Waived keyboardist Matt Oestreicher due to creative differences. Borrowed Todd Stoops of RAQ until the end of the year.
[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]
Due to creative differences, keyboardist Matt Oestreicher and The Breakfast will be parting ways at the end of October. Tim Palmieri will take double duty responsibilities on both guitar and keyboards through October 13th, with many special guest appearances! Oestreicher will finish his run with the band from the 13th through October 25th in Erie, PA, and RAQ keyboardist Todd Stoops will then take over and finish out the year performing with The Breakfast! [The Breakfast]
As we near the beginning of the third year of this sweet blog’s existence, and my writing career for that matter, there’s still plenty left for me to learn. For instance, I just found out what a series of five related works is called: a pentalogy. What does this have to do with this week’s Friday’s Mix Tape? Our mix begins with my favorite pentalogy of all-time about horses.
Ween’s epic Stallion pentalogy starts the mix off with a bang. All five parts of The Stallion come to us from Chocodog’s All Request Live release, an album recorded when the band entered the studio to perform a list of songs hand picked by their most hardcore fans. We keep the energy up with Naked City’s cover of the James Bond Theme. Next, we’ve got a song I can’t stop listening to since reading Some Dude’s Blip entry on The Virgins: Rich Girls. Finally, a DVDrip of Problems by The Sex Pistols off of There’ll Always Be An England sends us on our way with a bark and a sneer.
Earlier this evening in Tel Aviv, former Wings lead singer Paul McCartney thrilled the crowd at his first-ever gig in Israel. He crafted a magnificent setlist that featured tons of Beatles songs, a smattering of Wings classics and just four tunes written after 1976. The recently debuted live versions of A Day In The Life and Mrs. Vanderbilt both were performed giving hope that they’ll make it into Macca’s set when he finally does an extended tour.
This wasn’t supposed to be McCartney’s first concert in Israel. The Beatles were set to perform in Israel back in 1965 when they were denied permits due to concerns their music would corrupt the country’s youth.
Let’s take a look at the full setlist from tonight’s Paul McCartney show…
Set: Hello Goodbye, Jet, Drive My Car, Only Mama Knows, All My Loving, Flaming Pie, Let Me Roll It, My Love, Let ‘Em In, The Long and Winding Road, Dance Tonight, Blackbird, Calico Skies, Follow The Sun, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Here There and Everywhere, Eleanor Rigby, Something, A Day In The Life, Give Peace a Chance, Band On The Run, Back In The USSR, I Got A Feeling, Live And Let Die, Let It Be, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna, Get Back, I Saw Her Standing There, Yesterday, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Last night in Troy, Page McConnell and PBS started their brief jaunt through the Northeast at Revolution Hall. Tonight, the gents bring the funk to Lupo’s in Providence before hitting B.B. King’s here in NYC on Friday night. The run ends on Saturday at Higher Ground in Burlington, the city where the band recorded MOODOO. To get you ready for the shows, here’s an MP3 of I Get High from the new album. Hope to see ya at B.B.’s tomorrow night.
If your iPod needs to be fed, we’ve got some tasty vittles…
Finally, a number webcast-rips from last weekend’s Farm Aid festival have started to make the rounds. Talkin’ About My Revolutions shares Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds’ set, while The Steam Engine kicks down Neil Young’s performance. Both sets sound fantastic.
After nearly a decade of off-again on-again relations between former Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, we seem to be smack dab in the middle of an on-again period. Phil and Bobby, who are teaming up with Billy and Mickey for an Obama benefit on October 13, will travel to New York City the next day for a rare in-store appearance.
Phil and Bobby will be signing copies of Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 at the Best Buy in midtown Manhattan at 5th Avenue and East 44th Street on October 14 starting at 7:00 PM. In order to secure one of the wristbands that guarantee a moment with the lead bassist and rhythm guitarists, you’ll need to be among the first 400 people to buy Rocking The Cradle at that same Best Buy location on September 30. The store opens at 10AM next Tuesday, so get there early if you want your moment with Phil and Bobby.
In other Dead news, the band’s website just posted a recently recorded interview between Former band manager Richard Loren and GDH host David Gans about the planning and inspiration that went into the Egypt shows. Loren shares some interesting stories about the “beautiful chaos” that went on behind the scenes, which is the best part of the 35 minute clip.
When Jon Anderson was told by doctors he had to rest for six months, he thought his Yes band mates would simply wait until next year to start their 40th anniversary tour. Of course his band mates had other thoughts and hired Benoit David, a Yes tribute band singer, to fill Anderson’s shoes for the relaunched tour which kicks off in November. Anderson is less than pleased:
Disappointed, and very Disrespected
Disappointed that, with the exception of one phone call from Alan, none of the guys have been in touch since my illness, just to find out how I am doing, and how we will foresee the future for YES. And disappointed that they were not willing to wait till 2009 when I’m fully recovered.
And I feel very disrespected, having spent most of this year creating songs and constant ideas for the band, spending time with Roger Dean creating a stage design, also working with VH1 and Sirius and XM Radio to help promote the welfare of YES.
Getting sick was not “on my radar”, and I thank my own angel Janeee and my family for helping me through this difficult time, and the many well wishers, friends and fans alike, for understanding that ”things happen”.
Of course I wish the guys all the best in their ’solo’ work, but I just wish this could have been done in a more gentlemanly fashion. After all YES is a precious musical band.
Personally, I think the band’s fans would have been much more understanding of attending a 40th anniversary show in the band’s 41st year of existence than to see Anderson replaced in such a nonchalant manner. Yet, because the all mighty dollar speaks loudly, and Yes bassist Chris Squire has multiple alimony payments to make, the band gave a big fuck you to their legendary lead singer and, more importantly, their rabid fanbase.
After an exciting summer spent touring with Mike Gordon, prepping their latest album and performing at some of the nation’s biggest festivals, funk-jammers The Bridge returned to the road last weekend for yet another extensive tour. The Baltimore-based quintet bring their eclectic sound to Sullivan Hall in New York City on Thursday night and we’ve got your extras.
As part of our famous Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Us Free Shit To Give Away we’re offering up two free tickets to Thursday’s show. To win, all you have to do is leave a comment below naming your favorite song with the word Train in the title. Why train? Well, Hyena Records have shared an MP3 with our readers of Let Me Off This Train from The Bridge’s new album, Blind Man’s Hill, which drops on October 21. So leave your favorite Train song below and we’ll announce a winner (picked at random) tomorrow around Noon. Good luck!
This weekend’s Austin City Limits festival gets the AT&T Blueroom Webcast treatment starting on Friday at 12:45PM EDT. Click here for the full schedule that includes Vampire Weekend, Drive-By Truckers, Blues Traveler and The Raconteurs. It’s rare that AT&T gets most of the big names at a festie to sign on, but they’ve done a stellar job this time around.
While we’re waiting for Friday, here’s some links to enjoy…
Music Snobbery gets a first look at Montclair’s Wellmont Theater
Finally, four major labels have made a deal with SanDisk to start manufacturing microSD memory cards featuring an album at 320kbps and with no DRM. Will this new format catch on? We’d be surprised.
The latest list of nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are out, and once again Rush, Genesis and Yes have been ignored by the nomination committee. Run D.M.C., Metallica, The Stooges, Jeff Beck, singer Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, War, Bobby Womack, and disco and R&B group Chic are the nine nominees that have been selected as this year’s potential entrants by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
At least this batch of nominees is better than last year’s group, but why the hate for prog-rock? Metallica, The Stooges and Jeff Beck deserve to be in the hall no questions asked. In fact both Metallica and The Stooges were listed by HT Contributor Sleepy Floyd in his B List on 10 Bands That Should be in the Rock Hall of Fame. Yet, the HOF needs to open its doors to some Proggy Goodness.
Does the committee really think that covering Walk This Way with Aerosmith makes Run D.M.C. more important to the legacy of rock than Peter Gabriel, an artist who broke new boundaries with every solo album he released? And don’t even get me started on Chic. More than 500 musicians, industry professionals and journalists vote on the inductions, but perhaps it’s time to let them vote with a blank slate. If you trust these people to make the right choices, why limit them to a short list of potential inductees?
This leaves us with a number of questions for our readers. Are you content with this year’s list of nominees? If you could pick three bands from the previously mentioned list of nine, who would you pick?
