A few months back we dug into the YouTube vault and dedicated a week’s Pullin’ ‘Tubes to all things Classic Rock. With The Dead reforming, Ernie hitting the road and the imminent return of Phish, we haven’t been this excited about all things jam in quite some time. With that in mind, we thought we’d revisit some of the bands we dug from back in the halcyon days of the scene for a little something we’re calling Ghosts Of Jambands Past.
I have the distinct honor of kicking things off this week and there was only one band that seemed appropriate. Around the late summer of ’95, while thumbing through the pages of Relix, I was introduced to a band called God Street Wine. I still remember going out and buying $1.99 Romances – since that’s what you did in the prehistoric days of the internet in order to hear some new music – and being instantly hooked when I popped the disc in.
The band combined Springsteen-esque bar-rock, with jazzy Steely Dan-like ballads and the general goofiness that you found in early Phish albums – all fronted by one guy that kind of bopped around the stage and looked like Animal from The Muppets and another that actually kind of looked like The Boss. Let’s head back to December 26, 1996, when the band kicked off a two-night run at New York’s Irving Plaza – and a coincidently a night before I saw them for the first time – with Hellfire. Enjoy…
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In one of those classic jamband pairings, Strangefolk opened night one and the Ominous Seapods night two. After taking in my inaugural GSW show, a few days later I’d catch moe. for the first time when they rang in 1997 at the now defunct Tramps – but that’s a story for another time.
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