For the first time in over a decade, Roxy music will return to the stage, this time for their 50th anniversary tour. The tour will journey from Canada and through the US, eventually ending in London. They will be joined by special guest, St. Vincent.
Roxy Music will be touring the U.S for the first time since their critically acclaimed 2011 “For Your Pleasure” tour. Featuring stops across the U.S, including landmark venues like MSG and The Forum, their 50th Anniversary tour is sure to be the celebration of a lifetime.
Formed in 1972, Roxy Music has been regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time. They have inspired a number of big names including Depeche Mode, Nile Rodgers and Kate Bush. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Special guest St.Vincent will be joining Roxy Music for all North American dates, except Boston. After originally making her debut in 2007, St.Vincent has been described as one of the most interesting artists in modern music. Her work has been justly recognized, with her 2021 album, Daddy’s Home, garnering universal acclaim.
Artist presale is available from now until 4/1. General tickets go on sale 4/4 at 10 AM. Eight special anniversary editions of Roxy Music’s albums will be reissued throughout the year, with the first two LPs, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure being released on 4/1.
In an effort to expose up-and-coming UK artists to American audiences, GREAT Campaign partnered with SoFar Sounds for the week of March 21, 2022 to put on numerous performances across New York City featuring some of the biggest names on the rise.
In an interesting way to gain access to the show, one had to pick up a ringing telephone within a classic English-looking telephone booth (many of which were spread across Manhattan). The phone would relay a message detailing the shows for the week and their locations.
Priya Ragu at Great Jones Distillery Co.
The purpose for this campaign was due to the UK still considered underrated, in terms of being a cultural musical hotspot. Massive current artists, like Harry Styles, Dua Lipa, and Ed Sheeran all hail from the UK, showing its constant relevance in the global music scene. There are many artists in the UK that are starting to rise and are nearly about to break into the mainstream American industry.
become incredibly popular in the past year, with the prestigious BBC Sound of Music giving her a nomination in 2021 and Vogue India listing her as one of the 6 artists that are going to blow up in 2021. On the other hand, Dan Croll (hailing from Liverpool) graduated from the Paul McCartney-founded Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and has been on the scene since 2011. Both of them put on an intimate show for an adoring crowd, wowing them with Dan Croll’s indie-pop crooning and Priya Ragu’s energetic pop performance.
Dan Croll at Great Jones Distilling Co.
Many of performances occurred that week, ranging from Penelope Isles to Rose Betts. All of which showcased these rising stars and their immense talents.
Riya Ragu at Great Jones Distilling Co.
Some of the UK’s most talented singers Anaiis and Obii showed their skills in a Red Hook ice cream factory on Friday, March 25. As you walk in the door behind the ice cream shop counter, you go into a room with views of the factory through the window. The room was full of music enthusiasts and people there for a good time. The artists held a captivating show and kept the audience involved throughout the duration of it. This showcase exemplified the powerful voices that come from the UK and gave an idea of the future of UK artists and their abilities.
Great Calling – The National Arts Club – March 29 (review and photos by Michael Dinger)
The last of four shows performed at iconic spaces in Manhattan and Brooklyn over the past week, the Great Campaign’s final act took place at The National Arts Club at Gramercy Park this past Tuesday night. A collaboration with SoFar Sounds, these intimate gatherings have showcased homegrown artists from Great Britain that are all on the verge of stardom. The featured musicians of tonight’s festivities included Rose Betts (singer/songwriter), Geo Jordan (multi-instrumentalist/producer/writer) and Hamzaa (R&B singer/songwriter). If witnessing the talent of these young musicianswas not enough, guests were also immersed in the expressive, wondrous paintings of the contemporary Cuban artist Carlos Quintana, which hung from the walls throughout the performance space. His exhibition, PHySIKA, is on view until April 8th.
Rose Betts, originallyfrom London, was the evening’s first performer. After being introduced by Adam (the night’s emcee) as having “a voice that melts like butter,” Betts sat down before a Steinway for the first of five songs, while accompanied by Emmanuel Ventura-Cruess on an upright bass. Featuring songs from her newly released debut album, White Orchids (RAB Records), Betts introduced “Foolish” as “one of the few songs [she’s] written about love.” The songstress concluded her opening set with “Think Of You” and “Recovery,” a tune that Betts exclaimed to the audience was “the first song where [she] allowed [herself] to be vulnerable.”
After a brief intermission, Geo Jordan was the second British artist of the night to entertain the intimate crowd of approximately 100 souls in attendance. While on guitar, Jordan opened the set with “Let Go,” taken from the 5-song EP Technicolour (August 2021). This EP was self-produced by Jordan, a Trans artist who uses his music to explore topics such as identity and acceptance. Moving over to the piano for “The Colour Of You” (the title track from his 2017 EP), Jordan revealed,“I never know quite what to do with applause, thank you.” With a guitar back in his hands, Jordan went on to perform what can best be described as progressive soul pop tracks such as “Forever,” taken from the EP titled The Colour Of You (2017)and “Irreplaceable,” from the album Remember Me Pt. 1 [MD1] (2019).
The final act of the night was Hamzaa, a soul artist from Hackney (East London) who has been writing her own songs before she was even a teenager. Accompanied by Jeffandy AllTogether (guitar) and Chad Selph (keys), the first of her 6-song set was “Unlucky,” taken from Phases EP (2019). After bringing back Emmanuel Ventura-Crues for a guest appearance on bass, the highlight of the night was still to come. Hamzaa’s blissful closing number titled “Sunday Morning,” also from Phases EP, captured the cheerfulmood of the event, with the audience singing the chorus in unison – “You make me feel like it’s a Sunday morning” . . . even on a Tuesday night.
The Bronx-bred rapper/singer Sy Ari Da Kid released his newest debut album, The Shadow In The Shade which features multiple artist throughout the album. Sy Ari Da Kid features Yonkers hip-hop icon Jadakiss on the album with track, “Unbreakable Promises” along with recently released music video.
Sy Ari Da Kid and Jadakiss met up in Virginia to shoot the music video for “Unbreakable Promises” that would celebrate their success while also shedding light onto the hurdles they faced with the soulful track produced by Vtng Jag.
The new album, “The Shadow In The Shade” appeared on New Music Friday select playlists by XXL, Brooklyn Vegan, and Essence. A variety of artists are showcased on the debut album that helped Sy Ari Da Kid bring his project to life, artists like Jadakiss, T.I.. Benny The Butcher, Big K.R.I.T., Trouble, Lloyd Banks, Ransom, Mickey Factz, Cyhi The Prynce, Shawn Ellery, JR Writer, Raekwon and Bumpy Knuckles are featured on the tracklist.
“Some rappers sprint to the tape but Sy is running a marathon with no finish line in sight. He just keeps going.”
-RapReviews
Growing up between the Bronx and Atlanta, he quickly started his career right after high school and became a battle rapper. Working on numerous of other projects throughout his career such as Alone but Not Lonely, S.O.O.N, Better Safe Than Sy Ari and others, which led to him releasing his own that he had in the works for long time for his rap fans.
The album consists of 21 tracks with brazen but vulnerable lyrics that allows for fans to connect and relate with. Sy Ari Da Kid’s sound is versatile which ultimately makes his fans equally crave his deep hip hop cuts and his continue uphill climb will keep his fan wondering what will be next for him.
This year’s festival will feature Eastbound Jesus and Guthrie/Bell Productions.
Attendance at last year’s event was capped at 1,000 people due to COVID-19. This year attendance has been increased to 1,00 guests.
Two-day passes, which include camping, are available starting April 1 at 10am. Single day passes for Saturday, Sept. 10 are also available. Eastbound Jesus will be performing on both nights of the festival.
Since Eastbound Throwdown is a family event entrance for all attendees under the age of 15 is free.
For six years, acclaimed bassist Michael Bisio and his artist wife Dawn have been bringing some of the jazz world’s finest to Lace Mill, the 55-unit affordable artist housing, gallery and performance space in Kingston that is also their home. On Thursday, March 24, the Bisios presented yet another astounding hour of improvisational invention in their long-running performance series, when the bassist was joined by guitar great Nels Cline, pianist Thollem and drummer Michael Wimberly.
Bisio has been called “a poet, a wonder and one of the most virtuosic and imaginative performers” on the double bass. He has over a one hundred thirty recordings in his discography, more than two dozen as leader or co-leader as well, as a dozen more documenting his extraordinary association with piano icon Matthew Shipp. His newest release which dropped a few days back, MBefore (Tao Forms), is an already critically-raved about work that finds Bisio in the company of another Hudson Valley great, world-renowned vibraphonist and Creative Music Studio founder Karl Berger, along with Mat Maneri (viola) and Whit Dickey (drums). Guitarist Nels Cline has been featured on over 200 recordings over the past few decades in every conceivable genre. But Cline is best known for his 17-years and counting stint as lead guitarist for Wilco. Drummer Wimberly has propelled greats like Charles Gayle, Henry Rollins, David Murray and Steve Coleman’s always excellent 5 Elements ensemble, while the perpetually globe-trotting Thollem has recently completed a 25-album cycle, one that found him collaborating with over 70 musicians worldwide.
The 40 or so attendees who packed the small performance space at Lace Mill included quite a few of Bisio’s fellow musicians and collaborators including the aforementioned Berger and Juma Sultan, the forever young percussionist best known for his appearance with Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.
Bisio and company collectively conjured two, 30-minute improvisations during the concert. These were really ever-evolving examples of spontaneous composition, ones that demonstrated both their individual instrumental mastery and the resources in seemingly shortest supply among musicians – the arts of listening and injecting silence to give oxygen to the music.
The first improvisation kicked-off with Bisio moving from resonant chording to drone-like bowing, then to rubbing the strings behind the bridge and even punching his double bass. Pianist Thollem alternated between machine gun runs a la Cecil Taylor and tapping, plucking and even drumming the insides of his instrument. A master of stomp box f*ckery, Cline kept a clean and relatively untreated sound on both improvisations, crafting new harmonic avenues for exploration with his spare but richly intelligent chord structures and his darting leads. It was a place where subtlety and cacophony co-existed, all within an arresting, ever-spiraling musical architecture, one that seemed to evolve into whole new nations of sound every four or five minutes. The piece concluded with a thundering solo by drummer Wimberly, who used sticks, brushes, mallets and his bare hands to wrestle unique sounds from the world’s oldest instrument.
The second improv commenced with Thollem singing and whistling into his piano. He was soon joined on the vocalese by drummer Wimberly, who together created a sound resembling the chanting of monks, a Cambodian temple music of sorts. Cline added to the drama by getting percussive on his Fender Jazzmaster guitar, now outfitted with two sticks to mute its strings. The whistle of a passing freight train on the tracks adjacent to Lace Mill only added to the otherworldly ambience. In this latter musical adventure, Bisio took a masterful 5-minute solo. It concluded with his bowed bass generating high-pitched overtones that sounded like a Shehnai, a double-reeded Indian wind instrument heard on tracks like The Beatles’ “Inner Light,” or a flock of seagulls caught up in a typhoon! There was a wonderful guitar solo from Cline propelled by Thollem’s thunderous chordal comps and Wimberly’s circular drum rolls and shouts.
Bottomline? Dissonance never sounded so luscious!
Bisio will be back at Lace Mill on Sunday, April 10 at 4 pm for a performance with the quartet featured on his new release, MBefore (featuring wonderful cover art by his wife Dawn). Hudson Valley guitar aficionados can catch Nels Cline on Saturday, April 2 at 8 pm at Colony Woodstock.
Bisio, Berger, Sultan and many more of the Hudson Valley’s most creative jazz and electronic improvisers are being featured at a new concert series at the Kingston Library curated by another Lace Mill resident, Daniel Rhiner of the Kingston Artist Collective. More excellent improvisational ensembles are being presented regularly, both live and via concurrent livestreams curated by owner D.b. Schnell at Green Kill, his long-running art and performance space at 229 Greenkill Avenue in Kingston.
HANZOLO! The indie group with an explosive, emotional sound mixing soul, jazz, rock and funk, hail from Cooperstown, and bested Albany’s Fine Grain en route to winning the finals of NYS Music’s March Madness 2022.
HANZOLO, hailing Cooperstown – where 5 of the 7 members attended Cooperstown High School – formed in 2016 after playing in a variety of groups from high school and into college. The group’s name derives from the name of a samurai, Hanzo, and a certain science-fiction cowboy.
Band members include Carl Loewenguth (vocals, guitar), Nick Summers (keyboard, trumpet), Jack Loewenguth (bass), Nate Olmstead and Sebastian Green (drums), James Matson (trombone), and Joey Katz (keyboard, saxophone)
Since forming, HANZOLO have opened for bands like Lawrence, Wild Belle, and *repeat repeat. They released their first album Table Butter in 2019, an apt title given they have been compared to Table Butter: soft enough to spread yet hard enough to keep its shape.
As COVID-19 led to a music industry shutdown in 2020 and most of 2021, the band took the time to refine their second album, HANZOLO. In September 2021, the group won the EQX Battle of the Bands and opened Albanyâs annual Pearlpalooza music festival.
They have played regularly in NYC at The Delancy and Rockwood Music Hall, and look to expand their audience in coming months with festival appearances that are soon to be announced.
The self-titled second album was released on Christmas Day 2021, the result of a Kickstarter campaign that netted over $14,000. With COVID sidelining the band from touring, they used the time to put more focus on the quality control of the album and launch the band into their next phase in a well-timed manner.
They’ve also got a selection of HANZOLO merch you can pick up here.
HANZOLO 2022 Tour Dates
April 8 – Arts Gala at The Madison Theater, Albany
Congratulations HANZOLO, NYS Music’s 2022 March Madness Winner!
Since 2015, NYS Music has crafted a friendly March Madness competition that spans all musical harbors of the Empire State. As fans and musicians, the NYS Music team aims to spotlight the great talent found across New York in a friendly contest, bringing broader attention to the next generation of artists and bands on the rise. March Madness 2022 highlighted 64 bands and artists you might not know, but should know, as these homegrown talents are making waves through the New York State. Review each round below.
Nearing the end of a 17-date tour, Nick Cave and his longtime collaborator Warren Ellis perfectly executed a second straight sold-out show in Brooklyn this past Friday evening. Following the culmination of a successful United Kingdom and European tour last fall, the duo kicked off the current leg of their North American excursion on March 1 in North Carolina, in support of Carnage, a hauntingly-poignant album they recorded together during the COVID-19 lockdown last year. The pair of Aussie friends have been working together since 1993, when Ellis (also known as a founding member of the instrumental rock trio the Dirty Three) played violin on Let Love In, the eighth studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Nick Cave
With approximately one hour to go before showtime, excited concertgoers were spotted congregating on nearby sidewalks or hastily exiting their Uber ride near the grand marquee in lights. After patrons filed past the security check points and into the inviting confines of the theater, many grabbed a drink, joined a waiting friend or checked out the merch table. Others snapped a cellphone picture of the historic venue’s centerpiece, the console of a “Wonder Morton” pipe organ, one of four other magnificent organs installed in the original Loew’s New York City movie theaters.
Warren Ellis
At 8:20 pm sharp, Warren Ellis, a trio of backup singers (Janet Ramus, Wendi Rose and T. Jae Cole) and a touring musician who would play keyboards, bass and drums throughout the night, took to the stage. The eternally-suave Nick Cave followed closely behind, dressed in a sharp blue suit with a white shirt and a marvelous slick of black hair. With Ellis seated, his signature gray beard resembling that of a medieval knight and wearing a shirt unbuttoned nearly to his navel, he began to play the small synthesizer perched on his lap. After a long wave to the packed house, Cave grabbed the microphone from its stand and immediately got down to business.
Kings Theatre
For nearly the next two and half hours, Cave and Ellis would thrill the audience with offerings from the aforementioned Carnage, 2019’s Ghosteen and plenty of classic tracks spanning the entire Bad Seeds catalog. With nearly every soul now on their feet, the first offering of the night was “Spinning Song,” a song about Elvis Presley and his iconic status in popular culture.
Nick Cave
Halfway through the 16-song opening set, one of several comedic moments from the night occurred during Cave’s introduction of “Cosmic Dancer,” a cover by T. Rex, legendary British musicians who formed in 1967. With Ellis now changing his keyboards for a violin, Cave alerted his fans. “Alright, fucking strap into your seats. Warren is going to do a violin solo. You think that things are going to be the same afterwards, but they will not be. Your lives will be different. You will tell your children that you were there when Warren performed [his] solo.”
Warren Ellis
Once the laughter subsided, “Hand Of God” (Carnage, 2021) was delivered by Cave with the emotional intensity you can always expect to witness during one of his shows. Furiously pacing the stage to the driving beat, Cave did halt on a few occasions to reach out and clutch the hands of adoring fans, all the while repeating the high-pitch title line . . . “Hand of God! Hand of God! Hand of God.” Closing out the masterfully-crafted set was “Balcony Man,” another brilliant track from last year’s Carnage. Seated at his piano once again, Cave instructed the upper balcony to cheer every time the word ‘balcony’ was spoken, and emphatically cheer they did.
The first encore was comprised of two songs, “Hollywood” from Ghosteen, followed by “Henry Lee,” released on the Bad Seeds ninth studio album (Murder Ballads, 1996). It was during the early refrain of the second song when Janet Ramus, a British soul singer, innocently mixed up the lyrics. During the tune’s restart, Cave playfully exclaimed, “You can’t fuck this one up [again].” After the song’s conclusion, Cave graciously re-introduced his bandmates before they all exited the stage for a second time. The exultant crowd cheered non-stop for several minutes until Cave, Ellis and company finally reappeared.
Nick Cave
The exquisite hymn about loss and sorrow, “Into Your Arms,” opened the second encore. Following this fan favorite from The Boatman’s Call (1997) was a song requested by an audience member that had not been played by the Bad Seeds, according to Cave, “in a very long time.” Before launching into the melody, “Jubilee Street” from 2013’s Push The Sky Away, Cave remarked, “If we fuck it up, it’s on you dude.” The night’s penultimate offering was “Girl In Amber” (Skeleton Tree, 2016), a moving song written by Cave for Anita Lane, a founding member of the Bad Seeds. The night’s last offering, “Ghosteen Speaks” (Ghosteen), a song about the spirit of love and its existence, fittingly captured the overall theme of the night.
The Carnage tour wraps in Montreal, Canada with a pair of early April dates at the Place des Arts. If you were unable to catch a live show on their current tour, or just cannot get enough of Cave and Ellis, the global release event of This Much I Know To Be True is set for May 11, 2022. This feature film captures the exceptional creative partnership of both Australian natives as they brought to life the songs that would appear on the albums Ghosteen and Carnage. Additional details can be found here: https://www.thismuchiknowtobetrue.com.
Kings Theatre
Setlist: Spinning Song > Bright Horses > Night Raid > Carnage > White Elephant > Ghosteen > Lavender Fields > Waiting for You > I Need You > Cosmic Dancer > God Is In The House > Hand of God > Shattered Ground > Galleon Ship > Leviathan > Balcony Man > Encore 1: Hollywood > Henry Lee > Encore 2: Into My Arms > Jubilee Street > Girl In Amber > Ghosteen Speaks
Newport Jazz Festival is making its summer return with a packed 2022 lineup. From July 29th-31st, fans will be able to see performers like Norah Jones, PJ Morten, BADBADNOTGOOD, and more in Fort Adams State Park.
This year’s festival will celebrate the life of George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz and Newport Folk festivals. Surprise special guests will join the tribute. Artist Director Christian McBride’s annual Jawn Jam will include performances from ensembles like Makaya McCraven, Chris Potter, Vijay Iyer, Brandee Younger & Mike Stern; the Jack DeJohnette Quartet with Don Byron, Matt Garrison, and Luisito Quintero; Pino Palladino, Blake Mills and Sam Gendel & Abe Rounds.
Alongside big names and ensembles, the festival will also feature Cory Wong, Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia, Jazzmeia Horn, Nate Smith + KINFOLK, Sampha the Great, Lady Blackbird, The Soul Rebels, Theon Cross, Samara Joy, The Nth Power and Jazzmeia Horn. More artists will be announced at a later date.
Newport Jazz Fest 2021
The Newport Jazz Fest works closely with the Newport Festivals Foundation to provide musicians with the support they need during tough times. The non-profit helps maintain music programs in Rhode Island and around the country.
Since 2018, the Artist Gives initiative has provided over 100 grants to music education programs in over 30 states, including instruments for public schools, funding for music instruction workshops for Veterans and after school music lessons for children with learning disabilities.
Newport Jazz Fest 2021
Tickets are on sale now. Student discounts are available. COVID-19 safety guidelines will be announced at a later date.
NYC-based indie-pop singer-songwriter Aubrey Haddard announced her second LP, Awake And Talking, out August 16. She also shared the first single from the project “Just A Wall” along with a music video.
The album is about Haddard’s self-examination and how she navigates love and her relationship to art. Her biggest influences for the album came from the greatest songwriters of the 90s, like Oasis and Björk. With her writing partner and multi-instrumentalist Charley Ruddell and drummer Josh Strmic, they all wrote the songs in rehearsal spaces and Haddard’s childhood upstate home. She spoke about the album, and the deep meaning it has for her.
Awake And Talking is about seeking a sense of purpose. It challenges perception – how many ways can you look at the world before you find your place in it? It is about destiny and the journey to self-acceptance. And, like anything I create, it is about my own personal experience over the past few years. This record makes me feel powerful and confident in the face of uncertainty and it brings me a lot of joy to know that it could offer a sliver of that to anyone listening.
The new single “Just A Wall” is bold and emotional, with mesmerizing electric guitar riffs as she proudly sings the lyrics “Now that you’ve gone and shattered the glass…Whose arms do you run to?”
Aubrey Haddard, photo by Emmysu.
Aubrey Haddard’s new album Awake And Talking is out August 16, and her new electrifying single ”Just A Wall” is out now.
Knickerbocker Arena will always be one of those venues with a special place in Grateful Dead lore. The band played the downtown Albany arena thirteen times in their career which included three three-night runs at “The Knick.” Today, we look back at the middle show of the last three-night run there in 1993. It may not reach the heights of the band’s initial heralded run here in 1990 which helped provide material for their Dozin’ At The Knick album, but it sees the Dead at a time when they’re clearly comfortable in their own skin with this last incarnation of the band. The show provides a solid blend of Grateful Dead fan favorites, a pair of Dylan covers, and some newer original songs that were only played a smattering of times in this late era for the band.
The show begins with a tune that was starting to entrench its spot as a show opener in this last phase of live Dead, “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo.” Jerry Garcia sounds engaged right from the get-go and drops an immaculate guitar fill early on in the proceedings. The band takes their time dragging out the composed portion of the opener before Garcia lays down another heavenly solo. After a courtesy nod of gratitude from the Knick crowd, the opening licks to “Walkin’ Blues” ring out loud and true and fellow guitarist Bob Weir takes control for the next number. He leads the way through a cover of the American blues classic before they resort back to one of their sentimental originals in “So Many Roads,” replete with another feathery Garcia solo that serves as the bridge before a somewhat “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”-esque ending.
The Dead make the following cover selection more than clear with a joyous romp through Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” that has both guitarists wailing on vocals by song’s end. Things then slow down again somewhat with the “High Times” that comes next. This Grateful Dead classic serves up a classic blend of bluesy Garcia solos that merely matches vocals of the same tenor. This sets the stage for yet another late-era Dead regular that never seemed to take off, “Eternity,” co-crafted by Weir and his fellow Ratdog bandmate Rob Wasserman.
A slow transition into “Deal” then follows, with bassist Phil Lesh pushing the tempo early and often before a jam that reaches near hysterical proportions closes out the first set earnestly. The second one begins with the familiar tones of “Scarlet Begonias” as the Knick crowd gets brought back to life with this vintage Dead number. This triggers a brief but blissful jam, with Garcia’s tricked out guitar creating the effects of a veritable flute solo, that serves as the springboard into a raging “Fire On The Mountain.”
After a somewhat abrupt ending to “Fire,” the drum-fueled intro to “Samson and Delilah” emerges. Some vintage bass bombs from Lesh are peppered throughout on a frenzied take on this live show staple. Another old standby in “Ship Of Fools” then follows, graced with a typical breathtaking solo from Garcia, before the Dead break out “Wave To The Wind,” a song co-written by Lesh and longtime band lyricist Robert Hunter that was played only a handful of times in 1992 and ’93.
A post-song segue into “Truckin’” gets a little murky but the band soon finds their footing and treats the Knickerbocker Arena crowd to another classic Dead sing-along number. It sees some strong piano fills thrown in from Vince Welnick that help fuel a brief but explosive jam that sets the table for the traditional “Drums” > “Space” portion of the evening.
From the psychedelic mist emerges another song synonymous with ’90s-era Dead, “Long Way To Go Home” with an energized Welnick taking charge and leading the way on vocals. The tone then shifts from new school to old school in a hurry as the band dusts off “Attics Of My Life.” It ends a 41-show gap from its last performance, which just happened to be here at The Knick last June. The set then comes to a rousing finish with a “Turn On Your Lovelight” that sees Bob Weir doling out the signature bluesy vocals and Garcia once more digging into his bag of tricks and emitting joyous trumpet-sounding guitar fills on the closer. The second and final Dylan cover of the night then serves as the encore as the show ends with a beautifully somber take of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.” The Grateful Dead would return to Knickerbocker Arena the next day to close out this run and, two years later, they would play their final shows at this heralded venue.
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Grateful Dead Knickerbocker Arena – Albany, NY 3/28/93
Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Walkin’ Blues, So Many Roads, When I Paint My Masterpiece, High Time, Eternity, Deal
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Wave To The Wind > Truckin’ > Drums > Space > Way To Go Home, Attics Of My Life > Turn On Your Lovelight
