I started it all on Christmas 2006. At that point I had a respectable 500 hours of Live Grateful Dead music and decided that I could not keep it to myself... I had to share. I picked the first 5 guys and gals I could think of that were serious dead freaks, but not serious tape collectors, and sent them disks of a show, once a month. It seemed they liked it. So, I kept it going, each Christmas adding 4 or 5 new folks while dropping the old ones softly off. The people who got added liked it... the dropped off ones, not so much. This year I began to offer the shows, but in a digital manner only. My folks had to come over or mail me a flashdrive, but I could handle EVERYONE who wanted in. Seemed a good trade. It also enabled more flexibility by allowing folks to burn to CD, convert them to mp3 and playing them on their iPod's or even playing them on their Playstation's as one whole show.
Now, we have found the realm of podcasting... how cool, eh? Each month, Your Old Friend Dave will bring you a complete Grateful Dead show, hand picked from my present 10,000 hour 'tape' vault. As always, you will get fun-filled filler for half-time hi-jinks as well as a glimpse of the next months offering. The Podcast does enable me to acheive what I have always imagined the Dead Show of the Month being: One long seamless run of Grateful Dead music with tasty filler to act as an intermission of sorts... perfect for long road trips, house cleaning day or some other day or night where having 3-4 hours of mind-bending psychedelic music engaging your senses would be advantageous! I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoy providing it!
Your Old Friend Dave