AUGUST 2012 Epolyphony Buckle Up Kids By Steve Chase Eventually, artists who have


toured for years start to slow down some. It’s no wonder many of our favorite bands that have been touring for decades, hit age 70, and decide it’s time to throttle things back and set- tle down into a musical “home venue.” Whole communities have


sprung up from this concept— think Branson, Mo. The newest home venue has just opened in Marin County Calif., developed by Phil Lesh, the indefatigable septuagenarian bassist of the Grateful Dead. Phil is a road warrior who


has kept up a steady clip of live tours long after the demise of the band after Jerry Garcia’s death. Playing with a number of post-Dead ensembles, Phil is best recognized for his fantas- tic Phil Lesh and Friends groups, (the first incarnation of the group debuted in 1994, consist- ing of Grateful Dead members playing acoustic tunes). The first post-Dead Phil and


Friends group appeared in 1999, with Steve Kimock, Phish’s Trey Anastasio on guitar, and Page McConnell on keyboards. Since then the group has had a wide rotation of great musicians, including some of the best gui- tarists in the business—Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, Derek Trucks, Robben Ford, and John Scofield. Phil has been especial- ly generous about recordings of these shows, most of which are readily available at sites like archive.org and bt.etree. org, as well as the official Phil Lesh site. While every show has a full menu of Grateful Dead tunes, there are always a few jam band anthems from Traffic, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, the Allman Brothers, even Elton John.


Phil’s new venue, Terrapin Crossroads, opened last spring in San Rafael, California. It’s a musical home that allows him to tour when he wants, and kick back and bring the musi- cians to him when he wants to stay home. Some fine live music is showing up on the net from the Crossroads, whose slogan is “Buckle Up Kids.” The venue website explains it all in a few sentences: “Terrapin Cross- roads will also host ongoing shows where Phil will invite his musician friends—both young and old—to play along with him in his various bands.” Yeah, I know we’re in Jef-


ferson County, W.Va., not Cali- fornia, but the promise of live music recording coming out of Terrapin Crossroads via the Internet collapses those three thousand miles. Here’s a re- cording to start with, found at bt.etree.org,


huge assortment from the Sum- mer Camp Festival, and some great pictures of Roger Waters, moe., and Yonder Mountain String Band.


Steve’s BBQ Playlist Here’s what I’m listening to


right now on the back porch while the steaks sear. Almost all of these tunes are available at the usual sources, such as Itunes or Spotify. Wagon Wheel, Old Crow Medicine Show, from the album O.C.M.S. Everyone sing along. One Way Out, The Mother


Hips, from Do It On the Strings. Fresh progressive folk rock. I like it.


Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes, on Violent Femmes. Great. Cult. Classic. The Hitchhiker, The Infa-


http://bt.etree.


org/details.php?id=555073. It’s a Phil Lesh Quintet or “Q” show recorded off the soundboard, with Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule, The Dead, The Allman Brothers) and Jimmy Herring (Widespread Panic, The Dead, Jazz is Dead ) providing the du- eling guitars.


Great Concert Pics There have been a lot of


great concert photographers over the years. Jay Blakesberg is one who has caught my at- tention recently, a long time concert photographer, video producer, and author. His Fa- cebook site Jay Blakesberg Pho- tography and his website www. blakesberg.com have tons of great photos. I like to browse through the Facebook albums to see extraordinary photos of some of today’s great bands on stage, including recent shows from Terrapin Crossroads, a


mous Stringdusters, on Silver Sky. The Stringdusters just smoke on this one; love Andy Falco’s guitar. Bundles, Soft Machine, from


the album Floating World Live. Guitarist Allan Holdsworth was always at his best in other peo- ple’s bands; he shines on this one.


Inca Roads, Zappa Plays Zap-


pa, from The Return of the Son of . . . ZPZ puts their signature on the Frank Zappa Classic, with Napoleon Murphy Brock. Two Folk Songs, Pat Meth-


eny, from the album 80/81. Sublime. Complex. Yet Simple. “Whoo-hoo...boy...Jack Dejoh- nette, man!” Hold On, Alabama Shakes,


from the album Boys and Girls. These guys have stormed onto the scene with their earthy roots rock. Plane Crash, moe, from L.


Few bands have the exuber- ance of moe. This song is a sig- nature.


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