A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans The following is distilled from several WELL posts by my friend and musical buddy Rik Elswit (and posted here with his permission, of course). It concerns a house concert by Michael Smith that we both attended on February 26: Listened to Michael Smith, a wonderful veteran singer-songwriter from Chicago, at a house party yesterday. The … Read more
I love this quote from Jamie Raskin, a candidate for State Senate in Maryland: “Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn’t place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.” – Jamie Raskin, testifying Wednesday, March … Read more
Goin’ Fishin Turn Around – Charity and the Jam Band, Peanut Butter and Jam Interview with Bill Kreutzmann and Justin Kreutzmann Jam-> Cumberland Blues-> Chalk Dust Torture-> Jam – Serial Pod 12/17/05 Asheville Civic Center Phone interview with Mike Gordon. That art installation he talked about is online at anothersideofin.com Soundcheck jam Waves – Serial … Read more
My wife and I have spent a lot of time on Kaua’i, and we love the place and the people we know there. An earthen dam broke yesterday, causing a flood that has washed out the Kuhio Highway, destroyed several houses, and taken several lives. Here’s a collection of photos from the newspaper The Garden … Read more
Bill Kreutzmann and his son, Justin, are coming to KPFA tonight to talk and play some recordings. Bill has some Jazz he recorded in Hawaii, plus some Serial Pod (w/ Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon) recorded last December, and we’ll listen to some Grateful Dead as well, of course. Justin has a recording of Rachel … Read more
Molly Ivins gets my vote again: I can’t see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can’t even see straight…. Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the … Read more
Last week was really great fun, all of it. Started with the Waybacks recording session at KPFA (to be broadcast April 19 on KPFA), then continued through the Hotel Utah gig w/ Henry Kaiser et al., and then two nights at the Freight w/ the Waybacks. And just to put a cherry on top, on … Read more
GD Hour 914 will feature an interview with Alan Dalton, a Florida musician who put together a book of banjo tablature for the first Old and In the Way album. The Old and In the Way Banjo Songbook includes a CD of Alan playing Jerry Garcia’s banjo parts at normal tempo and then at half … Read more
Week of March 13, 2006 Part 1 22:37 Grateful Dead 3/31/89 Greensboro NC LOSER VICTIM OR THE CRIME STANDING ON THE MOON Part 2 34:23 Grateful Dead, One from the Vault BLUES FOR ALLAH Rodney Crowell, The Outsider DON’T GET ME STARTED Ralph Roddenbery Band, Let It In THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK Support for … Read more
We lost Walter this morning. Walter Keeler was one of my “imaginary friends” – not imaginary at all, really, but one of the people I met and stayed in touch with primarily online, in The WELL. We had musical tastes in common, which is always a good basis for friendly dealings, and over the years … Read more