A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Dark Star – Ladies and Gentlemen… The Grateful Dead (4-28-71 Fillmore East) Leftovers for Christmas? Well, sorta. I spent the last couple of weeks deep in Dark Star land, preparing for last Sunday’s 24-hour Dark Star marathon on the Sirius XM Grateful Dead Channel (Sirius 32, XM 57). Tonight, interspersed with some of my favorite … Read more
Just a reminder that we post a show from the Grateful Dead Hour archives on DeadNet every Wednesday. Today’s post is GD Hour #977, part 1 of a June 2007 interview with Ratdog lead guitarist Mark Karan. Part 2 will go up next Wednesday. Happy holy daze, everybody!
Randy Ray interviewed me last week for jambands.com. Part 1 was posted today; part 2 goes up next month. An excerpt: [Producer Tim Carbone] just understands. We’re in the same general age cohort. I think I might be a year or two older than he is, but we sort of came up in the same … Read more
Bill Whiting reviews The Ones That Look The Weirdest Taste The Best in Honest Tune. I couldn’t have asked for a more positive opening: Most know David Gans as the host of the long running radio program, The Grateful Dead Hour. Now, they will know him for the addictive long-player, The Ones That Look The … Read more
I don’t have a list of the broadcast in order, and I’m not sure if all of these pieces made it into the final playlist, but here is a list of the selections I submitted for our Sirius XM Grateful Dead Channel Dark Star marathon: 2/27/1969 Fillmore West (Live Dead) 4/27/1969 Minneapolis (Dick’s Picks 26) … Read more
One of our guests on Tales from the Godlen Road today was Karen Hicks (krh on DeadNet Central), who was one of the people reponsible (along with her husband, Marc Francis, and Marc’s brother Scott) for the “XXX days since last SF Dark Star” that hung from the balcony at Winterland for several years. Thanks … Read more
The Grateful Dead Family Discography has a list of all the Dark Stars by the Dead and related and unrelated artists. Quite impressive!
This has been making the rounds of the musician community this week. Steve Sillberman tracked down an online source for it. It’s advice from Thelonious Monk, written down by Steve Lacy. Great stuff.
Week of December 22, 2008 Part 1 28:15 Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 2 no 1: MSG September 90 PICASSO MOON PLAYING IN THE BAND-> SHIP OF FOOLS-> PLAYING IN THE BAND Part 2 27:40 Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 2 no 1: MSG September 90 UNCLE JOHN’S BAND (REPRISE)-> LET IT GROW-> JAM This … Read more
Starting at midnight Eastern Time tonight, and continuing until midnight tomorrow night, it’s the Dark Star marathon on the Grateful Dead Channel (Sirius 32, XM 57). Here are some program notes, adapted from spoken intros by Gary Lambert and David Gans: 4/8/72 Empire Pool, Wembley, England: I never met a Dark Star I didn’t like. … Read more