A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Excellent column by Jon Carroll in the August 10 San Francisco Chronicle. I still read criticism of books I will never read. I suspect lots of people do. Part of it is to get a gloss on the culture — ah, Bret Easton Ellis, looks like I won’t have to crack the latest novel either … Read more
Nice interview by Randy Ray on jambands.com From the intro: After the demise of Garcia in August 1995 and the subsequent collapse of the Grateful Dead, I continued to listen to Gans on a weekly basis but I became more interested in Gans himself, instead of his program. Ironically, it would be this ten-year period&emdash;from … Read more
Lots of stories in the media today, on the tenth anniversary of Jerry’s passing. Daily Kos Sacramento Bee Paul Liberatore’s front-page story in the Marin I-J On the Al Franken Show today, they decided to start a campaign to get Jerry on a postage stamp. high Times piece by Mark Miller.
Dog Days #1, originally uploaded by dgans. Our first Giants game of the season – August 6, 2005. It was the Giants’ ninth annual “Dog Days” event. Fans brought their dogs and had a parade before the game, and then sat in the bleachers to watch the Giants beat Houston 5-2. Rita and I went … Read more
It’s been ten years since Jerry Garcia passed away. Robert Hunter posted this in his online journal at dead.net: August 3, 2005 Ten years since old Jer kicked the bucket? Seems more like fifty. Nothing about his passing seems like “only yesterday,” rather as long ago and far away as my childhood. From the sublime … Read more
10. “Rain and Snow” – Peter Rowan and Tony Rice et al at MagnoliaFest Midwest in Bean Blossom, Indiana 9. “Vincent Black Lightning” – The Tumbleweeds on the Porch Stage at MagnoliaFest Midwest 8. “Riddle of the Universe” – Donna the Buffalo, Positive Friction – because it’s always in my Top Ten 7. North Country … Read more
Miss Liberty?, originally uploaded by dgans. I am inordinately proud of this poster, designed by David Newman from a photo I took last fall in High Point, North Carolina.
Gans vibrates with a love of things musical, which in turn inspires our own pleasure and feeling for sound and vision.
“…a decent society is one that does not humiliate its members.”
This seems typical of the right’s behavior in recent years, and it all seems to be getting even crazier and more juvenile as time goes by.