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There was enough Grateful Dead material to make this Last Week’s Sauce entirely focused on GD-related-bands. But we’ve been using a lot of Furthur in this feature lately, so I chose just two of the Dead bands for inclusion.

From the Phish world we’ve got a few more tracks from Trey Anastasio & Classic TAB as their 16-date-tour came to a close. There will soon be Mike Gordon tracks showing up in the coming weeks in this column, I’m sure. And representing the present, Thom Yorke debuted a few new songs overseas, we’ll take a look and a listen to those. And Umphrey’s McGee tackled another contemporary cover when they stopped by New York City during blizzard conditions last week. As always, enjoy…

Artist & Title: Bill Kreutzmann Trio aka BK3 – Estimated Prophet
Date & Venue: 2010-02-26 Moe’s Alley, Santa Cruz CA
Taper & Show Download: shark420

I love this band, saw one of their first performances in Northampton a couple of years ago and really dug what they were laying down. It’s just a winning combination of musicians and you should catch this band the next time you can. While there are no BK3 tour dates on the books, Billy plays with Steve Kimock, Bobby Vega, Michael Kang & Chris Berry in Hawaii at Tropical Jam 5 next week.

Help On The Way from the same show:

READ ON for tracks from JGB, UM, TAB and Thom Yorke…

While this weekly feature is normally a good way to recap what touring bands were up to by way of choosing audio and video to embed for our readers, this week we’re also going to give you a recap of last week’s shenanigans involving the Disco Biscuits and this publication, Hidden Track.

At around 2PM last Thursday afternoon, Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein simply tweeted the URL www.planetanthem.com. With no real fanfare, tDB had launched a fun, and somewhat hilarious, pre-order site for their first studio release in eight years, Planet Anthem. While some of the items available for purchase were pretty standard (i.e. signed CD’s, a copy of the CD plus entry to the record release shows at the TLA in Philly), some were much more interesting (i.e. for $500 you and four friends get to sing the “Oooooooo” part of tDB epic Basis For A Day at Camp Bisco or $250 to get the Disco Biscuits to remix a song for you).

At 2:40pm EST, I sent ScottyB an email to ask a) if he had seen the Pre-Order page and b) if this situation was ripe for satire. With a little help from tDB guru Matt Quinn we went live with a B List at 5pm titled 10 Rejected Planet Anthem Pre-Order Items.

The post was well received with a few of our readers joining in on the comment section to offer up their own entries of funny would-be pre-order items. I also got a couple of emails from friends saying they enjoyed the piece and we were all happy with the way it went. Fast forward to 8:06am the following morning when I got a text message informing me that a number of the jokes listed in our B List had magically appeared on the actual pre-order page! While some of the Hidden-Track inspired items have been purchased, fans still haven’t been able to pool together the $1 million to get tDB to make their triumphant return to the Pacific Northwest.

READ ON for more on this highlight in Hidden Track history and for LWS selections from tDB, Trey, Wilco, George Clinton & P-Funk and MMW…