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Dewey Paul Band

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Colorado's Dewey Paul Band reaches beyond the jam band labeling with thought-provoking, meaningful and inspiring material.

2009's "Ancient Heart" and 2008's "On The Devil's Highway" are only the most recent CD offerings from concert promoter Dewey Paul Moffitt who manages to find time to come out from behind the scenes to perform down stage center. Moffitt previously released five CDs with his former band Dewey Decibel System while producing music festivals from Florida to Colorado as well as sound engineering for many venues and touring artists.

That type of backstage and front-of-house commitment has spawned a completely self-produced and do-it-yourself artist. The music itself has a wide-array of influences and isn't easily pigeon-holed by the genre-labeling elite.

"I would consider it lyrically-driven folk rock with splashes of improvisational jamming thrown in every chance we get. It seems everyone has the need to compare you to someone and I tend to hear a lot of people say Lou Reed, Petty, Springsteen and Dylan. It's certainly an honor when I hear those things." Moffitt says.

The Dylan influence seems like an obvious one, considering Moffitt also fronts an all-Bob Dylan cover band, Dylan66 and hosts an annual charity event honoring the music of Dylan. There is a lot of jam band influence heard as well, especially when the band performs live. Moffitt got his behind the scenes break when legendary concert promoter Bill Graham hired him to do production work in the early '90s. He spent several years setting up dressing rooms for the Grateful Dead before venturing out into producing music festivals and sound engineering.

"On one hand the (music) business is extremely harsh and unforgiving, and on the other hand when you are fortunate enough to participate in that magical exchange with an audience, I have found nothing more rewarding than that. Music is the medicine for the human soul, and I cannot imagine a life without it." Moffitt says.

Dewey Paul Band's 2009 CD "Ancient Heart" features band members Tim Steele on bass, a Denver music veteran and Colorado native, and east coast drum virtuoso Ben E. King, whom also adds several years of concert promoting experience to the team. Bill McKay, keyboardist for Leftover Salmon, lends organ tracks to five cuts of the CD and Arnie J. Green, whose credits include many San Francisco Bay Area bands including Steve Kimock and Zero, performs some guest guitar duties on the disc.

The name-dropping doesn't stop there, here's a few comments from other well-known musicians whom Dewey has performed with...

"I love the CD, it's really great work."
-John Oates (Hall & Oates) speaking about "On The Devil's Highway"

"Dewey is a true professional and has lots of material that's very inspiring to work with."
-Jose' Rossy, percussionist (Talking Heads, Robert Palmer, Patti LaBelle, Sonia Dada)

"You're a pretty good guitar player Dewey. I really enjoyed jamming with you."
-Melvin Seals, keyboardist (Jerry Garcia Band, JGB)

Dewey also performs in several side projects: Skin The Goat (Grateful Dead tribute); Dylan66 (Bob Dylan tribute); an annual Last Waltz reenactment with Polytoxic and occasional duo/trio gigs with Arnie J. Green.

Concert Promotions, Production & Audio Engineering

In 2006, I created the International Bob Dylan Tribute Festival which I produce annually in the Denver area.

I currently do the booking and production for the Goat Soup & Whiskey Tavern in Keystone, Colorado with owner Scott Jackson.

Prior to my work at the Goat I was a managing partner at Denver's Oriental Theatre from 2006-2007 where I was also in charge of all booking and production.

From 2001-2007, I worked for Kroenke Sports Enterprises at Denver's Pepsi Center Arena performing various audio and visual engineering jobs with Arena Technology Manager Alan Schroeder. I worked closely with the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Crush, Colorado Mammoth & Colorado Rapids sports teams.

In the summer of 2004, I toured as a monitor and recording engineer for Chicago's r&b soul outfit Sonia Dada.

For five years I worked as a stage manager and eventually became the festival director for Denver's Lodo Music Festival, Buskerfest and the Denver Blues & Bones Festival under Perfomance International's owner Al Kraizer.

Prior to 2002, I worked for several years as house audio engineer and production manager at Denver's Bluebird, Ogden and Gothic Theatres. During this time I also freelanced with Brett Dowlan's Dowlan Sound, Alan Hart's Audio Denver (now PSI), and Greg Bertrang's Advanced Audio.

In 1998 I worked in the ticket office at the world famous House of Blues in New Orleans, LA.

From 1993-1998 I co-produced a large outdoor music festival called the Alachua Music Harvest in Gainesville, Florida with Marshall Lowe (now with All-In Entertainment).

For three years before I arrived in Gainesville, I had the honor of working production at Bill Graham Presents (BGP) in San Francisco.

Writings

I've been working on a memoir for several years now. These musings are based on some of the passionate adventures of a my youth.

I write lots of introspective songs and occasionally I blog.

I used to publish the underground bohemian rag "Inspiration" in the late eighties and early nineties. The zine was distributed widely at Grateful Dead shows.

Graphic Arts

Besides creating music, photography is one of my artistic passions. I also enjoy designing concert posters for the events I promote as well as experimenting with video editing shows that I am involved with.