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Cover Wars: Lenny Edition

DaveO November 10, 2009 3 Comments

Lenny is the tenth and final track on Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 1983 debut album Texas Flood. The song’s title is a tribute to SRV’s wife Lenora Bailey.

Cover Wars

Jeff Kitts sums up this tune very well in the book Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan,

Like any master musician, Vaughan was just as comfortable with slow, delicate ballads as he was with barn burners. Vaughan composed the beautiful ballad, “Lenny,” for his first wife, and recorded it on Texas Flood. “Lenny” is very Hendrix influenced; it’s sort of a cross between “Little Wing” and “Angel,” two of Hendrix’s greatest ballads.

The Contestants:

The Bridge: The Bridge guitarist Cris Jacobs leads the band through this relatively to-the-point rendition. Source: 2-28-2007

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READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…

Last Week’s Sauce: Halloween Edition

DaveO November 4, 2009 4 Comments

Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows from the previous week. Thanks to JBanyai97 for this week’s photo.

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Artist & Title: The Brew – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Date & Venue: 2009-10-31 Center For The Performing Arts, Unity ME
Taper & Show Download: Mike Salvo

As the show began, The Brew introduced themselves as Sofia & The Sofia 4 and played a lot of girl tunes throughout the night (like Heart Of Glass, Love Is A Battlefield, etc.) The Brew play tomorrow at Red Square in Albany.

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READ ON to hear more fantastic Halloween covers…

Live From Indio: Halloween Review

DaveO November 1, 2009 7 Comments

Admittedly, I am not the biggest fan of The Rolling Stones. Certainly don’t hate them, but they’re not at the top of any lists for me. None of that mattered when it became clear just a few tunes into set two, Phish’s full performance of Exile On Main Street, that this would be the most tightly performed Phish set in recent history.

[All Photos by Regan Teti Marscher]

If Phish played their catalog as cleanly and precisely as they did these eighteen tracks, it would be scary. And all the while they made these songs their own often times in the way they would jam out the outros. I was trying to place what Phish/Trey song the Torn & Frayed outro sounded like when ScottyB chimed in and let me know it was Drifting – and it was awesome. Guest vocalists and horn players Sharon Jones, David Guy, Tony Jarvis, David Smith, and Saunda Williams blended extremely tastefully into the background never overshadowing or drawing attention away from either the songs or the performance.

It was nice to see Jon Fishman singing lead on Happy without it being a novelty cover song that lead to a vacuum solo. Fish did a great job when it was his time and all around it seemed like the right decisions were made on how they divided up the lead vocals duties. The backup singers interplay with Trey and the rest of the guys on Ventilator Blues/I Just Want To See His Face was superb, this was my biggest surprise – I knew Phish would knock Tumbling Dice, Shine A Light, etc. out of the park, but the Ventilator Blues > I Just Want To See His Face was really really smooth.

READ ON for more about Phish’s Halloween performance at F8…

Live From Indio: Signing Up For Exile

DaveO November 1, 2009 6 Comments

Last night, as Phish performed their cover of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street, sign language interpreters helped the hearing-impaired take in the action. DaveO captured these interpreters at

Live From Indio: Night One Wrap

DaveO October 31, 2009 3 Comments

Alright, everybody’s up and at them for day two and sets three, four & five of the weekend. I realize I didn’t speak to the actual music played last night, I figured everyone had access to a live stream and was forming their own opinions, but may as well get this down on paper:

[all photos by Regan Teti Marscher]

The music? A bit vanilla but had it’s moments. Major key-jam in Stash was money and the Wolfman’s was great. What was up with what Trey was singing in Piper? Sounded like Lizards for a split-second then went into a little chord progression that sounded a little rehearsed and then Trey stepped up to the microphone and everyone looked around hoping someone knew what song it was and an answer never came.

Trey joked in the Bowie intro that it was a hint as to what album they were covering for Halloween. Trey & Fish were uncharacteristically not on the same page as a couple of jams started to wrap up, just not the type of “mistakes” you normally see Phish make.

READ ON for more of Dave’s thoughts and Regan’s photos…

Live From Indio: Phish in 3D

DaveO October 31, 2009 19 Comments

Published: October 31, 2009 Before set one I had the opportunity to chat with a VP at AEG and he took me and a couple of friends over to their

Live From Indio: DaveO Checks In

DaveO October 30, 2009 2 Comments

5:30PM PDT: Two hours until Phish takes the stage and everything here is very laid back. Drinking my first Sierra FOAM and it’s delicious. There’s maybe a couple thousand already

Review: Vic Chesnutt @ Somerville Theater

DaveO October 27, 2009 6 Comments

In general, when I arrive at a show and learn that I am walking in on an opening act that I was not aware of – I’m not very pleased. I had a timeline in my head of what I thought set times were going to be and realized that now, all of a sudden, every thing had been pushed back an hour. Sunday night however, it only took about five minutes for me to realize that I was going to be catching a great set of music from Clare & The Reasons, a band I had never heard of – in fact I did not know the name of the group until after their set was over and I swung by the merch table.

Clare & The Reasons touring band are a quartet, fronted by Clare Manchon and all four musicians are multi-instrumentalists. There was fiddle, trombone, clarinet, keyboards, guitars and basses constantly being passed around amongst all the members of the band, and while there was no percussionist…Clare had a foot-tambourine setup that added a little extra punch in the choruses of some songs.

They played the majority of their brand new album Arrow including the first-ever performance of the “Japanese Bonus Track”. As her set came to a close, Manchon announced that “You will all know this song” and launched into a great arrangement of That’s All (which is also on the album Arrow). With the signature piano line being played on a clarinet, the crowd – of unfortunately only dozens of people – let out an audible laugh and Clare quickly explained, “It’s not funny” into the microphone. This band is opening for Vic Chesnutt through November 7th, I highly recommend arriving early to check them out. Manchon’s gentle voice is a perfect fit for their type of music which borders somewhere between Twee Pop and gypsy street musicians. As my friend Indie Dan said, “Even though there wasn’t an accordion onstage, I totally could see them having one.”

Here is their music video for the song All The Wine:

READ ON for more from Dave including a review of Vic Chesnutt’s new band and to see the hilarious infomercial for Clare & The Reasons New Album…

B List: 10 Bands Covering Entire Albums Live

DaveO October 22, 2009 10 Comments

It’s no secret that many of our readers have had plenty of spirited discussions over the last few months, or maybe years, discussing what classic album Phish would cover at the next Halloween show. The concept of this live “Musical Costume” was launched by Phish on Halloween in 1994 when they performed The Beatles White Album in its entirety. Errr, except Good Night which was played over the PA system. And while Phish has done it three additional times – and a fourth if you include Dark Side Of The Moon on November 2nd, 1998 in Utah – they have also inspired many other bands to follow suit.

This week’s B List takes a look at ten other bands that have taken on the assignment of covering another band’s album in the live setting.

1. Jiggle The Handle covered Paul Simon – Graceland
8-12-2000 – Berkfest, Great Barrington MA

Leading off this B List we’ve got one of my favorite small jambands of all time, Boston’s Jiggle The Handle. This complete album performance was announced in advance. Well, it was announced they’d be performing AN album, and the choices were out there, it was between Graceland, Rift, Sgt. Pepper’s and Animals.

Humorously, the band started and ended their full performance of Graceland with teases of the opening tracks from the three albums not chosen, and a Jiggle The Handle tune – Walk Right Out Your Door. They bring on a little extra help from a number of other Boston-area-bands calling on: Dan Rockett, the horn section from Addison Groove Project and both Andrew & Brad Barr from The Slip.

Selected Audio: Teases > The Boy In The Bubble
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READ ON for nine more bands that have tackled live full album covers…

Last Week’s Sauce: October 11th – 17th

DaveO October 21, 2009 2 Comments

Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows from the previous week. Thanks to bigperm for this week’s photo.

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Artist & Title: The Breakfast – Rufus>Frankly Po Zest>Rufus>Frankly Po Zest
Date & Venue: 2009-10-16 River Street Jazz Cafe, Plains PA
Taper & Show Download: Keith Litzenberger

Tim Palmieri is one of the best shredders on the scene, and you get some good evidence why in this section of segued classic Breakfast tunes. The Breakfast will be all around the Northeast in the next couple of months, they are next playing this Saturday at Red Square in Albany. Tim Palmieri plays solo tonight in New Haven. Highly recommended.

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READ ON to hear tracks from Cowboy Junkies, The Brew, and others.

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