Talking Heads — 8/3/1983 (Saratoga Springs, NY)
Post-Eno Talking Heads. 1983 found the Talking Heads achieving breakthrough success with the release of Speaking In Tongues, which contained their largest selling single release of their career, Burning Down The House.
1. Psycho Killer
2. Heaven
3. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
4. Love -> Building on fire
5. The Book I Read
6. Slippery People
7. Cities
8. Big Blue Plymouth
9. Burning Down The House
10. Life During Wartime
11. Making Flippy Floppy
12. Swamp
13. What A Day That Was
14. This Must Be The PLace
15. Once in A Lifetime
16. Big Business/I Zimbra
17. Houses In Motion
18. Genius Of Love
19. Girlfriend is Better
20. Take Me To The River
21. CrossEyed and Painless
Phish — 10 Years Ago Today
10 years ago today, Phish opened the gates to their festival, Lemonwheel at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine. The forecast was sunny and the funk was deep thick and deep.
08/15/98 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME
Lemonwheel
Set I: Mike’s Song> Simple, Beauty of my Dreams, Roggae, Split Open and Melt, Poor Heart, The Moma Dance, The Divided Sky, Water in the Sky, Funky Bitch> Cities> Weekapaug Groove
Set II: The Wedge> Reba, Gumbo> Sanity, Tweezer> The Horse> Silent in the Morning, Chalkdust Torture, Slave to the Traffic Light
Set III: NICU> David Bowie, Strange Design, Limb By Limb> Brian and Robert> Loving Cup
Encore: Halley’s Comet> Cavern, Tweezer Reprise, Ambient Jam
Want some perfect pre-dawn music? Here’s the ambient set:
Phish — 4 Years Ago Today
Fours years ago today, Phish played its final (for now!) notes. Here is a very emotional version of “Wading In The Velvet Sea” that crystallized how we all felt at the moment.
08/15/04 Newport State Airport, Coventry, VT
Coventry
Set I: Mike’s Song1> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove, Anything But Me, Reba, Carini, Chalkdust Torture> Possum, Wolfman’s Brother> Jam2, Taste
Set II: Down With Disease, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Glide, Split Open and Melt> Ghost
Set III: Fast Enough For You, Seven Below, Simple, Piper> Bruno3> Dickie Scotland3, Wilson, Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: The Curtain With
1 Last Mike’s Song opener (8/15/1998) at The Lemonwheel
2 With both Trey and Mike’s mothers on stage doing the “sexy bump”, followed by Trey and Mike “double-teaming” John Paluska in similar fashion
3 Songs made up about Bruno, Phish’s monitor man and Richard Glasgow, the tour accountant
Sly And The Family Stone — I Want To Take You (Higher)
39 years ago today the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival started its legendary mark on popular music. Here we have Sly & The Family Stone attempting to take us higher.
Funny Friday — Eddie Murphy
Today, 31 years ago, Elvis Presley spent his last day on earth. Eddie Murphy captured fat Elvis in all of his late glory in his Delirious concert film. (Note: Vulgar language)
Stevie Wonder — 1/31/1974
This show was recorded shortly after Stevie’s accident with a logging truck that left him in a coma for four days. It’s a great soundboard that pulls strongly from his masterwork, Innervisions.
1. Jam
2. Contusion > Higher Ground
3. Superwoman
4. To Know You Is To Love You
5. Signed, Sealed, Delivered
6. Visions
7. Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing
8. Living For The City
9. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
10. Superstition
11. My Dreams
