Due to popular demand, a second Wilco show has been added to Radio City Music Hall in New York City on October 6th. In addition the band has announced a handful of new dates including shows in: Burlington, VT, Northampton, MA and Saratoga Springs, NY. For more details visit the band’s website..
The new Pure Jerry live album series launches this month and will give Grateful Dead fans a chance to hear some of the best of the 500-plus concerts that frontman Jerry Garcia performed away from the Dead. First up in the series is Theater 1839, San Francisco, July 29 and 30, 1977, a three-CD set capturing a Jerry Garcia Band that included late Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux and his wife, singer Donna Godchaux, longtime Garcia bassist John Kahn and drummer Ron Tutt.
Pure Jerry is the second release by the late guitarist’s estate to fully establish Garcia as an artist, and brand, separate from the Grateful Dead. Earlier this year, Rhino Records’ six-CD box set, All Good Things, repackaged all of Garcia’s solo records while clearing out the archives for unreleased treasures.
The first Pure Jerry release (available through jerrygarcia.com) includes three CDs of soundboard material from one of Garcia’s best bands. “We spoke with some people that knew his shows historically,” says Christopher Sabec, who works with the Garcia’s estate and was executive producer on the project. “We knew we wanted a Bay area show and we knew we wanted this era. So, luckily, we didn’t have to pour through hundreds of shows.”
Sabec has been integral in trying to better establish Garcia’s legacy away from the Dead. A year ago he oversaw the removal of Garcia’s tapes from the Grateful Dead vault and began pouring through material that became the box set. Sabec says that All Good Things exhausted the hidden studio treasures — “Most of the gems are on the box set,” he says. “We wanted it to be everything, fully A to Z” — which prompted the investigation into Garcia’s live work, despite the fact that some of the tapes are decades old, and the ones that yielded the first Pure Jerry set were covered in what he describes as “a mysterious goo.”
For future releases, an email address has been set up (purejerry@jerrygarcia.com), where fans can send comments about favorite shows, eras and bands. “We’ve already gotten a big response,” Sabec says. “And as we start sifting through these, I think people will see that we’re paying attention.”
Plans currently call for three to four Pure Jerry albums to be released each year. As the guitarist toured with various collaborators as his Dead schedule allowed, there are numerous sounds and eras that the series can encompass. Pure Jerry also offers the opportunity to hear his cross-genre cover versions extended often to ten minutes. Among those covered on Theater 1839 are Jimmy Cliff (“The Harder They Come”), Bob Dylan (“Tangled Up in Blue”), the Band (“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”), Bob Marley (“Stir It Up”), Irving Berlin (“Russian Lullaby”) and Smokey Robinson (“I Second That Emotion”). “There was such a variety and vitality in the ensembles he played with,” Sabec says. “There’s a four-piece rock band, a bluegrass band, solo, sometimes with backup singers doing a gospel thing. The goal we had in mind with Pure Jerry was to celebrate Jerry Garcia as an individual talent, as a guitarist and as a musician.”
Track list for Theater 1839:
Disc One:
Mystery Train
Russian Lullaby
That’s What Love Will Make You Do
Stir It Up
Simple Twist of Fate
The Way You Do the Things You Do
Catfish John
Disc Two:
Friend of the Devil
Don’t Let Go
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
They Love Each Other
I Second That Emotion
Let Me Roll It
Disc Three:
The Harder They Come
Gomorrah
Tore Up Over You
Tangled Up in Blue
My Sisters and Brothers
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If you have been on any of the Rocks Off Boat Cruises this summer, then you know what an incredible experience it is.
Playing to a St. Louis crowd that filled maybe a third of The Pageant
In a recent partnership with jazz insurgents Soulive, independent labels Pirate Entertainment and DiscLive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Immediatek (OTCBB: ITEK) teamed up to continue their commitment to deliver live recordings to music fans in ways that have revolutionized the industry’s traditional retail model.
These days Soulive’s raw energy and high spirit rarely finds its way into a venue as small as Tribeca Rock Club. While frenzied fans lined up around the block beginning in the morning’s early hours, coming from as far as Italy to wait in the city’s concrete mid-summer heat, Pirate Entertainment’s and DiscLive’s production teams and engineers worked inside the venue, preparing to record every moment of the band’s live performance and, using state-of-the-art technology, to make the double CD sets available for sale just hours after each show.
Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, Tortoise, Stereolab, Luke Vibert and Money Mark are among the artists contributing new songs to the “Moog” soundtrack, due Sept. 14 from Hollywood Records. The film of the same name chronicles the life of Moog synthesizer creator Bob Moog, revered as a pioneer in the evolution of electronic music.
“The musicians who play our instruments show us what our instruments are capable of,” Moog says. “This CD covers an amazing range of music — music of the sort that has done so much to shape our contemporary culture. To me, this CD is a tribute to all the musicians who have used Moog instruments to express their musical visions.”
The documentary was directed by Hans Fjellestad and shot in Asheville, N.C., London, New York, San Francisco, London and Tokyo. Among the artists appearing in the film include Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, DJ Spooky and Mix Master Mike.
“Moog” will arrive Sept. 17 in a limited U.S. theatrical release. It is expected to hit DVD by Christmas via Plexifilm, which previously issued the Wilco documentary “I am Trying To Break Your Heart.”
Here is the “Moog” track list:
“Abomination,” 33
“Variation One,” Stereolab
“Bob’s Funk,” the Moog Cookbook
“Unavailable Memory,” Meat Beat Manifesto
“Beautiful Love,” Tortoise
“Nanobot Highway,” Money Mark
“I am a Spaceman,” Charlie Clouser
“You Moog Me,” Jean-Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert
“Sqeeble,” Plastiq Phantom
“The Sentinel,” Psilonaut
“When Bernie Speaks,” Bernie Worrell and Bootsy Collins
“Realistic Source,” Bostich
“Endless Horizon (I Love Bob mix),” Electric Skychurch
“Micro Melodies,” the Album Leaf
“You Have Been Selected,” Pete DeVriese
“Mixed Waste 4.2,” Baiyon
“Another Year Away,” Roger O’Donnell
Source bilboard.com.
After Pearl Jam reassembles in early October for its first live shows in nearly a year, the Seattle rock outfit will get busy on its eighth studio album. “I think they’re planning on going back to the studio this winter,” manager Kelly Curtis tells Billboard.com. As for a possible release date, Curtis would only say, “When they’re done, they give it to us and we go.”
The group will play six shows in October as part of the Vote for Change tour, which Curtis helped organize with the managers of Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, R.E.M. and the Dixie Chicks. The trek kicks off Oct. 1 in Pennsylvania and will proceed to eight additional presidential election battleground states.
“We were getting bombarded with requests to play around the election, and I thought I would seek out some advice,” he says of the tour’s genesis. “So I called [Sprinsgteen manager] Jon Landau to see how they were dealing with all the stuff coming in. The more we talked, the more we thought it would be a good idea to get a bunch of managers together and try to get educated.”
“What came out of there was five managers connecting and deciding that we should try to pull off some kind of swing-state tour. Then, it became a logistical nightmare,” he adds with a laugh. Curtis declined to comment on the possibility of additional acts being added to the tour or rumors of an Oct. 10 all-star finale show in Florida.
As for Pearl Jam’s specific concerts with Death Cab For Cutie, on-sale dates are still being finalized. Curtis doesn’t expect the shows to be made available as part of Pearl Jam’s ongoing authorized bootleg series, because “it might be a little shorter set from Pearl Jam [than usual], or a lot of collaboration. But then you’re dealing with other people’s record companies and it gets too complicated.”
Curtis hinted at additional Pearl Jam shows in 2004 but declined to reveal specifics. Asked if the band would unveil some new material at Vote for Change appearances, he said, “I’m sure that will be the case.”
Having left longtime label Epic last year, Pearl Jam crowned its free agent status with the July 27 release of “Live at Benaroya Hall” via its own Ten Club fan organization and a distribution deal with BMG. The set debuted last week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Internet Album Sales tally and No. 18 on The Billboard 200 thanks to first-week sales of 52,000 copies.
“This was a perfect record to try something new with some different folks,” he says. “Luckily, we don’t have to decide [about potentially signing with a new label] right now. We want to do as much as we can ourselves, and for what we can’t do or don’t want to do, we’ll rely on someone else.”
Source billboard.com.
Zach Braff makes his entrance. He’s here to talk about his new movie, Garden State, which he wrote, directed and starred in during his downtime from NBC
As the founders of the mightiest rock band in the world, wealthy beyond compare, and still musically relevant after twenty plus years, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich leave it to their gigantic egos to cruise the Metallica ship into shaky waters. Who would have imagined back in the day when you popped in your “Ride The Lightning” tape and head banged to the band
Woody Creek is a country road collision between the reliable green tractor pulling slide guitar, fiddle, and banjo and the rural rocking musings of a Frey/Henley collaboration.
