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Your Music Magazine |
Friends From Up North and Around the Bay |
Shady Groove has had a wild ride in
the last year. A second place finish in the Metro Goldies
for best local band and a series of great shows with the excellent
musical guests culminated in their performance at the Avalon Ballroom
in March. After The Dead played The Warfield on
Valentine's Day, SG rocked the Avalon 'till six in the morning
and that raucous occasion let to them being invited to play with
Vince Welnick from the The Grateful Dead and Barry Sless
from the New Riders, and the jams were thick and juicy.
Highlights included a spacey version of The Beatles song "Tomorrow
Never Knows" with Vince on vocals and Barry adding
sweet pedal steel licks on the ShoBud, to songs such as Jerry Brown's
original "Looking Through The Window".
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Essay Magazine |
Voices Of Our Community |
Shady Groove is a rockin’ dance band
covering The Jerry Garcia Band catalogue and a variety of roots
psychedelic territory. Shady Groove’s audiences are growing fast. Enjoy
the molten, cascading guitar riffs and soulful material of a Jerry show
and hook up with old friends and kindred spirits. Or just come and
dance--madly. Jerry Garcia covers and a whole lot of very hypnotic,
roots rockin‚
psychedelic tunes.
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Santa Cruz Metro |
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Metro Goldies |
Placed 2nd
in a community survey of best bands of Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz Metro |
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In the words of his holiness the Dalai Lama, "Great life
and great love involve great risk." The same can be said of great music,
and nobody says it like Shady Groove. These cats play it like they mean
it - words and melodies that speak to the heart and a namesake groove
that speaks to your body; just try to sit down... I dare ya. Since their
humble beginnings, Jerry Brown (vocals, guitar), Matt Hartle (guitar),
Dave Faulkner (keys), Jimmy Hubbard (bass) and Brett Bailey (drums) have
cultivated a chemistry permitting death-defying leaps of harmonic faith.
When it happens, the music plays the band, no safety net required.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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Today's Best Picks |
This hip jam band plays the catalogue of the Jerry Garcia Band,
while diving into other veins of wild-eyed psychedelia, the next best
thing you can find to a Jerry fix.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel |
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Santa Cruz Style |
"A dance band that conjures up the spirit of the Jerry Garcia Band"
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Connection Magazine |
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The
neo-psychedelic and improvisational school of jamming bands covers a
wide range of musical territory. Diverse elements are blended,
according to taste with a variety of interesting results.
Santa Cruz's own, Shady Groove, is a six-piece
outfit delivering a soulful brew of funky blues and jazz infused
rock and R & B, sweetened with a touch of gospel and reggae flavors.
The bands original compositions combine dynamic
instrumental groove expeditions with melodic tunes featuring fluid,
fiery, celestial lead guitar work, growling Hammond organ, alien
synth textures and earthy piano, slinky percussive rhythm guitar,
and a powerful vocal blend riding on the deep pockets and supple
grooves of crack rhythm section.
In its choice of cover material, SHADY GROOVE is
inspired by the blues, soul and jazzy R&B excursions which have been
hallmarks of the Bay Area funk, rock and soul-jazz communities for
the past four decades.
The band utilizes these pieces as frameworks from
which to launch improvisational journeys through musical territories
both charted and uncharted.
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Good Times
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Events |
| A bewitching sextet that
ditches extraneous gimmicks in favor of
original tunes that meld
blues, jazz, rock, soul and a little
reggae thrown in for good measure.
Shady Groove takes its musical history seriously and with large
doses of respect for the Bay Area funk and soul-jazz scene. |
Links to other mentions
http://www.santa-cruz.com/archive/2002/August/01/style/stories/07style.htm
http://www.santa-cruz.com/archive/2002/April/17/local/stories/05local.htm
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