A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Interview with Mickey Hart Down the Road – Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box Happiness Is Drumming Sweet Sixteens – Diga Rhythm Band, Diga Drums (Excerpt) – Grateful Dead, Fillmore West 1969 The Eleven (Rehearsal) – Grateful Dead, 1968 Spanish Jam – Grateful Dead 1/27/68 Eagle’s Auditorium, Seattle WA Move On – Ollabelle, Live at the Outpost, … Read more
Week of November 19, 2007 Part 1 33:34 Interview: Mickey Hart Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box DOWN THE ROAD Diga Rhythm Band, Diga HAPPINESS IS DRUMMING SWEET SIXTEENS Interview: Mickey Hart Grateful Dead, Fillmore West 1969 DRUMS (Excerpt) Interview: Mickey Hart Grateful Dead, 1968 THE ELEVEN (Rehearsal) Interview: Mickey Hart Part 2 21:19 Interview: Mickey Hart … Read more
The American Beauty Project (Ollabelle, Jim Lauderdale, Catherine Russell, Teresa Williams, Larry Campbell, and David Gans) perform Friday 11/16 at 8pm in Amherst MA as part of Unbroken Chain: The Grateful Dead in Music, Culture and Memory. More info (including tickets) here. I’m participating in panel discussions in the morning and afternoon; the event continues … Read more
I’m goin’ on the road for a week, but Tim Lynch has lined up a treat for this week’s DTTW! David Grisman and I had such a nice time talking on KPIG the other day that we’ve decided to do it again. The Dawg will join me on KPFA this Wednesday night from 8pm-9pm PST. … Read more
Week of November 12, 2007 Part 1 25:41 Obray Ramsey, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead RAIN AND SNOW Mutilaudio by David Gans BRICKSHAKE #7 Grateful Dead, So Many Roads (1965-1995) EYES OF THE WORLD (10/19/74) Part 2 29:44 Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead HERE COMES SUNSHINE MIGHT … Read more
This just in from Tim Lynch: KPIG Saturday Ham Jam 1:00-3:00pm on KPIG 1510-AM Piedmont / San Francisco Tomorrow’s (Saturday, November 10) guests are David Grisman, Warren Haynes, and Caroline Aiken! Grisman just put out a terrific duet CD with John Sebastian, titled Satisfied. I spent some quality time with Caroline Aiken at the Folk … Read more
This just in via email from the Rex Foundation: Dear Friends, In 1983, the same year the Rex Foundation began, Buckminster Fuller announced, “We can now solve all the problems of hunger and need across the world, having all the available resources and technology; all that we need is the political will.” Perspectives on The … Read more
I just signed on to open for the Farlow-Kirch band at the Ashkenaz on Friday, December 14. That’s Billy C. Farlow, formerly of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen!!! The Ashkenaz is at 1317 San Pablo Avenue, at Gilman Street, in Berkeley CA
jam – Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1 bonus disc (11/8/79 Landover MD) Dancin’ in the Streets-> Franklin’s Tower – Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1 (11/9/79 Buffalo NY) Shakedown Street – Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1 (10/25/79 New Haven CT) Jam (including “I Bid You Good Night” … Read more
I’m going to play a few tracks from the new Road Trips vol. 1 no. 1 on Dead to the World tonight, 8pm PST on KPFA (94.1 fm in northern California, and streaming online at www.kpfa.org and www.kfcf.org.