Associated Press
December 25, 2006
by Bret Gladstone and Josh Baron
Sure, the holidays are about peace, love, and understanding. What‘s so funny about that? But let‘s face it: They‘re also about wish fulfillment, fantasy, magic ... and presents! With that extraordinarily self-serving purpose in mind — and wishes of seeing some of these actually come true — we asked some of our favorite musicians for a rock ‘n‘ roll holiday fantasy. Then (because why should they have all the fun?) we added some of our own. Enjoy...
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BOB WEIR, RatDog/The Grateful Dead: I‘d like my band RatDog to record with the Kronos Quartet. We‘d spend a couple of days in rehearsal to kick ideas around, and then a couple of days recording in the Fillmore, all of both bands on stage, although from time to time breaking it down into different configurations. No tunes in mind — maybe an old chestnut or two, a new tune or two, whatever they‘d want to bring to the party, and then the "1-2-3-Go" approach. Find a pulse, and then people start playing, and see if that suggests a key or a mode, and if that suggests a harmonic development of some sort. Secondly, our sound mixer Mike McGinn wants us to bring in Dolly Parton , specifically to sing "Ripple," which seems to me to be an inspired notion.
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