For classical composer Lee Johnson, tackling the work of the Grateful Dead was like discovering the musical foundations of a new foreign country. Johnson is known for his concert pieces, choral works, short operas and musicals, planetarium soundtracks, and solo/ensemble pieces that cross into jazz and big band music. Some of these disparate elements also… Continue reading Behind the Dead Symphony: A Look at Lee Johnson's Great Opus
Today’s review is a show readily available for download at the Live Music Archive, 7/29/88, at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey California. This was the first of a three show run at Laguna Seca, and in my opinion the best of the three. I chose this show mainly because of the extremely high quality… Continue reading Joby Goob's Retro Reviews (7/29/1988, Laguna Seca)
Sure, the bands may be old and the music not quite up to date by the standards of today’s young teens and adults, but Chicago and The Doobie Brothers showed that even in the millennium they can still draw in a crowd. Wednesday nights show at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater didn’t quite sell out, though the… Continue reading Chicago and The Doobies Still Smokin It Up
If there is a better party band than Ozomatli out there, then I would love to hear them. I wasn’t invited to the party at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on May 30th, so I had to crash it. I openly admit to not paying for a big name concert in about 5… Continue reading An Ozomatli Show is Worth Paying For
Culture, like nature, evolves. Old ideas are made better, and become new ideas. Splits are made between schools of thought, and each side develops into something distinct from the other, even though both are the recognizable progeny of the previous generations. The growth of music over the last hundred years is perhaps one of the… Continue reading The New Deal, Products of Evolution
This spring, Collin Herring’s third album dropped. Its curious title, Past Life Crashing, is probably more indicative of what this talented young singer/songwriter has been about since his last release. Taking up guitar when he was in eighth grade, Herring has been using it to write songs about a variety of life experiences. It was… Continue reading Collin Herring's Own Past Life Crashing
It may not have been quite the British invasion like those of the Sex Pistols, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, or The Who, but The Kooks made quite an appearance at Thursday night’s show in downtown Denver at the Ogden Theatre. Presented by 97.3 KBCO, the station of “World Class Rock,” an older crowd of… Continue reading Koo Koo for The Kooks
True to the classic spirit of Rock and Roll, and a hard hitting member of the so-called rock revival movement, Super 400 have rediscovered the beauty and simplicity of the power trio. Kenny Hohman’s guitar work is at times deliciously thick and crunchy, and at others soaring and smooth, kind of like his voice. And… Continue reading From NY to B-Town, Super 400 tears it up in Boulder, CO
We young people tend, for whatever reason, to badmouth those who are significantly older than us. Maybe it’s a fear of getting old ourselves that elicits this response, maybe it’s a feeling of self-righteous know-it-all-ism, but what we tend to forget is that a great many things in this life get better with age. Wine… Continue reading Hot Fuckin' Tuna
Phil Lesh & Friends played the Greek Theater in Los Angeles last night and Grateful Web was on hand to snap some photos. Also Grace Potter & the Nocturnals opened the show, so be sure to check out more pictures from their opening set. A special thanks goes out to the GPN staff for setting up… Continue reading Phil Lesh & Friends + Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Photos
