We don’t have any poisoned Three Musketeers or Syphilis-infested Twix bars, but we are doling out a heaping handful of old Halloween shows today. Enjoy the free streams, and remember to stay out of Old Man Bernstein’s house…
- Black Crowes - 10/31/05, Riviera Theater
- Bob Marley – 10/31/73, The Record Plant
- Bruce Hornsby – 10/31/98, Yoshi’s
- Doobie Brothers – 10/31/75, The Showboat
- Frank Zappa – 10/31/80, The Palladium (sbd)
- Galactic – 10/31/05, House of Blues Vegas
- Grateful Dead - 10/31/91, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (sbd)
- Grateful Dead – 10/31/79, Nassau Coliseum
- Grateful Dead – 10/31/83, Marin County Civic Center
- Jaco Pastorius – 10/31/86, The Dock
- Jerry Garcia Band – 10/31/88, Kaiser Convention Center
- Little Feat – 10/31/75, Orpheum Theater
- Medeski Martin & Wood – 10/31/01, Beacon Theater
- Phish – 10/31/94, Glens Falls Civic Center
- Phish - 10/31/95, Blows-mont Whor-izon
- Phish – 10/31/96, The Omni
- Phish – 10/31/98, Thomas & Mack Center
- Phish – 10/31/86, Sculpture Room @ Goddard College
- Santana – 10/31/84, The Ritz NYC
- Tom Waits – 10/31/77, Park Motor Inn (Madison, WI)
- Widespread Panic – 10/31/05, Thomas & Mack
- Yonder Mountain String Band, 10/31/05, Canopy Club
For some added bonus candy, here’s the infamous Umphrey’s McGee show with the always-hilarious pedophilia medley from Halloween Eve 2004. Man, that was a brilliant job of trick or treating by the UM fellas…
It’s Tuesday, time for another exciting edition of Pullin’ ‘Tubes. Now if you would please, let’s all turn to the music section of your hymnals, and let’s begin on three with the Chairman of the Board:
- I know Sinatra’s supposed to be this great untouchable force, but I can’t watch him sing without bursting into uncontrollable fits of nervous laughter. Case in point, here’s Frankie singing The Beatles’ Something, and I’m just sitting here giggling and crooning to myself, “Something in the way that dame knows she’s a broad, and I don’t need no other lovah, toots.”
- Watch Tea Leaf Green flawlessly executing its famed three-part Garden Suite at Savannah’s in Albany on 5/21/04 (and, stunningly, Ben’s not wearing a hat of any kind). To stay with the TLG thing for one more ride, here’s a killer Morning Sun from the awesome November Coda shows.
- Paul Simon’s Graceland in Central Park…something tells me there was a girl in New York City that night that called herself the Human Trampoline.
- The Modern Jazz Quartet, including Ace-fave Milt Jackson, nailing the first three minutes of Bags Groove in London in the early 1980s.
- Steely Dan! Live Peg! No Mikey McD, though. (No, here’s Mikey.)
- Got two hours to kill for a good cause? Check out the first edition of The Festival Tapes, Thomas Lofstrom’s footage of the Grateful Dead & Friends, focusing on “the real show” at a Dead concert: the heady, heady crowd.
- Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer shot on Super 8 in Minnesota, 10/28/80.
- Rick Danko & Paul Butterfield play Stage Fright at the Garden in the haziest video you’ll ever check out. Love that Danko.
- James Brown feels so good during this old interview that he probably can’t feel his face, or the face of the woman he likely just punched.
On the run from Johnny Law…ain’t no trip to Cleveland.
Our man on the inside of Sunday night’s much-discussed, oft-Googled Rolling Stones concert bartered Injun-style with a member of Scorsese’s thugs for this copy of an annotated setlist. Interestingly enough, Brown Sugar is listed on this dually notarized document, but the band omitted it from the actual performance. Racism? I sure as shit wouldn’t rule it out.
Anyway, Hal Hansen’s a Friend of the Program here, and he so graciously offered to submit us a full review of the evening’s festivities. What follows is probably the most comprehensive review of anything ever, but it’ll also serve as the best eyewitness recap from the perspective of That Random Guy Just Like You that you’ll find anywhere on the information superhighway. So read on after the jump, or else Hal will surely cut you…job well done, sir.
Umphrey’s McGee played the first night of a two-show quasi-homestand at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on December 30th, 2005, and that evening Brett Saul captured a great picture from the stage that has made it all around the world wide web.
Judging from the front rail alone, you can probably guess that this particular UM concert was an all ages show. We know, that’s not new, you’ve seen this photo before. But there’s plenty more to the story…
Our friend and unofficial photographer/videographer Hal Hansen went down to the Beacon Theater last night for the first of two Scorsese-filmed Rolling Stones shows, and he’ll weigh in with an update soon. As a preview, here’s what he’s got:
“That Loving Cup was far and away the musical highlight. Other highlights included high-fiving Keith Olberman, shaking Elvis Costello’s hand and being about 10 feet away from Bill & Hillary Clinton as they walked in. Just a totally absurd scene that I had no business being a part of.” Hal also sent me a text message after walking past Angelica Huston, with whom I love dearly.
Last Night’s Setlist: Start Me Up, Shattered, She Was Hot, All Down The Line, Loving Cup with Jack White, As Tears Go By, I’m Free (last played in Dec 21, 1969 according to Gazza), Undercover, Just My Imagination, Shine A Light, Champagne and Reefer with Buddy Guy (live debut), Tumbling Dice, Band Intros, You Got The Silver, T & A, Sympathy For The Devil, Live With Me with Christina Aguilera, Paint It Black, Jumping Jack Flash, encore: Satisfaction.
Click here for a full review of the 10/29/06 show.
Welcome to the working week, where we feel your pain. But that’s why we exist, to help you slowly dip yourself back into the groove with these fine links:
Now get back to work, ya ne’er-do-well slackers…
Word has it the Allman Brothers may be forced to take up residency somewhere else when their time comes to plant their lazy asses in New York for a month.
There’s still no official confirmation from any of the parties — and I’m entirely not sure there will be any time soon — but one of Manhattan’s most revered and neighborly music theaters is rumored to be undergoing some major changes in 2007. As the still-preliminary story goes, the Beacon Theater’s lease has expired, and several interested buyers have inquired about the historical landmark’s future.
Along with the unconfirmed news of the potential sale (to such rumored suitors as the Madison Square Garden folks), there is some underground chatter that the Beacon will shut down after the Government Mule New Year’s shows for extensive renovations that may run as long as six months of the year. And that would leave old stand-bys like the Allmans without a home, possibly leading to a re-titled “Smokia at the Nokia” or “Show Some Titty at Radio City” run.
Hidden Track will obviously stay on the story as more details emerge, but it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few weeks and months…
Ugh. Sorry. I just cringed writing that headline, so I can just imagine how much vomit reversed course on your own Peristalsis Trail while reading it.
For those of you like us that are giant pussies and couldn’t make it to the second annual Vegoose, the good folks at AT&T — “Your World Delivered” — will bring you unfettered access to the strange and probably awesome happenings in Vegas.
On Oct. 28 and 29 the AT&T blue room will feature exclusive performances from some of the more than 30 bands taking part in this year’s Vegoose. To date, artists scheduled to be featured live in the blue room include The Raconteurs, The Black Crowes, Widespread Panic, Damian `Jr. Gong’ Marley, Phil & Trey, The Keller Williams Incident, Gomez, Galactic, Medeski Martin Wood, Maceo Parker, Rhythm Devils, Toubab Krewe, Money Mark Guster, Built to Spill, Yonder Mountain String Band, and more.
So if you’re up for tuning into what you’re sorely missing, you can check out all the cool shit this weekend over in the AT&T blue room. Embrace the indoors.
Also, we’re sending reporters to both potentially epic Rolling Stones’ shows at the Beacon Theater on Sunday and Tuesday, so make sure to check back with us next week for reviews from the Upper West Side. We just received word that tonight’s show in Atlantic City has been cancelled so Mick can rest a sore throat (no joke), but the Beacon shows are going on as planned…
…now, if you would please, just leave us the fuck alone.”
That was basically the message from the official Genesis website this week as the band announced a reunion tour. Well, kinda…
The latest from Genesis: “An official announcement about the band’s plans for 2007 will be made on Tuesday, 7th November. Full details will be made available FIRST on this site at a time to be confirmed. No further information will be supplied until that date and we respectfully ask that people desist from sending emails, letters and making phone calls for advance information – this will NOT be provided until the official date. Thank you for your patience until then.”
Personally we like that level of feistiness from a band that hasn’t played in 10 years. Yet Genesis fans have suffered enough through “Groovy Kinda Love” and The Tarzan soundtrack for long enough, so patience isn’t exactly a virtue at this point…
Who doesn’t like to procrastinate on Friday? You…you’re lying, I see it in your eyes. To do our part, we’ll help out the “Do It Tomorrow” cause by jotting down some miscellaneous links from the week that was:
Have you seen anything else that we missed this week?
I mean, what else would explain this guy’s string of horrible luck in the health department? For someone who’s done so much good for so many people, I can’t believe what kind of medical obstacles he’s been forced to overcome.
As he’s so accustomed to doing with his instrument, Phil dropped another bomb on us today, announcing on his site that he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. But because his team of doctors caught it early in development, he’s confident about his prospects for a “rapid and complete recovery.” Our kindest thoughts and prayeriest prayers go out to Phil and the entire Lesh family at this time.
Best of luck, Mr. Lesh…may you beat this disease on down the line.
We’re featuring two special sneak previews for youse to devour today. The first requires no introduction whatsoever — take a gander at what the movie’s poster calls “The Greatest Motion Picture Of All Time”: Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny.
The second preview comes from the long-awaited album collaboration of unheralded country ‘n blues legend JJ Cale and his musical doppelganger, Eric Clapton. Slow Hand’s definitey made a solid name for himself off JJ Cale’s non-hits, and now the two will surely make each other rich together instead of separately. Here’s a quick recap of their new disc, The Road To Escondido:
In a true collaboration, Cale and Clapton jointly produced and recorded the album, each playing and singing on the tracks. Cale wrote 11 of the songs, Clapton wrote “Three Little Girls,” John Mayer wrote “Hard To Thrill” and the duo cover the blues classic “Sporting Life Blues.” J.J. Cale’s touring band accompanies them on the album as well as guest musicians including, Taj Mahal, John Mayer, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Albert Lee, Nathan East, Willie Weeks and Steve Jordan. Particularly special is the involvement of Billy Preston, who donated his classic keyboard talents throughout the album. The album is dedicated to Preston and Clapton’s late friend Brian Roylance.
And now, enjoy video clip of Eric and JJ in action: QuickTime; Windows Media.
We’re all big fans of lists. Who isn’t? We Americans love Top Tens, and we love to categorize everything that can be filed away. So every week, in an effort to build community discussion ’round these here parts, I’ll post a random list reflecting my opinions and ask you to provide your own thoughts…
For the first edition of The B List, here’s my list of Top Ten Completely Out-Of-Left-Field Covers (in no particular order):
- Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) – Bob Dylan
- Sabotage (Beastie Boys) – Phish
- New Pollution (Beck) – String Cheese Incident
- Regulate (Warren G) – Umphrey’s McGee
- Hot in Herre (Nelly) – Widespread Panic
- All Apologies (Nirvana) – moe.
- Beat It (Michael Jackson) – The Disco Biscuits
- Nothing Else Matters (Metallica) – The Dead
- Panama (Van Halen) – Trey Anastasio
- Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead) – Jimmy Buffett
So, what’s your list look like? Sound off in the comments section below…
I’m not sure if your frat brothers or tour-rat friends sent you this clip yet, but if you haven’t seen this, enjoy the first four minutes of what many critics are already calling “the funniest movie ever made.” As you may determine in the preview, it at least has the greatest ping-pong scene in cinema history.
Truthfully I prefer Martin Lawrence vehicles to Borat, but I’ll probably see this flick.
Fifteen years ago today, the music world lost a living legend that made it possible for even this website to exist. No, it’s not Internet inventor Al Gore, it’s famed concert promotor and producer Bill Graham, and we honor his memory today.
Graham’s helicopter crashed near Vallejo, California on this day a decade and a half ago, as he was coming home from a Huey Lewis & The News concert at the Concord Pavillion. I’d like to eulogize one of the genuine articles of the music business, but I’m not sure I can top what I wrote about him in April 2005 after finishing his unofficial rock primer, Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out.
It’s funny how his Bill Graham Presents operation ended up in Clear Channel’s hands, only to be spun off and and sold into the LiveNation stable. Sure, Graham was a capitalist and tried to make cash, but he wanted his guests and patrons to have the time of their lives for the ticket money they paid. And, yes, it’s a different world now, but those two corporate conglomerates could learn a thing or two from the spirit of that man and his shows. Instead of standing on the shoulders of a true giant, they’re stuck under his shoe like chewed-up street gum.
You may be gone, but at least we have Wolfgang’s Vault. Big time, Bill, big time.
