Todd Daniel Snider 11oct66-14nov25
This page will be dedicated to all things Todd Snider, with photos and recordings from our archives as we can make them available in the months ahead.
From Jeff Cotton ~ Starting with 1997’s somewhat legendary ‘Fireman’s Ball’ premiere performance of Todd Snider and The Nervous Wrecks at our roadhouse, Rancho Nevada, on eastbound US I-80’s exit 2 in Verdi, Nevada, my wife Sheila and I presented the late singer/songwriter/bandleader Todd Snider in the Reno area for more than a dozen shows in five venues over more than a decade. Most were in his typically solo-acoustic form, but a few were with his band, “The Nervous Wrecks”. I recorded most of them. The show recording below was the band’s first return to Reno since the Rancho Nevada gig in the parking lot on the side of the freeway. It was much anticipated thanks in no small part to the able hyping of our soul friend in radio, Bruce Van Dyke @ KTHX-FM, co-founder of Jiveradio.
This show, on October 9, 2003, was part of the premier series of live concert broadcasts called the “Comstock Radio Hours” and was hosted by the sometimes revered John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, Nevada and Emcee’d by Don Darue. This recording has some obvious deficiencies and is not complete. Front of House engineer: Jeff Cotton, on-air/recording engineer: Shallgo Nameless.
More Todd recordings coming here in the months ahead.
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