Phil Lesh and Bob Weir Come Together to Jam for Mt. Tam
Catching these counterculture pioneers in an intimate setting is a treat.
26 Sep 2017
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Holly Bowling’s Tahoe Trip Leads to Terrapin Station and Beyond
San Francisco pianist uses music of Phish and Grateful Dead as stepping stones to her own dream career.
18 Jan 2017
Melvin Seals and JGB Keep the Flame Burning at Terrapin Crossroads
There’s a spiritual sustenance of sorts in Garcia’s music that can be hard to put a finger on per se, but the continuing demand and praise for these celestial harmonics is empirical evidence of its existence.
24 Oct 2016
Hard Working Americans Conjure Vintage Vibes at the Fillmore
The Fillmore is elevated into its higher realm as a transformative sonic temple of sound and light.
02 Sep 2016
The Grateful Dead Are Dead, Long Live the Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead didn’t seem to give a damn about the American dream and yet seems to have lived it—well, parts of it, anyway.
29 Jun 2015
'Grateful Dead View from the Vault I and II' Reveals Some Early '90s Treats
The '90s may not have marked the Grateful Dead's creative peak, but these two DVDs, from 1990 and 1991, show that the group's continued popularity was justified.
08 Jul 2013
'The Grateful Dead Movie': It Looked Like the end and Garcia and Co. Played Like It Was
With improved sound and a clearer image in Blu-Ray format, the viewer gets a stronger sense of the full majesty of musicians staring into the face of fear in an hour of darkness.
07 Nov 2011
Phil Lesh & Friends + The Levon Helm Band
These Friends comprise a band intimately aware of its greatest strengths; a command of the early ‘70s folk, country, and roots aspects of the Grateful Dead catalog as well as the R&B, the rollicking rock 'n' roll, and occasionally, the harder blues.
Chad Berndtson
Reviews
05 Aug 2008
Grateful Dead: Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings
Ultimately, what I am trying to say is this: The Dead can be appreciated -- indeed, probably must be appreciated -- as a kind of continuing, evolving, shifty performance of “The Grateful Dead”.
19 Jun 2008
Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh
From the idealistic Heaven of that three-day music festival to the chaotic inferno created at the hands of some of Hell's own 'Angels', these sequences literally vibrate off the page.
Bill Gibron
Reviews
02 May 2005
Festival Express (2004)
All these musicians wanted to do was to escape from the youth rebelliousness that they are supposed to have influenced and represented.
Todd R. Ramlow
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09 Sep 2004
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