That is a good show from Herring. For me, about the best, or at least most interesting of the post-Dead bands was the Phil Lesh & Friends version now called "the quintet" by the people who keep track of those things - from 2001 - 2005, it was Jimmy Herring and Warren Haynes. They really brought out the more adventuresome side of each other, really listening and prodding each other.
And they could do a whole set without playing "Sugar Magnolia!" :laughing11: :laughing3: :laughing7: :toothy12: :laughing7: :laughing3: :laughing11:
Or they'd massacre it, make a heavy-metal polka out of it or something. (And IMO, hiring John Kadlecik was about the last soggy nail in that whole soggy coffin.)
The absolute best possible thing that can happen to a guitar player of that caliber is to go out on stage night after night, standing right next to somebody that you know is, in a sharing & tolerant hippie-brotherhood kind of way, going to rip out yer guts and splatter the stage with your brains (in a loving-kindness fashion) if you aren't bringing the "A" game, every single night, every single song. Certainly true of the Haynes/Derek Trucks pair; there's a lot of predictable slide guitarists, IMO never more than 8 or 10 really popping at once - and Warren Haynes is one of the 10 too. Trucks gets more adulation, but Gov't Mule is the test tube for some of their incomparable covers - NOBODY in their right mind tries to cover "1983 - A Merman I Should Hope to Be" - right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVk0ljkgDjY
I bought Herring's first album with high hopes, but it's really dull - about a few days later, I read a magazine article where he said he wanted to concentrate on the writing, and NOT make just another flashy guitar geek record.
Hey, Hippie - who's been payin' yer rent the last 15 years.... :icon_scratch:
On the other hand he's written a few guest columns for mags and every single one of them gave me new stuff to play and think about. I'd buy a book in a heartbeat. And I wish he'd join a better band (kinda feel the same way about Trucks & Haynes... :laughing7: )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rehayirl_xI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vUKQfrGwhc
And they could do a whole set without playing "Sugar Magnolia!" :laughing11: :laughing3: :laughing7: :toothy12: :laughing7: :laughing3: :laughing11:
Or they'd massacre it, make a heavy-metal polka out of it or something. (And IMO, hiring John Kadlecik was about the last soggy nail in that whole soggy coffin.)
The absolute best possible thing that can happen to a guitar player of that caliber is to go out on stage night after night, standing right next to somebody that you know is, in a sharing & tolerant hippie-brotherhood kind of way, going to rip out yer guts and splatter the stage with your brains (in a loving-kindness fashion) if you aren't bringing the "A" game, every single night, every single song. Certainly true of the Haynes/Derek Trucks pair; there's a lot of predictable slide guitarists, IMO never more than 8 or 10 really popping at once - and Warren Haynes is one of the 10 too. Trucks gets more adulation, but Gov't Mule is the test tube for some of their incomparable covers - NOBODY in their right mind tries to cover "1983 - A Merman I Should Hope to Be" - right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVk0ljkgDjY
I bought Herring's first album with high hopes, but it's really dull - about a few days later, I read a magazine article where he said he wanted to concentrate on the writing, and NOT make just another flashy guitar geek record.
Hey, Hippie - who's been payin' yer rent the last 15 years.... :icon_scratch:
On the other hand he's written a few guest columns for mags and every single one of them gave me new stuff to play and think about. I'd buy a book in a heartbeat. And I wish he'd join a better band (kinda feel the same way about Trucks & Haynes... :laughing7: )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rehayirl_xI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vUKQfrGwhc
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