David Gans and Blair Jackson: Oral History of Grateful Dead
Organization:
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
Oakland
Start
Date:
11/19/2016
End Date:
11/19/2016
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Event
Info:
KPFA Radio 94.1FM & Flatiron Books presents:
Blair Jackson & David Gans This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead Hosted by Derk Richardson
tickets: $15 admit 1, $30 admit 1 plus book, $40 admit 2 plus book: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, KPFA benefit www.kpfa.org/events
In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans have tapped into their four decades of Grateful Dead journalism to create a wholly unique oral history of this remarkable band that contributed so much to three generations.
This Is All a Dream traces the band's evolution from its folk/bluegrass beginnings through the jug band craze, an early incarnation as Rolling Stones wannabes, feral psychedelic warriors, the American jam band that blazed through the '70s, to the shockingly popular yet iconoclastic stadium-filling band of later years. They broke every rule of the music business along the way, taking risks, venturing into new territory, fusing inspired ideas and techniques with intuition and utter fearlessness to create the sound unlike anything heard or seen before. Blair Jackson and David Gans, two of the very most respected chroniclers of the Dead, here reveal the band's deep story through the words of its members and their creative collaborators plus diverse fans.
"You could hardly ask for a more ideal configuration for a retelling of the Grateful Dead's story..." - San Francisco Chronicle
Blair Jackson wrote Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped and Garcia: An American Life, as well as 27 issues of the legendary fanzine, The Golden Road.
David Gans has published three books on the Dead. He is host and producer of the nationally syndicated Grateful Dead Hour, cohost of SiriusXM's Tales from the Golden Road.
Derk Richardson is a veteran freelance music and travel journalist who for the past 21 years he has hosted a free-form music show - Hear and Now - on KPFA-FM.
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