I need to make this happen. Very intrigued about their live show. On another note, I picked up some nice Dr. Dog red rocks tickets yesterday in the pre-sale. Made me sick to miss those shows last summer so not letting that happen again.
I just can’t get into them. Some of the songs are ok, but just don’t appeal to me. Of course my friends like you have to see it live… which I hadn’t yet.
It's musical ADD. A typical show is 3-4 song suites of Prog rock > heavy metal > weird synth solos > Australian pop > "jam", etc. I have several friends that are huge music fans and see 20-30 different shows throughout the year, and they have left KGLW shows early b/c they were just over it. At the same time, I know a bunch of people who went to the Richmond show this summer and said it was fantastic.
Gotta see for myself too. Diving into their albums is enough to give you musical whiplash due to volume and variety. Some I enjoy way more than others. I like the streams I’ve watched or listened to, but I do need to be in the mood.
at some point I guess I'll have to go see that band. Sometimes I watch a youtube of them and be blown away; but there's other songs of theirs that I simply cannot vibe to. I guess that's true of all the jam bands / improvisational bands I've seen over the years. I don't know how many times I saw the Grateful Dead before Garcia died, but I'll bet I saw them play Picasso Moon 3 or 4 times and that song was a set killer every time. There's a few Phish songs that I'll never like either (I saw the first time they played Guyute, and didn't like it then and I'm sorry, I'll never like that song. )
5th row Sat Mar 22, 2025 An Acoustic Evening with Trey Anastasio Sec FLOOR, Row E, Seats ( 69 420 ) Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, AL
https://www.instagram.com/share/BAYki_MofQ Came across my feed and I’ll be doing a little dive back into Zero today
The Why Not tour was amazing. They aren’t straight up jamband, but they definitely jam. The setlists are pretty similar each night, but they come out on time, play for 3-3.5 hours with no break or encore and kill it. I’ve listened to a bunch of the Call To Arms, they stretch that one out. They do Brace for Impact with the planned Chinacat tease, and a couple others they will extend. And some pretty good > moments. There was an article talking about him ignoring the dead as noodling trash, until he was invited to play Dead Ahead a few years ago and Jerry became his favorite guitarist. He said it was easy to learn because that’s the way he plays country music. Here he talks about his role in the band being a less educated Bobby. https://www.instagram.com/share/BAEZ36duIk
Sierra Hull cancelled and rescheduled a lot of shows next year and said it was so she could accept an exciting opportunity. Until my dreams are crushed, I’m believing it’s going to be a bluegrass super group with Sturgill to replace the Cuttin Grass tour that was cancelled. Maybe they’ll jam some dead too.
yeah, i'm going to have to see him soon. My buddy just saw him - dude came out at 8 sharp, played until 11:15, no set break.
That was every night of the tour. Refreshing contrast to the come on 45 min late then say you wish you had more time when you come back out to encore. On one of the recordings you can hear him tell the crowd to get their beers cause this band starts on time. Lol
I want to go to Camp Cosmic bad with Mountain Grass Unit being there now, but stretched too thin. Will catch Daniel two nights in Raleigh in Mar and MGU at a Billy after show in Asheville. https://www.instagram.com/share/_8NSa_Cas
MGU is playing on Friday in Birmingham, but the BFF has strongly implied we need to spend the weekend with her fam, so unlikely I make it. But this show was quietly announced last week and I snagged tickets https://www.avondalebrewing.com/calendar-tickets/cahabaroots
He’s been there for a while now after new management. At least for someone that is still ostensibly bluegrass. He’s raking it and has been recording with all kinds of people the last few years, some pretty mainstream. I don’t blame him with his background, especially if they keep putting out stuff like Highway Prayers. Trey was talking about it in an interview recently, but there also is a bit of a pandemic fueled surge of new bands/guitarists. MJ Lenderman, Geese is who he mentioned. Saw a young band Underground Springhouse in Raleigh recently and they were great. With jamgrass and bluegrass there’s been a pandemic + Billy effect.
I mean more like musicians having free time to learn or practice. I started playing mandolin not long before that, and that free time took me from what the hell am I doing here to being an intermediate campground picker. In my 40s I’m not sure if I would have gotten there that fast otherwise. Somebody like Wyatt Ellis picked it up about the same time as a young kid and turned out he was a little mandolin prodigy. He has since been on stage with Billy, been all around the festival scene, and has put out an album of all original mandolin songs with some of today’s best players.
With everyone lining up to suck from the Grateful Dead teat, I do appreciate that Billy took Trey’s advice and is laying off the Dead tunes now.
He also hosted The Days Between on the Dead channel and he's obviously a fan and knows his shit. Was really fun to listen to.
That was ‘21 wasn’t it? But it’s not really a matter of being badass or not. Phish coulda played 30 min Dark Stars in 1997 and melted everybody’s faces off. But there is a reason they didn’t. Obviously Billy is a fan and can do that catalog a lot of justice. But it’s refreshing to see him moving away from that in his own setlist when everyone else is falling over themselves to cram Dead songs into their shows.
I don’t think he rode to stardom covering dead music by any means. The Dead came to him. He got handed old Hunter lyrics by Kruetzmann to write music to in ‘21. Bobby played with his band multiple times in a weekend at the Ryman including a full set of dead tunes in early ‘22. Then he never covered them again after that weekend. That’s not the normal sucking on in the teat. I think that was all before he met Trey but could be wrong there.
yeah pretty sure it was Bobby + being tired of the crowd screaming at him to cover Dead tunes every show
Found all of these in my parents attic over Christmas. There’s another tote somewhere we couldn’t find.
Also found some old CD cases, and some sleeves and a few CDs left from the mail trading days. Pretty sure all the store bought CDs were in binders that got stolen. I think that was the first time I felt rage. Thought I had tossed all the trading CDs after putting a ton of them on a hard drive (then years later losing that HD). #nostalgia
It's awesome that sober Trey still is every bit, if not more, dedicated to this scene as he was in 1988. It is what will cement their place as an all time great rock n roll band and not a Grateful Dead follower.
Knowing that the set openers go up on YouTube and playing a 6 minute Sigma Oasis ahead of a 19 minute My Friend