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Quarter Nates: Blurbs & Briefs from Sound Bites

- In this edition: Donna Jean Godchaux; Pearl Jam; Ozzy Osbourne; & Natalie Maines

FROM THE HEART OF THEM: Former Heart of Gold Band members Steve Kimock and Greg Anton will play two concerts, Aug. 22 and 23 in California, honoring their former HOG Bandmate and former Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia Band singer Donna Jean Godchaux, who died in 2025. Singer Maria Muldaur, keyboardist Mookie Siegel and drummer Wally Ingram are among the other musicians and guests expected to perform under the Heart of Gold Band banner.

A portion of proceeds from each show will benefit Alive Hospice and Camp Winnarainbow.

WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO KNOW: Pearl Jam has reportedly chosen the drummer to replace Matt Cameron, who quit the group in 2025. The musician will not be named until Sept. 27, when Pearl Jam takes the stage at the Ohana festival.

“There’s not enough mystery in the world,” Stone Gossard said, as reported by Rolling Stone magazine. “I think the band is very excited that we’re actually getting to play. … And the fact that nobody knows who’s going to play drums with us even makes it triply exciting. So, it’s our mystery wrapped in an enigma and we’re relishing in it right now.”

NEVER SAY DIE: Dead since 2025, Ozzy Osbourne will have a second coming as an AI-powered avatar, the Guardian newspaper reports.

There’s no word on when the fake Prince of Darkness will return.

NOT READY TO MAKE NICE: The White House resident whose name rhymes with Fondled Dump is eroding U.S. democracy, Chicks singer Natalie Maines said on social media.

“Our democracy is disappearing right before our eyes,” Maines said. “This (person) is using your gas money to pay the insurrectionists. But don’t worry about it. I’m sure posting selfies will fix everything.”

Three, Two, One … Zero is Back

- “Magic is hard to catch but impossible to forget, so Zero flies again,” band says

After reuniting periodically over the years - including a couple of shows earlier this month - Zero now appears to be an ongoing concern.

“Magic is hard to catch but impossible to forget, so Zero flies again,” the band said on its new website, where former Grateful Dead spokesman Dennis McNally is listed as the publicity contact.

The freshly reconstituted group plans to kick things back off where they began - in San Francisco - in the early 1980s with a Feb. 3, 2022, show at the Fillmore.

More dates seem certain.

“Zero has recently regrouped, re-energized and is hitting the road,” the band said.

Originally spun off from Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux’s Heart of Gold Band and featuring words from Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, the modern incarnation includes original members Steve Kimock (guitar) and Greg Anton (drums) along with keyboardist Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band), bassist Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship, David Nelson Band, Moonalice), trumpeter Hadi Al-Saadoon and singer/keyboardist Spencer Burrows, “with some special guests in the wings,” per the website.

Song Review: Greg Anton - “American Spring”

With words by late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, Greg Anton’s “American Spring” is worth hearing.

Once.

Twice tops.

With Tim Hockenberry and Stephanie Salva on vocals and set to music by former Zero drummer Anton, “American Spring” screams Hunter. But the music - with a “Go Your Own Way”-inspired guitar solo and unimaginative arrangement - makes the five-minute runtime seem longer.

Still, there’s this opening salvo:

I was born one American spring/neck in a noose, arm in a sling/rolled from my cradle, cold and numb/crawled to the road, stuck out my thumb

Totally Hunter. And while the words, written in 2003, came too late for the Grateful Dead and don’t sound like something Jerry Garcia would’ve sung, it’s easy to imagine Vince Welnick doing it.

Which would’ve been a lot better than this.

Grade card: Greg Anton - “American Spring” - D+

The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Presents Zero

TROY, NEW YORK     The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Corporation is thrilled to welcome to our stage one of the finest jazz/rock fusion “jam” bands ever!

  Zero

Sunday, May 17, 2020, 7:30 PM    Tickets:  $49.50, $39.50, $34.50

Thirty-five years ago, having met when Steve Kimock auditioned for former Grateful Dead members Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux’s Heart of Gold Band (which already had Greg…

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Ghosts Of Electricity returning to the stage after a couple years hiatus. They play the songs of Bob Dylan. fully electrified and realized by an incredible band of accomplished musicians.  Stu Allen (Mars Hotel, JGB), Mark Karan (RatDog), Mookie Siegel (David Nelson Band), Robin Sylvester (RatDog), Greg Anton (Zero).   They are playing again tonight, Saturday August 25 2018 at Terrapin Crossroads – go see them!

  Ghosts Of Electricity August 24, 2018 Grate Room Terrapin Crossroads San Rafael, CA.

Stu Allen, Mark Karan, Mookie Siegel, Robin Sylvester, Greg Anton

Set I

Maggie’s Farm Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues Meet Me in the Morning It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Queen Jane Approximately Tombstone Blues The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll Gates of Eden Silvio

Set II

Quinn the Eskimo The Times They Are A-Changin’ Shelter from the Storm Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine Idiot Wind Ballad of a Thin Man Standing in the Doorway

E: Like A Rolling Stone

setlist support from one of the Kidz, Andrew F!

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Silvio ~ Ghosts of Electricity ~ @TerrapinXroads Mookie Siegel, Greg Anton, Stu Allen, Mark Karan, Robin Sylvester #dylanandthedead

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Meanwhile at Terrapin Crossroads… "Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues" The Ghosts of Electricity w Mark Karan, Robin Sylvester, Mookie Siegel, Greg Anton, Stu Allen come see then tomorrow night too! they electrify the songs of Bob Dylan….

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VIDEO: The Rock Collection “Baby Please Don’t Go” – Sweetwater Music Hall, September 24, 2015

VIDEO: The Rock Collection – Melvin Seals, Stu Allen, Dan “Lebo’ Lebowitz, Greg Anton,  Robin Sylvester “Baby Please Don’t Go” -Sweetwater Music Hall Mill Valley CA September 24, 2015 This was shot after I had my 4th or 5th free birthday drink …  far worse than my normal dancing camera work! Enjoy! HC (~);}