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Friday, February 22, 8pm: The Songwriters Extravaganza featuring David Gans, Ira Marlowe, and Mario DeSio. What we’re promising here is an evening of smart, soulful, funny, passionate, compassionate, literate and humane original music from three mature, accomplished Bay Area songwriters. The Belrose Theatre, 1415 5th Avenue, San Rafael CA. $18 advance $20 day of show. … Read more

We’re still working out the details, but the annual KPFA Grateful Dead marathon will take place all over the world on Saturday, February 9, 2008, from 9:00 am to 1:00 am pacific time. If all goes according to plan, we’ll be webcasting via DeadNet, nugs.net, gdradio, kpfa.org, and kfcf.org. As usual, we’ll have tons of … Read more

This is an old article, but it came up on a European Deadheads’ mailing list and I thought it worth pointing to again. Warren Haynes talks about the Grateful Dead in Rolling Stone in April 2005. A couple of excerpts: Obviously, most of today’s jam bands are influenced by the Dead. But what disappoints me … Read more

Mary Eisenhart brought this to my attention. It’s from the Deadheads of Europe topic in the DeadNet Forum. The author was kind enough to give me permission to repost it here. Frankly Posted: January 13, 2008 – 2:39am post communist europe Hi everybody!i am living in the czech republic and i want to say that … Read more

Posted with permission, natch: David, I just wanted to drop a note to thank you for selecting the Ratdog 7/17/07 Columbus OH show on the GD hour replayed on Sirius satellite radio on 1/13/08. Keep up the great work! I have enjoyed the GD hour since the late ’80s and always reflect back on those … Read more

Details and updated gig info at dgans.com/gigs.html

I still haven’t made up my mind who to vote for in the California primary. But I am feeling pretty inspired by what I have seen from Barack Obama of late, and so is Gary Kamiya of salon.com: In November 2004, American voters reelected the worst president in modern history. That election did more than … Read more

We’re having a reception at the Nomad on Sunday, January 13, 2-4pm.

Rosie McGee lives and works at the Grand Canyon. She’s got some amazing photos on her web site. This morning I received this note: Well, I finally got it done – a slide show of images selected from the many I’ve taken in the nearly 5 years I’ve been here at the Grand Canyon, celebrating … Read more

Rubber Souldiers ride again. Photo by reet. From left: Chris Rowan, Lorin Rowan, Paul Knight, David Gans. It’s Paul Knight and Friends at the Station House Cafe in Point Reyes Station, but it’s also a reunion of Rubber Souldiers, an occasional collaboration of the Rowans and me with a strong emphasis on songs of the … Read more