Browsing: Grateful Dead

His unconventional bass playing style was influenced by his classical music and jazz background, which played a key role in shaping the Dead’s distinctive sound.

Interview with Bob Bralove, creative genius who worked with the Grateful Dead on the soundtrack to the second ‘Twilight Zone’ TV series, and programmed the synthesizers that took Stevie Wonder from point A to Z 20 years into his career. 

Jerry Garcia has been quoted calling Kimock his “favorite unknown guitar player.” He begins a national tour on July 18 with his band Zero that has just released ‘Naught Again,’ a live album recorded in San Francisco in 1992.

“I came straight from Muscle Shoals and being a background vocalist on hit records (“When a Man Loves a Woman” – Percy Sledge, “Suspicious Minds” – Elvis) … walking out on the stage with the Grateful Dead and being in front of a live audience was something I had never experienced in my life.”

Jerry told me in 1979, “We’re strictly working people, really. We’ve never been rich. I think that works out pretty well.”

On the heels of their NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers are back for a 22-date tour.…

James Brown may not have been the first band leader to employ two drummers, but his decision to do so changed the game in music.