Furthur, the band made up of Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Jay Lane, Joe Russo, John Kadlecik and Jeff Chimenti, will play a warm-up show this evening at the intimate 19Broadway nightclub in Marin County. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 6PM.
There’s something about Cincinnati that the members of Phish must love as they keep on coming back to the city for two-night stands. For an example of how good Cincy Phish fans have it, consider that The Queen City has gotten a total of seven Phish shows since Fall ‘99. During that same span, the only show in the Cleveland area was in Cuyahoga Falls on September 18, 2000. Quite the disparity when you consider Cleveland is the bigger city.
Phish in Cinncinnati – Venue Segues
Bogart’s (5/5/92,12/3/92) > Cincinnati Zoo Peacock Pavilion (8/6/93) > Cincinnati Music Hall (6/21/94) > The Crown (11/14/98)/Firststar Center (12/3,4/99) > Riverbend Music Center (9/20/00) > U.S. Bank Arena (2/21,22/03, 11/20,21/09)
Capacities: Bogart’s (300), Peacock Pavilion (?), Music Hall (1,150), The Crown/Firststar Center/U.S. Bank Arena (17,090), Riverbend (20,500)
This weekend, Jeditang will be tweeting the setlist and full play-by-play details from the U.S. Bank Arena for @YEMblog. Jeditang has prepared a bit of a bio to give you some background on who will be providing the deets from Cincinnati. You call also follow the action at JamBase’s Phish Page and via PhishTwit.
In other Phish-related news, past HT contributor Ginz has been making onesies for the band’s youngest fans. You can read all about Ginz’s new venture – and find out how to buy a onesie – at the PhanArt Blog.
[Originally Published August 9, 2007]
Steely Dan 03/20/1974 FM (MP3):
After listening to one of Steely Dan’s rare live gigs from the ’70s, I’m just confused as to why these guys didn’t tour behind any of their legendary albums. The Dan absolutely tore it up in the live setting with a band that included Michael McDonald, Denny Dias and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. To see what I’m talking about, download this crispy as fuck radio show Steely Dan recorded on March 20th, 1974.
I’ve had a copy of this show for years, but the analog tape hiss made it unlistenable. Last week a pristine copy of the set made its way to the torrent sites. My old copy has now become my new coaster. The show begins with a high energy romp through Bodhisattva that features Baxter and Walter Becker trading mind-blowing licks. Do It Again is a little more groovin’ than the album version thanks to McDonald’s work on the Rhodes. Other nuggets on this recording include the nasty solos in Rikki Don’t Lose That Number and a soulful version of Any Major Dude. We can only hope that more crispy recordings from the Dan’s epic 1974 tour surface soon.
Last Friday was a long time coming. The week seemed to drag on to the point where I spent a great deal of Thursday staring at the clock, doing my best to force time to speed up by the sheer force of my will and failing miserably. There had been deadlines and long work days since Monday morning and it drained me to the core. I needed Friday badly. You see, on Friday, the Mother Hips were coming to town. By Wednesday I was jonesing pretty bad. Friday was a long time coming for certain.
I got to the venue early and grabbed a table by the wall to wait for the right moment to give up my seat. The Doug Fir Lounge in Portland is a very intimate theater with a low rise stage that faces a roughly 30’ by 40’ dance floor. Behind the dance floor is a set of stairs leading to the bar area and merch table on one side, with the sound booth in the middle and a ramp to the bar on the other side. There are a few tables on either wall to the side, but sitting down affords one only a good look at the back of most of the audience. The best place to be at the Doug Fir is on the stairs, leaning back against the front of the sound booth. One or two steps up, with something to lean on behind me to rest my aching back and an unobstructed view of the stage, I try to grab this spot whenever I’m here.
I needed to sit till the last moment to rest up for the show. Triple bill, with Matthew Lindley & Troubadour Deluxe first and Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit in the middle slot. I grabbed the spot on the stair just ahead of a couple who were content to be against the booth, but one step down.
READ ON for the rest of AJ’s review of the Mother Hips…
Our new favorite psychedelic-country-rock band These United States have captured the early ’90s, DIY-spirit reminiscent of Beastie Boys clips for their new video. Here’s The Important Thing…
These United States – The Important Thing
These United States wrap up their current fall tour with Miles Benjamin Anthony tonight with a show at New York City’s Mercury Lounge.
Seattle rockers Pearl Jam make their Austin City Limits debut this weekend on your local PBS channel. Eddie Vedder and his mates focus on material from the recently released Backspacer and add a few Pearl Jam classics for good measure during this performance taped on October 13.
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As we head into winter, one thing that should get you through the cold weather ahead is the thought that summer music festival season is right around the corner. To help get your head in place, here’s the announcement of the dates & early-bird tickets for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
Now in its ninth year, Bonnaroo 2010 will take place from June 10-13 with organizers offering special holiday-rate pre-sale tickets & five-part payment plan with installments of $50 each, which will be available beginning 11/27.
Finally, the always busy Jack White continues his string of projects that makes us consider the theory that he may be a robot like Vicki from Small Wonder. Up next for the White Stripes-Raconteurs-Dead Weather member will be working with rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson – who was a fan of his production work with Loretta Lynn on Van Lear Rose
Ekoostik Hookah bassist Cliff Starbuck, who has held down the low end for the Ohio-based jamband since they formed in 1991, will play his last show as a full-time member of the band on New Year’s Eve. The band will resume playing gigs after a six week break following their New Year’s show at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus with a new, as-of-yet unnamed bassist.
READ ON for Cliff’s statement and the band’s statement…
“I want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback,” former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said after he was forced to resign last year. Echoing the words of the infamous Detroit mayor, Phish returned for a comeback of their own in the Motor City for this year’s fall tour opener, however, delivering on the comeback would be a different story. Save a few bright spots, (Down With Disease>Free and 46 Days) the show sounded like the first show of a tour, a bit rusty and apprehensive.
The quartet came out to a barrage of roses from someone hopeful for Ween’s Roses Are Free, that unfortunately didn’t come. Most of the first set was fairly straightforward as nothing really found a perfect fit. With the newer songs Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan and Kill Devil Falls, guitarist Trey Anastasio’s, for lack of a better word, Joy, was apparent as he played these new compositions just as noticeably eager as he was the past summer to push the crowd to enjoy them as much as he seems to.
It’s Ice made for an interesting highlight of the first set, but most of the opening stanza was filled with slower tunes such as Mist. Things got slightly more upbeat with Poor Heart and 46 Days would branch out a bit, with Trey pinging notes over a spacey pulsing background soundscape while lighting director Chris Kuroda covered the side walls of Cobo Hall during the ambient improv. Slowly, the space in 46 Days fizzled into silence before it got to any real interesting territory.
READ ON for more of Pietro’s thoughts and photos from Phish…
Last Week’s Sauce features recordings of shows from the previous week. Thanks to prof_peabody – who had the lead singer of Los Campesinos roll up to his mic stand, lower it, and then sing it into it – for this week’s photo.
Artist & Title: Chris Barron – How Could You Want Him When You Know You Could Have Me
Date & Venue: 2009-11-12 The Mint, Los Angeles CA
Taper & Show Download: David Landsberger
It’s not very often I’ll repeat the same song on Last Week’s Sauce, but as I was doing my normal cruising around my download sites – I saw this solo acoustic show from the Spin Doctors’ Chris Barron. And I saw that he must have given a very lengthy introduction to the Spin Doctors tune I featured in September in this feature. Not only is the story mildly interesting, but the arrangement Barron plays is quite different than the one you are used to hearing. Barron next plays at Davinci’s Pub in Collegville, PA on December 4th with his band The Time Bandits.
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READ ON for tracks from Joan Osborne, Lettuce, MMW & UM…
