Posts by Dave Goodwich

Few artists have had the kind of impact on rock and roll that Donna Jean Godchaux Mackay has amassed in the past fifty years. While most fans fondly remember her as the graceful vocalist (and lone female member) of The Grateful Dead from 1971-1979, Donna cut her teeth as a teenager in the Muscle Shoals, […]

After two red-hot performances in New Orleans, Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings kicked off a brief three-night run of live-streaming shows at Austin, Texas’s ACL Live at The Moody Theater on Friday evening. Fresh off a well-deserved “Best Bluegrass Album” win at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards for his 2019 Sophomore studio effort HOME, Strings and his […]

Billy Strings kicked off his six-night virtual livestream event from New York’s Capitol Theatre on Thursday evening with a rousing pair of sets that featured a healthy mix of originals, including a handful of brand-new compositions, and covers spanning multiple eras & genres. Officially referred to as “The Déjà vu Experiment”, this week-long run of […]

Bluegrass maven Billy Strings has announced a three-night run of socially distanced outdoor concerts in St. Augustine, Florida at the St. Augustine Ampitheatre from March 19-21. These shows, which mark Strings’ first in-person performances in front of a live audience since his critically acclaimed “Meet Me at the Drive-In” tour last September, will feature enhanced […]

For the Grateful Dead, New Year’s Eve concerts were often lavish, yet begrudgingly approached affairs. Jerry Garcia reportedly lamented the added pressure of performing on 12/31, despite having played twenty-two New Year’s Eve shows with the Dead, including sixteen in-a-row from 1976-1991. Musically speaking, the shows themselves were generally underwhelming, especially when juxtaposed with the […]

Phish has announced a special New Year’s Eve-edition of their archival livestream video series Dinner And A Movie as the group will be premiering complete footage of their infamous 12/31/95 concert from New York’s Madison Square Garden.  This concert, which was Phish’s first New Year’s Eve show from the cavernous arena, is often cited among […]

Phish’s Trey Anastasio & Page McConnell offered up a surprise holiday treat for fans this Christmas Eve with the free release of a six-song set, entitled December, recorded by the duo earlier this month at Anastasio’s home-based studio “The Barn”, located in the Green Mountains of upstate Vermont. The forty-five-minute set features a mix of […]

It can be argued that perhaps no other band has done a better job of making the best out of the COVID-based restrictions on live music that have seemingly become the new normal in 2020 than the Connecticut-based Indie-Groove outfit Goose. While other groups were, at best, spending their summers primarily booking sporadic single-night live-streaming […]

Phish is bringing back their archival Livestream video series this Saturday (11/28) for a new Dinner And A Movie. This is the first new edition of the series since Halloween as they return with a legendary 1.0 era show: November 22nd, 1997 from the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA.  This show, which occurred in the middle […]

 moe. finished up their run of drive-in performances this past Saturday (11/7/20) at Showtime At The Drive-In in Frederick, Maryland with a rousing pair of celebratory sets that repeatedly referenced the historic presidential election which had (thankfully) been called in favor of Democratic nominee Joe Biden earlier that afternoon.  The overwhelming feeling of relief and […]

The latest installment of Phish’s now monthly archival livestream series Dinner And A Movie will deliver a special Halloween-themed treat for fans as the band will air three of their legendary “musical costume” sets from previous Halloween performances. Since the group’s inaugural 10/31 concert in 1994 – in which the band performed the Beatles’ White […]

Trey Anastasio kicked off The Beacon Jams, his eight-week livestream residency at New York’s legendary Beacon Theatre, this Friday evening (10/9/20) with a stellar performance consisting of a single two-and-a-half-hour set that featured both electric & acoustic arrangements of a few Phish classics as well as Trey’s solo material, including several live debuts from his […]

Twenty years ago today (10/7/00), Phish wrapped up their fall tour outside of the Bay Area at Shoreline Amphitheatre, thus bringing an end to the much-vaunted “1.0” era, which marked the time from their 1983 inception through this date. The hiatus that followed – not officially addressed before Trey Anastasio’s on-stage announcement in Las Vegas […]

Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings made his headlining debut at Morrison, Colorado’s famed Red Rocks Ampitheatre on September 26th for an awe-inspiring three-set performance. While the venue itself was empty due to ongoing social gathering restrictions, the energy from the talented quartet – consisting of Strings (guitar), Jarrod Walker (mandolin), Royal Masat (bass)& Billy Failing (banjo) […]

Bluegrass maven Billy Strings wrapped up the opening weekend of his Meet Me At The Drive-In Tour this past Sunday (9/13/20) at the Mohegan Sun Arena (rather, in the adjacent parking lot) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with a pair of captivating sets that encompassed myriad genres, from Bill Monroe to Phish.  The freshly coifed musical mastermind […]

Today (9/8) marks what would have been the 75th birthday of original Grateful Dead keyboardist and co-founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan who entered the world on September 8, 1945, in San Bruno, CA. A true musical badass in every sense of the word, Pigpen, simply put, was the blues. He personified the timeless genre with […]

Considering the absolutely unadulterated insanity that is 2020, it seemed appropriate that the long-awaited return to live music would occur in a gravel parking lot located in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex that typically plays host to the Phillies, Eagles & Sixers. And so, last Friday evening on September 4th, thousands of adventurous fans of […]

The latest iteration of Phish’s weekly archival video series Dinner and A Movie is a special holiday-sized edition as the band will be eschewing their usual format of streaming a single concert each Tuesday evening in favor of airing three consecutive shows this upcoming Labor Day weekend commemorating their annual end-of-summer celebrations at Dick’s Sporting […]

2005 seems like an eternity ago. George W. Bush was president, YouTube was an unproven upstart, and Tom Cruise was frantically jumping on couches for reasons that remain unclear to this day. 2005 also marks the last occasion upon which the wonderfully eccentric musical dyad of Phish bassist Mike Gordon & acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo […]

Bruce Hornsby has come a long way since the halcyon days of the Range & the Noisemakers. Where once there were catchy hooks and thumping John Molo-fortified beats, there now lay atonal études atop of dissonant soundscapes. While casual fans of the Williamsburg, VA native, yearning for the familiar strains of “The Way It Is” […]