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New studio "single" by DG: Pancho and Lefty
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans - now available in PAPERBACK. Order a signed paperback here.
Here's a great review from the San Francisco Chronicle 11/29/15
David Gans' studio CD of Grateful Dead songs, solo-electric style: It's a Hand-Me-Down.Watch the video for Brokedown Palace
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Grateful Dead Hour no.
1473
Week of December 12, 2016
Part 1 30:04
Holly Bowling, Better Left Unsung (RPF)
DARK STAR
Part 2 24:53
Grateful Dead rehearsal (date unknown)
LOVELIGHT
Grateful Dead, Fallout from the Phil Zone (Grateful Dead) (3/18/95)
VISIONS OF JOHANNA
Purchase:
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Tales From David Gans: Profiling The Musician And Grateful Dead Expert
Live for Live Music, August 2015 -
20 Questions with David Gans
Jambase.com, July 2005 -
Grateful Web interview with David Gans (Feb 2013)
Interview by Dave Papuga -
Interview re "Life Is a Jam"
Interview with British musician/blogger, April 2010 -
The Life and Times of David Gans
An in-depth online interview -
Gooey Rabinski interviews David Gans
You may or may not have heard of David Gans. If you’re of a progressive mindset, don’t trust your government, believe in enlightened approaches to social justice, think romance is often a comical game, and are just generally fed up with the bullshit from Corporate America, you probably already like Gans—you just don’t know it. -
Radio Free Dead
By Mary Eisenhart, from the 12/18/87 issue of BAM -
Radio's Weekly Dose of Dead
By Jeff Tamarkin, from the 3/24/89 issue of Goldmine -
Playing in the Band
Mountain Times, Boone NC -
Grateful Dead Host Drags Skeletons from the Closet
San Francisco Chronicle article about the 2/19/11 KPFA fund-raising marathon -
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