Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
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Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
If you're anti-vaccine, you're anti-science, and you're anti-life. GTF out of the way. You're taking away people's right to protect themselves from death, disease, and sequelae. Your voice has no place in public discourse.
Standing on the Moon Eight Days a Week She Belongs to Me Mr Tambourine Man Sovereign Sou Here, There, and Everywhere Box of Rain Headin’ Home Already Here Comes Sunshine Leave Me
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I've had the measles, because I was born seven years before the vaccine became commercially available in the United States. having the measles fucking sucked. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO RETURN TO THAT, VOLUNTARILY. we really do live in the shittiest possible timeline
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
It is wild that the Washington Post -- which claims "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- has remained completely silent for more than a day about Trump's latest attack on free and fair elections. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
I like that he has the candor to sign off “Bone Petite” (because “tiny dick” sounds better in Frenchish)
"Bone-petite"? Jeeziz...
My daily live performance starts at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF1s...
It’s coming…
WTF!!!!
The National Guardners
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Bay Area: do not miss this. www.keplers.org/upcoming-eve...
Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
“You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t want to know.” - Grateful Dead
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My daily live performance starts at 4pm Pacific www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Ms...
This guy could actually take that Iowa Senate seat. substack.com/@adamparkhom...
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
I know.
This has to be the music industry’s wet dream. They have spent decades pushing creators to produce derivative crap, and now they can cut out the middleman.
When are the idiot #trumpskulls gonna wise the fuck up?
Today I am listening to a record by an old friend and colleague, "Larry-the-O,” recording as ZEEBANAYBA satchelmouthmedia.bandcamp.com/album/this-s... Clever and complicated (in a good way) and tons of fun.
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Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY Launches Free “Journalism for All” High School Curriculum www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/08/crai... www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/08/crai...
Part 2 21:33 Jerry Garcia Band, Live at the Warfield (Round Records) WAITING FOR A MIRACLE (2/28/91) Chuck Berry, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead (Shanachie) PROMISED LAND Grateful Dead, Enjoying The Ride (Rhino) BLACK PETER (8/12/79)
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1928 Week of September 1, 2025 Part 1 34:22 Grateful Dead 4/21/78 Rupp Arena, Lexington KY ROW JIMMY IT'S ALL OVER NOW BROWN-EYED WOMEN THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED
It bears repeating - when you vote you’re not choosing someone to date you’re picking a bus to get on. If there are only 2 busses, you get on the one going closer to where you want to go. Even if it’s not *that* close.
Frustrated about the difficulty in getting a COVID19 shot and wondering who to blame? It’s not healthcare workers, pharmacies, public health or Big Pharma. It is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and every Republican Senator who voted to confirm him, especially Bill Cassidy.
Fucking murderers.
This horse’s ass is killing people.
A friend notes on The Well: "When not speaking, Miller looks like a silent minion of satan. You can almost smell the sulphurous emanations. But when he speaks, he's transformed into a bug-eyed madman, arms flailing as he rants about communists and hippies, like any street crazy. Trickster!" Poetry!
So I texted this three days ago. One of the ultra-rich trying to bury California's redistricting measure with money. Today we find out that - you'd better sit down: his money is funding flat-out lies. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Friday’s performance went pretty well! It’ll be better tonight, Join us at 8pm at Ft Mason!
Thank you for being there, Clair!
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park became the backdrop for major live music events: Dead & Company’s three-night celebration of 60 years of the Grateful Dead’s music, Outside Lands Music Festival, and a sold-out concert by Zach Bryan. Learn more: meyersound.com/news/panther-in-golden-gate-park/
Listen Forever Young In Another World Shakedown Street-> Return of the Grievous Angel Trying Candyman It’s Gonna Get Better Night Crawl
.. food trucks and various other non-food offerings, but bad news if you want to park -- get there early! Or come Saturday, which should be a lot easier.
NOTE: Friday evenings at Fort Mason are also the site of Fort Mason Night Market, which used to be Off-The-Grid and is still a plethora of food trucks plus various other non-food offerings. This is good news if you like...
Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission: staged reading Friday & Saturday, August 29+30, 8 pm The Magic Theater magictheatre.org/calendar/jer... $20 Tickets- use the code: Gr8ful20
THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY there will be staged readings of the latest version of JERRY GARCIA IN THE LOWER MISSION, performed by real live actors (Dena Martinez, Aidaa Peerzada, and Brian Rivera, plus author Richard Montoya!) accompanied by real live musicians (David Gans and Joshua Raoul Brody)….
If you think about it, it's actually surprising that it took six whole months before putting a vaccine-denying, roadkill-eating, ex-junkie carnivorous dead brainworm host and loonytunes conspiracy nut in charge of the CDC destroyed the CDC.
He has filled the most powerful vaccine advisory board at CDC with sycophants. He has placed a man who is opposed to COVID19 vaccines in charge of their approvals at FDA Their hands are tied, and they correctly refuse to “just follow orders”.
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
My daily live performance starts at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtt7...
Mission in the Rain Brokedown Palace Pancho and Lefty Black Peter Wharf Rat Days Between-> Friend of the Devil Positive Friction
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...but all I have to do is play some music (sitting down!) and then go back to relaxing. I am sorry to miss the VERY JERRY tribute at the Ashkenaz tonight. I hope some of you will go! Starts at 7:30 with my bandmates.
Thanks to all who have sent me kind thoughts and advice today! From what I’ve heard from others, my case of vertigo has been pretty mild - and I’m glad of that! I am getting better by the hour. Still a little woozy...
It appears to be a pretty clear case of BPPV, and the Epley Maneuver is working well!
I am well on my way! Better by the hour. Thank you!!
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YOU should go to VERY JERRY 13 tonight! www.ashkenaz.com#/events/146366
I will play my daily live set at home today at 4pm PT ( youtube.com/user/dgans ). Not my finest hours as a player, but it’s been therapeutic to sit up and sing.
…still a little wobbly, so I’m going to continue to take it easy at home for the next couple of days. My bandmates in IT WAS DEAD WHEN I GOT HERE will open the show without me tonight (they may perform as THE EPLEY MANEUVER in my honor :^)
I was scheduled to perform at the Ashkenaz in Berkeley - the annual tribute to Jerry Garcia (fund-raiser for the nonprofit venue), but I had a nasty bout of vertigo on Monday that landed me in the ER. I’m happy to report that the treatment is working, and my condition is improving steadily. I’m...
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
Ready for the Times to Get Better-> Peaceful Easy Feeling-> Jessie Wild Horses Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 One after 909 Looks Like Rain Jacqueline These Apartments Jam-> Tower of Song
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...news if you like food trucks and various other non-food offerings, but bad news if you want to park -- get there early! Or come Saturday, which should be a lot easier.
.. Theater magictheatre.org/calendar/jer... special ticket discount: Gr8ful20 NOTE: Friday evenings at Fort Mason are also the site of Fort Mason Night Market, which used to be Off-The-Grid and is still a plethora of food trucks plus various other non-food offerings. This is good...
...version of the script, performed by real live actors (Dena Martinez, Aidaa Peerzada, and Brian Rivera, plus author Richard Montoya!) accompanied by real live musicians (David Gans and JRB). Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission: staged reading Friday & Saturday, August 29+30, 8 pm The Magic...
.. into rehearsals leading to a late October opening at the Magic Theater when the plug was pulled by the ever-popular financial challenges. BUT!!! Rigor mortis-like, the ol' show will have one last gasp. Or, rather, two: THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY there will be staged readings of the latest...
From Joshua Raoul Brody: Garcia R.I.P. That would be Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission, the theatrical endeavor contrived by Richard Montoya of Culture Clash. (The eponymous Jerry Garcia has been R.I.P. for quite some time now, in case you hadn't heard.) We were all set to go...
The Folk Process-> Moonshadow Across the Universe Midnight Moonlight Bird Song He’s Gone-> Waltzing Across Texas Cassidy’s Cat Deal
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country – I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
My daily live performance starts today at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR1s...
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
The answer to the question is: the motherfucking GOP
Yes, KPFK had a Grateful Dead show long before mine started.
The melody was used as a jingle for Fulvita vitamins when I was a kid.
I figured!
No, I don't know that radio show nor the host of it.
There are a lot of things to lay at Newsom's feet, but the idea, based on one poorly thought out comment, that Newsom "want[s] to harm" trans ppl is ludicrous & completely ignores the things done to protect trans, & other LGBTQ+ ppl - including kids.
Here’s an idea: let’s talk about NOW. I don’t give a shit what his chances are of getting elected in 2028; what matters is that RIGHT NOW he is fighting fascism with gusto.
Good Day Sunshine Lodi A Life of Illusion River and Drown-> Distance to the Door Ship of Fools-> West LA Fadeaway San Rafael Swell-> Attics of My life In My Life High Guy
NB There are zillions of other radio shows out there, with various names, many of them going back to before KFOG started theirs.
in the fall of 1989. Nearly 2000 episodes later, I'm still doing it!
yes! The network grew of its own accord, pretty much. I did a year of commercial syndication, which is when it changed from the Deadhead Hour to the Grateful Dead Hour. It became independent, and started migrating toward public and community radio,
Yes. It started as the KFOG Deadhead Hour in November 1984, and I joined the team in February of 1985. Some time in ’86, I think, I became the sole host of the show, and then other stations started asking if they could carry it, too. Jon McIntire took me to a band meeting and they said...
My daily live performance starts at 4pm PT, 7pm ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY25...
Fuck the Texas GOP.
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
Nobody! They played it during equipment breaks a bunch of times in that era. Some of them got pretty elaborate!
Focus on TODAY for fuck's sake.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1927 Week of August 25, 2025 Part 1 33:00 Grateful Dead 4/21/78 Rupp Arena, Lexington KY PROMISED LAND DIRE WOLF MAMA TRIED-> MEXICALI BLUES RAMBLE ON ROSE FUNICULI FUNICULA PASSENGER Part 2 22:38 Jerry Garcia Band, Live at the Warfield (Round Records) DON'T LET GO
Thought experiment: if we accept that the Republic is irreparably broken - if we stop trying to mend what's shattered and pick a new direction to build in - what would that look like? What new entity could be built from the ground up? Who could lead it, where would money and other support come from?
it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: August 23 edition" — Donny shows it off, MAGA preacher blows it off, and so much more... thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
TONIGHT 7-10pm at the Brisbane In Lodge, 50 Visitacion Ave, Brisbane CA. David Gans, Joshua Raoul Brody, and Dave Jess play Beatles, Dead, originals, and who knows what else!
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The president of the United States is trying to steal congressional seats so I don’t give a fuck about the Cracker Barrel logo discussion. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
