A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
“Beatles jam band” with David Gans, Chris Rowan, Lorin Rowan, and friends.
The Britgrass Invasion: An All-Bluegrass Tribute to The Music of The Beatles! A bluegrass BATTLE OF THE BANDS featuring: Nat Keefe (Hot Buttered Rum), Erik Yates (Hot Buttered Rum), Chris Haugen (The Sleeping Giants, Newfangled Wasteland, Poor Man’s Whiskey tour…), & Pam Brandon (Belle Monroe) T Sisters Belle Monroe & her Brewglass Boys Rusty Stringfield … Read more
Rubber Souldiers, the “Beatle Jam Band”: Saturday, June 4, 9pm: Southern Pacific Smokehouse, 224 Vintage Way, Novato CA. Advance tickets here. Thursday, June 9, 9pm: Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA with Galen Kipar Galen Kipar is a brilliant young singer-songwriter from Asheville NC. I want everyone to come hear him! Saturday, June 18, … Read more
Rubber Souldiers will perform (10 am to noon Pacific Time) on Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live on the morning of Saturday, June 25, and then we’ll head over to Oakland to play an all-ages show at the wonderful Children’s Fairyland, on the shores of Lake Merritt in Oakland. Please join us for both!
Rubber Souldiers – the “Beatles jam band” – play Thursday, April 21, 9pm at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley CA. Admission is $10.
Just finished a three-song Rubber Souldiers demo, with engineer Jeremy Goody at his Megasonic studio in Piedmont CA. It Won’t Please Me Long Norwegian Boy Here Comes the Sun Please post a comment here – let us know how you like the music, and please spread the link around,too! We’re looking for gigs, a record … 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.
Hello, friends – This is a gigspam message with some extra stuff in it. It’s been a busy and musically rewarding summer despite the weird and somewhat depressing state of the music business. Although gasoline prices have come down from their alarming peaks of last summer, the cost-benefit analysis of doing club dates is not … Read more
Courtesy of Rich Selleseth, an excellent recording of a fairly decent Rubber Souldiers set (see below for links): Rubber Souldiers Thursday, July 9, 2009 Todos Santos Plaza, Concord CA You’re Gonna Lose That Girl This Norwegian Boy All My Lovin’-> Rain Within You If I Fell Across the Universe Things We Said Today-> Girl No … Read more
Rubber Souldiers top the bill at a “60s British Explosion Unplugged!” extravaganza at the Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison Street in Berkeley CA. Also appearing at the Raveups (Yardbirds tribute); Drew Harrison of the Sun Kings; Steve Emerson; and Al Chan of the Rubinoos. Rubber Souldiers fancy ourselves as “Beatles jam band” rather than a … Read more
Geoffrey P. Stevens has posted a collection of videos of the backstage jam after the close of the Suwannee SpringFest March 29. This was Rubber Souldiers and Friends, including Jim Lauderdale, Jeb Puryear, Tara Nevins, Bobby Miller, Randy Judy, and others. Chris and Lorin and I gave up at around 3 am, but we heard … Read more