Perpetual Groove threw their annual Amberland festival this past weekend in the band’s home state of Georgia. Our friend Chris Cartelli was in attendance and when he wasn’t sitting in with PGroove’s Brock Butler during Butler’s Brockfast set he was snapping photos of the event.
READ ON to check out more of Chris’ photos…
Words: Ryan Maher
Photos: Tammy Wetzel
Ah, Summer Camp. Last year you turned 10, this year you had quite the growth spurt at 11. Attendees quickly realized as they lined in that they’d be camping in tighter quarters with many new neighbors, as record numbers made their way to Chillicothe.
[All photos by Tammy Wetzel]
Thankfully mother nature gave us a break by ending the early rain in time for a dry load-in. The bands and crew weren’t so lucky at 5AM when they got their orders to evacuate due to severe weather. The rains had left some mud and chilly temps in their wake, but the upside would be no dust storms coating the bodies and lungs of the masses this year.
Jake Cinninger rolled out with his old South Bend band, Ali Baba’s Tahini for a fun set that featured the raunchy humor of Karl Engelmann paired with Jake’s guitar chops. Their cover of Tom Petty’s Running Down a Dream had a dark chant of “Smoke pot, Smoke pot, Everybody smoke pot” for kicks. Wavy Dave from Cornmeal also lent his jaw harp skills to a ditty.
READ ON for more from Tammy and Ryan about Summer Camp…
For a band like Phish, who rely so much on onstage chemistry, the first show of a tour is rarely if ever the best show of the run. Now, that is not to say there are not gems to be had. If you poke around there is a takeaway moment from practically every Phish show ever played. With that in mind, we put together this list of 10 memorable musical moments from past tour openers, not just any tour openers, but all shows where the band had not performed publicly in at least 90 days to give a taste of what’s possible at tomorrow’s tour opener in Bethel, NY.
Keep in mind, you won’t find the crowd eruptions such as the hiatus-ending Piper at Madison Square Garden 2002 or the breakup-ending Fluffhead at Hampton in 2009, because well – that would be too easy, and that is not what we do. Here’s what we came up with in reverse chronological order…
06/11/2010: Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL
Ghost:
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Taped By: TaylorC
Phish came out of the gates with an improv-heavy first show of the summer last year at Toyota Park in Chicago, IL. The first set featured jam songs Down With Disease, Wolfman’s, Reba and Bowie, while the second stanza was top heavy with a potent Light that went into a Maze that had two ferocious solos. For our money, the highlight of the night was a Ghost that was dotted with tasteful Orca usage by Trey, bass bombs a plenty by Mike and some adventurous clav work by Page before the band worked their way towards Limb By Limb. Let’s hope tomorrow night is on par with the 2010 opener.
- Previously on HT: The B List – 10 Best Phish Tour Openers and Predictions – Phish Summer Tour Leg One
READ ON for nine more strong tour-opening moments…
Tomorrow is finally the day that Phish returns to the road after a near six-month layoff for the first of three shows at Bethel Woods in Bethel, NY. All in all, the first leg of the group’s tour contains 18 shows, most of which will take place at familiar venues for the band and their fans.
We wanted to give our staff and our readers a chance to get their predictions for what the tour will bring down “on paper” and then once the tour wraps up on June 19 we’ll see how everybody did. So take a look at our calls and be sure to leave your own predictions in the comments section.
Our first question was, “which band member do you expect to be this tour’s MVP?” Next, we asked everybody to pick a “classic” song that will get “the treatment” from Phish this summer. Then, we asked everyone to pick what they thought the best show of the first leg would be. Finally, we asked each contributor to predict how many new songs Phish would debut and to pick the biggest bustout of the tour.
Andy Kahn:
1. MVP Band Member? Fish, because he’s due. Recent tours have seen Page take a more prominent roll leading jams, Mike showing off what he’s picked up from his solo band and Trey, well Trey is Trey. It’s time for Papa Fish to show the kids what he’s made of.
2. MVP “Classic” Song? Free needs to grow the pair it’s seemingly lost in its 3.0 incarnation. Hoping this one gets back to ripping bass runs and surging jams and loses the going-through-the-motions feel it’s taken on at times.
3. Best show? June 1, second night of Holmdel. This will be their second night at Holmdel and coming off the extended stay at Bethel Woods looks ripe for a mid-week-snooze-you-lose kind of show.
4. Number of new songs? Six: four new Trey/Tom songs, one from Page and one from Mike.
5. Biggest Bustout? Lushington – it’s been years and years since the band took us down the brutal miles and miles of Lushington. Throw in The Chase segment from Fluff’s Travels and this becomes a bustout of legendary proportions.
READ ON to see what the other contributors guessed and to make your own predictions in our comments section…
With festival season kicking into high gear this weekend across the country, we wanted to revisit a series of articles written by Carla Danca that will help make your festival
Our pal Sunil sent over a batch of videos from last night’s Warren Haynes Band show at the Beacon, where the group was joined by Stax legend William Bell and Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford. Let’s take a look…
Born Under a Bad Sign w/ William Bell…
Warren Haynes Band – Beacon Theatre Setlist
Set One: Man In Motion, River’s Gonna Ride, Sick of My Shadow, Invisible, Your Wildest’s Dreams, A Friend To You, Fire In The Kitchen, On A Real Lonely Night, Born Under a Bad Sign*, You Didn’t Miss Your Water*, Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday*
Set Two: The Real Thing@, In My Life@, Back Where I Started@, Old Friend@, Save Me, Beautifully Broken, Power & The Glory, Hattiesburg Hustle, Sneakin Sally Through The Alley, Tear Me Down
Encore: Grinnin’ In Your Face > Soulshine, Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home**
* – w/ William Bell
** – w/ Brad Whitford and Danny Louis[Setlist via KD of TinyRager.com]
READ ON for more of Sunil’s killer clips from the WHB @ the Beacon…
The lineup has been announced for Lollapalooza, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year on August 5th-7th at Chicago’s Grant Park.
At the top of the bill are Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse and HT favorites My Morning Jacket. Other HT favorites Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Ween have also successfully snuck their way into a mostly indie-centric lineup.
This year’s lineup for ‘Perry’s Place”, the electronic-themed stage, features festival mainstays Girl Talk, Pretty Lights, Kid Cudi and many others.
Three day passes will run you $215. READ ON for the full lineup…
For this week’s Friday Mix Tape we turn the column over to Bret from SupDudeSupGuy for a wonderful collection of honky tonk tunes. This compilation features tracks from the likes
For this edition of our stat-heavy Number Line column, we’ve enlisted the help of Billy “Sweet River” Hollems for an in-depth look at the Allman Brothers Band’s March Madness run “on paper.” Each year, Hollems puts together a comprehensive list detailing all the sit-ins, songs played and setlists for the AllmanBrothersBand.com forums and this time around he’s kindly sharing the stats with our readers.
[Photo by Rob Chapman]
So without further ado, here’s the ABB Beacon Run ’11 final tally…
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
BEACON THEATER, NEW YORK CITY 2011
March 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 2010
BACK AT THE BEACON WHERE THEY BELONG
Gregg Allman
Butch Trucks
Jaimoe
Warren Haynes
Marc Quinones
Oteil Burbridge
Derek Trucks
The Sweet River Compilation Lists
TOTAL SHOWS: 13
TOTAL DIFFERENT SONGS: 82
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED: 210
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 1X: 28
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 2X: 12
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 3X: 20
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 4X: 15
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 5X: 5
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 6X: 2
TOTAL SONGS PLAYED 7X: 1
TOTAL DIFFERENT GUESTS: 51
READ ON for a list of songs divided by times played, a full list of guests and every Allman Brothers Band March Madness 2011 setlist…
Words: Benjamin Slayter and Erin Slayter
On Saturday April 2, 2011 the sports bars and pubs of Chicago were packed with fans: some came to watch the NCAA basketball finals, others were in town to catch the Cubs opening homestand and a few watched U.S. Women’s soccer fall to England. Right alongside those diehards was a group of fans gearing up for a sporting event unlike those others, Umphrey’s McGee’s UMBowl II. The event, held at the Park West, was the latest offering in interactive concert experiences from improvisational gurus Umphrey’s McGee who have quickly become a front-runner in delivering fans fully immersive and interactive experiences.
[Photo by Erin Slayter]
Supporting this talented bunch of musicians and helping make an event like this possible is an extremely dedicated network of management and crew. The highly capable support team provided the level of technical complexity, bandwidth for live streaming and SMS text-based bridges to not only attempt, but completely nail the required production elements. Together they have established themselves as some of the top innovators in crowdsourced musical performance, evidenced by the second totally interactive UMBowl.
- Previously on HT: UMBowl II Setlist & Recap
UM’s plan for their social experiment began with their S2 or “Stew Art” Series Interactive performances, named after their jams which pay tribute to an evening of improvisational practice in the empty Jimmy Stewart Ballroom at the Pittsburgh Renaissance Hotel. The special events, held for a limited number of fans prior to the band’s regular gigs, are driven by live interaction with the fans via text messaging on the Mozes platform. To continue to build on the success of these events, and grow their unique level of engaging, two-way communication and collaboration with the crowd, UM last year introduced the “UMBowl” concept, four quarters of crowdsourced rock designed to thrill the audience in completely fan-centric ways.
READ ON for more on Umphrey’s UMBowl II…
