David Gans

Library of Congress images on flickr

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The Library of Congress has opened an account on the photo-sharing site that I (and millions of others) use, flickr.com. This is the announcement from Flickr inviting all of us to add information to the images: Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a … Read more

“Songwriters extravaganza” in San Rafael Feb 22

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Friday, February 22, 8pm: The Songwriters Extravaganza featuring David Gans, Ira Marlowe, and Mario DeSio. What we’re promising here is an evening of smart, soulful, funny, passionate, compassionate, literate and humane original music from three mature, accomplished Bay Area songwriters. The Belrose Theatre, 1415 5th Avenue, San Rafael CA. $18 advance $20 day of show. … Read more

Jerry Moore’s microphones

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Jerry Moore’s microphones, originally uploaded by dgans. Did an interview yesterday with Grateful Dead taper and Relix Magazine co-founder Jerry Moore, which will air on Sirius Satellite Radio next weekend. Today on Sirius, we debut a monthly “talk show” (with music, natch) called Tales from the Golden Road. We’ll be talking with Eric Christensen, director … Read more

Grateful Dead Hour #1009

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Week of January 21, 2008 Part 1 13:43 New Riders of the Purple Sage 3/17/73 SUNY Stonybrook ALL I EVER WANTED SWEET LOVIN’ ONE Part 2 42:42 Grateful Dead 4/21/86 Berkeley Community Theater TOUCH OF GREY ESTIMATED PROPHET-> EYES OF THE WORLD-> JAM-> MAYBE YOU KNOW This is one of the most unusual second sets … Read more

KPFA GD marathon Sat Feb 9

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We’re still working out the details, but the annual KPFA Grateful Dead marathon will take place all over the world on Saturday, February 9, 2008, from 9:00 am to 1:00 am pacific time. If all goes according to plan, we’ll be webcasting via DeadNet, nugs.net, gdradio, kpfa.org, and kfcf.org. As usual, we’ll have tons of … Read more

Warren Haynes on GD

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This is an old article, but it came up on a European Deadheads’ mailing list and I thought it worth pointing to again. Warren Haynes talks about the Grateful Dead in Rolling Stone in April 2005. A couple of excerpts: Obviously, most of today’s jam bands are influenced by the Dead. But what disappoints me … Read more

Great post from a European Deadhead

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Mary Eisenhart brought this to my attention. It’s from the Deadheads of Europe topic in the DeadNet Forum. The author was kind enough to give me permission to repost it here. Frankly Posted: January 13, 2008 – 2:39am post communist europe Hi everybody!i am living in the czech republic and i want to say that … Read more