Gov’t Mule “Jam”-“Shakedown Street” 9//9/25 Chicago. Featuring members of the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Warren Haynes playing 1975 Doug Irwin “Ruby Nipples”.
Photo courtesy of the Big House Museum.
Someone was throwing this away at the local tip. I put a bit of contact cleaner in it and it sounds great. Not quite as rich and clear as a decent valve amp but surprisingly good for an old 90s solid state thing and really loud. I'm enjoying it before giving it to a local music charity since I got it for free.
Long time I've wanted one of these. Sounds so good. These should have been far more popular.
Tedeschi Trucks Band and Lukas Nelson wrapped a run of joint tour dates on Sunday in San Diego, where the country music scion joined the 12-piece blues battalion for Neil Young‘s “Helpless.”
The Tedeschi Trucks Band have resumed its extensive summer tour and is now making its way across the Golden State. On Wednesday the group appeared at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. Last night, TTB was at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Then, it's on to Rady Shell at Jacobs Park in San Diego on Sunday, followed by an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl on Monday.
Many of their instrumentals are among my favorites, so it would be a no-brainer for me.
Abdullah Ibrahim, the South African jazz pianist deemed his country's equivalent to Mozart by Nelson Mandela, died Monday in his adopted home of Germany after a short illness. He was 91 years old.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/15/846195598/abdullah-ibrahim-south-africa-obituary
We sucked but it was fun.
h/t gaydotlea on twitter
When Susan Tedeschi was growing up in Norwell, Mass. during the 1980s, she first heard the music of Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead performed live, albeit indirectly.
“As a teenager, I was a fan of this band called Metamorphosis,” she recalls. “They would play the Grateful Dead, along with Marshall Tucker, the Rolling Stones and some others. I wasn’t allowed to go to those kinds of concerts, but I would go see Metamorphosis and they would cover them. Then when I was 14, I was in a band and we played ‘U.S. Blues’ at a party, although I still didn’t fully get the Grateful Dead.”
That revelation came later. In the fall of 2002, Tedeschi jumped into the deep end and joined Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann the first time they toured together following the death of Jerry Garcia, performing as The Other Ones, with Rob Barraco, Jeff Chimenti and Jimmy Herring. Her relationship with Weir blossomed from there, and he would later appear with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, while she played with Wolf Bros and the collaborative group he assembled for the 2024 Dead Ahead destination event.
https://relix.com/articles/detail/susan-tedeschi-talks-bob-weir-joy-to-the-world/