Three Hours Without Looking at My Watch

Saw Grateful Shred in Austin, Texas, at the Historic Scoot Inn. Actually, I don’t know why it’s historic. I was thinking of it as a newer venue, but like somebody said a while back, when you think something was X amount of years ago, add 10 and you’re much closer. So it’s been around for a while. It’s not a place I’ve knowingly been to. What a great size of venue. That’s the one. Anything else has gotten too big. Don’t know how many people it seats, but it’s wonderful. Grateful Shred is a Grateful Dead tribute band and Grateful Dead-adjacent band, not concerned with playing it like they do, just getting the feel right. I would say more of a kind of Southern rock groove feel with the two drummers. And when I started playing in this Grateful Dead band of my own, they were the ones I gravitated to. It looks like the band has changed a lot, but the overall feel is dead on, and I just love it. The mood was great. It’s really hard for me to stay at a concert the whole time and enjoy myself,…

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