In Midnight North, he shares songwriting and lead vocal duties with Elliott Peck, a transplanted Midwesterner regarded as one of the top female singer-songwriters on the Bay Area music scene. Weve had this opportunity at Terrapin to really hone our skills., Since then, hes been recording and touring with his own band, Midnight North, a rootsy quartet that kicks off the new year with a show Jan. 18 in Terrapins Grate Room concert hall. Us younger folks are like, how are you doing this? CSNY has been a big one, big 3-part, even 4-part harmonies, is something we really dug into. Hopefully, theres a community of people who like to see live music and will appreciate it., Contact Paul Liberatore at p.liberatore@comcast.net, Where: Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, Grahame Lesh continues familys musical, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Chart: Bay Area rainfall totals for this week, Grahame Lesh continues familys musical tradition with his band. Keeping with the family theme is Alex Koford, a long time family friend whom Phil recruited to be his drummer. Its a pretty phenomenal coincidence that you both opened venues in the same year. But then, 30 years later, we have Bob doing the Sweetwater and this came up for us. Graham's wife, Valerie, gave an update on his health status and asked the fans to pray for him. As a high school kid, he was more into Metallica than the Grateful Dead, but now sees the Deads classic albums American Beauty and Workingmans Dead as influential in the country rock sound of Midnight North. A mainstay in the scene centered around Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, Grahame has joined such luminaries as The Mother Hips, Chris Robinson, Twiddle, Amy Helm, The North Mississippi All Stars, Neal Casal, Jackie Greene, Eric Krasno, ALO, and many more in singing, playing, and interpreting the American songbook. Find more great podcasts from Osiris Media, the leading storyteller in music. Executive Producers are Christina Collins and RJ Bee. P: Grateful Dead had a flash of trying to do that in the late 60s. The venues debut in March came just two months after the reopening of the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, an effort led in part by bandmate Weir. years ago, when he was just growing into the great musician he is today. Do you remember that? We sat down with Phil and Jill in Terrapin Crossroads upstairs lounge to discuss the new project. Shes the reason for that, other than the music.. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Bobby & I think I said something to the effect of, Why havent you ever played this? And I guess childhood innocence or ignorance mustve made my dad realize, Why havent we? Yeah, its really cool that they busted it out, and they did it at Fare Thee Well. A pivotal moment for the band came when Grahame met drummer Nathan Graham at a benefit show in Philadelphia in 2016. From the beginning Grahames guitar chops, powerful vocals and harmonic touch helped form the backbone of the bands sound. It wasnt the right destination, but it was the right path. In advance of the new album, Midnight North has released its first single, Long View, the bands entry into NPRs Tiny Desk Concerts contest. Grahame became buddies with Jake (who was the Giants' pitcher at the time) by bonding over Tiger, Jerry Garcia's guitar. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do. A mainstay in the scene that flowered from Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, Grahame has joined such luminaries as The Mother Hips, Twiddle, Amy Helm, The North Mississippi All Stars, Neal Casal, Jackie Greene, Eric Krasno, ALO, and many more in singing, playing, and interpreting the American songbook. We were going to find a place and plug into it and beam it up to the rock-and-roll satellite and send it all over the world. Jake and his awesome team (shoutout to Sarah Lauren and Ben!) Grahame became buddies with Jake (who was the Giants' pitcher at the time) by bonding over Tiger, Jerry Garcia's guitar. I mean, its nice we ended up here. Technically Alex and I will switch off who is the lower part and Elliott will be the higher part, but even thats flexible. After graduation, he and his wife, Claire, who works as a bookkeeper at Terrapin, moved to San Rafael. The show Saturday was stellar as always, but the highlight for me was when the whole band came to my parents' house for an early Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday. When many Grateful Dead fans talk about the band and their fellow Deadheads, they use the word family. For Grahame Lesh, though, it goes a bit deeper than that. No Opener! WebThe first person that Phil brought on was Grahame Lesh, his son. Across all of the tracks, when you think you have the band pegged for a style or a genre, all of a sudden a chorus, or a new solo or new instrument altogether, diverts the music boldly but smartly to a new sound and feel, said The Poke Around in their review of Under the Lights. Luckily I love traveling so tour life suits me well. Always focused on the song and the groove, whether it be his or another's, Grahame's music stays rooted in the present while touching on all aspects of rock, folk, blues, soul, and more. Bart Wirtz and Emiel van Rijthoven of WAAN, Michael Kuelker on The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Photo by Susana Millman, author of the soon to be released photo memoir Alive with the Dead: A Fly on the Wall with a Camera. Used with permission. His purest memory is of the avuncular Jerry Garcia. I still love it. And so, here at Terrapin, all of us, including Midnight North, are trying to play music as much as we can. I was 8, and my dad was driving me to a summer science camp, he says. Dear Abby: Why do they imply my husband is a freak? As a boy, Lesh and his family would often go on tour with his dad and the high-flying Dead when the band was one of the top-grossing touring acts in the concert business, drawing record-breaking crowds across the country. They wrote many of the songs on their last album, Under the Lights, about their experiences touring for the first time as a fledgling band. He writes about Jerry Garcia connecting with you and playing to you as you watched. Scott Adams faces 'consequence culture' as U.S. newspapers drop Dilbert, Tom Cruise's 'ditching' of Suri showcased by Judd Apatow's 'co-parenting' joke, ex-Scientology exec says. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! tour wife tour life. And if theyre searching for a role model, they need look no further than Leshs father. J: It was actually a really positive experience, for the most part. 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Weve had this opportunity at Terrapin to really hone our skills., Since then, hes been recording and touring with his own band, Midnight North, a rootsy quartet that kicks off the new year with a show Jan. 18 in Terrapins Grate Room concert hall. But in 2012, when his parents opened Terrapin Crossroads a bar, restaurant and live music venue in San Rafael the stage was set for him to enter the family business. How did you hone that? policies. So the issues in Fairfax were ultimately for the better? Plus were both in the zany sisterhood of tour wives! A group of multi-instrumentalists with songwriting roots in Folk and Americana, Midnight North is a mainstay on the stages of the national touring circuit. Graham is known for his time in WWE during the 1970s and 1980s. Lesh took piano lessons as a boy and got into the guitar as a teenager, learning the rudiments pretty much on his own. We do these crazy long shows at Terrapin Crossroads, and hes still going strong at hour four. We had to go through there. There's Always a Story represents a new chapter for Midnight North. In your fathers book, Searching for the Sound, he talks about you and your brother Brian being on the road, watching Dead concerts from the stage. Its kinda cool, though. Phil Lesh is married to his wife Jill Lesh, and the couple has two children namely Grahame Lesh and Brian Lesh. He seems himself as a part of a vibrant new music scene that has been built around the club, a kind of petri dish for young musicians to experiment and grow. They are facing mounting long-term medical-related bills. Theme music by Chris Pandolfi. Whats your take on the success of the place so far? disclosures. After the Dawes original If You Let Me Be Your Anchor, Phil Lesh made his way to the stage. A lot of celebrities do not know what to do with their money anymore in 2022. WebOn 15-3-1940 Phil Lesh (nickname: Phil) was born in Berkeley, California, United States. It was the first time someone I knew was on the news for something like that.. What does the new name mean to you? And of course we were back at it a couple of weeks later. I know my mom and her team put a lot of work into making it successful, he says. Lesh credits his mother, Jill, with being the driving organizing force behind that aggregation. Time: Doors 8:30p | Show 9:00p. But obviously thats another influence. He's been fighting so hard and God has brought him through so much.I know that our Father will bring him through whatever this is.". Based in the musical hotbed of Marin County, California, Grahame Lesh is a guitar player and singer-songwriter for Midnight North, Phil Lesh & Friends, & the Terrapin Family Band. 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Grahame and I never pass up an opportunity to visit our friends in Alabama so of course we had to go and support their event! That all changes too, similar to our influences. I didnt really have any doubts. Besides the Grateful Dead, who are some of the other musical influences the band members share? Terrapin features free bands in the bar every night, and before he knew it, Grahame was serving his apprenticeship as a working musician, playing guitar and singing with his dad and younger brother, Brian, 30, in the Terrapin Family Band. Episodes Grahame shares how it has served as the perfect place for his band Midnight North to play and rehearse. I must have been 5 or 6 when I got into space and astronauts, so I really liked the (Garcia-Robert Hunter) song Standing on the Moon, he says. Your idea of creating a clubhouse like this goes back pretty far, doesnt it? It's always a little bittersweet to leave, so at least we have cuddly dogs waiting for us when we get home! You can try things and the audience is willing to go on that journey with you.. It wasnt really much of an issue.. The band will then hit several other venues in the Northeast, including Brooklyn Bowl (Oct. 29) and Garcias at The Capitol Theatre on Halloween. Featuring The Devil Makes Three, Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain String Band, and many more. How often do you anticipate performing at Terrapin Crossroads? Its Marin, and there are so many people who are the kids of parents who were in music or other entertainment or were super-wealthy bankers, he says. Those two are a big influence for a guy and a gal singing together, and they definitely are for us, Lesh says. Last year, she released a solo album, Further from the Storm, and had her CD release show at Terrapin. April 6 - 8, 2023 Showtimes: Thur - Sat @ 8 PM! Early on it was a lot of sort of early country rock. In Midnight North, he shares songwriting and lead vocal duties with Elliott Peck, a transplanted Midwesterner regarded as one of the top female singer-songwriters on the Bay Area music scene. We want to involve everybody in the community and have them feel like this is a place for them to come hang out. are making huge strides to revitalize Mobile and the Gulf Coast, especially in the wake of this year's terrible hurricanes. The title seems to embody the pragmatic attitude Lesh and band are taking as they look at building their audience and career. I thought I knew good southern hospitality, but their crew takes it to a whole new level! I mean, this is my favorite place. P: I mean, Its my sandbox. Lesh and Peck, bassist Connor OSullivan and drummer Nathan Graham spent a great deal of 2019 on the road, nurturing a growing fan base in New York and the Northeast, and making forays into the South and southwest, hoping to establish a national footprint. P: Yeah, we learned a lot. Lesh took piano lessons as a boy and got into the guitar as a teenager, learning the rudiments pretty much on his own. We had to pull over. My dad, who had just had his knee replaced a few days before, held down the fort until the rest of the band and family arrived. Not really memories as much as flashes that go by. On this evening, hes wearing a Midnight North T-shirt, the creation of a fan. They're sounding great on this tour. IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? Jill Lesh: Weve done 50 shows already, between the Grate Room and the bar. Im always stunned when we get to watch a band like Mother Hips or players like Jason Crosby. Based in the musical hotbed of Marin County, California, Grahame Lesh is a guitar player and singer-songwriter for Midnight North, Phil Lesh & They released Under the Lights, their most successful studio album to date, in summer 2017. And thats working out pretty well, I think. In the post, which was shared last week, Valerie, who also contracted COVID-19, said that her husband has "developed chills, cough and nausea. The goal is to keep doing it and have a go of it as a group. The musician his starsign is Pisces and he is now 82 years of age. Im not gonna talk shit about anybody, but there are a lot of people in the jam band scene that arent songwriter first, I think, and the Grateful Dead were amazing players and amazing at jamming, but those songsMy God, all of Bobbys songs, the Jerry songs, the few that my dad wrote, theyre stunning compositions. My Mom and Jill and I got up early to cook together while Phil and Grahame went to go pick out wine pairings. Graham's wife, Valerie, gave an update on his health status and asked the fans to pray for him. In the post, which was shared last week, Valerie, who also contracted COVID-19, said that her husband has "developed chills, cough and nausea. Maybe three shows a week instead of four. I started playing music with two folks and sort of informally jamming with Connor and our original drummer Eric, and Conor brought in Elliott, whos our other singer. We started dating in college ten (?!) Were trying to create whats cool to us, going back to the roots of what we like, blending it all together in our own way.. So the thought of crossroads really seemed to describe what we were looking to do. My brother and I would just run around from area to area, and eventually wed run into everyone.. That, of course, didnt happen. I think its really cool that someone at his level in the pop world and in like the guitar world would turn his energy to the Grateful Dead catalog. And they can sell out football stadiums for five shows?. Have you been keeping an eye on the local scene? Shes the reason for that, other than the music.. These Are The 15 Hottest Wives And Girlfriends Of Hollywood! Following an ill-fated attempt to open a venue in Fairfax, he and wife Jill, who live in Ross, bought the former Seafood Peddler restaurant along San Rafaels scenic canal in February and converted it within weeks into a warm, modern restaurant/venue called Terrapin Crossroads (Terrapin Station was the name of the ninth Grateful Dead studio album). Obligatory wedding picture with the whole Terrapin Crossroads crew. After graduating from Stanford University in 2010 with a masters degree in music, Grahame Lesh, 33-year-old scion of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, wasnt sure if he wanted to follow in his famous fathers footsteps, trying to make a career for himself as a professional rock musician. The place was conceived as a home away from home, a community center, and a comfortable place for Phil to play whether with big-name acts or with sons Grahame and Brian, both in their twenties without having to hit the road. I assumed Id always be playing music, but I figured it could be a hobby.. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE. WebPhil is in a blissful marriage with his wife Jill. Yes, father of: Grahame Lesh & Brian Lesh. As one of the few male-female lead duos in rock, Lesh and Peck have been inspired by the collaboration between Grammy winners Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks, the husband-wife team in the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Midnight North's new live album "Selections from Levon Helm Studios", co-produced by Grahame, was released in May of 2022 to celebrate Midnight North's legendary show at Levon Helm Studios in November of 2019. In early 2012 they played their first show as Grahame Lesh & Friends. People come up to me on the street and theyll say things like, Well, thank you for building that here, or, I havent come down yet, but Ive got to because everybodys talking about it. So I think people really know that its here and are interested and are planning to come down. 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