Traffic — Santa Monica, CA (2/21/1972)
Click here for the videos we posted back in July of this show.
The Band — Time To Kill
Taken from Stage Fright and produced by a then 22 year old Todd Rundgren, here’s a live performance of “Time To Kill” from Pittsburgh 1970:
Phish — 13 Years Ago Today…
10/22/95 Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL
Audience encircled the stage, so the band kept changing which way they were singing in an effort to face everyone
Set I: AC/DC Bag, My Mind’s Got a Mind of its Own, The Sloth, Runaway Jim, Weigh> NICU, Fast Enough For You, It’s Ice, Poor Heart, Sample in a Jar, I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome, Stash
Set II: Golgi Apparatus, Possum> Catapult, The Curtain, Tweezer> Makisupa Policeman> Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Life On Mars, Uncle Pen, Slave to the Traffic Light, Cavern
Encore: Sweet Adeline, Squirming Coil
Phish — Win “At The Roxy”
State Of Mind Music:
Brand new 8-CD box set‚ showcasing three complete shows – fully mastered soundboard recordings‚ with six sets of music‚ featuring seventy-eight unique songs with three special guests. Recorded Live February 19th‚ 20th and 21st‚ 1993‚ this run at the intimate Roxy Theatre in Atlanta‚ Georgia set the stage for many classic tripartite celebrations to follow. With the second show’s near-instant legendary status cemented among fans due largely to a non-stop thriller of a second set which included feats of rock and roll greatness‚ including a sit-in by a spurious Gene Simmons‚ At The Roxy captures a magical moment for Phish and their audience during a period of peak songwriting and experimentation.Over three nights‚ the band showcased the full spectrum of their talents from ballads to blues‚ from master composition to fearless improvisation all simmered and served to a small crew of jubilant participants in a near perfect environment. At the same time‚ the quartet was experimenting with their acoustic‚ bluegrass side that peaked over the next several years and provided a perfect baffle to the intense‚ psychedelic rock of Rift-era Phish.The 8-CD box set is the first complete multiple-show release since Hampton Comes Alive and the 1998 Island Tour. This collection simply must be heard.
Umphrey’s McGee — Burlington, VT (10/10/2008)
Set One
1. Intro
2. The Bottom Half >
3. Glory >
4. The Bottom Half
5. Liquid >
6. Jimmy Stewart >
7. Resolution > *
8. Jimmy Stewart > *
9. Dear Prudence > ^
10. Another Brick In The Wall ^
11. # 5
Set Two
1. Intro
2. Miss Tinkle’s Overture
3. Ocean Billy &
4. August
5. Waist Down
1. Much Obliged >
2. 2 x 2
3. Encore Break
4. Lenny >
5. The Floor
Notes
* with Aaron Magner replacing Joel
^ with Aaron, and Marc Brownstein replacing Ryan
& with Kula jam
- last Lenny 6-8-07
Trey Anastasio — Providence, RI (10/21/2008)
Looks like an amazing show last night in Providence, which is somewhat close to Quahog, I believe.
Trey Anastasio, Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providence RI
10/21/08
I: Come on Baby Lets Go Downtown, Last Tube,Tube Top Flop, Sweet Dreams Melinda, Cayman Review, Ooh Child, Alaska, Backwards Down the Number Line, Gone, Sand
II: Push on Til the Day, Gotta Jibboo, Drifting, Simple Twist Up Dave, Water in the Sky@, Brian and Robert@, Get Back on the Train@, A Case of Ice and Snow, Tuesday
E: First Tube>Jam*
@Acoustic
*w/ Oteil Burbridge, Scott Murawski and Billy Kreutzman
“First Tube” in Burlington:
“First Tube” Providence:
The Warr Guitar
Warr Guitars is a company that manufactures the Warr Guitar, which is a musical instrument developed by Mark Warr that looks very much like a standard electric guitar, but can be played with two-handed tapping techniques, like a Chapman Stick, as well as strummed and plucked. Traditional bass guitar techniques, such as slap and pop, pizzicato and playing with a plectrum (pick) may also be used. Because of the placement of the strapholders, the instrument may be played in a more upright, Stick-like position, or horizontally, like an electric guitar.
The instrument may be strung and tuned in a variety of ways. It may be built with anywhere from seven to fifteen strings. The strings may be arranged such that the lowest is in the center of the fingerboard or the lowest string is nearest the player. The fingerboard may be fretted, fretless, or a combination of the two. The instrument is built with custom-designed Bartolini magnetic, piezoelectric, or a combination of these pickups. If piezo pickups are used, onboard MIDI electronics may also be added, to allow the player direct triggering of Roland or Axon synths from their instrument. The neck is constructed of multiple, quartersawn laminates of varying thickness. Instruments built with ten or more strings have two embedded, dual-action truss rods and dual 1/4″ outputs. Learn More by clicking here.
Some demonstrations:
41 Years Ago Today…
The Beach Boys song, Good Vibrations entered the top ten after being released on October 10th. A landmark song that showcases unique vocal harmonies, studio wizardry and sheer brilliance. Here’s some more info from Wiki:
The production of the song is reported to have spanned seventeen recording sessions at four different recording studios, and used over 90 hours of magnetic recording tape, with an eventual budget of $50,000.[citation needed] Wilson is credited with developing the use of the recording studio as an instrument: he, the Beach Boys, and dozens of top studio musicians, including members of The Wrecking Crew, recorded and re-recorded seemingly unrelated musical and vocal sections for the song, then edited and mixed these sections into a 3:35 pop single.
The recording and production style used on the “Good Vibrations” single established Wilson’s new method of operation: the recording and re-recording of specific sections of music, followed by rough mixes of the sections edited together, further recording as required, and the construction of the final mix from the component elements. This was the modular approach to recording that was next to be used on Smile.
David Leaf, author of the critically-acclaimed biography, The Beach Boys and The California Myth, said of the song, “Nothing but perfection here. The Beach Boys’ first million-selling #1 hit…was a major technical breakthrough…the record that showed that anything was possible in the studio.”
Incidentally, there has never been an official release of a true stereo version of the well-known version of the song, although bootlegs of this mix have been issued over the internet. It has been said that not enough stems exist to actually create a new stereo mix (This is because the vocal tracks are currently missing; Bruce Johnston has stated that he believes they were accidentally destroyed in 1967 during a cleaning of the Capitol Records tape vault). However, a stereo version of the instrumental backing track does exist and was issued in 2006 on the 40th Anniversary EP CD of the “Good Vibrations” single.
From 1967:
From the Good Vibrations Tour of 1976:
