Funny Friday — Hendrix??
How about another dose of funny before you dash out for the weekend? Here’s Michael Winslow doing a damn fine Hendrix.
Phish — Returning to their roots
Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts:
One of the most glaring facets of this June’s tour was the succinctness of Phish’s jams. Part of this can be attributed to feeling each other out again and getting used to jamming off each other again. Yet, as the tour grew on, Phish continued to take more musical risks (Star Lake’s “Disease,” Deer Creek’s “Oceans > Drowned > Twist,” and Alpine’s “Crosseyed > Disease,” and “Piper”), but their jams remained tightly directed and based in rock textures. After spending the years of 1997 to 2000 exploring many types of groove-based playing, and 2003 (’04) with looser, psychedelic jamming, it appears that Phish may be returning to their roots as progressive rock improvisers. (more…)
MIchael Jackson — Yokohama, JAP (9/27/87)
Disc 1
1 Wanna Be Startin Somethin
2 Human Nature
3 Heartbreak Hotel
4 Medley Jackson 5
5 She’s Out Of My Life
6 Things I Do For You
7 Off The Wall
8 Rock With You
Disc 2
1 Lovely One
2 Working Day And Night
3 Beat It
4 Billie Jean
5 Shake Your Body > Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough tease > Shake Your Body
6 Thriller
7 I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
8 Bad
I still can’t believe he’s gone…
WSP — All Hallows Eve in Austin
From Jambands.com:
Widespread Panic is currently off the road until an appearance at Louisville’s Forecastle Festival on July 12. However, the group is already looking ahead to the fall. On October 30 and 31 the band will appear at the Austin Music Hall, returning to the state where it will wrap up its tour with the Allman Brothers Band two weeks earlier. Last year Widespread appeared in New Orleans at the UNO Lakefront Arena on Halloween, while in 2007 the band was at the Asheville Civic Center. Ticket information for the two Austin shows will follow soon.
Counting Crows — Zurich, Switzerland (3/26/00)
I Wish I Was A Girl
Mr. Jones
All My Friends
Highlife
Omaha
Four Days
Speech
Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby
Amy Hit The Atmosphere
A Murder Of One
St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream
Rain King
Hangingaround
A Long December
Walkaways
Mike & The Italians (GRAB) — Billie Jean Jam
From 7/19/06.
Hidden Track’s Bust Outs: Michael Jackson Edition
Man, this is great.
32 Years ago today…
From the King of Pop to the King of Rock, Elvis Presley performed his last concert on this date in ’77 in Indianaoplis. The song is “Can’t Help Falling In Love”. Elvis would die 7 weeks later on 8/16.
Funny Friday — Eddie Murphy on Michael Jackson, etc.
With all due respect, here’s Eddie discussing and impersonating Michael Jackson. By the way, this has NSFW language.
