Join Ears of Maize on Monday, April 13th at 1pm when he airs a recent conversation with Dan Horne from the Los Angeles based group, Grateful Shred, ahead of their show at The Fillmore on April 18th.
After a meteoric rise from obscurity to a national touring band, Grateful Shred has made the most of its time in the spotlight. The lineup, featuring co-founders Dan Horne and Austin McCutchen alongside Circles Around the Sun keyboardist Adam MacDougall and guitarist John Lee Shannon woke the Grateful Dead cosmos with a unique laid-back harmony driven sound. The band literally went from playing the Shakedown Street vendor area prior to Dead and Company shows to touring the United States.
Grateful Shred manage to channel that elusive Dead vibe: wide-open guitar tones, effortless three-part vocal harmonies, choogling beats, and yes, plenty of tripped out, Shredded solos. The look, the sound, the atmosphere. It’s uncanny. Far from being a historical re-enactment, Grateful Shred’s laissez faire vibe infuses the band with a gentle spirit, warmth, and (dare we say it) authenticity.
