Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
I can't make any of those, but I know a couple of people who are
oging to be very happy you're playing at Brooklyn Bowl.
  

    
I'll be back in the northeast later in the year.
  

    

I got me a nice blurb for my new CD:

"As one of our leading authorities on the Grateful Dead, David Gans has
long enlightened us on the history of that band. And in his own music,
it's mightily clear he's taken valuable lessons from them: a love of
improv, a deep respect for American vernacular music from folk to jazz, a
loose-limbed joy in making music, and damn good taste in covers. Drop the
Bone will move you, brightly."

- David Browne, contributing editor, Rolling Stone
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<http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/archives/10205> for more info/ordering
  

    

<https://www.facebook.com/events/894541427384449/>
We're gonna do a live concert on FB tomorrow night at 8:30 ET
  

    

 > When David Gans apologized for a one-month delay in getting us his article
 > about C. J. Hirschfield, due to a last-minute push to complete his latest
 > recording, I put Drop The Bone at the top of my shopping list … and am
 > very glad I did. The album consists of eleven songs that provide an hour
 > and eleven minutes of listening pleasure including vocals and lots of su-
 > perb instrumentals. My favorite song is Pancho and Lefty, but they all
 > provide the perfect background accompaniment as I’m sitting at my com-
 > puter working on this month’s News.

 <http://splashpad.org/2018/01/splash-pad-news-february-2018/>


Ordering options here:

<http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/archives/10205>
  

    


Clips from the Denver in-store:

“Summer By The Bay”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqesUWHGYE>
 
“Looks Like Rain”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u7KoMoCJGs>
 
“Your Movie”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO3Pghfomd4>
 
“Cassidy's Cat”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0uH3eDlwI>
 
“It's Gonna Get Better”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akX7xZNXt40>
 
“Brokedown Palace”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgl5tavcTL4>
  

    

A very nice review of my new CD by Alan Sheckter in the CHicxo News & Review:

<https://www.newsreview.com/chico/drop-the-bone/content?oid=26134502>
  

    

<http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=599437>

5/12 in Atlanta
The Grass Is Dead, Rev jeff Mosier, and me
special guest Mark van Allen!
  

    

Pancho and Lefty - Stephen Inglis and me, last month:

<https://youtu.be/s2spxKIXWEc>
  

    


<https://soundcloud.com/dgans/sampler-one-afternoon-long-ago>

Audio sampler from the project I am trying to Kickstart: "One Afternoon Long
Ago," a studio album by FRAGILE THUNDER.

Here is a link to the Kickstarter campaign. Please contribute if you can!

<https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dgans/one-afternoon-long-ago-studio-album
-by-fragile-thu>
  

    

I have just launched a new Indiegogo campaign to get the Fragile Thunder
Trio (plus Robin Sylvester) record finished and released:

<https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/one-afternoon-long-ago--4/x/1623294#/>

Support levels staert at $15 for a download. I hope all of you will kick in a
little bit to help us get this record out.

Here is a sampler:

<https://soundcloud.com/dgans/sampler-one-afternoon-long-ago>
  

    

Here's a little audio sampler of the 11/17/18 duo show:

<https://soundcloud.com/dgans/11-17-18-sampler>
  

    
Very nice. I wish I could find people around here who want to do
this with Dead music. You know, make it into something else. I've
been playing recently with a guitarist who thinks the way to play
Dead songs is to watch videos and figure out exactly what Jerry is
doing and then try to do it.  Next thing you know he'll cut off his
finger.
  

    
We call that Jercumcision.
  

    

Derk Richardson gives DROP THE BONE a very kind review:

<http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/March-2019/New-Releases-from-David-Gans-Jonatha
n-Kauffman-and-Ian-S-Port/>
  

    

excellent.
  

    <scribbled by tnf Tue 2 Apr 19 18:22>
  

    


Here is the new episode of DEAD TO ME, including the premiere of "The Town
That Still Believes in Magic":

<https://www.deadtomepod.com/episodes/episode-11-zen-of-the-dead>

And here is the finished song, uncut:

<https://dgans.bandcamp.com/track/the-town-that-still-believes-in-magic>
  

    

I am playing a live show every day on Facebook, on my music page:
<http://www.facebook.com/dgansmusic>

Today I'll be starting at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern
  

    
Do you get much feedback when you do that, David? Or do you feel
alone in a way?
  

    

I don't look at my screen while I'm playing, but Rita keeps an eye on the
feed and let me know I had 50+ viewers yesterday. I've had more than that,
and I've had fewer than that.

I've been making radio for more than 30 years, and so I am used to addressing
invisible/imaginary audiences. I much prefer performing for real people, but
I can do this.

I'm collecting a few bucks in direct contributions each time, and I've made a
handful of sales in my new online store <http://perfectible.net>