Singer/songwriter/producer/photographer/author David Gans has composed, performed, and written about music for the whole of his adult life.

Well on his way as a songwriter already when he had his first Grateful Dead experiences in 1972, “the Dead expanded my musical consciousness in several directions at once. These songs didn’t tell you everything they know the first time you heard them; they insinuated more than they asserted, and they left plenty of room for the listener to participate in the art.""

After Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, Gans, the author (or co-author) of five books and host of nationally-syndicated radio programs The Grateful Dead Hour and Tales from the Golden Road, found himself gravitating back toward writing, recording and performing original music, while also forging an onstage persona as an interpreter of the Dead catalog.

His latest book, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead (co-written with fellow longtime Dead scholar Blair Jackson), is available in hardcover, paper, ebook, and audiobook editions.