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Summer Festivals Preview

{ January 24, 2010 @ 7:54 pm } · { Festivals }
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While we’re deep in cold bitter winter, looking ahead to summer festival season brings a certain warmth and happiness. Lineups are already being announced, rumors are flying, and things are starting to heat up on the 2010 festival front. Here’s a look at how things are shaping up for some of the summer’s most anticipated festivals:

WANEE FESTIVAL ~ LIVE OAK, FL ~ APRIL 15TH-17TH

Wanee Festival - Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park

The Allman Brothers Band and Widespread Panic will perform Friday and Saturday night of the Festival. Other performers include: Gov’t Mule; Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi; Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, & Jay Lane are Scaring the Childern; Stephen Stills; The Black Keys; Dr. John; Hot Tuna Electric; 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann & Papa Mali; JJ Grey & Mofro; Johnny Winter; George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic; The Funky Meters; The Wailers; Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings; North Mississippi Allstars; A Family Affair with Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk (performing Sly & The Family Stone); Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band; Chuck Leavell with The Randall Bramblett Band; Particle; Oteil and Kofi Burbridge with The Lee Boys; Col. Bruce Hampton; Devon Allman’s Honeytribe; Scrapomatic; Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio and Bonobos Convergence.

Wanee’s lineup pretty much speaks for itself this year – this looks to be a smoking festival with a diverse group of the best of the best in the jam scene. Tickets are on sale now at Wanee’s website.

MOUNTAIN JAM ~ HUNTER MOUNTAIN ~ HUNTER, NY ~ JUNE 4TH-6TH

Mountain Jam 2008 - Hunter Mountain

Gov’t Mule (Two Nights), Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Avett Brothers, Les Claypool (Late Night Set), Toots & The Maytals, Yonder Mountain String Band, Matisyahu, Dark Star Orchestra, Dave Mason, Lettuce, ALO, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Elmwood & The London Souls plus many more to be announced. Tickets will be on-sale Monday January 25th at 10am Through www.mountainjam.com.

The big question remains who will occupy the Sunday night headlining slot? The Allman Brothers Band headlined in 2009, Ratdog in 2008, and Phil Lesh and Friends in 2007. Rumors point to either Furthur, or Widespread Panic to have the honors this year. There should be a lot of other good artists added in the coming weeks as well so stay tuned.

WAKARUSKA FESTIVAL ~ MULBERRY MOUNTAIN ~ OZARK, AR ~ JUNE 3RD-6TH

Wakaruska 2007

STS9, The Disco Biscuits, Slightly Stoopid, John Butler Trio, Blues Traveler, Zappa Plays Zappa, Bassnectar, Railroad Earth, The Machine performs Pink Floyd, JJ Grey & MOFRO, Lotus, Rebelution, ALO, Tea Leaf Green, BoomBox, Black Joe Lewis, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, EOTO, James Zabiela, Split Lip Rayfield, Hayes Carll, Sub Swara, Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers, Reverend Peyton’s BigDamn Band, Trampled by Turtles, Wookiefoot, Mishka, Big Gigantic, Truth & Salvage Co., Fort Knox Five, Mountain Sprout, Band of Heathens, Last Waltz Ensemble, Cash’d Out, Earl Greyhound, Bluetech, Uglysuit, Passafire, Simplified, Hoots & Hellmouth, Resident Anti-Hero plus many more artists still to be announced.

Wakaruska boasts a diverse and comprehensive lineup this year with a ton of big-hitter electronic headliners such as The Disco Biscuits, STS9, Lotus, Bassnectar, and EOTO. But this fest isn’t just straight-Untz, other big  rock/funk/bluegrass names include the The Machine, Railroad Earth, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Zappa Plays Zappa, and Blues Traveler.

BONNAROO ~ MANCHESTER, TN ~ JUNE 10TH – 13TH

Bonnaroo 2009

The preliminary lineup announcement is due on February 2nd, heavily rumored acts include Furthur, Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Pearl Jam, Girl Talk, Steve Martin and many many many more of course. Keep an eye on Bonnaroo’s twitter feed for clues as to who will be appearing at this year’s festivities.

NATEVA FESTIVAL ~ OXFORD FAIRGROUNDS ~ OXFORD, ME ~ JULY 2ND-4TH

Oxford Fairgrounds

With Rothbury cancelled at least for this summer, rumor has it that AEG Live/Madison House are going to go big this year with their first Annual ‘Nateva Festival’ to be held in Oxford, ME over July 4th weekend. Nateva will make their initial lineup announcement this Friday, January 29th. Rumored big names include The Allman Brothers Band, Furthur, The Flaming Lips, and Trey Anastasio Band.

GATHERING OF THE VIBES ~ SEASIDE PARK ~ BRIDGEPORT, CT ~ JULY 29TH-AUGUST 1ST

Vibe Tribe - Seaside Park

No official announcment on lineup yet from the Vibe Tribe, but the festival has confirmed that they will return to Seaside Park, even after last year’s lower-than-hoped attendance, unfortunate deatch of a camper, and investigation into illegal activities by private security hired by the festival producers. All that aside, Vibes is back and is sure to be better than ever. An educated guess at this year’s lineup with we Dark Star Orchestra on Thursday night, Furthur on Saturday, and Deep Banana Blackout + other big names for Friday. If your’e a deadhead, there’s no place like the vibes, it truly is Deadhead Heaven.

Acoustic Sundays, Vol. 2

{ January 17, 2010 @ 3:53 pm } · { Acoustic Sundays, Audio, Festivals, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Phish, Video }
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Acoustic Sundays make a triumphant return today with a breathtaking 4-camera, SBD Audio, full-length, pro-shot video of Phish’s Festival 8 Acoustic set: check it out here!

Phish Acoustic - 11/01/09

Phish Festival 8 Acoustic setlist:
Water in the Sky
Back On The Train
Brian & Robert
Invisible*
Strange Design
Mountains in the Mist
The Curtain With
Army of One
Sleep Again
My Sweet One
Let Me Lie
Bouncin
Around the Room
Train Song
Wilson
McGrupp

Encore:
Driver
Talk
Secret Smile

Video Stream

Audio Download

Notes: Entire set acoustic. * -first time played

For all you acoustic-heads out there, be sure to also check out our first installment of Acoustic Sundays with a crystal-clear SBD recording of Jerry Garcia and John Kahn, live acoustic from the Oregon State Penitentiary in 1982.

Garcia and Kahn

Garcia/Kahn 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

SBD Download

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.

Festival 8 Day 1

{ October 31, 2009 @ 2:52 am } · { Festivals, Phish }
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Phish
10/30/09
Festival 8 – Day 1
Empire Polo Club
Indio, CA

10/30/09Set I
Party Time
Chalkdust Torture
Moma Dance
NICU
Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
Stash
I Didn’t Know
Poor Heart
Cavern
Beauty Of A Broken Heart
Ocelot
Time Turns Elastic

Set II:
Punch You in the Eye >
Down with Disease >
Prince Caspian >
Wolfman’s Brother >
Piper >
Joy
David Bowie
Harry Hood
Golgi Aparatus

Encore:
Character Zero

Download Link – Torrent/Flac

Download Link – Set 1 MP3s

Download Link – Set 2 MP3s

Lots more to come folks!

10/30/09

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.

Phish Halloween Album Update

{ October 11, 2009 @ 10:43 pm } · { Festivals, Phish, Phish Fall Tour 09 }
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With less than 3 weeks until Phish’s highly anticipated Festival 8, albums are being eliminated day by day from the Phish.com Halloween album mystery lineup. Most recently, frontrunner album Pet Sounds from the Beach Boys was eliminated. Notable and likely albums that still remain include The Band – Self Titled, Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run, David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust, Led Zeppelin – IV/ZOSO, and Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced.

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Pet Sounds gets the axe

Keep track of the remaining albums here.

Also, get your orders in now for Phish’s fall tour: a limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets’ online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com . The ticket request period is currently underway and will end Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm EST.

Trick or Treat?

{ October 6, 2009 @ 10:27 pm } · { Festivals, Phish }
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Check out the following subtle photoshop work found over on the Phish.com Halloween album lineup:

BornToRun

Note the guitar… that ain’t no Fender folks!

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Hello Nasty is right….

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Throwin’ it back to Colorado 88′

Phish to Play Last Album Alive at 8

{ September 28, 2009 @ 7:39 pm } · { Festivals, Phish }
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In Phish’s latest effort to torture their obsessive and undying fanbase, another mystery animation was unveiled today on the official Phish site. Included in the spooky animation is a set of potential albums for their Festival 8 musical costume set, to be ‘killed’ off over the next month. The band will then ‘play the last record left alive’. There are some great albums on the list, there’s no doubt about that – check out a full list below…

Phish.com - 9/28/09

Phish.com - 9/28/09

The full list of albums appearing in the animation is as follows:

AC/DC – Back In Black
Aerosmith – Toys In The Attic
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Blind Faith – Blind Faith
Bob Dylan And The Band – the Basement Tapes
Bob Seger – Against The Wind
Boston – Boston
Brian Eno – Before And After Science
CCR – Green River
Chicago – Chicago I
Curtis Mayfield – Soundtrack to Superfly
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie Scary Monsters
Declan McManus – This Year’s Model
Devo – Freedom of Choice
Duran Duran – Rio
Dylan – Blood On the Tracks
Elton John – goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Eric Clapton – 461 Ocean Blvd
fIREHOSE – flyin’ the flannel
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
Genesis – The Lambs Lie Down On Broadway
Grateful Dead – American Beauty
Guns & Roses – Appetite For Destruction
Hall & Oates – Private Eyes
Huey Lewis And The News – Sports
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de Lo Habitual
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
Jonathon Richmond and The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
Journey – Escape
KI$$ – Alive II
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
Led Zeppelin – I
Led Zeppelin – IV (Zoso)
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
LOVE – Forever Changes
Manu Chao – Clandestino
Medeski Martin & Wood – Shack Man
Metallica – Master Of Puppets
MGMT – Oracle Spectacular
Michael Jackson – Thiller
Michael McDonald – If That’s What It Takes
Miles Davis – A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Minutemen – Double Nickels On The Dime
Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night
Nirvana – Nevermind
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pearl Jam – 10
Peter Gabriel – So
Pink Floyd – Meddle
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Pork Tornado – Pork Tornado
Primus – Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
Prince – Purple Rain
Queen – A Night At The Opera
Radiohead – Kid A
Rage Agaist The Machine – Evil Empire
Rolling Stones – Exile
Rush – Moving Pictures
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Springsteen – Born To Run
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
T.Rex – Electric Warrior
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music
Television Marquee Moon
The Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach
The Band – The Band (Brown Album)
The Beaatie Boys – Hello Nasty
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
The Clash – London Calling
The Doors – The Doors
The Eagles – Hotel California
The Pixies – Come On Pilgrim
The Police – Ghost In The Machine
The Ramones – Ramones
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
The Roots – Phronology
The White Stripes – Elephant
The Who – Who’s Next
Tom Petty – Damn The Torpedoes
Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
U2 – Joshua Tree
Van Halen – Van Halen
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Velve Underground And Nico
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
Ween – White Pepper
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
X – Los Angeles
Yes – The Yes Album
Zappa – Aposrophe
ZZ Top – Tres Hombes

Time Turns Acoustic

{ September 25, 2009 @ 10:43 am } · { Audio, Festivals, Grateful Dead, Phish, Rumors }
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In a surprise move yesterday, Phish announced a special ‘crack of Noon’ acoustic set to take place at high noon on day 3 of Festival 8. The band also released the official schedule for their Halloween weekend jamboree as part of the announcement. In other Festival 8 news, Trey  gave two radio interviews this week to discuss the upcoming festival and the Phish reunion at large. For the most part, these interviews seems to be marketing tactics for the Festival which has been rumored to be struggling with below-desired ticket sales. As a result, these interviews are mostly fluff (not the good kind), though one interesting tidbit was revealed: the band had chosen a musical costume and learned half of it when Page vetoed the selection sending the band back to the drawing board. Some sources are reporting the shelved selection was none other than the Grateful Dead’s ‘Workingman’s Dead’…

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Speaking of the Dead, let’s not forget the critical role the band played in defining many of the now ingrained traditions of the jam world – from LSD soaked audiences to following fanbases to tie-dyes to the rarely played ‘acoustic set’. Let’s look back in time 29 years ago to the day to one of those special evenings where the Dead treated their fans to a special acoustic set (followed of course by a raging electric set for set 2) on their home turf at the Warfield in San Fran. Stream the crispy SBD here or download an audience recording here.

The Dead acoustic in 1980

The Dead acoustic in 1980

The Grateful Dead
9/25/80
The Warfield Theater
San Francisco, CA

Set 1 (Acoustic): Bird Song, I’ve Been All Around This World, Dark Hollow, Rosalie McFall, Monkey & The Engineer, It Must Have Been The Roses, Jack A Roe, Ain’t No Lie-> Ripple

Set 2 (Electric): Alabama Getaway-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Friend Of The Devil, Mama Tried-> Mexicali Blues, Loser, Little Red Rooster, Althea, Jack Straw, Deal China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Samson & Delilah, Ship of Fools, Playin’ In The Band-> Drums-> Wharf Rat-> Around & Around-> Good Lovin’

Encore: U.S. Blues

Camp Bisco 09′

{ August 23, 2009 @ 10:35 pm } · { Audio, Disco Biscuits, Festivals }
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With summer coming to a close, let’s look back again at some of the great summer music festival action this year. Here, we have the Disco Biscuits 3-set show from the final day of Camp Bisco 8. Widely regarded as the best Bisco showing of the weekend, this show featured a 1st set billed as “Tractorbeam Vs. The Perfume”. The band alternates between their two alter egos throughout the set, showcasing their unique and various styles and really starting things off with a bang. The second two sets are straight dirty, thow-down, ragin’ dance party bisco, what Camp is all about.

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The Disco Biscuits
7/18/09
Camp Bisco 8 ~ Indian Lookout Country Club
Mariaville, NY

Set 1
M.E.M.P.H.I.S.(1,3)>
Rock Candy (2)
Frog Legs (1,4)
Run Like Hell (2)>
News From Nowhere(1,5) >
Run Like Hell (2)
Once The Fiddler Paid (1,6)
Sound One (1,7)

Set 2
Sister Judy’s Soul Shack
Caves Of The East >
Park Avenue >
Caterpillar (8) >
And The Ladies Were The Rest Of The Night (9) >
Save The Robots (10)

Set 3
Intro
Save The Robots (10) >
Hope (8,11) >
Pilin’ It Higher >
Sabre Dance
Basis For A Day
Meditation >
Hot Air Balloon (12)

Encore
The Very Moon >
Mr. Don

(1) Perfume version,
(2) Tractorbeam version
(3) Hip hop style, with Little Lai & Things Done Changed (Notorious B.I.G.) lyrics
(4) Devo style
(5) Techno style
(6) Bossa Nova style
(7) Honky Tonk style, with Dr. Sam Altman replacing Allen on drums
(8) Unfinished
(9) Inverted
(10) Dyslexic
(11) with KJ Sawka replacing Allen on drums
(12) Ending only, completes 7/17/09 version

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