by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 30, 2026 | Popular, Reviews
A long circulating and important glimpse of the formative Grateful Dead will receive a widespread official release on its 60-year anniversary date. Grateful Dead, Fillmore Auditorium 1966, was first included in the huge 2015 career spanning box set 30 Trips Around the...
by talkfromtherockroom | May 22, 2022 | Put the Boot In, Reviews
Spinning today in the ‘rock room’ is the earliest circulating live recording of the Grateful Dead. While the group played their first live show in May of 1965, here we find the first recorded documentation of a ‘Primal Dead’ show....
by talkfromtherockroom | Sep 27, 2019 | Reviews, Tools of the Trade
Today in the rock room we examine one of the most famous guitars in the annals of rock and roll history. Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson’s 1965 Fender Telecaster traveled the globe, was cheered and jeered on the road while also being played on many of rock and...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jul 3, 2019 | Reviews, Take One
Playing today in the ‘rock room’ is a revolutionary, ‘proto-psychedelic’,‘A’ side single from the summer of 1966. Recorded by the highly influential but not always mainstream Los Angeles group “Love”, the track, “7 By & Is” b/w “No. Fourteen” was cut...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 10, 2017 | Now Playing, Reviews
Now playing in the ‘rock room’ is a historic slice of celluloid featuring the revolving guitar line up of the amazing ‘Yardbirds’. This particular footage finds the group in the midst of their Summer 1966 European tour. The band at this point was...
