If you’ve ever wondered what an animated version of Widespread Panic would look like, wonder no more as we’ll get to see John Bell’s multi-colored beard and Jojo’s signature baseball
We must be approaching festival season because the next gigs for three of the five bands in this week’s piece are at festivals. We’ve got a healthy dose of Grateful Dead this week with segments from both Burlington’s Dead Sessions and Zen Tricksters. We’ve also got a tune from RAQ’s return as well as Jim James lending some lead vocals to the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and a new My Morning Jacket tune that does not feature James on lead vocals.
[Thanks to AHappyHourHero for this week’s photo]
And we continue to take all the selected tracks, normalize them, create some simple fades and put it into one easy to download MP3 for you.
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Artist & Title: Dead Sessions – The Music Never Stopped > Sugaree > The Music Never Stopped
Date & Venue: 2010-04-30 Higher Ground – South Burlington, VT
Taper & Show Download: Shiva Ho
HT Contributor Wade Wilby let me know that this was a good segment to include this week as friends of HT Adam King and Christina Durfee both contribute some top notch vocals. Nice Bobby impressions Kinger. Looks like this ensemble doesn’t have any future gigs on the books as of now.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/deadseshsauce.mp3]READ ON for tracks from My Morning Jacket and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Merriweather Post Pavilion, RAQ and the Zen Tricksters…
Check in on Wednesday of every week during Season 6 of Lost to share your thoughts, theories, complaints and assessments of the previous night’s episode. Big time SPOILER alert for anyone didn‘t watch yet.
Synopsis: As always, we teamed up with the Joker from Coventry for this week’s setlist and recap. Side note: Joker ran a reprint of his epic LOST/Phish Tees if anyone missed out the first time around. Check ’em out.
Geronimo Jackson, May 4, 2010
Set I (Off Island): Spine of a Dog (1), Sea of Teeth (2), Let It Go (3), The Musical Box (4), If I Could (5)
Set II (On Island): Rusty Cage (6) > Trust Me (7) > Airplane (8) > Yellow Submarine (9) > Shot In The Arm (10) Timebomb (11) > Hit On The Head (12) Bathtub Jin (13) > Drowned (14)
Encore: Finish What Ya Started (15)
(1) moe.; Locke with Love and Marriage tease
(2) Sparklehorse; Bernard and Jack
(3) Tim McGraw; Helen Norwood and Jack
(4) Genesis; Claire and Jack with Catch a Falling Star teases
(5) Phish; Jack and Locke
(6) Soundgarden
(7) Elton John; Jack and Flocke
(8) Widespread Panic
(9) The Beatles
(10) Wilco; Kate
(11) Beck; Jack, Sawyer and Sayid
(12) Gomez; Sawyer
(13) Phish
(14) The Who; Jin and Sun
(15) Van Halen; Flocke
Epic One Liner of the Week: “There is no Sayid.” – Jack
Lost My Mind Just a Couple of Times: 1) The subtitled version of Titanic wasn’t nearly as good as the original. 2) It’s getting harder by the day to understand the rules of the smoke monster. I find routinely myself asking “why didn’t he just kill them right there,” but then they go and make up a new rule. READ ON for this week’s recap and discussion points…
Just as quickly as it started, My Morning Jacket’s ten-show Spring Tour came to a close on Sunday night at the LC Outdoor Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio. Over the course of the run, the group stuck pretty close to the vest in terms of setlists although the order of songs did change from night to night. But that’s not to say they didn’t treat each audience to a one-timer or two.
[All photos from 4/21 by Derek Martinez]
For this edition of The Number Line we’ve compiled all ten setlists – via the MMJ Archive – threw them into a spreadsheet and came up with a bunch of stats that we think you’ll find interesting. Not only that, we also looked at every YouTube clip from the tour and linked only the best ones in the setlist section of the post after the jump along with links to the available audio on the Live Music Archive. Basically, we put together everything you need to know about MMJ’s Spring Tour. Enough from me, let’s get to the stats…
212 – Total Songs Played
37 – Different Songs Played
25 – Most Songs Played at One Show (4/21 and 4/28)
20 – Fewest Songs Played at non-New Orleans Show (4/23)
11 – Fewest Songs Played at One Show (4/24b)
10 – Shows on the tour
9 – Songs From The Z LP Played This Tour (Wordless Chorus, It Beats 4 U, Gideon, What A Wonderful Man, Off The Record, Anytime, Lay Low, Knot Comes Loose, Dondante)
8 – Shows That Closed With Move On Up
READ ON for more stats from MMJ’s recently completed tour…
Last year, The Black Keys threw their fans a bit of a curve ball when they teamed up with hip hop producer Damon Dash to release an album under the
Looking back through the annals of rock journalism, just three publications carry the historical clout to be considered in the upper crust of music scribble: Rolling Stone, Creem, and the Village Voice. Rolling Stone, of course, wielded(s) the biggest brand name and Creem threw its weight behind being the badass on the block. The Village Voice on the other hand, while bohemian, paved its way relatively quietly with great writers, a careful focus on the written word, and of course, the best location.
When current shopkeep of the Voice’s storied music department, Rob Harvilla, took over for Chuck Eddy back in 2006 (shortly after the New Times bought the paper), he slid into a pair of rather large shoes. Not merely did he face filling the void left behind by the beloved Eddy, but also followed in a long line of Mohinder Surresh-caliber verbose superheroes like Greil Marcus and Robert Christgau. And perhaps most challenging, he came into the leadership fold right in the thick of the changeover between old and new media. In other words, Harvilla had his work cut out for him in carrying the the Village Voice’s high standard for musical credibility into the digital age. Fortunately for longtime Voice readers, he’s done a tremendous job and taken it all in stride.
Hidden Track: I read somewhere that you discovered your passion for music journalism while sitting in the waiting room at the dentist reading a Rolling Stone. Do you remember what article you read?
Rob Harvilla: Orthodontist, actually. Dr. Pfister. P-F. No specific article, but I can remember covers (first of my own subscription: Eddie Van Halen), specific features (Cosmic Thing B-52s), a few reviews (how can this guy not like They Might Be Giants?), etc. From that period I also remember that either Time or Newsweek did an Alternative Rock! cover story that broke the genre down into different categories and alleged that if I liked TMBG, I’d love Butthole Surfers, which remains to this day the single worst piece of advice I have ever received.
READ ON for more with Rob Harvilla of the Village Voice…
Earlier this spring, we reported that Jay Lane was leaving his gig as part of the two-headed drum attack in Furthur to rejoin Primus to reform the band’s original lineup
The summer concert season is quickly approaching and there’s no clearer sign of its pending arrival than the lineup announcements for NYC’s Central Park SummerStage and Celebrate Brooklyn! at the
Widespread Panic, Washington DC, April 21
The more time I spend with Widespread Panic’s forthcoming Dirty Side Down, the more it sounds to me like the most comfortable album Panic’s recorded in a decade. If it’s taken this long for Panic to finish a document that feels lovingly stitched together, not “assembled,” and truest to their live mojo, so be it –- for me, it’s taken almost as long for Panic the live band to be as reliable as they once were.
No, it’s not that I haven’t had epic, soul-nourishing Widespread experiences in the post-Houser era of the band, it’s just that it’s taken a long time to be able to depend on them again. Catching the band early in the tour in mid-April, the second of two nights in the capital’s lovely Warner Theater, was affirmative. To JB, Jimmy, JoJo, Dave, Sunny and Todd: I’m buying.
It was a haphazard show with some marvelous moments – part of Panic’s appeal, oddly, are the groovy, ragged edges that contrast the fiery peaks and soulful zeniths – and it was enough to keep me convinced. It’s not a “the band is back” type of feeling, either; Panic never went away and recovered pretty quickly, all told, from a personnel tragedy that would have derailed, or at least neutered, a lesser band. It’s more that I’m not convinced Panic’s best days are in the rearview mirror. They have miles to go, mountains to climb. Nearly 25 years in, that’s pretty impressive.
READ ON for more from Chad on WSP in Washington D.C….
One week from today, on May 11, the debut album from Brendan Bayliss (UM) and Jeff Austin’s (YMSB) 30db project – One Man Show – finally hits record stores nearly
