Sunny Day Strut

01/20/2023

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Remembering Bear on what would have been his 88th birthday.

📷 Alvan Meyerowitz

"Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011) was an American audio engineer and clandestine chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade’s counterculture. Under the professional name Bear, he was the soundman for the rock band the Grateful Dead, whom he met when Ken Kesey invited them to an Acid Test party. As their sound engineer, Stanley frequently recorded live tapes behind his mixing board and developed their Wall of Sound sound system, one of the largest mobile public address systems ever constructed...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

12/14/2022

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Today's Menu at Café Dead
December 14

*68 The Bank, Torrance CA
*69 Aquarius, Los Angeles CA
71 UMich Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor MI
80 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA
90 McNichols Arena, Denver CO

*no recording available

04/02/2021

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Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972), guitar virtuoso and folk-blues giant, moved from Durham, N.C. to NYC, where he struggled for years as a blind street singer and storefront preacher. An instructor at Brownie McGhee’s Harlem-based folk music school, Davis served as a mentor to a generation of acoust...

02/22/2021

02/19/2021

This song was written by the lead guitarist of the Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen, about the impending breakup of the band at the height of their popularity.

02/11/2021

Sunny Day Strut performing Hot Tuna's 'Watch the North Wind Rise'

12/27/2020

It’s with a heavy heart that I mourn the loss of my dear friend and colleague, Tony Rice, who passed away yesterday. Tony was the original guitarist in my quintet and his playing established a standard for acoustic flat-top playing that remains unequaled to this day. I’ll never forget the time, shortly after we started playing together, that Tony said to me, “I can’t write tunes.” I told him that he absolutely could, and the very next day he came in with his first composition, “Swing ’51”, which we recorded on the first DGQ LP. I’d like to share that performance with you all. Rest in peace, “T”. "Swing 51" link: https://youtu.be/rbDf4sutxUU