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Interview with Dave Onigman, CEO of JamBase

Reid: You and the team at JamBase have done some really inventive and innovative stuff over the years and continue to. What are some of the JamBase projects that have come out of Covid?

David: Two big ones I’m so incredibly proud of the JamBase team and everything that everyone has been doing since COVID.. The second is the brand new Jambase Live Video Archive. What we’ve built is this incredible cross-referenced database of live music videos, and all the metadata required to make it happen. For example, a full show on YouTube has little or no information on what performer(s) are in it, or what date the show is from, or what songs are in it and at what time they start. But that YouTube video’s entry in JamBase does. Continue reading

Pete Shaprio, friend and concert promoter is responsible for getting Strangefolk back together in 2012. The way I remember it is he got us all on a conference call. None of us really said much and he sort of told us, in a benevolent way, how it was going to be. “Ok I’m re-opening The Capitol Theatre and you guys are gonna cut the crap, get over it already, get back together by opening the theatre, two nights. It will be epic. Am I right? I’m right! Peace!” Click. All I know is we’ve been playing together again ever since. this is an article about Pete and the intimate relationship we’ve had with him as part of the Strangefolk Lore.

Scott: … I love music so much since my earliest memory, and to me it's all a continuum of sound and vibration, not limited by category or genre or even instrument. It is Music with a capital "M." There is a thread that runs through it all. A few rules to guide but it's part of the language of the universe and we are here to speak through and support that communication. We know it's real when we hear AND feel it.

Josiah: I think I should put my love for Strangefolk in context. Jerry Garcia is the only person I’ve ever truly loved without having met. I loved/love that man. Nothing has ever made me feel the way his guitar makes me feel. And, while he may not have had the best voice of all time, he was an incredible storyteller. The way he would embody the characters in the songs he’d sing, the way he could emote, and bring you along for whatever emotional ride that character had been through, like he’d lived it himself, the way he sang from his heart and then would take you soaring through the cosmos with his guitar work, he was a very special human. So, when we lost Jerry in 1995, I thought that I’d never get to feel that way about music ever again. It was heartbreaking, even though we all knew it was coming. And like so many of us, I felt lost.

And then… I found Strangefolk.

Reid: I'm sure you sense it, but sometimes it’s easier to see from the outside. From where I sit your star is on the rise.  Are there a couple of holy shit moments from the last few years that stand out as markers in your musical career?

Elliott: I've definitely had a few "pinch me" moments in the past couple years of my career. I'd say number one was singing to a sold out crowd at Red Rocks Amphitheater with Phil Lesh and The Terrapin Family Band, and also number one was sharing a stage with Sheryl Crow and Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) at Newport Folk Festival this past summer- on the same stage Bob Dylan first played an electric set.

2020: “EXTENDED RELEASE” LIVE ALBUM

“Extended Release” is a collection of select songs from 2019 tour dates, 11 songs from 3 venues: The Brooklyn Bowl (NY), The Great American Music Hall (CA) and the Jerry Jam Festival (NH).  A full preview of the album is available to stream or download today. For those that couldn’t make it to the shows its a window into the meaning of the music, for those who were there its a chance to relive little moments musical transformation, for those who were “over served” its a chance to remember what it was that happened and hear themselves scream “Free Bird” in the background while the band grimaced.. 

Jason Crosby: i didn’t really start really listening to non-classical music until my teens. I saw Pink Floyd when I was 13 and that changed my life, but I never really applied it to my music. I was still entering classical competitions, touring around the world with a youth orchestra, and honestly not really thinking I would be a professional musician! 

In 1990/91 I saw God Street Wine at the Wetlands and then things changed. I had just started listening to Phish, GD, and others of that ilke, but never seen it live. I don’t know, maybe it was the “steak”, but when I saw that show at the Wetlands I heard all of these keyboard ideas in my head while they were playing. It was a revelation. I decided at that moment I wanted to play in bands.  Read more…

Danny Eisenberg has an inspired musical voice. He expresses himself stylistically and emotionally through his music in a way that is uniquely Danny. What’s so wonderful about this fair haired, flip flop wearing Californian is that his playing so poignantly reflects his personality. As Miles Davis so famously said “It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play” that make for a musical statement. Danny has infected me with his music and his bright eyed charm and through the things he choses to embrace and those he lets lie. - Reid

Insider trading with Dan “LEBO” Lebowitz, lead guitarist of the Animal Libeation Orchestra (ALO), singer-songwriter, and pedal steel power house. Dan is one hell of a musician, one hell of a good human and as you see in this interview one hell of an articulate dude. LEBO offers really insightful thoughts about his approach to music, his prolific career and some endearingly vulnerable nuggets about his many musical roles including sideman for Phil Lesh and Jack Johnson #Badass. Please make welcome my mustache rockin’ friend LEBO on lead rock guitar(s)

Having lived in NYC I had heard Scott Metzger’s name for years but I didn’t really know his music. So one day I googled him, went on his website and listened to some tunes (note this was before JRAD) and I had a hard time telling what his “thing” was. As you’ll see in this interview I was not just being a dolt (although I have that propensity) It turns out Scott doesn’t have “A THING” he has many. I remember saying to Jason Crosby “he sounds amazing but does he speak jamband” After seeing Scott perform with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead in front of 30,000 people losing their minds I think its safe to say he does. That said of all the material I’ve listened to or watched the video that blew me away the most is Scott playing and singing Richard Thompson. It gave me the chills.

John Leccese is the lead rock bass player and founding member of Assembly of Dust. He and I have known each other for more than 20 years.   He is my musical compadre, confidant and one of my closest friends. John wears many hats in Assembly of Dust including musical director (he knows the songs better than I do), setlist writer (he knows the songs better than I do), master of the one-eyed stage shame hammer (he knows the songs better than I do).  In addition to being my broseph and our musical map John has a host of wonderful approach to life. His personality is like his bass playing - buoyant. 

Dave Diamond: “I think about music through lens of drumming. I love to groove and I’m hyper sensitive as to how the feel is working. I’m always reading the energy in the room and trying to asses if the groove is translating with the band and to the audience. I want to make sure they’re all relating to it. “

From that first homegrown "Sanford and Son" sunny weekend in 1996 to this day Eden lives on as the heart of an organism composed of band, songs, fans, friends, families and indelible memories.  We look forward to seeing you at this year’s Eden in the meantime here are some awesome memories and photos contributed byyou the  Strangefolk community. Be Good To Each Other