DeadPhish Orchestra with Steel Monkey

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The Deadphish Orchestra is a quartet of Colorado musicians who, above all, are close friends who have played together for many years. They had played Grateful Dead songs together, and they had played Phish songs together.  But they got to wondering what would happen if they tried to merge the music of these two bands, the Granddaddies and Daddies of the jamband scene.

While these two bands have their surface similarities, most fans realize that their actual musical styles are quite different. The Grateful Dead are an earthy, folky, bluesy band where Phish is sharper around the edges–funky and more aggressive. But both bands have an improvisational approach to their live shows, and it is in that spontaneity where the magic really happens.

Weekapaug Groove.  Or even stranger, like My Friend, My Friend of the Devil…or It Must Have Been The Roses Are Free.  You can see that between the vast repertoires of the two bands, the possibilities are endless.

It’s just about as much fun as humans are allowed to have.

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Steel Monkey pays tribute to the incredible Ian Anderson and the Jethro Tull Band. 

Kenny Peralez and Thomas Gronberg initiated the project because of their great admiration for the Tull sound. The current band members are Thomas Gronberg(flute/vocals/guitar), Kenny Peralez(electric and acoustic guitars), Ron Blechman(keyboards) Dan Crecco(drums) and Rick Franz(bass). Steel Monkey is loving bringing some of the most unique music in rock history to the stage and look forward to meeting all of you fellow Jethro Tull fans!