A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
I am playing the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley this Wednesday, November 23 at 8pm, co-billed with the weird and wonderful Baby Gramps. If you’re in the area and not queued up at an airport trying to get somewhere else for Thanksgiving day, I hope you’ll consider coming to this show. A gig at the … Read more
A piece of music for our beloved cat Hugo, whose life must end today. He has been “Looking into the Next World” for a while now, and the time has come. We love him intensely and we will miss him terribly.
Friday, November 18, 9pm: David Nelson Band, Boris Garcia, and DG at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA Sunday, November 20, 5:00 pm: David Nelson Band, Boris Garcia, and David Gans at Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Av, Chico CA. Benefit for KZFR community radio. Wednesday, November 23, 8pm: DG and Baby Gramps at … Read more
It’s been a very busy summer, and I’ve spent way too much time on airplanes lately – but it’s all been totally worth the schlepping ’cause it’s been a GREAT summer! Today I play the Novato farmers’ market for the first time, 4 to 8 pm. I love farmers’ market gigs – a great opportunity … Read more
Here’s Joe Bouchard’s recording of my show at Neverdun Farm in Arundel ME Wednesday, July 20. Here’s Cory Desrosiers’ recording of my set at the Gathering of the Vibes Sunday, July 24. Roger Sideman joined me on bass for part of the set. And here is Jack Baribault’s video clip of me singing “Loser” at … Read more
On Wednesday, July 6, Steve Noonan come to the KPFA studio to play and talk on Dead to the World. I invited our mutual friend Rik Elswit to join the conversation, and when we invited him to take Steve’s guitar and sing a song for us, he surprised the hell out of me by performing … Read more
RUBBER SOULDIERS – the “Beatles jam band” – perform twice this Saturday, June 25: At 10am we’ll be on Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live, broadcasting from the Ferry Building in San Francisco, and at 6:30pm we’ll be at the wonderful Children’s Fairyland in Oakland. You can be in the studio audience for WCL (see below), … Read more
Rubber Souldiers – the “Beatles Jam Band” – play tonight at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA with Galen Kipar opening. Showtime is 9pm. Galen performed live on KPFA last night. It’s in the second hour of this audio archive.
Available now on archive.org: Dedicated Maniacs w/ David Gans 4-16-2011 Starry Plough, Berkeley, CA Source: AUD
My interview with mastering engineer Dave Glasser has been posted on DeadNet. Dave is mastering the huge and mindblowing boxed set Europe 72: The Complete Recordings. I talked with Dave in his mastering room in Boulder, Colorado on March 26, 2011. Before we started, he sat me down in the sweet spot and played me … Read more