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March 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Keith Olsen
Reports are coming in just now that record producer and sound engineer Keith Olsen has died. There’s a chance that you have several records he had a hand in as part of your record collection. Put another way, there’s almost no chance his fingerprints aren’t all over the albums you know and love. He’s perhaps […]Archive
September 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Robert Hunter
Robert Hunter has died – sad news. He was 78. He occupied an interesting space. He was the primary lyricist for the Grateful Dead and was a silent member but also the heart and soul of the band. Hunter met Jerry Garcia, pre-Dead, when the two were in a bluegrass group. Hunter would go on […]Archive
June 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 120 – Sam Cutler
Welcome to episode 120 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Sam Cutler was tour manager for The Rolling Stones during their infamous 1969 tour of America, he went on to work for The Grateful Dead. You can see him in a small handful of documentaries focussed on that era […]Archive
December 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Live Without A Net: Best or Worst – It’s My Favourite Live Album by The Dead
I was thinking, the other day, about The Grateful Dead, specifically the band’s live album from 1990, Without A Net. It might not be a classic, it might in fact be awful – but it’s one of my favourites…it’s one of my favourite live albums, one of my favourite Grateful Dead collections – and for […]Archive
October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Weir: Blue Mountain
Bob Weir Blue Mountain SMG Here the former Grateful Dead co-frontman sits up with a set of cowboy tunes, campfire songs – and even if his big production cost was the time taken to grow that beard it was time/money well spent – for this is Weir’s best set of songs since way back to […]Archive
September 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Day of the Dead
Various Artists: Day of the Dead 4AD Though not as flat-out god-awful as the staggeringly bad Paul McCartney tribute album last year this multi-disc Grateful Dead tribute album is nearly as point-missingly bad and deserves extra points off for its blatant “cool” factor. At least The Art of McCartney wasn’t trying to be cool, it […]Archive
September 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman