Grateful Dead — Oakland, CA (12/30/1990)
d1t01 – Tuning
d1t02 – Bertha
d1t03 – Feel Like A Stranger
d1t04 – Candyman
d1t05 – Me And My Uncle ->
d1t06 – Maggie’s Farm
d1t07 – High Time
d1t08 – Stuck Inside A Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
d1t09 – Tennessee Jed
d1t10 – Valley Road
d2t01 – Tuning
d2t02 – Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo ->
d2t03 – Looks Like Rain ->
d2t04 – Crazy Fingers ->
d2t05 – Playing In The Band ->
d2t06 – Drums ->
d3t01 – Space ->
d3t02 – Terrapin Station ->
d3t03 – Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
d3t04 – Crowd/Tuning
d3t05 – U.S. Blues
Ben Harper — Relentless7
Rolling Stone:
Ben Harper is introducing his fiery new band, Relentless7, with a short tour of small clubs this month, and their second stop was Thursday at Spaceland in Los Angeles, where the four-piece unleashed 90 minutes of thundering rock and blues explosions. There was no “Steal My Kisses” or “Ground On Down” or any other fan favorites from earlier in Harper’s career. The clear message was that this was a new band, with its own sound and energy.
The night opened with a tough, howling “Number With No Name,” a song from their just-finished debut album, White Lies For Dark Times, set for release in May 2009. Harper sat with his lap-slide guitar and wailed, “For five days straight, I’ve been breathing fire!” (more…)
Did You Know??
Warren Zevon’s father, William “Stumpy” Zevon, was a mobster and the best man at notorious Hollywood mega-gangster and mob kingpin, Mickey Cohen’s wedding. Mickey Cohen was an associate of Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Johnny Roselli and Meyer Lansky. If you have any cursory knowledge of the history of organized crime in the U.S., then you know that these are some of the most infamous, hardest hitting criminals in history.
Langerado ’09
After some nerve racking delays, Langerado has announced its performers for this March 6, 7 and 8th. They are:
Death Cab For Cutie • Snoop Dogg • Thievery Corporation (Live) • Slightly Stoopid • Ryan Adams and the Cardinals • Dashboard Confessional • The Pogues • Matisyahu • Flogging Molly • Michael Franti & Spearhead • Broken Social Scene • Cafe Tacuba • Umphrey’s McGee • The Disco Biscuits • Robert Randolph & The Family Band • Pepper • The Faint • Cold War Kids • Steel Pulse • Public Enemy • Gym Class Heroes • Tricky • Girl Talk • Chromeo • Mute Math • Bad Brains • Ozomatli • Against Me! • George Clinton & Parliament / Funkadelic • Tortoise • DeVotchKa • Black Kids • Grupo Fantasma • Holy F*ck • Budos Band • Tokyo Police Club • Lotus • The Virgins • The Gaslight Anthem • King Khan and the Shrines • Lucero • Murs • Ra Ra Riot • Tortured Soul • Rebelution • K’Naan • The Egg • Zac Brown Band • Tigercity • The Aggrolites • Cloud Cult • Spam Allstars • Rachel Goodrich • Blue King Brown • The Heavy Pets • Awesome New Republic • The Postmarks • Suenalo Sound System • Live Painting by LEBO
Did You Know??
Elvis Presley once ascertained the assistance of a hit man to take out his ex-wife’s current lover. In 1973, Elvis was enraged to find that Priscilla Presley was moving in with her karate instructor, Mike Stone. Elvis declared that Mike had to die and asked confidante and de facto leader of The Memphis Mafia, Red West, to find someone to rub him out.
“You will do it for me. You must. He has no right to live. Red, find someone, somebody to wipe him out,” Elvis commanded.
The going rate at the time was $10,000 and West found someone to do the job. Elvis relented, much to Red’s (and Mike’s!) relief at the eleventh hour. A tale of tragedy narrowly averted indeed.
Here’s Elvis with “Suspicious Minds” in 1973:
Phish — New LivePhish Release (12/30/1997)
Man, Phish has done it again. Another stellar Live Phish release. The thing is, this may be my favorite one ever.
12/30/97 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set I: Sneaking Sally Through the Alley1> Taste, Water in the Sky, Punch You in the Eye, Stash, Chalkdust Torture, A Day in the Life
Set II: AC/DC Bag> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Harpua> I’m Gonna Be2> Harpua> Izabella> Harry Hood, My Soul, Sleeping Monkey, Guyute
Encore: Carini> Black-Eyed Katy> Sneaking Sally Through the Alley1, Frankenstein
1 Not played since 5/28/89
2 Proclaimers cover;With Tom Marshall on vocals
From archivist Kevin Shapiro:
After a standout show on 12/29/97, the band gave a loose, funky performance on the second night of their three-night stand at Madison Square Garden. The band came out of the gates smoking on night three of a four-show holiday tour on December 30th with “Sneakin’ Sally Thru The Alley” > “Taste”. The nearly 3.5 hour marathon was capped by a playful, non-stop second set that highlighted a sublime “AC/DC Bag”, rare “McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters” and a heavily-narrated “Harpua” which introduced elements of the New Year’s Eve Udder Ball gag and Tom Marshall’s mysterious appearance from Trey’s past for Phish’s first and only cover of The Proclaimer’s “I Wanna Be (500 Miles)”. An extended “Harry Hood” > “My Soul” and a deep, four-song encore of “Carini” > “Black-Eyed Katy” > a reprised “Sneakin’ Sally” and “Frankenstein” completed a curfew-breaking second set so long that the band got to wish the audience an early happy new year. Paul Languedoc’s 2-track soundboard mix mastered by Fred Kevorkian was sync’d to all the available video shot from the front-of-house position to create this latest LivePhish Video offering. 12/30/97 Madison Square Garden is an excellent example of just how fun a Phish Holiday show could be. Alone or as a necessary companion to the previous show, this is must-hear (and must-see) Phish from the archives. Enjoy!
Click here for an earlier post with 12/9/95′s Y.E.M., which happened 13 years ago today.
