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Show ; w'. v v y Y vvvv'v 1 V ' Page B8 Thursday, January 20, 1983 Park C ity News IMS iRililR stiff SEO Skis, Boots, Bindings, Poles The Cowboy Bar welcomes New Riders of the Purple Sage (MHMI The New Riders of the Purple Sage, country-rock stalwarts for over a decade, will be performing at the Cowboy Bar Jan. 21 and 22. Years of constant touring have forged the New Riders into one of the tightest sounding club bands around. The group began in San Francisco just as the '60s were coming to an end. They were originally an offshoot of the extended Grateful Dead family. 'Dead' guitarist Jerry Garcia was a catalyst in the band's formation and played pedal steel guitar with them for a while in their early days. From its inception, the group has been a rather loose aggregation many members have come and gone in the ensuing years. The group's glory years were at the beginning. With Garcia aboard to lend support sup-port and musical focus, the band achieved a consider? able word-of-mouth reputation reputa-tion from the start, touring the U.S. and Europe as support act to the Dead several times, building up its own cult following in the process. When the New Riders finally decided to record their own album, a bidding war between Warner Brothers and Columbia (who won) ensued, indicative of the band's growing reputation reputa-tion as the Dead mystique rubbed off on them. Their first album was released in early 1971. Their fourth disc, the ever-popular "Panama Red," became their first million seller in 1973. Recalls group leader, vocalist and guitarist John "Marmaduke" Dawson, about that LP's well-known title track, "Even though 'Panama Red' was never a hit single, it helped make our fourth album gold. The song became a national anthem for pot smokers in the mid-'70s." Dawson is still the central cog in the New Riders bandwagon. A recent biography bio-graphy of the band notes, "When Dawson created the New Riders of the Purple Sage, it was the first band Dawson had ever been in. "The New Riders were born when Jerry Garcia came to jam with Dawson at the Menlo Park, California coffee house where he was playing and singing. Dawson brought guitarist David Nelson Nel-son in, and the three of them set out to book dates for themselves. The group expanded ex-panded and began to play local bars then teamed with the Grateful Dead on tours, sharing players to save money." To date, the New Riders have remained active as both a touring and recording outfit. One of their latest releases, "Feeling All Right," for A&M Records displayed the group's continuing con-tinuing talents in the country-rock sphere. The current lineup, beside Dawson, is comprised of: Guitarist Allen Kemp, whose previous experience includes a stint in Rick Nelson's highly-respected Stone Canyon Band. 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' r I l . t f f 6 New Riders of the Purple Sage is also a respected session musician, producer, and engineer, having worked on projects for the likes of Martin Mull, Ricky Skaggs and mandolin virtuoso David Grisman. Multi-instrumentalist Rusty Rus-ty Gauthier has played with a variety of Bay Area bands and has had one of his compositions choreographed and performed by the Jof-frey Jof-frey Ballet. The New Riders of the Purple Sage will perform two shows each evening at the Cowboy Bar Jan. 21 and 22. Showtimes each night will be 8 and 11 p.m. Tickets will be $10 at the door but are available for $8 in advance at the Cowboy Bar liquor store and in Salt Lake at Smokey's Records, Cosmic Aeroplane, all ZCMI locations and the Salt Palace. For more information or to make dinner reservations, call 6494146. TC j by Rick Lanman There may be a future in these futures Pencil in June 18 on your calendar for the third annual Napa Valley wine auction. An established, popular event, the auction occurs oc-curs on a weekend that caps an entire week of festivities. Some 200 vintners, paid staff and volunteers assemble on the grounds of Meadowood, overlooking the town of St. Helena. Supervision is strict with regard to auction rules. J. Michael Broadbent, director of the London auction house of Christie, Mason and Woods, makes sure of that. Wine auctions are serious business when rare, vintaged wines are being showcased. Serious money is involved; the bidder's fee alone is $125, although that includes an auction auc-tion catalogue, barrel tasting, continental breakfast and an outdoor luncheon the day of the auction. A bidder's guest receives the same for an additional $75. Yet to enjoy the auction and take part in the week of fun does not require you to bid. Roughly a week prior to the auction, most of the valley inns fill up with the curious and those who simply wish to spend a week sampling sam-pling good wine. During that week, many of the vineyards hold special tastings and even dinners in their cellars. Often the winemakers themselves are on hand to talk about their wines and answer questions posed by tasters. Some visitors take time out to visit the spas at nearby Calistoga, an area producing some good wine at reasonable prices. The Cabernet Caber-net Suvignon of Calistoga Vineyards is quite good, for example, and sells for just under five dollars a bottle, at least in California where we tried it. Our bottling was a 1979. While obviously young, it showed a good nose, some oakiness and a well-developed body. Let's return to our auction, however, and find out just what makes this event so unique. To begin with, all profits from the auction are donated to two Napa Valley hospitals. The two previous auctions have brought in a total of $204,000 .'for these facilities. If that isn't enough incentive, then consider some 450 lots of wine donated by over 60 Napa Valley wineries. Many are old wines, or unusually large bottles. One of the oldest wines is a 1943 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon that is being offered along with five other special selections in one lot. Heitz Cellars is offering a mixed case of Cabernets from its Martha's Vineyard, with vintage dates covering the period 1966-82. Last year a similar offering brought in a bid of $2,500. One of the most interesting opportunities oppor-tunities comes from the Stag's Leap Winery where Petite Syrah futures are being sold off. This wine is still in the barrel, and the two lucky bidders who each purchase a lot will get to supervise the bottling of their wine next year. In addition, while the bottling is being done, the bidder will stay as a special guest of Stag's Leap in a guest house on the estate. Another bid for futures includes eight bottles bot-tles in one lot of the long awaited Napamedoc, the Cabernet Sauvignon produced by Robert Mondavi and the Baron Philippe de Rothschilde. Although the bidder will not receive the royal treatment afforded by Stag's Leap, these bottles of wine will be highly prized and may bring the highest price at auction. An interesting lot will be 1972-81 Chardon-nay Chardon-nay from Chateau Montelena, which will include in-clude the well-known 1973 varietal that won first place in the 1976 Paris tasting. This particular par-ticular wine is no longer available. More than a dozen wineries will be offering wine futures, wt.es that are still in the barrel. Although some are rather ordinary, a few are notable. These include: 1981 Burgess Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, the Robert Mondavi 1981 Cabernet Sauvignon and Char-donnay, Char-donnay, both special selection, 1982 Rutherford Ruther-ford Hill Chardonnay, and that same winery's Merlot for 1982. Large bottles are also featured items and hot with collectors. These are: magnums (two bottles), double magnum (four bottles), rehoboams (six bottles), jeroboams (six bottles) bot-tles) or four of the sparkling and imperials (eight bottles in one). If you think these must be large, then consider a bottle named nebuchadnezzar that equals 20 regular bottles. bot-tles. Other special lots of wine will be presented in exotic racks and boxes. Some offerings, such as the one from Caymus Vineyards, will come in special hand-etched bottles. In general one should expect these wines to sell for more than they are worth. After all, this is an auction for charity. Some of the wines offered, such as a case of 1978 Stag's Leap Cabernet, are available in many retail stores. Still, the excitement of an auction and the reward of giving all make the occasion seem very worthwhile. We hope to see you there. em L lU .VH V).c m it H-i V- Jmii.rtin |