Brand new band "Almost Rad"

[Jay Funk Dawg]

I meant to post this this morning...

Almost Rad to Cover Joe Russo’s Almost Dead’s Covers of the Grateful Dead’s Covers

Building off the success of the Grateful Dead tribute act Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, a new band will make their debut at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl this January. The project, which is dubbed Almost Rad, will offer their interpretation of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead’s covers of songs that the Grateful Dead cover. Much like Almost Dead—which features Furthur drummer Joe Russo and number of other noted touring musicians—Almost Rad will draw in several Philzone.org message board favorites, including Furthur’s John K and former Melvin Seals & JGB mainstay Stu Allen on guitar.

The band’s setlist is expected to mix chestnuts like Almost Dead’s cover of the Grateful Dead’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” with rarities like Almost Dead’s cover of the Dead’s cover of Johnny Cash’s “Big River.” The band’s first 18 performances will be part of the popular Brooklyn Bowl event the NYC-Freaks Ball and tickets will be exclusively delivered via drone bots. The Kidz, a Billy & The Kids cover band, will open, the first 9 nights of the run while The Expats, a new supergroup comprised of Jeff Austin, Murph, Nigel Hall and Todd Nance, will open the remaining shows. 

From: http://www.jambands.com/news/2015/04/01/almost-rad-to-cover-joe-russo-s-almost-dead-s-covers-of-the-grateful-dead-s-covers/

[Hartamophone]

Nice one. The lineup of The Expats made me chuckle.

[Jay Funk Dawg]

from the comments section, i guess they didn't realize it was an April fools day joke:

 

 

Are they kidding a cover band now covers another cover band. Really when does this shit stop.Ive seen the realGrateful dead in1970 and this is embarrassing and a Fucking joke. Go get a real band Joe. Unless you cant play anything else. No offese to anyone who puts up with this watered down Milarkey

[Davey Boy 2.0]

haha....awesome- i bet the guy who wrote the "article" thought "That makes it all worthwhile"

 

that said when your targeted readership is hippies, it tends to lower the bar somwehat

 

[phorbesie]

hilarious, love it!

[edger]

from the comments section: Really when does this shit stop.Ive seen the realGrateful dead in1970 and this is embarrassing and a Fucking joke

 

Gold. I get a real kick out of the extremes of the spectrum here.