Video: Grateful Dead – Hell In A Bucket
With Phish closing out their scorching three-night stand at MSG last Friday night, New York City jam fans now turn their attention to the NYC debut of Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s new project – Furthur. The group’s five-show area run starts tomorrow with the first of two shows at the Hammerstein Ballroom. To get […]
Televised Tune: On the Tube This Week
Today, VH1 Classic will celebrate The Beatles with a day of Fab Four programming. Highlights include an airing of Richard Lester’s 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night (8PM), the John Lennon Live in New York City concert film (11PM) and a Paul McCartney concert film – Live in St. Petersburg (Midnight). Monday, December 7 [All Times […]
Los Lobos: Los Lobos Goes Disney
Both in their recordings and stage performances, Los Lobos take a child-like pleasure in their playing, so it makes perfect sense for them to produce a CD exclusively devoted to music from Disney movies. Los Lobos Goes Disney is not a children's album, however, but rather an album for the inner child–and music lover– in all of us.
John Oates – Goes Back To HIs Roots In The Village
The Village happens to be Greenwich, the time was 1960-something and the cast is John Oates with twelve other veteran musicians (including Lucinda Williams, Bruce Hornsby, Los Lobos, Rickie Lee Jones and Amos Lee) putting their spin on classic folk songs. The result is The Village: A Celebration Of The Music Of Greenwich Village – 429 Records’s folk compilation that pays homage to the music that shook the world from the corners of McDougal and Bleeker Street.
The Used – New Car Smell Every Time
The Used have been on Warped Tour four times and both Taste of Chaos and Reading and Leeds twice, yet they still manage to maintain that “new car smell” every show, every time.
Videos: Phish @ MSG Video Playlists
Missed last week’s Phish shows at MSG or just want to relive the action once again? You’re in luck as a YouTube user by the name of HarpuaFSB has uploaded some of the highest quality fan-shot video footage to the site as we’ve seen. The folks at YEMblog saved us some time and effort by organizing the clips into three separate playlists – one for each show.
Night One (12/2):
[via YEMblog]
READ ON for playlists of MSG Nights Two and Three…
Phish @ Charlottesville: Setlist
After a little more than two fantastic weeks, Phish’s Fall Tour comes to a close this evening at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA. DaveO will be reporting on the action tonight for @YEMblog. You can also keep tabs on the action using PhishTwit. READ ON for the setlist…
Phish @ MSG: Setlist – Night Three
Phish returns to Madison Square Garden for the third of three shows this evening. I’ll be sharing my commentary live from The Garden @YEMblog.
HT Review: Phish Find Themselves a City (In the Central Part of Town) – MSG2
Since it’s Friday and everybody is probably a little sleepy, we’re gonna go with an easy to read quick-hitter format for our review of MSG Night 2, as opposed to the meandering narrative.
[All photos by Adam Kaufman for HT]
- To start at the beginning is to start at the end: When the band emerged for the first set, Trey tinkered around with a few discernible notes of Character Zero before launching into Punch You In The Eye. Hence, this served as a bit of foreshadowing as Character Zero bookended the show so-to-speak returning for an encore.
- Last night for the first time, it really felt like the setlist did not matter in the least. Granted, the show was packed with heavy hitters, but every single song felt like it had the potential to ascend to the outer reaches of the Red Planet.
- Furthermore, that early 3.0 feeling of standing on pins and needles during any technically challenging composed pieces for fear of a flub, is gone. At this point, the band once again feels like they are able to effortlessly cruise though the hardest of material and even start getting crafty therein. I felt like the band executed the first set near perfectly the second set came pretty close, save for one minor blip in Fluffhead.
READ ON for more on Night Two of MSG from Ryan…
At The Barbecue: Favorite Concert Of ’09
It’s been a few months since the HT Crew got together for an old fashioned cookout. With the cold weather creeping in and the holiday season upon us we thought we’d get the gang together one last time this year to throw some large hunks of meat on the grill and crack open a few Troeg’s Mad Elf Ale’s for another rousing edition of At The Barbecue.
It’s hard to believe that 2009 is rapidly coming to a close. Since we’re all live music junkies here, we thought we would share our thoughts on our favorite concerts from the last 12 months. The rules were simple: any show that we attended between January 1 through the beginning of this month were game. So, let’s get at it…
Ryan Dembinsky – Phish – Hampton Coliseum – Hampton, VA
Talk about a no-brainer. Much love goes out to Hartford, Camden, JB3, an intimate surprise Avett Brothers release party in front of maybe 100 people, and a whole slew of great bands I saw for the first time this year, but March 6, 2009 will be branded on my brain forever.
[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]
From the beautiful weather, to taking a much needed road trip away from adulthood, to the friends, to the smothered and covered, to of course the music, Hampton Coliseum pretty much made my year. READ ON for more of the Hidden Track Crew’s favorite concerts of 2009…