Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this week's rewind we take a trip back through the last 12 months and talk about what our favorite and most impactful moments were for each of us. We end up on a tangent, as per usual, discussing what it actually takes to create something you are passionate about and what our hopes for the year to come include. No...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 20 min
We are super excited to have Ben Bloom and Grant Schroff of Polyrhythmics as our guests on No Simple Road this week! Founded in late 2010, Polyrhythmics was formed by Ben Bloom and Grant Schroff, who quickly gathered some of the most talented and highly sought-after performers in the North West to record an EP. The rest is musical history! Blending funk, rock, jazz, afro-beat, and more, Polyrhythmics crate a sonic tapestry that will for sure get your feet and booty moving! We sit down with Ben a...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 296
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this week's rewind we hear from the crew about their perspectives as the year comes to a close, The Conductor shares some of his personal struggles over the last couple of months, we get a chance to catch up with Mel and and check-in with her and hear how she's feeling, and we have a special announcement from Appl...
Dec 19, 2022•2 hr 13 min
We are super excited this week to. have Erik Yates of Hot Buttered Rum as our guest on No Simple Road. Erik spent his Bay Area youth trying nearly every instrument and style he came across. Piano lessons, saxophone quartets, garage bands and folk songs had all weaseled their way into his life by the time he hit high school. College in Portland, OR, where he studied music and writing, brought new musical horizons, new conspirators (including classmate Nat Keefe) and a new project, Hot Buttered Ru...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 295
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind we welcome Grateful Dead Tarot creators Erin Cadigan and Elizabeth Jezorski to take us on a magickal look at the year to come 2023. Divinatory tools, like the Tarot, have been used for thousands of years to look into what's to come. We delve into the coming year using The Grateful Dead Tarot deck a...
Dec 12, 2022•2 hr 6 min
This week on No Simple Road we are super stoked to have EJ Toudt and Mike Mahgerefteh from Galaxy Jams Reacts as our guests on the show! Galaxy Jams Reacts is both a YouTube channel and a podcast where the hosts react to fan-picked music with special guests from the music world and beyond such as Russ Lawton of the Trey Anastasio Band, Bill Lawrence of Snarky Puppy, Dopapod, Dogs In A Pile, and much more! We talk with the guys about having a plan for success and why that was important for them, ...
Dec 09, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 294
We are so excited to have Family Mystic here with us on No Simple Road this week! Family Mystic is a four-piece ensemble surfing the ebb and flows of the Portland music scene, redefining what making music from the deep realms of the heart can be. Vulnerable, poignant, dynamic, direct, and wildly talented. Merging elements of classic funk/soul, 60's &70's Psychedelia, and a little jazz thrown in the mix to answer the age old question, "what genre is this?" The guys from Family Mystic are here...
Dec 05, 2022•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 293
We are super excited to have Raina Mullen of Ghost Light as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Raina Mullen is a Philadelphia based guitar player and singer in the band "Ghost Light" with Tom Hamilton, Holly Bowling, Dan Africano and Scotty Zwang. We catch up with Raina about the new album 'The Healing', what it looks like when Tommy and her sit down to start writing songs, where the inspiration for the video for 'The Healing' came from, why having someone you trust completely helps to open ...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 292
This episode is presented exclusively by our friends over at SMARTWOOL!! Check out the exclusive, limited edition SMARTWOOL / GRATEFUL DEAD collaboration HERE!!! Just in time for the holidaze! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind we talk about our childhoods with a couple of special guests in the studio. We dig into some of the challe...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 3 min
We're so stoked to have Comedian Phil Hanley as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Phil began standup comedy by performing at open mics around Vancouver, often in between bands at music venues. In these establishments he discovered and honed his unique blending of material and crowd interaction that makes no two of his performances the same. Phil’s style can best be described as unpredictably reflective, delivered with sharp accuracy, and rooted in the grand tradition of joke-telling. Phil, ...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 291
This episode is presented exclusively by our friends over at SMARTWOOL!! Check out the exclusive, limited edition SMARTWOOL / GRATEFUL DEAD collaboration HERE!!! Just in time for the holidaze! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind we talk all about our experiences camping at music festivals! What were the most uncomfortable moments? Wh...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 10 min
We're so stoked to have Nick Millevoi of Grassy Sound as our guest on No Simple Road this week! For guitarist Nick Millevoi, all manner of music can be a source of inspiration, including bachelor-pad “exotica” albums of the 1950s, surf-rock records of the ’60s or even old Hollywood cowboy tunes – at least if those influences are put into a modernist compositional and improvisational blender. Millevoi’s usual outfit, the Crazy Horse-meets-Coltrane band Desertion Trio, has released four ultra-pote...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 290
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind is filled with Holiday goodness. We get into what our favorite holidays are and why, how our live's growing up inform our adult perspectives, what foods flood us with memories, how we're feeling gratitude for our friends and family here and now, and a whole lot more! No Simple Road Intro Music Crea...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 7 min
We are so excited to have Justin Cucci, restauranteur, entrepreneur, and chef, as our guest on No Simple Road this week. Raised in NYC where his family owned and ran the beloved Waverly Inn, Justin was born immersed in the restaurant scene. Today, as the owner and executive chef of the renowned Edible Beats Group, Cucci has reinvigorated Denver’s restaurant culture. His six award-winning eateries (Root Down, Linger, El Five, Vital Root, Root Down DIA, and live music restaurant Ophelia’s Electric...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 289
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! Taking things back to the old school days of show recaps we break down each of our experiences at last night's Greensky Bluegrass show. We discover that though we were all in the same place, we may have very different perspectives on the show. We also get int a discussion on how psychedelics affect us and how each of...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 8 min
We're extremely excited to have Author Paul Justison on No Simple Road this week! Paul is the author of the new book 'Lost And Found In The 60's' coming out on November 8th, 2022! James Fadiman, microdose researcher and Author wrote, "This novel is excruciatingly accurate and totally outrageous. Justison has captured the extravagance of the time: the interplay of sexual liberation, psychedelic experiences and coming of age that made the community so intense and inviting. Was drug use so extensiv...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 288
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! Happy Halloween NSR Family! We've got a special TREAT for you this week! The first ever NSR Quiz Show hosted by Sky Dog! This was the most fun we've had on a Sunday afternoon in a very long time! A 4 round quiz show with 9 questions per round! You'll want to listen to the end to see who wins this highly competitive a...
Oct 31, 2022•2 hr 9 min
We're super excited to bring you Billy Failing this week as our guest on No Simple Road. Billy is an incredible banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He's best known as the hard hittin' banjo player in the Billy Strings band and his own side project The Billiy Failing Band. With the meteoric rise in success we've witnessed of Billy and his bandmates we're honored and excited that Billy took a few to sit down and chop things up with us here on the show. We talk with Billy about how the...
Oct 29, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 287
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this episode we get heady with a conversation about what we would do with unlimited resources, the nature of reality, trading time for money, doing things we'd rather not do most of the time, shifting perspectives to cause a change in the world around us, and a lot more! No Simple Road Intro Music Created By ESCAP...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 29 min
We're so excited to have Alex and Will from Sicard Hollow as our guests on No Simple Road this week! Sicard Hollow is a four-piece progressive bluegrass band who formed with a mutual passion for pushing the boundaries of genre. Heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead and New Grass Revival, these young pickers bring new energy to a timeless style with a combination of fearless improvisation and instrumental prowess. The band formed through mutual connections within the Nashville music scene who a...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 286
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this episode we talk about how being single as an older human can pose some real challenges, how some of us use out loud self-talk to sooth our troubled minds and how psychedelics have either helped us or hurt us and how we've used them over the years, Mel's foray into calling family while on a Sacrament, plus a w...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 16 min
We're headed back to Dick's lot this week for a conversation with Boomerang Sky and No Simple Road Family member Joe Atkinson. Some of you may know Joe & Jordan from Phish tour Grilled Cheese and Crab Rangoon fame while others may know them from old school NSR. Either way we're back live from the lot at Dick's for a conversation about Joe's band Boomerang Sky, lessons learned on the lot and the road, the magick of having a partner, life on the road, and a whole lot more! Make sure to head ov...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 285
Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this episode we sit down with Danae of 'The Conscious Conversations' Podcast and talk about kindness and how it starts with the self, we discuss the weight of moving quickly now that we are all back at it, we recap the last couple of weeks' shenanigans, and talk a bit about where we're all at mentally. No Simple R...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 21 min
We are extremely excited to have Tim Carbone as our guest on No Simple Road this week! After 34 years of experience creating music as an artist, songwriter, session musician and producer Tim says he may not be up to playing music live for the rest of his life but you will have to pry his dead, clammy hands off the mixing console. Safe to say producing records is his passion. Mostly known nowadays as the violinist for the roots/jamband Railroad Earth, Tim produced his first record in 1986 and sin...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 284
This episode of No Simple Road is dedicated to our Brother David A. Kasakove... in loving memory. NFA We are extremely excited to have Roger McNamee of Moonalice as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Roger is also a touring musician, first as a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers, and more recently in that group's follow-on band, Moonalice. Honestly, Roger could own the title of 'The Most Interesting Man In The World' having worked with countless Silicon Valley Pioneers and playing ...
Sep 30, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 283
We are so excited to have Bluphoria's guitarist Reign LaFreniere as our guest on No Simple Road This week! Bluphoria is a pop-rock/alternative band, with psychedelic and southern rock influences originally based out of Eugene, Oregon but now hailing from Nashville, Tennessee! LaFreniere, 22, along with Dakota Landrum [19, rhythm guitar, background vocals], Dani Janae [20, drums, background vocals], and Rex Wolf [21, bass, background vocals], are that rare collective who have figured out early on...
Sep 23, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 282
This week is something special! We're going back to the beginning...no famous musician, no artist, author, or comedian. This is back to basics No Simple Road with our brother Nathaniel leading the way. Out of all the episodes that we have done in the past I am sure the three of us would agree that this is the most important one to date. On a back porch in Denver over Labor Day weekend Aaron and Mel learned what No Simple Road really is and what it does thanks to Nathaniel. He breaks it down in a...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 281
We are super stoked to have the one and only Steve Kimock as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Steve Kimock has proved himself a master of fluid improvisation for over four decades, in the process inspiring music fans with his transcendent guitar speak voiced through electric, acoustic, lap and pedal steel guitars. With his multi-decade reputation as a blazing psychedelic guitarist versatile enough to touch almost all aspects of American music. Once touted by Jerry Garcia as his “favorite u...
Sep 09, 2022•2 hr 54 min•Ep. 280
Our friends Starfinder Stanley, Hawk Semins, and Pete Bell from the Owsley Stanley Foundation join us for a special extra episode of No Simple Road this week! This is a true musical history lesson contained in this episode. We travel all the way to Ireland to find the roots of Bluegrass music waiting and find out why Jerry Garcia invited The Chieftains to Open for Old And In The Way in 1973! The Owsley Stanley Foundation's mission is to preserve more than 1,300 recordings left behind by famed Wa...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 279
This week on No Simple Road we are stoked to bring you Patrick Harvey of Cycles as our guest on the show! The current incarnation of the ever-developing sound of Cycles reveals itself today as a speeding freight train of sound and rhythm. Screaming peaks and balanced grooves find their way out of the chaos of a jam while samples ripped from the likes of Madonna, Lil Nas X and many more ring out and grab the unsuspecting audience by surprise, adding to the multicolored blend of sound filling a ro...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 278
