A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Week of February 2, 2015 Part 1 18:54 Bob Weir and Ratdog, Evening Moods ASHES AND GLASS Jerry Garcia Band, Bay Area 1978 LET ME ROLL IT Part 2 36:29 Grateful Dead 12/5/71 Felt Forum, New York NY ME AND BOBBY MCGEE BIG RAILROAD BLUES MEXICALI BLUES YOU WIN AGAIN NOT FADE AWAY-> GOIN’ DOWN … Read more
Here’s the playlist for today’s Grateful Dead marathon And here’s a link to the auctions!
CURRENT BIDS for the KPFA auction Last update 11:59pm PST Sat 1/31 DO NOT POST BIDS HERE! – post in the comments section of each item. Photo by Jim Marshall (Jerry Garcia and Eric Clapton): $500 Jerry Garcia Bobblehead: $180 Postcards of the Hanging w/ bonus disc: $90 Photo by Jim Marshall (Phil Lesh on … Read more
The annual KPFA Grateful Dead marathon is Saturday, January 31, 2015, 9am to 1am Pacific time. Broadcast live on KPFA 94.1 fm in Berkeley and streaming online at kpfa.org, nugs.net, and gdradio.net Hosts: David Gans and Tim Lynch Rare unreleased Grateful Dead (and related) music! Bill Kreutzmann’s Trypto Band Live music by the T Sisters … Read more
Our friends at the audiophile music company Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab have donated several copies of Workingman’s Dead on hybrid CD and 180-gram 45rpm vinyl. The CD will play on regular CD players (and sounds awesome!) as well as SACD players. More info here. VINYL IS SOLD OUT! THANK YOU!! The vinyl is a 2-disc … Read more
I just did an interview for the Thursday, January 29 edition of NPR’s Here & Now. We talked about Saturday’s KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon and (spoiler alert!!) we played a few clips from the shows I am planning to play during the broadcast. Here is a link to the piece.
Interview with Matthew Lasar, published this morning on Radio Survivor. This weekend and through February David Gans will celebrate two milestones: his 29th Grateful Dead marathon on listener supported KPFA-FM in Berkeley and his 30th year of radio broadcasting. A musician and writer, Gans deejayed his first Deadhead Hour on KFOG-FM in San Francisco on … Read more
new update is here
Mark Lichtenberger has donated two Lom Lomi (Hawaiian style) massages to the KPFA marathon! Mark is a certified massage therapist with the state of California. He has over 650 hours of classroom and clinical training and 10 years experience at making people feel good. Mark specializes in Lomi Lomi, Hawaiian massage, utilizing a mixture of … Read more
AUCTION UPDATE