Mark Karan

The Other Ones: The Strange Remain

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1999

For over 30 years, The Grateful Dead criss-crossed the country, the house band at party after party in countless cities for a roaming community best known as “Deadheads;" their common bond, to gather and celebrate. Skeptics often write off The Grateful Dead, dissing their fans, attacking the band's now mythical drug habits and citing their poor output of studio recordings, without ever really taking the time to consider the massive body of work they left behind. In this writer's opinion ...

Mark Karan: This is What I Do

Source: JamBase
November 16, 2010

By : Andrew Wetzler The South Florida music scene has blossomed over the past decade or so, but there is still nowhere near the flow of gold nugget acts that fans experience in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore or many other more established live music towns. So, when Mark Karan and Jemimah Puddleduck (JP) announced their first ever run through Florida, it was a great marker to place on the calendar. I had the opportunity to sit down for a ...
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Mark Karan: Fire Walker

Source: JamBase
August 5, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

Mark Karan We're lucky to have Mark Karan. For the past 11 years he's been the lead guitarist and six-string foil for Bob Weir in RatDog, treading into Jerry Garcia's territory with a skip and a hop, injecting a classic '70s shredding fluidity and 12-bar spirit into the Dead's catalog. But in 2007 Karan announced he was battling throat cancer and needed to take some time off ...
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