Drums and Space has its own Shakedown Street, bringing vendors, drum circles, face painters, flow artists and grilled-cheese food trucks to the band's concerts.
Drums and Space has its own Shakedown Street, bringing vendors, drum circles, face painters, flow artists and grilled-cheese food trucks to the band's concerts.lyrics, but it also perfectly encapsulates the life of Eric West and the way he and his friends created their local Dead tribute band, whose concerts have expanded into a full-on Shakedown Street experience, with grilled-cheese food trucks, vendors, flow artists, face painters and drum circles galore.
And even in Japan, Deadheads find each other."You just can't make it up," he muses with a laugh."So I was in Japan for, I don't know, like three weeks. I was a teacher there, and one of my students — I must have mentioned the Grateful Dead — said that there's a Grateful Dead club in Tokyo. There was only one in a city of 36 million people, and it was called Yukotopia.
"There was lots of travel all over the world, so lots of adventures, but of course, right at sea level," West notes. He was craving some higher-altitude expeditions, so he journeyed to Nepal in 2011."I went to Mount Everest, and I met a Dutch climbing guide who's now my wife," he says. West played in that group for a few years, but it eventually fizzled out. In 2020, he reached out to the keyboardist, Jay Rowe, and asked if he'd want to play together again, but in a bigger project."I said, 'I have this idea; it's called Drums and Space...and if you're in, I'll push this thing forward,'" he recalls."He said, 'I'm in.'"
The band has certainly expanded its offerings, and with that, its fan base. While Drums and Space is hardly the only Dead tribute band, it could be the one working the hardest to bring the Shakedown Street lot scene to life at venues such as Herman's Hideaway, where the next Drums and Space event will be on Saturday, March 16. The band normally has its events outdoors, but its first 2024 event is being cautious about the weather.
"They come out and perform, let's say three songs that are Grateful Dead, and it's all drumming and singing. And they'd invite so many people that have so many members, so...now there's an open drum circle, where there might be forty or fifty drummers," West explains."They're creating the ambience, so instead of house music between bands, there'll be a huge drum circle going on.
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