A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
On Saturday, December 2, 2017, I performed with the Barton Hills Choir in Austin, Texas. Here is a YouTube clip with three selections from the program. More to come! Goin’ Down the Road/I Know You Rider Brokedown Palace Ripple (Photo by David Mead)
I’ve been invited to perform with the Barton Hills Choir in Austin on the afternoon of December 2 (which means I get to see Dead & Company that night!). And this week I added a guitar overdub to this track for their upcoming CD, Dead Songs vol. 2. Enjoy Eyes of the World!!
A “poem” made of comments in a 1994 conversation about GD rumors. I heard To commemorate Jerry’s return, I heard the Dead were going to do Obsequious Cheezlog. When I heard that, it reminded me of the old I heard they soundchecked “attics” on Sunday. We’re still waiting yesterday I heard that they have been … Read more
KPFA’s annual Grateful Dead fund-raising marathon! Hosts: David Gans and Tim Lynch Saturday, March 11, 2017, 9am to 1am Pacific time Broadcast live on KPFA 94.1 in northern California; streaming live at kpfa.org, nugs.net, and gdradio.net Call 1-800-439-5732 or donate online at kpfa.org Here’s some general info And here’s the playlist, updated as the day … Read more
Have you seen that thing going around about a $500 reward for the lost recording of 3/17/70, Grateful Dead with the Buffalo Philharmonic? Here’s a bit of info about that event, deleted from our final manuscript due to space issues: Peter Case (musician): They were playing in Buffalo [March 17, 1970], at the Kleinhans Music … Read more
Here are two photos of Bob Weir that I took at Club Front in November of 1981. I am offering them as 8×10 prints on Epson Ultra Premium Luster paper. You can order 1 for $30 or both for $50. They will be signed and numbered. Size of the edition will be determined by the … Read more
The paperback is here! Order a signed copy by clicking here. You can tell us who to make it out to in the “instructions to the seller” field.
Use this link to order a copy of the hardcover edition of This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead signed by both authors. US addresses only, please! If you’re out of the country, contact me and we’ll work something out.
I ran across John Conroy‘s excellent photos the other day, and he was kind enough to share this one along with a link to more of his photos. This picture of Keith Godchaux was taken at the UC Santa Barbara stadium on May 25, 1974 (a show I also attended!); there are more images from … Read more
Confessions of a Dead Head by the Starburst Commander is a sweet little (under 100 pages) memoir of a guy whose first show was at Winterland in 10/74. He touches all the bases: hilarity on the highway; post-show coffee-shop hijinks; a borrowed account of meeting a band member; getting deep into the songs; emotional processing … Read more