Fifty years ago today, on July 20th, 1969, Mankind did the coolest thing in it’s existence and walked on the Moon (unless you’re one of those pinheads who think it was all a hoax. In that case, just go away…
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“Moonhead” . . . : Pink Floyd Jams To The Moon Landing
Tagged with: BBC, Moon Landing, Moonhead, Pink Floyd
Posted in Classic Rock, Improvisation, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Improvisation, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“How Will The Wolf Survive” . . : Jerry Garcia’s Wolf Guitar Comes Out To Play
This is a call back to a previous post (https://roymusicusa.com/2019/05/25/pictures-from-an-exhibition-the-instruments-of-rock-roll-at-the-met-part-iii/) where I talked about the custom made guitars of Jerry Garcia. Just recently while Dead & Company were playing here in NYC at Citi Field, John Mayer played Jerry Garcia’s…
Tagged with: "Play It Loud", Dead & Company, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, John Mayer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wolf Guitar
Posted in Equipment, Grateful Dead, Jam Band
Posted in Equipment, Grateful Dead, Jam Band
A Haiku For The Holidays 2018
Something Different For The Holidays This Year Music Is A Gift The New Jazz Spasms – Tradition (Fiddler On The Roof)
Stick Theory – Bodega Cats (Original Song) on the Chapman Stick Guitar
This is my tune, Bodega Cats, played on the Chapman Stick Guitar (SG12). I’m using the double guitar tuning so it’s like two standard guitar necks joined together. This was the first tune I wrote on the Chapman Stick guitar.…
Tagged with: Bogeda Cats, Chapman Stick Guitar, SG-12, Thje New Jazz Spasms
Posted in Chapman Stick, Jam Band, Jazz
Posted in Chapman Stick, Jam Band, Jazz
Stick Theory: Dark Star (Grateful Dead Cover) on the Chapman Stick Guitar
I want to announce the start of a new YouTube playlist on the RoyMusicUSA YouTube channel called Stick Theory (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLogHrynqXOvSmeQXOw_SAW0etIHHKV8mX). The playlist will feature solo Chapman Stick Guitar videos performed at the ManRoy studios here at Casa de RoyMusicUSA (okay,…
Tagged with: Chapman Stick Guitar, Dark Star, Grateful Dead, Live Dead, SG-12
Posted in Chapman Stick, Grateful Dead, Improvisation, Jam Band
Posted in Chapman Stick, Grateful Dead, Improvisation, Jam Band
New York Movie . . : The new album from The New Jazz Spasms
I am pleased to announce the release of the New York Movie, the fourth album from my virtual band, The New Jazz Spasms on SoundCloud. The album continues the explore the nexus of where The Allman Brothers meets Grant Green…
Tagged with: Allman Brotheres Band, Booker T & The MG's, Grant Green, The Meters, The New Jazz Spasms, Thelonious Monk
Posted in Blues, Improvisation, Jam Band, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Blues, Improvisation, Jam Band, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
A Haiku For The Holidays 2017
My Favorite Things A Holiday Song They Say “Whatever” I shrugged.
Tagged with: Allman Brothers, Coltrane, Happy Holidays, My Favorite Things
Posted in Blues, Jam Band, Jazz
Posted in Blues, Jam Band, Jazz
Dawg Music : The Bluegrass Jazz of Dave Grisman and Friends
From the bluegrass/Dead nexus of the previous post, I noe move on to a sub genre of music as singular as it’s name, Dawg Music. The term is what mandolin player Dave Grisman called the music on his 1977 album…
Tagged with: bluegrass, Darol Anger, David Grisman, Jazz, Tony Rice
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“He took my twenty dollar bill” . . : Bluegrass and The Grateful Dead
My recent Grateful Dead listening phase has gone off road into bluegrass. My first exposure to bluegrass was in the early Seventies by performers who themselves were influenced by bluegrass. Besides the Dead, I remember hearing David Bromberg doing fiddle…
“Comes A Time” . . . : Dead & Company at Citi Field, NYC June 24, 2017
I saw Dead & Company last weekend at Citi Field in NYC and I have to say that they were great. I haven’t been to many post Dead related band shows. I listened to many of the shows of these…
Tagged with: Citi Field, Come A Time, Dead & Company, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Viola Lee Blues
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
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