More reports and footage from last weekend’s Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA continues to pour in and from everything we’ve read and seen it certainly
[Originally Published March 26, 2009]
I’ll never forget the day late Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland passed away in 1990. I was playing hockey at Camp Westmont when a bunkmate’s brother came down the hill to tell us Brent had died. Now, I’ll be honest – I didn’t know a thing about the band at the time, but I wanted to find out. One of my Deadhead counselors turned me onto David Gans and Peter Simon’s well-written biography of the band, Playing in the Band,
Over the past twenty years, I’ve read a number of books on the Grateful Dead and some are spectacular and some aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. The latest tome on the band – Peter Conners’ Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead
10. Skeleton Key – David Shenk, Steve Silberman
I’ll never forget David & Steve’s book as the first time I ever saw the phrase 4:20. Skeleton Key offers bite-sized tidbits on phrases that are part of the Deadhead vocabulary – such as 4:20 – among its 400 pages of history, lore, and interviews about the band.
READ ON for nine more of Scotty’s favorite books on the Dead…
A few months back we reported that seminal pop-rock band The Cars had taken to their official Facebook page posting a photo of the surviving band members in a recording
Ten years after former ABB/Gov’t Mule bassist Allen Woody’s death – and the One For Woody concert that celebrated his life – Woody’s former band mates are throwing Another One
The hosts and musical guests for the November 13th and 20th episodes of Saturday Night Live have been revealed and we’re glad to see that Canadian rockers Arcade Fire will
Today we introduce a new column called A Memory of Music put together by HT’s Photo Editor, Jeremy Gordon. Each month, Jeremy will compile a collection of his favorite shots along with the story behind the photos…
[Anders Osborne w/ Stanton Moore Trio, photo by Jeremy Gordon]
The first photo comes from the Brooklyn Bowl, where Anders Osborne shared the bill with the Stanton Moore Trio in front of a packed house. The band continued down to New Orleans for the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival where Stanton Moore tabbed the talented Scott Metzger to join up for the rest of the tour. As Scott explains, “When Stanton calls, no matter how early in the morning, you answer the phone.”
[Lotus w/ Max Weinberg, photo by Matthew Balch]
While some sit-ins require hours of planning to happen, others occur more spontaneously. As Lotus prepared to take the stage at the Westcott Theater in Syracuse, NY, E Street Band – and former Conan O’Brien drummer – Max Weinberg was in town to give a keynote speech at the Music Industry Conference. Well, Lotus’s tour manager saw him back stage, Max asked about sitting in with the band and voila. You can check the audio and video from the night here and here.
READ ON for more of the debut installment of AMoMusic…
The last time Michael Franti & Spearhead visited the Ed Sullivan Theatre for a Letterman taping was just before 9/11. Franti and his longtime backing band returned to the Late
Unlike last year, when word spread far and wide about Sharon Jones and some of the Dap-Kings horn section appearance at Festival 8 days before the event leading some to
Stoners everywhere gathered in San Bernardino, California for the Cypress Hill SmokeOut on October 16, 2010. From the Patient Consumption Area to the Massive Stoned Garden there wasn’t a clear eye in sight, though plenty were looking rather dazed and perhaps even a little confused. The beats were inescapable, but it’s not like you would’ve wanted to escape them anyway. The genres ranged from reggae to techno to hip hop and it drew gangsters to hipsters and everything in between.
Steve Berlin talks frankly and to the point about the creative process in general and in specific, dispelling any misconceptions about the means by which Los Lobos has created such memorable works as This Time and The Town and The City. In this age of iTunes, he may betray an old school mentality in referencing the concept of sequencing an album, but there’s no denying his passion for the process and the end result of music-making, especially when it comes to his bond with the other band members.
