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A lot of folks here are musicians and play in bands. Here's the place to talk about them. What kind of music you play, upcoming gigs, etc.
For Locals & anyone who wants to come from afar
21 Aces-Local young Bay Area Rock n Roll Band are REALLY good. Come on out & boogie.......See yall there! 7/22 at 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. Leena starts at 8pm- 21 Aces go on at 8:45. $10 for students, $15 for adults.
Here's a link to the show..
http://www.142throckmortontheatre.com/event.php?eventid=1048
Sample trumpe playing from me--FLUGEL ACTUALLY
"if the Thunder don't get ya then the lightning will!"- The Wheel"Gonna find out something only dead men know" - Silvio
Class of Red Rocks '79...
Life without the Dead is not life...and so we carry on...
I guss if I do not have a web site to post I need to upload my playing but see no way to upload content except as a fan photo--oh well.....
The New HIghway Hymnal
This is my band The New Highway Hymnal
we are a modern heavy, dark, psychedelic rock band.
Muchh different from the Dead.
Check em out tell me what you think I play lead guitar.
WhoOPS
Almost forgot heres the link
www.myspace.com/highwayhymnal
Is not my band
But as Bdog's new self-appointed publicist (he knows I am) everybody check this out! Is worth your while:
http://www.myspace.com/bdog1963
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My Band
Although I have a band of my own, I'm looking to jam with a band as a side project. Genre:Rock/Heavy Metal.Orlando Remodeling
I'm just over 30 years old & seeking to fit in as a bassist or drummer. In addition, I can do backing vocals if needed.I have my own gear & if need be,my place can be used as a jam pad
hi everyonei play guitar
hi everyone
i play guitar and originally i played in the pub/club scene in scotland back in those eighties, i made it to finland and met two englishmen playing folk music who needed a guitarist, say no more, nudge nudge wink wink...anyways, after much hard work, doobs, late nights and candlelit parks at 4am, i ended up in switzerland, with a swiss drummer, still doing gigs, still loving it..
check us out
www.myspace.com/purplehelmutandthekunst
Sweating Honey
Yeah, that's the name of the band. We're out of Fairbanks, AK and are hoping to conquer the world. We do some Dead covers-- Franklin's Tower, Eyes of the World, Deep Elem Blues.
Check out our music at www.myspace.com/sweatinghoney
Pentultima love to jammm!
Got a new groovin song called Pinky at http://www.soundclick.com/pentultima I think Gerry would approve :)
I play in a band called Pentultima and we love jamming rock guitar music. Check out the sounds we make sometime and leave a comment? Peace! :)
insane sounds
Fun instrument!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ssG4mJmmo
Buckdancer's Choice
Hell yeah I have a band! We're called Buckdancer's Choice and we do all originals. Everybody can check our stuff our here:
www.cdbaby.com/buckdancerschoice
www.myspace.com/buckdancerschoice
Our second album is coming out in a few months and we're hellza stoked!!!
I've played guitar, sang,
I've played guitar, sang, &/or drummed in rock'n'roll cover bands, original rock bands, blues bands, jazz combos, bluegrass groups, & even orchestras & string ensembles. Currently I'm playing in a church band, sometimes drums, sometimes guitar, always singing. I've tried to get the other musicians in the band interested in doing some dead-inspired extended jams during prayers & other parts of the service, but so far not much interest.
“Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?"~Arlo Guthrie (The Pause of Mr. Claus)
Mars Retreval Unit out of
Mars Retreval Unit out of Portland is pretty kick ass!
Check them out!
The Kind - Blacksburg, VA
(I posted this in the tirbute section too)
I have been playing in a Dead band in Blacksburg, Va (the home of VA Tech) since 1986 called The Kind. We formed at my 20th birthday party as the band we had scheduled to play found themselves in a state unable to perform so I grabbed some buddies and we took the stage. Now we are approaching our 24th anniversary and my 44th birthday - yikes! Our only goal was and is to have fun playing music. We have had a handful of lineup changes over the years I and the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist Wendy Godley are the only founding members that still play regularly. We have had a bunch of really talented folks come and go (and come back). We do a reunion show every summer at the Port O'Call in the Outer Banks of NC - we have as many former and current players as we can get together and put on one hell of a show. Folks coming in from as far as San Francisco and Hawaii to do these shows. We have gotten to play with some other great folks over the years including David Gans - who sat in at a gig at the Underground on Howard St in San Fran. Jerry Abrams (of Head Lights) joined us with trippy light shows and congas on some shows in SF that summer (1987). Robin Sylvester from RatDog played a couple of shows with us in Blacksburg and at the OBX reunion shows (he played guitar and keyboards - and is great at both and a great guy). We have opened for Rick Danko, Jefferson Starship, New Riders, Hot Tuna and a few others over the years.
Our current lineup features me, Wendy Godley, Rick Godley (drums), Danny Dunlap (guitar, synth, vocals), Mandy Cash (vocals) Steve "Slash" Hunt (bass) - also Greg Bump (bass). Slash is a monster bass player and toured with Bob Margolin for years (Bob was Muddy Waters' guitar player for the last 8 years of his life and is standing next to him in "The Last Waltz"). Former members include Mark McLeod (rhythm guitar, vocals) who is now teaching economics at Penn St, and Tom Lehman (bass), and Tim Taylor (drums) - Tim lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and plays with Hawaiians Unlimited and competes in triathlons.
Our website is thekind.org and we've got a bunch of videos on YouTube - search for "The Kind Blacksburg)
Tom Snediker
Lead guitar, vocals
The Kind, Crossties, Scott Fore and His Hillbilly Hotclub
The Kind - Blacksburg, VA
I don't know if hyperlinks work but here's some to our YouTube videos: Jack Straw
St. Stephen
Not Fade Away
Music Never Stopped
Shakedown St
Lead guitar, vocals
The Kind, Crossties, Scott Fore and His Hillbilly Hotclub
Lead guitar, vocals
The Kind, Crossties, Scott Fore and His Hillbilly HotclubHey I am very happy
Hey I am very happy to post reply on this topic.Your band is really wonderful.I like to play bass and I am thinking about learn to play bass from somewhere.Colon Cleanse
Stella Blue's Band - NYC, So. Westchester, So. Eastern CT
Hey all - Our band just started giggin last nov - Doing the GD trib thing - we think we do a nice job.
Check out our myspace page here
http://www.myspace.com/stellablue39sband
Got a bunch of tunes from our first gig in Rye, NY there
The whole gig (less recording glitches!) is here
http://www.archive.org/details/sb2009-11-06.sb2009-11-06bb.flac
Our scheduled shows are on the myspace page. Next is in Old Greenwich at the Beach House Cafe on 1/27/10
If you're near us come on out - I think we bring it pretty well and you'll have a "real good time"
Thanks
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.
I didn't know this existed but...
this is a pretty cool forum to see what other people are playing, so I figured I'd put this here if anyone is interested...there is a couple of songs I recorded a few years ago, with a group of guys here in Boston, Brookline to be exact. Here is the link:
http://www.myspace.com/jonnybandtheinvisblestrangers
Peace.
The Road - Chief Ike's Mambo Room, DC 1/27
Hey good people,
Very kind forum!
My band does a lot of Dead with some other related stuff mixed in. We're playing Chief Ike's in Adams Morgan DC this Wednesday, the 27th. If anyone's interested, go to our FB page that's in my sig!
Cheers,
Chuck
(for years on tour known as Charlie Brown)
oops - no sig!
here's the linky-link:
http://www.facebook.com/TheRoadDC?ref=nf
ANY kind music in DFW?
looking for originals, Dead covers, good jams, kind audience. can't find it. new to Dallas area
Good stuff in here
I'm a regular on the "old " Deadnet (now deadcentral.com). That site is down for maintenance, and they have a message up reminding us to check out this site. This in the first discussion I stopped in, and I've been clicking on a lot of the links, checking out the myspace pages, etc.
The biggest gift I got from The Grateful Dead was the inspiration to play music. I learned how to play drums by going to hundreds of GD concerts and watching Billy and Mickey, and then going home and playing my drumset while cranking my bootleg cassettes through headphones. I played in GD cover bands for a couple of years, and then went on to playing original music. Through my love of The Rhythm Devils, I learned about electronics and sampling and so on, and no I use the primitive "technology" of drums alongside modern digital technology. My current project is The Rhythm Method; we collaborate via the internet and do shows in our own towns, with different musicians, under the same name. Check us out at
http://www.myspace.com/followtherhythmmethod.
Hopefully in 2010 various Rhythm Method lineups will be hitting the road; drop us a line to inquire about booking us at your club, festival, etc. Our live performances are a lot of fun; we use a vast array of percussion from around the world, as well as guitars, keyboards, samplers, DJs, vocalists, dancers, etc.
For more info, email me: lovecraft2001@hotmail.com
Actually
I'm not in a band right now, but I'd like to change that. So I set up a Myspace with some scratch recordings I made of myself, hoping to either find or form a viable working band of jam oriented individuals, ideally other multi-instrumentalists. Currently seven originals and four covers (yep, one track is a twofer, they have a 10 song limit) and any and all feedback is welcome whether it's roses or rocks. I'm equal opportunity like that.
http://www.myspace.com/mrpidmusic
Peace,
Pid
Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
basement band
my band's based out of brooklyn, ny and we're called basement band. We do mostly originals but at longer bar band gigs we do a bunch of covers by folks like the dead, gram parsons, the byrds, and a lot of dylan. Check us out if you're ever in NYC. We gig about once a week.
jeff
basementband.net
Been a while, so I'll throw up a plug -
Hey guys,
my name is Donnie Loeffler, I'm from Louisville, Ky. I've been playing around here for a while but I'm back on the scene after a hiatus. Please drop by my myspace website to see where I'm playing around town and check out the new upload of "Cissy Strut" as I play all the instruments on that track. Thanks so much for your time !
http://www.myspace.com/donnieloeffler
"the warm wet world of analog audio"
Reform
Hello! I play guitar in a band called Reform. It´s instrumental psychedelic...well jazz-rock is not exactly correct...but maybe somewhere between GD and Mahavishnu Orchestra?
Check his clip out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fP5BBKFB0
It was recorded here in Stockholm, Sweden last sunday. It´s based on a classical piece by a swedish composer, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. The middle section is a minimalist, semi-ambient jam that turned out quite nice.
Check www.myspace.com/reform1 for more info.
Donnie Loeffler TRIO : Wick's Pizza (goose creek) Fri. 04/09 -
DONNIE LOEFFLER TRIO - LOUISVILLE, KY!
WICK'S PIZZA (GOOSE CREEK RD.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 9TH, 2010
9 pm - 1 am
NO COVER!
$2.00 domestic beers and well drinks past 10:00 pm !!!!!
Donnie Loeffler - guitar/vocals
John Thornberry - bass
Dave Schmitt - drums
Blues, Rock, and Psychedelic jams
http://www.myspace.com/donnieloeffler
"the warm wet world of analog audio"
Me and my friends made a cover of "Ripple"
Just fooling around, got the camera out, here you go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNG9eRfTSI
GUITAR GOD SYSTEM!
That is the name of my new band! We just released two albums, called DOSES and MORE DOSES, and our third album is coming out in June!
Larree
Guitar God System
NECKBONE SOL
Writing songs about rivers, trains, themes from the Southern Gothic tradition (think Faulkner, McCarthy, O'Connor), loneliness, loss, landscapes, Texas, and whiskey (lots of whiskey). Covering songs by great songwriters from Tom Waits to Old Crow Medicine Show, from James McMurtry to the Mighty Diamonds to Slaid Cleaves and everybody in between. Give me a listen; I have a myspace and a facebook page. Also, friend me on facebook and become a fan!
www.myspace.com/neckbonesol
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Neckbone-Sol/114515728580044
Hello
I'm August. I've been playing guitar for 6 or 7 years... i live in jacksonville florida, recently i found a jam band group to play with- the Brown bag special. My first time playin in the band, and lovin it.
http://www.brownbagband.com/news.php
Dead Project!
We're Red Grenadine, a Grateful Dead tribute band from Summit Hill PA. We've recently played the Sol Gathering festival over Memorial Day weekend, and we've got opportunity to get booked for plenty of gigs and festivals. We just need a keyboard player to fill out our sound! Below are some links to check out. We've only been together over a 2 month period and already have over 20 tight songs that we have performed live.
Our myspace page contains 3 songs we recorded at a rehearsal (Casey Jones, Eyes of the World, Franklin's Tower)
www.myspace.com/redgrenadineband
Here's a video of us playing China Cat Sunflower-->I Know You Rider
http://sharing.theflip.com/session/ba6643d046af2d060274223226a914d3/vid…
If you're even somewhat interested, send us a message. We practice bi-weekly, learning the songs at home and then getting together. Most of us are available to get together to rehearse multiple times per week if needed.
If you're not a keyboard player, check out the music and let us know what you think! Thanks guys.
Cover - Eyes of the world
Here´s a clip of my band Reform doing a cover of Eyes of the world.... We´d only attempted it once before but it turned out ok. A bit of a problem with the video, hence the clips of stars and planets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Punpl0HkAGI&feature=player_embedded
BLUNDO
WE ARE BLUNDO. Based out of Columbus, OH. A high energy, fun band. We have originals and play some covers. I will attach a link to our myspace and to a recording of a few select covers and an original titled "Jambalaya" on archive, but actually is titled "Blind Seeing-Eye Dog" If you like what you hear and are within a couple hundred miles of Columbus, OH we're totally up for making a trek. Thanks Heads!
http://www.archive.org/details/BlundoLiveAtFlannigans
http://www.myspace.com/blundomusic
Since 1998
My band, together since 1998, plays once a month at our local "Dead" bar here in Richmond, VA, it's called King Solomon's Marbles. We also will play other places (parties, an occassional acoustic show, ect.). Check us out at www.myspace.com/kingsolomansmarbles
Yes, that's how the link is spelled...sorry...
Crack In The Wall
My band is called Crack In The Wall. we are an art rock, experimental band from Austin, TX that has been playing for 7 years. Our music is at www.myspace.com/acrackinthewall. Any deadheads in Austin or TX are welcome to come to our shows and tape them. We are looking for people to tape our shows.
Free EP for Facebook friends
Hey there, I plugged my band up in one of the first few folders a while back. Our second album is due soon, and to help get things moving again we've finally put a Facebook page together today (a lot of you already signed on to our ol' MySpace page... thanks!)
Anyhoo.... we'll be putting up rough mixes, outtakes, etc. on the new Facebook page, and we're also putting together a new EP that we'll distribute freely exclusively to our new Facebook fans.
If you're interested visit us here http://tinyurl.com/2d9qdqy ,click on the "Like" button at the top of the page, and we'll notify you regarding the free EP shortly.
Take care, now!
I will be recording my debut solo acoustic album in a week
those of you who know me on facebook can get a free stream link to a live performance of one of my originals that will be on that upcoming album - the link is on my homepage right below the profile picture - hope y'all like it :)
peace and mellow music to all, have a grateful day as always,
Bus
ps to those few people out there who have never even met me in person and have been sending me threatening and annoying messages, PLEASE STOP THAT. IT CAN BE REALLY DANGEROUS TO BELIEVE RUMOURS - THEY OFTEN TURN OUT TO BE FALSE.
some of you seem to have heard rumors that i am some horrible person - i'm not. ask anyone who's met me and they'll tell you that. i have been touring with GD, JGB, Phil, DSO, Furthur, Weir, etc etc for years. nobody at any show has ever had a problem with me. not once.
those of you who persist in the activity of sending me or anyone annoying messages should please cease it and mind your own business. it's why i don't come here much anymore.
Deadheads should be respectful of others, not annoying towards them. thank you for considering that thought :) have a grateful day :)
Play Dead (New Orleans)
Just wanted to tell you about our new Dead tribute band here in New Orleans, Play Dead.
A clip from our first show is on youtube (it's kind of dark). At youtube.com just type in Dave Easley, Franklin's and the clip should come right up, Franklin's-Feel Like A Stranger-Franklin's.
Also, Anderson/Easley Project plays every Sunday night at Madigan's on Carrollton and Maple in the Big Easy, 9 to midnight, originals, funk, jazz, free-jazz, blues, and a little Dead as well.
Liquid Sun Day
Liquid Sun Day is a new band based in Sonoma County, California. We've been rehearsing for a year and are now starting to do gigs. We're looking for venues to play in the Bay Area, if you can suggest any let me know!
We play: Grateful Dead, Allmans, Dylan, The Band, Stones, Beatles and more along those lines.
Find us on Facebook. Here's a link to our current website:
http://www.reverbnation.com/liquidsunday
TONIGHT ,TOMMORW AND SUNDAY JGB
MELVIN SEALS AND JGB WILL BE PERFORMING TONIGHT IN TEANECK NJ AT MEXICAL LIVE,,7PM AND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA,DESOLATION ANGELS OPENING ALL THESE SHOWS,,,COME DANCE YOUR ASSES OFF,, (~}:}JINGLE - FEW GOOD MEN MC - NEW YORK
Wake of The Blood in Charleston this weekend
We have a show Nov 13 (Sat) at the Oasis Pub in Charleston SC. We are a punk/fast sounds band that does Grateful Dead covers. Nothing but. Not hardcore, more like the Dickies, Adicts or Dead Milkmen. Kinda sounds like the Ramones doing Dead songs. No songs are over three minutes, no guitar solos, no jams. It's a fun time, not alot of screaming at people.
Band name - Wake of The Blood - (It's a play on their Wake of the Flood record)
Here are some YouTube's . We don't have a demo yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7865FkLRU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAydSXxl4Vc&feature=related
not "my band" per say
But I am now working with promoting them, booking gigs, etc.Give em a listen and tell me what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4xefSMdHc
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RETROFEST 24, PAYING TRIBUTE TO SUMMER JAM 1973 37th ANNIVERSARY
RETROFEST 24, PAYING TRIBUTE TO SUMMER JAM 1973 37th ANNIVERSARY TO BENEFIT THE LONG ISLAND CRISIS CENTER
Organized by Allan Spielman of Retrofestival.Org in partnership with Act1Entertainment.Net, Retrofest 24 will celebrate the 37th anniversary of the famous Summer Jam 1973 with a musical lineup of Retro69, BigDaddy & The Bulldogs and Blacklight to sample the original Watkins Glen concert experience. The show will be held on Saturday, November 20, 2010 from 8:30pm – 2:00am at the Sunset Grill, 4068 Sunrise Highway, Seaford NY. $10 donation at the door. Every dollar raised will benefit Long Island Crisis Center, a non-profit intervention center that offers counseling, information, referral, and other supportive services, primarily through a 24-hour a day, seven-day-a-week telephone crisis hotline & live online counseling. They also advocate for appropriate services & programming on behalf of Long Island’s underserved and disenfranchised population.
Sponsors include MB Carting, Maura Bros. Landscaping Co., DiStefano Landscaping Co. & Act1Entertainment.Net, For additional information on the event visit www.retrofestival.org, www.act1entertainment.net or www.longislandcrisiscenter.org .
For additional information on Retrofest 24, The Long Island crisis Center, or the Sunset Grill , please visit www.retrofestival.org, www.longislandcrisiscenter.org or www.sunsetgrillny.com .
Contact:
Allan Spielman
Retrofest
917-583-2505
My UK Band - Special Preserve
Hi everyone,
I'm new to these forums, but I've been a deadhead for about 16 years now - ever since I got Dicks Picks Vol II when I was 16. Anyhow, I've got a band in England called Special Preserve, and we play music that we jam on - kind of bluesy country funk. We've just finished some new recordings, so check em out if you have a minute at www.myspace.com/specialpreserve
Hope you like em!
Ben
Swedish bar band in Help on the way cover-shock!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueHj31C0hGYMy band Reform covering this GD-classic.
I don't have a band yet - maybe you can help me with that
But I'd love to collaborate with some other Dead scholars on a covers band that included a good number of Dead tracks. I sing, I play passable acoustic guitar. Don't have a whole lot of gear, just a whole lotta love for the music. No, I don't have a myspace page. If you're near Long Beach (California), let's meet up for a listening party and see if we are interested in a collaboration. This is not intended to be a big touring band or get on a label, just music for music's sake in my local area.