A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Week of December 14, 2015 Part 1 24:04 Dead & Company 11/7/15 Madison Square Garden, New York City HELP ON THE WAY-> SLIPKNOT!-> FRANKLIN’S TOWER Part 2 30:45 Grateful Dead 6/28/88 Saratoga (NY) Performing Arts Center ESTIMATED PROPHET-> CRAZY FINGERS-> DRUMS Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: Dead and Company – … Read more
David Gans answers “Five questions” from Steven Jurgensmeyer, regarding TIAADWD “The band ran on instinct and wit, with Jerry’s instinct and wit dominating throughout the band’s history.”
To order a copy of This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead signed by both authors, click here. US addresses only, please! If you’re out of the country, contact me and we’ll work something out.
An “outtake” from This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans, published November 10, 2015 by Flatiron Books. (You can order a signed copy here.) Blair and I turned in a manuscript that was much, much longer than the publisher expected. Bob Miller, … Read more
WSDL 90.7 Delmarva Public Radio, Salisbury MD will air the GD Hour Thursdays at 9pm starting January 7!
Week of December 7, 2015 Part 1 32:33 Grateful Dead 6/28/88 Saratoga (NY) Performing Arts Center VICTIM OR THE CRIME FOOLISH HEART Talk Circles Round the Sun, Interludes for the Dead GINGER SAYS Bob Dylan, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Deluxe Edition) IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN … Read more
A new entry on Corry Arnold’s amazing blog Lost Live Dead: “The world’s two leading Grateful Dead scholars have a new and important book that will be a boon to bloggers like me for the rest of our days. This Is All A Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History Of The Grateful Dead, by Blair … Read more
David Gans: It’s a Hand-Me-Down An album of “solo electric” interpretations of songs by the Grateful Dead. Tracks: Stagger Lee, Lazy River Road, Ship of Fools-> Loser, Looks Like Rain, Wharf Rat, Stella Blue, Black Peter-> New Speedway Boogie, Deal, Terrapin Station, Attics of My Life, Brokedown Palace Available on Festivalink, Bandcamp, CDBaby, iTunes, and … Read more
Week of November 30, 2015 Part 1 27:17 Grateful Dead 6/28/88 Saratoga (NY) Performing Arts Center HELL IN A BUCKET-> BERTHA WALKIN’ BLUES CANDYMAN Part 2 28:40 Grateful Dead 6/28/88 Saratoga (NY) Performing Arts Center WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE ROW JIMMY Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead TRUCKIN’ Support for the … Read more
The Chronicle was kind enough to get Chris Willman, a music writer of national stature, to review our book! Aside from a couple of VERY minor quibbles about one paragraph (this is Blair’s fifth GD book, not his third, etc.), this is about as good as we could ever have asked for! If form should … Read more