Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Biblical Edition

So much has happened since Jack Bauer shaved his playoff beard and spoke his first word in two years…and in that time all of these videos came to my attention.

Reunion rumors and innuendo — hints and allegations, notwithstanding — have captured the short attention of many music blogs, magazines and websites of late. Will The Police set aside their hatred of each other to reunite? Does Van Halen play with Hagar the Horrible or Davey L. Roth at its Hall of Fame induction?

But the one band that’s reuniting for sure often gets lost in the shuffle of this chatter, so I’d like to take this opportunity to bring out yer dead. Here’s a little Genesis from 1972 with a sickening performance of The Musical Box:

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As the title of this post implies, we now move from Genesis to Exodus: Take in a little Marley-style movement of jah people.
Since we missed celebrating the man’s birthday last week, here’s a trio of David Bowie videos this afternoon: a recent Heroes, an old-school Ziggy Stardust, and an incredibly funny clip from Extras with Ricky Gervais.
Anyone else think Derek Trucks looks like Simba from The Lion King? I don’t know, that’s just what I see when he plays. But shit, man, he can really really really play. Three “really”s. Really. Check out this clip of the Derek Trucks Band playing a ripping version of Joyful Noise.
You don’t see much Soulive ’round the blog world…let’s rectify that situation, shall we? Here’s a sweet So Live from Soulive.
And last but certainly not least, Scotty B found us a recently uploaded clip of Phish at Big Cypress — here’s the Midnight > Sunrise set in just six short minutes (and here’s the quick 90-second version as well).