moe. — Tailspin Video
Chosen as the winner of moe.’s 2007 youtube.com contest.
Phish — Letterman (July 1995)
Performing Julius:
Dave Matthews — Sledgehammer
From Rothbury Music Festival 2008:
Frank Zappa — Vault Releases
From Jambase: The Zappa Family Trust headed by Frank Zappa’s widow Gail Zappa, operates under the principal of AAAFNRAA: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime For No Reason At All. It’s a phrase that Frank Zappa used often in his lifetime and it serves as a guiding principle for much of the work carried out by the Trust today.
“It is a key factor in the decision-making process that governs our output,” Gail says. “Strange things happen for inexplicable reasons; we like to take advantage of the possibilities that may come from these events. We like to do that more than we like to try to figure out why they occurred.”
While traditional record labels plan release schedules months in advance, Vaulternative and Zappa Records, two labels administered by the Trust, often release albums on Zappa.com with little to no warning. Gail Zappa and archivist/Vaultmeister Joe Travers released the new compilation One Shot Deal, collated from Frank Zappa assemblages, concert tracks and outtakes from 1972 to 1981, as soon as it rolled off the assembly line in June. Similarly, the new Honker Home Video (another imprint administered by the Trust) DVD release The Torture Never Stops arrived recently with little warning.
Here’s the track listing for One Shot Deal:
1. Bathtub Man
2. Space Boogers
3. Hermitage
4. Trudgin’ Across the Tundra
5. Occam’s Razor
6. Heidelberg 1987
7. The Illinois Enema Bandit
8. Australian Yellow Snow
9. Rollo
The Torture Never Stops comes with special cardboard No-D (think 3-D, but the opposite) glasses. The film is presented as edited by Zappa himself and as broadcast on MTV. It is the first time this film has appeared on DVD and is the most complete edit in existence of the Halloween, 1981 concert. Recorded October 31, 1981 at the Palladium in New York, the show spans 24 songs and over two hours.
The band includes Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, and Chad Wackerman. One major highlight is the fret-shredding guitar duel between Zappa and a young Vai on “Stevie’s Spanking.” The DVD also includes concert footage of “Teen-Age Prostitute” and “City of Tiny Lights,” and the music video for “You Are What You Is.” Also included is a set of temporary Frank Zappa tattoos, including the iconic, copyrighted mustache image, and, of course, the No-D glasses.
The Torture Never Stops track listing:
1. Black Napkins
2. Montana
3. Easy Meat
4. Beauty Knows No Pain
5. Charlie’s Enormous Mouth
6. Fine Girl
7. Teen-age Wind
8. Harder Than Your Husband
9. Bamboozled By Love
10. We’re Turning Again
11. Alien Orifice
12. Flakes
13. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
14. You Are What You Is
15. Mudd Club
16. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
17. Dumb All Over
18. Heavenly Bank Account
19. Suicide Chump
20. Jumbo Go Away
21. Stevie’s Spanking
22. The Torture Never Stops
23. Strictly Genteel
24. The Illinois Enema Bandit
These releases follow on the heels of the Wazoo live album (see our earlier newswire here), released earlier in 2008.
The Zappa Family Trust’s mission is to celebrate and protect the legacy of Frank Zappa, the great American composer and musician who died in 1993. Expect plenty more surprises in 2008, according to the gnomes at the Zappa Family Trust.
Umphrey’s McGee — 5 Years Ago Today (7/27/03)
Download here: UM 7/27/03
07/27/03 Skyline Stage at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Soundcheck: Good Ol’ Boys, JaJunk, Miss Tinkle’s Overture, Miss Tinkle’s Overture, Mulche’s Odyssey, #5, Patience, Hell’s Bells, Slacker
Set I: Syncopated Strangers1, #5, Uncommon> Jimmy Stewart> Get in the Van, Walking On the Moon2> Drums2, Wife Soup> Jimmy Stewart3> Walletsworth> Smell the Mitten
Set II: 2×24, Resolution> Who Knows> The Crooked One, Duck Butter, Pay the Snucka, 13 Days> White Man’s Moccassins> The Triple Wide5> In the Kitchen, JaJunk
Encore: Home Sweet Home> Miss Tinkle’s Overture> Mulche’s Odyssey
1 with Get In the Van tease
2 with Kalyan Pathak (the Fareed Haque Group) on tablas
3 with Nothing Too Fancy tease
4 with extended Slacker tease before the beginning of 2×2, and Feels So Good tease later
5 with Stairway to Heaven (Zeppelin) tease
Phish — 5 Years Ago Today (7/27/03)
07/27/03 Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC
Set I: Runaway Jim, Ya Mar, Down With Disease, The Divided Sky, Sample in a Jar, Discern, Anything But Me, Llama
Set II: Ghost, Halley’s Comet> Seven Below1 2, Tube, Prince Caspian> Also Sprach Zarathustra, Fire
Encore: Squirming Coil
Download here: Live Phish
The Doors — Back Door Man
Recorded during The Doors’ European tour in 1968.
Phish — Clifford Ball (1996)
MTV filmed special of Phish’s 2 day festival in 1996.
Ernest Ranglin — Redemption Song/ No Woman, No Cry
Amazing Jamaican reggae guitarist Ernest Ranglin performs two of Bob Marley’s most recognized pieces, Redemption Song and No Woman, No Cry.
Here it comes
The FCC approved the XM-Sirius satellite radio merger on Friday. As the AP article states:
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s $3.3 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. will mean millions of subscribers will be able to receive programming from both services, while executives say it will create huge cost savings for the industry.
While I was initially excited about the abundance of music on Sirius when we first signed up (as Atlanta radio stations are terrible), I’ve found that ours rarely moves from Channel 17 (Jam On). Read the entire AP article here.
John Lennon — Review of new biography
Here‘s a review of John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman, who also wrote Shout!, a book about The Beatles that was published in 1981. Here are a few excerpts from the article, which doesn’t give a favorable review of the book (which will be released on Oct. 7, 2008):
…there just isn’t much new to say about the group’s historic, hysterical popularity or John Lennon’s role in it.
Norman’s fully three-dimensional portrait has no evident axe to grind, but it’s also hard to tell why he bothered.
The Lost Art Of The Mix Tape
Remember tapes? Maxell II 90′s? I do. Here’s a link to some good stuff.
Led Zeppelin — How Many More Times
Classic testosterone filled early Zeppelin jam. From wailing Plant to Bonham’s bombastic drums, from Jones’ on the money keyboard and bass to Page’s shrieking feedback wah-wah, who could ever touch Zeppelin?
Rodrigo y Gabriela — Stairway To Heaven
’tis very nice.
The Dan Band — Total Eclipse Of The Heart
We always thought that Old School was one of the instant classic comedies. Of course Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson were funny, but one the unsung heroes of the movie was Dan Finnerty. “Who’s Dan Finnerty”, you ask? Well, he’s the lead singer of the Dan Band, who forever changed the way we view Bonnie Tyler’s, “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” in Will Ferrell’s wedding reception scene.
Here’s The Dan Band performing the aforementioned song.
Warning: Strong Language
