Friday's Leftovers

You can breathe again, it’s Friday. While you get your plans together for tonight, check out these items from Al Gore’s Interweb:

• MSG officially announces that it has leased the Beacon Theater, and if they change the name I will chain myself to the marquee
• Beck wants to be a jamband
• Guitar pyrotechnics from Wednesday night’s Umphrey’s McGee concert…I can only imagine the melted faces on all these people that came to this show looking for hippie rock but left with their asses blown out
• Props to Metallica for releasing a show from the Cliff Burton era…for free!
• Jerry lives! On a placemat!
• Phish & Chips’ Guss goes Cruisin’ the Archive for some Soulive
• One of my favorite blogs — Here Comes The Flood — reports on David Gilmour’s recorded tribute to Syd Barrett
• Ickmusic learns you on the incredible tale of Fela Kuti
• Props to Vegoose for giving over $16,000 to eight different charities; also check out video footage of the festival while its still up (Ace says “especially that MMW and Maceo, shucks, Good God”)
• Trey Anastasio fills you in on his plans for December and beyond
• Recently The B List tackled out-of-left field covers, check out …of the week for a great mix of some even more bizarre yet beautiful covers
• Didn’t you know the Disco Biscuits invented late night gigs?
• Save Ferris! No, Save Bayliss! No, Save Waterloo Village!
• Speaking of Waterloo Village…Friend of HT, Bizarro Jerry, works on sharing all of Phish Summer ’95
• Bono fronts Pearl Jam

Many thanks to those of you that sent me items this week — I am always open to submissions for this column. Have a great weekend…