John Zias 70th Birthday Celebration at Skipper's Tonight
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Dennis "Mitch" Maley
TAMPA – Local guitar legend John Zias is turning 70 and the local music scene will celebrate with a special show at Skipper's Smokehouse tonight at 7 p.m. Grateful Dead tribute bands Unlimited Devotion and Uncle John's Band will each perform.
The virtuosic Zias has been covering the Dead since 1969 when he formed Calvary, thought to be the first Dead tribute band ever. Zias went on to take up jazz and improv at the Berklee College of Music, and if there's an experience that comes closer to hearing someone at the level of Jerry Garcia himself interpret the catalog, I haven't seen it.
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