String Cheese Incident — Solano Beach, CA (2/6/1999)
Set 1: Mouna Bowa¹, The Hobo Song > Dark Star Jam > Miss Brown’s Teahouse², Work, Parker’s Blues², Rollover, Little Hands¹* > Jam¹ > Big Sciota
Set 2: Blue Bossa¹ > Jam > Black Clouds, Gone So Long³, Footprints², Come As You Are¹², Jellyfish¹² > Round the Wheel¹ > Drums¹ > Round the Wheel¹
Encore 1: Boogie on Reggae Woman²
Encore 2: Elvis’ Wild Ride^
Guests:
¹ with Jason Hann (djimbe) from The Zoo People
² with Karl Denson (sax) and Carlos Washington (trumpet) from KDTU
³ without Kyle, with John Rosenberg (keyboards) from The Joe Craven Band
* with Karl Denson on flute
RIP — George Harrison (1943-2001)
George passed on this date in 2001 of lung cancer. Known as the “shy one” in The Beatles, Harrison would go on to become one of the most influential guitarists of all time and a helluva songwriter.
Here’s a surprise appearance by George on The Smothers Brothers in 1968:
With Ravi Shankar:
Dylan/Harrison “If Not For You”:
Phish — Worcester, MA (11/28/1997)
If you love the deep, deep cow/space funk of ’97 era Phish, you must add this show to your collection. Long, looping jams with Page rocking the B-3, Mike dropping bombs, Fish acting every bit the multi-limbed rhthym monster and Trey “Pepe Le Pew/Marvin Martian” just nailing every song. SBD.
11/28/97 Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
Set I: The Curtain, You Enjoy Myself> I Didn’t Know, Maze, Farmhouse, Black-Eyed Katy, Theme from the Bottom, Rocky Top
Set II: Timber, Limb By Limb, Slave to the Traffic Light> Ghost, Johnny B Goode
Encore: My Soul
Crispy, Crispy Download
JEMP Records to release ‘Clifford Ball’ DVD (2/24/2009)?
That’s what Scotty at Hidden Track is reporting. That would be pretty amazing, eh? Oh, to be transported back… “Oh! what a beautiful buzz“
Bad Hat (w/ Trey & Fish) — Northampton, MA (9/11/1994)
1. Tuning/Banter
2. Bag’s Groove
3. Jump Monk
4. Bewitched
5. Band Intros and Banter
6. Jam > Vamping
7. Blues for Ernie
8. Take the A-Train
9. Milestones in the Sunshine
10. So What
11. Magilla
12. In A Sentimental Mood
13. The Country Open
Guitar – Trey Anastasio
Drums – Jon Fishman
Mandolin – Jamie Masefield
Bass – Stacey Starkwhether
Led Zeppelin — Houston, TX (5/21/1977)
Great Zeppelin show featured here. Back in ’77 Zeppelin were at the height of their collective powers. This night in Houston captures the band pulling material from all of their albums to that point. With a stellar acoustic portion and plenty of hard rocking lunacy, the band turns in a 25+ minute “No Quarter”, a blooze slide guitar clinic on “In My Time Of Dying” and top notch performances of several of the band’s early and late period classics. Enjoy!
The Song Remains The Same
Sick Again
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
In My Time of Dying
Since I’ve Been Loving You
No Quarter
Ten Years Gone
The Battle of Evermore
Going to California
Black Country Women
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
White Summer-Black Mountain Side
Kashmir
Out On The Tiles-Moby Dick
Guitar Solo
Achilles Last Stand
Stairway to Heaven
Rock and Roll
Trampled Under Foot
Funny Friday — “Apache” by Tommy Seebach
Perhaps my favorite Danish performer is featured here (actually I don’t know anyone else). It seems Tommy was quite popular in Denmark in the 60′s and 70′s. The video in question is “Apache” and is a victim of the times and an ill conceived concept. The song itself isn’t really too bad and has been used by the NBA for their ‘JAMCAM’, but the video itself is terrible. Tommy’s dance moves, hair and arrogance in the video just screams “honkey cracka”. Check out Tommy in all his glory.
Cool Stuff — MUTO by BLU
Someone just sent this thing to me and it’s really amazing. Urban artist BLU is the subject here and his work is called MUTO. Check it out:
Phish — Ten years ago today…
Personally I love to listen to shows on the day that they happened, as a sort of celebration of the show. This is certainly the case with this show, which turned out to be the sixth installment of the Live Phish series. The sparkling clarity of this show is unreal–on par with the band’s playing on this night. With an amazing setlist, top notch musical interplay and just plain fun. Available here for purchase, this show is a monster.
11/27/98 Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
Set I: Funky Bitch, Ya Mar, Carini, Runaway Jim, Meat, Reba, Old Home Place, Dogs Stole Things, Vultures, When the Circus Comes to Town, Birds of a Feather
Set II: Buried Alive, Wipeout, Chalkdust Torture> Mirror in the Bathroom> Chalkdust Torture> Dog Log> Sanity, Buffalo Bill, Mike’s Song> I am Hydrogen> Weekapaug Groove, Run Like An Antelope
Encore: Wading in the Velvet Sea, Golgi Apparatus> Wipeout
Wipeout->Chalkdust->Mirror In The Bathroom:
Chalkdust->Dog Log:
Chalkdust->Sanity->Buffalo Bill:
Hydrogen->Weekapaug Groove:
Buddy Rich — Drum Solo
Here’s the legendary Buddy Rich displaying his prowess on the skins. Buddy had been vaudevilian “wonder boy” drummer as a child and graduated to playing in some of the most celebrated big bands and swing bands in both pre and post WWII. He played behind Sinatra during his Dorsey days and the two had many a heated argument. Rich was almost as well known for his temper as his drumming. The Rich tapes are known in certain circles as a testament to his mercurial mood swings. A band member in Rich’s band snuck a tape recorder on to the tour bus and recorded several of his tirades. They’re good for a laugh and make you appreciate the fact that you don’t have an employer that treats you the way Rich treated those in his employ. You can hear them here. Jerry Seinfeld enjoyed working lines from the tapes into episodes of his television show.
Happy Birthday — Jimi Hendrix
We’d like to wish a very happy birthday to the most influential rock guitarist of all time, Johnny Allen Hendrix. Hendrix led the way with his cartwheeling, pyrotechnic psychedelic blues rock to generations of guitarists. Hitting the scene in the mid-1960′s, Hendrix was in the public for little over 5 years, but his unmatched prowess on the guitar made him a living legend before his untimely death in September of 1970. From there Hendrix’s legend has grown, soared and reached unparalleled heights. Check out some of MSD’s previous Hendrix posts for some great stuff that hasn’t been made commercially available, namely our recent post which offered studio jams of Hendrix with Traffic. Jimi would have been 66 today and even though he was not alive in our lifetime, he is truly a unique and timeless artist and his influence is heard in pretty much every guitar solo you hear after 1969.
Here’s the Jimi Hendrix Experience with “Hey Joe” and Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love”:
The Doors — “Light My Fire”
Let’s step into the way back machine and go back 41 years to 1967. The Beatles were still together, the Stones and The Who were just very young bands, Jimmy Page was still doing session work, psychedelia was in the air with bands calling themselves ridiculous things like Strawberry Alarm Clock and along comes Jim Morrison and The Doors. The Doors had been a somewhat fledgling for a couple of years on the Sunset Strip in L.A., but hit paydirt when they recorded their eponymous album in late ’66 for Jac Holzman’s hip record label, Elektra Records. The Doors debut album was cut in just over a week, their songs tight from playing the club/college circuit over the previous 18 months and they had the good fortune to be paired with hip scenester and Paul Butterfield (East/West) producing alum, Paul Rothchild.
Once The Doors debut album was cut, Elektra’s marketing and promotion departments went into over drive, as they were pushing the pride of their label, the “new and exciting Doors”. Morrison was to be the cover boy for The Doors and he was sent directly to celebrity hair stylist, Jay Sebring (to be brutally murdered by Charles Manson’s minions 30 months later) for an Alexander The Great-inspired haircut. The Doors hit the circuit, ready to set the world on (cough, cough) fire.
The Doors initially thought “Break On Through” was going to be their big hit. Wrong. It was released as a single and……….nothing happened. Then it did happen. The idea was brought up by Elektra brass to cut the mid-section (instrumental portion) of “Light My Fire” (Krieger penned) and release a single version. Actually there are three versions of the song, one is the album version (7:06), a long radio version (4:40), and the single version (3:07). The song was released as a single and The Doors started “performing” the song on every possible medium.
We all know that the song was a huge smash and has gone on to be considered one of the most successful songs of all time. VH-1 called the song the #7 song of all time and Rolling Stone called the song the song the #35 rock song of all time. Elektra was appreciative of the success of the song and bought each band member a gift of thanks. John Densmore (drummer) got a horse out of the deal, Robbie Krieger got a Porsche, Ray Manzarek received some recording equipment and Jim Morrison got a 1968 Shelby Mustang GT 500.
Here’s a clip of The Doors performing “LMF” on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand on 7/22/1967.
An interesting footnote is the exchange between Dick Clark and Jimbo.
Clark: A lot of people seem to think you come from San Francisco. Is that true?
Morrison: No. We actually got together in LA. We do play in San Francisco a lot.
Clark: That’s the explanation of why you have that association. Why is so much happening in San Francisco? You figured it out yet?
Morrison: The West is the best!
Clark: (chuckling) All right! Fair enough!
Clark then asks Densmore a few questions about recording their first two albums and asks Robby about their future plans before turning back on Jim.
Clark: Have you selected a name for the new album yet Jim?
Morrison: I think it’s ‘Strange Days’
Clark: All right. Fair enough. Well do the thing that set the whole music business on fire. Ladies and gentlemen, again, The Doors!
Our second clip has a typical back story. This was shot for Malibu U, but the band couldn’t find Morrison. Was he drunk? Was he dead? Not yet. He just didn’t make it to the shoot on the day scheduled. Guitarist Robby Krieger’s twin brother Ronnie acted as a double for Jimbo on the band’s gauche fire engine bit. Morrison was filmed atop the 9000 building in downtown L.A. at a later point for closeups, but never appearing with the band.
Next is the famed performance on Ed Sullivan. Recreated (and over embellished) in Oliver Stone’s The Doors movie, the band had been asked to not use the phrase “girl we couldn’t get much higher.” Jim sang the song just as he always did, with no emphasis on the word ‘higher’, but appearing in America’s living rooms in S&M leather. The story goes: the show’s producer and Ed Sullivan’s son-in-law Bob Precht was so upset that the band didn’t censor their performance that he shouted to the band, “you’ll never do Ed Sullivan again!”, as the band walked off the stage. Morrison glared and Precht and retorted, “man, we just DID Ed Sullivan.”
(Note the cheesy doors on the stage set.)
The Doors closed out 1967 by performing their big hit of ’67 (LMF) and what they hoped would be a big song in ’68, Moonlight Drive. This is another early Doors performance with performances (Jim singing over the studio instrumental tracks). December 27th is the broadcast date, however the date of original filmwork is unknown. The Doors interrupt their performance at Winterland in San Francisco to watch themselves on a TV brought onstage during the original broadcast. (Note: Jim falls at the end of LMF and gets tangled up in the set. Notice the nervous smattering of applause and stifled laughter. Was it for dramatic effect or did Jim lose consciousness momentarily?)
Happy Thanksgiving From Us
We’d like to wish each of you a very happy Thanksgiving. May your travels be safe, food be aplenty, good times amany and may your revelry be with family/friends/loved ones. As always, if you check out any stellar shows this weekend, e-mail us the details/info at musicalstewdaily@yahoo.com. Here’s a little history on Thanksgiving:
Most stories of Thanksgiving history start with the harvest celebration of the pilgrims and the indians that took place in the autumn of 1621. Although they did have a three-day feast in celebration of a good harvest, and the local indians did participate, this “first Thanksgiving” was not a holiday, simply a gathering. There is little evidence that this feast of thanks led directly to our modern Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving can, however, be traced back to 1863 when Pres. Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since.
However, since most school children are taught that the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 with the pilgrims and indians, let us take a closer look at just what took place leading up to that event, and then what happened in the centuries afterward that finally gave us our modern Thanksgiving.
The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company’s interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists. (more…)
David Grisman Quintet — San Francisco, CA (8/19/1977)
Announcer Intro
E.M.D.
Minor Swing
Swing 51
Band Introductions
Waiting On Vassar
Swing 42
Announcer
Spain
Japan
Opus
Dawg Patch
Fish Scale
Dawg’s Rag
KJAZ Radio Interview With Dawg
Stephane Grappelli Intro
Tipsy Gypsy
Gypsy Swing
Dawg’s Basso
Limehouse Blues
Sweet Georgia Brown
Dave Matthews & Friends — “Sweet Up and Down”
Here’s Dave and Trey with a show stopping performance of “Sweet Up and Down”.
Led Zeppelin — New York City, NY (7/28/1973)
Rock And Roll->
Celebration Day->
Black Dog
Over The Hills And Far Away
Misty Mountain Hop->
Since I’ve Been Loving You
No Quarter
The Song Remains The Same
The Rain Song
Dazed And Confused
Stairway To Heaven
Moby Dick
Heartbreaker->
Whole Lotta Love (Medley)
The Ocean
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band — Passaic, NJ (9/19/1978)
Badlands
Streets Of Fire
Spirit In The Night
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Independence Day
The Promised Land
Prove It All Night
Racing In The Street
Thunder Road
Meeting Across The River
Jungleland
Kitty’s Back
Fire
Candy’s Room
Because The Night
Point Blank
Not Fade Away
She’s The One
Backstreets
Rosalita
4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy)
Born To Run
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Detroit Medley
Raise Your Hand
Fleet Foxes — (11/21/2008)
01. Intro / Tuning
02. Sun Giant
03. Sun lt Rises
04. Drops in the River
05. English House
06. White Winter Hymnal
07. Ragged Wood
08. Your Protector
09. Crayon Angels (Judee Sill Cover) (Robin solo)
10. Oliver James (Robin solo)
11. He Doesn’t Know Why
12. Mykonos
13. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
14. Blue Ridge Mountains
15. Outro
Soundcheck
16. ???
17. Sun Giant
18. English House
Phish — Five Years Ago…
Our pals at Hidden Track reminds of us all the fun of Thanksgiving, turkey and Phish. This piece focuses on the Phish 20th Anniversary Run, which took place in 2003.
Although there is no late fall run for the band again this year – we’ll have to wait until March for the band’s return to the stage – we’re taking a look back at the band’s Northeast Turkey Week run from November 2003 and picking out the best pieces of white meat from a group of shows that is general considered undercooked by most fans. The run started in Nassau the day after Thanksgiving and wrapped up in Boston with the band’s 20th Anniversary Show at the Fleet Center. (more…)
Giving Thanks
We at MSD are very thankful for all that we have, the love we share with our friends and family, our dogs, music, our health and we are especially thankful for you, our readers. May you have a great Thanksgiving and take time to reflect on all the positive and wonderful things you have in your life. Here are a couple of songs of thanks to help you get into that thankful mood.
Page/Plant’s Thank You from Zep II:
My Morning Jacket’s Thank You Too:
Did You Know??
Rockabilly guitarist Carl Perkins wrote the lyrics for “Blue Suede Shoes” on a potato sack. Wiki:
When Perkins played a dance on December 4, 1955, he noticed a couple dancing near the stage. The girl was gorgeous, he thought, and the boy wore blue suede shoes. As they danced the boy cautioned his date “don’t step on my suedes.” Perkins was bewildered that a guy would value shoes over a beautiful girl.[2]
Later that night, while in bed, Perkins began working on a song based on that incident. His first thought was to frame it with a nursery rhyme. He considered, and quickly discarded “Little Jack Horner…”, and “See a spider going up the wall…”. Then settled on “One for the money…” Leaving his bed and working with his Les Paul guitar, he started with an A chord. After playing five chords while singing “Well, it’s one for the money… Two for the show… Three to get ready… Now go, man, go!” and broke into a boogie rhythm.[3] He quickly grabbed a brown paper potato sack and wrote the song down, writing the title out as “Blue Swade, S-W-A-D-E”. “I couldn’t even spell it right”, he has said.[4]
Morphine — Cure For Pain
Mark Sandman, founding member and vocalist/bassist of Boston band, Morphine is amongst a very small and notorious group, those who have died while performing on stage. Sadly, Mark died of a heart attack while the band was on tour in Italy in 1999. Mark played his two string bass with a slide and possessed a low, haunting voice. Here’s the band performing “Cure For Pain” from the band’s second album of the same name.
