There is a new sheriff on Shakedown Street and his name is The Electricians. These guys play GDead music without being a cover or a tribute band. Instead of copying the originals they are inspired by them. Sorta like Rubber Souldiers (http://www.rubbersouldiers.com/) are inspired by The Beatles. But that's another review for another day. This one is about The Electricians (http://www.the-electricians.com/).
John Zias, the lead, is a really great player. The Bass player totally nailed dropping the Bomb for The Other One. The other guitar player and drummer are also solid players with good jamming skills. The band opened up their music, which is hard for bands to pull off, to let David Gans (http://www.dgans.com/) join them for a few numbers.
These guys play Dead music with different notes. Same song, but definitely lots of different string picking done compared to everyone else, who work to hit the same notes as the Dead. The Electricians can hit those notes when they want to, of course. They deviate constantly with great success and originality, though.
They did a really good Dark Star last night. Got into a totally new and strange space, came around to coherency again, then grew The Eleven out of it as they continued on with the fine music.
The Electricians get the Roserunner stamp of approval.
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