A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
From the Grateful Dean blog: I was fortunate enough to get an advance copy of the latest Grateful Dead book that will be hitting the market next Tuesday. This Is All A Dream We Dreamed, An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans is The Grateful Dead Story as told … Read more
From maxim.com: 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Grateful Dead Trip out with tasty nuggets from the new oral history of the Dead, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed. More on the book on the Macmillan web site.
Available in 8×10 or 11×14. Limited edition, signed (by the photographer) and numbered. Update 11/4: No more orders will be taken.
Publication date is November 10. Here is the Goodreads page for the book, and here is the publisher’s page. Both include links to several purchase options. Publisher’s Weekly gave us a good review: This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead Blair Jackson and David Gans Flatiron, $32.99 (528p) … Read more
Here’s a permanent archive of the 9/9/15 Dead to the World program with Starfinder Stanley, John Meyer, Ron Wickersham, et al. It’s all about the amazing genius of Owsley Stanley. The Foundation is looking for donations to preserve the the archive of Bear’s sonic journals.” You can help!
We had a great time saluting One from the Vault at the original venue on the 40th anniversary of the show! Here is a link to the video archive on moonalice.com Here is a link to a “matrix” (audience and soundboard mix) recording by Michael Zelner Here is a link to the torrent version of … Read more
Interview by Sarah Borque: Tales From David Gans: Profiling The Musician And Grateful Dead Expert “Figure out who you are. Be that self to the max. Trust your instincts. Be kind to people. Don’t expect people to be kind to you, but be kind to people anyway. Do your best work as often as you … Read more
Reminder that amazon is taking pre-orders for This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead, by Blair Jackson and David Gans. Publication date is November 10, 2015. “Jerry, Kesey, Bobby, Billy, Bear — this amazing book speaks to me out loud, inside my head, in all the voices of … Read more
Interview with Eli Schwab on Cosmic Lion Radio. Listen here. Eli did the drawing, too!
On Monday, April 27, I appeared on RadioVision Network‘s Morning Coffee. My friend Denny Horn arranged it, and wound up on the air with me. Barbara Freire was the host. A great adventure in local media! Watch it here. – about 28 minutes.