David Gans

Grateful Dead Hour #914

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Week of March 27, 2006 Part 1 21:12 Grateful Dead 12/28/89 Oakland Coliseum Arena JUST A LITTLE LIGHT LET IT GROW Part 2 34:38 Old and In the Way MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT Interview: ALAN DALTON, author of Old and in the Way Banjo Songbook Old and In the Way PIG IN A PEN KISSIMMEE KID LAND … Read more

TV everywhere

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I walked into the breakfast room at the Holiday In Express. There was one other couple in there, and I asked them if they’d mind if I turned off the TV. It was tuned to the Oxygen chanel, showing a movie, and no one was watching. No problem, said the couple. As I ate my … Read more

Dead to the World 3/22/06

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Guest host: Tim Lynch Jack Straw Althea Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues Friend Of The Devil New Minglewood Blues Deal Music Never Stopped > Franklin’s Tower – Grateful Dead 3/13/85 Berkeley Community Theater True Religion – The Duhks Treat Me Right – Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Nothing But The Water Chain of Fools – … Read more

Weir interview in Fairfield County Weekly

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Really nice interview with Bobby, by Brita Belli, in the Fairfield County Weekly. An excerpt: Fairfield Weekly: In [the film] Festival Express you come across as the innocent, naïve 22-year-old. Was that train trip a turning point for you? BW: Well, it was a great ride, I’ll tell you. It was the ride of a … Read more

Family values

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Jon Carroll, in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, offers a very angry and personal take on the latest front in the culture wars: “gay adoption.” According to the Catholic News Service, “Catholic Charities of the Boston Archdiocese announced March 10 that it will stop providing adoption services rather than continue to comply with a state law … Read more

Grateful Dead Hour #913

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Week of March 20, 2006 Part 1 27:44 Grateful Dead 12/28/89 Oakland Coliseum Arena GOOD TIMES FEEL LIKE A STRANGER DIRE WOLF LITTLE RED ROOSTER Part 2 28:36 Grateful Dead 12/28/89 Oakland Coliseum Arena RAMBLE ON ROSE QUEEN JANE, APPROXIMATELY Grateful Dead 3/28/94 and 4/4/94 THE DAYS BETWEEN This “Days between” composite first appeared in … Read more

Letter from a listener

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From Ron Tavernier in Fairbanks, Alaska (posted with permission, of course): Hey, hope all is well in your neighborhood. Spring is rapidly approaching up here. A balmy 15 today. Anyway, how would I get GDH online. Our classic rock station used to carry it, but doesn’t anymore. They may have picked it up again, to … Read more

A report from outside the USA

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A friend pointed me to a story on jambase from Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident) and Chris Berry (Panjea), who are traveling in Africa, and this quote in particular: I highly suggest all of you leave the Unites States at some time soon to remove yourself from the “psychic net” our government has craftily woven … Read more