Since we’ve covered the Pigpen days, the Keith days and the Vince days during our week long look at videos from the Grateful Dead, we thought we’d give some love
Last night at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB kicked off the Northern Exposure tour. We live blogged about the show, but this morning we’ve got a tremendous group of photos Jeremy Gordon took of Big Red and his merry band of brothers.
Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB
October 16, 2008
Roseland Ballroom
New York, NYI: [8:27PM] Sand, Cayman Review, Let Me Lie, Gotta Jibboo, Dragonfly, First Tube [9:27PM]
II: [9:54PM] Alaska, Last Tube, Sweet Dreams Melinda, Valentine, Drifting, Brian and Robert*, Chalkdust Torture*, The Way I Feel, Spin [11:13PM]
E: [11:17PM] Heavy Things, Burlap Sack and Pumps [11:34PM]
* Solo acoustic
READ ON for more of Jeremy’s amazing photos from last night’s show…
While I was away on my trip last weekend, I received a text message from a friend and fellow HeadCount volunteer letting me know that Andy Bernstein and Marc Brownstein were featured in a story about HeadCount on ABC’s 20/20. Instead of doing normal publicity for a non-profit, John Stossel decided to do a piece questioning the validity of HeadCount’s work over the past four years and also questioned if the youth of our country should have the ability to vote because they seem uninformed or uneducated.
Well, John Stossel — welcome to America! There are TONS of uneducated people that will be going to the polls on November 4th. They are uneducated not because of their age, but perhaps because of the education they received, the places they get their news, their ability to keep up with issues, or maybe even their ability to actually care about what is going on in our country and our world.
READ ON for the rest of Jen’s Editorial Rant…
If ever a Grateful Dead adventure deserved comprehensive documentation, it’s the 1978 trip to Egypt. Rocking the Cradle Egypt 1978 only manages to scratch the surface of the experience on some fronts, but that’s indicative of how expansive the experience actually was.
Unfortunately, the worst of them is Folds. He just lacks the knack for melody he used to have, his wit just isn’t as snappy and his jokes fall flat or appear forced. His genius shines through a bit on album closer “Kylie in Connecticut,” but barely.
Trey Anastasio returns to the road tonight to kick off his first real tour since 2006. We’ll be on the scene with live updates from the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, so keep checking back early and often.
While we wait for the setlist/photos/commentary to start coming in, perhaps you’d like to click around on these old setlists.
Prior Trey/Phish appearances: 3-14-1992 (Phish), 2-5-1993 (Phish), 2-6-1993 (Phish), 5-23-2000 (Phish), 2-23-2001 (The Sextet), 11-13-2001 (Oysterhead), 11-14-2001 (Oysterhead), 2-10-2005 (Tsunami Benefit w/moe.), 11-8-2005 (70 Volt Parade)
READ ON for Hidden Track’s Trey @ Roseland live setlist and blog…
Well, I’ve got a big problem. It’s my turn to write an introduction to my favorite piece and to say thank you, but if I wanted to thank all of the people who helped make Hidden Track the 1,892 most read blog in New York City it would take up the whole front page of the site. I guess I could try to limit it and just say thanks to some. Yet, I’d feel awful not thanking each person who has written a post, gave us a tip, offered encouragement, shot photos, commented on a post, added HT’s feed to their RSS reader, gave us advice or made us better in some way, shape or form.
Yet I need to thank you – the reader. We’ve come so far in the last 24 months, and I still get a huge smile each time someone leaves a comment and responds to what we’re putting out there. Ace taught me so much and I’ll be eternally grateful to him for starting this site, bringing me aboard and putting together an amazing team. Most of all, he set an incredibly high standard as an editor and writer and made me realize that each post counts. Ace made sure to teach me about journalistic standards, because the reputation of this blog – and us as writers – depended on it. While I still struggle with grammar, I’ll never stop trying to keep this rag’s reputation as good as it was the day he left.
So, I wound up thanking quite a few people after all. Let me also thank Dave, Rupert and Some Dude – a guy who I seriously couldn’t do this without – for helping to establish HT’s current tone and contributing incredible posts each week. Thanks to the Glide guys for all of their unwavering help, support and of course deciding to start this blog. Thanks to the folks on PT, The Bort and Team HLA for linking, reading and lending a hand. I literally have a list of about 75 other people to thank, but I think I’ll just send them a note to spare y’all for any more self-serving ridiculousness.
So without further ado, it’s time for my favorite piece. This anniversary has made me extremely nostalgic and I can’t stop thinking about the beginning. The first good piece I ever wrote, and the day I knew I had a shot at this thing was a post about a band made up of 16 year old Umphrey’s fans, Tribute to Whigg.
READ ON to take a look at The Royal Tennenbrah’s Saga Continues…
As legend has it, I was the guy behind the guy that got this daily music site on its feet, and was also a huge fan from day one. When Ace decided to step down earlier this year, I got the call up to the big leagues after toiling over my own indie-jam blog for something like two and a half years to share daily writing duties with Scotty and have enjoyed every minute of bringing my writing style and my music tastes to a much broader audience.
Over my eight-plus months, I’ve tried to introduce you guys to some music that bridges the gap between jam and indie without using the dreaded P word with Better Than Noodling. Since not everyone obsesses over reading blogs to find new music, this has been my place to showcase some bands that I really dig that may not be as obvious, but I think you should be listening to. When I initially wrote this piece on Vampire Weekend I had a hunch they were primed for a big year, but little did I know that the band would explode the way did going from playing the Bowery Ballroom to three sold out shows at the cavernous Terminal 5 in less than a year’s time. It certainly feels good to get it right, but it was more about the fact that I couldn’t get enough of them.
Before we get to it just wanted to thank Ace for letting me get my feet wet over here and digging my initial idea behind BtN and to Scotty who is the hardest working man in show business and unbelievably supportive, thanks gents for bringing me on. This is truly a labor of love, so we hope you enjoy reading HT as much as we enjoy writing it…
READ ON for Better Than Noodling – Vampire Weekend…
The geeking out piece – this was fun. For me this was a great couple of days in Hidden Track history because it displayed a bit of the community that we’ve got going on right here inside the blog. We have thousands of people viewing the site everyday but often times well thought-out posts go by without a comment posted.
This wasn’t one of them, readers were eager to supplement the piece with information. For example, I had no idea The Radiators had logged such a rigorous consistent touring schedule over the years, but reader “chicofishhead” was nice enough to paste in the data for us. UM’s archivist McL chimed in and asked for an additional graph that displayed all bands on the same line chart – and he got it.
As a follow-up, here’s the raw numbers on what is on the books for 2008. The Disco Biscuits will close out the year with 56 shows assuming Barber stays out of the air ducts at the Nokia Theater this December. moe. (the inspiration for the piece in the first place) ends the year with 78 shows after sneaking in one extra appearance at Farm Aid after moe.down. While it could be argued Phish played one show in 2008, I think the real question is: With three shows already in the books in 2009, will Phish play more or less shows in ’09 than they did in ’03 (which was 44). UM shows no signs of stopping, logging 113 shows this year. With their next studio album set for an early 2009 release, I’d say it’s likely they will either meet or exceed this number next year.
READ ON for the original Geeking Out, We’ve Got Seven Line Graphs post…
For the two-year birthday bash of the HT, I’d like to just say thanks – thanks to Scotty, thanks to Ace, thanks to the Dude, and thanks to everyone else who contributes to and reads HT. I never really even knew what a blog was nor how much I enjoyed writing (or trying to at least), but I started up a silly sports blog with a good buddy couple years back, and truth be told, I thought we were starting a business. So to fast forward a couple years and find myself lucky enough to chip in on Hidden Track after having been a long time Glide Magazine reader, puts a big ass smile on my face on a regular basis.
I would like to say that Ace Cowboy is one of the best and funniest writers I know and I thank him for asking me to participate over here. Whatever he writes, I will read. Ace taught me some valuable lessons he never even knew he was teaching and he is a good buddy.
And did you ever wonder if Scotty’s personality comes across in his articles? Well, I’ve only known Scotty for a short time, but it is obvious he lives for this music. In fact, I think he is the biggest music lover I have ever known and he was born for Hidden Track. I can only dream of knowing as much as Scotty about music. I hope you all see it, because he works his ass off for you and he is a very talented and kind person.
So that’s my heartfelt “thanks for having me.” Having an outlet to spew out the ramblings of an overactive imagination like this post here, fills a creative void that honestly makes my life better.
READ ON for Rupert’s epic’r than epic Phishy Toy Story…
