Televised Tune: On The Tube This Week
As we mentioned earlier, Elvis Costello’s new talk show – Spectacle, kicks off this Thursday at 10PM on Sundance. For the first episode, Costello speaks with fellow Brit Elton John about John’s love of Laura Nyro, Leon Russell and David Ackles among other things. Future guests for this season’s 13 show run include Lou Reed, James […]
Donna Jean & The Tricksters: A Dead Match
Musical collaboration among pre-established units is tricky business, and it's rare to arrive at that special level: the place where you find a meeting of minds so potent that a union of two or more styles, eras, backgrounds, or whatever else becomes a whole and not just co-working parts. To that special category you'd definitely have to add Donna Jean & the Tricksters.
Official Clifford Ball DVD – February 24!?!?!
I promised myself I’d stay away from the computer this weekend, but as per usual that just didn’t happen. Especially after I got a text saying Phish will be releasing an official version of the Clifford Ball on DVD in February. There isn’t much to go on yet, but something about Here Comes The Flood’s […]
Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Let’s Dance
Thanksgiving around these parts only means one thing: our annual fluffage of arguably the greatest rock movie of all time – Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Roughly 32 years ago on Thanksgiving at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom 5,000 lucky fans were treated to a full turkey dinner at 5 PM, which was followed by Rick, […]
Bloggy Goodness: Turkey Day Link Dump
Between watching football, eating yourself into a food coma and dealing with your family thought we’d just give you a quick escape with a lengthy link dump of some music news you may have missed in your rush to get out of work yesterday… Cover Alert: Lambchop tackles Bob Dylan Former Wilco member Jay Bennett […]
Thanksgiving Weekend Best Bets
Thanksgiving Weekend has always been a big time for live music and this coming weekend is no exception. Out in Atlanta local favorites The Grapes and Col. Bruce Hampton return to the Variety Playhouse on Friday night, while The Breakfast bring the jams to Boston. In Chicago, The Hue continue to break in stellar new […]
Five Years Ago: Phish Anniversary Run
Ahh, Thanksgiving. A time for turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, bad football on the front lawn, drunk uncles falling down and of course, Phish.
[All photos via Phishpics.net]
Although there is no late fall run for the band again this year – we’ll have to wait until March for the band’s return to the stage – we’re taking a look back at the band’s Northeast Turkey Week run from November 2003 and picking out the best pieces of white meat from a group of shows that is general considered undercooked by most fans. The run started in Nassau the day after Thanksgiving and wrapped up in Boston with the band’s 20th Anniversary Show at the Fleet Center.
Maze – 12/2/03 Boston
One of the few times that Page seems to really be front and center on this run. Longer than your average Maze, this version seems to be infused with some extra venom. I never thought I’d walk away from the band’s 20th Anniversary show calling a Rift-era setlist staple a highlight, but in what turned out to be a pretty standard setlist, Maze provided the boldest and deepest improv of the night.
READ ON for four other highlights from the Phish 20th Anniversary Run…
New To Glide: Jimmy Herring Interview
Our pal Chad recently spoke with Widespread Panic’s Jimmy Herring about his terrific new solo album, Lifeboat, for Glide Magazine’s main site. The solo slinger reflects on why he decided to record his own disc, how he put together the personnel for the album, what he took from his time in The Dead and Phil […]