Hidden Track

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…

We confirmed the Bonnaroo 2007 lineup last night, Roger Waters is coming back to the USA, and all is right with the world halfway through the week. Let’s look around the cyberweb and check in on some of the shit that’s out there: Blogcritics.com presents a list of rock’s greatest bass riffs If you don’t have tickets to see […]

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, May 24th East Rutherford, NJ Continental Arena Wednesday, May 30th New York NY Madison Square Garden Friday, June 1st Philadelphia PA Wachovia Center Saturday, June […]

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 feature Lewis Black & Friends, Dave Attell and David Cross. Props to PT user jtr210 and the BonnarooDetective for discovering a link (since removed) to […]

“Hey, you…get your damn hands off my Internet videos.” –George McFly, 1955 Some time during HT Weekend Posting Hours I salivated over the upcoming SXSW premiere of the new David Berman-intensive documentary Silver Jew. In dual congratulatory honor of this release and my salivary glands working properly, here’s a cool clip of the Jews playing […]

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…

As part of our continued effort to geek everyone up about underrated artists we can’t wait to see down at Langerado next month, today we’ll sneak a peek into the Apollo Sunshine archive and get particularly geeky. Sadly I missed this trio of Berkelee gents at this year’s NYC Freaks’ Ball, but redemption is only one month away under the chicken soup-infused […]

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

• 5/28/07 GM Place Vancouver, BC (Onsale: Saturday, Feb. 17)
• 6/06/07 Key Arena Seattle, WA (Onsale: TBA)
• 6/09/07 Pepsi Arena Denver, CO (Onsale: TBA)
• 6/15/07 MGM Grand Las Vegas, NV (Onsale: TBA)
• 6/16/07 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN (Onsale: TBA)
• 6/18/07 US Airways Arena Phoenix, AZ (Onsale: TBA)
• 6/26/07 American Airlines Arena Dallas, TX (Onsale: TBA)
• 6/30/07 New Orleans Arena New Orleans, LA (Onsale: TBA)
• 7/02/07 Scottrade Center St. Louis, MO (Onsale: TBA)
• 7/22/07 Air Canada Centre Toronto, ON (Onsale: Feb. 17)
• 7/25/07 Bell Centre Montreal, PQ (Onsale: Feb. 17)
• 7/28/07 Fenway Park Boston, MA (Onsale: Feb. 20)
• 8/1,3/07 Madison Square Garden New York, NY (Onsale: Feb. 20)

“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…

Our stellar photojournalist friend Nathan Ingraham craves the indie jam rock. So we sent him down to Boston’s Orpheum Theatre this past Friday, and he came back with these moe. better gems…

The venerable Boston Metro couldn’t make it two paragraphs without mentioning Phish in its preview of Friday’s moe. concert. So instead of fighting the urge to follow the paper’s questionable lead, I’ll get the comparison out of the way up front. As the Metro noted, moe. has not grown exponentially since the demise of the popular rock band Phish two and a half years ago. But I’d be willing to bet most fans at the Orpheum wouldn’t have it any other way.

The band as well seems content with its place in the musical hierarchy: moe. is big enough to throw large-scale events like the upcoming Snoe.down and yet intimate enough to still allow for band/fan interaction (such as the full band merchandise signing post-show) and 2005’s acoustic Coda shows in New York.

But let’s just talk about the music. Most in the crowd that night had a feeling they were in for a special show when the band opened with the raging jam-vehicle Recreational Chemistry. The song was just about to take off when who should wander onto the stage but bassist Rob Derhak’s son, Zach, wielding some sort of key-tar and screaming into a mic guitarist Al Schnier had provided. Sure it was adorable, but it also slammed the breaks on the jam, and the band sloppily segued into Blue Jeans Pizza. But things picked up there, and the song featured guitarist Chuck Garvey’s most ripping solo of the night. He didn’t get lots of other opportunities to really shine though — this evening was definitely an “Al” night.

Read on for 11 more amazing photos and the rest of Nate’s review…

Thanks to my DVR I was able to watch The Police’s quick performance over and over again last night, and in so doing I missed the rest of the Grammys. [youtube]fIIOwONgmJY[/youtube] Oh well, I hear I didn’t miss too much. Regardless of what may or may not have happened last night, let’s start off the week with […]