Jake Wolf Music

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Boulder Theater Friday 4/3
We’re dedicating the night to our brother Ted Galloway.
Jake Wolf (Sages And Spirits), who spent well over a decade with Shakedown Street, joins us on second drums and bringing the Beam, sending it right where Ted can hear it. ⚡🌹

It’s March 17, 2026. St. Patrick’s Day.

Historically, this was a day when Shakedown Street would play Shamus O’Toole’s in Breckenridge, Colorado. One of the first gigs I had in Shakedown Street post–summer season.

I remember the first time I pulled up there. It was a night like this, before the season had started. I drove into this little ski town and rolled up to this roadhouse saloon… Shamus O’Toole’s.

Coming from the East Coast, had played a couple of biker bars, and they were very different. The ones in Connecticut were like Hell’s Angels havens.

One of them I remember was called the Hanover House. I played that with Dave Frankel and Scott Guberman. My Jewish buddies… walking into this Hell’s Angels bar where there were literally pictures of Hi**er on the wall, and swastikas.
I was terrified. That overwhelming kind of fear hit me.

So when I pulled up to Shamus O’Tooles, I thought,
“Oh man… what’s this going to be like?”

But it was so far from that.

It was all these mountain folk… which I really hadn’t been turned on to yet. I was on the Front Range when I first got here. I had a place in Vail and a place in Boulder that I split with one of my best friends from college. 🥹This mountain culture just grabbed me.

For many, many years, the band played Seamus O’Toole’s. And even when it closed down in the early 2000s, we still found places to play on St. Patrick’s Day.

It became a holiday.
A Grateful Dead. Shakedown Street. Galloway holiday.

Man… it was a week ago tonight.

The last time I saw Ted. We were hanging out two days before he passed. Not even two days… barely a day.

God, I miss him so much.

He had such a sweet way about him. He had this way of being inappropriate that was somehow… sweet. Because of who he was, it wasn’t offensive. But by any other standard, it would have offended so many people.

He was just full of love.

I really loved playing with him. Even in the darkest venues, he just emanated this light, this brilliance, this joy.

And people… the Colorado heads… they were just fixated on him.

So today, being St. Patrick’s Day… Galloway Day…

I will, and probably every St. Patrick’s Day for the rest of my life, carry the fondest memories of one of the sweetest, greatest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing with.

I miss you, Ted.

See you on the other side…
and we’ll rodeo then. 💚

The Missing Man Formation…
Teddy we all miss you so much

The Grateful Ted has moved into the Light.

It's with profound sadness that I share that Teddy Galloway passed away yesterday. If you knew what Ted meant to me, you know how deeply crushed I am right now. Some people just come into your life and leave a mark that never fades. His love will NEVER Fade Away.

Teddy was one of those people. His love will never fade away. My years in Shakedown Street were some of the most formative years of my life, both as a musician and a person.

Teddy was always right there at the center of it, the music, the miles, the road, the Jameson. The shake heads, the way that he... made the music of the Grateful Dead, his... was unlike anything I've ever seen and ever will see again.

Teddy's spirit was huge. It was larger than life. He brought this energy and this, this incredible heart and this soul into the music. And into the community around him. Being on stage with him, chasing those moments when the music, like, took off and everything was clicking. And his memories that I will always carry with me forever. Probably outside of the phrase that Ted would say “ if it wasn't for flashbacks and photographs, we'd have no memories at all.”

His voice, the humor, the cowboy meets Jerry, the little quips in the songs… All of it. Even his connection with everybody was... ethereal, and it brought the universal serendipity of the feeling of what the Grateful Dead's music is to another dimension. A different place.

Those years, they left an, like, an indelible mark on my life, and Teddy was just a huge part of that story, and he always will be. I will always hear the words of Teddy singing instead of the ones that were written originally.

I'm so grateful for every mile, for every show, and every moment that I had with him. I will miss him tremendously, and I am... just heartbroken for everybody that... had the... fortunate time in their lives to be in Ted's presence He just... was one in a million.
Rest easy, Teddy. Thank you for everything. The music, the friendship, the memories, the mentorship, the damage to my liver, my spleen, and my medulla oblongata.

Let’s Rodeo on the other side mi amigo.