Jambase.com is reporting that The Dead will be broadcast several shows from their upcoming tour live on their Sirius XM channel. This is 
GREAT news to me as I have been a Sirius XM subscriber for a couple of years now and listen to the Dead channel almost non-stop. I was actually thinking about this the other day because Jimmy Buffett broadcasts all of his concerts live on Sirius XM and has for some time.
Looks like this will start with The Dead’s show at DCU Center in Worcester, MA and the entire tour will be featured on the channel with dispatches brought to us by the great duo of Gary Lambert and David Lemieux.
Can’t wait for this! Do you have Sirius XM? If not, would something like this get you to try it out? Post in the comments!
I’ve had Sirius since the beginning of 2006. I’ve been listening to the Grateful Dead Channel since its inception. They do an incredible job at the GD Channel.
David Gans and Gary Lambert do a phenomenal job with “Tales from the Golden Road”. Heads can talk about all kinds of stuff. They usually try to stick to a topic, like this show we’re talking about Dark Star and that show were talking about Madison Square Garden shows, but alot of the time callers trail off in to different topics through various streams of consciousness…
“This Day in Grateful Dead History” is incredible. David Lemieux digs out some gems from the vault usually from a show played on today’s date X years ago. You can count on David to find some of the sweetest performances as well as the monster jams.
“Head Sets” is a fun show, where Dead Heads get to program their own Dead Set and Play DJ for an hour.
Plus full live shows, interviews, studio tracks, a great mix of random live songs and “Roots and Branches” – where they play Roots (Versions of songs The Dead have covered by the original artsists) and Branches (Versions of Dead songs covered by other artists) and of course members of the Dead playing DJ on occasion and other notable guests as DJ’s.
I don’t know, did I miss anything?
So, what more could you want with all that?
Live Broadcasts of The Dead?
Hell yeah!
It just makes sense, don’t it?
If you’re a Dead Head and you don’t have Sirius/XM, it’s well worth the money for the GD channel alone. Plus you get so many other cool channels too.
Plus, think about this:
When The Dead are not playing, the GD Channel provides a way for thousands of Dead Heads to be grooving to the same jams, the same sweet notes at the same time! That in itself takes listening to recorded Dead shows to a whole new level!