Backstage with BoomBox
On the 25th of July, BoomBox played the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO. Their music is a unique blend of electronica, funk, and southern rock, the likes of which I’ve never quite seen before. Bringing in crowds of both rock and electronica fans, BoomBox is getting bigger all the time. Zion Godchaux, son of former Grateful Dead members Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, plays guitar and sings. Russ Randolph, DJ, producer, multi-track sequencer, and lights guy, does everything else. Before the show Grateful Web's Sam Holloway had the opportunity to catch up with the band backstage.
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  • Leftover Salmon is breaking up or taking a break?
    Leftover Salmon after 15 yrs says no more.. a hiatus or good-bye for good? read more..

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  • Leftover Salmon is breaking up or taking a break?
    Leftover Salmon after 15 yrs says no more.. a hiatus or good-bye for good? read more..

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  • Mark Karan interview - 4/21/01
    Mark Karan interview

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  • Railroad Earth
    With nearly 400 shows and tens of thousands of road miles now behind them, Railroad Earth has become a staple on the national touring and festival scene, and built a huge following of loyal fans that document and trade every note they play, and often join them on the road for multiple nights. These fans call themselves “Hobos,” and the band considers them to be the fuel that keeps this engine chugging along. Railroad Earth’s next album is planned for release in Spring 2004. Till then the band will continue to bring their music to the stage from East to West. So keep an ear to the ground and listen for Railroad Earth, because they'll be rolling through your town very soon.

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  • ten2nine
    "I hate to break the news to you, but you guy's may have finally put all the pieces together. This new ep is the best work I've heard from you ever! The writing, lyrics and music is superb, the performance is top notch and [Jim Leguilloux's] production gives it a true professional gloss." - Ron Gilmour, Power 104 Kelowna, BC

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  • Metharia
    The debut on the band was on 18th January 2000, when Metharia won the festival "Le Quattro Notti Rock." In June 2003 they are one of the three winners of the "NMC festival,' in Marcerta winning the award for the best live performance.

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  • Signal Path
    Armed with new jungle juice, they are warming up and ready to play. They opened up with a latenight show in Atlanta and continued on to Mountain View Jam Festival in North Carolina. Coast to coast, they'll be working their way to SummerCamp, Wakarusa, and High Sierra Music Festival.

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  • T-Band
    Jim Dooney plays guitar and does most of the lead vocals. He is great at getting everyone involved in the fun by taking requests or choosing the perfect song for any situation. Amy Anderson plays the stand up bass and sings harmony. Amy is the musical backbone of the band. Her playing punch and solid timing keeps us all together in our all acoustic environment. Robert Griffith plays banjo and sings harmony. Rob drives the band with lightning fast fingers and great improvising skills. Rich Egan plays mandolin and does some vocals. Rich keeps your feet tapping and your fingers snapping with his rhythm chops and is great at playing tasteful solos."

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  • Shanti Groove (September 2003)
    Shanti's groove moves along acoustical and electrical lines, combining the voice of jazz and rock with back porch bluegrass and funktified percussion. Bringing their unique sound to venues nationwide, the band provides a musical celebration of the 'groove' kind.

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  • Kelly's running column
    In this column I want to talk to you about Ghent. Ghent is the capital of the province East-Flanders in Belgium, a small country in Europe, and has about 225, 000 inhabitants.

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  • Kelly's running column
    In this column I want to talk to you about Ghent. Ghent is the capital of the province East-Flanders in Belgium, a small country in Europe, and has about 225, 000 inhabitants.

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  • Curious Yellow (August 2003)
    After fronting a couple bands in the mid 90s in California and spending the next several years developing his musical and songwriting talents in Japan and Minneapolis, Adam Lancaster landed in Denver in 2000 and founded the band. The band took on many formations and seemingly endless lineup changes for about a year until the perfect complimentary additions of Gregg Rosenthal (drums), Josh Eckhoff (guitar), and Matt Novack (bass, vocals) created a sound and style beyond what Adam could have hoped for. This new talented group immediately began writing songs and reworking old songs to create music and a performance that attracts and engages every listening audience. The personal and musical bond between each member deepened quickly and the dedication from everyone to develop the band to its fullest possibilities is evident.

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  • New Monsoon (June 2003)
    Utilizing congas, timbales, tabla, banjo, bongos, Dobro, ghatham, Didgeridoo, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drum kit and keys, the band offers a plethora of textures, rhythms, ideas and moods. New Monsoon absorbs elements of sound indigenous to world culture and incorporates them into a variety of colorful and original rhythmic compositions.

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  • One Way Rider (May 2003)
    "One Way Rider has taken Nashville by storm! It was an honor to have them perform on the Interstate Radio Network a network of over twenty stations that broadcast from Music City and airs nationwide and in Canada. Locally in Nashville, the IRN broadcast on WSM 650 AM, the home of the Grand Ole Opry. The response was great! We cant wait to have them come back on the air and play for us again. It was so good to be with folks that live and love the bluegrass way, truly a blessed family. David and Valerie are a great example of what a family can accomplish together."

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  • Smokestack (January 2003)
    “The quality of playing blew me away. All four guys were stars, but that keyboard player is a superstar. Very Hornsby in his writing and singing, very Medeski with his jams. I have had the CD for a few months, and being a little familiar with the songs impressed me even more.” CanJam News Toronto, Canada

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  • The Miltones (December 2002)
    Formed in the summer of 2000, the Miltones have already performed over 350 shows in under 28 months. Their high volume of gigs has enabled the band to mature and explore a range of musical directions that make them a formidable artistic act. Simultaneously their music seems to embrace a level of healing and celebration that make them both accessible and fortunate for the audiences they have attracted.

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  • Ripple (November 2002)
    When Ripple started out in an Old Tappan, NJ basement during early 1978, none of us thought we would be discussing the possibilities of playing together for 25 years. But that’s exactly what happened. From the early day’s of playing friends parties (usually when the Parent’s were away) to all the great nightclubs and other interesting venues we’ve performed at during the years, we’ve met some amazing people and formed life long friendships that will long out live the Band.

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  • Fair To Midland (September 2002)
    Brett Stowers and Nathin Seals offer a rhythmic passion that leads the humble gentlemen in their avant-garde sound. The unearthed discord and unconventional cries of frontman Andrew Sudderth infused with guitarist Cliff Campbell's melodic fury tumble into a captivating creation of sonics, cultures, and confusion. Combined with the subtle offering of Matt Langley on keys, FTM glides past the expected boundries and gracefully throws their intense rock harmonies to the flame.

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  • The Few (July 2002)
    "We did it in chunks, whenever he was available," says Burnside. "Living there, and playing in the clubs, it raises your game." The result, an explosive, hooky collection that echoes Burnside's love of the Replacements and fascination with the Cure, is startling from a 22-year-old who took up guitar only three years ago.

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  • One Cat Left (May 2002)
    Pete’s former association with TOM MARSHALL of PHISH led to the band AMFIBIAN. It was here in this situation that Pete found his voice and his motivation..

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  • Mt. Kilimanjaro!
    In one scene we saw a hippo in the river, a croccodile laying on the bank just beside it, and a waterbuck stanking near in the grass!

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  • Grateful Web Interview with Madison House and SCI Ticketing
    SCI interview

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  • Sativa Gumbo (April 2002)
    Sativa Gumbo

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  • Pamela's stories from Africa
    This month I'll continue teaching English at the school, organize a second beekeeping seminar, begin making fuel-efficient stoves, and track down another place to buy modern breed roosters.

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  • Yamagata (June 2001)
    Yamagata

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  • JSwine (October 2000)
    JSwine

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  • Mark Karan (August 2000)
    Mark Karan

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  • Moses Guest (September 2000)
    Moses Guest

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  • Uncle Sammy (July 2001)
    Uncle Sammy

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  • Solomon Grundy (April 2001)
    Solomon Grundy

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  • Tonal Vision (May 2001)
    Tonal Vision

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  • Cosmic Dust Devils (December 2001)
    Cosmic Dust Devils

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  • Purple Buddah (November 2001)
    Purple Buddah

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  • Shakedown Street (February 2002)
    Shakedown Street

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  • Dark Star Orchestra (December 2000)
    Dark Star Orchestra

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  • FENNARIO – SONGS BY JERRY GARCIA & ROBERT HUNTER
    The wide range of music on Fennario draws from the same American palette that inspired Garcia and Hunter, from the sweet country of “It Must Have Been the Roses” to the Memphis rock and roll of “Tennessee Jed” to the Muscle Shoals soul of “Sugaree.” To produce the album, Joseph enlisted the core group of top-shelf multi-instrumentalists he’d used on his critically acclaimed debut album, Labor & Spirits: Tom “T-Bone” Wolk (Hall and Oates, The SNL Band), Duke Levine and Jon Carroll (Mary Chapin Carpenter), and vocalist Soozie Tyrell (The E-Street Band).

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  • Wood Brothers Creating Quite a Fire
    Musical siblings, the Wood Brothers, will be returning to the 10,000 Lakes Festival this year, touting their latest CD, Loaded. Two years ago, in 90+ heat, festival fans packed the Barn Stage to see this mix of southern backroads and big city boulevards. In their own version of country mouse and city mouse, Oliver Wood, who had been saturated with Georgia blues and rock, and his brother Chris, the standup bass player with the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, showed the world that they could carve out something totally unique from what either of them had been known for.

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  • Wood Brothers Creating Quite a Fire
    Musical siblings, the Wood Brothers, will be returning to the 10,000 Lakes Festival this year, touting their latest CD, Loaded. Two years ago, in 90+ heat, festival fans packed the Barn Stage to see this mix of southern backroads and big city boulevards. In their own version of country mouse and city mouse, Oliver Wood, who had been saturated with Georgia blues and rock, and his brother Chris, the standup bass player with the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, showed the world that they could carve out something totally unique from what either of them had been known for.

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  • Wood Brothers Creating Quite a Fire
    Musical siblings, the Wood Brothers, will be returning to the 10,000 Lakes Festival this year, touting their latest CD, Loaded. Two years ago, in 90+ heat, festival fans packed the Barn Stage to see this mix of southern backroads and big city boulevards. In their own version of country mouse and city mouse, Oliver Wood, who had been saturated with Georgia blues and rock, and his brother Chris, the standup bass player with the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, showed the world that they could carve out something totally unique from what either of them had been known for.

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  • The Hue Bringing New Color to 10KLF
    “Even with the electronic scene going on, everything is sort of growing off of its roots. People are taking those roots and kind of developing them into kind of what's happening right now in the scene. It's keeping the fans on their toes. Now people don't know what they're going to get these days. It could be anything. Our thing is to keep people really interested in every moment as much as possible, taking them through this ride and keeping them on as long as we can...We just want to do something different from everybody that kind of deviates from the normal jamband kind of stuff and sends some people to do some different kinds of stuff. We do improvise a lot and still jam out a lot, but we use our compositional skills a lot, too. Maybe people won't even know that parts are written necessarily. It kind of sounds like an improvised thing....We're just trying to do a little different kind of stuff.”

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  • The Hue Bringing New Color to 10KLF
    “Even with the electronic scene going on, everything is sort of growing off of its roots. People are taking those roots and kind of developing them into kind of what's happening right now in the scene. It's keeping the fans on their toes. Now people don't know what they're going to get these days. It could be anything. Our thing is to keep people really interested in every moment as much as possible, taking them through this ride and keeping them on as long as we can...We just want to do something different from everybody that kind of deviates from the normal jamband kind of stuff and sends some people to do some different kinds of stuff. We do improvise a lot and still jam out a lot, but we use our compositional skills a lot, too. Maybe people won't even know that parts are written necessarily. It kind of sounds like an improvised thing....We're just trying to do a little different kind of stuff.”

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  • The Hue Bringing New Color to 10KLF
    “Even with the electronic scene going on, everything is sort of growing off of its roots. People are taking those roots and kind of developing them into kind of what's happening right now in the scene. It's keeping the fans on their toes. Now people don't know what they're going to get these days. It could be anything. Our thing is to keep people really interested in every moment as much as possible, taking them through this ride and keeping them on as long as we can...We just want to do something different from everybody that kind of deviates from the normal jamband kind of stuff and sends some people to do some different kinds of stuff. We do improvise a lot and still jam out a lot, but we use our compositional skills a lot, too. Maybe people won't even know that parts are written necessarily. It kind of sounds like an improvised thing....We're just trying to do a little different kind of stuff.”

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  • Grateful Web Live Coverage of Day 1 at the 10KLF
    When Gold Standard and Comosapiens started things off at 6pm at the Barn Stage and the Saloon, it was starting to rain with some seriousness. I wondered how The New Primitives would fare at the open air Field Stage. While I gathered my gear to cover the evening events, Stan Kipper and his band mates were delving into the first songs of their set. By the second song, the rain had stopped and the sun came out. The band that is known to set the tone for this festival could even change the weather!

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  • Grateful Web Live Coverage of Day 1 at the 10KLF
    When Gold Standard and Comosapiens started things off at 6pm at the Barn Stage and the Saloon, it was starting to rain with some seriousness. I wondered how The New Primitives would fare at the open air Field Stage. While I gathered my gear to cover the evening events, Stan Kipper and his band mates were delving into the first songs of their set. By the second song, the rain had stopped and the sun came out. The band that is known to set the tone for this festival could even change the weather!

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  • I hereby declare the inaugural Mile High Music Festival a success!
    This year was the festival’s inaugural year, and as far as I could tell, the affair went off without a hitch. And I love festivals. There is something savory about the vibe put off by people at a festival, something uniquely and honestly human. Even though the weather is hot, even though there are lines for the bathroom, lines for food, lines to buy tee shirts, even though the beer costs $8 and a salad costs $11, the majority of people are happy, enjoying themselves to the utmost, and you can learn a lot about people by how they act when they enjoy themselves. The eternal voyeur, I forsook the luxuries granted to me by my media wristband. Air-conditioned bathrooms, special bleachers to sit on, access to the media tent with wireless internet access, a true music junkie craves not these things. I got out amongst the people, and met some fairly interesting ones at that. It was a weekend filled with music, and the intensity of the human spirit.

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  • I hereby declare the inaugural Mile High Music Festival a success!
    This year was the festival’s inaugural year, and as far as I could tell, the affair went off without a hitch. And I love festivals. There is something savory about the vibe put off by people at a festival, something uniquely and honestly human. Even though the weather is hot, even though there are lines for the bathroom, lines for food, lines to buy tee shirts, even though the beer costs $8 and a salad costs $11, the majority of people are happy, enjoying themselves to the utmost, and you can learn a lot about people by how they act when they enjoy themselves. The eternal voyeur, I forsook the luxuries granted to me by my media wristband. Air-conditioned bathrooms, special bleachers to sit on, access to the media tent with wireless internet access, a true music junkie craves not these things. I got out amongst the people, and met some fairly interesting ones at that. It was a weekend filled with music, and the intensity of the human spirit.

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  • STS9’s New Album Charts at Billboard and iTUNES
    This Week, STS9 finds their brand-new, highly anticipated studio album, Peaceblaster, charting: #10 on Billboard's Electronic Chart, #27 on Billboard's Heatseeker Chart, and #2 on iTUNES Electronic Chart. Peaceblaster was released on the band's self-owned record label, 1320 Records, on July 8th -just in time for their summer tour.

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  • STS9’s New Album Charts at Billboard and iTUNES
    This Week, STS9 finds their brand-new, highly anticipated studio album, Peaceblaster, charting: #10 on Billboard's Electronic Chart, #27 on Billboard's Heatseeker Chart, and #2 on iTUNES Electronic Chart. Peaceblaster was released on the band's self-owned record label, 1320 Records, on July 8th -just in time for their summer tour.

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  • Day Two 2008 10KLF Live!
    The highlight for the evening, for me, was Mickey Hart. Vocals were led by Jan Gerkin of Deep Banana Blackout. Doing her backup vocals were Kyle Hollingsworth on keys, and he even took lead on a couple of tunes. Meter’s bassist George Porter, Jr, did vocal honors on “Fire on the Bayou.”

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  • Day Two 2008 10KLF Live!
    The highlight for the evening, for me, was Mickey Hart. Vocals were led by Jan Gerkin of Deep Banana Blackout. Doing her backup vocals were Kyle Hollingsworth on keys, and he even took lead on a couple of tunes. Meter’s bassist George Porter, Jr, did vocal honors on “Fire on the Bayou.”

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  • JJ Grey & Mofro Announce Second Annual Blackwater Sol Revue
    Hailing from North Florida and known for their raw and swampy funk rock, JJ Grey & Mofro announce their second annual Blackwater Sol Revue at The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre on August 30th. JJ Grey, who comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers, created the one-day festival to help promote roots and southern music and culture. In addition, this year's Blackwater Sol Revue is the Florida album release party for his brand new studio album, Orange Blossoms, his second release on Alligator Records, which hits stores nationwide on August 26.

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  • JJ Grey & Mofro Announce Second Annual Blackwater Sol Revue
    Hailing from North Florida and known for their raw and swampy funk rock, JJ Grey & Mofro announce their second annual Blackwater Sol Revue at The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre on August 30th. JJ Grey, who comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers, created the one-day festival to help promote roots and southern music and culture. In addition, this year's Blackwater Sol Revue is the Florida album release party for his brand new studio album, Orange Blossoms, his second release on Alligator Records, which hits stores nationwide on August 26.

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  • Day Three at 10KLF - 2008 Live!
    The guys played their entire new album, Loaded, and a couple from their previous recording on Compass Records. They played “Black Cat” right off. But it was their “Northwest Passage” about global warming, weitten as if it were a sea chanty, was amazing. There were plenty of Waybacks fans there who were singing along, even on a record that was just months old. James Nash easily moved from acoustic guitar to mandolin, but when he picked up the electric guitar, the band launched into a medley, including a Dead tune, a Texas swing number, and a rock and roll tune.

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  • Day Three at 10KLF - 2008 Live!
    The guys played their entire new album, Loaded, and a couple from their previous recording on Compass Records. They played “Black Cat” right off. But it was their “Northwest Passage” about global warming, weitten as if it were a sea chanty, was amazing. There were plenty of Waybacks fans there who were singing along, even on a record that was just months old. James Nash easily moved from acoustic guitar to mandolin, but when he picked up the electric guitar, the band launched into a medley, including a Dead tune, a Texas swing number, and a rock and roll tune.

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  • Colorado HippieFest Leaves Audience Dazed and Confused
    His set may have been short, but what Bruce made of it as bassist and vocalist reaffirmed his notoriety as a bass player and gave a performance that put forward everything he had to offer. Opening with "Sunshine of Your Love," Bruce easily got the audience up and moving immediately with the song's all too familiar bass and guitar introduction melody. Another great song, "I Feel Free" was performed with great interaction between vocals as Bruce and a backup vocalist recreated exactly the upbeat intro to the song. The replication of the recorded version of the song only continued as the song carried on, the audience still singing and swaying along.

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  • Colorado HippieFest Leaves Audience Dazed and Confused
    His set may have been short, but what Bruce made of it as bassist and vocalist reaffirmed his notoriety as a bass player and gave a performance that put forward everything he had to offer. Opening with "Sunshine of Your Love," Bruce easily got the audience up and moving immediately with the song's all too familiar bass and guitar introduction melody. Another great song, "I Feel Free" was performed with great interaction between vocals as Bruce and a backup vocalist recreated exactly the upbeat intro to the song. The replication of the recorded version of the song only continued as the song carried on, the audience still singing and swaying along.

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  • Last Day of 2008 10KLF
    Earlier, Oliver had made a comment about the nice people in Minnesota. Someone from the audience called out, “Yeah, but do they know Jesus?” Without missing a beat, Oliver said calmly, “I'm sure they do, but they keep it to themselves.” It was one of the nicest responses to what could have been an uncomfortable exchange.

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  • Last Day of 2008 10KLF
    Earlier, Oliver had made a comment about the nice people in Minnesota. Someone from the audience called out, “Yeah, but do they know Jesus?” Without missing a beat, Oliver said calmly, “I'm sure they do, but they keep it to themselves.” It was one of the nicest responses to what could have been an uncomfortable exchange.

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  • Hal Ketchum's New Album, 'Father Time,' Streets 9/9
    Hal Ketchum recorded his new album, Father Time, without a net. He amassed more than a dozen new original songs plus a dream team of musicians and entered the studio to record the album live to two-track. There were no overdubs and only a few second takes. “When I went into this project, my mentality was that this is either going to work or not,” Ketchum says. But at the end of the first day, with nine songs finished, he knew the experiment was a success.

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  • Hal Ketchum's New Album, 'Father Time,' Streets 9/9
    Hal Ketchum recorded his new album, Father Time, without a net. He amassed more than a dozen new original songs plus a dream team of musicians and entered the studio to record the album live to two-track. There were no overdubs and only a few second takes. “When I went into this project, my mentality was that this is either going to work or not,” Ketchum says. But at the end of the first day, with nine songs finished, he knew the experiment was a success.

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  • Garaj Mahal's New CD, 'w00t,' - Street Date 9/9/2008
    When you hear your first Garaj Mahal note, leading into an innovative fusion of funky jazz with a tasty world music flair, all other thoughts leave your mind as the music takes you on an unforgettable voyage. Fans return to experience the band again and again because they know they will always hear something new and progressive from these four first-class musicians: guitar and sitar virtuoso Fareed Haque, world-renowned bass master and educator Kai Eckhardt, gospel-inspired funky jazz keyboardist Eric Levy, and consistently in-the-pocket, natural-born drummer Alan Hertz, Garaj Mahal combines a century of musical experience to create a sound that's always new, freshly infused with a wide spectrum of musical expression, and always smoking hot.

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  • Garaj Mahal's New CD, 'w00t,' - Street Date 9/9/2008
    When you hear your first Garaj Mahal note, leading into an innovative fusion of funky jazz with a tasty world music flair, all other thoughts leave your mind as the music takes you on an unforgettable voyage. Fans return to experience the band again and again because they know they will always hear something new and progressive from these four first-class musicians: guitar and sitar virtuoso Fareed Haque, world-renowned bass master and educator Kai Eckhardt, gospel-inspired funky jazz keyboardist Eric Levy, and consistently in-the-pocket, natural-born drummer Alan Hertz, Garaj Mahal combines a century of musical experience to create a sound that's always new, freshly infused with a wide spectrum of musical expression, and always smoking hot.

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  • Bonerama Hits Colorado
    Since live performance is what Bonerama is all about, it's no coincidence that their third album, Bringing It Home, is also their third consecutive live disc. It also testifies to the amount of tightening-up the band's done in recent years. Joining another stack of Bonerama originals are covers ranging from the Meters and George Porter Jr. to the Beatles (two from the White Album, no less) to Thelonious Monk. And when they take on Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean" - with trombones doing the familiar backing vocals along with the big guitar riff - you can practically hear the audience's jaws dropping.

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  • Bonerama Hits Colorado
    Since live performance is what Bonerama is all about, it's no coincidence that their third album, Bringing It Home, is also their third consecutive live disc. It also testifies to the amount of tightening-up the band's done in recent years. Joining another stack of Bonerama originals are covers ranging from the Meters and George Porter Jr. to the Beatles (two from the White Album, no less) to Thelonious Monk. And when they take on Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean" - with trombones doing the familiar backing vocals along with the big guitar riff - you can practically hear the audience's jaws dropping.

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  • Richie Havens' 'Nobody Left To Crown' Streets Today
    A sense of timelessness rings throughout Richie Havens' latest release, Nobody Left to Crown, as though the passing years have only strengthened the meaning of his soul-filled folk rock. Nobody Left to Crown, released to the US on Verve Records on July 29th, attests that Richie Havens has never been more relevant, necessary even, than he is today.

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  • Richie Havens' 'Nobody Left To Crown' Streets Today
    A sense of timelessness rings throughout Richie Havens' latest release, Nobody Left to Crown, as though the passing years have only strengthened the meaning of his soul-filled folk rock. Nobody Left to Crown, released to the US on Verve Records on July 29th, attests that Richie Havens has never been more relevant, necessary even, than he is today.

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  • Day 2 of the Mile High Music Festival
    Sunday morning hit me like a ton of bricks. I’d been out for the first day of Mile High, leaving sometime around 1:30 am for the drive home, and only slept about 6 hours before I was out of bed again. In some ways, being able to sleep at home was a bonus. I got to shower, for example. But leaving the scene of the crime takes the fight out of a person, makes them soft. To beat the elements, be they natural or of man’s design, one must enter a Zen-like state of self-preservation. Stamina and persistence are the stimulants of necessity, but going home removes you from the game, takes you out of character. Without waking up in the game, the weather felt just as hot, I felt just as thirsty, and the lack of sleep felt like it really mattered.

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  • Day 2 of the Mile High Music Festival
    Sunday morning hit me like a ton of bricks. I’d been out for the first day of Mile High, leaving sometime around 1:30 am for the drive home, and only slept about 6 hours before I was out of bed again. In some ways, being able to sleep at home was a bonus. I got to shower, for example. But leaving the scene of the crime takes the fight out of a person, makes them soft. To beat the elements, be they natural or of man’s design, one must enter a Zen-like state of self-preservation. Stamina and persistence are the stimulants of necessity, but going home removes you from the game, takes you out of character. Without waking up in the game, the weather felt just as hot, I felt just as thirsty, and the lack of sleep felt like it really mattered.

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  • Joby's Retro Reviews (JGB 8-29-1987)
    In honor of what would be Jerry's 66th birthday today, the Grateful Web is featuring JGB in our most recent 'retro review.' Happy Birthday, Jerry!

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  • Joby's Retro Reviews (JGB 8-29-1987)
    In honor of what would be Jerry's 66th birthday today, the Grateful Web is featuring JGB in our most recent 'retro review.' Happy Birthday, Jerry!

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  • Kimock with the Everyone Orchestra in San Francisco on 8.9.08
    Steve Kimock will be joining the Everyone Orchestra on August 9th, 2008 at the Great American Music Hall. Matt Butler will conduct, with Kimock, Dan Lebowitz, Audio Angel, members of Jambay, Legendary Nigerian percussionist Sikiru Adepoju and many special guests.

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  • Kimock with the Everyone Orchestra in San Francisco on 8.9.08
    Steve Kimock will be joining the Everyone Orchestra on August 9th, 2008 at the Great American Music Hall. Matt Butler will conduct, with Kimock, Dan Lebowitz, Audio Angel, members of Jambay, Legendary Nigerian percussionist Sikiru Adepoju and many special guests.

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  • Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs' first U.S. Album & Dates
    Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, heralded by NME as “a glorious example of what rock ’n’ roll should be,” has signed with Transdreamer Records (distributed by MRI Distribution/RED) and are preparing their first American release as a band. Titled Dirt Don’t Hurt, the CD is slated for a street date of October 14, 2008. “Band,” however, is a figurative term for Holly and company— Holly Golightly and Lawyer Dave (a.k.a. the Brokeoffs) sing and play guitar, as well as drums, banjo, standup bass and an array of other instruments. It’s just the two of them.

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  • Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs' first U.S. Album & Dates
    Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, heralded by NME as “a glorious example of what rock ’n’ roll should be,” has signed with Transdreamer Records (distributed by MRI Distribution/RED) and are preparing their first American release as a band. Titled Dirt Don’t Hurt, the CD is slated for a street date of October 14, 2008. “Band,” however, is a figurative term for Holly and company— Holly Golightly and Lawyer Dave (a.k.a. the Brokeoffs) sing and play guitar, as well as drums, banjo, standup bass and an array of other instruments. It’s just the two of them.

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  • Rex Foundation: Black Tie Dye Ball w/ DSO – 9/27/08
    Dark Star Orchestra will be playing a benefit show for the Rex Foundation. The show is taking place on September 27th, in Hollywood, California.

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  • Rex Foundation: Black Tie Dye Ball w/ DSO – 9/27/08
    Dark Star Orchestra will be playing a benefit show for the Rex Foundation. The show is taking place on September 27th, in Hollywood, California.

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  • Creedence Clearwater LPs Reissued on Sept 30th, 2008
    The first six albums by Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees Creedence Clearwater Revival will be reissued by Fantasy Records (a unit of Concord Music Group) on September 30, 2008 as six individual expanded-edition CDs. The set marks the legendary band’s 40th anniversary. The albums — Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy & the Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory and Pendulum, all originally released from 1968-70 —have been digitally remastered and contain an array of rarities: B-sides, unreleased studio and live material, even a summit between the band and Booker T & the MGs.

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  • Creedence Clearwater LPs Reissued on Sept 30th, 2008
    The first six albums by Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees Creedence Clearwater Revival will be reissued by Fantasy Records (a unit of Concord Music Group) on September 30, 2008 as six individual expanded-edition CDs. The set marks the legendary band’s 40th anniversary. The albums — Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy & the Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory and Pendulum, all originally released from 1968-70 —have been digitally remastered and contain an array of rarities: B-sides, unreleased studio and live material, even a summit between the band and Booker T & the MGs.

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  • Keller Williams Releases LIVE and Announces Fall Tour
    Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house-all by himself. So why now, after fifteen-years as a solo artist, is he releasing a live album-simply titled, Live-with three other names on the cover? It turns out that since he first picked up a guitar, this troubadour has wanted to front a band.

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  • Keller Williams Releases LIVE and Announces Fall Tour
    Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house-all by himself. So why now, after fifteen-years as a solo artist, is he releasing a live album-simply titled, Live-with three other names on the cover? It turns out that since he first picked up a guitar, this troubadour has wanted to front a band.

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  • George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic Join West Beach Music
    George Clinton who will appear on Sunday, September 14-- is one of the greatest innovators of urban-based soul, rock and funk over the last forty years. As a teenager in the late 1950s, Clinton formed the Parliaments, a doo-wop style vocal group which had a big R&B hit whit "I Wanna Testify" in 1967 on indy label Revilot. When Revilot folded a year later, they retained the rights to the group The Parliament. In a stroke of genius, Clinton recognized that he still record shifting the focus from the vocals to the band and, in 1968, George formed Funkadelic, a visionary band that combined acid rock with primal funk.

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  • George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic Join West Beach Music
    George Clinton who will appear on Sunday, September 14-- is one of the greatest innovators of urban-based soul, rock and funk over the last forty years. As a teenager in the late 1950s, Clinton formed the Parliaments, a doo-wop style vocal group which had a big R&B hit whit "I Wanna Testify" in 1967 on indy label Revilot. When Revilot folded a year later, they retained the rights to the group The Parliament. In a stroke of genius, Clinton recognized that he still record shifting the focus from the vocals to the band and, in 1968, George formed Funkadelic, a visionary band that combined acid rock with primal funk.

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  • BoomBox Rox the Fox
    When I saw them last, it was as the opening act for Steve Kimock and a host of his friends, down at Owsley’s Golden Road in Denver. Not that I have anything against Owsley’s, in fact I was quite taken with the establishment, but the ancillary stage that BoomBox played on was little more than a back room, and the sound was so deafening that I could barely make out the words that Zion sang. It didn’t really matter, the show was fun even without the vocals, but the Fox Theatre has incredible sound, and Zion’s voice rang loud and clear, adding back the missing piece that I only vaguely knew existed, and filling out the sound beyond my hopes and expectations.

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  • BoomBox Rox the Fox
    When I saw them last, it was as the opening act for Steve Kimock and a host of his friends, down at Owsley’s Golden Road in Denver. Not that I have anything against Owsley’s, in fact I was quite taken with the establishment, but the ancillary stage that BoomBox played on was little more than a back room, and the sound was so deafening that I could barely make out the words that Zion sang. It didn’t really matter, the show was fun even without the vocals, but the Fox Theatre has incredible sound, and Zion’s voice rang loud and clear, adding back the missing piece that I only vaguely knew existed, and filling out the sound beyond my hopes and expectations.

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  • CAPE MAY JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NOV 7-9 CELEBRATION
    November 7-9, 2008, presented by Bank of America will mark the Cape May Jazz Festival’s 15th year and 30th celebration. Friday night’s opener kicks off with a Tribute to Maynard Ferguson featuring a 16-piece big band led by Ed Vezinho and Jim Ward.

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  • CAPE MAY JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NOV 7-9 CELEBRATION
    November 7-9, 2008, presented by Bank of America will mark the Cape May Jazz Festival’s 15th year and 30th celebration. Friday night’s opener kicks off with a Tribute to Maynard Ferguson featuring a 16-piece big band led by Ed Vezinho and Jim Ward.

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  • The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
    The National Jazz Museum in Harlem begins the first full week of programming today, August 4th with a presentation on the life and work of one of the greatest living authors on blues and jazz, Albert Murray for Jazz for Curious Readers, followed by the first of four weeks of focus at Jazz for Curious Listeners on the great jazz pianist, educator and media man, Dr. Billy Taylor.

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  • The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
    The National Jazz Museum in Harlem begins the first full week of programming today, August 4th with a presentation on the life and work of one of the greatest living authors on blues and jazz, Albert Murray for Jazz for Curious Readers, followed by the first of four weeks of focus at Jazz for Curious Listeners on the great jazz pianist, educator and media man, Dr. Billy Taylor.

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  • The Sammies
    Sandwich, the sophomore effort from The Sammies, is set for release September 23 on MoRisen Records. The new release builds on the success of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which Pitchfork called “energetic and infectious.” Plans for a tour in support of Sandwich will be announced soon.

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  • The Sammies
    Sandwich, the sophomore effort from The Sammies, is set for release September 23 on MoRisen Records. The new release builds on the success of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which Pitchfork called “energetic and infectious.” Plans for a tour in support of Sandwich will be announced soon.

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  • The Sammies
    Sandwich, the sophomore effort from The Sammies, is set for release September 23 on MoRisen Records. The new release builds on the success of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which Pitchfork called “energetic and infectious.” Plans for a tour in support of Sandwich will be announced soon.

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  • Bassnectar Announces Fall Tour
    Bassnectar's wobbling sounds of womp are swirling into a storm that will descend on North America for another round of full throttle live shows. With nearly every show on his last tour hitting full capacity, this Fall Bassnectar hosts his fall tour: "The Other Side." Featuring Bassnectar DJ sets and Live PA and a diverse list of special guests including Beats Antique (featuring members of the Yard Dogs Road Show), Fort Knox Five, Seasunz and other friends and artists from the US, the UK, and Canada (plus live custom visuals of Videolicious, Android Jones, and iLL Gates), the tour hits almost 75 markets with stops in New York, Miami, Seattle, and all points in between.

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  • Bassnectar Announces Fall Tour
    Bassnectar's wobbling sounds of womp are swirling into a storm that will descend on North America for another round of full throttle live shows. With nearly every show on his last tour hitting full capacity, this Fall Bassnectar hosts his fall tour: "The Other Side." Featuring Bassnectar DJ sets and Live PA and a diverse list of special guests including Beats Antique (featuring members of the Yard Dogs Road Show), Fort Knox Five, Seasunz and other friends and artists from the US, the UK, and Canada (plus live custom visuals of Videolicious, Android Jones, and iLL Gates), the tour hits almost 75 markets with stops in New York, Miami, Seattle, and all points in between.

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  • New Music Review: “Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations” by Pepper
    On Tuesday July 22nd, SoCal based band Pepper released their new album, Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations. Originally from Hawaii, the band brought their island rhythms and sounds with them to the mainland a few years back after they were noticed by a Los Angeles based indie record label. Picking up where Sublime left off, Pepper plays a mix of dub, reggae, and rock, and Pink Crustaceans encompasses this sound perfectly.

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  • New Music Review: “Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations” by Pepper
    On Tuesday July 22nd, SoCal based band Pepper released their new album, Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations. Originally from Hawaii, the band brought their island rhythms and sounds with them to the mainland a few years back after they were noticed by a Los Angeles based indie record label. Picking up where Sublime left off, Pepper plays a mix of dub, reggae, and rock, and Pink Crustaceans encompasses this sound perfectly.

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  • Keller Williams, Magical Music Man
    Last weekend, Keller Williams played a double dose of his unique one-man-band music to us lucky Colorado residents, with a solo show at the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Friday, followed by a night with the Yonder Mountain String Band at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison on Saturday. Better yet, the Friday night show was “An Evening With” show, meaning a solid night of nothing but Keller. With an ever changing set list, and since Keller’s the kind of guy who’s made way too much music in his life to even fit into a whole day, I knew the night would be full of surprises. I was not disappointed.

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  • Keller Williams, Magical Music Man
    Last weekend, Keller Williams played a double dose of his unique one-man-band music to us lucky Colorado residents, with a solo show at the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Friday, followed by a night with the Yonder Mountain String Band at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison on Saturday. Better yet, the Friday night show was “An Evening With” show, meaning a solid night of nothing but Keller. With an ever changing set list, and since Keller’s the kind of guy who’s made way too much music in his life to even fit into a whole day, I knew the night would be full of surprises. I was not disappointed.

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  • Photos and Video of the Emmitt Nershi Band Show in Boulder
    The Grateful Web was on-hand at last night's Emmitt Nershi Band show at the Boulder Theater. We have some pictures and video clips from the show. Thanks to the folks at the Theater for their warm hospitiality.

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  • Photos and Video of the Emmitt Nershi Band Show in Boulder
    The Grateful Web was on-hand at last night's Emmitt Nershi Band show at the Boulder Theater. We have some pictures and video clips from the show. Thanks to the folks at the Theater for their warm hospitiality.

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  • Railroad Earth is Coming to Boulder - Sept 19 & 20
    Railroad Earth is currently on tour. Current confirmed tour dates include...

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  • Railroad Earth is Coming to Boulder - Sept 19 & 20
    Railroad Earth is currently on tour. Current confirmed tour dates include...

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  • Halloween with Leftover Salmon at the Fillmore Auditorium
    Live Nation proudly presents LEFTOVER SALMON at the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, October 31st. Showtime is 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Our fan ticketing will go on sale (HERE) today August 7th starting at 10am MST. The remaining tickets will be available thru ticketmaster starting Saturday August 9th.

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  • Halloween with Leftover Salmon at the Fillmore Auditorium
    Live Nation proudly presents LEFTOVER SALMON at the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, October 31st. Showtime is 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Our fan ticketing will go on sale (HERE) today August 7th starting at 10am MST. The remaining tickets will be available thru ticketmaster starting Saturday August 9th.

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  • Phil Lesh to Headline Slow Food Rocks Music Festival
    Phil Lesh and Friends will headline Sunday, August 31, at the Slow Food Rocks music festival, which will be held during Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, taking place in San Francisco over Labor Day Weekend.. In a rare hometown appearance Phil Lesh and Friends will play on an outdoor stage at The Great Meadow at Fort Mason overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge

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  • Phil Lesh to Headline Slow Food Rocks Music Festival
    Phil Lesh and Friends will headline Sunday, August 31, at the Slow Food Rocks music festival, which will be held during Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, taking place in San Francisco over Labor Day Weekend.. In a rare hometown appearance Phil Lesh and Friends will play on an outdoor stage at The Great Meadow at Fort Mason overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge

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  • Mel Martin Quartet at The Kitano NYC November 14-15
    Mel Martin—composer, arranger, bandleader, saxophonist, flutist—is one of the most versatile and inventive musicians ever to emerge from the San Francisco Bay Area. In his long career, he’s played a part in many of the innovative movements that have emerged from that creative community. He worked and recorded with a number of the progressive rock and Latin bands of the late ’60s and early ’70s, including the Loading Zone, Cold Blood, Azteca, and Boz Scaggs. In 1977 he founded the award-winning Listen, one of the first West Coast jazz-fusion bands. And he’s currently artistic director of Bebop and Beyond, a group he formed in 1983, as well as leading The MEL MARTIN BAND and Big Band, the Tenor Conclave, and the Benny Carter All-Star Tribute Band.

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  • PRAANG Returns To Cervantes for Two-Night Stint
    Formed under a blanket of thick Colorado snow during the blizzard of 2006, PRAANG returns to Cervantes for a two night stand December 5th and 6th. Featuring Steve Kimock, Jason Hann and Michael Travis from EOTO/String Cheese Incident and Jamie Janover from ZILLA, PRAANG represents a new musical avenue for the four members to travel. Completely improvisational, spontaneous, and unrehearsed, the quartet’s music reflects their fateful existence

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  • PRAANG Returns To Cervantes for Two-Night Stint
    Formed under a blanket of thick Colorado snow during the blizzard of 2006, PRAANG returns to Cervantes for a two night stand December 5th and 6th. Featuring Steve Kimock, Jason Hann and Michael Travis from EOTO/String Cheese Incident and Jamie Janover from ZILLA, PRAANG represents a new musical avenue for the four members to travel. Completely improvisational, spontaneous, and unrehearsed, the quartet’s music reflects their fateful existence

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  • THE ROXY IN LOS ANGELES CELEBRATES 35TH ANNIVERSARY
    Los Angeles’ THE ROXY THEATRE first opened its doors in the late fall of 1973. 35 years later, the legendary venue marks this significant milestone as one of America’s longest-running independently owned and operated establishments with two monumental shows highlighting its rich musical history: Zappa Plays Zappa December 10, 11, 12 and 13 and a New Years Eve performance by The Wailers.

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  • THE ROXY IN LOS ANGELES CELEBRATES 35TH ANNIVERSARY
    Los Angeles’ THE ROXY THEATRE first opened its doors in the late fall of 1973. 35 years later, the legendary venue marks this significant milestone as one of America’s longest-running independently owned and operated establishments with two monumental shows highlighting its rich musical history: Zappa Plays Zappa December 10, 11, 12 and 13 and a New Years Eve performance by The Wailers.

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  • Leftover Salmon to play Vail, CO + Upcoming Projects
    Leftover Salmon will perform a full two set show on December 12th at the Dobson Ice Arena. This show will be part of the Snow Daze Festival held each year in Vail Colorado as a kickoff party to the winter season.

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  • Leftover Salmon to play Vail, CO + Upcoming Projects
    Leftover Salmon will perform a full two set show on December 12th at the Dobson Ice Arena. This show will be part of the Snow Daze Festival held each year in Vail Colorado as a kickoff party to the winter season.

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  • Karrin Allyson Appearing This Weekend At The Iridium Jazz Club
    Over the years, Karrin Allyson has recorded a series of eleven CDs for Concord Records, each of which have showcased her astonishing breadth of repertoire, from standards by Gershwin and Porter to Brazilian bossa nova to samba and Thelonious Monk. She has also taken on French and Brazilian music (From Paris to Rio), the genius of John Coltrane (Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane) and the blues (In Blue).

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  • Karrin Allyson Appearing This Weekend At The Iridium Jazz Club
    Over the years, Karrin Allyson has recorded a series of eleven CDs for Concord Records, each of which have showcased her astonishing breadth of repertoire, from standards by Gershwin and Porter to Brazilian bossa nova to samba and Thelonious Monk. She has also taken on French and Brazilian music (From Paris to Rio), the genius of John Coltrane (Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane) and the blues (In Blue).

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  • Femi Kuti & the Positive Force @ Boulder Theater
    Four years after the DVD Live@Shrine, Femi Kuti returns with a generous, powerful and timeless new album, continuing to explore and push back the frontiers of Afrobeat. Thirteen titles that grab your belly, your feet, your heart and your head. From the ghettos of Lagos to the palaces of corrupt politicians, Day by Day takes us through the winding roads of African paradox. Why is such a rich continent inhabited by the world’s poorest people?

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  • Femi Kuti & the Positive Force @ Boulder Theater
    Four years after the DVD Live@Shrine, Femi Kuti returns with a generous, powerful and timeless new album, continuing to explore and push back the frontiers of Afrobeat. Thirteen titles that grab your belly, your feet, your heart and your head. From the ghettos of Lagos to the palaces of corrupt politicians, Day by Day takes us through the winding roads of African paradox. Why is such a rich continent inhabited by the world’s poorest people?

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  • BoomBox Set to Ring in the New Year at Mile High
    Kicking it all off on Tuesday, December 30th at Owsley’s Golden Road, the headline show will feature special guests Melvin Seals and JGB as well as Steve Kimock and Friends opening the night. BoomBox will take to the stage from 1:30am to 4:30am, keeping the party going until the early morning hours.

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  • BoomBox Set to Ring in the New Year at Mile High
    Kicking it all off on Tuesday, December 30th at Owsley’s Golden Road, the headline show will feature special guests Melvin Seals and JGB as well as Steve Kimock and Friends opening the night. BoomBox will take to the stage from 1:30am to 4:30am, keeping the party going until the early morning hours.

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  • Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's BEWARE Streets 3/17/09
    Though Beware shares spit with its immediate predecessor released this past summer, Lie Down in the Light, it's reach is longer and stronger, more grandiose. Where fiddle and steel contribute their rustic timbre alongside guitars and voices, a thickening thud of low tone rolls beneath, giving the record a bottom that’s fun to watch bounce in new clothes. This indensifies the air and heralds Beware as Bonny’s biggest, most ambitious record to date – yea, bigger and more ambitious than even The Letting Go! A listen or two through and you too may conclude that this could also be the great Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy contempo-country record

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  • Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's BEWARE Streets 3/17/09
    Though Beware shares spit with its immediate predecessor released this past summer, Lie Down in the Light, it's reach is longer and stronger, more grandiose. Where fiddle and steel contribute their rustic timbre alongside guitars and voices, a thickening thud of low tone rolls beneath, giving the record a bottom that’s fun to watch bounce in new clothes. This indensifies the air and heralds Beware as Bonny’s biggest, most ambitious record to date – yea, bigger and more ambitious than even The Letting Go! A listen or two through and you too may conclude that this could also be the great Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy contempo-country record

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  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Boulder Theater
    Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the GRAMMY® Award winning vocal group from South Africa that has conquered nations in its own way with a joyous and spiritually charged brand of vocal music and native choreography, pays tribute to this historical icon with their new Heads Up International release, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu. Ilembe celebrates not only Shaka Zulu but the sense of perseverance, creativity and pride that he has inspired in generations of descendants.

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  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Boulder Theater
    Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the GRAMMY® Award winning vocal group from South Africa that has conquered nations in its own way with a joyous and spiritually charged brand of vocal music and native choreography, pays tribute to this historical icon with their new Heads Up International release, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu. Ilembe celebrates not only Shaka Zulu but the sense of perseverance, creativity and pride that he has inspired in generations of descendants.

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  • Gene Ween Band Tour Dates Announced + New Ween CD
    Recorded live at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC 12/9/92, the CD comes with a bonus DVD which features clips from Ween's first tour of Holland, and also Stache's in Columbus, OH. As Dean Ween says; "The whole thing is so brown that it's almost black.

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  • Gene Ween Band Tour Dates Announced + New Ween CD
    Recorded live at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC 12/9/92, the CD comes with a bonus DVD which features clips from Ween's first tour of Holland, and also Stache's in Columbus, OH. As Dean Ween says; "The whole thing is so brown that it's almost black.

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  • Jazz Museum Events: Nov. 17-21, 2008
    The National Jazz Museum in Harlem begins an exciting full week of public programming with a conversation between executive director Loren Schoenberg and best-selling author, saxophonist and composer James McBride for Jazz for Curious Readers, whose first novel was recently turned into a film by acclaimed director Spike Lee.

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  • Jazz Museum Events: Nov. 17-21, 2008
    The National Jazz Museum in Harlem begins an exciting full week of public programming with a conversation between executive director Loren Schoenberg and best-selling author, saxophonist and composer James McBride for Jazz for Curious Readers, whose first novel was recently turned into a film by acclaimed director Spike Lee.

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  • Swing Into The Holiday Season With George Gee's Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra
    This Holiday season, The Edison Ballroom and producer Mickey Marchello, former guitarist from the legendary New York Rock Band Good Rats, will welcome the swing era sounds of George Gee and his Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra as they entertain guests with a new show that evokes a golden era: “Sleigh Bells Swing.” George Gee and his 22-piece Big Band offer the perfect Holiday treat for not only swing and jazz music fans, but also for tourists and tri-state area residents looking for an incredible Holiday entertainment experience.

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  • Swing Into The Holiday Season With George Gee's Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra
    This Holiday season, The Edison Ballroom and producer Mickey Marchello, former guitarist from the legendary New York Rock Band Good Rats, will welcome the swing era sounds of George Gee and his Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra as they entertain guests with a new show that evokes a golden era: “Sleigh Bells Swing.” George Gee and his 22-piece Big Band offer the perfect Holiday treat for not only swing and jazz music fans, but also for tourists and tri-state area residents looking for an incredible Holiday entertainment experience.

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  • The Motet performs Talking Heads @ Boulder Theater
    Performing the music of the Talking Heads, The Motet will be joined by Kyle Hollingsworth (SCI) on keys, Fuzz (Deep Banana Blackout) on guitar, Jans Ingber on vocals and percussion, Liza Oxnard on vocals, Joey Porter also on keys, Carrie Sangiovanni on background vocals and Paul McDaniel on bass.

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  • The Motet performs Talking Heads @ Boulder Theater
    Performing the music of the Talking Heads, The Motet will be joined by Kyle Hollingsworth (SCI) on keys, Fuzz (Deep Banana Blackout) on guitar, Jans Ingber on vocals and percussion, Liza Oxnard on vocals, Joey Porter also on keys, Carrie Sangiovanni on background vocals and Paul McDaniel on bass.

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  • Download Phish At The Roxy Now!
    Recorded Live February 19th, 20th and 21st, 1993, this run at the intimate Roxy Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia set the stage for many classic tripartite celebrations to follow. With the second show's near-instant legendary status cemented among fans due largely to a non-stop thriller of a second set which included feats of rock and roll greatness, including a sit-in by a spurious Gene Simmons, At The Roxy captures a magical moment for Phish and their audience during a period of peak songwriting and experimentation.

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  • Download Phish At The Roxy Now!
    Recorded Live February 19th, 20th and 21st, 1993, this run at the intimate Roxy Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia set the stage for many classic tripartite celebrations to follow. With the second show's near-instant legendary status cemented among fans due largely to a non-stop thriller of a second set which included feats of rock and roll greatness, including a sit-in by a spurious Gene Simmons, At The Roxy captures a magical moment for Phish and their audience during a period of peak songwriting and experimentation.

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  • Conscious Alliance Announces Holiday Meal Drive & Rebel Alliance Jam XIV
    Not-for-profit Conscious Alliance - feeding America's hungry through music - ramps up this year's holiday giving with the announcement of their 5th annual "Holiday Meal Drive." With the support of musicians and their fans, and this year in partnership with Whole Foods Market, the organization will deliver full holiday meals to impoverished Native American Reservations for the fifth year in a row. The organization also hosts the Rebel Alliance Jam XIV - a holiday benefit show at Boulder, Colorado's Fox Theatre on November 29th featuring Keith Moseley, Scott Law, Jeff Sipe, Gibb Droll, and special guest Kyle Hollingsworth.

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  • Conscious Alliance Announces Holiday Meal Drive & Rebel Alliance Jam XIV
    Not-for-profit Conscious Alliance - feeding America's hungry through music - ramps up this year's holiday giving with the announcement of their 5th annual "Holiday Meal Drive." With the support of musicians and their fans, and this year in partnership with Whole Foods Market, the organization will deliver full holiday meals to impoverished Native American Reservations for the fifth year in a row. The organization also hosts the Rebel Alliance Jam XIV - a holiday benefit show at Boulder, Colorado's Fox Theatre on November 29th featuring Keith Moseley, Scott Law, Jeff Sipe, Gibb Droll, and special guest Kyle Hollingsworth.

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  • Four Sushi Restaurants and the Toubab Krewe
    For lovers of atypical instrumental rock derivatives, there may be no sweeter words than Toubab Krewe. What’s a Toubab Krewe, you ask? Good question! For starters, Toubab Krewe is a band, five guys who make some of the grooviest music you’ve ever (or maybe never) heard. The only term that really sticks with any consistency is instrumental, since, as the word implies, they only play instruments sans vocals. Other than that, they are a really tough act to peg. Psychic-Afro-dub-rock comes to mind as a possibility, but somehow even that doesn’t do the Toubab Krewe justice.

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  • Four Sushi Restaurants and the Toubab Krewe
    For lovers of atypical instrumental rock derivatives, there may be no sweeter words than Toubab Krewe. What’s a Toubab Krewe, you ask? Good question! For starters, Toubab Krewe is a band, five guys who make some of the grooviest music you’ve ever (or maybe never) heard. The only term that really sticks with any consistency is instrumental, since, as the word implies, they only play instruments sans vocals. Other than that, they are a really tough act to peg. Psychic-Afro-dub-rock comes to mind as a possibility, but somehow even that doesn’t do the Toubab Krewe justice.

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  • Marco Benevento & Friends | Nathan Moore | The Flynn Space
    Many aspects of last Monday night’s show at The Flynn Space in downtown Burlington, Vermont felt as if they had been transplanted from past eras, even different locales. Nathan Moore, the opener of the festivities, was channeling the bravado and freedom of a Greenwich Village bohemian from 1962 and Marco Benevento, the band leader of the night’s all-star headlining troupe, seemed to have an uncanny resemblance in the mind’s eye to a young Miles Davis, breaking free from The Gil Evans Band in 1959 and forging his own musical path. And just like that jazz pioneer who has a stronghold on everyone’s CD collection, Marco has begun to blaze a trail all his own and, on this night, all of the musicians around him were in for a treat, just like the rest of us.

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  • Marco Benevento & Friends | Nathan Moore | The Flynn Space
    Many aspects of last Monday night’s show at The Flynn Space in downtown Burlington, Vermont felt as if they had been transplanted from past eras, even different locales. Nathan Moore, the opener of the festivities, was channeling the bravado and freedom of a Greenwich Village bohemian from 1962 and Marco Benevento, the band leader of the night’s all-star headlining troupe, seemed to have an uncanny resemblance in the mind’s eye to a young Miles Davis, breaking free from The Gil Evans Band in 1959 and forging his own musical path. And just like that jazz pioneer who has a stronghold on everyone’s CD collection, Marco has begun to blaze a trail all his own and, on this night, all of the musicians around him were in for a treat, just like the rest of us.

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  • Umphrey's Mantis Pre-Order Takes Off
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On the 25th of July, BoomBox played the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO.  Their music is a unique blend of electronica, funk, and southern rock, the likes of which I’ve never quite seen before.  Bringing in crowds of both rock and electronica fans, BoomBox is getting bigger all the time.  Zion Godchaux, son of former Grateful Dead members Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, plays guitar and sings.  Russ Randolph, DJ, producer, multi-track sequencer, and lights guy, does everything else.  Before the show Grateful Web's Sam Holloway had the opportunity to catch up with the band backstage.

 

Grateful Web: I have to know, Zion, with your illustrious parentage, did you get to meet a lot of rock stars as a kid?

 

Zion: As a kid, they were just people.  Yeah, I’m sure I probably did.  I remember some of them, but it didn’t register at the time.  I dunno, I guess I don’t really think of anyone as a rock star, people are just people to me, it’s always been like that for me.  Except for Bob Dylan and Hendrix if he were alive.

 

GW: Growing up in a musical family did you start playing music at a pretty early age?

 

Z: Yeah, as soon as I can remember I was playing the drums.  As I grew up, I started playing guitar, and then DJ-ing.  A little bit of everything.

 

GW: Do you still play the drums or is guitar your main focus?

 

Z:  I never play the drums anymore.  It was my first instrument, but I spend all my time on the guitar now, maybe because its not my first instrument.

 

GW:  You guys are based out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and I guess the sound I most typically associate with that area, and this is probably sounds a little ignorant, is like Lynyrd Skynyrd.

 

Z: Yeah…

 

GW:  But I wonder, what is the electronic, or fusion-rock scene like down there?

 

Russ:  There’s not one, but like in the Skynyrd song, they’re referencing a scene where a group of musicians were creating a certain type of sound, a certain type of funk, and that’s basically all the music that’s coming out of Muscle Shoals, but as far as electronica, we’re really all that’s going on in that town.

 

Z:  But I mean, what we do is not far from what the main rhythm sections were doing back in the day, they were just making really funky music, and that’s what we’re trying to do, make really funky music.  It just happens to be with a guitar and turntables.

 

R: And it’s not like anybody in town goes “Oh, they’re an electonica band,” we’re just another band, ya know?

 

Z: Trying to get into that funky spirit.

 

GW:  So what inspired you when you were starting this project up, to move away from the more traditional setup where you’ve guitar, you’ve got drums and you’ve got a bass on stage, to one where you were incorporating the turntables and computer programming into the funk framework?

 

Z:  For me, it was just when I started going to clubs in San Francisco in the early 90’s, and started watching some amazing DJs and some crazy parties that were something totally new and fresh, and it was sort of futuristic at the time, and that’s where it was at.  And then Garcia died, and the Dead thing wasn’t happening, and I didn’t buy into the jam band thing, so I hung out and listened to House music and saw that with a combination of live instrumentation, and taking what was going on at these parties, find a way to really work that beat with an instrument, you could propel it even further.  And ever since then, that’s what I’ve been trying to, and get people who would never listen to House, or Disco, or what ever you want to call it, that “techno,” to dig it, and then get those electronica guys who’ve never listened to a guy play a guitar solo.  I mean the true electronica kids aren’t even thinking about watching some guy bang around on an instrument.  But, there’s something to be said for both worlds, sure.

 

R:  But we did see a gap, and a think a lot of people only really connect with a band in one way, and when it peaks your connection at the live show is this thing, and then the connection with the DJ is a totally separate thing, a different kind of high, or whatever.  And with a lot of DJs, there’s a gap because its not organic enough, its just beats that drive it, and its not a musical kind of thing, and then the bands sometimes don’t give you enough of that drive.  And we saw that what we needed was both of those worlds, and that’s where this came from.  But it wasn’t really until I saw a DJ truly move me, and touch me almost spiritually that I connected the dots.  In Alabama I didn’t have access to top notch DJs, so I knew the potential, and I played with turntables as a kid, but I didn’t see the full potential because I never had the proper mentors.  But to see a real DJ really working a crowd, truly intuitively as an artist…

 

Z:  Shortly after I met Russ, we were starting to work on some electronica stuff, and I thought he was the perfect candidate for Burning Man.  Sure enough Russ said, “Yeah, I’ll go,” and he really stepped up all the way and we got on a plane and flew out to Burning Man.  That’s where the world gets to see the greatest musicians and DJs and artists and all that, and right then and there we put it together.

 

R:  And the plane ride home is where this band was birthed.

 

Z:  It was well worth it, that trip.

 

GW:  One of the first things I noticed about you guys, for some reason, when I saw you play down at Owsley’s a few months ago with Steve Kimock was that you played a reverse-strung guitar, something Hendrix was famous for.  But I was never really sure exactly what that did for the sound, because he’s got so much else going on at the same time.  What does that do for your sound?

 

Z:  The Jimi rumor is that he was so poor he couldn’t afford a left handed guitar, so he played a right handed guitar strung backwards.  Truth is, that’s not the deal.  If this was a right handed Strat [he picks up his guitar] all these knobs would be right here where you strum.  To get all that mess out of the line of fire, you get an opposite handed guitar and string it backwards.  And the thing is that on a backwards Strat, the bottom pickup is angled wrong, so it makes the sound a little off.  Its wrong, you know?  But it’s a good wrong.  And Jimi’s Strat didn’t sound like Eric Clapton’s Strat, and part of it was just because it was backwards, and had different tones capabilities.

 

GW:  There you go.  So Russ, you started out as a producer?

 

R:  More of an engineer really, but yeah.

 

GW:  Okay, so how did that experience affect what you do here in a live setting, as opposed to in the studio or at the soundboard?

 

R:  I think it mostly gave us a path of least resistance to get to where we wanted to be.  A lot of bands have to go through a lot of growing production-wise to learn how to move to a larger stage and work a bigger audience.  But having the production experience I know what it’s going to take.  So we stepped into our first shows at a huge level, way higher than we could really afford, and even at our first gigs our production standard was very very high.

 

Z:  And we had things thumping like a legit rave right away.

 

R:  Yeah, and I think it was more efficient because it allowed us to get a really clear picture of who we were across to the crowd even if they didn’t know anything about us.  Right at the gate we were like “this is who we are, this is the party we want to throw, and this is what we want to do.”  And as a producer and engineer, I think that’s what most people take home with them.  And I’ve done some many shows, trying to take the path of least resistance, using that wisdom of experience has streamlined what we what to do.  It allows us to put more energy into the creative process rather then fucking around with cables and trying to learn concepts and shit like that.

 

Z:  And the need for a million techs, but we’ve figured out a way to get our stage setup as streamlined as possible, to the point that when we use monitors, we’re monitoring ourselves, and we each have our own mixers.  We’re basically taking care of everything ourselves.

 

GW:  Was it at all difficult to transition to the stage where people were watching you, rather than working from offstage?

 

R:  Not really, I’ve played in tons of bands.  I actually turned towards audio production because I was just fucking over the band thing.  It’s like I was carrying all these idiots, buts its okay because we’re doing decent gigs, but I was the guy setting up sound anyway, and I was like “Fuck it.”  I could make more money going out and setting up sounds, and I wasn’t happy with the band I was in.  Bands are frustrating, you got four or five guys to deal with and it can be a pain in the ass.

 

Z:  We’ve never been nervous or anything.

 

R:  Yeah we’ve always just known what we want to do.

 

Z:  We’re just comfortable with what were doing.  And even if the ret of the world doesn’t like it, that wouldn’t really trip us out, because it is what it is, and people can take it or leave it.  We’re not necessarily trying to impress anybody or anything.  Hopefully we can put people in a good mood on the way out, if nothing else and so there’s no reason to be nervous about that.

 

GW: I notice you’ve got a very strong visual aspect to your shows.  How important is that visual aspect to what you do up there.

 

Z:  It’s important.

 

R:  We knew from the beginning that we wanted to give everyone a total experience.  Visually we didn’t quite have a definite plan.  It’s developing more as we go, we’ve tried a few different things, and this is where we are now.  I control lights from stage, and we still try to keep things between us, and since we know sort of how we want things to look, and were still just doing things ourselves.

 

Z:  And since it’s just me and him we have more liberty to create this world that’s our world, and we can create inside of it, rather than having that world be like 55 guitar players or something.

 

R:  So yeah, the visual aspect is important because when you go to a show, you want to have an experience take over and take you out of your normal world.  When I go to a show, I want to know that someone has taken over the space, that it’s their world.

 

Z: Right, they come into this bar that you know, but it’s not that bar anymore.

 

R:  And we also have people paint with us sometimes, and that kind of real time visual connection can be really cool.

 

GW:  Definitely.  I found an interview online that you guys had done a while back, and in it you made the comment that when you were recording your last album, “Visions of Backbeat,”  the album it wasn’t really an example of where you were at the time so much as where you wanted to go as musicians.  I thought that was really interesting, and I was wondering if you could explain what you meant by that?

 

Z:  It was just for one guy, that record.

 

R:  Yeah, it was really done as a demo.  Right now when I do a show, I have two drum machines, but when we recorded Visions, Zion was on one drum machine and I was on the other, it was a very early stage and we were really just figuring out how to connect the machines, and the way we want to do things.  We knew we wanted to be like, old-school, hard cut, no putting MIDI together or anything, just flying without a net.  When we did Visions we were still exploring what we wanted to become.

 

Z:  I was going to give a demo to this guy who wanted to potentially put me on tour doing a DJ thing, but I didn’t want to go out on tour be myself because Russ and I already had our thing going.  But I figured, might as well ask the guy, “Hey, if you want to take BoomBox out, we can talk.”  But we didn’t have anything to show him, so with “Visions of Backbeat,” it really was our vision.

 

R:  Yeah and Backbeat was an idea that we wanted to push across, the idea that the swing, the groove, the beats that were characteristic of Muscle Shoals, it IS Muscle Shoals.

 

Z:  You know you’ve got all these genres, like breakbeat, and house music, and techno, and acid jazz and mushroom jazz, and all these titles for styles.  And the best way that we could describe where we were coming from rhythmically was calling it Backbeat.  Not big beat, not deep house or deep dub, it was just Backbeat, and we knew Backbeat was where it was at, we just hadn’t gotten there yet.  So that’s why that record is called Visions of Backbeat.

 

GW:  So this forward-thinking aspect something you’re trying to incorporate into the next record?

 

R:  Yeah, and we’re both working out new toys and gadgets, some of them we’re working into the shows now, but when we actually do the final recording, we will have at least mastered how to work them into our rig and use them live.  Because we’re looking at developing new sounds and increasing our live vocabulary, if you will, so our conversations can get deeper between each other, as in the way we work together on stage, and as we get more sounds and levels then we can develop sonically as well.

 

Z:  Eventually we’ll get back around, I think.  Russ is a drummer, and we might get a live kit on stage and get that going, and I’ve got a new chaos pad, and that kind of scratches my DJ itch.  So it’s coming full circle, but we had to start where we did so we could learn how to fly the plane.

 

R:  Now that we’ve got the plane off the ground, we know how to fly around and do shows and stuff, we just need to develop.  And we knew that even five years ago going into this thing.  And now, we’re probably not even half-way there yet to our final goal, and to our final plan.  So the next album will be the next step, but it’s definitely not the end of it.

 

Z:  But we’ll probably never reach the end goal, you know.

 

GW:  I hope not, then you’d become like Kiss or something…

 

R:  Yeah, right? Ha!

 

GW:  How much of the album have you got planned out at this point?

 

Z:  It’s still really up in the air.

 

R:  We’re both developing sounds and beats; we’re really just now exchanging ideas and fitting the pieces together.  I think our plan right now is that we’ll develop this stuff over the next few months, then do like three live shows back home, and record all those and use them as actual sessions.  Because, and we were talking about this the other day with each other, we could be recording in hotel rooms and stuff along the way, but without a live audience, you don’t get that same energy.

 

Z:  Because what they do for us is the same as what they do for us.  I’m always down for kicking it in the studio, and getting a few things down, and it’s like “that’s cool,” but…

 

R:  But I think that if we create these songs and record them in front of an audience, hopefully we can record the energy of the room too.  I mean, Visions is cool, but without a live audience, I don’t think it gives people a realistic view of who we are as a band…

 

Z: …Energetically…

 

R: …Energetically especially, and I hope we can get that across to people with the next record.

 

Be sure to read my review of BoomBox’s Fox Theatre show!

 

To see more photos from the show, please visit the Gallery.

 

To see more of my photos from this show and others, check out my Flickr page.

 

Sam Holloway,

 

The Grateful Web

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