ELECTRIC ON THE EEL - NEW JERRY GARCIA BAND LIVE RELEASE

ELECTRIC ON THE EEL: NEW JERRY GARCIA BAND LIVE RELEASE – AVAILABLE 3/15/19The Jerry Garcia Family and Round Records are proud to announce Electric On The Eel, a six-CD box set featuring three standout Jerry Garcia Band shows from 1987, 1989, and 1991 which was held on the banks of the Eel River in Piercy, CA. While the box set focuses on the electric shows at Eel River, the complete Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band set from August 29th, 1987 – Acoustic On The Eel – is included as a bonus disk available exclusively with pre-order at your local, independent record Store or https://jerrygarcia.com.

These historic performances happened at the request of an old friend, Wavy Gravy, and Jerry Garcia first performed at semi-secluded venue on August 29, 1987. The concert was a fundraiser for Wavy’s Hog Farm and was co-produced and promoted by Bill Graham. Surrounded by mountains, evergreens, and redwoods, the intimate setting of Eel River provided for three transcendent performances in a picturesque summer getaway for heads’ over the course of five years.

The Jerry Garcia Band was in its prime, featuring its most celebrated lineup with Jerry, Melvin Seals, John Kahn, David Kemper, Gloria Jones, and Jacklyn LaBranch.Each set of electric music features the JGB’s signature renditions of classics, standards, originals, and some surprises all performed with the soul, passion, and playfulness the band had become known for. Fan-favorite covers include Van Morrison’s “And It Stoned Me,” The Manhattans’ “Shining Star” and the unquestionable highlight of the release, the rousing cover of Eric Clapton’s “See What Love Can Do” from August 10th, 1991.

There are rumors that a Jerry Garcia-Themed Jazz Venue Could Come to West Loop’s Old Wishbone site in Chicago. The space could soon be turned into a lively jazz venue paying homage to Jerry Garcia. Brooklyn Bowl owner Peter Shapiro, who also founded the jam fest Lock’n Fest and produced the Grateful Dead reunion concerts at Soldier Field in July 2015, is the person behind the push for this project to happen. So far, nothing is set in stone.

DEEP PURPLE TO RECORD NEW ALBUM IN 2019

Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse said the band was going to record what will be its 21st studio album during 2019 and hinted at the possibility of U.S. tour dates.Some people thought that 2017’s “Infinite” was speculated to be their final release because the associated tour was titled the “Long Goodbye.” But apparently this isn’t so. Morse, said in a recent video interview with Andertons Music Co. at this year’s NAMM music convention, that there will be two albums, one for Deep Purple and one for Flying Colors, a prog rock band that Morse also works with.

He also added, that there’s more Deep Purple gigs happening but they haven’t been announced yet and there may be some U.S. dates as well. In a previous interview, Morse predicted his colleagues would keep working even after the band finally ended its career. “I also plan to stay in music, but not so actively as now,” he said. “it’s impossible in one day to abandon it. In general, I know that the guys are not going to retire. They would rather die onstage than in bed.” Singer Ian Gillan said last year that while the band was definitely moving toward retirement, there was still some time remaining. “We’re so close to the end now within a year or two, three, four. Who knows? But it’s close,” he reported.Will Glenn Hughes be a part of this new album? Probably not, Glenn Hughes says that he has no interest in performing Deep Purple's classic songs with the current version of the group.

More recently, he has been playing various hits and deep cuts from the Deep Purple catalog, including "Burn", "Stormbringer", "Sail Away" and "Smoke On The Water", as part of his "Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple Live" tour, which was launched in 2017 and is still touring all over the world. The fans will most likely see a new Deep Purple album released later in the year..

Rolling Stones – The New Tour, New Album – Retirement?

After 57 years as a band, the Rolling Stones will be playing to stadium crowds this spring in the U.S., the country he calls the band’s “original hunting ground.” The latest leg of the band’s No Filter tour, kicks off April 20th at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, and will mark the group’s first U.S. shows since 2015’s Zip Code tour, which also includes cities like Jacksonville, Florida, which they haven’t played in decades

Rolling Stones – The New Tour, New Album – Retirement? After 57 years as a band, the Rolling Stones will be playing to stadium crowds this spring in the U.S., the country he calls the band’s “original hunting ground.” The latest leg of the band’s No Filter tour, kicks off April 20th at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, and will mark the group’s first U.S. shows since 2015’s Zip Code tour, which also includes cities like Jacksonville, Florida, which they haven’t played in decades. When asked about the difference in touring the U.S. today as opposed to when they first visited, Richards recalled the Stones "used to do it in a station wagon. America was a very different place in the middle ’60s. Quite honestly, I can’t believe I’ve been around this long, man. I’ve watched this country grow up. I know it better than most Americans, because I’m older!” Overall, the band has said that they have had a great time touring and the past U.K. tour dates were basically rehearsals for the U.S. leg of it. There will probably be some change up in the U.S. Tour compared to the to the last 2018 stops depending on the stadiums.

When Keith Richards is asked about a new 2019 album, lately he’s been saying that it will be coming out in 2019 yet doesn’t offer up any committed time frame for it. It’s in the early stages of the process. There have been studio sessions happening “Mick and I got together for a few days a month or so ago in the studio, just playing around,” Richards told Rolling Stone in a new interview. “Apart from that, there might be a session sometime in December, but I’m not crossing my fingers on that.” He said the recent session "was great. We knocked out a few songs together with [producer] Don Was. We’re just working things through. We had a great time and got some nice stuff out of it.” It was insinuated that it will most likely come to fruition towards the end of the tour or early next year.

We wonder what the Stones would say if someone told them back in the 60s and 70s that they would still be touring while in their mid-70s? hmmm...As for retirement? There currently is no plans to do this in the near future.