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Dream Focused: Mitten and Clevetown

Scott Bernstein January 13, 2010 4 Comments

Happy New Year, Hidden Track enthusiasts and fellow Umphreaks. Welcome to another addition of Dream Focused, where I share some of my favorite Umphrey’s McGee jams in an attempt to show why I love this band. UM’s Fall Tour started right where the last one left off with the band in peak condition stretching out songs and focusing on the groove.

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We begin with Example 1 from Traverse City. Like Wormbog, Example 1 has been getting “the treatment” of late and this is the most shining, dare I say, example. Opening the show and clocking in at 17 minutes, this Example 1 jam starts with a Willie The Pimp-esque funk groove as the A section and a Drum and Bass B section that is spacious and picks up intensity.

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Hey 19 is one of the only covers to get stretched out in the new jam style and this version is a beaut’, Clark! Enjoy.

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Next, we hop on over to House of Blues in Clevetown. Before I get into the Kabump, please enjoy this promo video for “The Town Lebron Owns”…

READ ON for a laid-back Kabump, a funky Intentions Clear and a rage cage-worthy JaJunk complete with a FF cherry on top…

Vampire Weekend Goes Unplugged

Scott Bernstein January 12, 2010 4 Comments

While I haven’t had a chance to listen to HT Faves Vampire Weekend’s new album, Contra, since returning from Jam Cruise, everyone either seems to love or hate the disc

The Macpodz, the New Pride of Ann Arbor

Ryan Dembinsky January 12, 2010 12 Comments

With the Wolverines sucking wind in two sports and Rich Rodriguez leading the U of M football team to two of the worst seasons in the program’s history, Ann Arborites need to look beyond sports for inspiration these days.

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[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]

Fortunately, one of the nation’s great eccentric cities can fill its fanatical void with a young band called The Macpodz. A long time coming for sure, Ann Arbor finally has its first great jamband; a guitar-less five-piece comprised of brilliant musicians who via bass, trumpet, percussion/flute, keys, and drums, muster up some of the most energetic music on the scene today.

I caught these guys back in May at Sullivan Hall and left floored. Enamored with their sturdy funk-jazz-rock tunes and vibrant stage presence, we caught up with trumpet player Ross Huff to chat about their music as well as some pressing Ann Arbor issues of the day like how long do we give Rich Rod to turn around the football program and what are the important sandwiches in town (arguably the country’s sandwich Mecca).

Hidden Track: To start off, let’s talk about the Macpodz and the old genre topic. Given that the Macpodz music is somewhat rooted in jazz music, yet the band seems to really identify with the jamband scene, do you guys give it any thought about whether or not you want to fully embrace the whole “jamband” thing or do you try to maintain a balance and cater to the more pure jazz scene as well?

Ross Huff: The short answer is that I don’t give it much thought.

I tell people I play in a rock and roll band and they don’t believe me, because it sounds like jazz to them. It doesn’t sound like jazz to me. It doesn’t yet have that level of complexity. We are students of jazz but our performance is based on rock aesthetics.

In the meantime, I’m trying to show that “genre” is an outdated concept entirely. The only important thing is to create living music and to show kids how to play, so music will continue to live after we die. Not our music, just Music, the gathering of humans and the playing of instruments. The great masters are getting old, and many have already passed.

READ ON for more of Ryan’s chat with The Macpodz…

Cover Wars: Helpless Edition

DaveO January 12, 2010 4 Comments

Helpless was written by Neil Young and released on the 1970 Crosby Stills Nash & Young album Deja Vu. There are three definitive performances by Young of this tune – the studio recording, Young’s performance with The Band that is captured in both audio and video formats at The Last Waltz where drugs were involved and the third is from MTV’s Unplugged.

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We’ve got a lot of renditions this week, more than I normally allow, but when it was time to cut some, I thought they were all pretty damn good.

The Contestants:

Buffy Sainte-Marie: This cover was recorded just a year after the original release of CSNY’s version of Helpless. In fact, Neil Young plays on this album but I have been unable to determine if he plays on this track. For those of you listening on headphones, crazy reverb/delay on the snare drum in the intro to this song. I’m not sure if this is intentional as it disappears once the vocals kick in. Source: She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina

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READ ON for the rest of this week’s contestants…

Hidden Flick: Dreaming in Metaphors

Randy Ray January 12, 2010 1 Comment

This one is for an old friend with an odd name…a Seal amongst Men. A Brit, neither Spanish, nor French, wandering through the night with a German…

Nocturnal dissonance swirls into a fine point of clarity. Sure enough, you’re on the set of your own paper mache talk show. Psychedelic tendencies of abstract imagery abound. Give me something from a dream whence I breathe. Wander into sealish dives, backing away from the avatar, away from unconditional unconscious dreamscapes. Bring IT on.

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We ponder the French because…well…someone has to, and it’s been a while since we’ve wandered away from the American shores of self-examination in this third season of Hidden Flick. Indeed, we also gaze upon the dreams of a young man with a wild imagination who can not focus his creativity into any form of daytime productivity.

We all dance along the precipice of daydreams, and some of us fall over the edge, the precipice which divides reality and fantasy, cross that bridge, but not getting burned, you may not know what you are going through, but time is the space which implodes…a prayer for the dreaming…life carries on with this week’s Hidden Flick, La Science des rêves, literally The Science of Dreams, or as marketed in the west, The Science of Sleep.

READ ON for more on this week’s Hidden Flick…

Motet Talking Heads – Life During Wartime

Scott Bernstein January 12, 2010 No Comments

My favorite set from Jam Cruise came from The Motet plays The Talking Heads featuring all-star musicians Dave Watts, Fuzz and Carrie, Kyle Hollingsworth, Joey Porter, Liza Oxnard and Paul

Tour Dates: A Whole Lotta Nada

Jeffrey Greenblatt January 12, 2010 5 Comments

As a way of rewarding their local fan base, Nada Surf have announced three hometown gigs here in New York City that will kick off their upcoming world tour. The

Live Webcast: Kung Fu @ Stella Blue’s

Scott Bernstein January 11, 2010 1 Comment

The RAQ/Breakfast Supergroup Kung Fu continues their residency at Stella Blue’s in New Haven this evening. Kung Fu features Tim Palmieri (The Breakfast/guitar), Todd Stoops (RAQ/keys), Kris Jensen (sax), David

Hors: Pitchfork @ Pavement Fest / WSP NYE

Scott Bernstein January 11, 2010 1 Comment

Our friends at Consequence of Sound really have this “breaking stories about who’s headlining festivals” thing down as they continue to provide the scoop on 2010 festival headliners. Today, the

Tour Diary: The Hue w/ Project/Object

Hidden Track Staff January 11, 2010 8 Comments

Welcome to the first 2010 edition of Tour Diary – a column written by an artist about life on the road. Today, we’ve got Jared Rabin, guitarist for aggressive prog-rockers The Hue, to tell us about their early January tour with the incredible Zappa tribute band Project/Object.

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I’m a fan of “Zappamusic.” Maybe not the biggest connoisseur freak out there, but I have always been a fan. I’ve also heard plenty of people play Zappamusic, ranging from really well to really badly. I’d seen Ray White play with Umphrey’s back in 2005 and knew his story and had read up on Ike Willis, so I had an idea that this would be cool heading into it.

Getting our dense, challenging music in front of the older prog crowd has long been an important goal for us, as their ears would hopefully be receptive to what is too much for some people to handle. With that in mind, we set out to open 3 shows for André Cholmondeley’s amazing Project/Object which this run featured Ray and Ike’s first tour together since 1984!

READ ON for more from Jared about playing with Project/Object…

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