The iridescent icing on the weekend’s lysergic layer cake: a bust-out cover of famed Grateful Dead improv vehicle “Dark Star”—in decidedly Sound Tribe style.
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After last year’s inspired, successful debut gathering, the Park City Song Summit is ready to level up, rolling out a multi-faceted slate of exciting events for 2023. The second iteration will be headlined by Bob Weir & Wolf Bros, as well as Eric Krasno, a Stevie Wonder tribute featuring Danielle Ponder, plus dozens of other eclectic artisans
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On Saturday, October 15th, the psychedelic jam veterans in Zero descended on their home turf in San Francisco and the hallowed room The Fillmore to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a monumental 1992 three-night engagement at the nearby Great American Music Hall.
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Ben Anderson is a unique human being with a heart of gold. The former trial lawyer is a lifelong musician and the founder of Park City Song Summit, a unicorn mingling of intimate workshops, live music performances, and “songwriter rounds.”
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The conversation welcomes a pair of pioneers from this particular space – Brian Chambers and Jacaeber Kastor – for a wide-ranging discussion on psychedelic art, through both a historical and contemporary lens.
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Jay is best known for his iconic work shooting (and following) the Grateful Dead since the late 1970’s, and has continued to chronicle the various offshoots and band developments thru the years. He’s also a Bay Area institution, a world-renowned photographer /filmmaker/historian all over rock music, stretching out far beyond the ever-sprawling GD diaspora where he first made his bones.
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81 year-old Phil Lesh, co-founder of the Grateful Dead and living patriarch of la cosa nostra, would draft an ensemble to dig into his band’s iconic catalog, on the sacramental soil back where it all began.
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Among the more underrated projects in Jerry Garcia lore is Reconstruction, a Bay Area jazz-funk sextet formed by bassist John Kahn in early 1979. Historians often categorize Reconstruction as an iteration of the ever-fluid Jerry Garcia Band, rather than stand-alone ensemble. Anecdotal evidence points to the notion that Jerry was more of a sideman or special guest in this particular instance and capacity, relegating Reconstruction to outlier status in the annals of the Garciaverse.
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Cannabis and music have danced in symbiotic connection since the beginning of time. Cosmically intertwined, modern music and marijuana culture have enjoyed a chromatic relationship, a defiant, righteous dalliance between these once-forbidden fruits.
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Episode 025 welcomes the legendary Eric Krasno to the show for a pretty sweet powwow on a number of salient topics from the guitarist/producer’s illustrious career. Co-founder of Soulive, co-founder and former guitarist of Lettuce, Kraz was in the Bay Area in late September for a quick run with E3- (Eric Krasno Trio)
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