One of the surprises found on Van Halen’s impressive A Different Kind of Truth LP was the inclusion of She’s The Woman. This track was originally recorded by the band on their 1976 demo and has resurfaced all these years later. Van Halen has just released a video for the tune…

Van Halen – She’s The Woman

In other news, here’s six stories that caught our interest this week…

• Vulture ponders: When Did SNL Get So (Relatively) Hip About Music?
• Watch M. Ward Play Chinese Translation on Morning Becomes Eclectic
• Jesse Jarnow Details 10 No-Brainer Acts Never Nominated For Rock Hall
• Mumford and Sons Will Host Two Festivals Across The Atlantic in June
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers Have Inked A Deal With Spotify For Streaming
• Read Keith Richards’ Note To His Aunt About Meeting Mick Jagger in ’62

Finally, Furthur has turned into the Energizer Bunny of post-Jerry bands. Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s outfit hasn’t even finished their Spring Tour, and Summer Tour is months away, but they just announced a 13-date Fall Tour that will bring them to Red Rocks for three shows and also includes a three-night stand at Edgefield in Troutdale, Ore. and a pair of gigs at L.A.’s Greek Theatre.

Here’s the full list of dates…

9/21 – 9/23: Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO
9/25: WaMu Theater at CenturyLink Field Events Center Seattle, WA
9/27 – 9/29: Edgefield Troutdale, OR
9/30: Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
10/2: SDSU Open Air Theatre San Diego, CA
10/4: The Joint Las Vegas, NV
10/5 & 10/6: Greek Theatre Los Angeles, CA
10/7 Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara, CA

Head to the Tour Page of the band’s website for full ticketing details.

Once All Good announced Phil Lesh & Friends as one of its headliners, questions were raised as to whether Lesh’s and Bob Weir’s Furthur would tour this summer. Today we have our answer as the group has just announced a batch of summer tour dates that brings them up and down the East Coast and ends two weeks later in the Midwest.

The tour starts at the Minor League Baseball park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on July 5 and ends on July 18 at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Furthur’s tour dates page also features a pair of shows at The Greek in Los Angeles this October.

Here’s the full list of dates…

7/5 – McCoy Stadium – Pawtucket, RI
7/6 – Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center – Canandaigua, NY
7/7 – Mann Center for Performing Arts – Philadelphia, PA
7/8 – Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD
7/10 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – Alpharetta, GA
7/11 – Koka Booth Amphitheater – Cary, NC
7/13 – MCU Park – Brooklyn, NY
7/14 – MCU Park – Brooklyn, NY
7/15 – Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center – Bethel, NY
7/17 – Charter One Pavilion – Chicago, IL
7/18 – Meadow Brook Music Festival – Rochester Hills, MI
10/5,6 – Greek Theatre – Los Angeles, CA

A GDTS TOO mail order for the shows starts soon, while internet pre-orders will take place on March 5 and 12. Head over to the Furthur.net tour page for complete ticketing details on each show.

Halloween and New Year’s Eve are traditionally the two biggest nights of the year in the jam world as each band within the scene gathers their devoted fans from across the country for a musical celebration. We’ve rounded up setlists from around the country in one handy post.

Widespread Panic

Set 1: Chilly Water > JAM > Imitation Leather Shoes > Mr Soul, Cotton Was King, Shut Up and Drive, Walkin’ (For Your Love), Saint Ex > Slippin’ Into Darkness*^> Bust It Big* > Chest Fever*# (76 mins)

Set 2: $> Henry Parsons Died, Quarter Tank of Gasoline, Coach^^, L.A.**, Degenerate#, C. Brown##, Blue Indian##, Ain’t Life Grand%## (41 mins)

Set 3: $$ Countdown by Steve Lopez >>>> Tall Boy*, Love and Happiness*^^, Tail Dragger*, Space Wrangler > Papa’s Home > Funk JAM > Drumz > Papa’s Home, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, Pigeons, Up All Night*, On Your Way Down*, You Should Be Glad*# (98 mins)

Encore: Disco > Surprise Valley > Pilgrims > Surprise Valley > Climb To Safety (29 mins)

Notes: * Mega Blasters ~ Horns, ^Lopez on percussion , # John Keane on guitar
$ Acoustic Set, ^^ LTP 11.20.09, ** W/ Randall Bramblett, ## John Keane on pedal steel, % JB mandolin, ^^ LTP 10.13.07,

[via PanicStream]

Widespread Panic’s NYE Run was short and sweet – just one show at the Time Warner Arena in Charlotte. The band previewed their upcoming Wood Tour by offering an acoustic second set that included rarity Coach, a song from the Todd Nance side project Barbara Cue. The MegaBlasters horn section, who sat in with the band on their ’09 – ’10 NYE Run, were Widespread Panic’s guests last night for the end of the first set and all of a third set that started off with a countdown led by crew member Steve Lopez.

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Last night was a big evening for a number of groups within the jam scene as Furthur, Phish, Umphrey’s McGee, moe., STS9, the Disco Biscuits, Perpetual Groove and Gov’t Mule all took the stage at separate concerts across the country. We filled you in on the Phish show, but we wanted to round up coverage of the other bands’ performances.

Gov’t Mule – Working Class Hero

Prog-jammers Umphrey’s McGee returned to The Pageant in St. Louis for their second of three New Year’s Run concerts at the venue. Longtime collaborator Jeff Coffin came out during the second set to add sax on a debut cover of Maneater by Hall and Oates as well as the UM original Night Nurse. Other highlights included the rare instrumental Dear Lord within Slacker, a “Jake and Brendan on acoustics” segment of Uncle Wally and Nemo as well as a lengthy Nothing Too Fancy encore complete with a dubby Natural Mystic jam. Here’s the setlist…

Set One: Jazz Odyssey > Conduit, #5, The Bottom Half, Uncle Wally@, Nemo@, All Things Ninja, Slacker > Dear Lord > Slacker

Set Two: 40′s Theme, The Triple Wide, Maneater*^, Night Nurse^, Plunger, The Fussy Dutchman, Nopener, Rocker Part 2
Encore: Nothing Too Fancy**

Notes
@ with Brendan and Jake on acoustics
* first time played, Hall & Oates
^ with Jeff Coffin on saxophone
** with Natural Mystic jam, including vocals

[via Umphreys.com]

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Back in June Furthur gathered at guitarist Bob Weir’s TRI Studios to perform for a live Pay-Per-View webcast that fans could purchase for under $20. The group worked through classic Grateful Dead material as well as a few originals. TRI Studios will rebroadcast Furthur’s set as part of a “The Night Before The Night Before Christmas” event on December 23. Best part? It’s free.

One Set: Playin’ In The Band > Crazy Fingers > Jack Straw, Brown-Eyed Women, Big Bad Blues, The Wheel > Unbroken Chain> The Other One> Uncle Johns Band > Lady With A Fan > Terrapin Station > Terrapin Transit > At a Siding > Terrapin Flyer > Terrapin Refrain, Black Peter, Mountain Song > I Know You Rider

[via Furthur.net]

Last month when Phil Lesh announced a run of Phil & Friends shows near Denver, Dead fans couldn’t help but wonder about the future of Furthur. Ever since Jerry died, Lesh has had a fondness for changing things up every few years and Furthur has already lasted just about as long as any other post-Dead project involving Lesh. Apparently those fears were for naught as Furthur has just announced a  Spring Tour that starts on April 5 at the Wang in Boston and finishes on April 18 after eight shows at the Beacon Theatre in NYC.

Furthur is taking a page out of the Allman’s playbook this tour by doing a long run of shows at the Beacon. This will allow the band to set up shop in the Big Apple and cuts down on touring. The public on-sale for each of these shows takes place next Friday, December 16, at 10AM ET. Internet pre-sales will commence on Monday, December 12 at Noon and run until December 15. Mail orders will accept postmarks from December 10th through the 20th.

List of Tour Dates

Thu, Apr 5th – Wang Theatre – Boston, MA
Fri, Apr 6th – Wang Theatre – Boston, MA
Sat, Apr 7th – Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre – Oakdale, CT
Mon, Apr 9th – Beacon Theatre – NYC
Tue, Apr 10th – Beacon Theatre – NYC
Thu, Apr 12th – Beacon Theatre – NYC
Fri, Apr 13th – Beacon Theatre – NYC
Sat, Apr 14th – Beacon Theatre – NYC
Sun, Apr 15th – Beacon Theatre – NYC
Tue, Apr 17th – Beacon Theatre – NYC
Wed, Apr 18th – Beacon Theatre – NYC

When Furthur first started, nearly three years ago at this point, we wondered how soon it would be before Phil Lesh and Bob Weir would move on to a different project. Clearly the former Grateful Dead members have dedicated themselves to this band more than any other since Jerry passed and that commitment will continue into 2012 following the announcement of three New Year’s Run performances at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California on December 29 – 31.

A GDTSTOO mail order pre-sale period begins on Sunday and runs until Saturday, November 12, while a Front Gate ticketing internet pre-order begins on Monday, Oct. 17 and runs until Thursday, Oct. 20. Tickets go on sale to the public through Ticketmaster on Friday, October 21 at 10AM PT.

What show(s) will you be seeing this New Year’s Eve?

Post-Jerry act Furthur was scheduled to perform at the Bryce Jordan Center on the campus of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania on November 15. That show has been cancelled due to what Furthur.net calls “unforeseen production complications,” leading the band to add a new gig that night at the Times-Union Center in Albany, New York.

The Times-Union Center, a venue formerly known as “The Knick,” has hosted more than a few memorable Grateful Dead shows in the past and was home to the 1990 performances that yielded the Dozin’ At The Knick release.

Here’s ticketing info for the new show…

Pre-sales for the newly added show in Albany will commence at Noon EST on Weds, October 12 and go through 6pm EST on Friday, October 14. Public on-sale will be Saturday, October 15 at 10am EST. Refunds for the canceled State College show can be had at original place of purchase.

Of the hundreds of outdoor venues Phil Lesh has played over the past 50 years, the Grateful Dead/Furthur bassist ranks Red Rocks in the top two along with The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. In fact, there’s a plaque at the Morrison, Colorado venue that says as much, so you knew last night’s Furthur show at Red Rocks had the makings of something special.

[via @MusicNeverStops]

For the start of the second set, Phil and Bobby’s band welcomed Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes and Chris Robinson Brotherhood to lead them through classic Pigpen-sung tunes The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion) and Hard To Handle as well as the Furthur debut of Bob Dylan’s You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere. Robinson has a long history with Weir and Lesh dating back to the Crowes opening for the Dead in Tampa on April 7, 1995. More recently, Chris did a few tours with Phil and Friends and performed back in August with Weir and Jackie Greene at the Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado. Back on March 12, 2010, Robinson first sat in with Furthur at Phil Lesh’s 70th Birthday Bash, where he sung a number of songs including The Stranger.

Chris Robinson w/ Furthur – The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)

READ ON for more on Chris Robinson’s big night with Furthur…

Three of our favorite bands have announced live concert simulcasts over the past few days and we wanted to make sure our readers know about them.

This Sunday, September 25, NPR will webcast Wilco’s show live from Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. While we’re still awaiting details, this broadcast was mentioned yesterday during NPR’s live chat and listening party with the band. Show time is scheduled for 5:30PM ET with Nick Lowe set to open.

On Sunday October 9, HDNet will broadcast Widespread Panic’s annual Tunes For Tots benefit show live from the newly renovated Georgia Theatre in Athens, Georgia. If previous HDNet live concert broadcasts are any indicator, the quality of this simulcast should be ridiculous.

Finally, Sirius/XM’s Grateful Dead channel will simulcast Furthur’s Oct. 4th performance live from The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas starting at 11PM ET. You can catch rebroadcasts on Oct. 7 at 3PM ET, Oct. 9 at 8AM ET or Oct. 10 at 8PM ET, if you miss the live simulcast.

Post-Jerry Grateful Dead act Furthur will hit the road hard this fall for a lengthy fall tour that kicks off later this month in Eugene, Oregon and concludes towards the end of November at the Murat in Indianapolis. Along the way they will hit such famed venues as Madison Square Garden in NYC (11/10), the Mullins Center in Amherst (11/6) and the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis (11/20).

Here’s the full list of dates…

• Fri, Sep 23rd, Cuthbert Amphitheater, Eugene, OR
• Sat, Sep 24th, Cuthbert Amphitheater, Eugene, OR
• Sun, Sep 25th, Cuthbert Amphitheater, Eugene, OR
• Tue, Sep 27th, Adams Event Center @ University of Montana, Missoula, MT
• Wed, Sep 28th, Maverik Center, West Valley City, UT
• Fri, Sep 30th, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
• Sat, Oct 1st, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
• Sun, Oct 2nd, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
• Tue, Oct 4th, The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
• Wed, Oct 5th, The Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA
• Thu, Oct 6th, The Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA
• Fri, Oct 7th, Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA
• Sat, Oct 8th, Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA
• Thu, Nov 3rd, Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH
• Fri, Nov 4th, Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
• Sat, Nov 5th, Mohegan Sun Arena, Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Sun, Nov 6th, Mullins Center, Amherst, MA
• Tue, Nov 8th, John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA
• Thu, Nov 10th, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
• Fri, Nov 11th, Oncenter, Syracuse, NY
• Sat, Nov 12th, Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ
• Sun, Nov 13th, HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY
• Tue, Nov 15th, Bryce Jordan Center, State College, PA
• Wed, Nov 16th, Jerome Schottenstein Center, Columbus, OH
• Fri, Nov 18th, Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL
• Sat, Nov 19th, Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI
• Sun, Nov 20th, Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO
• Mon, Nov 21st, Old National Centre (Formerly Murat Centre), Indianapolis, IN

Mail order starts tomorrow and runs through October 7 on GDTS TOO. An internet pre-order period will be held on September 12 – 15 here. Tickets for the general public will go on sale through Ticketmaster (in most cases) on September 16.

Hot on the heels of a successful first tour of 2011, Furthur has just announced their second tour of the year. The run starts with an appearance at All Good and continues through a July 31 show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Alpharetta, GA.

Jones Beach, Bethel Woods and SPAC are among the venues Furthur will hit this summer. GDTS TOO will take mail orders postmarked between April 9 and May 20. An internet presale runs from April 11 through April 14, while public onsales all take place on April 15 at 10AM EDT.

Here’s the full list of dates…

July 15 – All Good Music Festival, Masontown WV [date unconfirmed]
July 16 – Bethel Woods, Bethel NY
July 17 – Jones Beach, Wantagh NY
July 19 – SPAC, Saratoga Springs NY
July 21 – Comcast Center, Mansfield MA
July 22 – Gathering of the Vibes, Bridgeport CT
July 23 – Mann Music Center, Philadelphia PA
July 24 – PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel NJ
July 26 – Finger Lakes PAC, Cananduigua NY
July 28 – Walnut Creek, Raleigh NC
July 29 – Charter Amphitheater, Simpsonville SC
July 30 – St. Augustine Amphitheater, St. Augustine FL
July 31 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Alpharetta GA

Next up for Furthur is a two-night stand at Shoreline on June 3 and 4.

Furthur ended the best tour in the band’s short history tonight at the Mizner Amphitheater in Boca Raton, FL; where the group still had a few more tricks up their sleeves. Towards the end of Furthur’s first set, Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band as well as moe. guitarist Al Schnier came out to jam. The pair emerged for a pair of covers from the Grateful Dead’s repertoire – Howlin Wolf’s Little Red Rooster and Bobby Bland’s Turn on Your Lovelight.

[Photo by Dylan Carney from @furthurband]

Clemons made more than a few appearances with the Grateful Dead in the late ’80s starting on New Year’s Eve ’88 – ’89 and even did a run of shows with the Jerry Garcia Band in 1989. “The Big Man” currently lives in Florida while moe. is in the middle of a rare tour of The Sunshine State. Fittingly, Furthur finished this evening’s show with The End by The Beatles. Next up for Furthur is a pair of shows at Shoreline on June 3 and 4.

Furthur @ Hampton Coliseum, April 1

Words: Mike Ross

Hampton Coliseum, known by many as “The Mothership,” is impressive from the outside, but looking around from our nosebleed seats on the outer edge of the bowl before the lights went down I couldn’t help but feel incredulous that this giant cavernous place doesn’t suck out the energy of anybody trying to emit anything from that stage. It’s almost self-defeating alienating in it’s sheer hugeness – alienation being precisely the thing that people are trying to escape in coming to a public event, perhaps especially a Grateful Dead-related one.

For the first set of Furthur’s April Fools’ Day performance, I was feeling like maybe I was right. The band seemed a little tired. Maggie’s Farm came up and I found myself wondering, Why do they bother with songs like this anymore? Is there any life left in these songs for this band? The Grateful Dead as a band was a finite entity with a beginning and an end, and doing songs like Maggie’s Farm in the first set was part of their natural progression. When Furthur convened 15 years later, they had the option of picking from the cream of the crop, starting fresh and interpreting the Grateful Dead ethos in a way that would be satisfying to them and their fans – so why play first-set filler? Why not fill both sets with awesome?

Of course, my wrongheaded thinking would be spun on its ass by the time the show was over. Furthur gave me the gentle reminder that, just like in the Grateful Dead before it, the magic either happens, or it doesn’t – and it doesn’t much matter where. It can come and go, and it can be prodded and some pretty good stuff can happen in the meantime – these are professionals, after all – but in the end you can’t really force it. This was proven in a second-set Black Peter – usually a bit of a snore-fest for me – that just ripped. It also showed another facet of the progenitors of this music: liftoff can come from any member or members of the band; in the case of this Black Peter it was the Pehrson-Sunshine-Chimenti show. Those thick organ swirls and those harmonies (“See here how everything / lead up to this day”) elevated the whole stage by about five feet, and before anyone knew what was happening, the Mothership was hovering in place somewhere above Hampton. READ ON for more on Friday night’s Furthur show…

We’re saddened to report that a 19-year-old man died early this morning from injuries sustained after falling through a fourth-floor window of the Petersen Events Center on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh during last night’s Furthur concert according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

As per the article, one witness said McDonald, PA resident Joseph Kimutis “appeared to have gotten into a three-point stance, ‘like a football player,’ yelled ‘Hike!’ and charged the window.”

No word yet on Kimutis’ physical and mental state leading up to the incident and toxicology reports are pending. The concert went on as planned. Furthur next performs tomorrow night at the Hampton Coliseum.