This week’s edition of GTA features a miscellany of terrific performances. We start off with an outstanding Ryan Adams’ show from last week before moving on to a Meters bootleg that comes straight from George Porter Jr. Prince, a funk all-star in his own right, recently completed a 21-show run in London, and we’ve got his hot after-show from Friday night that includes a terrific cameo by Amy Winehouse. Finally we travel back to 1967 for a look at the beginnings of Traffic. As usual we’ve included a link to MP3 files for all of the torrents we’ve reviewed.
Ryan Adams 09/21/2007 SBD Matrix [FLAC, MP3, STREAM]
Ryan Adams is currently in the middle of a lengthy tour with The Cardinals, and we’ve gotta give Adams some major kudos for allowing tapers to patch in to the soundboard during many gigs on the run (there are soundboards of nearly every recent show on the Live Music Archive). It’s good to see Adams learned something from Phil Lesh about how circulating free soundboards actually drives ticket sales. After scouring some of Adams’ fan sites, we got a recommendation that Friday’s show in Toronto was the best of the batch. If only finding soundboards of the best recent shows from every live band was this easy.
Both the crowd and Adams seem extremely happy to be in each other’s company throughout every song played at this show. I’ve heard so many negative things about Adams’ demenor and stage presence, but this bootleg shows Adams to be engaging in his personality and his musicianship. Many audience members shout requests throughout the night, and Adams’ playfully jokes “You all sound like cavemen grunting from up here.” Musically, the highlights were numerous, including the band’s incredible harmonies on Peaceful Valley and its jamming on Magnolia Mountain. Read on for three more downloads…
We made an impassioned plea at the bottom of Monday night’s One More Cup of Coffee post for video of the epic Meet Me In The Morning collaboration between Bob Dylan and Jack White at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last week.
We’re still looking for such video, but a heads-up commenter points us in the direction of the fine folks at I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, who’ve posted the audio of the folk-cum-rockin’ blues Blood On The Tracks tune, the first time this particular Dylan song hath ever been played live. Sweeeet. Thanks, Ted.
Bonnaroo seems like forever ago, and ‘forever ago’ seems like the worst turn of phrase I’ve ever used in a Hidden Track post. So, um, there we go. In any event, our intrepid reporter on the scene, TJ, turned in four days worth of nearly live dispatches, and he gushed most glowingly perhaps over the Gillian Welch set, complete with a John Paul Jones sit-in.
So of course TJ threw me an e-mailed “Sweet!” when I passed him this note:
Gillian’s performance from this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will re-air on XM Satellite X Country (Ch. 12) on the following dates and times: Wednesday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM ET, Friday, October 5th at 11:00 AM ET, and Sunday, October 7th at 1:00 PM ET
I really need to get myself one of them there fancy radios…it’s the goods.
Keller Willams has once again assembled his WMDs for a series of east coast dates in November. While we enjoy Keller’s creative, albeit gimmicky solo work, we love seeing Keller lead a band. The WMDs are guitarist Gibb Droll [Marc Broussard], Keith Moseley on bass [SCI], and drummer Jeff Sipe [ARU, Trey Anastasio]. Keller and the WMDs kick off their tour on November 2nd in Baltimore.
We’ve got our usual dose of heady links to help you get over the hump:
If we missed anything, or if you just want to talk about Bob Dylan’s return to the Tribe, leave a comment below…welcome back, Uncle Robert.
So, apparently, and we’re not sure when this happened, but Amazon.com’s long-awaited challenge to iTunes is open…maybe…we think. Amazon’s new mp3 store is offering unprotected music files at a cheaper price, and as we all know, unprotected just feels right. Your move, Jobs. [More]
The PBS schedule is out, and Pitchfork‘s got the story: Norah Jones begins the televised festivities on October 6th, while most music-lovin’ New Yorkers will be on Randall’s Island for Arcade Fire/LCD Soundsystem or up in Harlem for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. I’m not sure why I dropped that last nugget in the lede of this post, but I thought the 10/6 conflict was interesting enough to note here.
But let’s get back to Austin City Limits: The season is flat-out nasty, with PBS featuring Wilco, Arcade Fire, Femi Kuti, and John Mayer in their own one-hour performances. The season concludes with the a special Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival episode, but the previous five double-band shows are fanfuckingtastic.
10-06 Norah Jones
10-13 The Decemberists/Explosions in the Sky
10-20 Femi Kuti
10-27 Jimmy Reed Highway: Jimmie Vaughan and Friends
11-03 Wilco
11-10 Arcade Fire
11-17 Brad Paisley/Dierks Bentley
11-24 Van Morrison (Encore)
12-01 Gretchen Wilson/Miranda Lambert (Encore)
12-08 Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Encore)
12-15 John Mayer
12-22 Lucinda Williams/Old Crow Medicine Show
12-29 Bloc Party/Ghostland Observatory
01-05 Crowded House/Grupo Fantasma
01-12 Regina Spektor /Paolo Nutini
01-19 Roky Erickson/Kings of Leon
01-26 ACL PRESENTS: The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
I’m sure there will be a conflicting My Morning Jacket show on television the night of the Wilco performance, just to keep it similar to the ACL festival.
Leeds United Association Football Club recorded a Premiership-high 21 losses in a dreadful 2003 season that saw the club finish 19th of 20, the team’s last taste of top-flight English football after being relegated to the country’s lower divisions.
But there were some good times in Leeds in the 12 months of 2003, and the recently unearthed footage below shows one such night…
Regular readers of this here rag know we’re quite fond of retrofit funky four-piece known as The New Mastersounds. So imagine our bonerrific delight when a monthly search of their moniker on The YouTube turned up three pro-shot, black-and-white clips of a 2003 gig at The Wardrobe in the band’s hometown.
But wait a minute, Ron, that’s not all. The band was joined that night by a stage full of horns and energy, and the end result is some seriously deep funk worthy of your consideration this afternoon. Up first, we begin with a clip of You Got It All, with the tNM joined by Malcolm Strachan and Jason Rae of the Haggis Horns, Jim Corry on tenor sax and Clive Freckleton on vocals/tambourine. Check it:
When I met former Phish keyboardist Page McConnell last May in the JFK airport on my way to San Francisco, my first thought was to thank him for all the times his band awed me silly. My next inkling was to ask him to buy me some magazines and a Snickers with almonds at the terminal’s Hudson News, the least he could do for taking so much of my disposable income lo these many years.
But just last week a little birdie told me to pick up a fairly new book by Emily White called You Will Make Money In Your Sleep: The Story of Dana Giacchetto, and that quasi-biography shed some new light on where all my ticket and merchandise money had gone.
Giacchetto, a hip money manager for Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Cameron Diaz and the popular rock band Phish, became known as Scammer to the Stars when he pled guilty to fraud charges, spent years in jail and was banned for life from working in finance. And as it turns out, Phish was the biggest loser:
In December 1999, the accountant for Phish notified Dana that he’d discovered a $3 million discrepancy in their account, and he was preparing to sue. He had an urgent meeting with the band and warned them that they had been robbed. In the story of Dana as a thief — a story Dana still denies — Phish was the extreme loser; their account was mercilessly ransacked…
And here I thought Phish fans were the extreme losers…turns out it’s the band. I keed, I keed. Anyway, I’m making my way slowly through White’s book, and it’s an interesting read even without the Vermont foursome (and, in truth, they only show up on four or five pages). Phish eventually re-claimed their pilfered millions in surprising fashion, but read on after the jump for full excerpts of the band’s plight.
Okay, so it’s not a purported sex tape, but some tantalizing video involving one of the White Stripes has indeed emerged. The far less attractive member of the duo appeared on stage with Bob Dylan at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last week for two straight nights, and a courageous attendee scoffed at posted signs and fascist security guards to capture a bit of the moment.
White joined Dylan for Meet Me In The Morning on the 19th and One More Cup of Coffee on the 20th, the latter of which can be viewed above. The camera work doesn’t scream “Oscar” — shit, it doesn’t even say “Clio” — but it does what we need it to do, and we thank this person for the effort in filming as much as they could before the House shut ‘em down. Kudos bar, samaritan.
So has anyone seen or heard of video footage of Meet Me In The Morning floating around the world wide superhighway? Uncle Robert has apparently never played the Blood On The Tracks song in a live setting, so we’d all love to see that one unfold.
New Yorkers tomorrow night will be treated to the debut performance of Anti-Jazz Raygun, a trio that describes itself as “ImprAvant Death Rock.”
With his Duo partner Marco Benevento spending some time on the road with Matt Chamberlain and Reed Mathis, the world’s most underrated drummer is stepping out with a trio of his own. Joe Russo on Tuesday at 8 pm in the Old Office of the Knitting Factory will man the kit while his old Fat Mama run-in buddy, Jonathan Goldberger, adds guitar and “awesome noise.” Brandon Seabrook rounds out the group on the bass, guitar and “great things.” Feckin’ sweetness.
Can’t make it? Russo will also be playing drums for two American Babies shows this week — Thursday in Teaneck, New Jersey and Saturday in Philadelphia.
The weather’s yet to turn cold and it’s not December, but this week’s Stormy Monday is a glimpse at some of the more interesting new releases from 2007.
This week’s installment begins with Trey Anastasio riffing on The Streets of San Francisco theme in Sidewalks of San Francisco from The Horseshoe Curve, a good album, though there’s nothing too surprising. The Beastie Boys instrumental release The Mix-Up is just about perfect for an urban groove album, and is the source of The Cousin of Death, our second song on this week’s mix.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals continue to make a name for themselves as hard rockers who know how to put on a show. Their summer ’07 disc This Is Somewhere isn’t quite as impressive as any given night in a live venue, but there are a handful of great songs, including the impassioned Stop the Bus. The ubiquitous Ryan Adams contributes Rip Off, and Brooklyn’s own Budos Band offers King Cobra from The Budos Band II — what a great album from a great band. (Incidentally, kids seem to really dig that funky Budos beat.)
From Marco Benevento’s Live at Tonic comes a hot cover of Fearless with Reed Mathis, and this week’s mix closes with The New Mastersounds’ Talk is Cheap from 102 Percent and JJ Grey and Mofro’s opening track from Country Ghetto, one of the best new albums this year, War. Enjoy!
Well, if there really is a sex tape out there of the overly anxious Meg White in action, it also sheds new light on “Jimmy the Exploder” and “Ball and Biscuit.”
So could this thing really be Ms. White? And was the impending release of this video the reason for the tour’s cancellation? That, I’m sure we’ll find out in the next 24 hours. Whether it is or it isn’t her in the tape, the girl in the video shares much of the same robotic characteristics and lackluster performance. Zing!
UPDATE: Meg White’s publicist has issued the following statement: “Some people have a very twisted sense of humor and this prank is in particularly bad taste. The tape circulating on the internet as featuring Meg White is fake. It’s definitely not Meg.” BOO!!!!!
Jennifer Hartswick will be releasing her second album, True, on October 2nd. Hartswick and her new band will celebrate the release of True with two special shows: September 30th at the Higher Ground in Vermont and October 20th at the legendary Blue Note in New York City. Look for our interview with Jennifer about the making of True on Hidden Track some time next week.
And as always on Mondays, read on after the jump for a full slate of weekend setlists including Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, Genesis and Phil & Friends’ tour opener…
Today we draw the curtains on a week in which I couldn’t quite shake off the ACL hangover or get this catchy-as-shit Arctic Monkeys tune out of my head…
Let’s now take a look at a sample of The Week That Was on this here rag:
Photo via ChristianJamesPhoto
Friday [all times Eastern]:
- Velvet Revolver are Letterman’s musical guest on The Late Show [CBS 11:35 PM]
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno features a performance by Editors [NBC 11:35 PM]
- Ben Harper plays a tune off his new album on Late Night with Conan O’Brien [NBC 12:35 AM]
Saturday:
- Check out a marathon of History of Rock N’ Roll episodes on VH-1 Classic [VH-1 Classics 1:00 PM]
- The legendary Etta James is featured on Austin City Limits [PBS Check Local Listings]
- Rock out with The Shins on a repeat airing of Saturday Night Live [NBC 11:30 PM]
Sunday:
- Elvis Costello performs live with Allen Toussaint in Montreal [Rave HD 12:00 PM]
- Relive The Who’s classic performance at the Isle of Wight festival from 1970 [Mojo 7:30 PM]
- Find out all about David Gilmour’s new live album by watching David Gilmour: The Road to the Royal Albert Hall [VH-1 Classic 11:00 PM]
