Best Of The Grateful Dead Hour

Grateful Dead

A collection of previously unreleased live material from the Grateful Dead archive. Distributed exclusively to public and community radio stations, that broadcast the Grateful Dead Hour, to be used as a fund raiser.

Tracks

• Alligator (Lesh/McKernan/Hunter)
  Caution (McKernan)
  Feedback (Grateful Dead)
  I Bid You Good Night (Traditional arr. Grateful Dead)
• Passenger (Lesh/Monk)
• Terrapin (Garcia/Hunter)
  Playing in the Band (Weir/Hunter)
  Terrapin (Garcia/Hunter)
• Greatest Pump Song Ever Wrote - a short documentary produced by David Gans

The musicians on the live tracks on this release are as follows.

Alligator > Caution > Feedback > I Bid You Good Night;

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart - drums
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Tom Constanten - keyboard
• Pigpen - organ, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Donna Godchaux - vocals
• Keith Godchaux - keyboards
• Mickey Hart - drums
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart - drums
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
• Vince Welnick - keyboards, vocals

• Alligator > Caution > Feedback > I Bid You Good Night - Recorded by Owsley Stanley
• Passenger - Recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson
• Terrapin > Playing in the Band > Terrapin - Recorded by John Cutler
• Greatest Pump Song Ever Wrote is a documentary produced by David Gans

This disc is initially available only as a fund raiser from public and community radio stations.

The tracks on this compilation are from the following sources;

• Alligator > Caution > Feedback > I Bid You Good Night - December 12, 1969 show at the Thelma Theater, Los Angeles
• Passenger - May 19, 1977 show at the Fox Theater, Atlanta
• Terrapin > Playing in the Band > Terrapin - September 26, 1990 rehearsal at Club Front, San Rafael