2004

Jam Cruise 3 will set sail from Jacksonville, Florida on January 6, 2005. 1800 Jam Cruisers will hit the high seas for 4 days aboard Carnival Cruiselines’ Celebration. The ship will stop in Freeport, Bahamas and, fulfilling a popular request on a questionnaire filled out by last year’s cruisers, will offer passengers two full days at sea to enjoy over 40 musical performances. The festival line up includes Galactic, Les Claypool, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Keller Williams, Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Jazz Mandolin Project featuring Jamie Masefield and Jon Fishman, Zilla featuring Michael Travis, The Remarkable Elba Kramer featuring Kyle Hollingsworth, North Mississippi Allstars, Ozomatli, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Umphrey’s McGee, Garaj Mahal, MOFRO, Benevento/Russo Duo, Tishamingo, DJ Logic, and DJ Harry. In addition to incredible performances by many of the genre’s most celebrated musical pioneers, the Jam Cruise experience promises once-in-a-lifetime artist collaborations and opportunities for hang time with the musicians who are so often inaccessible backstage.

One of the many musical highlights of this floating festival is sure to be the rare reunion performance of what some believe is the original jam band: Col. Bruce and the Aquarium Rescue Unit. ARU first busted onto the scene in 1988. In fact, there wasn’t really even a jam band scene yet; Jerry Garcia was still alive and well and most of the improvisational music lovers were busy with The Grateful Dead’s non-stop touring schedule. Still, a handful of young bands were starting to hit the clubs and festivals. ARU released two albums on Capricorn Records, in 1991 and 1993, and embarked on the H.O.R.D.E festival during the summers of 1992 and 1993, where they met fellow musicians Phish, Widespread Panic, and Blues Traveler. Cross pollination between bands was frequent, with members of ARU frequently guesting on-stage or in the studio with the others.

Col. Bruce and ARU would leave the spotlight as quickly as they came into it, but not before planting the seeds of a music community and culture that would someday thrive, under the radar, in clubs and theatres and festival grounds around the world. The band was led by the genius antics of Col. Bruce Hampton and the band included Oteil Burbridge (bass), Jimmy Herring (guitar), Jeff Sipe (drums), and Matt Mundy (mandolin). ARU’s cosmic funk blend of Delta Blues and bluegrass blew the minds of many. Their community conscious spirit set the stage for the quiet music revolution that would follow Jerry Garcia’s passing and their impeccable chops would become a template for future work in the jam band genre.

And now, after earning mythical status via absence, Col. Bruce and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (minus Mundy who retired from professional music in 1993) are back for a small handful of reunion shows, including their very special Jam Cruise 3 appearance. A band before their time, ARU’s sound is still as zany and fresh as ever, their songs are timeless, and their chops, well they haven’t set down their instruments since the band split.

Only twenty cabins remain! Prices range from $550 to $1125.00 per person, plus port charges, service fees and gratuities. Call 303.544.0191 or visit www.jamcruise.com for reservations aboard Jam Cruise 3.

Jam Cruise is presented by Cloud 9 Adventures: a partnership between Mark Brown of Florida’s Brown Coffee Productions, Athens promoter Josh Moore of Jomo Entertainment, Roger Naber of Legendary Blues Cruises, and Attorney Joe Hanan.

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Pictures of former Beatle George Harrison were taken from his sister’s car while she was donating memorabilia to the Clinton Presidential Library, she said Monday.

Lou Harrison said someone shattered a window of her car and stole a briefcase containing photos of her and her brother and the lyrics to a number of her brother’s songs.

“(The items are) precious to me obviously because I don’t have my brother in person any more,” she told KTHV-TV of Little Rock.

Harrison had driven from her southern Illinois home to donate memorabilia to the downtown Little Rock library, which is scheduled to open Nov. 18. She had taken most of the items to the library when she discovered the break-in.

Harrison asked Beatles fans to help her recover the pictures. “Maybe they could keep an eye on the Internet,” she said.

Harrison said she decided to donated the items because she sees a connection between Clinton and The Beatles.

“I feel that really, Clinton is the Beatle president,” Harrison said. “There’s not enough things to leave for my grandchildren. So I thought maybe if I could house them at the Clinton Library, where they could be on display, that all the Beatle people could enjoy seeing them.”

Source yahoo.com.

On the heels of a successful West Coast summer tour, Galactic will return to the East Coast for a special all-instrumental fall tour. Kicking off on Tuesday, October 12 at the Water Street Music Hall in Rochester, New York, the tour will cover 11 venues in the Northeast (including a two-night stand at New York City’s Irving Plaza) before heading for three weeks of shows in the Southeast. The tour will include a two-night stand at Washington, DC’s 9:30 Club, a Halloween weekend stop at Tipitina’s in New Orleans, and Galactic’s annual Halloween night show at Stubb’s in Austin. The band will return to its hometown of New Orleans after the tour to play a special New Year’s Eve show at Tipitina’s for the first time since 1998.

Bluegrass string-band combo Hackensaw Boys will take the opening slot for the beginning of the fall tour, with Scratch (of the Roots crew) taking over mid-tour, and groove-jazz act The Duo playing a series of dates in early November. Instrumental trio Drums & Tuba will help close out the tour with a four-date slot in mid-November. Other notable guests include Latin hip-hop/funk band Ozomatli, playing at Philadelphia’s Electric Factory, and Grateful Dead spin-off Ratdog, who will join Galactic for a double bill in Allentown, Pennsylvania. At a special show on Sunday, October 24, at New York City’s Irving Plaza, Mofro vocalist JJ Grey will open and sit in with Galactic, along with a host of other guest players (check www.galacticfunk.com for announcements). Then, on Halloween weekend, San Francisco’s DJ Motion Potion will join Galactic and Scratch for a late-night dance party at Tipitina’s in New Orleans.

With the departure of vocalist Theryl “Houseman” DeClouet, Galactic is making a swift return to its instrumental roots after releasing several studio albums that featured vocal tracks. Now in pre-production for a new album, the band will use its time on stage this fall to experiment with new compositions and revisit classic Galactic material in instrumental arrangements. “When you work with vocalists you have to cater to what they do,” says saxophonist Ben Ellman. “Now, we can concentrate on doing what we do and really solidify our sound.” Songs with minor vocal components will take on stretched-out instrumental variations on this tour, while older material will enjoy extra instrumental exploration. The band may also resurrect songs from its earliest albums to play them live for the first time. “We started out as an instrumental band,” notes bassist Robert Mercurio, “so we’re returning to our roots, except now we’re so much better, and the range of what we can do is much wider.”

Galactic’s Fall 2004 Tour Dates:

October
12 Water Street Music Hall Rochester, NY
13 Sphere Entertainment Complex Buffalo, NY
14 Mr. Small’s Theatre Pittsburgh, PA
15 Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA
16 Stabler Arena – Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA
19 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
20 Lupo’s at the Strand Providence, RI
21 Toad’s Place New Haven, CT
22 Stone Pony Asbury Park, NJ
23 & 24 Irving Plaza New York, NY
27 The Library Oxford, MS
28 Varsity Theatre Baton Rouge, LA
29 Tipitina’s Uptown New Orleans, LA
30 Meridian Houston, TX
31 Stubb’s BBQ Austin, TX

November
3 Starr Hill Music Hall Charlottesville, VA
4 Recher Theatre Towson, MD
5 & 6 9:30 Club Washington DC
7 The Norva Theatre Norfolk, VA
9 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
10 Music Farm Charleston, SC
11 Roxy Theatre Atlanta, GA
12 Georgia Theatre Athens, GA

The most successful tour of 2003 is coming to CD. The Rolling Stones’ 40 Licks outing will be preserved as a two-disc CD package and will feature recordings of guest appearances by Sheryl Crow and Solomon Burke. “Live Licks,” due Nov. 2 in North America via Virgin, will also include 11 songs never before released on any official Stones live title.

From its start in September 2002, the 40 Licks tour grossed nearly $300 million as it played to more than 3.4 million people across 113 shows, as reported to Billboard Boxscore. The tour, which played stadiums, arenas and small theaters around the world, is the second highest-grossing ever, behind only the band’s Voodoo Lounge stadium tour, which grossed $320 million in 1994-95.

Crow opened for the Stones on several of the tour’s North American dates, and frequently appeared on stage to duet with Mick Jagger on “Honky Tonk Women” (included here) and “Wild Horses.” Burke, meanwhile, joined the band onstage in Los Angeles to perform his own “Everybody Needs Somebody To Love,” which closes out the second “Live Licks” disc.

The rest of the collection is split between favorites and relative obscurities. Among the better known tracks are “Brown Sugar,” “Paint It Black,” “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Angie” and “Start Me Up.” A pledge to dig deeper into the band’s vast catalog while on the road turned out such songs as “Rocks Off,” “When The Whip Comes Down” and “Worried About You.” There are also a handful of covers, including a version of Hoagy Carmichael’s “The Nearness of You” led by guitarist Keith Richards.

The 40 Licks tour, which included a January 2003 live HBO concert broadcast from New York’s Madison Square Garden, came in conjunction with the 40-track retrospective, “40 Licks.” The Virgin collection featured four new songs and debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. It has sold 2.35 million copies in the Unites States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Here is the “Live Licks” track list:

Disc one:
“Brown Sugar”
“Street Fighting Man”
“Paint It, Black”
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
“Start Me Up”
“It’s Only Rock n’ Roll”
“Angie”
“Honky Tonk Women” featuring Sheryl Crow
“Happy”
“Gimme Shelter”
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Disc two:
“Neighbours”
“Monkey Man”
“Rocks Off”
“Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”
“That’s How Strong My Love Is”
“The Nearness of You”
“Beast Of Burden”
“When the Whip Comes Down”
“Rock Me, Baby”
“You Don’t Have To Mean It”
“Worried About You”
“Everybody Needs Somebody To Love” featuring Solomon Burke

Source billboard.com.

The 30th season of the PBS performance series “Austin City Limits” kicked off on October 2nd with a one-hour episode starring John Fogerty. This season will also boast episodes featuring Robert Randolph & the Family Band (Oct. 9), Damien Rice and Patty Griffin (Oct. 16), Michael McDonald and Joss Stone (Oct. 23) and Lyle Lovett and Jamie Cullum (Oct. 30).

“‘Austin City Limits’ is the source for authentic music on television,” says Terry Lickona, who produces the series for KLRU Austin and Capitol Sports & Entertainment. “This season, we’re enhancing the show by improving sound and lighting and debuting a new opening sequence with highlights from some of our best performances.”

A pair of episodes slated for later this season will stem from the now annual Austin City Limits Music Festival: Sheryl Crow and former Phish guitarist/singer Trey Anastasio. Other shows will boast reunited modern rock act the Pixies, Latin groove group Ozomatli and modern rock acts the Flaming Lips and Bright Eyes.

Source billboard.com.

Unreleased tracks by the late Joe Strummer, Rancid and others fill out the ranks of the latest “cheapo” compilation from the independent Hellcat Records label. “Give ‘Em the Boot IV” boasts 26 tracks, nine of which are previously unissued.

Strummer is represented by a live version of “Junco Partner” recorded with his band, the Mescaleros, at London’s Brixton Academy. Strummer originally covered the classic track with the Clash on the band’s landmark 1980 set “Sandinista!” (Epic).

Rancid adds “Killing Zone” to the set, while other unreleased cuts come from Dropkick Murphys (Woody Guthrie’s “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”), the Slackers (“Propaganda”), F-Minus (“Caught In Between”), Die Hunns (“Marshall Law”) and the Unseen (“Waste of Time”). Additionally, Nekromantix’s cover of Rancid’s “Dead Bodies” and a remix of the Transplants’ “Romper Stomper” round out the previously unheard gems on “Give ‘Em the Boot IV.”

Also included on the set are tracks by Rancid’s Lars Frederiksen and his side project, the Bastards, Mercy Killers, the Aggrolites, HorrorPops, Rezurex, South Central Riot Squad, Tiger Army and more.

In 2002, the third volume of the “Give ‘Em the Boot” series bowed at No. 9 on Billboard’s Top Independent Album chart. The first reached No. 183 on The Billboard 200 in 1997.

Here is the “Give ‘Em the Boot IV” track list:

“Killing Zone,” Rancid
“Dirty Reggae,” the Aggrolites
“Atomic,” Tiger Army
“Propaganda,” the Slackers
“Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill,” Roger Miret and the Disasters
“Lost Paradise,” U.S. Roughnecks
“Caught In Between,” F-Minus
“Marshall Law,” Die Hunns
“I’m Shipping Up To Boston,” Dropkick Murphys
“1%,” Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
“That’s What I Know,” Brain Failure
“Let There Be Peace,” Chris Murray
“Dead Bodies,” Nekromantix
“Romper Stomper” (remix), Transplants
“Junco Partner” (live), Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
“No Rest for the Weekend,” Orange
“Dia De Los Muertos,” Rezurex
“Waste of Time,” the Unseen
“Break Me,” Ducky Boys
“Where They Wander,” HorrorPops
“S.C Drunx,” South Central Riot Squad
“Trauma,” Mercy Killers
“Skinwalkers,” 12 Step Rebels
“Wasted Life,” the Escaped
“Rise Up,” Pressure Point
“Room To Breathe,” Westbound Train

Source billboard.com.