John Mayer — No Phish phans phor me
Phabulous phront man, John Mayer wants no part of Phish phans at his shows.
John Lennon — Yer Blues (Rock And Roll Circus)
John Lennon, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell & Eric Clapton playing The Beatles, “Yer Blues”. Mick Jagger with the intro.
Eric Clapton — Guitar Demonstration
This is a gem of a clip. A very young Clapton discusses his technique. He’s roughly 23-24 here and had already been deemed “God” by an overzealous fan. Not true, but…
Mike Gordon — Phish Reunion, “I think there’s a good chance of it – pretty soon…”
Mike Gordon is the current ex-Phish member fanning the flames of reunion talk.
Monkeys On Ecstacy = stealth moe. show
Monkeys On Ecstasy at the Aggie
moe. played a surprise show at Fort Collins, CO’s Aggie Theatre last night under the pseudonym Monkeys On Ecstasy. The gig featured a number of songs the group has not played in well over a year, including “Don’t Fuck With Flo” (5/5/2007), “Interstellar Overdrive” (5/2/2007), Camper Van Beethoven’s “Good Guys and Bad Guys” (7/27/2006) and the Grateful Dead’s “Deal” (10/22/2006). The latter two songs also featured Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven’s Johnny Hickman, first on guitar and later on guitar and harmonica. The members of moe. are longtime Cracker fans and regularly covered the group’s hit “Low” for years. At the end of the night, moe. returned for the lone encore of “Johnny Lineup,” which had been shelved since January 10, 2007. moe.’s tour will continue this evening at Council Bluffs, IA’s Whiskey Roadhouse.
Phish — Nine Years Ago Today
Alpine Valley. The Mango Song. July 24, 1999. You’re gonna be a genius anyway…
Part Two:
David Gilmour — New Album — Live In Gdansk
From Jambase:
David Gilmour will release Live In Gdańsk, a double live album plus concert DVD, September 16 via Columbia Records.
The last concert on Gilmour’s 2006 Summer Tour was held in front of 50,000 people at the shipyards in Gdańsk, Poland, at the request of the Gdańsk Foundation. The August 26 event took place on the 26th anniversary of the founding of Trade Union Solidarity in Poland. The concert was the only occasion on which Gilmour performed the tour material with an orchestra, using the 40-strong string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who was responsible for the On An Island album’s orchestral arrangements. This is the first-ever recording of certain Pink Floyd songs performed with an orchestra.
Other unique features of the show included the special six-screen design, created by lightmeister Marc Brickman to allow each band member his own dedicated screen for the edification of the audience; the performance of “A Great Day For Freedom” with the orchestral arrangement of the late Michael Kamen, and a guest appearance by prominent Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer, who reprised his piano part from “A Pocketful Of Stones.”
There will be a number of formats geared at different price ranges. There will be a 2-CD audio-only version, a 3-disc version, which includes an extra concert DVD (114 minutes long) and “Gdańsk Diary,” a 37-minute filmed documentary. There is also a 4-disc version, plus a 5-disc package, as well as a vinyl offering in a box of LPs: 8 sides will be the concert while the fifth disc holds two “Barn Jams,” “On The Turning Away live from Venice,” and two songs from the “Live From Abbey Road” sessions. You also get a ‘Webpass,’ which allows one complete download of the whole five discs in MP3 format to a computer of your choice.
The album tracklisting is:
Disc 1
‘Speak To Me’
‘Breathe’
‘Time’
‘Breathe’ (reprise)
‘Castellorizon’ *
‘On An Island’ *
‘The Blue’ *
‘Red Sky At Night’ *
‘This Heaven’ *
‘Then I Close My Eyes’ *
‘Smile’ *
‘Take A Breath’ *
‘A Pocketful Of Stones’ *
‘Where We Start’ *
Disc 2
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’
‘Astronomy Domine’
‘Fat Old Sun’
‘High Hopes’ *
‘Echoes’
‘Wish You Were Here’
‘A Great Day For Freedom’ *
‘Comfortably Numb’ *
*Accompanied by the 40-strong section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner
Disc 3 — DVD
Part 1 — David Gilmour Live in Gdansk
‘Castellorizon’
‘On An Island’
‘The Blue’
‘Red Sky At Night’
‘This Heaven’
‘Then I Close My Eyes’
‘Smile’
‘Take A Breath’
‘A Pocketful Of Stones’
‘Where We Start’
‘Astronomy Domine’
‘High Hopes’
‘Echoes’
‘A Great Day For Freedom’
‘Comfortably Numb’
Part 2 — Gdansk Diary
36-minute film documenting the Solidarity Concert events
Disc 4 — DVD
‘Castellorizon’
‘On An Island’
‘The Blue’
‘Take A Breath’
‘Red Sky At Night’
‘This Heaven’
‘Then I Close My Eyes’
‘Smile’
‘A Pocketful Of Stones’
‘Where We Start’
Disc 5 — bonus tracks from the ‘On An Island’ Tour, 2006:
‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ (Vienne, July 31/Venice August 12)
‘Dominoes’ (Paris, March 15)
‘The Blue’ (Vienne, July 31)
‘Take A Breath’ (Munich, July 29)
‘Wish You Were Here’ (Glasgow, May 27)
‘Coming Back To Life’ (Florence, August 2)
‘Find The Cost Of Freedom’ (Manchester, May 26)
‘This Heaven’ (Vienne, July 31)
‘Wearing The Inside Out’ (Milan, March 25)
‘A Pocketful Of Stones’ (Vienne, July 31)
‘Where We Start’ (Vienne, July 31)
‘On The Turning Away’ (Venice, August 31)
Digable Planets — Reunion Tour
From the mouths of Doodle, Lady-bug & Butterfly:
YEAH WE AINT PLAYING WITH YOUR FUNK EMOTIONS!!! THE ORIGINOO INSECTS FROM THE COLORFUL FAVELLAS OF OUTER SPACE ARE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN!!! LADYBUG MEC, BUTTERFLY, AND CEE KNOW THE DOODLEBUG WILL HIT THE ROAD IN SEPTEMBER AND PERFORM FOR A FEW WEEKS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA…ONE OF OUR MAIN SPOTS WILL BE THE EARTHDANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL IN LAYTONVILLE CALIFORNIA…WE WILL ALSO BE HITTING SAN DIEGO, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO AND MANY OTHER HOT SPOTS THRU OUT CALI…CHECK OUR MYSPACE PAGE FOR UPDATED TOUR INFO…PEACE CEE KNOW THE DOODLEBUG AND THE CREAMY SPY CLIQUE…
Tony Bennett — I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Kelly and I are going to see good ole Tony Bennett tonight, so I thought I’d post him performing his signature song.
And here is a vintage clip of Tony on Dean Martin’s show
And a funny album cover I found…
The Lizard Seminole
How I knew that FSU was the right college for me:
- It has a great communications school that could help me launch a career in public relations;
- I was awarded scholarships to FSU, which would make it relatively inexpensive;
- Campus is right next to the state capitol, which would afford me the opportunity to make some great connections; or,
- Jim Morrison went there, and if it’s good enough for him, then it’s good enough for me.
Yes, before Jim went to UCLA, he studied art and psychology at FSU! Being that I minored in psychology, there’s a good chance I sat in the same psych lecture halls that Jimbo did.
Check out 20-year-old Jim in this FSU recruitment film, in which he plays a clean-cut square who is denied enrollment.
I love the irony. Maybe I’m a bit cynical after years in public relations (and having to create such promotional videos), but Jim – a government-defying rebellious face of counter culture – participates in the propaganda-filled video when he asks, “How come my parents, the state and the university didn’t look ahead?”. Way to blatantly side with the state school and the government, Jim, in their vie for additional tax dollars.
