String Cheese Incident — Seattle, WA (3/11/00)
Fresh off of their triumphant live return to the stage at the Rothbury Festival, here’s a classic SCI from ’00. Sprinkled with covers throughout, the show also features a guest appearance by Karl Denson.
Disc #1 (55:07)
Set 1
1. Intro (1:34)
2. Indian Creek (5:53)
3. Open Your Eyes> (16:44)
4. Rhum’n'Zouc (11:05)
5. Good Times Around the Bend (4:52)
6. Latinismo* (14:57)
Disc #2 (72:37)
1. Jellyfish*> (21:17)
2. Late in the Evening* (9:16)
Set 2
3. Land’s End> (17:31)
4. Outside Inside (13:59)
5. Restless Wind (10:31)
Disc #3 (68:26)
1. Grazin in the Grass* (9:58)
2. Joyful Sound*> (17:27)
3. Land’s End*> (8:39)
4. San Jose (11:28)
5. Drums> (3:46)
6. San Jose*# (3:43)
7. E: Parker’s Blues*# (8:21)
8. Crosstown Traffic*# (5:01)
* w/ Karl Denson & Epram Owens
# w/ Jarrod Kaplan
R.I.P. — Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
Perhaps the most influential and important individual figure in jazz passed on this date in 1971. The gravelly voiced trumpeter summed up his sunny disposition with the following quote,
“I think I had a beautiful life. I didn’t wish for anything that I couldn’t get and I got pretty near everything I wanted because I worked for it.”
Here he is performing the classic, “When The Saints Go Marching In”:
52 years ago today…
John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete, where The Quarry Men were appearing. As The Quarry Men were setting up for their evening performance, McCartney eager to impress Lennon picked up a guitar and played ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ (Eddie Cochran) and ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ (Gene Vincent). Lennon was impressed, and even more so when McCartney showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars, something they’d been paying someone else to do for them.
Phish –”Ghost” (11 Years ago today)
This is just nasty. Click here to download this show from Live Phish.
Robby Krieger — “Spanish Caravan”
“Carry me caravan, take me away……”
SCI Reunites at Rothbury
Wood TV:
One of the sets I was looking forward to the most at Rothbury was this one – The String Cheese Incident. The jam band favorites had been on hiatus since 2007, so the crowd was starved for the sweet sounds of the Cheese they remembered. Could it compare to the old days? Had their sound evolved over that time? Had they practiced? The crowd of more than 30,000 was frenzied with anticipation as they waited to see if String Cheese would answer the call. (more…)
Jambands:
The String Cheese Incident officially reunited last night at Michigan’s Rothbury Music Festival for an extended two-set performance that stretched from 8:45 PM to 1 AM. Like its pubic “sound check” earlier this week, The String Cheese Incident’s first set focused on the group’s earthier and more bluegrass-based material, while its second set recalled the Burning Man-inspired spectacles that characterized the band’s final period.(more…)
Funny Monday — Bill Hicks (NSFW)
Hilarious and true, but definitely not safe for work!
