Road Cage

Poor comm got the news fucked up. Moonalice did NOT cancel. My mistake. A few puckered assholes over that mistake, apparently. Oh well. bc

Moonalice has seen the facts, has stood by band solidarity and officially cancelled this abortion of a gig!

New Riders and Moonalice are playing the next few dates together www.thenewriders.com starting July 23 at Great American Music Hall in SF, followed by the Mystic Theater in Petaluma, CA. Then, we both head over to the Crystal Bay Casino in Nevada on Friday. bc

The contract was not with Steve Tickle. It was signed and violated by Tim Sun Dog, and only him. So, get the attention OFF Tickle and get to the point, which is to boycott the promoter’s rip-off gig in the name of Gracia. Buddy

7/16/2008 2:48:33 AM

Here’s the real story of the planned event in Thorneville, OH named Grateful Garcia Gathering

This ‘promoter’, one Tim Sun Dog booked NRPS for almost a year without ever coming up with the guarantee (deposit), then abruptly cancelled NRPS 2 weeks ago. Also, without notice to us.

He publishes several lame reasons as to why this occurred, inferring as well that NRPS had been the party cancelling. This was all bogus – it is an out and out lie. He did this action when it appeared that his ticket sales were lagging. He cancelled 2 of the highest dollar bands on the bill – New Riders and Donna Jean & The Tricksters. By dropping NRPS he was saving himself a 6500 dollar guarantee, ripping us off, deceiving the public!

Last night, I was sitting here on the tour bus listening to the conversation Tim Sun Dog was having with my Tour Mgr. after he reneged when called by our Crew Chief to ‘advance’ the show. Apparently Tim S.D. was complaining about my blogging concerning his deception (oh well!), our Tour Mgr. told him to clean up his act, to publicly tell the truth to the fans and public at large the truth. And to change the billing on his advertisement of the show. To wit: Take our (NRPS) name OFF his online flyer. He was still suggesting that we were going to possibly appear! Fraud.

Toast gave him 2 hours to get honest, to admit fault and be truthful to the public. At the same time and over this period of 2 weeks, Tim S.D. has been verbally abusive to fans wanting their money back, since it had leaked that NRPS would NOT be playing at his show on July 31.

So far, no honest retraction or apology has been witnessed by this band.

This petty rip-off is nothing more than a cheap, two-bit swindle. And he STILL persists perpetrating this fraud in the name of Jerry Garcia. DON’T GO. Boycott this clown. The Garcia estate should sue this clown for using Jerry’s name in such a deception!

Buddy Cage

July 5, 2008

As of July 1, the promoter of the festival named Grateful Garcia Gathering in Thorneville, Ohio cancelled NRPS from our contract. The promoter, one Tim Sun Dawg, broke our deal to play this festival, a gig that had been booked for the better part of a year without ever paying the necessary deposit.

This is completely unacceptable and entirely unprofessional, we will pursue whatever action is necessary to recover our losses.

Another point which can never be overlooked: A couple of the groups who were signed as NRPS were, seem to have opted not to stand with us by voluntarily withdrawing themselves from this aborted project. Time will soon tell if they have a conscience which matches those of us in New Riders. The A.F. of M isn’t geared up for handling events at this level – musicians have only the bond and unity among themselves to actively fight the sort of irresponsible practice of signing artists without an escrow account to back their contractual obligations.

If a promoter screws one group of artists, the others involved should help to collapse this sort of unprofessional behavior so that this sort of fraud cannot be perpetuated on other bands, or the music fans. To set up an event in the name of Jerry Garcia and to break the contract is beyond the pale. This promoter is now refusing to refund the advance ticket monies already paid by the folks who originally paid to see NRPS.

American Music Radio Show of Belgium sat down with Buddy in this 2002 interview. Europeans love american music, especially folk, country, jazz, blues and rock. This is one the places to go online in Europe to get the American sound. (Well before the wall came down and the web is what it is today at least. lol) I know this for sure, Europeans love The New Riders and Buddy.

Interview done by Hans Hanegraaf during Blue Highways, Utrecht, Holland, March 23, 2002.

How did a little boy become a steel guitar player? And what did you do before entering The Great Speckled Bird?
“Before I played with The Great Speckled Bird I played for Ronnie Hawkins, a lot of studio work in Toronto, Canada for Anne Murray, George Hamilton IV, so a lot of work was coming my way.
But how I got started? Well, my mom and dad had this guy come through the doorstep one day when I was eleven, and he was offering guitar lessons. A salesman, and I tried to play that six string plectrum job, but it wasn’ working, because my hand was too small to fit around the neck. He saw that and said: “Let’s try this”, and he put this other guitar on my lap. It was a very primitive steel bar. He put some plastic finger picks on me and again he said: “Try this”. That I could do and made a note that didn’t sound too unpleasant. So I thought: “You’ll never know”

Did you teach yourself?
“No, I got lessons and I had a marvelous teacher. He was a great guy, Ken Near.”

When Ian Tyson hired you for The Great Speckled Bird, what did he have in mind? Had he been in California to see Gram Parsons? What made him wanna do something like country rock?
“He and Sylvia were coming to a fork in the road musically, folk singing wasn’t the same as it used to be in previous years and he was interested in writing different tunes.
The folk thing drove him crazy after a while and he heard Crosby, Stills and Nash; that album really knocked him out. That really flipped him. Thinking we might sing along with those guys, maybe.

But I can’t speak for him of course, but that might have been it. But he came up with the idea of assembling a bunch of rock singers and he thought I could be the one for him, because I was young and did what I was told. Probably not quite, but I worked with him and I owe Ian Tyson a lot. And Amos Garrett played guitar as he did on Maria Muldaur’s “Midnight on the Oasis”, famous part, that was him and I learned a great deal of guitar playing and being in a band, how to behave in general from him.”…

Read On for more of this in depth interview with Hans Hanegraaf of American Music radio Show - Brussles, Belgium. From the early days to his current projects like Stir Fried and of course,. gathering the New Riders posse. A great interview for sure and check out the playlist bleow.
Down at the Palomino*Flying Burrito Brothers*Sons of the golden west*1999*Grateful Dead Records
California jukebox*Flying Burrito Brothers* California jukebox*2001*Icehouse Sin City*Gram Parsons w/Flying Burrito Brothers* Live at the Avalon Ballroom*2007*Amoeba Amazing grace(used to be her favorite song)*Amazing Rhythm Aces*Concert classics vol.3*1999* Concert Classics Connie*Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen*Tales from the Ozone*1975/2003*WB/Wounded Bird Heard it in a love song*Marshall Tucker Band*Carolina dreams tour ‘77*2007*Shout Factory cd+dvd Rock ‘n’ roll(will keep you young)*McGuffey Lane* Greatest hits-live and more*1994*High Chief There goes another love song* Outlaws*Extended versions*2002*Sony Amie*Pure Prairie League*Pure Prairie League*1999*PPL Feather woman//93 Maidens*Rachael Sage*The blistering sun*2005*MPress ++Dead flowers*New Riders Of The Purple Sage* Home home on the road*1974/2004*BGO UK ++Sunshine showers*New Riders Of The Purple Sage* demo*1985*courtesy of John Dawson ++Ain’t no bread in the breadbox//Bouncing off the
wall(live)*Stir Fried*2006*courtesy of Buddy Cage ++The other side*Boris Garcia*courtesy of Buddy Cage

Lucky you*Believers*Lucky you*2008*CoraZong Holland ++Lonesome L.A.cowboy//I don’t know you*New Riders Of The Purple Sage*Wanted-live at Turkey Trot* 2007*FKW cd+dvd ++

West of the Mississippi//Deep Ellum blues*Stir Fried* Live Kearney N.J.*2008*courtesy of Vince Lorenzo
Vertigo//Invincible*Rachael Sage*Chameleon*2008*MPress ++Last of the Blue Diamond miners*Stir Fried*Live in Kearney N.J.*2008*courtesy of Vince Lorenzo My world*Rachael Sage*Chameleon*2008*MPress
++Any naked eye//Last lonely eagle//Fennario* New Riders Of The Purple Sage*Live-New Year’s Eve 2006*2007*ArSeeEm

Enjoy!

I think you have the right of it!

Friday May 23rd, (two days ago)  Jane and I flew from Oakland to LAX to see our son Carey’s standup comedy routine at the Comedy Store in LA (the Old Whiskey A Go Go on Sunset)  As I went through the metal detector in Oakland, the TSA security guy looked at the little NRPS logo on my long sleeve black merch shirt and said “Long Live Buddy Cage!”

Looking forward to seeing you in July. I hope I still get to play a tune with you guys

Love you, and a kiss to the wife

BassicBob

Toast

 

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This site will be a work in progress in an attempt to chronicle the past, present and ongoing career of Pedal Steel Master - Buddy Cage.

As one of the New Riders of the Purple Sage since 1971, Buddy Cage has sold over 4 million records. As an independent recording artist, he has performed on over 10 gold & platinum records and has contionued to tour the world with The New Riders and projects such as StirFried. Buddy can also be heard on his hit Sirius Satellite Radio show - Jam On 17.

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Check out the latest Tour Dates for The New Riders

With Bob Dylan:
* “Blood On The Tracks”
* “Biograph”
* “Official Bootleg Tapes”

NRPS:
* “Panama Red”
* “Powerglide”
* “Home, Home On The Road”
* “Gypsy Cowboy”

Also:
* Recorded w/Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart & GD lyricist Robert Hunter (”Tales Of The Rum Runners”)
* 4 multi-platinum albums w/Anne Murray
* John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
* Mario Cipollina (Huey Lewis & The News)
* Super Freak Rick James
* The Band w/Rick Danko & Garth Hudson
* Folk legends Ian & Sylvia (Great Speckled Bird)
* David Rea (Fairport Convention & Mountain)
* Folk greats Brewer & Shipley
* Allah Rahka (Ravi Shankar Ensemble)
* The Shondells
* David Bromberg w/Bonnie Raitt & Linda Ronstadt
* Papa John Creach (Hot Tuna)
* Sly Stone
* Legendary jazz flutist Charles Lloyd & jazz genius Lenny Breaux
* George Hamilton IV
* Lester Chambers (Chambers Bros.)

See More On Buddy’s Bio Here From Cool Groove

July 22, 2004 - Within the context of classic rock the name Buddy Cage resonates with a certain amount of cachet. As a master of the steel guitar, Cage has lent his signature sound to everyone from the New Riders of the Purple Sage to The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and The Band. And as such a pedigree would suggest, Cage has participated in his fair share of legendary concerts.

One such memorable event was The Festival Express, a historic cross-Canada tour that took place in the early ’70s after two enterprising promoters had the brilliant idea of organizing a rock and roll Orient Express. That is to say, they rented a train, stocked it with the most popular musicians of the day—The Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, The Band, and countless others—and steamed across Canada, stopping in the major cities of each province to hold festival sized concerts.

Thankfully the historic events of the Festival Express were captured on film, which was lost for 30-odd years, but recently re-discovered and turned into a wondrous documentary of the same name. Cage was one of the lucky musicians who participated in the tour, an event that surely could not take place in this day and age. “They can’t do it because of the last four years,” Cage muses. “The last four years has been four years of back-to-back recession. You could thank this present administration or not. I could give a sh@t less. That’s not the point. The point is that’s the reality as it ends up with us in the music industry.” Cage pauses, then adds a little side note. “It was the music business when I started this thing, then it became the music industry, courtesy of Don Kirshner.”

The use of the terms music and industry together have always had a strange ring to them, but when Cage juxtaposes the terms “business” and “industry” alongside “music,” they ring all the more stranger. Let’s face it, there is a huge difference between business and industry. “It was a business like anything else,” he states. “Bob Weir said it best when he said ‘What a time it was to play music.’ And he was talking about 1970 [when we were on the Festival Express tour], when people really, really cared how much it meant, where it was part of the fabric of their lives, you know? People cared to discuss music and debate it. You know, everybody was having a personal symposium, they were going on all over the world on music. You know, it started with The Beatles on through that and then we got our psychedelic thing together…” Cage stops, smiles wryly, laughs, then adds “Well, we didn’t get it together, but that was part of psychedelic thing of it. Read More

Check Out A Scene From the Festival Express. I was on the Train touring with Ian & Sylvia at the Time.

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A couple of years ago they finally released the documentary Festival Express. It detailed a trans-Canadian train ride and series of concerts with the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, The Flying Burrito Brothers and other American and Canadian acts. It features some incredible and historical musical moments. Aside from the five mini-festivals that occurred along the way, the jams on the train were simply stunning. Buddy Guy and Jerry Garcia performing “I Can’t Do it Baby” and Garcia and Sylvia performing “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad” were among the highlights. Another highlight was when the then unknown (to the larger audience) Buddy Cage (touring with Ian & Sylvia) sat down across from Jerry, pedal steels in hand, or rather on laps. The significance of this first meeting wouldn’t be realized for nearly a year but it was significant.

“Nobody knew each other,” Buddy explained. “Jerry knew Janis. We knew vaguely of the Burrito guys [Flying Burrito Brothers]. And you knew Buddy Guy, and stuff, but nobody really knew each other. So everybody was kind of scared of each other or at least cautious. Jerry and Sylvia broke the ice really. He says, ‘Hey you want do a song?’ And she just went, ‘Well, sure.’ It was kind of like a dare, you know? And there she was trying to fit in. But then he started doing ‘Going Down the Road Feeling Bad’, shit, it was such a spiritual moment. That led to the idea for Garcia and me to set up our steels,” he continued, “and we became the focal point of a folk and country and bluegrass jam. Janis, Sylvia, Bonnie, Ian, and Garcia all sang on “No More Cane (On This Brazos)” as an example. Beautiful.”

At this time, 1970, Buddy was already becoming a legend in his own right. Much like Garcia, he incorporated diverse elements into his singular pursuit of pedal steel mastery. Jazz, rock, funk, country, soul and the kitchen sink found their way through his hands and feet and came out in some revolutionary sounds. Read More