Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
Threee questions to ponder
Steve Hurlburt, whose Dreadheads is a counterculture documentary well worth seeing, has posted three excellent short films on YoutTube:Premise: I asked a bunch of folks at the recent “Change Rocks” show at Penn State what some well-known Hunter lyrics meant to them. As you might imagine, the responses run the gamut from “I don’t know” to hippie non sequitur to you-can’t-make-it-up. The chapters of the trilogy are: “Roll Away the Dew” “Eyes of the World” “Box of Rain” and should/can be viewed in that order.
Interesting essay on Jerry Garcia
Mary Eisenhart passed this along.
Jon Reed Goes Off On: Jerry’s Dead
I sorta had to force myself to read past this line –
Jerry will never be able to tell us why his remarkable extended family couldn’t keep him away from the needle.
– but I’m glad I did.
Jerry’s creativity was like a Pandora’s Box to him – once he opened it up, he had to face the bad with the good.
Until we open our own Box and reckon with what’s inside, we sound pretty weak passing judgment on a man who has been brave enough to live out his deepest contradictions in the glaring eye of the public.
DG in the Shaman’s Den
On Sunday, November 2, I appeared on Frank Moore’s webcast The Shaman’s Den on luver.com.
Performance and interview and photos.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1051
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1051
Week of November 10, 2008
Part 1 18:52
David Gans, The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best
DOWN TO EUGENE
LIKE A DOG
The Doors Live at the Matrix 1967
GET OUT OF MY LIFE, WOMAN
I’M A KING BEE
Part 2 37:18
Grateful Dead 6/26/76 Auditorium Theater, Chicago
PLAYING IN THE BAND->
ST STEPHEN->
THE WHEEL->
PLAYING IN THE BAND
Begging your indulgence, kind listeners, this week’s show opens with two tracks from my new CD, The Ones That Look the Weirdest Taste the Best. The first song [by Jim Page] is obviously Dead-related (“…goin down to Eugene to see the Grateful Dead”), and the Dead-related thing about the second song, “Like a Dog,” is that the lyric was written by Robert Hunter. You can find out more about the CD on my web page.
The Doors Live at the Matrix 1967 was recorded in a nearly-empty club just before the Doors hit it big with “Light My Fire.” I was way into the Doors before I ever heard the Grateful Dead, so I was happy to see this archival release on the schedule.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
Singer/songwriter Aaron Ferguson, presenting his one-man rock and roll show at the Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in New York City Saturday, November 22. Aaron’s solo performance will include elements of a jamband show with songs, jams and a folk rock approach. Sound samples and tickets are available at aaronferguson.com.
Porchwerk Music and DIG Music, joining you in support of The Grateful Dead Hour and celebrating the release of the new CD by Boris Garcia, Once More Into The Bliss, featuring performances from Buddy Cage, Tim Carbone and Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay.
DG on Green 960 today
I’m doing the Angie Coiro show today on Green 960 in San Francisco – progressive talk radio. 3-4pm Pacific time.
Angie has been using my song “It’s Gonna Get Better” as her closing music for a few weeks, and now that the CD is finally on the market, I get to tak about the CD and about what’s going on in the world.
You can listen online (or on the air in the Bay Area at 960 am), and you can call us at 866.960.5753.