Moonalice is a touring jam Supergroups with G.E. Smith, Barry Sless, Pete Sears, Anne and Roger McNamee, Jimmy Sanchez, and, at times, Jack Cassidy of Hot Tuna on bass.

G.E. Smith spent two years as lead guitarist in Bob Dylan's touring band beginning in 1989. He is familiar to most as the ten-year musical director for Saturday Night Live. He has played with a range of musical artists in addition to Dylan. Smith was married to Gilda Radner from 1980 to 1982, before she met and fell in love with Gene Wilder. He was played by J.D. Nicholson in the 2002 TV-movie about her life, Gilda Radner, It's Always Something. Smith played inside Cleveland Browns Stadium at Browns home games with a band during game timeouts from 2000 to 2005. One of the highlights of his career was hosting an interactive internet show on the electric guitar on National Public Radio and a live presentation at The Smithsonian Institution. He is a frequent instructor at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. The Vandals' song N.I.M.B.Y. is centered around Smith.

Barry Sless is known for his Garcia-like guitar style. He has performed iwth a long list of artists including Phil Lesh and Friends, The Flying Other Brothers, Tea Leaf Green, Dave Nelson and Friends and The Kingfish (collaborators with Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead),

Pete Sears, an English native, has recorded and performed with a number of notable bands and performers, playing both keyboards and bass, including Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Jorma Kaukonen Trio, Hot Tuna, Copperhead with John Cipolina, Jerry Garcia. Bob Weir, Leftover Salmon, Los Lobos, Elvis Costello, Mickey Hart, Nicky Hopkins, Levon Helm, Ron Wood, Carlos Santana, David Crosby and Jimi Hendrix. He wrote a song with John Lee Hooker, "Elizabeth." Hooker played keyboard with Sears on the live studio recording of the song that appears on his solo album, The Long Haul. He performed at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to Hooker at Stanford University as one of Hooker's guests. Sears was a session omusician during the late 60s and is one of the founding members of the original Jefferson Starship, trading off between bass and keyboards with David Freiburg. He co-wrote two to three songs on each of their early albums together with Grace Slick, including "Hyperdrive" on the band's first album, Dragon Fly, released in 1974. Sears would remain with the band through Slick's departure in 1978 and through Paul Kantner's departure and the band's name change to Starship, but left in 1987 over disagreements with the group's musical direction in later years, espsecially a directive that there would be no political or controversial content in any of their lyrics. After Grace Slick left the band, Sears wife, Jeanette Sears, became on of their principle lyricists. The couple wrote many of the band's most remembered songs together including "Stranger," "Save Your Love" and "Winds Of Change" Sears was known for playing a 10-minute bass solo at every performance by the band throughout the 70s and early 80s. He played keyboards with Hot Tuna from 1992-2001, and teaches piano at Hot Tuna founder Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp in Ohio. He once joined musician Nick Gravenitas playing the blues on the back of a flat-bed truck as it drove down San Francisco's Market Street in support of nuclear disarmament and in protect of US-backed injusticies in Central America, joined by a hundred-thousand other peace marchers.

Roger and Ann McNamee are known for their work in The Flying Other Brothers. Ann McNamee is a former music professor at Swarthmore. The two played regular gigs in the San Francisco Bay Area for years. Their dedication to great music played for the sheer pleasure of it lead them to back the December 1999 Not New Year's Concert, held on Dec. 30th that year at the Filmore Auditorium.

Jimmy Sanchez has played drums with Bozz Scaggs and Bonnie Raitt.

All members of the band are credited with playing bass on the Moonalice website in addition to their regular instruments.

Jack Cassidy, a founding member of Hot Tuna and the occassional 7th member of Moonalice will be appearing with the band at all of their shows through April 18th, a 23-show run. He regularly appears with them on tour through long stretches in their itinerary. According to Moonalice legend, the spirit of Cassidy, or Yggdrasil, his Moonalice tribal name, the "mysterious 7th bass player possessed of prodigious talent," inhabits all Moonalice gigs. And some times, when the stars, sun and Moonalice align, Yggdrasil appears in body, and when he does, the tribe rejoices...It is said by those who say such things that all member of the tribe will play bass together one day, and on that day the notion of low will be taken to new depths. Or possibly the concept of depth taken to new lows."

According to the legend, "Moonalice is a native American tribe that dates back to the beginning of time. The Tribe descends from Piltdown Woman, or possibly from a couple of naked, snake-charmed gardners who liked to hang around with friendly dinosaurs...In later times," the legend states," the tribe evolved into two major clans. One was agricultural, the other nomadic. The farmers were known as hippies. They cultivated many things, but their specialty was a Native American crop: hemp...The nomadic tribes were known as bands. . . From time to time the Moonalice hippies and bands would gather in pow wows known as gigs. A precursor fo modern county fairs, the celebrations brought together the best agriculture and music. More woodstock than livestock, Moonalice gigs were quintessentially American, combining the vibes of New York, San Francisco and all points in between.

The Tribal names given to the other six members are: Hardwood Moonalice (G.E. Smith), Jesus H. Moonalice (Barry Sless), Six Sinjin Moonalice (Pete Sears), Blue Moonalice (Ann McNamee), Chubby Wombat Moonalice (Roeger McNamee) and Dawn Man Moonalice (Jimmy Sanchez).

The band regularly posts recordings of their shows on the music page of their website, www.moonalice.com, for Free Download. and streaming. The band's live sets regularly include pyschedelic and jam favorites like "Whiter Shade of Pale," and Grateful Dead covers like "Sugaree."

The San Francisco-based band has done a number of tours with popular jam bands including The New Riders of The Purple Sage, Tea Leaf Green, and their current co-headlining tour with Col. Bruce Hampton and The Quark Alliance. They shared a bill on New Year's Eve with Tea Leaf Green at San Francisco's Mezzanine.

The Moonalice entourage currently includes Steve Parrish, 35-year roadie for The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band. His role with Moonalice is Prankster-In-Chief. Parrish, who spent most of his life on the road as Garcia's "Right hand man," is available to hang out with fans before and after Moonalice shows. He joined the group at The Oregon Country Fair in 2008.

Moonalice played a Redwood City, Cal, benefit for Barack Obama in October 2008, offering fans who could not afford it help with the $250 ticket on their website.
They were chosen by Classic Artists Today as their Classic Artist of the Month in May 08. In August 2007, Moonalice appeared on Mobius Live, a webcast concert series from The Mobius Theatre in Ashland, N.C. The webcast series features a broadcast of performances at The Mobius, along with up-close "meet the band" interviews. That same month they appeared on CNBC's #1 rated show, Power Lunch, on Sept. 14th 2007.

The band has released a book of poster art, The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words, Vol.1, published on Oct. 20, 2008. The book includes work by the band's team of poster artists: Chris Shaw, Alix Fischer, David Singer and Ron Donovan. Famed San Francisco poster artists Stanley Mouse and Chuck Sperry, who created a number of posters and related promotional artwork for The Grateful Dead, have recently joined the Moonalice team of artists. The book, along with First Edition Concert Posters by the artists, are available on the band's website.

The band's fist studio album, Moonalice, is set for release on April 14th, 2009. Produced by T-Bone Burnett using his CODE technology enabling optimized playback on any system. The package will include a standard CD mixed for car or living room, and a DVD with optimized 96/24 for playback on DVD, MP3, AAC and FLAC. It will also include videos for "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and"Tell Me It's Okay." The CD and DVD will be packaged together for the price of a CD. The band will celebrate with a CD Release Show at Slim's San Francisco on April 5.