I got my golden ticket yesterday, a seat at Fenway Park to see The Police. I highly recommend going in with a few friends on a fan club membership: Tickets
With some old fashioned sleuthing we found out the popular rock band Phish plans on releasing 11/14/95 as the next installment of the Live Phish video and audio series. The
The end of this week couldn’t come soon enough for me. The NYC weather has been brutally chilly, and I look forward to a three-day weekend. President’s Day weekend also signals
It’s unbelievable how far we’ve come from Al and Tipper Gore’s days of advocating censorship as leaders of the PMRC in the late 1980s. The former vice president today announced
You can find some crazy videos when spelunking the depths of YouTube. This week’s edition of The B List presents 12 great clips from the backstage area at concerts. Some are funny, and others are just damn cool to see:
Read on below for a full list of 12 unbelievable backstage videos that span all genres, fantastic clips that include Van Halen, Jimi, DMX and Jay-Z, Leo Kottke, Nirvana, Dylan with Lou Reed and BB King, and Motley Crue’s meat fetish…
We’re trying something different for this week’s edition of Grousing The Aisles: For your continued enjoyment, we’re adding links to high quality mp3 versions of some of the shows that are featured. Please weigh in and let us know if this is something we should continue. Allright, let’s get down to business here:
Betts, Leavell, Hall, and Trucks 04/23/83 SBD (320kbps MP3):
I didn’t even know this band ever existed until I came upon a torrent of this show from Hobart College. In 1983, the Allman Brothers Band had been broken up for a while, allowing all the members to pursue individual projects. Dickie Betts and Butch Trucks formed a cleverly titled band called BHLT with former Allmans’ piano player Chuck Leavell and Jimmy Hall on harmonica.
This show is one of few that circulate from BHLT’s short tenure. The band plays a number of Allmans classics and a few originals Leavell wrote with Betts (Chuck Leavell features a clip of Rain, one of the originals he wrote with Betts, on his website). BHLT had plans to record but dissolved before that ever became a reality. Luckily for us we can re-live this meeting of southern rock all-stars by listening to this show.
Read on for more from the popular rock band Phish, Clapton and moe…
He’s part Pete Carroll, part Bill Maher, and we love’m. Thanks to T-Money for the heads up about Roger Waters adding some American dates to his 2007 World Tour: Thursday,
8 PM Update: We just got the official press release, and everything you’ve heard today is correct. One thing we can add: The comedians are back, and Bonnaroo 2007 will
One of the most unique aspects of Umphrey’s McGee’s music is the near-nightly improvisational jam — known as “Jimmy Stewart” — the band inserts into its sets. Now thanks to UM Street Team Coordinator, Jon McLennand, the best improvisations from February through June 2006 have been compiled into two discs called “Jimmy Stewart” – The Second Album, available now.
Umphrey’s played more than 50 shows during that time period, and it wasn’t easy for McLennand to decide which jams made the cut. His process? “I go through all the shows (of a certain period) and collect all of the improvisation. Then I listen to everything, ad nauseum, until I’m able to whittle down the best pieces of improv. Then, I jigsaw everything together so that it fits, is listenable, and flows.”
The result is an album that shows off all the different sides of the band’s music that isn’t based around two verses and a chorus. Read on for further details on the second Jimmy Stewart album, a full tracklisting and much more…
The Police are currently holding a press conference and live rehersal at The Whiskey as I type this, and it’s currently being webcast live (so get on over there and watch first-hand). Confirming one of the worst kept secrets of all-time, The Police will be heading out on an extensive world tour at the end of May:
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ITINERARY 2007
“Additional North American concert dates in Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Edmonton, Hartford, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Tampa, San Francisco’s Bay Area, Minneapolis/St. Paul and the Washington/Baltimore area will be announced in the next few weeks. Additional cities and venues to be announced soon.”
Read on for much more on this inevitable but still awesome announcement…
