Joe Russo’s Selcouth Quartet

They are wonderful 

Cool...

I share your disdain for imitators. Get a life!

The recent nugs broadcast was outstanding.

Also, check out LaMP.

I like it! 

Tribute bands pay the bills so these type of side projects see the light of day.

This harkens back to the Benevento/Russo Duo, but I don't recall that group ever talked up on the old zone.

If Russo hadn't hooked into the GD scene, would this thread exist?

((octorusso))

russos side projects are to low profile to get discussion on the zone if he never linked up with the GD world, but i think if he hadnt and then just continued with the duo we'd probably be talking about them today.

on the old zone we used to have yearly phil tours to discuss and IME there is more desire to talk about other music during the txr years and especially now.

Refreshing to have a player in the GD universe play such different music and play it so well. Good tunes!

Jerry did it all the time.

I saw and met Russo in 2000 for the first time via a truly hip girlfriend. His works and collaborations outside Dead world are more interesting than his time in GD world for me, no contest. 

His works and collaborations outside Dead world are more interesting than his time in GD world for me, no contest. 

in part i agree with this, but also if youre just looking at the improvisations/jams JRAD is preforming, i think in a way youve got the peak of this groups live music careers and playing. if you took out the dead songs and replaced them with great original music, the JRAD unit playing the improvisations and jams they do now would be a more exiting show than most or all of their side project material. if you block out all the cover band aspects its hard to find more well played face melting improv than what JRAD provides.

i still think they are missing a huge opportunity by not slowly dialing back the GD material and replacing it with songs from all the band members catalogs. youve got the duo, marcos solo stuff, lamp, wolf, american babies, chris harford, ween, and way more than i can remember or list here. they could even bring livetronica stuff into the mix with joe having had such a major role in the shpongle live and, hamilton having been in brothers past and scott having played a few tours with molitz in particle. a song like particle's "elevator" coming out of a big psychedelic jam number like the other one is a HUGE  treat.

i get that the GD thing is whats putting the meat in the seats but they could easily work in a few original songs per night and still call themselves almost dead and draw the same GD crowd. open with a dead song, encore with a dead song, throw a few other jammy crowd pleasers in there, and id wager thats more than enough to fill the seats. play some duo or ween or something, work a wolf instrumental into the middle of playin or dark star, fucking something!