In between hitting live shows this weekend, why don’t you make the most of the $100 you spend each month for cable and set your DVR to record these shows…
The Flaming Lips on Austin City Limits
Friday Night
- The Silversun Pickups stop by Last Call with Carson Daly for a performance [NBC 1:35 am EDT]
- The Kaiser Chiefs play Ruby on an encore showing of the Jimmy Kimmel Show [ABC 12:05 am EDT]
- Check out Neil Young solo acoustic concert footage from 1971 on In Concert [Ovation 9:15 pm EDT]
Saturday
- If you’ve never seen The Who at the Isle of Wight concert film, you are truly missing out on one of their most epic performances [Mojo 1:00 am EDT]
- Bam Margera hosts VH-1 Rock Honors featuring Genesis, Heart, Ozzy Osbourne, and ZZ Top [VH-1 Classic 1:00 pm EDT]
- The Flaming Lips and The Shins are featured on a repeat of Austin City Limits [PBS Check Local Listings]
Sunday
- Catch a pre-Money For Nothing Dire Straits concert from 1983 [Ovation 1:00 am EDT]
- The legendary Funk Brothers play all your favorite Motown hits in HD [HDNet 5:00 am EDT]
- Find out everything you need to know about Syd Barrett during a documentary about the early days of Pink Floyd [VH-1 Classic 9:00 pm EDT]
Jack Bruce, who based on aging looks alone may actually be Robert the Bruce‘s grandfather, broke the news this week that Cream will definitely be playing at least one show later this year.
Billboard.com reported that Bruce confirmed that he had just agreed to take to the stage again with his old mates Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton while at an appearance at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp.
Old habits are hard to break, and apparently things didn’t progress swimmingly for the trio during their comeback shows in 2005:
Clapton persuaded Bruce and Baker to reunite in 2005 after a 37-year split. But the ill will resurfaced, with Baker accusing Bruce of turning up his bass to deafening levels during a Madison Square Garden show, and Clapton appeared uncomfortable on stage.
As members of the MSG crowd on that run, we certainly second the notion that Slowhand looked uncomfortable on stage. But we’d attribute that more to the colossal technical chasm between Clapton and his old mates that has emerged in the power trio’s four-decade hiatus. But Baker now claims to be fully recovered from a liver transplant, and we’d be more than willing to get back into their big black car.
Stream Cream:
Our caretaker mix tape manager Neddy is back on the case this week…and while he makes his way upstate with his family unit, we’ll post this missive from his outbox: “Memorial Day = Summer = Movies. First installment of some sweet cinematic serenade. Hit me with your favorite soundtrack bites? Enjoy the music, enjoy the weekend!” Cryptic, disjointed, very Neddy, and we like it.
01 Hardest Geometry Problem In The World — Mark Mothersbaugh [Rushmore]
02 Also Sprach Zarathustra — Deodato [Being There]
03 Cantina Band – John Williams [Star Wars]
04 Your Hand In Mine — Explosions In The Sky [Friday Night Lights]
05 Dry The Rain — The Beta Band [High Fidelity]
06 The Ecstasy Of Gold — Ennio Morricone [The Good, The Bad And The Ugly]
Hear that? That’s the clamorous sound of 80,000 laser jets jamming as they try to print out the monstrous tome that is the Bonnaroo schedule. Kudos to Superfly for putting together such an incredibly varied (and huge!) lineup.
The major conflict that jumps out as us occurs around 7:30pm on Saturday night. Festival-goers will have to choose between Ween, Spoon, Keller Williams’ WMDs, Ben Harper, and Franz Ferdinand. That’s five bands we’d like to see, all playing at the same time. Conflicts were inevitable with so many acts on the bill, so hats off to the organizers for doing a nice job minimizing them. Look for our Bonnaroo coverage straight from the grounds on the weekend of June 14th.
Now it’s time to show off all the shiny new links we collected this week:
- The White Stripes have added another leg to the Icky Thump tour
- Paul Simon reunited with Art Garfunkel and Ladysmith Black Mambazo during a performance on Wednesday night
- Les Claypool is a versatile performer
- Richard Gehr on the anniversary of the Summer of Love
- Double J Jesse Jarnow offers up a number of “bobscurities” on the new Frow Show podcast
- Dave Hill on Monday night’s Steely Dan concert
- Watch this crazy time-lapsed video featuring the nightly construction of Terry Bozzio’s drumset
- A preview of this weekend’s Jam On The River festival in Philly
- The top 10 iTunes add-ons and plug-ins
- Marilyn Manson covers Justin Timberlake
- Burning Oak profiles Saturday and Sunday’s Summer Camp performers
- If you don’t have the Talking Heads 1983 performance from SPAC, you can download it now right now
- The Police will stream video of Sunday’s tour opener on Tuesday morning
- Are oeuvreblogs the next big thing?
Have a great three-day weekend! Enjoy the sunshine, let your soulshine. Yuck.
Scotty and I are out the door in a matter of minutes to catch Apollo Sunshine on the Rocks Off Boat Cruise around Manhattan. In preparation of this evening’s nautical aural event, we offer this clip of the band playing Magnolia at the University of Massachusetts, a recent upload to The YouTube. Enjoy.
In an apparent repeat of the early 2000s no-Phish improvisational rock scene, String Cheese Incident will attempt to fill the wank vacancy left by Trey Anastasio.
Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes Festival today confirmed what many people had been expecting for awhile, that Big Red will not be able to play this year’s July event after all. What we hadn’t expected is that the how-can-we-miss-you-if-you-don’t-go-away String Cheese Incident will take the former 70 Volt Parade lead singer’s place atop the bill. As for Trey, I like this simple euphemism du jour:
10KLF announces today that guitarist Trey Anastasio will be unable to perform at the event in 2007 due to circumstances beyond control. Anastasio’s spokesperson confirms “Trey is disappointed he is unable to play the festival this year but is looking forward to returning for the 2008 10,000 Lakes Festival.”
We here at Hidden Track are Trey Loyalists through and through, but after his lackluster Langerado set, I have no problem seeing him put the outdoor headlining acts on hold for the time being while he sorts his shit out, which will also allow the other bands on this pretty festival solid lineup to, dare I say, shiiiiiine on.
It’s time to tell your folks, your friends and your employers how much you really need a long weekend of introspection, how much you need an extended weekend overseas for personal reflection that includes somber visits to the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh Museum. Some time around mid-March 2008.
Jam in the Dam organizers upped the ante this morning, announcing the event will stretch to six bands playing over four nights, a first for each number. After the fan-supported artist poll gauged proper interest, the festival has decided to add the Disco Biscuits, Perpetual Groove and Dark Star Orchestra to the 2008 edition of Jam in the Dam, a triumvirate that joins Umphrey’s McGee, Tea Leaf Green and Lotus on the bill. And if you want to see which bands are playing in which time slots, they’ve already released the schedule of events. Bully for us.
This thing’s becoming more and more can’t-miss by the day. I must ask, though, are they actively trying to collect the worst band names in music on one bill?
Every now and again we like to go spelunking through the extensive streamable archives on the SugarMegs server and recommend some hidden gems. And since we usually can’t get passed the first half of the alphabet — there’s too much! — we thought this time we’d start from the bottom and work our way north. Hopefully one of these five handpicked shows itches you right where you scratch:
All five of these are fantastic shows, but the last two stand out as especially worthy of your time today. The Tower of Power show will surprise you and funk you up good, and the Sting show shows off covers like Penny Lane and Purple Haze, not to mention a seriously kickass When the World is Running Down and a great sit-in from Jerry Garcia on Walking on the Moon. Get on it, folks.
Every once in a while we’ll stumble upon something new to YouTube that has so few views it’s borderline criminal. These are there are stories…
As of post time, this sick pro-shot video of My Morning Jacket playing Mahgeetah at Austin City Limits in 2005 has only registered 12 views on the site. And since that’s the musical equivalent of tamperin’ with mailboxes, I figured I’d spread the word about it, since, ya know, I’ve got this blog and all. No more intro, just check it out:
Our favorite part of collecting live music comes when incredible new recordings surface that we didn’t previously know about. Just this week we came across four pristine quality shows that kept us throughly entertained. As always, we share our finds with you on a weekly basis…as we go Grousing The Aisles:
Steve Winwood w/ Eric Clapton 05/19/2007 FM (FLAC, MP3):
We reported on the epic Winwood/Clapton collaboration on Saturday, and now we’ve come across a crispy FM recording of the quasi-Blind Faith reunion. Clapton joined Steve Winwood’s band for the last seven songs of their set at the Countryside Rocks festival. You can judge for yourself whether this was a monumental sit-in or two old guys trying to re-live their former glory days (I personally think the music is quite entertaining). Sure it’s weird that Winwood felt compelled to play guitar for a few of the songs, but when Steve is singing and Eric is ripping, the songs sound amazing. I particularly like Clapton’s inspired wah-playing during Presence of the Lord.
Video from the webcast of this show is also available to stream or download. For our loyal readers we’ve provided 320kbps Tagged MP3s of this bad boy.
Read on for more gems from Pink Floyd, Neil Young and moe….
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Scott Bernstein on
05.23.2007 |
American Babies,
Bjork,
Bloggers,
Festivals,
Franti,
Grateful Dead,
Intermezzo,
Leftover Salmon,
NYC,
Prince,
Richard Thompson,
Smashing Pumpkins,
The Police,
Van Halen,
Zappa
Want free tickets and press access to any show you want this summer? Do you like to write about and take pictures at concerts? If you answered yes to those questions, check out Billboard’s Mobile Beat contest.
Billboard is teaming up with LG to offer the winners press passes to any concert they want and a heady camera phone. In exchange they promise to post their photos and a brief review of each performance they attend. Two winners will be picked from every major metropolitan area. Simply create a photo montage of your own photos and write a 100-word essay on why you want to be a Billboard blogger. Check out the Mobile Beat web site for more information or to enter the contest.
We hope someone from our audience wins — we don’t want bunch of emo kids filing dour rants on why Dashboard Confessional has sold out.
We got plenty of links this week, so let’s get down to business:
As always, please let us know if we missed anything below….
Blaxploitation never sounded as good as when Curtis Mayfield supplied the soundtrack. Unlike his peers, the funk pioneer’s lyrics throughout Superfly don’t serve to glorify the ghetto culture as much as they deliver biting commentary on the state of the black union at the time. But beyond even the lyrics, there aren’t many musicians like Mayfield that can create a new sound and capture the spirit of the time simultaneously. Between his groundbreaking music and his sotto voce, I’d choose the Gentle Genius in the great pickup game of funk before many more famous. Dig this cool performance of Superfly from the early 1970s:
Living in Evanston, Illinois at the time, I had to choose between two trip options in the fifth month of the new millenium. I could hit the 126th running of the Kentucky Derby with all of my college friends and witness the depressingly awesome infeld debauchery, or I could wait two weeks and return to my home state for the popular rock band Phish’s highly anticipated Radio City Music Hall run.
I chose the former and left for Louisville in an extended highway caravan. The trip turned out to be grueling, gruesome, and part of me wanted to fly home for Radio City anyway, just to wash out the taste of grain alcohol and Kentucky. But when I got back to my room after our long trip home, the well-tacked Grateful Dead at Radio City poster that adorned our walls had fallen down onto the floor, the tape inexplicably losing grip for the first time ever. Like Jules Winfield, I took it as a sign from the gods and gave up on thoughts of heading home.
And every time I hear the Ghost from the 5/22/00 show, I cringe at my amateur decision-making skills. I mean, the Derby was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me, and I’ll never shake some of those infield images for as long as I live (in a good way). But that multi-faceted, multi-sectioned Ghost shows you everything The Phish are capable of, an improvisational wet dream for fans, with all four band members going off on their own tangents while weaving a jam for the ages.
This is one of those jams that can better be explained with phrases like “Holy fucking shitballs, man” or “Damn, brah, you fuckin’ hear…? Wow, what just happened?” than anything the smartest rock critic can put together. It’s jams like these that mesmerize an entire audience, and sometimes you can only laugh at the dead silence of thousands of like-minded folks whose brains are experiencing the same thoughts at the same time. And therein lies the beauty of Phish, and that’s why we make no apologies for our unconditional love of this foursome, and that’s why, on the seven-year anniversary of this show and this jam, you’re subjected to long-winded bloviation by a guy who wasn’t even there.
HT Contributor Eliot Glazer has tremendously terrible taste in music. But he’s an adroit wordsmith, and he’s gonna try to convince us that the bad is really good.
Not until recently did I realize how much I love Anita Baker.
I don’t know what clued me in. I should have realized her brilliantly campy appeal years ago when, while working at a country club, a fellow employee (and unrecognized pop cultural genius) complained about George Michael’s Careless Whispers being played too often throughout the establishment. I questioned her disgust with the song, as I was personally indifferent to it.
“C’mon, dude,” she said, “It’s totally an anthem for pedophiles.”
Read on for more of Eliot’s hilarious romp through Anita Baker’s mind…
What can brown do for you? Apparently, we’ll all find out in less than three weeks.
Here’s the latest long-winded rant from Ween’s official Chocodog website:
With this update I’m pleased to announce the first new Ween release in a long while; “The Friends E.P.” will be released exclusively on Chocodog Records on June 8. It will not be available in stores until at least a few weeks later. It features 5 brand new songs, none of which will appear on the new full length Ween album scheduled to be released this fall on a “real” record label, not Chocodog. We have recorded a lot of new material the past year and we wanted to give you an appetizer for the summer. It is is the ultimate party record, filled with good beats and good times. Perfect for your barbecue or doing bong hits or whatever it is that you guys do. You really need to buy multiple copies through this website. If you download it or burn a copy from a friend your karma will be so fucked that you will be reincarnated as a tumor on a rat’s ass. We put a lot of time into this, like 4 years. What is that 9.5 months a song or something? You’re gonna buy it on I-tunes? No way. Seriously though, you’re gonna love it. And lastly, Aaron took a lot of pictures of our studio and you can view some of them by clicking here. I’m gonna update that page with new pics as Aaron sends them to me.
You can’t write much more convincing prose than that. It’s been such a long time since we’ve seen anything new from the Ween camp that, like a night in an asian massage parlor, we’re anxiously awaiting the upcoming release…
