While last weekend’s news was justifiably dominated by the grand return of Phish in Hampton, another jam stalwart used the same weekend and locale to trot out his own new band, Steve Kimock’s Crazy Engine. The soundboards are available for free at livedownloads.com, as previously reported, and this seems like as good a time as any to shine the spot on the Toaster, something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
For many people, Kimock is tied to Garcia in some nebulous way, even though the Pennsylvania guitar guru doesn’t actually sound all that much like Jerry, or even have that close an approach, aside from playing sweet and clean. Regardless, Kimock himself has mentioned his role as one of the stewards of the GD and solo JG cannons, and has had long standing relationships with many of Garcia’s sidemen, including Merl Saunders and Melvin Seals, not to mention his Zero cohort Martin Fierro.
This first volume in the Kimock series at Stormy Mondays is Kimock plays the music of Jerome Garcia, kicking off with sit-ins with DSO for a rockin’ That’s What Love… at All Good in 2005, and New Monsoon on the Jam Cruise doing Mission in the Rain. Steve spent a good chunk of 2007 filling for Mark Karan in Ratdog, and while the summer gigs were a bit hit or miss, the fall tour was a scorcher. From the epic Albany concert, a full show Terrapin sandwich, comes an unreal Eyes that closed set I. Returning to DSO, there is a beautiful version of Dylan’s Visions of Johanna, a tune very rarely played by the GD, and the mix closes out with Zero outside Grand Central Station on a sunny Saturday morning in April, absolutely crushing Franklin’s Tower. Feel the K Waves, and as always, enjoy!
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