David Gans

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1077

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Week of May 11, 2009 Part 1 20:32 Introduction Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 2 no. 2 (2/14/68) THAT’S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE-> NEW POTATO CABOOSE Part 2 35:23 The Dead 4/12/09 Coliseum, Greensboro NC SPACE-> COSMIC CHARLIE-> NEW POTATO CABOOSE All of the shows on the Dead’s current tour are being sold as … Read more

Gans on Green 960 tonight

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I will be cohosting The Angie Coiro Show on Green 960 (960 am) in San Francisco this evening, 6-8pm Pacific Time. Green 960 streams online, and there’s also a live blog while we’re on the air. We’re still working out the topics, but I am pretty sure the first hour will be all about food: … Read more

Recommend me to NPR, please!

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NPR is looking for suggestions for “All Songs Considered.” I’d sure like to be nominated, if anyone feels like suggesting me. A message from Bob Boilen: It seems a fair exchange: We tell you about great music; you tell us about great music. One downside, though, is this: The music, email and Facebook messages you … Read more

Dead to the World 5/6/09

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Comes a Time – The Dead 4/17/09 Albany NY David Nelson live in the KPFA studio… Where I Come From Barracuda Moon – New Riders of the Purple Sage, Where I Come From It’s All Good – Bob Dylan, Together Through Life Del McCoury talks about meeting David Grisman and Jerry Garcia in 1964 Cold … Read more

Gans gig update

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Thursday, May 7, 9am to 1pm: Marin Farmers’ Market, at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael CA. Saturday, May 9, 9:30am to 1:30pm: Grand Lake Farmers’ Market, at Splash Pad Park, Lake Park and Grand Avenues, Oakland CA. Friday, May 15: DG and Zac Matthews at the Nomad Cafe, 6500 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland (near … Read more

KPFA fund drive

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KPFA – Always Relevant, Never Commercial The media landscape in this country is changing significantly, as newspapers go out of business, the music industry collapses, and the broadcast media contracts. The culture and information that KPFA provides is becoming ever more rare. KPFA has bucked the trend by expanding its news coverage with a groundbreaking … Read more

Tom Davis interview

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Tom Davis has a new memoir, Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. I interviewed the Emmy-winning former Saturday Night Live writer/performer at my house a few weeks ago. Excerpts will air on the Grateful Dead Hour and on KPFA’s Dead to the World, but you can hear it in its entirety right here (66 minutes). … Read more