GREEN LEAF RUSTLERS
Look out jam band scene, here they come.............
This is just a very small sample, I have more. Just blew me away last night @ Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz.
Chris Robinson: Vocals, rhythm guitar (Black Crowes, Chris Robinson Brotherhood)
Barry Sless: Pedal steel guitar, rhythm guitar (Moonalice, Phil and Friends, David Nelson Band)
Pete Sears: Bass (Moonalice, Jefferson Starship, Rod Stewart, etc etc etc)
Greg Loiacono: Lead guitar (Mother Hips)
John Molo: Drums (Moonalice, Bruce Hornsby, Phil and Friends, John Fogerty)
I don't know how many of you would be familiar with the jam band Moonalice because they are a Bay area based band and I don't know that they really toured extensively outside of the Bay area.
Basically this is Moonalice Revisited with a better singer and a better lead guitar player. Roger McNamara was Moonalice' vocalist and to be honest he was not real good...........also a very average guitar player. A venture capitalist, he reportedly is one of the world's richest persons. He did a lot financially to get the band off.
But they were never going to compete with great jam bands until they did a personnel change. Well, they have............now look out music world..........most of the set was much more "jammy" than this video. Loiacono on lead guitar and Sless on pedal steel were both just going OFF all night long............what a band. Sears is a very melodic and active bass player. He turned 70 this year. He played bass and keys on Rod Stewart's Gasoline Alley (1970). Stewart said it is his favorite of all this records............
I happen to think that Chris Robinson's voice is a PERFECT fit for what this band is trying to do: Countrified Southern Boogie Jam music.
Jambase: The quintet’s tagline is: “From the sage smoke and mists of Marin come your local purveyors of Cosmic Cali country music, playing the dusty country classics of your dreams.”
[Edited on 9/1/2018 by robslob]
They did a great So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star wish I would have gotten more of it but here is a two minute instrumental segment.
I saw Moonalice & Tea Leaf Green 10 years ago at Park West in Chicago. Great show! Very, very jam bandish. At the end I think basically all of both bands were on stage. Very Grateful Dead vibe. Well worth the $20 or $30 or whatever I paid for it.
Bought a handful of Moonalice live CDs (think Instant Lives) for $5 each.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
I saw Moonalice & Tea Leaf Green 10 years ago at Park West in Chicago. Great show! Very, very jam bandish. At the end I think basically all of both bands were on stage. Very Grateful Dead vibe. Well worth the $20 or $30 or whatever I paid for it.
Bought a handful of Moonalice live CDs (think Instant Lives) for $5 each.
You got Moonalice Instant Lives for $5 each because Roger McNamara was in the band. That is exactly the kind of thing he would do at their shows. Every time I saw them the crowd was issued a custom designed poster commemorating the show. There would always be a huge video screen as a backdrop to the band with a light show to go with the graphics, another Roger touch. With Roger's $$$ he can do whatever he wants. Problem is, he was just not up to the level of the other musicians in the band.
[Edited on 9/2/2018 by robslob]
Good band and great song selections in GLR . . . For years I've sung the praises of Barry Sless, Pete Sears(most people don't realize how great of a pianist and bassist he is and just how many different people he's played with in his career), and John Molo in the David Nelson Band. Those three are also playing with California Kind and Katie Skene who I believe is from near Wanee/Live Oak.
I don't think GLR will last long term or California Kind for that matter. I get the feeling they're just ways for the guys to make extra $ until David Nelson gets better(had a broken shoulder, then cancer) and they do more touring next year as DNB for their 25th anniversary.
Tea Leaf Green is a great band as well . . .Have dug them for a long time.
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I saw Moonalice & Tea Leaf Green 10 years ago at Park West in Chicago. Great show! Very, very jam bandish. At the end I think basically all of both bands were on stage. Very Grateful Dead vibe. Well worth the $20 or $30 or whatever I paid for it.
Bought a handful of Moonalice live CDs (think Instant Lives) for $5 each.
You got Moonalice Instant Lives for $5 each because Roger McNamara was in the band. That is exactly the kind of thing he would do at their shows. Every time I saw them the crowd was issued a custom designed poster commemorating the show. Their would always be a huge video screen as a backdrop to the band with a light show to go with the graphics, another Roger touch. With Roger's $$$ he can do whatever he wants. Problem is, he was just not up to the level of the other musicians in the band.
[Edited on 9/1/2018 by robslob]
Now that you mention it I think they did hand out these psychedelic posters when you walked in. I have it here somewhere. Great, enjoyable band. Lot of fun.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
Beautiful poster, love it. I have a few from Moonalice shows tucked away somewhere.
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