Grateful Dead’s Here Comes Sunshine 1973, plus Midnight Callers, Marv Johnson, and Mick Kolassa The Grateful Dead released three multi-disc concert LPs between 1969 and 1972 (Live/Dead, Grateful Dead, and Europe ’72), which seemed like a lot at the time. Today, though, those LPs represent just a tiny fraction of the group’s live-show discography. The […]
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DVDs Capture San Francisco’s Glory Days, plus Frankie Ford, Bill Pritchard, Cal Tjader, & David Deacon For a brief time in the late 1960s and early 1970s, San Francisco was at the center of what appeared to be a burgeoning new world, one in which rock bands were not just musicians. They were in the […]
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Bob Weir, the Impressions with Jerry Butler, Orchestra Gold, & Howdy Glenn “Hey, That Sounds Like a Dead Album” Though Bob Weir’s name is on the cover, 1972’s Ace sounds like a Grateful Dead album because…well, that’s what it is. True, Weir provided all the lead vocals for the record, which was ostensibly his solo […]
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