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Phish Fall Tour Preview

{ November 15, 2009 @ 10:50 pm } · { Audio, Phish, Phish Fall Tour 09, Upcoming Shows }
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You can feel it in the air folks, Phish tour is upon us. In less than 72 hours, the band will kick off its 13 show Northeast fall tour. Hot of the massive success of a two-legged summer tour that just seemed to build and build over time and a picture-perfect Festival 8, one can only dream of what’s in store in the coming weeks. Indoor shows carry a different energy than outdoor ones, there’s just nothing quite like Phish in the winter. Let’s get this show on the road!

8/02/09 Red Rocks

8/02/09 Red Rocks

The tour kicks off this Wednesday in the Motor City and weaves through a two night run in Cincinnati and a stop in Syracuse before pulling into Philly for two pre-turkey day shows. And let’s not forget the 3 shows everybody’s looking forward to – 3 nights at MSG from 12/2-12/4. Get ready for the floor to shake! Look for full coverage of the tour here on Welcome To Now including first-hand reviews from 11/25, 12/3, and 12/4, stay tuned for all the good stuff. Phish – Winter – Step into the freezer!

Festival 8 - Exile

Festival 8 - 'Exile' Set

To help get by in the cold coming days before we all get our fix again, enjoy this ultra heady, ultra tasty Phish compilation, aptly titled Farmhouse Cheddar (vol. 3). This is one cheese you do not want to miss, enjoy responsibly!

Acoustic Sundays

{ November 8, 2009 @ 9:22 pm } · { Acoustic Sundays, Audio, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn }
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Today is the first installment of a new weekly tradition – ‘Acoustic Sundays’ – where we’ll check out some chiller acoustic listening for the day of rest. To kick things off in style, give a listen to this crispy SBD recording of Garcia and Kahn acoustic at the Oregon State Penitentiary in 1982. This recording is glistening with energy, soul, and emotion and is just pristine sounding. Until next Sunday…

Garcia and Kahn - 5/05/82

Garcia and Kahn - 5/05/82

Jerry Garcia and John Kahn Acoustic
5/05/82
Oregon State Penitentiary
Salem, OR

Setlist
Deep Elem Blues
Friend Of The Devil
Jack-A-Roe
Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Run For The Roses
Ripple
I’ve Been All Around This World
Valerie
Dire Wolf

Encore
Reuben And Cherise

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Today in Grateful Dead History

{ November 7, 2009 @ 7:01 pm } · { Audio, Grateful Dead, Today in GD History }
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The early 70s were an interesting time  for the Grateful Dead – a period of massive songwriting, creative, and musical growth and at the same time an era of sadness over the loss of Pigpen and growing weariness due to building troubles of years on the road. The weight of these troubles would eventually lead to the band’s brief hiatus in the mid-seventies.

It never ceases to amaze me that the band onstage continued to build on each night’s performance, with unbridled abandon, regardless of what was going on in their world. This show from 1971 is a great example of this relentlessness. This is one of Keith’s first shows with the band, filling in for the ailing Pigpen. Despite some sound issues early on, this show is pure bliss from start to finish. Give it a go and see for yourself.

Hairy Jerry

11/07/71
Harding Theater
San Francisco, CA

Set 1: Truckin’, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down The Line, Hideaway, Sugaree, Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed, Cumberland Blues, El Paso, Big Railroad Blues, Comes A Time, Mexicali Blues, One More Saturday Night

Set 2: Ramble On Rose, Me And Bobby McGee, Loser, Sugar Magnolia, Dark Star-> Drums-> The Other One-> Me & My Uncle-> The Other One, Deal, Brokedown Palace, Playin’ In The Band, Casey Jones, Not Fade Away-> Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad-> Not Fade Away, E: Johnny B. Goode

Encore: Uncle John’s Band

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All Hallows’ Bisco

{ November 5, 2009 @ 10:37 pm } · { Audio, Disco Biscuits }
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All the real phans know that Halloween rivals if not surpasses New Year’s Eve as ‘THE Night’ for live music. This year was no exception with a cornucopia of goodness being thrown down across the country. If you missed it, check out coverage of Phish’s Festival 8 and Gov’t Mule’s ‘Mule-o-Ween‘ and let’s keep the good stuff coming with this psychedelic attack from the Disco Biscuits.

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Bisco

The Disco Biscuits
10/31/09
Auditorium Theatre
Chicago, IL
(The Glitch Mob, Holy Fuck and Orchard Lounge opened)

Set I: Strobelights and Martinis, Pimp Blue Rikki, Flash Mob > Mindless Dribble > Caves of the East > Mindless Dribble > Confrontation*

Set II: Stone > The Devil’s Waltz, On Time > Confrontation* > Spraypaint > Tempest > Tricycle > Spraypaint, Spy, I Am One**

Encore: Save The Robots# > Run Like Hell##

* – Dyslexic. ** – First time played. # – Dyslexic completion of 10/30 version. ## – Completes 10/28 version.

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Phish Festival 8 Days 2 + 3

{ November 2, 2009 @ 9:49 pm } · { Audio, Festivals, Phish }
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Getting right too it, let’s take a look at what Phish had to offer for day 2 and 3 of Festival 8: setlists, downloads, and a few pics below:

10/31/09, Festival 8

Festival 8
Set 1: Sample in a Jar, Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim, Possum, Antelope

Set 2 (EXILE ON MAIN STREET): Rocks Off, Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd On the Run, Ventilator Blues, I Just Want to See His Face, Let It Loose, All Down the Line, Stop Breaking Down, Shine a Light, Soul Survivor

Set 3: Backwards Down the Number Line, Fluffhead, Ghost, Circus Comes, YEM

Encore: Suzy Greenberg

* – Set 2 and Encore with Sharon Jones (vocals), Dave Guy (trumpet), David Smith (trombone), Tony Jarvis (sax), and Saundra Williams (vocals)

Download 10/31 Set 1
Download 10/31 Set 2
Download 10/31 Set 3

11/01/09, Festival 8

Day 3 Set 3

Acoustic Set: Water in the Sky, Back on the Train, Brian & Robert, Invisible, Strange Design, Mountains in the Mist, Curtain With, Army of One, Sleep Again, My Sweet One, Let Me Lie, Bouncin’, Train Song, Wilson, McGrupp

Acoustic Encore: Driver, Talk, Secret Smile

Set 2: AC/DC Bag, Rift, Gotta Jibboo, Heavy Things, Reba, The Wedge, Guelah Papyrus, Undermind, Sparkle, Split Open & Melt

Set 3: Tweezer > Maze, Free, Sugar Shack, Limb By Limb, Theme from the Bottom, Mike’s Song > 2001 > Light > Slave

Encore: Grind, Esther, Tweezer Reprise

Download 11/01 Acoustic Set
Download 11/01 Set 2
Download 11/01 Set 3

Download the Soundcheck from 10/29

Hidden Track has all the in-depth coverage of the events and Jambase has some great pics.There are also a ton of great vids up on YouTube.

Happy Mule-o-Ween!

{ November 1, 2009 @ 9:38 pm } · { Audio, Gov't Mule }
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To sum up Mule-o-Ween, let’s just say that Mule rocked the Tower harder than its been rocked in some time, and probably harder than it will be for a long time to come. Warren Haynes knows how to deliver for the holidays and he was on fire all night long, like a man possessed. The band decided to switch things up this year from the previous Halloweens – this time taking on the Rolling Stones musical cover for the 1st set and bringing it home with straight un-cut Mule for Set 2.

Over the course of the evening, we got an inspired and picture-perfect Stones musical costume, a nice showcase of new songs from the recently released By a Thread, and a truly epic Brighter Days>Blind Man in The Dark and Goin’ Out West>Bang a Gong>Goin’ Out West old school close-out to the show. Many have said that Warren Haynes is the hardest working man in the jam scene, well let me just say he leads by example and I’m consistently amazed with Mule’s ability to bring it, night after night, like a ram that just won’t stop. I highly recommend giving this one a listen, you won’t regret it.

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Set 1 w/ Jackie

Gov’t Mule
10/31/09
The Tower Theater
Upper Darby, PA

Set 1
Under My Thumb*
Monkey Man*
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo*$
Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’*$
Angie*
Ventilator Blues*$
Shattered*$ with Matt on Lead Vocal, Danny on Bass & Jorgen on Drums
Wild Horses
Slave*$
Gimmie Shelter*$
Play With Fire
Paint It Black*
Bitch*$
Brown Sugar*$

Mule Set 2

Set 2
Steppin’ Lightly
Broke Down On The Brazos
Railroad Boy >
Monday Mourning Meltdown >
Forevermore
Frozen Fear >
Brighter Days >
Blind Man In The Dark$

Encore
Goin’ Out West$ >
Bang A Gong$ >
Goin’ Out West$

* 1st Time Played
$ with Steve Elson
Jackie Greene guests for all of set 1 and encore

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Also, be sure to check out this comical highlight from the evening, Drummer Matt Abts taking vocals on Shattered, while Jorma moves from bass to drums, and Danny Louis moves from keys to Bass:

Phish Festival 8 Stream, NYE Plans, and Beyond

{ October 29, 2009 @ 9:52 pm } · { Audio, Festivals, Phish, Rumors }
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For those of you not lucky enough to make it out to Indio for Phish’s highly anticipated Festival 8, you can still catch all the action over on Sirius’s ‘Jam On’ Channel which will be broadcasting Phish Radio 95.9 the Bunny all weekend long.  Don’t worry if you don’t have a subscription, you can sign up for a free 7 day trial here. The Bunny will of course carry all 8 sets of Phish this weekend, including the musical costume set and the Sunday high noon acoustic set. The exact festival schedule is below (all times are PST):

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL 8 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

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FRIDAY (10/30)
4:00PM Concert field opens
7:30PM Set 1
10:00PM Set 2

SATURDAY (10/31)
12:00PM Concert field opens
3:00PM Set 1
7:30PM The Halloween Set
10:00PM Set 3

SUNDAY (11/01)
10:00AM Concert field opens
12:00PM Acoustic Set
5:30PM Set 2
8:30PM Set 3

For all you Tweeters out there, you can keep on top of the festival goings on via PhishTwit.

With Festival 8 underway, and the mystery musical costume set soon to be revealed, the only remaining question is what the band has planned for New Year’s Eve. All signs still point to either 3 or 4 nights in Miami, likely to be announced a week or so following the festival. Other rumored dates include a few nights back at Hampton and 2 nights in Atlanta before continuing southbound.

NYE 03 Miami

While NYE is still up in the air – 2010’s plan seem more certain with a heavily rumored Trey solo tour in February followed by a Phish Europe tour in May.

Gov’t Mule in Chicago – 10/24/09

{ October 26, 2009 @ 8:44 pm } · { Audio, Gov't Mule }
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Mule kicked off their fall Tour last weekend with a pair of shows – one in Indianapolis and one in Chicago. The Chicago show on Saturday night had the band really settling in and hitting the groove, mixing up new material from the recently released By A Thread with old Mule classics and, of course, some tasty covers. Jackie Greene is opening up this tour and has been joining the band for rockin’ encores including covers of  Neil Young’s ‘Southern Man’, The Beatles ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, and the Mule/Greene Dead staple ‘Sugaree’ – and that’s just in the first 2 nights of the tour. The tour will culminate this Saturday in what promises to be an epic Halloween at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA – featuring a set 2 Rolling Stones musical costume set plus what promises to be a fat set of Mule rockers to start things off. Look for a full review, dl, etc. after the show.

Mule - 10/24/09

Gov’t Mule
10/24/09
The Riviera Theater
Chicago, IL

Set 1
Brighter days >
Like Flies
Blind Man In The Dark
Brand New Angel
Endless Parade
Any Open Window >
Steppin’ Lightly*
Inside Outside Woman Blues
Broke Down On The Brazos

Set 2
Frozen Fear >
Kind Of Bird
Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home**
Sco-Mule** >
Drums >
No Need To Suffer
I’m A Ram

Encore
Don’t Let Me Down*** >
After Midnight***

*- First Time Played
**- With Joe Bonamassa
***- With Jackie Greene

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Ratdog Tour Closer at the Beacon, 10/24/09

{ October 25, 2009 @ 8:25 pm } · { Audio, Ratdog, Show Reviews }
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Ratdog blew the roof off the Beacon Theater last night – a real smoking show from cover to cover. Highlights include a first set Cassidy>Jack Straw>Rooster>DS Jam sequence that really took off and shined. The 1st set closing Liberty>Bertha had the place jumping – smiles all around.

Dark Star Jam - 10/24/09

Dark Star Jam - 10/24/09

The second set begins with a nicely chosen trio of tunes with Bobby on acoustic – Mexicali, FOTD, and fan-favorite Black Throated Wind that really hit a nice groove. The heart of the show has to be magnificent Other One>Stuff>Morning Dew>Dark Star Jam>Cassidy (Repirse), so glad the boys saved so much good stuff for night 3 at the Beacon. A raucous One More Saturday Night, and one-two punch Ripple, US Blues encore drove things home on a high note. All in all, quite an evening, way to go Bobby!

For setlists from the rest of the NE mini-tour, go here. For downloads of almost every night, go here. Enjoy!

Ratdog w/ the Persuassions - 10/24/09

Ratdog w/ the Persuasions: Ripple - 10/24/09

Ratdog, 10/24/09, The Beacon Theater, New York, NY
Set I: Jam > Casey Jones > Jack Straw > Cassidy > Little Red Rooster > Dark Star Jam > Lazy River Road, She Says > Liberty > Bertha
Set II: Mexicali Blues@ > Friend of the Devil@, Black-Throated Wind@, It Must Have Been the Roses*+, He’s Gone* > Jam > The Other One > Stuff > Morning Dew > Dark Star > Cassidy > One More Saturday Night
E: Ripple*+, U.S. Blues

@-Bobby on Acoustic; *-with The Persuasions (Vocals); +-a capella, The Persuasions only; Hippie Bill waved a Yankees flag on stage during “U.S. Blues”

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Sweet vid of the Persuasions doin’ Roses:

Old School

{ October 18, 2009 @ 10:30 pm } · { Audio, Phish }
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We’ve certainly looked back at where the Dead got their start here on Welcome To Now, But we’ve never really examined Phish’s musical origins. With Halloween approaching and now less than 2 weeks away, this is as good of a time as any to check out this crispy peice of Phishtory from Oct. 30th, 1985. The show includes the first ever live performance of Harry Hood, and a few other songs that have remained an integral part the cannon of Phish 2.0 and 3.0: Slave to the Traffic Light, Possum, and Sneaking Sally through the Alley. Enjoy!

Phish in 85'

Phish in 85'

Phish
10/30/1985
Hunt’s
Burlington, VT

Harry Hood*
Dog Log >
Possum
Slave to the Traffic Light%
Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley*#
I Wish
Revival
Alumni Blues
Prep School Hippie
Skippy the Wondermouse

* – First Time Played

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