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John Hell's Live Bootleg Bonanza - Tuesdays 8-10PM Pacific - Celebrating Jerry Garcia
August 5, 2025 8:00pm
John Hell's Live Bootleg Bonanza
Tuesdays 8-10PM Pacific
https://radiovalencia.fm
Jerry Garcia passed away 30 years ago on August 9, 1995. I was in bed when my alarm went off, turning on the clock/radio. I quickly hit the snooze button, but within the scant seconds between it turning on and my hand slapping the button, I heard my friend Nina "Ann Arbor" Price make a comment on her morning show on KFJC, that made me quickly turn the radio back on. Sure enough she had announced that Jerry had died.
My heart sank in a way I did not anticipate. I knew that I would outlive my favorite band. I also knew the last Dead show I attended, in September 1994 was so disappointing that I couldn't see myself going to another, but I had not expected his passing.
I have written a lot of My Life with the Grateful Dead on this blog, so I won't regurgitate any of that here.
Instead, I have for you two hours of live Grateful Dead, consisting of two songs. HA! I joke, I joke. There's ten songs on here to enjoy, spanning from late 1960s until 1980, all shining a light on the stellar guitar playing of one Jerome Jerry Garcia.
A lot of you know that I teach high school. Did you know I teach at Jerry's old school in San Francisco? What a treat! And the city just renamed the block of Harrington Street, blocks from where I teach, to Jerry Garcia Street. I get giddy just thinking of all the Heads who will make the pilgrimage here. I'm sure the neighbors won't be as excited, but here we are.
In the meantime, take a look at the playlist below, click on the link above and groove out to some good ol' Grateful Dead, in memory of the late, great Jerry Garcia.
Enjoy and please share.
jh
01 Dark Star > (Dick's Picks 36)
02 Morning Dew (Dick's Picks 36)
03 Scarlet Begonias > (Dick's Picks 18)
04 Fire on the Mountain (Dick's Picks 18)
05 Brown Eyed Women (Europe 72, 2001 remaster)
06 Cream Puff War - demo (Rare Cuts and Oddities)
07 Wharf Rat (Crimson, White and Indigo)
08 Friend of the Devil (Dead Set)
09 Bird Song (Reckoning)
10 Ripple (Reckoning)
Tuesdays 8-10PM Pacific
https://radiovalencia.fm
Jerry Garcia passed away 30 years ago on August 9, 1995. I was in bed when my alarm went off, turning on the clock/radio. I quickly hit the snooze button, but within the scant seconds between it turning on and my hand slapping the button, I heard my friend Nina "Ann Arbor" Price make a comment on her morning show on KFJC, that made me quickly turn the radio back on. Sure enough she had announced that Jerry had died.
My heart sank in a way I did not anticipate. I knew that I would outlive my favorite band. I also knew the last Dead show I attended, in September 1994 was so disappointing that I couldn't see myself going to another, but I had not expected his passing.
I have written a lot of My Life with the Grateful Dead on this blog, so I won't regurgitate any of that here.
Instead, I have for you two hours of live Grateful Dead, consisting of two songs. HA! I joke, I joke. There's ten songs on here to enjoy, spanning from late 1960s until 1980, all shining a light on the stellar guitar playing of one Jerome Jerry Garcia.
A lot of you know that I teach high school. Did you know I teach at Jerry's old school in San Francisco? What a treat! And the city just renamed the block of Harrington Street, blocks from where I teach, to Jerry Garcia Street. I get giddy just thinking of all the Heads who will make the pilgrimage here. I'm sure the neighbors won't be as excited, but here we are.
In the meantime, take a look at the playlist below, click on the link above and groove out to some good ol' Grateful Dead, in memory of the late, great Jerry Garcia.
Enjoy and please share.
jh
01 Dark Star > (Dick's Picks 36)
02 Morning Dew (Dick's Picks 36)
03 Scarlet Begonias > (Dick's Picks 18)
04 Fire on the Mountain (Dick's Picks 18)
05 Brown Eyed Women (Europe 72, 2001 remaster)
06 Cream Puff War - demo (Rare Cuts and Oddities)
07 Wharf Rat (Crimson, White and Indigo)
08 Friend of the Devil (Dead Set)
09 Bird Song (Reckoning)
10 Ripple (Reckoning)
