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Future Phish 2.0 lead singer Trey Anastasio shocked the unwashed masses when he reversed an earlier position and made the outrageous claim that he’d give his left nut to play You Enjoy Myself five times in a row every day until he dies.

[No Dogs Were Harmed In The Making of This Post]

Our anonymous friend consequently shocked the unwashed masses yesterday when he made an even more outrageous claim that he’d give his Black Labrador for a ticket to last night’s Classic TAB show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Said friend couldn’t garner entry to the show, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. And his last ditch effort manifested itself in the form of the PETA-fucking Craigslist attempt that Scotty posted here yesterday. Of course it wasn’t serious, but since on the whole Disco Biscuits fans don’t exactly have a good credibility score, plenty of people wrote in to chide him for selling his Bisco lot dog Caterpillar for some unobtainable ducats.

The number of serious e-mailed responses to our friend overwhelmed the number of people that offered congratulations on a hoax well done, we thought we’d share our favorites with youse. So without further (Freddy) ado, here are the 10 best from some mindless folks with limited sense of humor:

HI…JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT A COMPLETE FUCKING SCUMBAG YOU ARE. ITS COOL…IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BECOME COOL AND KNOW WHAT TO DO..AND WHEN I WAS 21, I GUESS I WAS AS DUMB AS YOU. TREYS A CRACKHEAD…THE TICKET IS OVERPRICED AND YOU CLEARLY THINK ITS COOL TO TRADE A LIVING ITEM FOR A CONCERT THAT WILL COME AND GO. YEAH YOU WILL HEAR A PHISH SONG….BUT I HOPE ITS THE LAST MUSIC YOU HEAR AS YOU WILL BE KILLED ON THE WAY HOME BY THE KARMA POLICE. I HOPE YOU DIE AND YOUR ANIMAL FINDS A BETTER HOME

READ ON for more of the responses our friend got about Caterpillar…

Sometime around 1 PM today the initial installment of the All Points West gets underway in Jersey City, NJ. It’s the first major music festival here in the Northeast, and

Welcome to the first-ever Hidden Track live blog, where we’ll be providing the setlist, commentary and hopefully some photos from tonight’s Classic TAB Warmup concert at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg.

[Photo by Adam Kaufman]

Classic TAB
August 7, 2008
The Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY

Set I: Alaska, Gotta Jibboo, Peggy, Sweet Dreams Melinda, Sand, Cayman Review, Gone*, Windora Bug, Night Speaks To a Woman

Set II: Tuesday, Drifting, Backwards Down The Number Line, Spin, Valentine*, Greyhound Rising*, The Way I Feel, Mr. Completely> Light*, First Tube

E: Heavy Things, Bug

* First Time Played (Original)

4:00 PM: Only 60 more minutes before I blow this Popsicle stand to make the forty-minute commute down to Williamsburg. Meanwhile, have you seen the latest batch of Craig’s List ads? Not exactly as brilliant as the tour dog trade, but certainly some interesting offers…

Will blow you for a Trey ticket
Will sell my testicles for Trey
Trey tickets gets you a serious lickin’

READ ON for the full live blog…

For this week’s B-List, a Scotty/Rupert collaboration, we’ve taken the liberty of handpicking some of the world’s finest locales where the pickin’s are ripe for a hippie festival. Some places are just begging for a few stages, several thousand hippies, and our favorite jambands. Where you ask? I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called…

Green Bay: Not only are the fans in green Bay fervid supporters of just about everything, but they are apparently quite skilled in coercing their idols out of retirement. Perhaps they can put those skills to work and convince Kang, Nershi, and crew to come out of retirement for a big festival group scream. You know those guys would be all about the Cheesehead hats.

Reykjavik: Of course the Sigur Ros headliner appeals, but also if the organizers time it right, this festival could exist entirely at night. This serves a dual function: A) the spun folk never have to feel bad for not sleeping over the course of 72 straight hours, because it would really be just one night and B) we all avoid the inevitable embarrassment of returning to work on Monday with 3rd degree sunburn.

Central Park: Self serving perhaps, but how fun would it be to camp out for the weekend in the middle of Central Park with bands set up throughout the horticultural masterpiece? Come on; throw us a bone. A lot of us poor saps in New York don’t have cars, so it’s getting tricky to make it to many of the good festivals without spending multiple thousand dollars. Besides, parking will be a snap for the rest of you.

Fallujah, Iraq: Maybe the Sunnis and Shiites can come together over a game of hacky sack while listening to the latest String Cheese Incident side project. We just want to see Michael Franti say “How ya feelin’, Fallujah?” READ ON…

I woke up with a huge smile on my face when I realized today is the day I’ll finally get to see Trey rip shit up on the ‘Doc for

I ended part one of my Newport Folk Festival review discussing Jim James’ sublime sit-in with She & Him during the mother of all rainstorms. That wasn’t James only cameo of the weekend, as he also sang Dylan’s Goin’ To Acapulco with Calexico on Sunday afternoon. I love that JJ fully embraced the Newport Folk Festival and stuck around for all three days, unlike Trey Anastasio who took off mere minutes after his set ended.

[Photo by Drew Granchelli]

While Jim James’ sit-ins were outstanding, the highlight of the whole festival was his solo set on Saturday afternoon. Just as the rain was dying down My Morning Jacket’s lead singer treated the soaked crowd to an fan-fucking-tastic performance that mixed old favorites with a couple’a gems from Evil Urges. Jimmy also busted out a scintillating cover of Gil-Scott Heron’s When You Are Who You Are that had many in the audience scratching their noggins trying to figure out what tune they were hearing.

JJ paced the set fantastically moving from new tune to old tune and back again. M. Ward added backup vocals and a second guitar to Wonderful (The Way I Feel), Golden and Look at You, which gave each tune some nice depth. James’ voice was in fine form throughout the set and the crowd cooperated by remaining extremely quiet in awe of what they were witnessing. My favorite part of the set was the final tune: Z’s Anytime. I didn’t imagine that a solo version of that tune would sound so good. JJ eschewed use of his guitar in favor of an Omnichord, which he worked to perfection on Anytime. Once he finished singing Anytime Jim pressed a few buttons on the Omnichord which increased the tempo of the beat and ran off stage. It was a weird ending to a marvelous set. READ ON for more…

We asked Claude Coleman for more information about his departure from Ween and we received this press release from the drummer: A multi-instrumentalist best known for his chameleon-like and acrobatic

When you’re onsite at a festival as delectably lively as the Gathering of the Vibes, inevitably a few cool trees get lost in the broad expanse of the forest. With

Yesterday Scotty gave us the first part of his three part Newport review, but Luke Sacks also attended Saturday’s festivities and offers his opinion:

The Newport Folk Festival holds a special place in the history of rock and roll and conjures up some great imagery. After all, Bob Dylan plugged in and changed the course of music forever at the festival back in 1965. Dylan was almost booed off the stage during his performance that year but since then, the music landscape, and that of the festival, which has been around since 1959, have both changed drastically.

[Photo by Drew Granchelli]

This year’s festival was heavy on the rock but light on the folk as far as the bigger acts went. Aside from some rock musicians playing solo acoustic sets of their electric songs, there weren’t many folk elements to be found in the music. There was plenty of mellow acts – She and Him, Richie Havens, Son Volt and the Cowboy Junkies to name a few – but no big folk name. READ ON for more…

If you’re paying really close attention, you know I had a good weekend when Cover Wars doesn’t make it onto the blog on Tuesday. Well yeah, my car may still smell like wet festival, but the trip that brought me to two ports (Newport for the Folk Festival and Bridgeport for Gathering Of The Vibes) was totally worth it. Following up from last week, PBS has walked away as the clear winner of the Spanish Castle Magic edition.

“Everyone knows rock n’ roll attained perfection in 1974; It’s a scientific fact”. This is according to Homer Simpson in the episode Homerpalooza, where he is questioning the need for “new bands” as he has realized he is out of touch with the music of the young people. Frankenstein was actually released in 1973, though Homer may have been referring to a specific experience WITH the song and not just the song’s release. The song titled originally titled “Double Drum Solo”, the Edgar Winter Group renamed the tune Frankenstein in reference to the fact that it had been spliced together from numerous separate recordings. The result? One of the most bad-ass rock instrumentals ever written.

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READ ON after the jump for some versions not included in the playlist, voting, info on each version and much much more of the original Cover Wars…