Ben Harper — Manchester, TN (6/16/2007)
Ben at the ‘roo with some special guests. Setlist:
With My Own Two Hands
Ground On Down
Forgiven
Gold To Me
Please Don’t Talk About Murder While I’m Eating
Diamonds On The Inside > Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Steal My Kisses
Don’t Take That Attitude To Your Grave
Waiting For You
Dazed & Confused (w/ John Paul Jones)
Black Rain > Inner City Blues > Black Rain
Burn One Down
Get Up, Stand Up (w/ Ziggy Marley)
Better Way
Black Crowes — New York City, NY (3/22/1995)
Cursed Diamond (acoustic – Chris & Rich only)
She (acoustic)
She Talks To Angels (acoustic)
Waitin’ Guilty (acoustic)
Thorn’s Progress Jam > Thorn In My Pride
My Morning Song
Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye *
Sometimes Salvation
P.25 London
She Gave Good Sunflower
High Head Blues
Sting Me *
Twice As Hard *
Stare It Cold *
- encore -
Seeing Things
Could I’ve Been so Blind
Champagne N’ Reefer
Remedy
Phish — You Enjoy Myself (11/19/1996)
Groove Is In The Heart, baby. Check out this amazing footage from 11/19/1996:
YEM Part One:
YEM Part Two:
YEM Part Three:
Ween — Cat’s Cradle Release (12/9/1992)
Jambands.com:
Ween will dip into the archives for its next release. At the Cat’s Cradle, 1992 captures Ween in Carborro, NC on December 9, 1992, when the group was solely comprised of Dean and Gene (along with some samples, tapes and a drum machine). In addition to the full show from that night, the set also boasts a DVD featuring live footage culled from a 1991 Halloween performance, a 1992 Trenton, NJ radio session and a 1992 stop in Columbus, OH
Liner Notes:
From our first “real’” concert in 1987 until the release of Chocolate and Cheese in 1994 we played concerts as a duo–Aaron on vocals and acoustic guitar and me on electric guitar with the bass and drums played from a cassette deck,” Dean Ween writes in the set’s linger notes. Later on we purchased a DAT machine for the backing tracks and this speeded up our show a little. A typical Ween set was no more than an hour long, and we’d play about 24 songs in that amount of time. There was no jamming at all whatsoever. Things are a lot different now. Every night we had to face the crowd pretty much naked, there was nowhere to hide, no room for an off night. We did a lot of talking to the crowd and one another between songs, we pretty much had to. We faced a lot of hostile audiences when we were the opening act on a show. There was a lot to hate about us but we won over a lot of people in the process because of our sheer nerve.
A lot of our closest friends feel that Ween live pretty much ended when we switched to a traditional band format with a bass player and drummer; I dunno about that but by the release of Pure Guava our show was no longer interesting to us. We were doing a lot more touring and playing the same songs with no room for improvising had gotten boring for us. Once we started releasing records and touring more as a duo we got a lot better at it, we stopped caring about what the audience thought of us and just focused on having fun onstage. This was when we maximized our brownness. I don’t remember too much about this concert other than the fact that we played the Cat’s Cradle a lot of times and in a few different locations. Public Enemy had played the club a few nights before and blown up the P.A. and our sound man Kirk Miller was pissed. I thought it was great because Public Enemy are one of my favorite bands of all time and I was just happy to be playing on the same stage. Our touring party consisted of Me, Aaron, and Kirk Miller, our soundman and driver. Once we signed to Elektra we added a tour manager, Paul Monahan, who would stay with us for many years. Anyway, this is pretty typical of what we sounded like on a good night those first few tours.
Apple’s iTunes — Threatens To Shut-Down
From Rolling Stone:
A ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board tomorrow could spell trouble for Apple’s iTunes. The National Music Publisher’s Association has asked for a 66 percent increase on the royalty rate paid out on the sales of digital music — from nine cents per track to 15 cents. In a statement submitted to the board last year, Apple warned that they may shutter digital-music service iTunes if the request was approved. Apple already pays 70 cents of each song purchase to the record companies, who aren’t willing to pay for the increase themselves. Since they would essentially be operating the service at a loss, Apple would rather shut the store down than raise their prices beyond 99 cents per track. While it’s hard to fathom that Apple would close the world’s most successful digital music store — possibly cutting into the sales of iPods and iPhones, where they make their real money — the fee hike would definitely have some adverse effects, most likely on the consumers’ wallets.
Trey Anastasio — Time Turns Elastic Acoustic Download
Thanks to CMB&PB we have this beautiful and intensely personal studio recording of Trey’s latest orchestral work. This is actually just him at the barn with an acoustic guitar and a couple of feet of tape, but it’s moving and among the best acoustic playing I’ve heard from Trey. As I mentioned before, much thanks to CMB&PB, who hooked us up with this and has a cool little back story.
Tower Of Power — New York, NY (5/5/1987)
1-SOUL VACCINATION >
2-YOU GOT TO FUNKIFY
3-CAN’T YOU SEE ( YOU DOIN’ ME WRONG )
4-DOWN TO THE NIGHTCLUB
5-BABY’S GOT THE POWER
6-COUNT ON ME
7-THIS TIME IT’S REAL
8-THE SKUNK THE GOOSE AND THE FLY
9-DOGGIN’ AT THE CATHOUSE
10-SO VERY HARD TO KNOW
11-ONLY SO MUCH OIL IN THE GROUND
12-CREDIT
1-SQUIB CAKES
2-DAVID LETTERMAN THEME **
3-WHAT IS HIP **
4-YOU OUGHT TO BE HAVIN’ FUN >
5-WE CAME TO PLAY >
6-FANFARE/YOU KNOW IT >
7-KNOCK YOURSELF OUT
8-YOUR STILL A YOUNG MAN ##
** W/ PAUL SHAEFER
## W/ PHOEBE SNOW
