We’re down to one final chance for Phish fans to score tickets via official channels. At 10AM EDT Phish’s Hampton Run will go onsale at Ticketmaster.com. What do you do?
As we eagerly await the lineup for this year’s Warren Haynes’ X-Mas Jam, Rave HD gives us a chance to watch high def footage of the 2006 concert. Dave Matthews,
After spending most of his illustrious career as a sideman, drummer/ singer / songwriter / producer Rich Pagano spent the last two years writing and recording his first solo project. Pagano, who’s best known as the drummer and voice of John Lennon for the Fab Faux, has just made a three-song EP featuring tracks from his soon-to-be-released full-length album available to fans for free at Faux’s shows and by mail at RichPagano.com.
We spoke to Rich about his new album just after the Fab Faux delivered an awe-inspiring performance of their Psychedelia! show at Radio City Music Hall in the band’s hometown of New York City to celebrate their 10th anniversary.
Scott Bernstein: Are you recovered from Saturday’s show [The Fab Faux @ Radio City Music Hall]?
Rich Pagano: It’s funny. The whole thing started sinking in yesterday. I was so deep in, I never really saw the videos that were projected behind us. To see the YouTubes now, it looked like a great show.
SB: It sure was.
RP: You were there?
SB: I was, I went with a buncha people. Some of them were Beatles diehards the rest just knew the hits, but everyone had a great time. On my end, I was happy to see that there were some rarities thrown in. It’s not everyday you get to see a spot-on rendition of Flying.
RP: It’s All Too Much is my favorite tune, and I don’t know why we don’t call it more often.
READ ON for the scoop on Rich’s solo album and playing in the Faux…
Since we’ve covered the Pigpen days, the Keith days and the Vince days during our week long look at videos from the Grateful Dead, we thought we’d give some love
Well, I’ve got a big problem. It’s my turn to write an introduction to my favorite piece and to say thank you, but if I wanted to thank all of the people who helped make Hidden Track the 1,892 most read blog in New York City it would take up the whole front page of the site. I guess I could try to limit it and just say thanks to some. Yet, I’d feel awful not thanking each person who has written a post, gave us a tip, offered encouragement, shot photos, commented on a post, added HT’s feed to their RSS reader, gave us advice or made us better in some way, shape or form.
Yet I need to thank you – the reader. We’ve come so far in the last 24 months, and I still get a huge smile each time someone leaves a comment and responds to what we’re putting out there. Ace taught me so much and I’ll be eternally grateful to him for starting this site, bringing me aboard and putting together an amazing team. Most of all, he set an incredibly high standard as an editor and writer and made me realize that each post counts. Ace made sure to teach me about journalistic standards, because the reputation of this blog – and us as writers – depended on it. While I still struggle with grammar, I’ll never stop trying to keep this rag’s reputation as good as it was the day he left.
So, I wound up thanking quite a few people after all. Let me also thank Dave, Rupert and Some Dude – a guy who I seriously couldn’t do this without – for helping to establish HT’s current tone and contributing incredible posts each week. Thanks to the Glide guys for all of their unwavering help, support and of course deciding to start this blog. Thanks to the folks on PT, The Bort and Team HLA for linking, reading and lending a hand. I literally have a list of about 75 other people to thank, but I think I’ll just send them a note to spare y’all for any more self-serving ridiculousness.
So without further ado, it’s time for my favorite piece. This anniversary has made me extremely nostalgic and I can’t stop thinking about the beginning. The first good piece I ever wrote, and the day I knew I had a shot at this thing was a post about a band made up of 16 year old Umphrey’s fans, Tribute to Whigg.
READ ON to take a look at The Royal Tennenbrah’s Saga Continues…
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Around 5:30PM Music Today started sending out notices of regret and confirmation to those who entered the lottery for tickets to Phish’s comeback gigs in Hampton, Virginia on March 6,
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