![]() ![]() However, what I listened to most was probably Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Steely Dan, Miles Davis, Todd Rundgren, R.E.M., Chick Corea, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, and Cream. I imagine that acceptance of different music ultimately assisted in my understanding and relating to the Grateful Dead’s music, with it being such a collection of various styles merging into one. The goal was to learn from everything, which also to helped establish an openness and appreciation for a wide variety of music. The ethos was to play as much as I could, in as many different styles as I could, in as many different environments as I could. I studied jazz both privately and in school from 7th grade through college and started to play in bands at around age 14. What were your influences? What did you listen to growing up? Just a few weeks later I got my first drum set. I knew what I wanted to be from that moment forward, and astonishingly, it’s never changed. The things that had interested me before vanished. It was like I knew I was stepping closer to adulthood or something. I’d never listened to an entire album all the way through before, but I just couldn’t pick up the needle once it started. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band all the way through for the first time. I can remember to this day the experience of listening to Sgt. That December, John Lennon was taken from us, and I was so intrigued by the reaction I was seeing people have that I started to investigate the Beatles’ music through an aunt’s record collection. I discovered drums through a friend at age 11 and started begging my parents for a drum set for Christmas in the fall of 1980. Forgotten Space features two guitars, bass, keyboards, a drummer, and strong three and four part vocal harmonies for a journey through three decades of Dead. Sam Morrow’s Rocket In My Pocket: A Tribute To Little Feat & Lowell George is also on the bill. ![]() Performing since 2006, the band plays Cain’s Ballroom Friday, November 5. Jerry Saracini is the drummer for Dallas-based, Grateful Dead tribute band, Forgotten Space. ![]() The drummer for Forgotten Space explores his passion for the music of the Dead. ![]()
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