A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Bob Matthews’ ArSeaEm Recording has released a 4-CD set recorded Augut 19, 2005 the first day of Grateful Fest 6 at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in northeastern Ohio. I’m featured on Disc 1, sitting in w/ Cornmeal on “Catfish John” and “Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad” and playing “Dawn’s Early Light-> For Everyman” and … Read more
James Poniewozik in Time: Colbert wasn’t playing to the room, I suspect, but to the wide audience of people who would later watch on the Internet. If anything, he was playing against the room – part of the frisson of his performance was the discomfort he generated in the audience, akin to the cringe humor … Read more
First of all, Daily Kos has a full transcript of the Stephen Colbert speech. Dan Froomkin, in the Washington Post, says this: Now the mainstream media is back with its second reaction: Colbert just wasn’t funny. Yes, it turns out Colbert has brought the White House and its press corps together at long last, creating … Read more
Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings will perform live on KPFA this Wednesday, May 3, 8:30 to 9:30 pm PDT. In addition to the usual webcasts on kpfa.org and kfcf.org, this set can be heard on nugs.net as well. We’ve got room for a few more people in the studio audience. If you’d like to join … Read more
Stephen Colbert was the entertainment at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner over the weekend, and he took the opportunity to speak truth to power in a most breathtaking way. George W. Bush was sitting just a few feet away, and he heard some things that if he’s intelligent enough to understand them should give … Read more
There’s a new book, titled Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly, based on the web site of the same name. These paragraphs cribbed from amazon: From Booklist The title says it all. There’s definitely no love lost between O’Reilly, host of the FOX Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, and Amann and Breuer, founders of a Web … Read more
Week of May 1, 2006 Part 1 14:27 Interview: Bill Kreutzmann & Justin Kreutzmann Bill Kreutzmann, Jim Winkler, et al. Kauai 1998 UNTITLED Interview: Bill Kreutzmann & Justin Kreutzmann Rachel Fuller and Pete Townshend (unreleased studio demo) I’M ONE Interview: Bill Kreutzmann & Justin Kreutzmann Part 2 42:23 Interview: Bill Kreutzmann & Justin Kreutzmann Grateful … Read more
Rubber Souldiers, originally uploaded by dgans. That’s me on the left, Lorin Rowan in the middle, and Chris Rowan on the right. On May 13th, we’re all going to perform at the Larkspur Cafe Theater in Larkspur, California. I’ll open, the Rowans will close, and in between we’re going to play as Rubber Souldiers, performing … Read more
Today’s SF Chronicle has two photos on the front page, with this caption: House speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., departs in a hydrogen-powered car … after a news conference on gasoline prices in Washington – and then gets out and prepares to climb into a sport utility vehicle powered by gasoline…. Hastert and President Bush have … Read more
andDave covers two of my songs in soundfiles posted on his web site! Visit his Listening Lab page and you’ll hear “Shut Up and Listen” and “Down to Eugene.” Thanks, Dave!