Look out mama, there’s some greybeards comin’ up the river. They may look like your old hippie parents or grandparents, but they are really one of rock music’s most enduring and consistent bands, Crazy Horse. Playing as if the clock never moved over the last 40-plus some years, it was a treat to see Neil […]
Category: Grateful Dead
It’s A Bleedin’ Board – Los Lobos 8-3-10
As we prepare for the upcoming blockbuster show at the Wolstein Center tonight (Monday, October 8th) featuring North American music giants Los Lobos and Neil Young, I offer to you, from the big black vaults of musical eclecticism, nearly two hours of soundboard-quality Los Lobos. Recorded August 3, 2010 at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, […]
The 12 Boots of Christmas – How About Sandals?
Installment number two of the 12 Boots of Christmas series is a thirty year-old chestnut that is ready to be roasted again this holiday season. The Grateful Dead is truckin’ across the nation in support of the Shakedown Street album and lands in Cleveland on November 29, 1979 at Public Hall for a night of […]
THROUGH THE EYES AND EARS OF THE STEREO DICTATOR
The upcoming Foreigner thing scares me. One original member, remixing old tunes, the Wal-Mart exclusive and the fact that the last good album they put out was over 25 years ago. Know when to say when. The occasion of Jerry Garcia’s 67th birthday coincides with me reading a great book called Garcia written by Blair Jackson […]
Remembering Jerry Garcia
@wsjrock reminded me on Twitter that today would have been Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia’s 67th birthday. It took me a longtime to find an appreciation for the Dead, and by the time I did, they had stopped touring, and Jerry was gone. I’ll always wish that I would have caught a show, but over […]