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Rich Robinson and Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes and Slash perform onstage during the FIREAID Benefit Concert for California Fire Relief at The Kia Forum on January 30, 2025 in Inglewood

[krispyweiss]

Archival “Unbroken Chain” Captures Phil Lesh & Friends at 2005 Apex

Despite more than 100 musicians passing through its revolving doors over a quarter-century of concerts, Phil Lesh & Friends were an “Unbroken Chain” anchored by their namesake former Grateful Dead bassist.

Released in wake of Lesh’s Oct. 25 death, an audience-shot video of the Oct. 9, 2005, lineup performing “Unbroken Chain” in New Jersey illustrates and soundtracks Lesh’s counterintuitive wisdom.

With Barry Sless on lead guitar, John Molo manning the kit and Mookie Siegel on keys, the band (with Larry Campbell and Chris Robinson playing electric and acoustic guitar, respectively) nails the “Chain”’s tricky tempo changes and polyrhythmic instrumental sections with the tightness of a seasoned group of players.

Lesh sings his composition passionately, while both holding down and pushing along the song with his inimitable style of bass playing. It serves as a reminder of the new ground Lesh continued to explore in his post-Dead career and stands as another reason to thank the folks who spent decades recording Lesh’s exploits so the rest of us may revel in them for decades more.

10/28/24

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Dust to Dust Artist: Chris Robinson Cover A for Ashbringer Issue 4 (2009)

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The Black Crowes with Jimmy Page - The Wanton Song

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The Black Crowes, 1992 photographed by Ross Halfin

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The Black Crowes, early 90s

scanned from 35mm slide

📸: Jeff Tisman

if you like my scans and want to help out you can do so here

[myvinylplaylist]

Slash: Orgy Of The Damned (2024)

Cover Artwork By Toni Greis

Snakepit Records

[bayareabadboy]

Happy Birthday to Chris Robinson, singer for The Black Crowes, and the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, born 12/20/1966.

[angelstills]

Miss Independent (2008)

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[rodpower78]

Slash jamming with the Black Crowes, Marquee Club, NYC, 1990.

[mycollectionmylife]

Rich Robinson and Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes and Slash perform onstage during the FIREAID Benefit Concert for California Fire Relief at The Kia Forum on January 30, 2025 in Inglewood

Ross Ralfin 📷

[krispyweiss]

Song Review(s): Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes - “Bring it on Home” and “No Speak No Slave” (Live)

From the annals of a far-too-short-lived rock ‘n’ roll collaboration comes previously unreleased and freshly remastered music from Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes.

And though the Crowes arguably owe more to the Mick Taylor-era Rolling Stones than Page’s Led Zeppelin, “Bring it on Home” and “No Speak No Slave,” the lead singles from the 25th-anniversary edition of Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek (March 14) reinforce the idea this unlikely partnership imploded far too early.

“Bring it on Home” forgoes Zep’s arrangement for more-traditional blues fused with 1970s-flavored rock even as Chris Robinson channels - without imitation - Robert Plant. It’s a wonder this didn’t make the original LP; but it is thankfully one of 16 such numbers hauled from the vault from this release.

“It was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to play these amazing … songs with the man who composed them,” Rich Robinson said of Page. “The sound of the new mixes and extra songs blew me away when I first heard them.”

The remastered “No Speak No Slave” is also quite the workout with Page weaving threads of the mighty Zep into the left channel of the Crowes’ original.

Together, the songs encapsulate what Page called “those alchemical moments” the gigs contained.

Grade card: Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes - “Bring it on Home” and “No Speak No Slave” (Live) - A/A-

2/13/25

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Naxxramas Artist: Chris Robinson Cover A for Ashbringer Issue 3 (2008)

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Steven Tyler, Chris Robinson, Jimmy Page and Rich Robinson after a recent Black Crowes concert in England.

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Speaking of Stephen Stills,

don’t you think Audley Freed gives his guitar playing a tip of the hat here?