[ATTENDED: February 7, 2020] Garcia Peoples
I saw Garcia Peoples on New Year’s Eve eve at a Phish after party. The show was great with them playing their new 30 minute song “One Step Behind” as well as a few others. For that show, their original bassist Derek Spaldo was in town (after this Philly show I talked to Tom Malach and he told me that Spaldo lives in Chicago and tours with them when he can–sometimes they are a six-piece band). That show was great. It was the second time I’d seen them playing a short set and I really wanted to catch them as a headliner. So I was pretty excited to see that they’d be playing Boot & Saddle (even if I’d only seen them a month ago I wanted to check them out again).
When I arrived the place was pretty empty, but by the time Garcia Peoples went on, it had filled in nicely. I was intrigued by the diversity of ages in the crowd–a lot of old Dead-heads and a few younger frat boy types as well as a lot of (drunk?) women. I am also pretty certain that Chris Forsyth was in the audience.
The crowd was responsive and really appreciative whenever the guys played some impressive soloing (which was often).
I was intrigued to see that Spaldo was not with them this time but bassist Andy Cush was. Cush played with them when I first saw them. This means that there are two guys who know the bass parts to their songs. Pretty cool. (more…)
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