The 9 DAYS OF JERRY Continue - With Love from "Jerry Day" in San Francisco!

This is the first year that Lorelai and Steve haven't been together for the 9 Days of Jerry.  But as hashkacha (Divine Providence) would have it,  Lorelai is visiting her family in the Bay Area this summer, and was able to go to the 11th Annual Jerry Day Celebration at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco.

What a wonderful day, surrounded by so much color and so much love - and what a trip it was to tell people about RFN and how astonished, delighted and positive people were to discover that there is the world's most hard-core Dead fan base in the Holy Land!

Lorelai interviewed Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, author of the soon to be re-released "Grateful Dead Family Album," (and former wife of Mickey Hart). Also got to meet MOUNTAIN GIRL (what an honor!) and hope to be interviewing her this week as well.

Stu Allen and the Mars Hotel were AMAZING, and of course Melvin Seals and the JGB were the sweetest. But that's not all- immediately after the show, Lorelai was whisked away by her (too modest to be named) magic fairy godmother to Shoreline Amphitheater, to see BOB DYLAN!!! Who opened for Bob but My Morning Jacket (at least half of their set was Grateful Dead cover tunes) and Wilco - joined on stage by BOB WEIR - they did "Ripple" into "St. Stephen" into "When I Paint My Masterpiece." Lorelai for sure thought she was already in heaven.

Bob Dylan blew away the house - it was a gevaldik show - so wonderful to be able to be a part of this love party!

Lorelai reports:

I must report that Bob looked and sounded GREAT. I was surprised but not surprised - after all, it's his most Gemini trait (constant change).

I was sitting next to a metal head-banger who LOVES Dylan and said: "This is my 6th Dylan show and I've figured out he does it on purpose just to f*ck with us," (meaning he sometimes does a less than perfect show just to keep us guessing).

The Set List:

Things Have Changed

Love Sick

Highwater

? (have no idea) probably from Bob's new album "Tempest"

Simple Twist of Fate

Ducaine Whistle

She Belongs To Me

? (really have no idea) also probably from "Tempest"

Desolation Row

Blind Willie McTell

Simple Twist of Fate

Summer Days

All Along The Watchtower

Ballad of a Thin Man

THE 72 SONGS OF BOB DYLAN - 6PM ISRAEL TIME TONIGHT ON RADIO FREE NACHLAOT!

It's Bob Dylan's Hebrew Birthday - Celebrate with Radio Free Nachlaot and listen to "THE 72 SONGS OF BOB DYLAN," beginning at 6pm Israel time tonight (Tuesday May 7th), with a special intro by the Middle East's #1 Dylan expert Chaim Richman (he's our go-to guy when we need someone to poskin on a Dylan situation at the radio station!) 

We're going to play 72 of the greatest Bob Dylan songs in a row - listen at www.radiofreenachlaot.com or listen to Radio Free Nachlaot on TuneIn radio free app for iPhone or Android or find us on iTunes Radio under the "International/World" category.

And yes, it's likely we'll repeat the show on his solar calendar birthday (May 24th), but it's really more matim to listen to it for the first time today, Bob Dylan's 72nd Hebrew Birthday (28 Iyar). 

WOW, did you ever notice that BOB DYLAN'S BIRTHDAY is the SAME day on the Hebrew Calendar as YOM YERUSHALYIM - Iyar 28th - in fact, Bob was born 26 years before Jerusaem was reunified - 26 is a mystical number that represents a Name of G*d - well, it's all just too cosmic for us, but we'll fill you in live on the air tonight - listen at 6pm Israel time/8am Pacific/9am Central/10am Mountain/11am Eastern) because after the 72 Names of Bob Dylan Show we'll go straight into our Yom Yerushalyim programming!

MULTIPLE CELEBRATIONS ON THE RADIO!