Article by Chris Baker Umphrey’s McGee doesn’t just put on a show, they throw a party. Imagine, for a moment that you’re at a fraternity party in a crowded basement stuffed with sweaty teens, throbbing to the beat of an unrecognizable song. A seemingly unlimited supply of warm beer is fueling the drunken coeds. ...
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Article by AB Garrod I made plans to go to New York City to see some friends and check out Alphabet Soup, a jazz/hip-hop band featuring Kenny Brooks of RatDog and Dred Scott, a pianist who plays in Brooklyn frequently. They were playing a late night show on a Tuesday, so it was easy...
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Article By Chris Baker I was 15 years old the last time I saw Phil Lesh and Bob Weir take the stage together. My father took me to an all-day festival at the Vernon Downs Speedway in upstate New York. The Dead (as they were called at that time) and Willie Nelson were the...
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Article by Sarah Powell Cassada My friends were in complete and total disbelief that I had never been to a Yonder Mountain String Band show. To be honest, I’d barely heard of them, let alone be able to recognize them if their music piped through my speakers. And, so, as an excuse to get...
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Article by Kim Welsh Photos by Sidney Smith (SidneySmithPhotos.com) The Warehouse was THE rock venue of New Orleans during the 1970s and in many ways it was a house of the rising sun. It was located at 1820 Tchoupitoulas Street on the bank of the muddy Mississippi River. It began as a cotton warehouse...
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Article by James D. McCallister The Chapel Hill stop on the Grateful Dead’s 1993 Spring Tour represented a new venue for the venerable jam-rock progenitors, and as such was highly anticipated by fans. Regardless of locale, however, conventional wisdom held that any given Dead show on any night could turn out to be extraordinary,...
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