A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans jam-> Dancin’ in the Streets-> Shakedown Street – Ratdog 11/5/08 Warner Theatre, Washington DC That’s It for The Other One – Phil Lesh and Friends w/ Bob Weir 5/13/08 Warfield Theater, San Francisco Push Comes to Shove – Donna the Buffalo, Live from the American Ballroom Other Side – Boris Garcia, Once More into the … Read more
Hello friends! The CD, The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best, is here, but the web page isn’t quite ready for prime time. For now, you can see the cover art, read the credits, listen to audio samples, and click to order by visiting this earlier blog post. It’s also available at https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dgans6 … Read more
We’ve been a tiny bit late posting the last two weeks, but it’s still happening: programs from the GD Hour archive posted on DeadNet every Wednesday. Today’s post is the second of two remembering the late Merl Saunders, who was a splendid interview as well as a great musician. Just posted: Grateful Dead Hour #97, … Read more
Steve Hurlburt, whose Dreadheads is a counterculture documentary well worth seeing, has posted three excellent short films on YoutTube: Premise: I asked a bunch of folks at the recent “Change Rocks” show at Penn State what some well-known Hunter lyrics meant to them. As you might imagine, the responses run the gamut from “I don’t … Read more
Mary Eisenhart passed this along. Jon Reed Goes Off On: Jerry’s Dead I sorta had to force myself to read past this line – Jerry will never be able to tell us why his remarkable extended family couldn’t keep him away from the needle. – but I’m glad I did. Jerry’s creativity was like a … Read more
On Sunday, November 2, I appeared on Frank Moore’s webcast The Shaman’s Den on luver.com. Performance and interview and photos.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1051 Week of November 10, 2008 Part 1 18:52 David Gans, The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best DOWN TO EUGENE LIKE A DOG The Doors Live at the Matrix 1967 GET OUT OF MY LIFE, WOMAN I’M A KING BEE Part 2 37:18 Grateful Dead 6/26/76 Auditorium Theater, … Read more
I’m doing the Angie Coiro show today on Green 960 in San Francisco – progressive talk radio. 3-4pm Pacific time. Angie has been using my song “It’s Gonna Get Better” as her closing music for a few weeks, and now that the CD is finally on the market, I get to tak about the CD … Read more
Rubber Souldiers 10/25/08 MagnoliaFest, Live Oak FL Lorin Rowan: guitar, mandolin, vocals Chris Rowan: 12-string guitar, vocals David Gans: guitar, vocals Mark van Allen: pedal steel guitar Byron House: bass Wildman Steve: drums Girl-> Things We Said Today Doctor Robert Two of Us-> Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Come get your post-election Donna The Buffalo fix! The kind folks with Have You Herd Radio are video recording Donna the Buffalo shows this weekend and streaming live! Friday Nov 07 Castaways – Ithaca, NY Saturday Nov 08 Waterstreet Music Hall – Rochester, NY Both shows with opening act Who You Are doors open at … Read more