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“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum , Oakland, CA 2/20/91 SBD > DAT > CD > EAC > FLAC Patch source: 2 Nak 100/CP4 + 2 AKG C1000, Front Row Tapers Section Cassette Master (Sony D6/Dolby B(but you will never notice the patches) Bobby’s wireless has some problems […]

Among the more troubling emanations coming from the White House these days is the goal of dismantling the financial regulation and oversight bill known as Dodd-Frank. Those of us with memories surpassing insects may remember what happen the last time the financial sector was left to his own devices on  the “honor” system.  Bart Naylor […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead, Henry J Kaiser Convention Center,Oakland, CA 2/13/88 SBD > MC > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN Patch source: Schoeps CMC3/MK41>Dat>CDR http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=15126 Thanks to TOL for the patch source! Disc 1 – Set 1: 1. tuning 2. Hell In A Bucket > 3. Sugaree […]

Clicking off another one of his campaign promises, President Donald Trump issued an executive order at the end of January banning immigration from seven predominately Muslim countries. The ban itself and the way it was rolled out has been temporarily suspended by order of federal courts in Washington state and Minnesota, but it is not […]

Tuesday at 4:00, immediately following Phil G and The Progressive Palace, we’ll shift gears for two hours of Americana Music for your Tuesday Drive Home! Today’s program will highlight a few Grammy nominees from this coming Sunday’s Award Show, as well as new music from Son Volt, Delbert McClinton, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Mavericks, […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Jerry Garcia Band, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA February 7, 1980 MSC>DAT>CDR>WAV>SHN, all of first set except very beginning of Sugaree and the first two songs of the second set. Remainder of the source is from MAC (Taped by Lee Bittner, Audio Technica 801 mics > Sony […]

Questions about the country’s foreign policy and the role the intelligence community has traditionally played in those decisions have become daily and dire in the past few weeks.  Surreal News favorite former CIA analyst, author and whistleblower Mel Goodman (above) will be joining Steve and Lew to hopefully explain how the bizarre talk coming out of the […]

New music abounds as we’ll hear the latest and greatest from Alison Krauss, Tift Merritt, The Travelin’ McCoury’s, Natalie Hemby, The Band of Heathens and Jenny Lewis singing with Paul Shaffer and The World’s Most Dangerous Band. We’ll also get a sampling from artists performing in the area over the next week or so, hearing […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead, San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA January 30, 1987 SBD > MC > C > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN EAC/SHN by Darryl Hinko (flyerfanatic) Thanks to Caleb Miller for the source discs. Now The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium: Disc 1 – […]

Candace Clement (above) , the Internet Campaign Director at Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund, will join Steve and Lew this week to talk about an initiative that group is mounting to resist some proposals made by the incoming administration.  Among those issues will be maintaining net neutrality and protecting consumers by ensuring web access […]