09-25-2007, 09:55 PM
Jackie Green is this young Sacto kid who channels a youthful Dylan. He's fronting Phil now, alongside the rest of the band who are all twice his age. He's a phenomenal talent, good voice, great guitarist, and can trade licks with the best of them. A Rock Med friend had heard him play free many times at small local gigs.
Larry Campbell is best known as Dylan's guitarist, but he's worked with Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper and Rosanne Cash, just to name a few.
Steve Molitz is from Particle. Took me a while to realize he wasn't Barraco. I'm not sure I know Particle beyond the website.
John Molo has been the rhythm to Phil's base since he lost the Rhythm Devils.
Together, the friends form a screeching locomotive, replete with howling steel on the tracks, chunky shovel loads of hot coals and steam blasting out. It's an intensive rocking sound that comes barrelling down the mountain without breaks, racing past cliff edges, threatening to crash at any moment. Great stuff. Phil still carries the flame.
The first set got a little slow to warm up. Jackie's songs were good, but no well received. Everyone wanted them to play dead. There was a crazy reinterpretaion of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, an ok Deal, a drunken bellowing Weight and an absolutely astounding Cumberland Blues. In fact, that was the centerpiece of the show, full of rapid fire time sig changes and extraoridnarily complex riffs.
The second set got a little overbearing - a fira Playing, Candyman and Eyes, a nice FotM, a delightful St. Stephen, a very Dylanesque Hard Rain, a nice Wheel and Sug Mag. I was hoping for a U.S. Blues encore 'summertime come and gone, my oh my' and I thought I got it for several minutes, but it was a GDTRFB.
There's nothing like a little Dead flashback. So many old friends, so many stories, so many memories and associations. It still boggles my mind that I was once on the Grateful Dead payroll. That seems like such another lifetime.
I'm still humming Cumberland.
Larry Campbell is best known as Dylan's guitarist, but he's worked with Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper and Rosanne Cash, just to name a few.
Steve Molitz is from Particle. Took me a while to realize he wasn't Barraco. I'm not sure I know Particle beyond the website.
John Molo has been the rhythm to Phil's base since he lost the Rhythm Devils.
Together, the friends form a screeching locomotive, replete with howling steel on the tracks, chunky shovel loads of hot coals and steam blasting out. It's an intensive rocking sound that comes barrelling down the mountain without breaks, racing past cliff edges, threatening to crash at any moment. Great stuff. Phil still carries the flame.
The first set got a little slow to warm up. Jackie's songs were good, but no well received. Everyone wanted them to play dead. There was a crazy reinterpretaion of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, an ok Deal, a drunken bellowing Weight and an absolutely astounding Cumberland Blues. In fact, that was the centerpiece of the show, full of rapid fire time sig changes and extraoridnarily complex riffs.
The second set got a little overbearing - a fira Playing, Candyman and Eyes, a nice FotM, a delightful St. Stephen, a very Dylanesque Hard Rain, a nice Wheel and Sug Mag. I was hoping for a U.S. Blues encore 'summertime come and gone, my oh my' and I thought I got it for several minutes, but it was a GDTRFB.
There's nothing like a little Dead flashback. So many old friends, so many stories, so many memories and associations. It still boggles my mind that I was once on the Grateful Dead payroll. That seems like such another lifetime.
I'm still humming Cumberland.
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