Phish — Bloomington, IN (11/19/1994)
Informal bluegrass jam featured here that was recorded after Phish’s show in the parking lot of the Indiana Auditorium. It sure was great to be a Phish fan back then, huh?
Blackberry Blossom
Tennessee Waltz
The Old Home Place
Dooley
Mountain Jam
John Hardy
Sweet Baby’s Arms
Long Journey Home
Little Tiny Butter Biscuits
I’m Blue I’m Lonesome
Midnight Moonlight
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Jack Johnson, G. Love & ALO — Someday At Christmas
Brushfire Records will issue a Christmas-themed compilation in November that features contributions from the labels various artists. Label co-founder Jack Johnson will offer up “Someday At Christmas” and “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” on This Warm December. ALO will perform “Christmas Time,” while the group’s Zach Gill interprets “Silent Night.” Other contributors include G. Love (“Christmas Baby”), Mason Jennings (“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”), Rogue Wave (“Christmas”), Money Mark (“Stuck At The Airport”) and Matt Costa (“All I Want For Christmas”). This Warm December is set for a November 11 release.
The Lost Art Of The Mixtape — The Women
The Lost Art Of The Mixtape offers up another great offering. “And here’s one for the ladies…”
Trey Anastasio — Trey Takes Nashville
Our friends at Hidden Track offer up a glimpse of Trey’s upcoming “Time Turns Elastic” performance that will take place Saturday night in Nashville:
In preparation for the public debut of Time Turns Elastic tomorrow evening at the Ryman, Trey Anastasio has been making the rounds in Nashville. On Wednesday, Big Red visited Belmont College to hang with the students before heading to Oceanway Studios for yesterday’s dress rehearsal. Continue Reading…
Funny Friday — Dean Martin & Foster Brooks
Here’s a second helping of Funny Friday with this vintage clip with Dino and Foster Brooks from the old Dean Martin Show. Foster is a pilot who likes to imbibe and Dean plays the straight man. Foster Brooks had actually quit drinking years prior to inventing his drunken character for which he became known. Dino, well that’s another story…
The Doors — Crawling King Snake
An old John Lee Hooker song, The Doors played this song early in their career together and then pulled it out, dusted it off and recorded it for their last album, L.A. Woman. This song showcases Mr. Mojo Risin’ at his bluesy best with snakey guitar wails from Robby Krieger and tasteful, swaggering drumming provided by John Densmore. This was recorded and broadcast for Australian television in 1971, not long before Morrison’s shocking and untimely death in Paris. While much of The Doors’ catalogue is overplayed on classic rock stations around the globe every day, this is one of their tracks that always sounds fresh to me. Hooker himself stated that he dug The Doors’ interpretation of his song. Have a listen:
Funny Friday — Louis C.K.
Some bad language here, but Louis is certainly one hilarious individual. (NSFW)
Phish — 9 Years Ago Today
One of the only times I saw Phish in the “Big Easy”, this was an interesting show in an arena that seemed as though it was only 3/4ths filled. A Kosmic Krewe sit-in, “Meatstick” dance and a “Sweet Virginia” opener highlighted this show.
09/26/99 UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA
Set I: Sweet Virginia, First Tube, AC/DC Bag, Dirt, Guyute, Bouncing Around the Room, Cars Trucks Buses, Funky Bitch, Mozambique, Cavern
Set II: Twist, Piper, Mist, Heavy Things, Birds of a Feather, Meat, Down With Disease
Encore: Meatstick, Rocky Top
Who Does It Better? — I Shot The Sheriff
Originally recorded on Bob Marley’s 1972 album Burnin’, “I Shot The Sheriff” was promptly recorded by Eric Clapton and became his first #1 hit in 1974. The song caused quite the stir with its lyrics that told of an obviously disgruntled civilian that is constantly hounded by the local fuzz and inevitably shoots and kills Sheriff John Brown. In his autobiography Clapton, Eric talks about receiving a congratulatory call on his success with the song from Bob that he appreciated, but couldn’t understand too much because of Bob’s thick Jamaican accent.
Bob Marley in 1979:
Eric Clapton in 1976:
UB40 & Maxi Priest:
Bob Marley — Pittsburgh, PA (9/23/1980)
Intro
Natural Mystic
Positive Vibration
Burnin And Lootin
Them Belly Full
The Heathen
Running Away
Crazy Baldhead
War
No More Trouble
Zimbabwe
Zion Train
No Woman No Cry
Jammin
Exodus
Redemption Song
Coming In From The Cold
Could You Be Loved
Encore
Is This Love
Work
Get Up Stand Up
Outro
Todd Snider — Nashville, TN (10/11/1997)
Todd Snider & The Nervous Wrecks
Elliston Place-Nashville, TN
Easy Money
Trouble
Hey Hey
Hard Enough
[crowd sings Happy Birthday to Todd]
I Shall Be Free, No. 10 [Bob Dylan] > Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
Hey Hey My My [Neil Young]
Once He Finds Us
My Generation, Part 2
Late Last Night > [Feeling old story]
I Believe You
[Alright Guy opening]
That’s Alright Mama
Alright Guy > Walk on the Wild Side [Lou Reed]
Great Balls of Fire [Jerry Lee Lewis]
Encore:
Amarillo By Morning [George Strait]
Street Fighting Man [Rolling Stones]
Marvin Gaye — What’s Going On?
Here’s a really cool time capsule film called “Save The Children” featuring Marvin Gaye playing “What’s Going On?” and ‘What’s Happening Brother?” from 1973.
Mike Gordon — December ’08 Run
From Jambands.com:
Earlier this month Mike Gordon wrapped up a late summer tour with his current quintet. That band will back him once more for a four show run at year’s end. Gordon will perform with Scott Murawski, Todd Isler, Tom Cleary, Craig Myers in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont from December 27-30, with New Year’s Eve currently open. On December 27 Gordon will appear at Lupo’s in Providence, RI. Then on the 28th he will travel to Portsmouth, NH for a show at Portsmouth Music Hall, followed by gigs at the Pickle Barrel in Killington, VT on the 29th and Burlington, VT’s Higher Ground on December 30.
Happy Birthday — Dean Ween
Dean Ween AKA Mickey Melchinodo of Ween celebrates his 38th birthday today. We’d like to wish him a very happy birthday with many more to come. Click here for more on Ween.
Here’s Ween with “Piss Up A Rope”:
Wilco — St. Louis, MO (5/16/2006)
> 01. Via Chicago
> 02. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
> 03. You Are My Face
> 04. Muzzle Of Bees
> 05. Handshake Drugs
> 06. A Shot In The Arm
> 07. Kamera
> 08. War On War
> 09. Jesus, Etc.
> 10. Impossible Germany
> 11. It’s Just That Simple
> 12. Misunderstood
> 13. Forget The Flowers
> 14. California Stars
> 15. Can’t Stand It
> 16. Theologians
> 17. I’m The Man Who Loves You
> 18. Poor Places
> 19. Reservations
> 20. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
> 21. I’m Always In Love
> 22. Hate It Here
> 23. Walken
> 24. Casino Queen
> 25. Hoodoo Voodoo
> 26. The Late Greats
RIP — John Bonham
Certainly rock music’s most bombastic drummer, John Henry Bonham passed on this date in 1980. Out of respect, Led Zeppelin ceased their existence and each of the three members charted their own individual course in the music industry. Led Zeppelin has reformed a mere three times since splitting up in 1980, once for Live-Aid in 1985, for Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary in 1988 and just last year for a benefit in Ahmet Ertegun’s name. Needless to say, but RIP Bonzo.
Here’s “Moby Dick” from The Song Remains The Same (1976):
Send Us Pictures Of Your Favorite Ticket Stubs!
We’d like to periodically throw up a concert stub or two of unique or cool ticket stubs, so send a photo of your favorite stub(s) to musicalstewdaily@yahoo.com. We’ll post the setlist of the show along with the stub and your name (optional). We look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
MGMT at Musical Stew
PS- Double-click on the above photo for a big picture of some stubs we threw on a table and snapped.
Charlie Hunter — Baboon Strength
On a Charlie Hunter album, you always expect guitar virtuosity, but this album is different. Let me explain.
Charlie has a knack for always taking his music and becoming the front and center and everything in between. On Baboon Strength, Charlie takes a step back and allows his collaborators, Tony Mason (drums) and Erik Deutsch (organ), into the spotlight with him. From the first notes of the opening track you know that this is going to be a party album. Initially sounding like another Garage-A-Trois album, the music settles in as swirling and other worldly sounds dance out of the speakers, leaving you in a groovin’ daze.
The music is thick, dense and funky. Much care and effort was put into the recording of the album, with musical terrain that is covered, the color palette that is harmonically sketched and the supreme sound quality that oozes out of the hi-fi. Several of the cuts feature a somewhat cheesy Casio keyboard sound that is an acquired taste and something I’ve grown to kind of dig. Track 7, “Fine Corinthian Leather,” showcases sparse, yet snakey organ and guitar trade-off and certainly stands out amongst its peers on this collection. “Abadaba” has kind of a Buckethead Colma vibe, but is better. All nine of the tracks are excellent and as stated before, this is a party album. Highly recommended and definitely in our top ten of 2008.
Recommended tracks: “Athens”, “Astronaut Love Triangle”, “Fine Corinthian Leather” & “Abadaba”
Trey Anastasio & Don Hart Collaboration
From Jambands.com:
On September 27, Trey Anastasio will join Orchestra Nashville for the debut of his new composition, “Time Turns Elastic.” The performance, which will take place at the Ryman Auditorium on Saturday evening (an open dress will precede it during the afternoon), continues a collaborative relationship that began at the 2004 Bonnaroo Music Festival. There Anastasio conducted the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (since renamed Orchestra Nashville) for a few selections: “Prologue,” “Coming To” and “Guyute.” In the process of creating a proper score for “Guyute,” the Orchestra introduced Anastasio to composer and arranger Don Hart. Since that first meeting in 2004, Anastasio has enlisted Hart to provide string arrangements for a few songs on Bar 17 as well as a notable version of “Divided Sky” at New York City’s Webster Hall on October 8 and 9, 2006. “Time Turns Elastic” will bring things full circle, with Orchestra Nashville once again performing (joined by the guitarist along with conductor Paul Gambill), while Anastasio and Hart have stepped up their relationship, as Hart serves as co-composer.
In describing his work with Hart on “Time Turns Elastic,” Anastasio has stated, “I’ve never come close to the collaboration I’ve had with Don Hart. We had three-day sleepover sessions like little kids. A lot of work done on this piece consists of conceptual conversations. We talk about writing emotional content and beauty and excitement, so many of our conversations are focused around emotional descriptions, like a line of a song. The thing about it is, like I said, there are certain emotions that can only be called out of an orchestra. The coolest thing is that Don, from his angle, has no interest in changing me, or making me a classical guy. At my shows he would come and stand by the stage and said that he wants to embrace the piece in the way that I normally play, so it shouldn’t sound structurally very different.” Continue Reading…
Isaac Hayes — Indianapolis, IN (6/19/1999)
01. Don’t Let Go
02. Summer In The City
03. Don’t You Ever Take Your Love From Me
04. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalmystic
05. Walk On By >
06. Drums
07. Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)
08. I Stand Accused
09. Theme From “Shaft”
Phish — Birds Of A Feather on Letterman
Here are the boys from Vermont playing a straight to the point and concise “BOAF” on The David Letterman Show in 1998:
Jimmy becomes Jimi – 9/24/66
- Jimi Hendrix and Chas Chandler (1967)
On this day in 1966, Jimi Hendrix and Chas Chandler (the Animals’ former bassist) flew from New York to London. En route, they decided to change the Jimmy’s name to Jimi.
Chandler continued to be influential in Jimi’s career. While in London, Hendrix formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Chandler recruited other musicians to join the group, managed the group and produced their first two albums.
Leftover Salmon — Seattle, WA (8/14/1998)
With String Cheese Incident members sit-ins.
Mama Boulet*
Stop All your Worrying
Tu Na Pas Aller
Dance On Your Head
Little Maggie
Jokester
River’s Rising
Another Way To Turn
Ya’ll Come#
Better#
Whispering Waters#
Baby Hold On#+
Do The Boogie#+
* = w/ Michael Travis
# w/ Michael Kang & Billy Nershi
+ w/ Kyle Hollingsworth
