It’s been a little while since we paid tribute to Nels Cline, so, um, let’s do that… We’ve declared a few times recently that Nels Cline joining Wilco may just
October has begun, which means it’s time for baseball’s postseason. The playoffs kicked off last night, and I can’t remember a better collection of eight teams fighting for the championship, whether young and scrappy or experienced and powerful. Baseball and live music are similar in that you never know what’s going to happen when you enter a venue. You may see your boys play the game or show of their lives, or you may see their hopes crushed by a bad performance.
Given the similarities between music and sport, it’s no wonder that many baseball players are also musicians. So this week’s B List looks at eight baseball players who can handle both a fastball and the pentatonic scale with ease.
1. Bernie Williams: The Yankees longtime centerfielder is also a critically acclaimed guitar player who has released an album entitled The Journey Within. Bernie has a few connections to the jamband world thanks to his appearance at the Jammys in 2001, and his recent sit-in with the Allman Brothers at the Beacon.
Read on after the jump for a video of Bernie playing Who’s Been Talking with that other Derek, and for seven more baseball musicians as well…
The world wide supernet buzzed with the news that Wu-Tang Clan had been the first band to attain legal permission to sample The Beatles. But that beepbeepbeeping sound you hear
Eight years ago today I headed south on I-55, the good ol’ Stevenson, for my second straight night with the popular rock band Phish. October 3rd had been quite possibly
Van Halen kicked off its long-awaited reunion tour last week, and bootlegs of just about every show are popping up at a fast and furious pace. If you’re curious about
With Neko Case and Dan Bejar playing live with The New Pornographers, artists that had two of 2006’s best albums (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and Destroyer’s Rubies), the evening’s performance in Tucson could have been billed as: The New Pornographers feat: Neko Case and Dan Bejar.
Newbies may find Live at the Murat a difficult entrée to the band, but Umphrey’s fans should be satisfied with a well-produced if uneven collection.
I don’t keep a personal MySpace page, my love of malleable 15-year-olds notwithstanding. So it came as quite a shock to me when we set up the Hidden Track profile
When I first started collecting bootlegs, the quality on most of the cassettes and LPs I purchased was downright awful. Many were sourced from audience recordings that sounded like they were taped under Rerun’s trench coat. In the early ’90s a few bootleggers from Italy began focusing on releasing high-quality recordings that came from the soundboard. Now that the Interweb has made sharing shows so easily, you can find the crispiest of recordings everywhere. This week’s GTA presents four A+ quality soundboard-sourced boots for your pleasure.
Marvin Gaye ??-??-1983 SBD [FLAC, MP3 ] (date unknown, from Atlanta)
It’s just not right that Marvin Gaye was stolen from us in 1984. Just check out this bootleg from 1983 for an example of how The King of R&B was just hitting his stride. Gaye shows throughout the evening that it just doesn’t get better than his mix of well-written songs performed with the passion that was a trademark of his sound. Check out the moans from the ladies in the audience when Marvin starts Distant Lover. Even though this recording is a soundboard, you can hear the mostly female crowd voice their approval throughout.
Gaye’s voice sounds great from the opening notes of Let’s Get It On through the scintillating Sexual Healing closer. The backing band performs its job admirably, especially during a wild romp through Rockin’ After Midnight. Marvin Gaye is well-regarded as an artist, but he’s underrated as a live performer. Hopefully terrific sounding bootlegs like this one will help show that you Gotta Give It Up to him live. Read on after the jump for three more GTA SBDs from the Flaming Lips, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and The Band…
Leave it to Bill Frisell and Matt Chamberlain to produce one of the best albums to hit our desk this month — you have to hear this new Floratone disc.
