Very excited to announce One Way Out paperback release party with Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band at Brooklyn Bowl 3-1-15. Get your tickets now! Jai will be signing books with me afterwards. Big, big fun on tap. The paperback has about 15 new photos by Kirk West and Derek McCabe and a very thorough new chapter on […]
I present to you an exclusive preview of “Spanish Moon,” Gov’t Mule with John Scofield, recorded at The Georgia Theatre, Athens, on September 22, 1999. Sco-Mule will be released on January 27. If you pre-order the album now from Mule.net, you will receive an exclusive bonus disc with 40 minutes of additional music from those shows. “Spanish […]
There’s a lot for me to figure out about You Tube’s new Music Vault channels. But hee’s one thing that you need to understand: despite a flurry of articles this week with headlines like “Allman Brothers release full, classic Fillmore show,” they did no such thing. The video that is now on You Tube’s Allman Brothers’ Music […]
Wow. So it’s been almost two weeks now and I can finally communicate with you all about a very intense 10-day whirlwind of emotions, conversations, interviews, rehearsals and, of course, shows. A little update on my reporting on these final Allman Brothers performances — and yes it still feels strange to write that. I woke […]
Thanks to an arrangement between the Gibson Custom Shop, the Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House and Warren Haynes, a special selection of Gibson guitars is now available to the public. Each of the nine hand-selected Les Pauls will be played by Haynes during one of the Allman Brothers Band’s final six shows […]
I was at the Allman Brothers’ second Beacon rehearsal Friday and Derek was talking to Jaimoe about getting a mushroom tattoo on his calf. Wanting to make sure that his would match the tat that all the original members received together in San Francisco in January, 1971 from pioneering tattooist Lyle Tuttle, Derek was going around photographing […]
Bob Weir returned to music for the first time since he cancelled all remaining tour dates early in the summer. Alongside pal Phil Lesh and San Francisco Giants third base coach (and musician) Tim Flannery, the trio sang the National Anthem at Game 3 of the NLCS before the game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Ah, San […]