![]() by Nationwide Newsnet Entertainment, Regional and International. US rapper Coolio, known for the iconic hit Gangsta’s Paradise, has died at the age of 59. The bands original guitarist and sometime songwriter, Michael Houser, died of pancreatic cancer in 2002, and the original drummer, Todd Nance, left in 2016 and died in 2020.īy Zasha-Kae Dennis Entertainment, Latest News, LatestMA, News. Sadly, we are of the generation that never got to witness the Grateful Dead and the late great Jerry Garcia. 1 The band was formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1986, and is influenced by the Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. But with the support of original members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, we believe John Mayer does a great job of filling in the void of an unreplaceable legend. Not to forget the help from talented American multi-instrumentalist and Allman Brothers’ bassist Oteil Burbridge and long-time keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. The studio stuff is ok, and I haven’t checked out the live stuff that’s up, if it’s with the original lineup it’s probably fantastic.Since the beginning of the project in the fall of 2015, Dead and Co have now played well over 100 shows and over 80 different songs. I have some uncirculated SBDs from this era which are currently 2nd on my “transfer, master and upload” to-do list, which puts the ETA somewhere in the “3 weeks to a year” range Most of them are probably AUDs some of them are probably great. The first 2 shows listed in that view aren’t Garaj, but starting in 2001 it is. I especially recommend the original lineup circa 2000-2001 or so with Kai Eckhardt on bass (Dead connection: plays with Zakir Hussein sometimes) and Alan Hertz on drums (Dead connection, indirect: was previously in KVHW, the best band Steve Kimock has ever been in). That would scare people.Īnyone that listens to the Without a Net show and thinks “Wow, Fareed Haque is amazing, I’d like to hear more of him” – you can check out his group Garaj Mahal on the Archive. *That’s a great idea for a horror book, actually: in between, say, page 190 and 191, there’s a real dead spider. As I said, I haven’t started it yet, so it might be written in Latvian or have crushed spiders* between each chapter, but probably not. Blair Jackson is David Gans’ longtime collaborator and co-author, but he has not paid me my due tribute, so I’m calling this one a Gans book.Īnyway: go buy it. You should listen to this.ĭavid Gans was kind enough to send me a copy of This Is All A Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead and I’m looking forward to cracking it open. It shows that the material–the canon they created–is worth keeping around for as long as we’ve held onto Gershwin and Foster. It sounds nothing like the Dead and that is the perfect compliment to both this band and to the Dead. Completely’s been ranting about this and rightly so: it is phenomenal – heavy, but with a bouncy groove. Not the live album, but instead a group of stunningly good musicians playing Dead tunes, featuring Reed Mathis from Billy and the Kids and a guy named Fareed Haque on guitar. (For those of you unfamiliar with Massachusetts, saying a Woostah show is in Boston is like saying the Newark Devils play in New York City.) The truly observant will realize that “Worcester” has been misspelled quite badly. The more observant will wonder how Brian May’s guitar got dragged into all of this. (Steampunk is the only goggle-based aesthetic: everything and everyone involved in Steampunk has goggles on.) ![]() The slightly observant will notice that the Dead’s iconography now extends to Steampunk, because absolutely everything hadn’t been ruined, but the inclusion of Steampunk signals that every single bit of reality is now terrible. Options a-plenty in Deadworld: there is the Dead & Company show in Worcester, MA, which can be listened to here. After all, TotD is the Only Dead Site That Matters. ![]() Now, though, there are streams to keep up with and books, articles, conferences, documentaries to read or watch or peevishly demand free copies of. ![]() This time last year, Bobby was in rehab and Billy was in Hawaii and John Mayer was just a callow farmboy from Tatooine there was nothing but long stretches of nothing, time enough to concoct stories about MechaBilly and visit Little Aleppo. Couches are supposed to be for resting and relaxation, so I don’t know why Couch Tour is enervating me so, but I am exhausted. ![]()
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