David Gans, in his home recording studio in Oakland, Ca., on Wednesday Feb. 16, 2011, as he prepares for his annual Grateful Dead Marathon show at Berkeley radio station KPFA. He plans to sit at a booth at the radio station and play and talk everything Gr

David Gans, in his home recording studio in Oakland, Ca., on Wednesday Feb. 16, 2011, as he prepares for his annual Grateful Dead Marathon show at Berkeley radio station KPFA. He plans to sit at a booth at the radio station and play and talk everything Grateful Dead for 16 hours straight. Gans holds a recently released box set of the Grateful Dead's first five albums, which were released on vinyl. (Photo By Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)