Identifier9058679
Created AtMon Apr 02 2012 23:35:34 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Reference Number9261
Media TypeSHN
Trades Allowed
Source
SHNIDDateVenueCityStateArchive Identifier
92611967-04-??KMPX Radio ShowSan FranciscoCA
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Performance
Grateful Dead 1967-04-?? KMPX Radio Show, San Francisco, CA
Set 1CD1
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Charles Mingus--Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Blind Willie Johnson--Lord I Can’t Keep from Crying Sometimes
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Ray Charles--I Don’t Need No Doctor
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
James Brown--It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
James Brown--Ain’t That a Groove
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Bob Dylan--Maggie’s Farm
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
The Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic--The Moon Shines
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
The Charles Lloyd Quartet--Dream Weaver
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Commercial--The Avalon Ballroom
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Junior Wells--Ships on the Ocean
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Leopold Stokowski/American Symph Orch/Charles Ives: Symphony #4 (2nd Movement)
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Set 2CD2
Ian and Sylvia--Jealous Lover
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Ian and Sylvia--Four Rode By
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Skip James--Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
Aretha Franklin--I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
The Righteous Brothers--You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Ike and Tina Turner--River Deep Mountain High
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Lou Rawls--Trouble Down Here Below
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
The Rolling Stones--Gotta Get Away
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
Otis Redding--Day Tripper
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
The Grateful Dead--Cold Rain and Snow
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Tom Donahue--Chat
The Grateful Dead--New New Minglewood Blues
Set 3
CommentA long long time ago, there was a wondrous thing called “progressive” or “free-form” radio. These were the days when rock radio stations were programmed by people who actually knew and loved music, rather than the accountants and marketing analysts who now control the airwaves. During this time it was possible to hear, in a single program, music by artists as diverse as the Beatles, Ravi Shankar, and Miles Davis, to name but a few, picked and played by DJs who spoke to, rather than at, their audience. San Francisco’s KMPX-FM was one of those pioneering stations in this adventurous era of radio. They were instrumental in letting the world know about the explosion of great music in the Bay Area in the late 60s.

One fine late April evening in 1967, the station’s co-founder, the legendary Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue, invited Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia to play guest DJs on his nightly KMPX show. Phil and Jerry discussed the Grateful Dead’s then-brand-new debut album (they promised the next one would be much better!), as well as such arcane topics as a top-secret military project to develop a “sound gun” that could kill or maim everyone for miles around with super-low-frequencies. Best of all, they brought along some of their favorite records to play on the air. As you might expect, it was a most unpredictable batch of tunes indeed.