Slingshot on Mars

The Grateful Dead in their first decade, first and foremost a a dance band. One of their solutions to filling up the time in 2 to 4 hour-long shows in those early days was to open songs up and go to new places with exploratory improvisations. In these early years the jamming always Psychedelic Grateful Dead dance party jams by Matt Hartle, Henry Kaiser, Bob Bralove, Ezra Lipp, and Roger Sideman supported dancing. Songs like: Dark Star, The Other One,

Playin' in the Band, Midnight Hour, and Good Lovin' were the typical launching pads for long jams. Slingshot on Mars will revisit those and other earlier tunes and open the open up with telepathic group improvisations, while staying in danceable grooves. A one-time only creative event that will be ultra-fun for all. This show also celebrates the release of Bralove & Kaiser's new 2-CD set: POSITIVELY SPACE MUSIC.