Posts by Dave Goodwich

For the past twenty years, Lotus has been at the forefront of the burgeoning live electronic dance music scene. With one foot firmly entrenched as a jamband and the other in a multitude of styles – from jazz to funk to house to rock and everything in between – these musical pioneers have continued to […]

The final regularly aired edition of the Grateful Dead’s weekly archival series Shakedown Stream features the previously unreleased footage from the band’s 7/21/90 performance at the World Music Theater in Tinley Paark, IL outside of Chicago. This show, which marked the opening night of the Dead’s final stop on their summer tour – as well […]

When Boston-area roots string band Grain Thief set out to record their second full-length album Gasoline this past winter, they had a clear vision to recreate, in the studio, the sound & energy from their renowned live performances. While the talented quintet’s previous studio efforts – the Animal EP (2015) and Stardust Lodge (2018) – […]

The latest edition of Phish’s weekly archival video series Dinner And A Movie is a special one as the band will be debuting their historic 7/8/94 concert from Great Woods outside of Boston.  In addition to a strong second set anchored by monster takes on classics such as “You Enjoy Myself” and “Stash” (this standout […]

By 1979, the Grateful Dead were at something of a crossroads in their career. For the past eight years, the husband & wife duo of Keith & Donna Godchaux had done a fine job of providing piano accompaniment & background vocals, respectively, but as a new decade approached it was clear the band needed a […]

Since improvisational rock came into fruition over 50 years ago, the “jamband” genre has ultimately become defined by the live music experience. While a majority of today’s popular-music industry measures success based on album sales and various social media-centric stats, bands such as The Grateful Dead, Phish, & Widespread Panic honed their chops on the […]

Billy Strings made his network television debut last night when he performed “Taking Water”, from his 2019 LP Home, on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Strings, along with his musical cohorts Billy Failing (banjo), Jarrod Walker (mandolin) & Royal Masat (bass), recorded the segment in front of an empty house at Nashville’s Station Inn where Strings was […]

Billy Strings kicked off his Streaming Strings tour – a nine-show run of crowd-free virtual performances at various Nashville venues – from the Brooklyn Bowl Nashville last night. The two-set performance, Strings’ first public appearance since March 1st, featured material that ran the gamut from traditional to progressive and included a brief guest appearance from […]

To say the Dead’s 1995 Summer tour was a surreal disaster-laden affair is putting it mildly. In addition to Garcia’s alarmingly poor appearance & musicianship as well as his rapidly deteriorating health & well-being, a slew of ominous incidents that occurred along the way earned this near two-month twenty-six show jaunt through the U.S. the […]

The latest edition of the Grateful Dead’s weekly archival series Shakedown Stream features a 30th anniversary of sorts as the red-hot July 10th, 1990 show from Carter-Finley Stadium at NC State in Raleigh, NC will be made available to the public for the first time ever this Friday, July 10th. This show, which took place […]

DJ/Producer Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) announced an indefinite hiatus from his performance career, as well as his non-profit organization, Be Interactive, on Friday after allegations of sexual misconduct against him began to surface earlier in the week.  The allegations first arose publicly when an Instagram account @evidenceagainstbassnectar was created on June 28th and has generated significant […]

The latest iteration of Phish’s weekly web-streaming series Dinner And A Movie reaches all the way back to May 1, 1989 for the second set of the group’s performance from the basement of the Pearl Street Ballroom in Northhampton, MA. The closing stanza’s setlist, which clocks in at just over an hour, is chock-full of […]

This July 4th weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the greatest “final act” (with all due respect to The Last Waltz) in rock history when the surviving members of the Grateful Dead celebrated the iconic band’s 50th anniversary at Soldier Field in Chicago with a trio of concerts officially titled: “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 […]

The ability for any partnership to survive thirty years is a remarkable feat, as I’m sure our married readers are willing to attest, but it is truly a rare accomplishment for musical groups to not only exist for over three decades, but to continue to thrive and musically evolve all while maintaining a legion of […]

The latest installment of the Grateful Dead’s weekly archival video stream Shakedown Stream harkens all the way back to the Dead’s legendary Europe ‘72 tour with their April 21, 1972 performance from Beat Club in Bremen, West Germany. This show, which originally aired in May of 1972 on Germany’s first major rock’n’roll TV show Beat-Club […]

Phish is (finally) reaching back to the vaunted “1.0” era for the latest iteration of their weekly Dinner And A Movie livestream video series with their performance from July 21, 1997, at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, VA. Being that this was the first U.S. date for that highly renowned summer tour after […]

This week’s edition of The Grateful Dead’s recurring YouTube series “All The Years Live” features the traditional “Cold Rain & Snow” from the band’s June 14, 1991 concert at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. This late-era version, which was ultimately released in 2001 as part of the Dead’s View From The Vault series, features some […]

The latest archival release from Phish reaches back nearly three decades to their March 8, 1993 show from the Sweeney Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a performance which was previously uncirculated amongst tapers according to LivePhish.  Featuring a setlist filled with Phish classics such as “Colonel Forbin’s Ascent”, “Glide”, “Lizards” and the Jon Fishman […]

This week’s edition of The Grateful Dead’s recurring YouTube series “All The Years Live” features the Garcia/Hunter anthem “Eyes of the World” from the group’s June 11, 1993 concert at Buckeye Lake in central Ohio. The full video can be seen below… Introduced at a 1973 concert, and recorded on Wake of the Flood the […]

The latest installment of the Grateful Dead’s weekly archival stream Shakedown Stream features the group’s July 2nd, 1989 concert from Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, MA. Previously released in theatres nationwide as part of the Dead’s Meet Up At The Movies series in 2016, this selection from the band’s red-hot 1989 Summer tour features a somewhat […]