Photos by Jason Gonulsen of Jay Farrar at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, MO 11/13/04.
The three bands most frequently mentioned as the replacement of Phish as the leader of the jamband scene are arguably Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, and moe. But with WSP on their one year
These days it can be easy to forget why someone would want to be a Deadhead. Nobody really wants to formally acknowledge it, but the band that currently tours as
The highly anticipated film “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny” will likely begin shooting in March, group member Kyle Gass tells Billboard.com. Beforehand, Gass and partner Jack Black will hit the studio with the Dust Brothers’ John King to record new songs for the soundtrack, which is expected to double as the next Tenacious D album.
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Gregg Allman will take a break from the Allman Brothers Band for a brief run of East Coast tour dates, kicking off Jan. 21 in Jim Thorpe, Pa. Traveling under the “& Friends” banner, the Southern rock veteran has dates scheduled through the end of the month, including a two-night stand in New York.
According to Allman’s official Web site his “friends” band is made up of singer Floyd Miles, bassist Tommy Miller, guitarist Mark McGee, keyboardist Neal Larson, drummer James van de Bogert and a horn section made up of trumpeter Richard Boulger and saxophonists Chris Karlic and Jay Collins.
Allman’s last solo album, “Searching for Simplicity,” appeared in 1997 via the Sony-affiliated 550 Music label.
Here are the Gregg Allman & Friends tour dates:
Jan. 21: Jim Thorpe, Pa. (Penn’s Peak)
Jan. 22: Uncasville, Conn. (Mohegan Sun Casino)
Jan. 23: Sayreville, N.J. (Starland Ballroom)
Jan. 25-26: New York (B.B. King’s Blues Club)
Jan. 28: Niagara Falls, N.Y. (Seneca Niagara Casino)
Jan. 29: Glenside, Pa. (Keswick Theatre)
Jan. 30: Falls Church, Va. (State Theatre)
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Shock jock Howard Stern made his latest pitch to drum up support for his switch to satellite radio by giving away hundreds of free Sirius Satellite Radio boomboxes Thursday.
Thousands of fans chanting “Howard! Howard!” under the direction of midriff-baring cheerleaders turned out to get the free goods in Manhattan’s Union Square and hear Stern make his case for listeners to pay for radio.
“This will be dominant form of media because there is no government regulation,” said Stern. “It’s the death of the FCC. They have ruined commercial broadcasting — down with the FCC!”
Stern gave away 500 boombox units and thousands of certificates for free radios from a mobile stage adorned with American flags while Ozzy Osborne’s ‘Crazy Train’ and Rage Against the Machine blared from giant side speakers.
“I want them to experience radio the way it should be,” said Stern. “20 years ago I got into radio and it sucked. I went and I made a different kind of radio and now the FCC is dismantling it. It isn’t right. It’s gonna stop. Satellite radio is the future.”
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Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan’s scornful, ironic ode to a spoiled woman’s reversal of fortune, has been designated the greatest rock’n’roll song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
The six-minute opening track from his landmark 1965 album “Highway 61 Revisited” broke the barrier of the three-minute hit single and established Dylan as a mainstream pop artist, marking his transformation from folk troubadour to rock sensation.
“No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time,” writes Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke in an article accompanying the magazine’s list of the top 500 rock songs of all time.
The list, published in a special edition out tomorrow (Nov. 19), was compiled by a panel of recording artists, producers, label executives, critics and songwriters. Among them were singer Art Garfunkel, Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, vocalist Joni Mitchell and even Dylan’s son, Jakob, who fronts rock act the Wallflowers.
Ranked No. 2 on the magazine’s roster of greatest rock songs of all time is the Rolling Stones’ 1965 hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” followed by John Lennon’s utopian ballad “Imagine,” Marvin Gaye’s languid soul classic “What’s Going On” and Aretha Franklin’s empowerment anthem “Respect.”
Rounding out the top 10 are “Good Vibrations” from the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” the Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” Nirvana’s 1991 hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Ray Charles’ seminal soul record “What’d I Say.”
The lion’s share of songs from the list hail from the 1960s, and only a handful were released after 1990. The most recent single to make the list is “Hey Ya!” (2003) from hip-hop duo OutKast at No. 180. Rapper Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” (2002) ranks No. 166.
The highest-charting song on the list from the king of rock’n’roll, Elvis Presley, is his 1956 hit “Hound Dog” at No. 19.
The Beatles, not surprisingly, notch the most songs on the list, with 22 entries. They are trailed by archrivals the Rolling Stones, who tally 13. A dozen of Dylan’s songs make the cut.
In a similar list published in 1989, the magazine named the Stones’ “Satisfaction” as the best single of the past 25 years, with Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” placed at No. 2 — a reversal of the latest ranking.
Last year’s Rolling Stone magazine list of the top 500 rock albums of all time put the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” at No. 1.
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