Ray Charles — Ring Of Fire
On his second appearance on The Johnny Cash Show, Ray Charles performed Cash’s hit, “Ring Of Fire”. Do you think that at that time they knew that they’d both have biopics made in the new millennium, for which the actors portraying them would win Academy Awards?
Three Dog Night — Shambala
From 1969-1974, nobody had more Top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets than Three Dog Night. During this period, they were undoubtedly the most popular band in America: twenty-one consecutive Top 40 hits, eighteen straight Top 20s, eleven Top 10s, seven number 1s, seven million-selling singles and twelve straight gold LPs. By late ’75, they had sold nearly 50 million records. The band was unique for it’s time, featuring three separate lead singers, Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron and Cory Wells.
Where does the name come from? Apparently Australian aborigines would sleep with their dogs to provide warmth on cold nights. The coldest nights were called three dog nights. Here’s Three Dog Night with their 1973 hit, “Shambala”:
My Morning Jacket — Philadelphia, PA (9/5/2008)
Thanks to Hidden Track for this YouTube:
1. Anytime
2. Aluminum Park
3. Off The Record
4. Evil Urges
5. Touch Me I’m Giong To Scream Pt.1
6. What A Wonderful Man
7. Two Halves
8. Golden
9. Thank You Too!
10. I’m Amazed
11. Evelyn Is Not Real
12. Sec Walkin
13. War Begun
14. Phone Went West
15. Librarian
16. Dondante
17. Gideon
18. Lay Low
19. Mahgeetah
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20. Worldess Chorus
21. Highly Suspicious
22. Cobra
23. Smokin From Shootin
24. Touch Me I’m Going To Scream Pt.2
25. Run Thru
26. One Big Holiday
Moogfest 2008
To honor and commemorate Bob Moog and his groundbreaking achievements, several renowned keyboardists and longstanding Moog users will gather on Monday, October 13, 2008 at The Hammerstein Grand Ballroom in New York City to participate in Moogfest.
Here is your opportunity to play at Moogfest 2008 along side the leading MOOG players including Bernie Worrell (P-Funk), Aron Magner (The Disco Biscuits), Jamie Shields (The New Deal), Joe Russo (Benevento/Russo), DJ Logic among many others!
Click here for more info.
Here’s the new Moog guitar:
Here’s our previous post.
Mitch Hedberg — Do You Believe In Gosh?
New release from Mitch Hedberg, Do You Believe In Gosh is in stores today. BCM has the review:
Recorded about two months prior to his death in March of 2005, Do You Believe In Gosh? is comedian Mitch Hedberg’s first posthumous release. Only 37 years old at the time of his death in a New Jersey hotel room, it’s still likely a bitter and depressing pill for his fans to swallow.
Hedberg’s on-stage persona was unique: wearing sunglasses and often times performing with his eyes closed or with his hair in front of his face (a way to manage stage fright was the usual explanation), he delivered his jokes in an odd (Continue Reading…)
Bob Marley — Harare, Zimbabwe (4/19/1980)
1. Natural Mystic
2. Positive Vibration
3. Roots Rock Reggae
4. Lively Up Yourself
5. Zimbabwe
6. Runnin’ Away
7. Baldheads
8. Get Up Stand Up
9. Exodus (cuts)
Bob Dylan — Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Taken from the amazing, “No Direction Home” and from the album, “Bringing It All Back Home”. Donovan’s response is priceless. Check it out:
From Wiki:
“Love Minus Zero/No Limit“ is a low-key love song, described by Riley as a “hallucinatory allegiance, a poetic turn that exposes the paradoxes of love (‘She knows there’s no success like failure / And that failure’s no success at all’)…[it] points toward the dual vulnerabilities that steer ‘Just Like A Woman.’ In both cases, a woman’s susceptibility is linked to the singer’s defenseless infatuation.”
Phish — 9 Years Ago Today (9/9/1999)
That’s right, five nines in the date. Six in the post title. Before you ask, yes, it’s a record. Well, Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts has some thoughts and downloads from this landmark date.
09/09/99 GM Place, Vancouver, BC
Set I: Mozambique, Axilla, Limb By Limb, Horn, Guyute, Chalkdust Torture, Back at the Chicken Shack, Stash, I Didn’t Know, Character Zero
Set II: Birds of a Feather, Ha Ha Ha, Ghost, The Inlaw Josie Wales, First Tube, Tweezer, Bug, You Enjoy Myself, Hello My Baby
Encore: Sample in a Jar, Golgi Apparatus, Tweezer Reprise
As the nation crept closer to the turn of the millennium, and the fears over Y2K disasters mounted, Phish was also on a crash course with 2000, ever closer to Big Cypress, their highly anticipated all-night affair for New Years Eve. In preparation for such a cosmic transition, Phish had planned two fall tours- one “normal length” 24-show tour starting in September and a two-week millennial primer during the initial fortnight of December. Distinctly remembering the drive from Santa Cruz to Vancouver, there was endless Phish ahead, and no finish line in sight- now that was an exceptional feeling. Continue Reading…
Zero — Tiburon, CA (4/8/1995)
Fierro, Roland, Kimock, Vega, Anton
Recorded Mr. Q’s. Beautiful high fidelity recording.
Paul McCartney & Wings — Glasgow, Scotland (12/17/1979)
Disc 1
Got To Get You Into My Life
Getting Closer
Every Night
Again And Again And Again
I’ve Had Enough
No Words
Cook of the House
Old Siam Sir
Maybe I’m Amazed
The Fool On The Hill
Let It Be
Hot As Sun
Spin It On
Twenty Flight Rock
Go Now
Arrow Through Me
Wonderful Christmastime
Disc 2
Coming Up
Goodnight Tonight
Yesterday
Mull Of Kintyre
Band On The Run
KAMPUCHEA
Got To Get You Into My Life
Every Night
Coming Up
Lucille
Let It Be
Rockestra Theme
The Meters — Look-Ka Py Py -> Jungle Man
Here are The Meters on a Dr. John special from 1975, bringing some funk to the table.
Blender magazine’s list of “the 33 most overrated people, places, trends and other junk in rock” is quite interesting and pretty spot on, for the most part. (And this week’s VMA Awards were a perfect example of way too many things that over overrated in the music industry today; you can see our rant on that here.)
The article also lists some underrated alternatives, such as the Beach Boy’s “Wild Honey” album (pictured above).
Oysterhead — Oz Is Ever Floating
Taken from Oysterhead’s album, “The Grand Pecking Order”, “Oz Is Ever Floating” discusses Dr. John C. Lilly. Who is Dr. John C. Lilly? He was a doctor that studied the brain, isolation tanks, whales, dolphins, etc. To read more about him, click here. Coincidentally, Dr. Lilly died on Trey Anastasio’s 37th birthday. Here’s Oysterhead at Bonnaroo 2006:
The Doors — The End
“The End” by The Doors was orignally written as a farewell song between Jim and his first love, Mary Werbelow. The song, with Robbie Krieger’s raga guitar morphed into a song with psychedelic imagery and a dramatic Oedipus Rex section. Here are the L.A. boys with a 1967 performance in Toronto:
Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin — Chicago, IL (6/10/1977)
Frank and Dean rehearsing for the big show.
This show catches Frank at 61 and Dean had just turned 60. It’s very loose and boozy and includes Frank’s ill conceived disco version of “Night And Day”. But hey, you gotta do what ‘cha gotta do, right?
When You’re Drinking/Bourbon From Heaven
Dean Monologue
Everybody Loves Somebody
Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
Welcome To My World
Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
That’s Amore
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
For Once In My Life
I Love My Wife
Night And Day
Everybody Ought To Be In Love
Angel Eyes
My Way
Monologue from The Bar (Frank & Dean)
Medley
The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game In New York
Al Schnier — To Tour With The Transamericans
From Jambands.com:
With moe. scheduled to spend the rest of the year off the road Al Schnier has confirmed an extended tour with his longtime sideband Al & the Transamericans. The country-rock outfit features a number of familiar faces, including moe.’s Vinnie Amico (drums), Kirk Juhas (keyboardist), Eric Glockler (bass) and Gordon Stone (banjo and pedal steel). The group’s upcoming tour is scheduled to kick off at Utica, NY’s Electric Company on Halloween, before making stops in Albany (11/1), Portland, ME (11/5), Newmarket, NN (11/6), New York (11/7), Teaneck, NJ (11/8), Ithaca, NY (11/10), Pittsburgh (11/11), Annapolis, MD (11/12), Baltimore (11/13), Stroudsburg, PA (11/14) and Syracuse, NY (11/15).
Happy Birthday — Roger Waters
Pink Floyd bassist and golfer, Roger Waters turns 65 today. Here’s a link to a Dark Side Of The Moon era show.
