A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Hello, friends – happy SUMMER!! I’ve got three Bay Area gigs this weekend, and I hit the road next week for my first festival of the season. The in-between gigs are still being confirmed; please see https://www.dgans.com/gigs.html for the latest. I’m in the middle of an online interview at www.well.com/inkwell – talking with Gary Burnett … Read more
The June 21 Dead to the World Vince Welnick tribute is available for download. The numbers are in sequence with the podcast version of last week’s program. The playlist is here. Part 10 (20:28) Part 11 (24:06) Part 12 (22:43) Part 13 (32:24) Part 14 (9:32)
This is from an email sent out today by Xtra Ticket, an Arizona band that Vince played with many times in recent years. (Here’s a link to a show they played together on
Here are a few more pieces that didn’t make it into the six hours of broadcast tribute: Vince Welnick interview w/ David Gans 6/21/96 Studio E, Sebastopol CA Friend of the Devil – Mickey Hart Band rehearsal 4/30/00 Vince Welnick and Bobby Vega interview w/ David Gans 6/21/96 Studio E, Sebastopol CA Playing in the … Read more
Baba O’Reilly-> Tomorrow Never Knows – Grateful Dead 5/19/92 Cal Expo, Sacramento CA Playing in the Band jam-> The Same Thing – GD 12/28/91 Oakland Coliseum Arena “The Same Thing” aborted by clumsy board operator (Gans) – Sorry!! Tubular Bells – GD 9/13/93 Spectrum, Philadelphia The Days Between – GD 9/16/93 Madison Square Garden, NYC … Read more
Audio from the June 14 KPFA tribute to Vince is now available here The complete playlist is here
I got this in email from Prairie Prince this morning, and he gave me permission to post it here. Both Vince and Prairie started out in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. Vince was in The Beans; Prairie was in a rival outfit called the Red, White and Blues Band. Prairie eventually joined the Beans, and in … Read more
Here are some tracks I wasn’t able to fit into the tribute show: Children of the Future-> The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) – Affordables 10/31/92 Samba in the Rain – Vince w/ XTra Ticket 4/18/03 Scarlet Begonias – Vince with Gent Treadly 5/30/03 Wang Dang Doodle – Vince with Sugar Blue and Terrapin Flyer … Read more
Note: a podcast version of this broadcast, in 9 segments, is available for download. Golden Days-> Stella Blue – Missing Man Formation 7/6/96 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco White Punks on Dope – Tubes World Tour Interview with Vince by Gary Lambert 2/13/92 jam w/ Branford Marsalis – Grateful Dead 12/31/91 Oakland Coliseum Arena Phone interview … Read more
One of the most pleasant and enriching experiences of my musical life was co-producing Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead in the summer of 2000. The band wanted some instrumental support on this record, and I was responsible for bringing the right talents in. Vince Welnick was my first and only choice for … Read more