DaveO, Author at Glide Magazine

Cover Wars March Madness: Sweet 16

DaveO March 23, 2011 1 Comment

Cover Wars March Madness rolls on. We’ve had our play-in round and our first full round of 32 covers and we’re left with our Sweet 16. We are in our third year of this tournament and we have just now done the obvious, we have generated an actual bracket so you can visualize how this is all going to go down. Have a look and be sure to vote in all eight matchups.

Matchup #1

Ramble On (Led Zeppelin)

Phish debuted this cover at Alpine Valley in the Summer of 1998. As most Phish fans know, there has been one other performance ever and it was the following week at Vernon Downs where the band paired Ramble On with their own Slave To The Traffic Light to close the first set. There are some killer Ramble On Teases in the Slave jam. Source: 8-1-1998
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/phramble.mp3]

UPDATE: The text in all the descriptions for Cover Wars March Madness are taken from the original editions which at times – are out of date. As one of our readers pointed out in the previous round – Phish has since performed one more partial performance of Ramble On, and yes – it was pretty terrible.

VS.

Wilco – Thirteen (Big Star)

Wilco recorded this cover for the 2006 Big Star covers record Big Star Small World. Though never played live by Wilco, the song has made at least 11 appearances at Jeff Tweedy solo shows.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wilco13.mp3]

READ ON to vote on the remaining seven matchups in the Sweet 16.

Picture Show: Umphrey’s @ The Fillmore

DaveO March 21, 2011 1 Comment

Umphrey’s McGee returned to San Francisco’s Fillmore on March 12 and 13 for a pair of performances that saw Colorado upstarts Big Gigantic open.

[All photos by Dave Vann]

Saturday night’s show featured a jam-heavy first set including extended takes on one of the newer songs in the UM repertoire Conduit, as well as Red Tape, a song from 2009’s Mantis that the band frequently showcases a middle section of improvisation. Before closing the first set with a mashup of Everybody Wants To Rule The World and The Way You Make Me Feel, guitarist Brendan Bayliss had the honor of helping a fan propose to his girlfriend from the stage, and she of course said “yes.”

Sunday’s show was easier to move around in compared to the sellout the previous night and the band paid tribute to the late Owsley ”Bear” Stanley by performing a partial instrumental rendition of Steely Dan’s Kid Charlemagne, a song written about Owsley’s influence on the 1960’s Bay Area LSD scene. Night two also saw Dominic Lalli of Big Gigantic lend his saxophone skills to The Rollin Stones’ vamp Can’t You Hear Me Knockin.’

The next show for UM is UMBowl II at Park West in Chicago on April 2. Previously sold out, the band is releasing a limited number of general admission tickets tomorrow, March 22, at 12PM Central Daylight Time.

READ ON for more of Dave Vann’s shots from UM in SF…

Cover Wars March Madness: Round 1, Pt. 2

DaveO March 18, 2011 2 Comments

Earlier this week we had Part I of Round 1 of this year’s Cover Wars March Madness. Voting is still open for Part I and today you’ve got eight more matchups to vote on. Voting ends on Monday, March 21 at 11:59M PT with the round of 16 posting to follow on Tuesday afternoon.

Matchup #9 (Covers by Phish):

Ramble On (Led Zeppelin)

Phish debuted this cover at Alpine Valley in the Summer of 1998. As most Phish fans know, there has been one other performance ever and it was the following week at Vernon Downs where the band paired Ramble On with their own Slave To The Traffic Light to close the first set. There are some killer Ramble On Teases in the Slave jam. Source: 8-1-1998
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/phramble.mp3]

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Foreplay/Long Time (Boston)

Phish: The Fall Of 1994 saw Phish mixing things up with their musical genres and instrumentation. The band performed a number of bluegrass classics with keyboardist Page McConnell moving to upright bass, bassist Mike Gordon playing the banjo, guitarist Trey Anastasio simply moved to an acoustic and drummer Jon Fishman playing the washboard (he played mandolin on some other ’94 bluegrass tunes as well). Source: 11-12-1994 via From The Archives Bonnaroo 2009
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bostonphish1.mp3]
Phish: The Phish bluegrass rendition of Foreplay/Longtime disappeared after 1994 but four and half years later the quartet rolled into Mansfield, Massachusetts (35 miles southwest of the city of Boston) and opened with this electric version. On a personal note, this was the first song I ever saw Phish play live, and it was 11 years ago yesterday. Source: 7-12-1999
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bostonphish2.mp3]

READ ON to vote on the remaining seven matchups for the the second half of Cover Wars March Madness Round 1…

Cover Wars March Madness: Round 1, Pt. 1

DaveO March 15, 2011 6 Comments

Last week, we kicked off the beginning of Cover Wars March Madness by announcing our first ever “play-in” game. We took ten covers that had not previously participated in a Cover Wars and let the readers select up to three for automatic entry into this year’s tournament.

The winners of the play-in round are:

1) Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney) as performed by Perpetual Groove
2) Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack) as performed by My Morning Jacket
3) FM (Steely Dan) as performed by 2D (Gorillaz) featuring Nathain Haines

The other 29 entries already gained entry into the tournament the conventional way – by winning a Cover Wars in the past year. Now that we’ve got our 32 covers selected, let’s take a look at the matchups…

Matchup #1 (Bob Dylan Covers):

The Black Crowes – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

In addition to performing the song live, The Black Crowes also contributed a studio take to this 1995 disc for NORML that also includes Gov’t Mule performing Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam, and Widespread Panic’s studio take of And It Stoned Me, amongst other tracks. Source: Hempilation: Freedom is NORML
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/rainydaycrowes.mp3]

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The Black Keys – Wicked Messenger

There are some real gems from the 2007 I’m Not There soundtrack and this is one of them. Previously on Cover Wars, Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers contributed a cover from the same release for Ballad Of A Thin Man. Source: I’m Not There (Music From The Motion Picture)
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bkmessenger.mp3]

READ ON to vote in the remaining seven matchups for the the first half of Cover Wars March Madness Round 1…

Cover Wars: March Madness Play-In-Game

DaveO March 8, 2011 3 Comments

Well, Selection Sunday is this weekend and we here at Hidden Track are gearing up for our third annual Cover Wars: March Madness tournament. What we do is we take the winners of selected weekly Cover Wars throughout the past 12 months and put them up against each other with the winner being crowned Cover Wars Champion of the Year.

The first year’s winner was Mr. Blotto with its cover of 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon. Last year, Perpetual Groove emerged victorious with its cover of the Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody). We are going to have 32 entries this year, but so far only 29 tickets have been punched. We need your help to select three more covers to make it into the brackets – so starting now through the rest of the week the battle is on for the final three slots among these ten covers.

2D featuring Nathain Haines performing FM by Steely Dan.

READ ON to see the other nine covers vying for the three play-in spots…

Cover Wars: Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground)

DaveO March 1, 2011 2 Comments

Pale Blue eyes is track four of the self-titled third album by The Velvet Underground. Covered by what I find to be a surprising amount of artists, we have narrowed it down to six diverse entries this week. Check in next week for the beginning of the annual Cover Wars March Madness.

Cover Wars

The Contestants:

Leading off this week is this stunning rendition from Alejandro Escovedo that illustrates the positive atmosphere produced from an extremely quiet and attentive live audience:

READ ON for five more covers of Pale Blue Eyes…

Cover Wars: Thirteen (Big Star)

DaveO February 22, 2011 3 Comments

Thirteen was originally released on the 1972 Big Star album #1 Record. Clocking in at 2:35 with three verses and no chorus, it is just a fantastic tune about young love with the third verse pressing the question, “Would you be an outlaw for my love?”

Cover Wars

The Contestants:

Leading off this week we’ve got Ari Hest and his live performance from Mexicali Blues in Teaneck, NJ. Source: 11-7-2008

[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ari13.mp3]

READ ON for four more covers of Thirteen…

B List: 10 Things You Might Not Remember About Trey Anastasio’s First Solo Tour

DaveO February 17, 2011 20 Comments

In May of 1999, Trey Anastasio hit the road for his first solo tour. For this 12-show tour, Trey kicked things off with an acoustic set before welcoming drummer Russ Lawton and bassist Tony Markellis for an electric second set. The debut TAB tour contained plenty of standout moments, but there are a few highlights that generally get forgotten about in Trio Tour discussions.

This week’s B List continues “Trey Week” by detailing 10 Things You Might Not Remember About Anastasio’s First Solo Tour. As the Phish front man sets off to embark on a tour tomorrow with the same number of shows and same format as the 1999 TAB tour, let’s take a look back at that initial run…

10) Type THAT into The Internet

“Golden Banter” as they say. It was 1999 and none of us were nearly as familiar with The Internet as we are now. After reading that his band had covered Voodoo Child when they had not Trey accurately pointed out, “There’s all this information but half of it is wrong!”. Then, there was also Trey’s reneged promise that the first person to type a song title into The Internet for his new acoustic ditty would have naming rights. Turns out that both the Internet’s pick of Minestrone and Trey’s pick of Purple Hugh didn’t stick and Page ultimately named the song The Inlaw Josie Wales. In this audio montage we hear all of this banter plus Trey’s hilarious take on his song’s “duologies.”

[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/treyinternet.mp3]

UPDATE: The nice thing about online publishing is that we can do things like this. So after being reminded by my good friend Brett aka “This guy here in the front row is yelling” reminds me of another chapter in Instrumental Internet Namegate. So here is the audio from Asheville that didn’t make it into the above montage.

[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/treyasheville.mp3]

READ ON for more of this week’s Trey Week B List…

The Number Line: Trey Week Edition

DaveO February 16, 2011 10 Comments

Trey Week continues on Hidden Track with the return of a feature for the stat geek in us all – The Number Line. This edition of The Number Line takes a close look at Trey Anastasio’s solo career by the numbers. As always, be sure to add your own entries to our list in the comments section.

310 – Different songs played at Trey Solo Shows

145 – Instances of Drifting [The Most Played Trey Solo Song]

143 – Shows since the last Quantegy [5/3/2005]

141 – Instances of Push On ‘Til The Day [The 2nd Most Played Trey Song]

51 – First Tube Encores

READ ON for more of the Trey Week edition of The Number Line…

Cover Wars: “Trey Week” Edition

DaveO February 15, 2011 14 Comments

If you’re familiar with Cover Wars, a Tuesday staple here at Hidden Track, you know we take a song covered by at least a few artists, embed audio and video of different artists covering the song – and have our readers vote on the best version. Since it’s Trey Week, we are putting a different spin on it. For this edition of Cover Wars, we have a compiled a collection of ten different TAB covers. Since there have been so many different lineups of this band, we have kept it to just covers that have been played by the rhythm section of Tony Markellis & Russ Lawton and the horns.

And since we’re mixing things up so much, we’re going to allow you to select the three that are your favorites, and not just one.

Cover Wars

The Covers:

C’mon Baby Let’s Go Downtown (Crazy Horse) Last Played: 10/23/2008

This Crazy Horse cover was debuted on the Trey ’99 tour and one of the few covers to get plays by both Phish and Trey’s solo bands. Missing in action for over six years, it reappeared on Classic TAB tour to open the 10/21/2008 show in Providence, RI.

Audio: 6-11-2002
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/treydowntown.mp3]

READ ON for nine more TAB covers and to vote for your favorite three…

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