Supergroup Awesomeness ain’t just for the first-tier all-stars. Whoever said the lesser-known jazz and funk musicians of our generation can’t have some fun, too?
The unheralded but probably pretty fucking awesome Fully Loaded resurfaced for a show out in San Francisco recently, and now they’re taking their “six shots of deadly funk” on the road. The band, formed by saxomophonist Cochemea “Cheme” Gastelum, features GBA’s Chris Stillwell on bass, Will Bernard on guitar, Chuck Prada on percussion, Anthony Farrell on keys and perpetual free-agent Adam Deitch on the kit. The potential for nastiness is on its way eastward…
Let’s take a quick listen to Fully Loaded rip a mean Bidi Man, a song written by Chris Stillwell and made famous by those lovable Greyboy Allstars.
- Read on after the jump for full(y loaded) tour dates
- All tickets for these shows are available at boomboomtickets.com
Everyone’s favorite new-shirted keyboardist returned to his familiar perch last night in support of the release of his eponymous album. Page McConnell gathered his four new bandmates and kicked off a brief 13-show tour of the East Coast, the Midwest and Georgia last night at Higher Ground in Burlington. You gotta hand it to the guy for really checkin’ out some new venues…
His ol’ bandmate from the popular rock band Phish, Mike Gordon, sat in on Back in the Basement (click here to watch the jam on YouTube), probably causing some serious “We’re Halfway to Phish” erections from the Vermont faithful. We’ll be seeing Page on Monday night when he rolls through Irving Plaza (sorry, it ain’t the Fillmore to me, yet), and I’m sure we’ll have a full report on whether he’s still sticking that foul thing in his ear.
5/30/07 Setlist: Heavy Rotation, Runaway Bride, Maid Marian, Memories Can’t Wait^, Beauty Of A Broken Heart, Final Flight*, Rules I Don’t Know, Close To Home, Complex Wind, Back In The Basement %, Everyone But Me
Encore: Strange Design**, Stuck In The Middle With You#
^ Talking Heads
* Vida Blue
% with Mike Gordon on bass
# Stealers Wheel
We’re gaining momentum as we approach the end of The Police Week on Hidden Track, and today we present a special edition of The B List: We’re featuring 10 amazing Police videos from our friends at GooTube. Check ‘em out…
1. Let’s start with a clip from the opening night of the reunion tour. King of Pain has always been a favorite song of mine — the studio track on Synchronicity is full of layered vocals and all sorts of percussion instruments, making this song a challenge in concert. For this tour, The Police are playing it straight: The major difference between King of Pain from this tour and the Synchronicity tour is the lack of background singers. Sting changes the phrasing of his words, as apparently Andy and Stewart aren’t capable of backing him up vocally.
Check out the full version of King of Pain from opening night, as well as nine more great Police videos from their prime, after the jump…
We’ll start the morning off with some lighthearted douchebaggery. Our friend bcrider dug up this video of Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch performing I Would Hurt a Fly on the street somewhere. The music’s pretty good, but the visuals are fantastic. Check out this friggin’ doofus rockin’ out in Martsch’s face — as Monk says, he’s either really into street performers, tripping face or functionally retarded. We’re guessing it’s a little from each column. Don’t be That Guy.
Then there’s Naked Acid Guy from the Northwest String Summit last year, who crashed the stage with his pecker exposed and ended up freakin’ out in the crowd. Someone caught on video the aftermath of the stage rush, as well as a hilarious comment from one of the dudes in Yonder Mountain about how this is what happens when acid and a penis get together. Nice butt.
The Police Week rolls on at Hidden Track with a special edition of Grousing The Aisles. As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the fine people over at the forums on thepolice.com have been assembling the mother lode of Police bootlegs.
So while we wait for full audio of the band’s comeback shows to finally surface, feel free to get your fill of the band in its absolute prime…
Pre-Outlandos D’ Amour shows
08-05-1977 / Mont de Marsan / Punk festival / FRANCE
Read on for, oh, about 100 more awesome shows for your perusal and download…
It might be strange to click on HT and find video post in this department about a country music singer-songwriter, but there’s more to this edition of Pullin’ ‘Tubes than a David Allan Coe tune from 1983. See, there’s a lead guitarist situated to Coe’s immediate right, and he kinda looks familiar. I’d say it looks like a Young Warren Haynes, but the truth is that it’s just a Young Warren Haynes that looks exactly like Current Warren Haynes. I’m not sure if it’s a compliment or an insult to say that Cap’n Soulshine hasn’t really aged a day in 24 years. Make sure to stick around, Young Warren rips a sweet solo two minutes into this one:
Wade Ellis Wilby has experienced many angles of the music biz. He’s written songs for Rane, headed up production at Higher Ground, and his latest gig has him working for Umphrey’s McGee. This past weekend Wade served as a jack of all trades for the Summer Camp festival, and he was kind enough to share his thoughts on the weekend…
If I ever thought Summer Camp was this great growing up as a kid, my parents would have had many more carefree summers.
As for the adult version, JAM Productions and Jay Goldberg have put together a great entertainment package at a quaint little site in the heart of America. It’s no wonder their numbers continue to grow — a huge thank you to them for all the hospitality and hard work. What a great weekend in Illinois.
Photo by Melissa Baswell
This summer’s lineup was headlined, once again, by moe.’s three nights, with Umphrey’s McGee opening on Friday and Saturday. This set-up makes for a great situation: moe. and UM have a great rapport with one another, and UM’s sharing the stage with them is not only very professional and easy, it’s also a blast. It also lends itself to both bands being extra comfortable, allowing for much better sets musically. Now, about those incredible sets…
Read on for the rest of Wade’s recap of Summer Camp, including the inside scoop on why Brendan Bayliss showed up to play in a dress and a feather boa.
A report in Monday’s New York Post cited Liv Tyler as the source of a rumor that her father Steven will be leaving Aerosmith due to the way the band’s been treating him. Possible options? Tyler can always start a new band with Jimi, Janis, Keith Moon and…oh, wait, he’s not dead yet? Shit, sorry. Regardless, it’s the wrong play for Tyler — if he leaves the band, Aerosmith can just throw former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan or Carly Simon on stage and go from there.
Let’s go from here with a look at some interesting mid-week links:
Anything out there catch your eye this week? Let us know below…
It’ll take an excess of positive mojo to erase the debacle of a certain Vermont music festival, but that state’s second most famous rock foursome is itchin’ to try. Come July 21-22, RAQ will welcome all comers to the second installment of the Lew-Au, the band’s very own festival on Hillcrest Farms in Newport, Vermont.
I’m not sure throwing a festival down the street from the Great Coventry Trainwreck of 2004 is the best way to draw a like-minded crowd, but if the rapidly growing, rabidly impassioned fanbase is any true indication of what’s in store, RAQ should have no problem expanding on the 600 attendees that braved a foul-weather weekend in August 2005 for the first Lew-Au.
The band made the initial Lew-Au II announcement at RAQ’s most recent trip to New York’s Bowery Ballroom, a truly raging part of last month’s otherwise lackluster Green Apple Music Festival. That night’s show displayed the immense kind of talent each individual band member possesses, and it’s always a genuine pleasure for me to watch a group of musicians so at ease on stage, having fun with each other and whipping the crowd into a total frenzy. I like a total frenzy.
I caught up with RAQ just before they went on stage that night, and I was surprised by how level-headed and grounded they were. Read on after the jump for parts of my conversation with RAQ, fantastic pictures from Jonathan Healey and a clear soundboard matrix of the audio sodomy unveiled at the Bowery…
The Police Week continues here on Hidden Track, and so does the so-called East Coast Bias many of you sports fans decry on a regular basis. First, SportsCenter shows nonstop Red Sawx-Yankees highlights, now The Police adds to more shows in Boston and New York. Hey, maybe Roger Clemens will sit in with the trio…
Sting, Andy and Stewart have added two concerts to the growing roster, and it’ll be Madison Square Garden on 10/31/07 and the TD BankNorth Garden on 11/11/07. That brings the total up to three MSG shows (five NY/NJ altogether) and now three shows in the Boston area — even though The Police.com website says “Boston NY” on this latest one, I’m assuming it’s the one in Massachusetts.
Photo by REUTERS/Andy Clark
Meanwhile, the business-side geek in me found this morsel from today’s article on Bloomberg.com quite interesting:
More than 1.77 million tickets for the tour have been sold so far, according to the band’s publicist Clare Fisher at RMP. Tickets cost between $50 and $225 on online sites, though seats for some sold-out venues are on offer for $2,500 for two on EBay Inc.’s Web site.
Nineteen sixty-seven may have been the Summer of Love, but when Sting, Andy and Stew look back at 2007, they’ll surely have fond memories of the Summer of Cash. Between tickets and merchandise, we’re talkin’ at least $200 million.
