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Gans gig update

Added a show in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque next Saturday… David Gans – “solo electric” except as noted Friday, February 12, 7pm: House concert in Placitas NM. Contact me for more info. Saturday, February 13, 8-11pm: Mountain High Bar, 12220 N. Hwy 14 (next door to Ribs BBQ), Cedar Crest NM. $5. 505-281-4227 Saturday, February 20, 9am to 1am: the annual KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon. Also celebrating my 25th anniversary of broadcasting! Wed Feb 24, 8pm: BK3 live in the KPFA performance studio. Saturday, February 27, 8pm: The China Cats, David Gans, and Jeni Swerdlow’s DRUMMM at the Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA. $10 Sunday, February 28, 8:30am to 1pm: Marin Farmers’ Market at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael CA. Free! Great organic produce, prepared foods, etc. Monday, March 1, 8pm: Wake the Dead and Rubber Souldiers play a benefit for Haiti relief at the Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley CA. Tickets are now on sale! Saturday, March 6: Sutter Creek Theater, Sutter Creek CA. 916-425-0077
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Garcia on “Dark Star”

This was posted on the eurotraders list today. It’s an excerpt from the interview book Garcia: A Signpost to New Space by Charles Reich and Jann Wenner:

Reich: Well then if we wanted to talk about “Dark Star”, could you say anything about where it comes from?

Garcia: You gotta remember that you and I are talking about two different “Dark Stars.” You’re talking about the “Dark Star” which you have heard formalized on a record, and I’m talking about the “Dark Star” which I have heard in each performance as a completely improvised piece over a long period of time. So I have a long continuum of “Dark Stars” which range in character from each other to real different extremes. “Dark Star” has meant, while I’m playing it, almost as many things as I can sit here and imagine, so all I can do is talk about “Dark Star” as a playing experience.

Reich: Well, yeah, talk about it a little.

Garcia: I can’t. It talks about itself.

The interview took place in 1972, I believe.

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Upcoming David Gans performances

  • Thursday, February 4, 9pm: "Dead Dreams" – DG joins Dave Stein & friends and members of Front Street for acoustic and electric Dead music at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA.
  • Saturday, February 27, 8pm: The China Cats, David Gans, and Jeni Swerdlow’s DRUMMM at the Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA. $10
  • Sunday, February 28, 8:30am to 1pm: Marin Farmers’ Market at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael CA. Free! Great organic produce, prepared foods, etc.
  • Monday, March 1, 8pm: Wake the Dead and Rubber Souldiers play a benefit for Haiti relief at the Freight and Salvage, 2020 addison Street, Berkeley CA. Tickets are now on sale!
  • Saturday, March 6: Sutter Creek Theater, Sutter Creek CA. 916-425-0077

    • More info (and gigs farther into the future) at dgans.com/gigs.html

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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 1115

    Week of February 1, 2010

    Part 1 33:14
    Introduction
    Grateful Dead 8/10/82 U of I Field House, Iowa City IA
    IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES
    SHE’S ON THE ROAD AGAIN->
    BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
    STAGGER LEE
    I NEED A MIRACLE->
    BERTHA

    Part 2 23:21
    Grateful Dead 8/10/82 U of I Field House, Iowa City IA
    CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER->
    I KNOW YOU RIDER
    Jerry Garcia Band, Let It Rock (Keystone Berkeley Nov 1975)
    THEY LOVE EACH OTHER

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