by talkfromtherockroom | Jul 18, 2026 | Reviews
Delaware-based blues guitarist J. P. Reali is an accomplished musician who has released three independent albums over a career spanning more than 20 years. In a departure from his usual mode of operation, Reali, a lifelong Grateful Dead fan, has applied his own...
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 | Dec 2, 2021 | Now Showing, Reviews
Now Playing in the ‘rock room’ is a long time circulating audio and video performance by the Grateful Dead. Taking place on August 30, 1970 and broadcast on KQED San Francisco as well as local television the performance has long been a favorite of...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 22, 2021 | Live Reviews, Put the Boot In, Reviews
As Summer turned to Fall in 1968, a gathering of tribes and a collaborative of some of the most famed musicians on the planet joined as one at a nondescript berry farm in Sultan, Washington. The purpose, a cosmic weekend of mind-bending music. The Sky River Rock...
