Three of our favorite guitarists showed up on other people’s stages this weekend, sending message boards into fits of excessive geekery. Former 70 Volt Parade lead singer Trey Anastasio sat in with Phil Lesh & Friends in Glens Falls, almost 13 years after Big Red threw the White Album down in the same locale. If you want to parse the setlist like a Federal Reserve public statement, most of the songs played read like one long jail/arrest joke. I can laugh with that (setlist here; torrent; videos).
Elsewhere, Bob Weir joined Tea Leaf Green (above) at the Benefit for the Rainforest Action Network. The recent birthday boy played Garden Part II, and then former Dead bandmate Bill Kreutzmann came out for another four songs, the last of which was an I’ve Got a Feeling with Sean Lennon. And last night at the Nokia, Scott Metzger replaced Umphrey’s McGee guitarist Brendan Bayliss for the second half of Immigrant Song. We were there, and it ripped. Also, Matisyahu sat in and the stoned kid next to me just about flipped out, then told us he was “on his label.” Weird. Anyway, now let us look back at last week:
- Dave Vann provided some sicky sicky photo galleries from the inaugural Echo Project: Check out his shots from Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- HT’s Best of Year One: The B List, Grousing The Aisles, Pullin’ ‘Tubes
- AoD’s Reid Genauer claims he really will not fight you
- The Slip’s Brad Barr creates some Rough Magic while recording
- There’ll be an I’m Not There concert, and the lineup looks damn good
- Happy Birthday to the real Ace Cowboy, who’s more beard than face
- Neil Young’s all about Web 2.0 marketing…and crazy sideburns
- Videos of Springsteen and Arcade Fire sent the webosphere into hysterics
- And download some good shit for your Zune: MP3 Boot Camp, Cruising The Archive(.org) and the Friday Mix Tape
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Great to hear that Trey’s “breaking out” by playing with Phil. Should be a good warm-up for the next time DSO’s in town.