David Gans

Radio Memeworks’ “artist of the month”: David Gans

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From Robert Tacker: To celebrate David’s fine new release, Solo Electric, Radio Memeworks has made David our September artist of the month. We have all of David’s commercial releases, lots of live material both solo and with various friends and some Guilty Pleasures, and they will be in heavy rotation all month long. If you … Read more

“We think we can spot phonies…”

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Another fine Jon Carroll column in today’s SF Chronicle: …. We think that we can spot phonies, people who are playing against type for nefarious reasons. Usually we can’t, which is why con games are still popular; people always overestimate their ability to judge character. There are dozens of academic studies suggesting that people cannot … Read more

GLIDE Magazine article about DG

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Very nice piece about me by Chad Berndtson in the online magazine Glide. It’s titled “David Gans: Dialed In.” Two excerpts from a long piece: It’s safe to say that David Gans knows his Grateful Dead: the radio show he hosts, the beloved “Grateful Dead Hour” – still broadcasted on KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley, California … Read more

The Bush Adminstration vs. nature

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This administration and the congressional majority are profoundly anthropocentric, following a line of thinking that nothing is doing any good unless it is producing a commodity for human beings. Human beings are, according to the fundamentalist theology of this administration, God’s chosen species. We have have therefor been authorized to despoil as necessary in order … Read more

Photos from August festivals

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Herbie and Bobby, originally uploaded by dgans. I played the Gathering of the Vibes in Mariaville NY August 12-14, and GratefulFest at Nelson Ledges OH August 19-21. I posted

A gift from the coffee lady

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I got the sweetest note from Jen, the proprietor of the Dark Star Coffee Company – one of my favorite vendors at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, where I played two festivals this summer: I grew up on folk music & feel that I learned more American history from music than school. When I listen to … Read more

Trent Lott

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I saw Senator Trent Lott on The Daily Show and heard some of his interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He sounded so damn reasonable and affable, such a regular guy. But I wasn’t amused. I just thought, “That fucker spent three decades smearing the halls of democracy with shit, and now he writes … Read more

Pat Robertson advocates assassination of Hugo Chavez

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Initially gleaned from Media Matters for America: ROBERTSON: There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. … Read more

“Jesus is watching you”

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jesus100_2966, originally uploaded by Look.. My friend Stu took this photo in Farmington NM in February. I see a lot of nasty “religious” messages in my travels. Today, driving across Pennsylvania on I-76, I saw a billboard whose exact wording I don’t recall, but it included the phrase “God is to be feared!” Who the … Read more

Who Will Save Us from the Saved?

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This new song has been very well-received on tour, and it’s already gotten a little bit of airplay. It is on my new CD, Solo Electric; you can hear the track here (mp3). WHO WILL SAVE US FROM THE SAVED? Words and music by David Gans Such a lovely planet Wonder how it came to … Read more