Stu Allen & Reflections

Reflections is the revolving cast of Bay Area players Stu Allen convenes for the weekly Grateful Dead Night at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, the room that has been his home base for years and the hub of the East Bay Deadhead community. Where Mars Hotel is his working Dead band, Reflections leans on the Jerry Garcia Band catalog Allen knows from his years fronting Melvin Seals' JGB, and often builds a set around a specific JGB show from the seventies or eighties. The nights are numbered — past four hundred of them — and, like the band they come from, no two land the same way.