Week of December 8, 2008
Part 1 25:13
Grateful Dead 6/22/74 Miami Jai-Alai Fronton
SUGAREE
THE RACE IS ON
IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES
Warren Zevon, Excitable Boy
WEREWOLVES OF LONDON
Boris Garcia, Once More Into the Bliss
THROUGH THE WINDOW
Part 2 31:12
Grateful Dead 6/22/74 Miami Jai-Alai Fronton
PLAYING IN THE BAND
The Grateful Dead Discography has an informative entry on Warren Zevon‘s great song “Werewolves of London.” I recently scored a copy of the expanded and remastered edition of Excitable Boy, so here it is on the radio show. (Another song from this CD, “Accidentally Like a Martyr,” turned up on a scrap of tape while I was working on the boxed set All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions – a short session, just the one song, with Jerry on electric piano, roadie/JGB manager Steve Parish on drums, and engineer-producer Bob Matthews on bass. It’s a sweet track, very low-key and tentative. It’s on disc 6, “previously unreleased outtakes, alternate versions and studio jams.”)
Boris Garcia is a band from the Philadelphia area that I’ve come to know and love in the last few years. One of the band’s three excellent songwriters, Bob Stirner, was in the Dead-influenced Philly band Living Earth for many years; you have made heard their CD on Relix back in the day. I crossed paths with Boris Garcia on the festival circuit and became a fan right away; my first (and toughest) criterion for appreciating a band is songwriting, and this band has three fine songwriters. As for the name, here’s what band member Gene Smith says about it in the band’s bio: “We were in the studio with a bunch of different guitarists. One of them was Tony Rice style, and the other was Flamenco/Middle Eastern. East meets West, and it was definitely odd, and Jeff [Otto] said, ‘This is weird. This is like Boris Garcia’s Family Reunion.'”
Boris Garcia are on a promotional tour of the West Coast. They will be performing live on my radio show Dead to the World Wednesday 12/10, 8-10pm Pacific. KPFA is at 94.1 fm in northern California, and you can listen online worldwide at kpfa.org, kfcf.org, or nugs.net.
P.S. I’ll claim some credit for putting Boris Garcia together with Tim Carbone, who produced the band’s new CD, Once More into the Bliss. Tim also produced my new CD, and of course his “day job” is playing fiddle and guitar in another of my favorite bands, Railroad Earth.
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Grateful Dead Productions, announcing Road Trips volume 2 number 1, MSG September 90: two CDs and a bonus disc with great musical moments from the 7-man lineup with Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick on keyboards. More information, sample audio, and ordering link on the official web site, dead.net.
Hey DAVID! Fun show at GAMH in SF a couple weeks ago. Thanks once again for sharing DONNA THE BUFFALO with us. BRING THEM BACK again and again and again and again….I liked them on the radio, but LIVE man!!!!!!, they left me smiling for days, all my buddies called me and thanked me for bringing them, that doesn’t happen for every show, not even the boys! EVERYONE was amazed, it lifted all of our spirits for DAYZ AND DAYZ. GET THEM OUT HERE on the west coast. we’ll show em a good time.
I like Lawers Guns and Money on that ZEVON, and that Accidently like a martyr on jerry’s CDs was AWESOME. great inclusion.