David Gans

More on Playboy After Dark

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Listening closely to the first segment of the Dead’s appearance on Playboy After Dark, you hear Jerry, ostensibly offering party chatter – the conceit of the show is that it’s a party in Hugh Hefner’s penthouse apartment – saying: “So there we were. There were seven of us, armed to the teeth with Buck knives, … Read more

GD on Playboy After Dark

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I just got the DVD set Playboy After Dark, Collection Two, featuring the Dead’s January 18, 1969 appearance. Everyone is in very colorful clothes – Jerry in a serape! and sans eyeglasses. First song is “Mountains of the Moon,” with Jerry playing a slotted-head Martin acoustic – with nylon strings, I’m pretty sure. “St. Stephen” … Read more

I’m moving to Sirius

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After spending an hour and a half on the phone with them (and signing a document), I can confirm that I’m going to be working as a programming consultant for the new Grateful Dead channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. Beyond that, it’s not for me to reveal the details. Pretty much everything I suggested was … Read more

Review of Dead Symphony

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Michael Bell posted this on the Grateful Dead Hour mailing list; I repost it here with his permission. I listen to a fair bit of classical music and have studied music. I just got the Dead Symphony CD a few days ago and have listened to it twice now. As noted, most other orchestral versions … Read more

Bob Weir interview re file-sharing etc.

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Bob Weir interview with Bill Lynch in the Charleston Gazette: “Jam bands occupy a place that’s ground zero in the file-sharing demographic,” Weir said. File sharing, he said, is not to be confused with tape sharing, which was never the same thing. From the ’60s through the ’90s, bands like the Grateful Dead encouraged fan … Read more

Owsley meets the media

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Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has an interview with Bear, aka Owsley Stanley, who made the best acid, helped the Grateful Dead get started, and practically invented concert sound. The name Owsley became a noun that appears in the Oxford dictionary as English street slang for good acid. It is the most famous brand name in … Read more

Old GD Hours on DeadNet

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The beautiful new DeadNet today introduces a new weekly feature: podcasts from the Grateful Dead Hour archive. Analise Dubner created a beautiful image for the landing page. First up is program #793, the first of a four-part series featuring an interview with Steve Parish on the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Home Before … Read more

Grateful Dead Hour #981

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Week of July 9, 2007 Part 1 27:57 Grateful Dead 4/15/89 The Mecca, Milwaukee WI WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE QUEEN JANE, APPROXIMATELY BLOW AWAY-> PROMISED LAND Part 2 27:58 Grateful Dead 4/15/89 The Mecca, Milwaukee WI CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER-> I KNOW YOU RIDER New Riders of the Purple Sage Live New Year’s Eve 2006 … Read more