I totally forgot to mention in today’s Televised Tune - the column featuring television listings we started two years ago - that Sundance will be showing the Wilco film Ashes of American Flags
I was recently at the Two Boots Pizzeria on Bleecker Street between Broadway and Lafayette when I saw a painted ice cream sign on their window. Seems that Two Boots has partnered with Max & Mina’s Ice Cream of Queens to make Cajun inspired flavors for their pizza locations.
As there are many people who read this blog that are annual JazzFest visitors, I have to say that I had the Banana’s Foster flavor and it was great. As you can see on the attached pic, Two Boots has even taken the extra step to suggest their custom slice->Max & Mina ice cream pairings. This is some good stuff, I may have to head out to Queens to check out the original Max & Mina’s in Kew Gardens which is at 7126 Main St, Flushing. I am always out there looking for new foodie discoveries…
Other goings on in the foodie-verse this week
With all of the new food trucks popping up, you knew something was brewing behind the scenes: The NY Times broke the story Tuesday afternoon: Six Arrested in Probe of City’s Food Vendors.
READ ON for more goings on from Jon…
Sundance teamed up with Brushfire Records to create a 45 minute documentary about the Kokua Festival in Hawaii, an event which raises funds for environmental causes, that will air on Sunday at 12:15ET/9:15PT. Look for performances by Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews and others.
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The days of Phish-related speculation being relegated to message boards and blogs seem to be over as local papers pick up on these rumors and run with them. We’ve got a couple of examples that popped up today. Most Phish fans are convinced that the band’s upcoming Halloween Festival will take place at one of the Polo Fields in Indio, leading many of them to book hotel rooms near the site. The Desert Sun - a local paper out of Palm Springs - published an article yesterday about the hotels in the area seeing a major increase in bookings for the nights between October 29 and November 2.
[Photo by Dave Vann]
Today, the Desert Sun ran a follow-up article indicating that Coachella concert promoter Paul Tolett was due to meet with Phish production manager Hadden Hipsley yesterday without revealing any details about what transpired between the two. Meanwhile, city officials claim they haven’t seen any contract or agreement. The Save The Date graphic on Phish.com still has plenty of States left, but it’s becoming clear which state will host the festival on October 30 through November 1.
Over on the East Coast, our friend Sam McDonald of the Daily Press - a fine journo who wrote a ton of articles about every aspect of Phish’s three-night stand at the Hampton Coliseum in March - has put together a piece about speculation that the jam maestros will return to the Mothership as part of their fall tour. McDonald even got a source to give the rumor legs…
A Hampton city government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Phish is definitely coming back this year — probably sometime in the fall.
In these harsh economic times local officials LOVE the financial shot in the arm that the Phish community can bring making a potential visit from the quartet a big story. Times have certainly changed from the days when Phish was supposedly banned from Red Rocks and other venues.
On his recently completed tour with Eric Clapton, iconic multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood used his solo slot to perform a riveting version of Low Spark each night. Here’s a clip from the Hollywood Bowl…
For the third annual Stormy Mondays Fourth of July episode we have a monster Grateful Dead show closer from the very beginning of the legendary Europe ‘72 tour (4/8/72 at the Wembley Empire Pool in London), a weighty piece of psychedelic fogginess close to an hour long. An ethereal Dark Star stretches across a vast terrain, loaded with distinct segments, screaming guitar work along with some really fantastic playing from Keith.
It’s an odyssey to undertake, delving into deep, deep caverns of frightening emptiness and space, but eventually the band works through a maddening meltdown and eases into that gorgeous GDTRFB passage that shows up periodically in early ’70s GD in any number of places, and it glows. The jam bounds upward, and the group tears into Sugar Magnolia and then surprisingly into the first Caution in a year and a half. Phil and Jerry pound into the final train wreck with stunning, evil grin eliciting force. Enjoy!
Phish.com has just been updated with a graphic advising fans to save the dates of October 30, 31 and November 1 for what will be the first Phish-thrown festival since Coventry in August 2004. As of now, three states in the graphic representing the United States that appears when you visit Phish.com have been blacked out. Those states are Idaho, Oklahoma and West Virgina. Some fans have speculated that as time passes more states will be blacked out leaving only the state where the festival will be held.
Rumors are swirling that the quartet will perform at the Polo Fields in Indio, California where the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals are held each year near Palm Springs, but nothing is confirmed at this point except for the date and the fact that the band will indeed be hosting a festival. Starting on October 31, 1994, Phish concerts on Halloween were three set affairs in which the band would don a “musical costume” in the second set by performing a classic album by another artist. The group played The Beatles’ White Album in 1994, Quadrophenia by The Who in 1995, Remain In Light by the Talking Heads in 1996 and Loaded by the Velvet Underground in 1998.
This announcement leaves fans with a number of questions, so we want to hear from you. Where do you think they’ll play and what album do you think they’ll cover? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
UPDATE: All sorts of theories abound in our comments section. Be sure to read all of the insightful comments from our readers.
If you’re not lucky enough to be at the Rothbury Festival this weekend at least you can follow the action from home. iClips has just released the schedule for their Rothbury webcasts and the lineup couldn’t be more varied. Ralph Stanley, Martin Sexton, STS9, Willie Nelson and Toots are among those whose sets are being broadcast. Performances by jamband favorites the Disco Biscuits, Umphrey’s McGee and String Cheese Incident will also be webcast. The best part of the Rothbury webcast? It’s free!
[Originally Published March 26, 2009]
I’ll never forget the day late Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland passed away in 1990. I was playing hockey at Camp Westmont when a bunkmate’s brother came down the hill to tell us Brent had died. Now, I’ll be honest - I didn’t know a thing about the band at the time, but I wanted to find out. One of my Deadhead counselors turned me onto David Gans and Peter Simon’s well-written biography of the band, Playing in the Band,
Over the past twenty years, I’ve read a number of books on the Grateful Dead and some are spectacular and some aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. The latest tome on the band - Peter Conners’ Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead
10. Skeleton Key - David Shenk, Steve Silberman
I’ll never forget David & Steve’s book as the first time I ever saw the phrase 4:20. Skeleton Key offers bite-sized tidbits on phrases that are part of the Deadhead vocabulary - such as 4:20 - among its 400 pages of history, lore, and interviews about the band.
READ ON for nine more of Scotty’s favorite books on the Dead…
We’d like to welcome back Ryan Holiday for a look at how the music industry got to the point it is at as well as his take on how to save it…
With the music industry in such a shambles, young bands have the unfortunate duty of figuring out which way to take their careers. On the one hand, some bands are taking the traditional route of getting signed; other, less conventional musicians are trying to find innovative ways to sell their music on their own.
However artists go about eking out their livings, one primary problem remains: any way you look at it, no one is buying music anymore. How did the industry get to this point? The simplest answer is that we have all gotten greedy. Musicians bought into the idea of selling out arenas, dating supermodels and being on Behind the Music as the only benchmarks for success, while the industry brainwashed bands into thinking that major labels were the holy grail of a noteworthy career. The new, casual listener became king and instead of building a loyal following for acts through hard work, record labels began to strip-mine and water down the talent. The consumer? Well, he’s just looking for a deal. “Free” is everyone’s favorite four-letter word.
READ ON for an example of why the music industry is failing…
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