Hey now David, have you always, or specifically in the early 1990, been the person who hosted the Grateful Dead hour on the radio???
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NB There are zillions of other radio shows out there, with various names, many of them going back to before KFOG started theirs.
aug 24, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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...
aug 24, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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,
aug 24, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
in the fall of 1989. Nearly 2000 episodes later, I'm still doing it!
aug 24, 2025, 10:51 pm • 11 0 • view
Keep on Truckin!
aug 24, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Sure don’t know what I’m going for but I’m gonna go for it for sure!
aug 24, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s a long time you have been doing that radio show. That’s great. Back in the 90’s when my buddies were educating me on Grateful Dead music after my first concert experience, we would regularly meet in the Topanga Hills and listen to the Grateful Dead hour. We looked forward to it weekly and I
aug 25, 2025, 5:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Sunday at 11(?) on 95.5 right?
aug 25, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Hahahahah. I’ve been trying to remember since yesterday and have failed at every attempt
aug 25, 2025, 5:38 pm • 2 0 • view
It might have been midnight but I remember getting out of the Sunday show from the LA Sports Arena in 94 and GD Hour was on when we got in the car(but now it thinking it might have been Monday, ugh...)
aug 25, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Dig. I don’t remember going out to meet my friends at midnight in the hills to listen to a radio show. It had to be closer to 8?7? 6 PM? But I can’t remember for sure.
aug 25, 2025, 6:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I think there was another LA Deadhead show, maybe on KPFK? Maybe that's what I'm thinking about
aug 25, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, KPFK had a Grateful Dead show long before mine started.
aug 25, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
learned that there was a whole lot to learn. We also met in the same spot for the Get The Led Out radio show. By chance, did you ever get to meet the guy who hosted that show?
aug 25, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
No, I don't know that radio show nor the host of it.
aug 25, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
It was Led Zeppelin music.
aug 25, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I figured!
aug 25, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view