Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
End of the tour
Mark Van Allen, David Gans and Ralph Roddenbery at the end of our first tour together. We’re gonna do it again in April – stay tuned!
Photo by Alex Beaudry
UPDATE: Robert Reid has a slide show from the Charleston SC gig.
Grateful Dead Hour #905
Week of January 23, 2006
Part 1 20:04
Grateful Dead 12/12/72 Winterland, San Francisco
ME AND BOBBY McGEE
TENNESSEE JED
AROUND AND AROUND
Part 2 36:47
Grateful Dead 12/12/72 Winterland, San Francisco
PLAYING IN THE BAND
HE’S GONE
Buddy Miller (unreleased live performance)
DEAL
Buddy Miller is a great, great songwriter and performer. He’s toured in Emmylou Harris’ band for several years, and he’s recorded on his own and with his wife Julie. Check out the version of Richard Thompson’s “KeepYour Distance” on the Buddy and Julie Miller CD, and his reading of Bob Dylan’s “With God On Our Side” on Universal United House of Prayer. Extra big thanks to Rob Bleetstein for a nice clean digital board tape of Buddy doin’ “Deal,” even though he didn’t tell me where and when it was recorded.
An end and a beginning
I just got to Mark Van Allen’s house outside Atlanta after a 500+-mile drive from Clearwater FL. Just finished a two-weekend tour with Mark and our pal Ralph Roddenbery, and on the way home we decided to do it again in April.
More details, and recordings, to come. Right now alI have is this blog entry w/ photos from macon.com, courtesy of John Griffin.
Felicity Huffman kicks ass
This is great. Salon posts a clip from a 60 Minutes interview of Felicity Huffman by Lesley Stahl, in which Huffman jumps the Hollywood-banality track and tells the shocking truth.
Snapshot from the road
After our show in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, we headed down to Spartanburg to spend the night in the home of my friend Maclyn Humphrey. There we were introduced to her pet llama, Osama.
And that’s not even the weirdest thing that’s happened on this tour!