Grateful Dead

Come out and see the Jugtown Pirates live this coming Friday, March 16, at Hopmonk in Sebastopol. Have fun mingling with your fellow dead heads and see why they're becoming one of the hottest new jambands. You wont be sorry. The Haight comes to Sebastopol-Get on board the bus before it's too late!!!

Well they say "put up or shut up" and I've been sufficiently inspired by this vehicle to try to nudge it toward a more inclusive trajectory. So, as long as they let me get away with it, I'm gonna run my own little featured list. Who the fuck am I you may ask or more likely you've already noted my obvious self-indulgent nature. Hey, I'm an Aries and have accepted my place at the center of the universe which is why I can say to dead_naked_drummer, who by the way with such a cool name has got to be a pretty hip cat in his own right, without reservation that if there was even an inkling of truth to his declaration then we might as well kill ourselves now because there must be no flame fueling our universe. Fortunately even dnd has to know better deep down but this diversion allows me to cheat right out of the box by presenting an entry that was never submitted to deadcoversproject (I'm not setting precedent, that occurred with the posting of son of Mickey Hart's powerhouse, saturnreturnsband) yet nevertheless ought to qualify as the oldest dead cover band in existence and while the banjo player is pretty sparky, taken in total I doubt this video would have been recognized or made it to the featured set last month. So please, like em if ya got 'em and enjoy this, the very first . . . . . . . .

ziph's picks

By Ziph’s rules I’m thinkin any entry will be allowed to occupy up to three categories. The entry above for instance might appear in 1. Duets (but there's four. Ok,if they were a duet then) 2. No longer in circulation 3. Traditional bluegrass I’ll work up an entire category list soon but before I beat that horse it’s time to give Cubensis a little heat and after just scratching the surface of the more than 2000 entries I have already stumbled upon a veritable gold mine of solid, performances by “Playin’ Dead” out of Boston. These guys glide right out to dnd's edge and skimboard down the other side where they are the first to be nominated in the category: Nuts and Bolts Dead Bands These guys have been putting in the hours, are prolific, and got what it takes to soothe a worried mind. I expect they’ll be making many of my lists as we roll down the road. Like ‘em or leave ‘em Pretty good huh? Check out some of their other tunes; let me know your favorites. In fact, give a listen to Mr Charlie if you wanna see this southpaw in full regalia. And this wouldn’t be political without a little mutual back scratching. I would not have found Playin’ Dead if I had not listened to PAPPYPGH’s best solo performance, a very serviceable rendition of Dupree’s Diamond Blues PAPPYPGH has a powerful tenor voice that I suspect will really come into its own as he learns to belt it out and keep it out and he is a solid guitar technician who knows the chords and is neither tenuous nor sloppy. And it was PAPPYPGH’s Dupree’s that led me to this larger than life version by Playin’ Dead, where they demonstrate a cool as ice execution of this silly song. And that’s it for our first edition of Ziph’s Picks. I’m just kidding about the likes, go ahead and like what you want, we’ll be following traffic, not likes. ziph

Two bands that come to mind have gone way over and beyond. The bands NOT THE DEAD and Punk Is Dead which posted for this 'lil experiment.