A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Good day, friends! I have two urgent items for your immediate attention, and some news about my musical plans for the year. First, tomorrow (Saturday, February 4) is the annual KPFA Grateful Dead marathon! I’ll be on the air from 9 am until 1 am Pacific time, and the program will be webcast via KPFA, … Read more
Just started a new acoustic quartet, doing Grateful Dead type stuff. Sycamore Slough String Band We had our first rehearsal in a recording studio, and emerged with our first video clip: New Speedway Boogie Please “Like” us on Facebook if you’re over there.
Poster by Una Toibin A Ride on the Psychedelic Bus Montage created from eight original paintings by Una Toibin. This work was originally created as an advertisement for the multi-media CD-ROM game, “The Psychedelic Bus of Dead Knowledge.” Shortly thereafter, the piece was featured on the cover of Relix Magazine (Dec 1999) and subsequently produced … Read more
Sonic Studio has donated a copy of Amarra MINI, widely recognized as the best computer audio player for the Macintosh (and the 2011 Stereophile Computer Audio Component of the Year), for auction. This is a consumer audio playback system that uses the same amazing technology used in my digital audio workstation, soundBlade SE. It works … Read more
We are pleased to announce a fine musical thank-you gift for KPFA marathon donors. Live from Berkeley, volume 2 will be available in high-res, CD quality, and MP3 from festivalink.net. These performances were broadcast live on Dead to the World, and the performers were kind enough to donate a track to our cause. Thanks to … Read more
Grateful Dead on Haight Street 1966 by Herb Greene 11×14, matted and signed by the photographer. Auction begins now and ends at noon PST on Wednesday, February 1. Bidding begins at $100. Bid by posting in the comments section below, and please keep coming back to top competing bids! Proceeds go to KPFA
DESERT WIND, ROLLIN’ RIVER – an acoustic duo record. David Gans and Eric Rawlins have been making music together, mostly at parties and occasionally in public, for more than 20 years. Recorded in David’s living room in Oakland, this album includes original compositions and many of their favorite songs by others and highlights the warmth … Read more
This is a post I just made to the looper’s delight mailing list: I have developed a practice of “no bad gigs”: taking each performance on its own terms and giving what is required. My attitude is that any time I am being paid to play, and/or I have been invited to play, it is … Read more
Jerry Garcia, interviewed by Bonnie Simmons on KSAN January 23, 1976: Simmons: [A listener asked] whether you plan to do a lot more steel work. Garcia: I don’t think so. The instrument is too difficult for me, frankly. I’d have to play it an awful lt, and I’d need about ten years to get to … Read more
My solo electric show of 3/26/11 at the Stage Stop in Rollinsville CO (opening for Moonalice) is now available from Festivalink in MP3, FLAC, or CD. You can audition it and (I hope) buy it here. Dawn’s Early Light-> For Everyman Therapy Blues That’s Real Love Echolalia Life Is a Jam-> Norwegian Wood Quarter to … Read more