Mickey for Haiti

Mickey Hart's Heartbeat for Haiti Benefit featuring Mickey Hart & Friends with Giovanni Hidalgo, Sikiru Adepoju, and Rebeca Mauleon, Big Head Todd and The Monsters, Brett Dennen and Amos Lee. Proceeds to benefit What If? Foundation and Partners In Health.

Silent Auction hosted by Mountain Girl.
6PM VIP Meet and Greet
7PM Doors
8PM Show

$35.00 GA Tickets and Limited $100.00 VIP Meet and Greet Tickets.

All Ages

www.whatiffoundation.org

www.pih.org

The College Tour

You do a great job (click image) and I really, really loved that you chose my very first Grateful Dead concert to play this week. It's even better than I remembered it! My only regret was I was a college freshman with a test looming, so I had to skip the second show they spontaneously announced for the next night. Can't do it all, right?

Anyway, keep up the great work. And Right On!

Tom S.

Alabama Getaway - Not Really

The very first Stream of the year (click on image to the right to enlarge) started on a very good note. Episode #107 opened with a Cosmic Charlie which was then followed by lots of tunes that were auspicious for a New Year - a New Decade message: Love, Sunshine and Unbroken-ness.

The featured show was a college show - The Grateful Dead at the University of Alabama in the Spring of 1977. It showcases one of the first Jack-a-Roes' and they do everything else so sweetly. The set list may suggest a typical show, but it is the quality of the playing that makes this show more than typical. Below is a very nice email I received from a fellow Streamer regarding last week's Shakedown Stream - right on.

Hi Jer Bear, Tom in Cleveland here... I download and listen to The Stream every week. I try to workout everyday, and my routine is to pop in the ear buds and go for a ten mile ride (so to speak). Actually it’s a hour on the elliptical for cardio, than another hour of calisthenics, weight lifting, steam, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I appreciate your streams, and I really look forward to them. Anyway, The Alabama show this week was remarkable. Bob, Jerry, AND Donna's voices were all in tip top shape. What a pleasure hearing it. Jerry's noodling in the second set was sweet. Tom B.

Last Show of the Year

Episode 106 (click on image to the left to open)was the last Stream of the year of 2009. Yet, it was not the last time we Streamed, in fact, it was a continuation of the current theme (all streams have currents) of "The Grateful Dead College Tour."

The Stream started off with some strong picks from the month of December - Shakedown, Eyes>Saint - to name a few. We even got a Crazy Fingers from Bob & Phil's Furthur band from the Hammerstein Ballroom, NYCity.

The featured show (5/6/70) was a free concert the Dead played before their official show the next day at M.I.T. (5/7/70). This afternoon show recognized the fallen students at Kent State College who had been shot and killed at an anti-war protest.

Because this afternoon show was so short, it gave us room to play an array of different tunes from Dead December. We even got a Christmas song in there for those Merry Streamers.

Happy New Year !!!

Happy New Year!!

Shakedown Stream had a great year in 2009, bringing the good vibes all around the globe. We're streaming in Mongolia, England, Denmark, Ireland, Egypt, Japan, France, Canada, Alaska, and right here on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Plus, some seamen somewhere under the water are streaming us on a Navy submarine! We've created a Facebook community with hundreds of streamers. Thanks so much for being part of this virtual community, and thanks to the gang at mvyradio for helping to make sure the stream flows each week. Let's go furthur down the stream in 2010!

MVYradio - New iPhone app.

It is here and just in time for Christmas - the iPhone app for mvyradio. Now you can listen to mvy on your iPhone and, more importantly, listen to Shakedown Stream podcasts on your iPhone. mvyradio - blue lobstahs and streamers.

• Listen live
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Episode 104: Set List

Shakedown Stream for this week contained part 2 of my interview with Toni Brown (click on set list to enlarge). I have received some nice comments from streamers about this interview with Toni. She talks about how she avoided, as much as possible, the backstage scene at Grateful Dead concerts. We both agreed that it was too easy to get star-struck as fans of the Dead. She understood that she was a fan and it was necessary to maintain healthy boundaries. Also, for some reason, our IQs seem to drop when meet Jerry or Bobby face to face. Toni also shares some stories of Relix magazine.

Stream #104 opens with some live songs from various December shows along with a little Jerry. We also get a taste of Phil with The Black Crowes who recently played at The Fillmore in San Francisco; they played Dead.

The featured show is a short show from 1967 - "The Human Be-In." Then a few tunes from Jerry's Comeback show in '86. Because the featured show was so short, I threw in a 2nd set from Denver 1990. The last bit of the Stream closes with selected songs from December shows as well as one from Phil & Friends - Rosemary.

I Need a MVY Miracle Everyday

WMVY gave me a miracle this morning. I was in the dentist's chair earlier today having a root canal procedure when it happened. It was one of those classic dreaded dental scenes - pain, infection, and high-pitched drilling sounds. Apparently, it was taking longer than normal because of some complication (long story). My anxiety increased as my dentist reached the abscessed root area. Just at that moment, "I Need A Miracle" by the Grateful Dead came on the air (my dentist office plays mvyradio on their sound system).

That song, at that moment, in that dentist chair, playing on that radio station saved me this morning. Thank you, Laurel, for picking that Grateful Dead song.

Relix: The Book by Toni Brown

Many of us DeadHeads grew up with Relix magazine. It was an essential way to stay connected with the Grateful Dead scene. Believe it or not, we did not have Facebook to help us communicate with each other or Twitter for us to instantaneously get the set list from the show. As Toni Brown says in her interview on Shakedown Stream, Relix magazine was started as a place for tapers and Deadheads to connect with each other. It was started by fans - for the fans.

I would describe the new Relix Book as a coffee table book. It is jam packed with material from the first 30 years of Relix put together chronologically into one historical document - an Archivist's dream. I highly recommend this book as a Christmas gift for your favorite DeadHead friend, cousin, brother, Aunt, or ...whomever. Their memory banks will be jolted into a sweet flashback (all very legal of course). You can order the Relix: The Book here as well as Toni Brown and Ed Munson's new CD State of Mind. You can also listen to part 1 and part 2 of my interview with Toni on mvyradio.com's Shakedown Stream.

Jerry Garcia: Our Favorite Santa

Jer,
Jerry sure was (and is) a great door-greeter. Thanks for the reply, and thank YOU for the stream. It's a tasty treat every week, and it was easily my favorite discovery of 2009, as I began
listening in July. Shakedown Stream has kicked me right in the the seat of my well-worn pants of Grateful Dead enthusiasm. I'm listening to the music more regularly than I have in years, and your comments are always good for a thought or a laugh.

I told a bunch of my friends about your Peggy-O image a few weeks back -- of Jerry as a storyteller with butterflies coming out of his
beard while we all gather 'round and listen. We could all relate to that one - scary!!! I also really enjoyed the Oxford, Maine stream that you did. I was up there for those terrific shows, and the beautiful weather and cool scene helped to provide one of my best GD memories ever. The memories came flooding back when listening to that stream.

December is indeed the month of giving, but Shakedown Stream gives every
week of the gaul-dern year!!!! I can't thank you enough.

The Music Never Stops!!!!!
Thanks again,
--Sean

Fan Jams on Shakedown Stream

Starting next year, I am starting a new segment to our show called - Fan Jams. Anyone out there who plays Grateful Dead songs on a guitar, banjo, mandolin, keyboard or whatever ... I will play it on our Stream. Record it, burn it and mail it to me at mvyradio (see address below) on Martha's Vineyard.

Like me, I know many of you like to jam out your favorite Dead tunes solo or with friends, so record it and send it to me. I will even consider tunes that the Dead covered from other artists, or tunes that Phil & Friends or Bobby & RatDog play at their shows. If the recording quality meets mvyradio's standards, we'll stream it in Fan Jams. Shakedown Stream - by a fan, for the fans....

Mail your jams to:

Jer Bear

mvyradio.com

P.O. Box 1148

Tisbury, MA 02568