A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Coming events: I’m on tour in the Bay Area this weekend, and the ticket prices are way affordable (i.e. $0) at three of these gigs! Thursday, December 15, 9:00 pm: The Invitational, with David Gans, Chris Rowan, Joshua Zucker, Josh Kaye, and Adam Perry. Hotel Utah, 500 Fourth Street (at Bryant), San Francisco. $7. 415-546-6300. … Read more
When Greil Marcus’ book Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (later reissued as The Old, Weird America) came out in 1997, I invited the author to appear on Dead to the World to talk and play records. Our mutual friend, San Francisco columnist Jon Carroll, got his advance copy and emailed me just to say … Read more
My friend and colleague Steve Silberman – we hang out together in The Well, a seminal online community that still chugs along in a plain-text meeting of the minds, sheltered from the roar of the broadband universe – just posted the first piece of journalism he ever published. It was a review of the Jefferson … Read more
I’ve been a fan of Richard Thompson for years, but never saw him live until last night at the Aladdin Theater in Portland. A bit of good luck got us in the door ahead of most of the crowd, so we had seats about three rows back. It was just Richard w/ Danny Thompson on … Read more
From Robert Tacker: To celebrate David’s fine new release, Solo Electric, Radio Memeworks has made David our September artist of the month. We have all of David’s commercial releases, lots of live material both solo and with various friends and some Guilty Pleasures, and they will be in heavy rotation all month long. If you … Read more
Very nice piece about me by Chad Berndtson in the online magazine Glide. It’s titled “David Gans: Dialed In.” Two excerpts from a long piece: It’s safe to say that David Gans knows his Grateful Dead: the radio show he hosts, the beloved “Grateful Dead Hour” – still broadcasted on KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley, California … Read more
Herbie and Bobby, originally uploaded by dgans. I played the Gathering of the Vibes in Mariaville NY August 12-14, and GratefulFest at Nelson Ledges OH August 19-21. I posted
I got the sweetest note from Jen, the proprietor of the Dark Star Coffee Company – one of my favorite vendors at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, where I played two festivals this summer: I grew up on folk music & feel that I learned more American history from music than school. When I listen to … Read more
Nice interview by Randy Ray on jambands.com From the intro: After the demise of Garcia in August 1995 and the subsequent collapse of the Grateful Dead, I continued to listen to Gans on a weekly basis but I became more interested in Gans himself, instead of his program. Ironically, it would be this ten-year period&emdash;from … Read more
10. “Rain and Snow” – Peter Rowan and Tony Rice et al at MagnoliaFest Midwest in Bean Blossom, Indiana 9. “Vincent Black Lightning” – The Tumbleweeds on the Porch Stage at MagnoliaFest Midwest 8. “Riddle of the Universe” – Donna the Buffalo, Positive Friction – because it’s always in my Top Ten 7. North Country … Read more