57.354-07:002018-06-16T10:23:57.354-07:00The list of Dead shows on the fall 1971 tour appea...The list of Dead shows on the fall 1971 tour appears to omit Ann Arbor MI 12/14/71, recently issued as part of Dave's Picks Volume 26.dovetailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10177472684682355542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-82455838865182579632018-02-15T11:06:08.655-08:002018-02-15T11:06:08.655-08:00And here is an article from Record World, December...And here is an article from Record World, December 1971: <br /><br />GRATEFUL DEAD LIVE ON WNEW<br /><br />The Grateful Dead recently made New York radio history as their December 5th Felt Forum concert was stereo simulcast over WNEW-FM radio. While the evening with the Dead recalled the live broadcast of the Fillmore East's closing night, this marked the first time in New York that an individual rock group was honored with an entire evening of prime radio time devoted to its live music. Under the auspices of WNEW Program Director Scott Muni and Music Director Mike Klemfner, the Warner Bros. recording artists played for a listening audience that Muni estimated to be close to 5,000,000 from 8 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. <br />In an effort to accommodate their legions of loyal fans, the Dead, who recently received a gold record for the two-record "Grateful Dead" album, have been working closely with radio stations across the country so that their sell-out concerts can be heard by anyone with an FM radio. And to ensure the high quality that is associated with the Grateful Dead, the band has been traveling with their regular engineer Bob Matthews, who has been supervising all the radio broadcasts. <br />The Dead's stereo tour has encompassed three phases. Phase One saw the group broadcasting throughout the Midwest, with concerts in Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and Cincinnati simulcast in stereo. Phase Two covered the Southwest with stereo transmissions from Dead concerts in Albuquerque, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. The New York WNEW-FM concert was the second one during Phase Three of the Dead's new concept of radio promotion, with the first show in the series broadcast in Boston over WBCN. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-60591667512086977982018-02-15T10:51:20.320-08:002018-02-15T10:51:20.320-08:00(continued)
The Grateful Dead is one of those gr...(continued) <br /><br />The Grateful Dead is one of those groups that can sell out concert halls with alarming speed. But the Dead object to playing the larger halls needed to accommodate their growing audience; the loss in intimacy and inferior - to their ears - sound systems do not suit them, according to John McIntire of the Dead management. On their last tour, in an attempt to bring their music to a larger audience, the group asked stations to carry their concert in each of the markets they played during the tour. <br />During a 10-week period, ending on New Year's Eve, the Grateful Dead played 15 live radio concerts across the country. In each market, the costs were shared jointly by Warner Bros. Records (the Dead's recording company), Columbia Records (the recording company for the New Riders of the Purple Sage, who travel with the Dead), and the Dead themselves. <br />WNEW-FM had two special holiday broadcasts, a presentation of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," and a taped concert of Led Zeppelin, obtained from the BBC. WNEW has contracted with the BBC for a series of concerts in 1972, including the Faces with Rod Stewart, the Rolling Stones, and the Who. <br />Other holiday live concerts included two by WBCN-FM Boston with Livingston Taylor and Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen; KDAY-AM Santa Monica, Calif., with Cheech and Chong and Helen Reddy; WLIR-FM Garden City, N.Y., with Buzzy Linhart and McKendrie Spring; and KSAN-FM San Francisco broadcast a Christmas party with Boz Scaggs as well as the New Year's Eve Grateful Dead concert.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-4077400751361332742018-02-15T10:51:02.068-08:002018-02-15T10:51:02.068-08:00Dave Davis unearthed an informative article from B...Dave Davis unearthed an informative article from Broadcasting magazine (the 1/10/72 issue) that puts the Dead's broadcasts in context. <br />In full: <br /><br />LIVE MUSIC REVIVAL WINS RADIO FANS<br /><br />For more than a year now, major-market radio stations - FM outlets, for the most part - have put their records back on the shelf for several hours every few months to broadcast live music from clubs, concert halls, and recording studios. The practice has grown, to the delight of audiences who appreciate the opportunity to hear more live music than their pocketbooks or ticket availability will allow. It may have reached a new peak during the holiday season past. <br />The relatively low cost of producing such live programming - an hour concert will cost about $800 or $900 (excluding talent fees, which are rarely a consideration) - has attracted many record companies to sponsor these concerts themselves. And the high audience appeal is drawing others. One such radio concert - by the Grateful Dead Dec. 5 on WNEW-FM New York - was heard by more than three million listeners, according to Scott Muni, WNEW's program director. <br />Techniques for financing and production of the concerts vary. Record companies may approach radio stations with a package in order to gain exposure for new acts. Buddah Records has tried this approach with Exuma and Buzzy Linhart, for example; it contracted WKTK-FM Baltimore to broadcast a concert from the Baltimore Civic Center on Jan. 22. <br />In other instances, radio stations have negotiated with artists only and produced concerts in recording studios with small invited audiences. Sometimes the record company is offered some or all of the sponsorship of these concerts after the arrangements for studio time and telephone lines are completed and paid for by the station. In the case of the WMMR-FM Philadelphia concert featuring Brewer and Shipley on Dec. 14, Buddah had only to pick up the tab for the artists' time and expenses. On the other hand, when WPLJ-FM New York broadcast a live concert from the A&R recording studio in New York, the 7-Up Co. sponsored all of it. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-81520403477318027322017-12-09T20:54:44.974-08:002017-12-09T20:54:44.974-08:00I believe tapes of the FM broadcast circulated bac...I believe tapes of the FM broadcast circulated back in cassette days, but now only the Dead's SBD tape is available online. There may well have been DJ comments about the delayed broadcast.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-14242928227372142182017-12-09T09:03:25.887-08:002017-12-09T09:03:25.887-08:00In an article inthe November 6, 1971 Billboard mag...In an article inthe November 6, 1971 Billboard magazine, "In addition WGLD-FM aired a three-hour concert by the Grateful Dead, live from the Auditorium Theater Nov [sic] 22." TourArchivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12788575292773591591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-16149230418843275152017-12-09T08:26:44.966-08:002017-12-09T08:26:44.966-08:00Thanks for clarifying. Perhaps the intention was t...Thanks for clarifying. Perhaps the intention was to broadcast live on 10/22 but at the last minute they could not so WGLD broadcast a tape from the previous night. That could account for the Tribune "mixup". Does an "off air" recording of the WGLD-FM broadcast circulate?TourArchivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12788575292773591591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-86802497671546348402017-12-09T06:03:56.776-08:002017-12-09T06:03:56.776-08:00Thanks, LIA. I updated again. A unique instance of...Thanks, LIA. I updated again. A unique instance of a first-airing of a Dead show on a night when they were playing the same city.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-44123026728632906792017-12-08T22:55:41.400-08:002017-12-08T22:55:41.400-08:00This is not quite the case. The FM tape of the 10/...This is not quite the case. The FM tape of the 10/21/71 show has always circulated, but the Dead's tape of 10/22 was never heard until recently - only the first night was broadcast. How to explain the Tribune's mixup? <br />Blair Jackson explains in the liner notes of the 10/22/71 Dave's Picks: <br />"The 10/21 show was not broadcast on 10/21 because of some sort of last-minute hassle with one of the local unions. Instead, a tape of it was aired the following night, 10/22. It took many years for a tape of 10/22 to surface at all."Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-40870976030366261832017-12-08T21:12:54.069-08:002017-12-08T21:12:54.069-08:00Thanks for this. It looks like you're right, I...Thanks for this. It looks like you're right, I fixed the post.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-80880311155930417652017-12-08T20:13:41.888-08:002017-12-08T20:13:41.888-08:00Corry, according to an October 22, 1971 newspaper ...Corry, according to an October 22, 1971 newspaper review of the Dead's October 21, 1971 Chicago Auditorium concert, it is mentioned that even though tonight's (October 22, 1971) concert is sold out "... take heart, the whole thingis being broadcast live over WGLD beginning at 7:30." So unless they broadcast both nights, the Chicago FM is from October 22. TourArchivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12788575292773591591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-73464644397062528222017-07-27T13:38:19.836-07:002017-07-27T13:38:19.836-07:00I was there too and you are correct, NRPS did not ...I was there too and you are correct, NRPS did not play either night. Also I would swear Pigpen sang both nights although the KSFX tapes say he didn't.$Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871884076552043319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-4403870991125517832017-07-27T13:36:37.765-07:002017-07-27T13:36:37.765-07:00Hi again. So I was at both the Noverber 6 & 7,...Hi again. So I was at both the Noverber 6 & 7, 1971 Harding Theater shows. And yes, the place was very tiny. I lived around the corner on Hayes. 11/6 was sold out. Snuck into the balcony via fire escape. Got kicked out. Was standing in Divisadero Street gutter when a girl at the door wiggled her finger at me and gave me my first miracle ticket. But there are many things I remember from those two shows that don't show up on the KSFX simulcast tapes on the Archive. Lots of stage banter from everyone and I'm 99.99% sure Pigpen sang both nights.$Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871884076552043319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-69917204236768998782016-12-31T19:30:32.637-08:002016-12-31T19:30:32.637-08:00Not sure where to put this, so might as well be he...Not sure where to put this, so might as well be here. Sam Cutler credits Rock Scully as "the only guy in the GD who understood the centrality of FM radio". In Jackson and Gans 2015, 184.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-81922549858633719922016-06-24T14:23:58.786-07:002016-06-24T14:23:58.786-07:00Thanks, LIA, I updated the post to include Austin....Thanks, LIA, I updated the post to include Austin.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-56573992120271896472016-05-03T17:35:09.699-07:002016-05-03T17:35:09.699-07:00There was a broadcast in Austin, Nov 15, noted in ...There was a broadcast in Austin, Nov 15, noted in Deadbase. At the start of the show, Weir greets radio listeners, and an old tape seems to come from the broadcast. I couldn't identify the station, though.<br /><br />It's interesting to see which cities didn't get the FM broadcasts. Warners apparently didn't have much faith in Texas; but it's odd that Ann Arbor had no broadcast, despite the Dead playing two shows in a university town. Perhaps ticket sales were a concern.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-40521764009975272382016-05-03T17:20:34.404-07:002016-05-03T17:20:34.404-07:00A newspaper review at the time said the show was b...A newspaper review at the time said the show was being broadcast on KRST, which was confirmed by an attendee. <br /><br />I think the guy who remembered the station as being KUNM was probably mistaken. He was definitely mistaken about the time - the show ended at 12:15 am. <br /><br />The Dead started early with a public soundcheck at 6:30, followed by an NRPS set, but the broadcast tape starts with the Dead's set. In Truckin' a radio DJ announces that there are still 200 tickets left and asks people to come on down to the Civic.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-18676796121589094172015-03-16T06:08:21.897-07:002015-03-16T06:08:21.897-07:00The New Riders did not play at the Harding Theater...The New Riders did not play at the Harding Theater show on 11/7/71, which I attended. I don't know if they played the previous night.cryptdevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944617292210813801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-36988621858984443012015-03-11T20:28:39.524-07:002015-03-11T20:28:39.524-07:00Cincinnati station was WEBN. Thanks for the post, ...Cincinnati station was WEBN. Thanks for the post, awesome as alwaysarzjrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06619849533939223443noreply@blogger.com