Bob and Patti first played together in 1995 in a big band at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium, doing arrangements of Grateful Dead music. That one performance made them know they had connected. They went on to separate projects, but their musical paths crossed again in the first months of Covid, which sent both looking for a musical relationship amid the isolation of the pandemic.
Greatful Deadcast – Podcast Episode Duration: 01:37:28 The Deadcast is honored to welcome Tom Constanten to discuss his remarkable tenure as Grateful Dead keyboardist from late 1968 through early 1970, his work on 3 classic albums, & his adventures before & after the Dead, including his current band Dose Hermanos. […]
“It’s about being in that psychedelic moment,” Bob Bralove says of Dose Hermanos, the fully improvisational keyboard duo that he created with Tom Constanten in 1995. “We don’t look back. We don’t look forward. It’s pretty much, ‘How do I feel right now?’”
Some of that collective ethos draws on their (un)common experiences with the Grateful Dead.
By Doug Collette January 22, 2023 Consisting of two formidable contributors to the expansive oeuvre of the Grateful Dead, keyboardist/multi-instrumentalists Tom Constanten and Bob Bralove, Dose Hermanos explore areas of ambiance hardly unfamiliar to the iconic San Francisco band. Both men performed with the Dead, albeit at markedly different eras […]
Alex Biese for app. Asbury Park Press Published Dec. 6,2022 The musical adventure of Tom Constanten continues. A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer thanks to his time at the piano for the Grateful Dead, the Jersey Shore native is back with “Persistence of Memory,” his new album with fellow […]
