A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Auction to benefit KPFA listener-sponsored radio. Laminated backstage pass for the Grateful Dead Summer 1995 tour, from the collection of David Gans. Bidding starts at $50.00. Post your bid in the comments section below and check back often! Auction ends Sunday, February 1, 2015, at noon Pacific time. Proceeds go to KPFA. The annual KPFA … Read more
KPFA‘s annual Grateful Dead fund-raising marathon happens Saturday, January 31, from 9 am to 1 am. Sixteen hours of music, talk, fun, and fundraising. I’ll be conducting this excursion with some help from Tim Lynch, my cohost on KPFA’s Dead to the World. We’ll have plenty of great unreleased Grateful Dead music, highlights from live … Read more
My pal Ari Fink asked me (and my Tales from the Golden Road cohost, Gary Lambert) to pick some seminal tracks to play on the Jam_On Channel‘s “Roots of the Jam Weekend,” airing now through Sunday (11/30/14). Here are the four pieces I contributed: Dark Star – Live Dead, recorded 2/27/69 The Grateful Dead didn’t … Read more
This week I visited Alembic Inc. for the first time in more than 30 years. This is a link to a set of photos from this visit, plus a few shots I took in September 1978 when I was there to write a story for BAM Magazine. Alembic – photos by David Gans (1978 and … Read more
I was invited to post on Dead for a Year about a favorite piece of Grateful Dead music, and I chose to write about the big second-set jam of 5/19/74. Visit Dead for a Year and check it out!
“Circumstances have necessitated that all scheduled tour dates for Bob Weir & RatDog are being cancelled. This applies to all dates on the summer tour starting on Thursday, August 14 in Boston through September 14 in Nashville and also includes the Jamaica event in January of 2015….”
I added a few photos to my Grateful Dead set on flickr. Here’s one…
I’m going through hundreds of interviews, searching for stories to put into this book I’m working on with Blair Jackson. There’s a lot of great stuff that doesn’t really fit into an oral history but really ought to be shared. This is from a December 2013 interview with producer/director Allan Arkush, a longtime friend of … Read more
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Corry Arnold is sharing historical info from his amazing blog today. September 1973 tour itinerary 10/17/73 in Dallas Jerry Garcia’s keyboardists Jerry Garcia and his banjo in Santa Cruz 1973-75 Bob Weir and Kingfish 1984-1987 According to Corry Arnold, Bob Weir learned “Me and My Uncle” from Curly Jim Go Ahead – Brent Mydland and … Read more