friends, we’ve the reached the “scarlet begonias” episode of the good ol’ #GratefulDead-cast & it is W-I-L-D. alongside the studio multitracks (& a supercut thereof) & excellent jams, we’ve got vampire weekend’s chris tomson, the story of how robert hunter met the woman in scarlet begonias, and... https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias#podcast /1
today’s deadcast includes an interview with one of the 2 people in this photograph! photographer/filmmaker lee jaffe (& ron rakow) on the never-told true story of how the the #GratefulDead came legitimately close to signing #BobMarley to their own record company in early 1974?! (not hallucinated by a chatbot!) https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias#reggae /2
I think more than any genre I am at the moment enjoying #reggae on #vinyl – also, I have so much still to discover here; to my shame I only vaguely knew this fantastic Birmingham (UK) band until recently.
Dread Zeppelin – “Un-Led-Ed” (1990)
UK release on I.R.S. Records
Limited edition picture disc LP
These guys were so fun, and I still really enjoy this album. I love when a band has a gimmick (mixing genres, mimicking famous bands, etc.) that they commit so fully to while also having the skills to really pull it off. ZEPPELIN MUSIC INNA REGGE STYLE!
I mean, even Robert Plant endorsed these guys, saying their version of “Your Time Is Gonna Come” was better than the original 🤯
And they were from Sierra Madre, CA. For me, that town is best known for where they keep all the floats right before the start of the Rose Parade. 🌹