Over the past few years I’ve learned an important lesson: “you can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can’t take the Jersey out of the girl.” We’ve got a video from Rothbury that shows exactly what I’m talking about. LSD is a helluva drug.
Just a reminder that this video isn’t safe for work, unless you’re employed by hairyexclusive.com. It’s tough to imagine that this tripped out hippie chick actually has parents. “Mother Fucking Schools” indeed. Check out this piece of work:
The first annual Rothbury Festival has come and gone, and by nearly all accounts it was a complete success. If you weren’t able to make it out to Michigan last weekend you can still enjoy audio and video from many of the performances. We’ve compiled the best of what’s around so far, let’s take a look…
[Photo by Jennifer Kirk]
AUDIO:
VIDEO:
- 311: Creates (For Awhile), Who’s Got The Herb?, Feels So Good, All Mixed Up, Beyond The Grey Sky, Omaha Stylee, Nix Hex, Sick Tight, Amber, Flowing, Applied Science, Hive, Love Song,
- Bassnectar: Beginning of Set,
- Dave Matthews Band: Ants Marching, Thank You, Jimi Thing, Satellite, Corn Bread, So Damn Lucky, Eh Hee, Sledgehammer, #41, Tripping Billies,
- Derek Trucks & Soul Stew Revival: Get Out of My Life Woman, Key to the Highway,
- Disco Biscuits: I-Man,
- Keller Williams: Pepper,
- John Mayer: Gravity,
- Michael Franti: East to the West, All I Want Is You, Cool Water, I Got Love For You, What I Got,
- Mike Gordon Band: Meat (w/ Trey Anastasio) Pt. 1 Pt. 2, She Said, She Said (w/ Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman) version 1, version 2,
- Perpetual Groove: Meets Kyle Gass, Mr. Transistor, Three Weeks,
- Phil Lesh and Friends: Dire Wolf, Althea,
- Primus: Toys Go Winding Down jam, Here Come The Bastards, My Name Is Mud, Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver, Mr. Knowitall, John The Fisherman, Over The Electric Grapevine,
- Rodrigo Y Gabriela: Diablo Rojo, Stairway To Heaven Pt. 1 Pt. 2,
- Sam Beam: Each Coming Night
- Snoop Dogg: Smoking A Blunt, Gin & Juice, What’s My Name?, Drop It Like It’s Hot,
- The Wailers: I Shot The Sheriff, No Woman No Cry, Three Little Birds,
- Trey Anastasio: Mountains In The Mist, Farmhouse, Sample In A Jar, Backwards Down The Number Line, Water In The Sky, Wading In The Velvet Sea, Alaska, Waste, Driver, Brian and Robert, Get Back On The Train,
- YMSB w/ Jon Fishman: 2 Hits and the Joint Turned Brown, Fingerprint,
JENNIFER KIRK’S ROTHBURY RECAPS:
I’m feelin’ okay this mornin’
And you know,
We’re on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go…
Here we are for my last post on Rothbury. I’ve not slept in over 24 hours, but I’m ‘feelin’ okay this mornin’ so to speak. I spent 4 hours of the 11 hour ride sleeping and the other 7 driving. During my driving shift I reflected a lot on this past weekend. With that in mind I’d like to focus this post on two things: the festivals greening efforts and Phish. I’ll also be giving a few pros and cons of the festival logistics and other things, so perhaps they can improve on for next year. Rumor has it that the Double JJ Ranch has already invited the promoters back.
[Trey & Mike, with Fishman in the background watching]
I don’t think I emphasized the greening efforts on behalf of the promoters. I don’t have the exact number, and I’m sure they will do a press release on it after the site is cleaned. But the festival was able to divert about 80% of waste produced each day into either recyclables or compostables. I also failed to mention that all the cups on site were made from corn. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, after enjoying your nice tasty Magic Hat Number 9 you can dispose of your cups by composting them. Who woulda thunk? I’ve already mentioned the trash cans, but the site also gave away free portable ashtrays for all the smokers in attendance. They also took several initiatives to offset carbon emissions. I must say I have NEVER seen a cleaner site, and most people were very good about cleaning up after themselves. Bravo Rothbury, job well done! READ ON for more…
Another day, another blog. As you can see from my titles I’m having a sort of Talking Heads themed weekend at Rothbury. It all started on the car ride here when This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) played as the sun was rising. That and I was doing my best David Byrne dances in order to successfully keep my driver awake.
Crosseyed and Painless describes how I feel at this point. Crosseyed because Sound Tribe played so late and Painless because even though I’m sleep deprived it was all very much worth it. Yesterday I wasn’t able to get out and about on the site until the evening. HeadCount had David Murphy and Zach Velmer from STS9 at their booth for some political discussion in the afternoon, so I decided to stick around and see what they had to say. After they were done and I finished my blog from yesterday, I headed over to Medeski, Martin and Wood for a rousing performance of acid-latin-funk-jazz.
Later I headed over to see Michael Franti so I could count how many times he said “How you FEEEEEEELIN?!?” (it was 5, but I was only there for 3 songs). Next, I went back to the Sherwood Court stage to catch Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi’s Soul Stew Revival, where Col. Bruce made a surprise appearance. After that, I headed over to the headliner for the evening — Dave Matthews Band. I’ll be honest, I’m not much of a fan, I enjoy some of their songs but they aren’t one of those bands that speaks to me. Jeff Coffin sat in for LeRoi (who was in an ATV accident recently) and he did a phenomenal job pushing the band as much as his little saxophone could. Finally, I headed over to Sound Tribe and they closed the evening out for me.
Overall, the experience has been great. Still no potable water (I’m convinced they don’t exist) and the security has tightened up worse than going through airport security (I don’t think there are terrorists here). I’m going to cut this blog a little short because I need to head over to Trey so I can take some photos and see how well he’s doing.
READ ON after the jump for some pics from Saturday for your enjoyment…
So here I am again, a little later than I had planned but that happens when you spend the entire day running from stage to stage and back and forth to the camp site to grab some grub. Yesterday was fantastic, to the point that I’m almost speechless. I hadn’t realized until the fireworks that I had never seen a show on the 4th of July and a day long set of shows at that.
I still haven’t found the potable water and I doubt at this point I’ll buy any ice (thanks for lasting dry ice!), but I did find a few of the drink stations around the festival grounds. I saw TONS of music yesterday and did a little more exploring. I have a feeling that I’ve still not seen everything on the site yet — but that’s what is so nice about 3-4 day festivals (and much like the childhood trips to Disney World, where you explore a new park everyday). With the grounds and amenities I believe this festival to be the closest thing that we, as music fans, have to being a resort. Everyone has a choice of what to do, where to go, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be music. If I wasn’t typing this, I would be checking out the water park.
Being Independence Day, artists took the liberty to make their views known on certain issues and freedoms, and also pointed out things we should celebrate. The Wailers celebrated the music of Bob Marley, Snoop Dogg celebrated the freedom of gin & juice, Drive-By Truckers encouraged their fans to register to vote and exercise their independence, Yonder celebrated the return of Jon Fishman and objects turning brown, and Widespread got political, albeit poetically. I think it is no coincidence that they ended their 4th of July performance with a rousing rendition of Life During Wartime quite appropriate (but I’m not going to lie — also really fun to dance to).
Well, I’m going to wrap this one up as I need to get my laptop back to the campsite so I can go out and shoot some bands and enjoy the weather. Until then, READ ON after the jump for some more pics to tide you over:
Well, the Rothbury experience has been an adventure thus far. In order to help take part in the ‘green’ aspect of Rothbury (and not to mention the cost of gas), I carpooled from Tennessee with a HeadCount volunteer. We left on Tuesday night from Nashville and my friend and I drove straight through the night. It’s been a few years since I’ve pulled an all-night driving session (Big Cypress) in order to arrive on site on time. After experiencing a little bit of ticketing problems and witnessing a down pour of rain we were finally allowed on site. At first, I was a little scared because the mud I saw gave me a flashback to Coventry but then I realized it was supposed to rain on Wednesday only. By Friday, the site has mostly dried up.
[Percussion Monkeys!]
Thursday I spent time exploring the vast site that is Rothbury. This is by far the most interesting festival site I’ve ever seen. The Double JJ Ranch has everything from horseback riding, to a water park, and you can even catch 18 holes if you’re so inclined. The lake is beautiful, and while you’re there you can catch a game of volleyball or challenge someone to horseshoes. This is all the stuff that is part of the ranch, I haven’t even started on the actual festival amenities.
READ ON for more on the first day of the first-ever Rothbury Festival…
If the remaining members of the Dave Matthews Band believe in the theory that “bad things happen in threes,” they should be extra careful during the rest of their Summer Tour which limped to Charlotte last night. First, keyboardist Butch Taylor quit unexpectedly just two days before the tour started. Then on Monday sax player LeRoi Moore took a nasty spill in an ATV accident on his farm outside Charlottesville.
Yet DMB marches on, and according to folks that are into that sorta thing the band is killin’ it. Jeff Coffin has stepped up to fill in for Moore whose condition has been upgraded from Serious to Fair. We can’t wait to hear Coffin’s work on Sledgehammer, which the DMB added to their rotation on Saturday.
Here’s a look at what else is happening during this short week…
Last night the BBC aired a long lost tape containing a nine-minute interview in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney discussed the way they composed songs together. The clip was recorded on April 30, 1964 during the peak of Beatlemania. Audio of the broadcast hasn’t surfaced on the ‘nets yet, but we’re on the lookout.
It looks like Trey Anastasio can’t wait until the Newport Folk Festival to get back on stage for his own gig for the first time in 17 months. Big Red will play an acoustic set at the Rothbury Festival on Sunday July 6. Here’s hoping he didn’t have to trade any of his testicles for the gig. Two other former members of Phish, Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman, were already on the impressive Rothbury lineup.
We’ve got a couple of more festivals to tell you about this week, and let’s begin with this year’s 10KLF event at Detroit Lakes in Minnesota. Phil Lesh and Friends, The Flaming Lips and P-Funk head up the initial lineup announcement, which also features Mickey Hart’s new band and Michael Franti. 10KLF offers four days of camping and music from July 23 - 26.
Here’s some more news and links to help you get over the hump:
Let’s end the way we started with a festival announcement. Next up in the never-ending parade is the Sasquatch! Festival, which takes place at the legendary Gorge Amphitheater on May 24 - 26. The promoters put together a lineup reminiscent of an old episode of 120 Minutes thanks to headliners The Breeders, The Cure and R.E.M. You gotta love nostalgia.
If you’re one of those people who just needs to have a bigger music collection then all your friends, we’ve got quite the opportunity for you. The world’s undisputed largest collection of recorded music is now on sale via EBay. A three million dollar opening bid gives you the chance to buy three million records and 300,000 CDs. Have fun importing all of those bad boys into iTunes.
Here are some links to help you fight the mid-week blues:
Finally, Mike Gordon sat-in with Melvin Sparks at Nectar’s this weekend. Read on for two incredibly funky clips…
