Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
DeadCo/GDH ticket giveaway: July 6-7
Dead & Company summer tour ticket giveaway!
I’ve got two pairs for each show on the upcoming tour. We’re gonna offer them one show at a time. Note: this is admission only. Just a pair of tickets. You have to get yourself to the show and all that.
Next shows are Friday, July 6 in Chula Vista CA and Saturday, July 7 in Los Angeles at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View CA. You may enter for both shows but you can only win one.
Send email to deadco@well.com with the show date in the Subject line and your name, address, and phone number in the body of the message. We’ll pick our winners at random in a couple of days, and then I’ll announce the next giveaway. I have the tickets, and will mail them out well in advance of the show.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Posting a reply here on the blog does not get you entered in the contest.
And PLEASE NOTE: We’re doing one show at a time, in chronological order. Entries for other shows will be discarded. And you may only enter once for each show! Grateful Dead Hour no. 1550
Week of June 4, 2018
Part 1 25:10
Grateful Dead 6/9/90 Cal Expo, Sacramento CA
WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE
LOOSE LUCY
CASSIDY->
DON’T EASE ME IN
Part 2 30:57
Jerry Garcia, Before the Dead (Round Records)
LITTLE BIRDIE
Mark Karan‘s Budz 2/24/18 KPFA Performance Studio
SUGAREE
Dead & Company 2/27/18 Orlando FL
ST STEPHEN
Mark Karan is is about to launch a crowdfunder for a new studio album. Stay tuned to markkaran.com and his Facebook page for more info.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York. Just announced at The Cap is Phil Lesh and The Terrapin Family Band on Thursday, September 6, featuring special guests Eric Krasno and Nicki Bluhm. Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile when Phil returns to his home away from home, Port Chester’s The Capitol Theatre! Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.
Peter Shapiro’s Dayglo Presents, bringing the music of the Grateful Dead to New York City’s parks this summer! On Thursday, July 19, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead plays Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell. And on Wednesday, September 5, Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band return to Central Park SummerStage. Tickets and more info at BRICartsmedia.org and cityparksfoundation.com/summerstage
DeadCo/GDH ticket giveaway: July 2-3
Winners for July 2 are Pat and Ruth; winners for July 3 are Leslie and Kim.
Dead & Company summer tour ticket giveaway!
I’ve got two pairs for each show on the upcoming tour. We’re gonna offer them one show at a time. Note: this is admission only. Just a pair of tickets. You have to get yourself to the show and all that.
Next shows are Monday and Tuesday, July 2 and 3 at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View CA. You may enter for both shows but you can only win one.
Send email to deadco@well.com with the show date in the Subject line and your name, address, and phone number in the body of the message. We’ll pick our winners at random in a couple of days, and then I’ll announce the next giveaway. I have the tickets, and will mail them out well in advance of the show.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Posting a reply here on the blog does not get you entered in the contest.
And PLEASE NOTE: We’re doing one show at a time, in chronological order. Entries for other shows will be discarded.
DeadCo/GDH ticket giveaway: June 29-30
Winners for 6/29 are JT and Dennis; winners for 6/3 are Liz and Vivian.
Dead & Company summer tour ticket giveaway!
I’ve got two pairs for each show on the upcoming tour. We’re gonna offer them one show at a time. Note: this is admission only. Just a pair of tickets. You have to get yourself to the show and all that.
Next shows are Friday, June 29 at The Gorge in George WA and Saturday, June 30 at Autzen Stadium in Eugene OR. You may enter for both shows but you can only win one.
Send email to deadco@well.com with the show date in the Subject line and your name, address, and phone number in the body of the message. We’ll pick our winners at random in a couple of days, and then I’ll announce the next giveaway. I have the tickets, and will mail them out well in advance of the show.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Posting a reply here on the blog does not get you entered in the contest.
And PLEASE NOTE: We’re doing one show at a time, in chronological order. Entries for other shows will be discarded.
DROP THE BONE – special offer
Free shipping!
Friends, I noticed that some of you haven’t yet bought your copy of my latest studio CD, Drop the Bone. I’m hoping to move some units because I’m already at work on another new release (details coming soon). So I’m offering FREE SHIPPING if you order the CD and bonus disc before June 30. Click on this button to place your order.
Drop the Bone is David Gans‘s new studio album of songs and improvisations, featuring Holly Bowling, Bob Bralove, J Raoul Brody, Jordan Feinstein, Terry Haggerty, Neil Hampton, John Hanes, Joe Kyle Jr., Robin Sylvester, Rubber Souldiers, Eric & Suzy Thompson, and other musicians.
Life Is a Jam
Be Like Earl
Summer By the Bay
River and Drown
Pleased to Meet You, part 2
Your Movie
That Strain We like
Box of Rain
Pancho and Lefty
Quarter to Five (for Tina Loney)
Here Comes the Sun
Drop the Bone is also available on bandcamp and nugs.net
The Drop the Bone Bonus Disc:
Summer By the Bay (radio edit)
Life Is a Jam (radio edit)
Pancho and Lefty (radio edit)
Be Like Earl (2015 studio demo)
Pleased to Meet You, part 1
Life Is a Jam (alternate take, with jam)
Summer By the Bay (alternate take, with jam)