Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass This clip from the Sgt. Pepper’s movie has been floating around the intertubes for quite a while, and
Last night marked the first time in my nearly 28 years of earthly cognizance that I elected to attend a concert over a big-time sporting event. And given Florida’s early lead and subsequent coasting in the NCAA Final over Ohio State, and given my glorified side-stage perspective of a hot-as-fuck band from the right side of the second row, I’m confident I made the fine choice to head up to the Beacon.
I had the opposite experience as Scotty two weeks back, when my partner in this online endeavor caught a fairly shitty opening night of the 73-show Beacon run. We labeled it a “Spring Training” affair, and if last night was any indication of how they’ve been playing since the early shows, the Allman Brothers Band is now in top mid-season form. They filled that place with a dynamic, powerful sound.
The Allmans have been the first dominant band of the post-Curt Flood era of free agency. Gregg may not have the same chops as he used to, but his skills as a general manager are unparalleled: I make that remark to myself every time I see this band, and it’s important to note. Between Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge and Marc Quinones, Gregg has recruited like Western U’s Pete Bell and put together a lineup of constants that leaves me with the same question after every show: When people talk about the best bands in America, how the hell do the Allmans get left off the list? Read on for much more from the show…
Our friend Neddy earlier today pimped out a typically wordy and awesome review of Widespread Panic’s April Fool’s show at the Palace Theater in Albany. And since we’re showing off some words about that 4/1 concert, we might as well go all out and present some pictures from the night before in Cleveland.
Our friend Christian James took in the 3/31 show at the Playhouse Square Center State Theatre in Cleveland. And, as they say, Cleveland rocks.
Read on for 15 more of Chris’ amazing shots from Saturday’s WSP show…
The Final Four match-ups predictably blew goats (I have proof). But the end of week became a little brighter when our friend Pipe showed us this lovely music video for
“Not only am I going back on tour, but we’re going to Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Pennsylvania and North Carolina and Indiana, and then we’re going to Michigan and Illinois and Minnesota…and then we’re going back to Vermont to re-form the popular rock band Phish! Byaaah!!!” –Page McConnell, 3/30/07
The Chairman of the Boards has announced a full set of tour dates, piggybacking on today’s streaming show on NPR for WXPN’s World Cafe Series and next week’s Gramercy Theater show that Scotty and I will be reviewing for the blog (an HT interview with Leo has also been penciled into Page’s schedule).
Here’s the full set of tour dates from Page’s new website (it’s so nice):
05/30 – Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
05/31 – Avalon, Boston, MA
06/01 – Lupos, Providence, RI
06/02 – Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
06/04 – Irving Plaza, New York, NY
06/05 – 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
06/07 – Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
06/08 – The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
06/09 – Bogarts, Cincinnati, OH
06/10 – The Vogue Theatre, Indianapolis, IN
06/12 – Majestic, Detroit, MI
06/13 – The Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL
06/14 – Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis, MNPage’s band includes Adam Zimmon, Jared Slomoff, Rob O’Dea, and Gabe Jarrett. Tickets will be available through a real time presale beginning Friday, March 30th at 5:00pm (EST) and ending Friday, April 13th at noon (EST) at http://pagetickets.rlc.net./. The presale ends on April 12th for a select number of shows, so please check each date’s individual ticketing info.
Damn, this guy Page is really gettin’ himself back into the news cycle after one of the more extensive hibernations outside of the mouse lemur and European hedgehog families. Way to get back out there, buddy.
I missed it. We all missed it. Unless you were there. In that case, you didn’t miss it, and from all accounts, you may not have a face anymore.
Thanks to this entity called “work,” I was stuck in our nation’s capital as Warren Haynes trotted out a smorgasbord of talent at Irving Plaza for his special Evil Teen Re-launch all-star jam last night. As we had hoped, and as we had feared (because, again, we missed it), the Allman Brothers played two songs on their off night from the Beacon, and Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Edwin McCain and the remainder of Gov’t Mule all showed up to rock the smallish house.
Our friend Jon Hochstat says it was so hot he’s “at a loss for words,” and he was kind enough to pass along the already uploaded torrent. Click here to download this memorable and obviously epic show that I fucking missed.
And read on for the full setlist from the evening…
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