A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Join Colorado Music Experience on Friday, April 26 at Fiske Planetarium for “Lights • Sound • Dialog — Grateful Dead • Boulder 1969-1981.” This select symposium on the Grateful Dead’s visual and audio improvisation is in the context of the band’s four concerts on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus—at the University Memorial Center (1969), Folsom … Read more
Here is the address I delivered to the first session of “MUS 49 — Psychedelia and Groove: The Music and Culture of the Grateful Dead,” a class I am teaching for Stanford Continuing Studies. I wanted to call this class DID IT MATTER? DOES IT NOW? The answer is “Yes, and… yes!” Please think of … Read more
I have signed on to teach a Grateful Dead class for Stanford Continuing Studies. It’ll be six Monday evenings, starting in mid-January (skipping one week in February). You can find out more, and/or sign up for the class, here: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/gratefuldead The sessions will be recorded, and students will be able to watch later. This will … Read more
This is from my dear friend G Brown, who runs the Colorado Music Experience. They’re planning to commemorate the Dead’s performance at Folsom Field (Boulder CO) on September 3, 1972, and they would love to hear from anybody who was there! Colorado Music Experience is looking for any anecdotes or memories from people who attended … Read more
I have launched a Kickstarter campaign for IMPROVISED LIVES: GRATEFUL DEAD 1972-1985, a book of my photos and stories. Jay Blakesberg is producing the book and contributing a foreword. Here’s the video we made to introduce the project, and and here is the Kickstarter page. I hope you’ll take a look and pre-order a book … Read more
T-shirt design by Dee Brenner #KPFAMarathon is on the air! 9am to 1am PT Playlist: cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/kpfa-marathon-2-26-22 Donate at kpfa.org or 1-800-439-5732 streaming at nugs.net gdradio.net and kpfa.org
From my 11/9/84 with Phil Lesh: We worked for about six months at Columbus Recorders, putting all these two-track tapes of gigs together. We used stuff from the Great Northwest tour with Quicksilver, where we played out asses off with this material – really hot. Some of the tapes were terrible… One of the gigs … Read more
We need to raise $100,000 to help Robin Sylvester deal with ongoing health issues! Click this link to read the story! You can make a contribution here.
Gary Lambert and I are hosting a chat show in the set breaks of nugs.net‘s livestreams of the Dead & Company tour. DEAD AIR WITH LAMBERT AND GANS has been great fun so far! Here are the eight shows we have done to date: Aug 18 Don Was Aug 20 Steven Feld, Cameron Sears Aug … Read more
“I wanted to drop you a line about my impressions of This Is All A Dream…. I’ve enjoyed it immensely. Your formula of stringing together (more or less in line) snippets from multiple interviews of Dead Family members and associates works in spectacular fashion to bring this history to life. Many of the events described … Read more