Did You Know??
In John Lennon’s 1980 Playboy interview, he confessed that “Good Morning, Good Morning” from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was inspired by a 1967 Kellogg’s Corn Flakes commercial. This isn’t it, but here’s a 1960′s Corn Flakes commercial.
The Lost Art of The Mixtape — The Decemberists
New mix over at The Lost Art Of The Mixtape. Click here to check it out.
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival — Atlanta, GA (12/31/2008)
From The Fabulous Fox:
01. Kirk West intro >
02. Talking About
03. 700 Houses
04. Down in the Flood
05. People
06. Can’t Sleep at Night
07. Days is Almost Gone
08. Glad You’re Gone
09. Already Free
10. Meet Me at the Bottom
11. Chicken Robber
12. Gonna Write Him a Letter
01. Sugar
02. Dreams
03. Kirk’s New Year’s countdown > Auld Lang Syne >
04. I’ve Got a Feeling >
05. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
06. Space Captain
07. E: Hercules
08. Hey Jude
K-Dub rings in the new year with lotsa covers…
From Jambands.com:
Keller Williams celebrated New Year’s Eve with a three-set performance at Hilton Head, SC’s Shoreline Ballroom. The evening opened with an “all request” set that featured favorites submitted by fans like “Cookies,” “Breathe,” “Cadillac,” the Grateful Dead’s “Bird Song,” Phish’s “Scent of a Mule,” The Beatles’ “Rocky Raccoon” and Sublime’s “What I Got.” Williams also played piano on the thematically-appropriate “Play This.” After a short break, Williams returned to the stage for a set of “Grunge Grass” with Claude Arthur (bass) and Jay Sterling (dobro). The three musicians offered bluegrass versions of a number of alt-rock favorites, including Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come as You Are,” “Lithium,” “In Bloom” and “All Apologies,” Pearl Jam’s “Black” “Alive” and “Jeremy,” Offspring’s “Self Esteem,” Radiohead’s “Creep” and Stone Temple Pilots’ “Plush,” among others.
Williams returned by himself for his third set at 11:45 PM and charged into a version of “Get on Down” that led into an onstage New Year’s countdown, a balloon drop and, of course, a version of “Auld Lang Syne.” The guitarist remained in a festive mood for the rest of his set, offering favorites like “Celebrate Your Youth,” Paul Simon’s “Late in the Evening,”, a reggae version of “Freekshow” and “Alligator Alley,” the latter of which references the alligators of Hilton Head. At one point, Williams even took a shot of alcohol from the stage. In addition, Arthur and Sterling returned to the stage covers of the Grateful Dead’s “Help on the Way” and “Franklin’s Tower.
Sorry. No setlist. Enjoy.Umphrey’s McGee — Amazing Grace>Glory
Here’s another offering from UM Video from their 12/31/08 show. The backing choir is the Chicago Mass Choir. If you haven’t heard it, you need to check out the show. We couldn’t make the show this year and it seems we really missed out. Click here to download. The Divisions>Hangover>Divisions is top notch, the whole show is really top notch.
Happy Birthday — Stephen Stills
One of our favorite musicians of all time, Stephen Stills, turns 63 today. I must highly recommend that if you do not own a copy of his recording from 1972, Manassas, get it..fast. Here’s a song from the aforementioned album, “It Doesn’t Matter”:
My Morning Jacket — 12/31/2008
Disc 1/Set 1:
1. intro music – What Are You Doing New Years Eve
2. Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield) *
3. Evil Urges *
4. Off The Record
5. Gideon
6. The Way That He Sings
7. Thank You Too
8. I’m Amazed
9. Golden ^
10. Librarian
11. You’re All I Need (marvin gaye) * +
12. Express Yourself (charles wright) *
13. Wonderful Man
14. Lay Low
15. Phone Went West
16. Look At You
Disc 2/Set 1(cont):
17. Dondante
18. Smoking from Shootin->
19. Touch Me Part 2->
20. Run Thru
21. The Wanderer (Dion) *
22. Dancefloors *
23. Magheeta
Disc 3/Set 2:
1. new years’ countdown
2. Celebration (kool & the gang) *
3. Get Down On It (kool & the gang) *
4. Wordless Chorus
5. Highly Suspicious
6. Cobra
7. Islands in the Stream (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers) +
8. Bring It on Home to Me (Sam Cooke) *
9. Cold Sweat (James Brown)*
10. Anytime
11. One Big Holiday
12. Auld Lang Syne (sung by Jim James over a prerecorded backing track)
13. outro music – We’ll Meet Again
Widespread Panic — Chicago, IL (5/8/1997)
1: Rebirtha > Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys > Red Beans, Junior > Hope In A Hopeless World, Pickin’ Up The Pieces* > Who Do You
Belong To?*, Maggot Brain* > Chilly Water*
2: Pigeons, Jack > Tie Your Shoes > Sleepy Monkey > Tie Your Shoes > Vacation > Drums, The Take Out* > Chunk Of Coal*, Porch Song*
E: She Caught The Katy*
* with David Blackmon on fiddle
Trey Anastasio — Charlottesville, VA (10/13/2006)
10/13/06 Charlottesville Pavilion, Charlottesville, VA
Set I: Drifting, Tuesday, Dark And Down, Goodbye Head, Spin, Shine, 46 Days1
Set II: Night Speaks To A Woman, Money Love and Change, Low, What’s Done, Bar 17, Gotta Jibboo
Encore: Come As Melody
1 Josh Clark (Tea Leaf Green) on additional guitar
40 Years Ago Today…
The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed on “It’s Lulu’s” and started into “Hey Joe”, but then abruptly morphed into Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love” as an homage to the power trio that had split days prior. Clapton and Hendrix were very close friends. Very cool relic.
Phish — “Harry Hood” from 11/16/1996
Check out the note sustain in part two, right before the climax.
Here’s the setlist of said show:
11-16-96 Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE
1: Poor Heart, Down With Disease, Guyute, Gumbo, Rift, Free, The Old Home Place, David Bowie, Lawn Boy, Sparkle, Frankenstein
2: La Grange, Runaway Jim, Kung*, Catapult, Axilla#, Harry Hood#, Suzie Greenberg**, Amazing Grace
E: We’re an American Band^
*Included the Vibration of Life, which Trey said was “written by God.” #Lyrics included something about Leigh Fordham. **With “La Grange” (ZZ Top) teases. ^”By Homer Simpson’s favorite band, Grand Funk Railroad”; first time played.
Musical Stew is really back now…
A combination of the holidays, travel, illness and commitments have significantly hampered our ability to update the site as much as we normally do, so this is just a brief explanation why we haven’t been around as much. It’s now truly business as usual at MSD and we appreciate you, our reader for checking us out. On a side note, Jambands.com/Relix named us “Fan Site Of The Month”. Pretty cool, huh? Anyway, happy new year everyone and may this be a happy, healthy and peaceful one. Bring on Phish in March!
-Matt and Kelly
