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From tnf@well.com Mon Feb 24 07:37:37 PST 1997
From: David Gans <tnf@well.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: GDH-FAQ: Answers to Frequently-asked questions about the GDH
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:19:25 -0800
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GDH/FAQ
Answers to frequently asked questions about the Grateful Dead Hour
Last update 2/23/97
by David Gans
Q: Can I buy tapes of the Grateful Dead Hour?
A: Grateful Dead Productions will decide when and how to make Dead
music available.
If you are interested in persuading the Dead organization to make
Grateful Dead Hour tapes available, mention it when you call to order
something from Grateful Dead Mercantile, or write 'em a letter (P.O. Box
X, Novato CA 94948). I can't guarantee they'll ever decide to make GD
Hour tapes available, but it can't hurt to make your desires known.
Q: How can I get copies of shows I missed?
A: Not from me, I'm sorry to say. Ask around among the tape trading
community. Lots of people record the GD Hour every week and most tapers
are happy to make copies of their favorite tapes. The many tape trading
communities on the Internet would be a good place to look, too.
Q: Do you trade tapes?
A: No. Almost all of the tapes played on the Grateful Dead Hour come
>from the Dead's vault and are not mine to trade.
Q: Why don't you play complete shows on the Grateful Dead Hour?
A: There are a couple of reasons for this, the most important being
that my contract with the Grateful Dead forbids it (this provision has
been relaxed somewhat recently, and you'll be hearing more complete sets
in the future). In addition, my mission has always been to cover many
aspects of the Grateful Dead's musical and cultural milieu, not just to
play great concert tapes on the air. That's why you'll hear interviews
with band members, recordings by artists who influenced the Dead, other
people's performances of Dead music, and so on.
There are hundreds of complete Dead shows available via the tape
trading network, and the Dead organization is making more good stuff
available from the vault all the time.
Q: Why don't you play more Jerry Garcia Band, Ratdog, and other "side
band" material?
A: The Grateful Dead Hour is licensed by Grateful Dead Productions,
and Grateful Dead music is the only material covered by our agreement.
I have played tapes of Bob Weir's various side projects, Vince Welnick's
Missing Man Formation, etc. with permission from those artists. The
Jerry Garcia Band never allowed taping of shows (well, not for at least
the last ten years or so), and I have never been able to get permission
to play their tapes on the air. Once in a while I have played an older
tape that I got from a collector, but it's been unofficial. These days,
I'm less inclined to press my luck. Garcia's solo work is controlled by
his estate.
Regarding the Furthur Festival, each band controls the tapes of
their performances. I have asked about Ratdog and Mystery Box tapes and
been told no.
Q: Why do you play studio recordings and other commercially-available
material on the Grateful Dead Hour?
A: Since the band is kind enough to allow me to play all that music on
the radio, it seems only fair to help them out by playing examples of
the music they offer for sale. Not all listeners are well-connected
tape traders who are only interested in unreleased vault tapes - there
are many people in the audience who might not have heard a given studio
record, for example, and who can be turned on to great Grateful Dead
music that they can buy in the store.
And you know what else? I actually like most of the Grateful Dead's
albums.
As for records by other musicians, once again, not all listeners
have been into the Dead for twenty years, and not all listeners are
aware of the tremendous range of styles and influences that play a part
in the rich sound of the Grateful Dead. The radio show is a great way
to turn young listeners on to musical history - and that is something
the band members have always encouraged me to do.
Q: How can I order a Grateful Dead Hour t-shirt?
A: Call Deluxe Screen Print Service at 1-800-765-1153. The shirt was
created by Jeff Rutherford and Norm Ruth of Deluxe, in Rio Rancho NM.
Q: I was wondering about the best way to tape the GD Hour from the
radio in order to get the highest quality sound. I know that for
tape-to-tape recording, no Dolby is the protocol, but how do you feel
about using it to tape directly from the radio? Am I mistaken, or
wouldn't recording the original broadcast with Dolby then spinning
copies without Dolby ultimately produce clearer, better sound?
A: Dolby is an encoding/decoding process. If a tape is encoded with
Dolby, it must be played back with the Dolby switch on.
Most tape traders don't use Dolby, because uit is sensitive to
calibration and you can't be sure that a tape made here will play back
correctly at its destination.
If you're taping for yourself and plan to play it back on the same
unit you recorded on, then you should use Dolby if you think it produces
accurate recordings. If you then make a copy for someone else, play
yuour master back on the same deck it was recorded on and do not use
Dolby on the copying deck. Thus the tape you make for someone lse will
be non-Dolby.
If you don't use Dolby when you make your master recording, then you
should not use Dolby when you play it back.
--
David Gans tnf@well.com
Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave #102, Oakland CA 94610
http://www.well.com/user/tnf/ AOL keyword = gdhour