A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
I was sitting in my hotel room in Siler City NC when I got a text message from Bobby Miller. “You go on at 11:30. Stage manager asked me to tell you.” It was 10:49, and Siler City is a good half an hour from the festival. I had no idea I had a mainstage … Read more
‘Dead Hour’ DJ and guitarist gets a little help from friends for NC shows – Yes! Weekly (Greensboro NC) article by Ryan Snyder
Courtesy of videographer Peter Blaha, here is “Life Is a Jam” from my set at the Mill Valley Masonic April 17 2010, opening for Jemimah Puddleduck.
Short interview with British musician/blogger Gary Grainger about my new online single “Life Is a Jam.” And I am still flogging these limited-edition advance CDs of the single – Three takes of the song, each with a unique jam. The band is DG, Mark Karan, Mookie Siegel, Joe Kyle, Jr., and Dave Brogan.
Happy SPRINGTIME, everybody! Below you will find a complete listing of confirmed gigs for the spring and summer. Coming right up are a Dead jam in San Francisco this Friday and two Bay Area farmers’ market gigs next week. More events are being planned and will be posted as they’re confirmed. I’m always looking for … Read more
From Tony Zepezauer, posted here with his permission: Back the early ’90s I decided I had to have a Jim Marshall of the Dead, and started saving my money for one. The boom in 60’s rock collectibles was still a couple of years off, and I don’t think he was even represented by a gallery … Read more
This is from my friend, musician and photographer Jef Jaisun: Jim shot my promo pix in 1972. By 1975 he’d inspired me to pick up a camera myself, and I’ve been doing it ever since. Wish that had happened 10 years earlier. Twenty years ago I wanted to use a photo of his on a … Read more
Betty Cantor-Jackson, longtime member of the Grateful Dead production team, tells of meeting George Harrison in a London recording studio in 1970. She gave him a bit of advice that worked out well for all of us.
Responding to a request from a guy who is researching a book on Van Halen, I scanned my October 1981 interview with producer Ted Templeman. Interesting and sad to read now, with Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker and Jerry Wexler and all those other great record men gone. “I’m an officer of the company…. if … Read more
Saturday, March 6: Sutter Creek Theater, Sutter Creek CA. 916-425-0077. I will be leading a trio – myself plus Zac Matthews on mandolin and Mike Sugar on bass.