Bob Weir and RatDog's Evening Moods: Well Worth the Wait.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000 Bob Weir and RatDog's Evening Moods, out September 26, 2000, is his first non-Grateful Dead studio effort since the early 80's. Of course, he's been kinda busy. Fortunately, having a band as good as RatDog rekindled his desire to write new music. In 1999, the band holed up at Weir's home studio, "Ace's," and in a few weeks generated the tunes you have here. They emerged organically, evolving out of jams, so that each band member was able to contribute. Early this year the band went to the Coast studio in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , and in a live, jazz-like manner, recorded the tracks. It's real, and it's RatDog. Evening Moods will please their old fans and earn them new ones. RatDog is a superb band, and each band member makes a solid contribution. Jay Lane (drums) and Rob Wasserman Rob Wasserman is an American Jewish double bass player who has played with Dan Hicks, Van Morrison, Oingo Boingo, Banyan, and Ratdog. Through his career, he has helped to popularize the use of the double bass in rock music. (bass) keep it swinging. Mark Karan's guitar work transformed the band, and pianist Jeff Chimenti Jeff Chimenti is an American keyboardist, best known for his ongoing work with Ratdog. He was also a member of The Dead, the continuation of the Grateful Dead. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, Chimenti began playing piano when he was four and he studied formally from is simply a jewel. The Songs... "Bury Me Standing" explores Robert Johnson Robert Johnson may refer to:
"Lucky Enough" is classic Barlow, wounded yet hopeful: "No, there ain't no saints here/ And all that kind 'o stuff/ But you may find grace/ If you're lucky enough." There are plenty of future favorites, but crowd reaction at recent shows makes it clear that "Odessa," a rowdy, up-tempo celebration of a "big-leg woman," is in the early lead. "Ashes and Glass," a philosophical take on the current world situation, echoes Weir's earlier "Throwing Stones" in the best of ways, adapting a children's song to serious issues - "If that big old moon go bust/ Ashes, ashes, dust to dust/ maybe time for one last rave/ Keep on dancin' on our own graves." Sweet yet tempered, "Welcome to the World," which we can assume is for Weir's young daughter, is "a rose for the innocent/ Fully knowing roses fail." "Two Djinn" is an account of an encounter with prophet genies, love, and life in West Marin  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , and it rocks, with a chorus that will stick in your head and make you dance -- "night come sudden, dawn be soon/ Bide my time by the dark of the moon/ My strange heroes lead me on/ When I get there they'll be gone..." A rip-snorting version of a tune Weir did with the Dead, a more recent collaboration with Robert Hunter Robert Hunter may refer to: In politics:
"October Queen" slinks slink calves, slinks unborn calves retrieved at the abattoir. Their meat, slink veal, is not authorized for consumption in most countries. Their skins are valuable because they are so fine and clean. and sleazes its bluesy way over a New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded stomp, as Weir describes an evening's entertainment with a Queen -- what sort, you decide. "The Deep End" is an instrumental stretch out. "Even So" was written in the `dark midnight of the soul.' In it, there is a garden that's "never seen the light of day." Dark garden indeed.
Musicians on this album include:
Bob Weir -- vocals, guitars
Rob Wasserman -- bass
Jay Lane -- vocals, drums
Jeff Chimenti -- vocals, keyboards
Mark Karan -- vocals, guitars
Eric Crystal -- saxophones
Matthew Kelly -- vocals, harmonica
Lyrics:
Each song, Bob Weir, and
1 "Bury Me Standing" Gerrit Graham
2 "Lucky Enough" John Barlow
3 "Odessa" Gerrit Graham and Russ Ellis
4 "Ashes & Glass" Andre Pessis
5 "Welcome to the World" John Barlow & Andre Pessis
6 "Two Djinn" Gerrit Graham
7 "Corrina" Robert Hunter
8 "October Queen" Andre Pessis
9 "The Deep End" Instrumental
10 "Even So" Gerrit Graham
Robert Hunter was the primary lyricist lyr·i·cist n. A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist. Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs lyrist of the Grateful Dead for thirty years. John Perry Barlow John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. Biography Born in Sublette County, Wyoming, Barlow attended elementary school in a one room schoolhouse. joined forces with Bob Weir in high school, and became his primary lyricist in 1971. Barlow was for many years the owner and chief errand boy of the Bar Cross Ranch of Cora, Wyoming, and in the past decade has been an internet civil rights advocate, "the Cicero of Cyberspace." Gerrit Graham began working with Bob Weir on lyrics in the early 1980's. He has been a professional actor for thirty years, appearing in more than fifty films, including "Used Cars" and "One True Thing," and most recently was a regular on the CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. series "Now and Again." Andre Pessis has written lyrics for Huey Lewis ("Walking on a Thin Line"), Bonnie Raitt, Journey, and Waylon Jennings. These are his first songs with Weir. Russ Ellis is the retired Vice-Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . |
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