Back in mid-November Van Morrison scheduled a special three-night run at the Hollywood Bowl in California with the promise of a full performance of arguably his best work, Astral Weeks.
Someone once said that History becomes Fiction in the very act of writing it down. When the Phish tour dates were finally announced I thought a lot about that quote and my recent position in life.
I find myself almost 30 and well on the path that Phish themselves sent me on almost 14 years ago. The upside is my career is everything I’ve ever wanted and I couldn’t be happier. The downside is I won’t be able to just run off and follow the impetus for my career in the music business like I use to. A new, younger touring generation will be filling the aisles this summer and that brings up, dare I say… bittersweet feelings. I feel there is a need for the veterans to address the new rats with where we went wrong in order to hopefully not make this Era of Phishtory as destructive as the last.
To You, the New Class of Phishtorians I offer these words of warning and encouragement. It’s great to see that Phish is still scoring young in the demographics and you will be finding a way to tell your parents you won’t be a camp counselor this year, but rather, discarding the trappings of The Machine and getting in your car to cruise the land of the brave and free (thank you Ween).
Here are some pointers from a guy who has been in the trenches, learned from said trenches, and now, am getting paid to live on a tour bus and see great music night in and night out. In short: These words come road tested.
READ ON for Wade’s three tips for post-Breakup Phish fans…
Head to Jambands.com to check out our industry insider’s – including our fearless leader Scotty B – choices for the best of 2008 and what to expect from 2009 as
[youtube]qM4px25reiA[/youtube] Frightened Rabbit – I Feel Better
In case you are still unsure of your goals for the New Year and still talking ’bout the man in the mirror and thinking about making that change, then this is your guide for a resolution. If there has ever been a musician with a soundtrack for righting life’s ship, it’s the late great Warren Zevon with his uplifting, half-full outlook on life. Well, maybe not exactly, but Warren always had a way of infusing his perpetual internal guilt in his songs and despite the mordant, melancholic lyrics, somehow they often leave an optimistic feeling.
Hence, today we’re taking some Zevon classics (many of which are from his last studio album, the foreboding magnum opus and severely underrated, The Wind
Cleaning Up Your Act – Dirty Life and Times (from The Wind
Whether your vice is dirty needles, dirty sluts or dirty butts, misery loves company and in this case company plays a mean guitar (Ry Cooder). When you hit the fork in the road and do not know just which way to turn, the secret is to get those demons out on the table and talk to someone. As Warren will tell you, it ain’t easy admitting to having a problem, but admitting the problem exists is the first step to recovery.
“One day I came to a fork in the road. Folks, I just couldn’t go where I was told. Now they’ll hunt me down and hang me for my crimes. If I tell about my dirty life and times.”
READ ON for more Warren Zevon-fueled resolutions for ’09…
Cable music network Fuse debuts the third installment of the Best of Bonnaroo series on Sunday at 11AM. Best of Bonnaroo Volume 3 includes performances by Kings of Leon, Cypress
Phil Lesh and Friends closing out the 2008 NYC Phil-a-thon at the Nokia Theater in Times Square on November 18th, 2008.All photos by David OppenheimerFor a complete gallery and show streaming audio, click here
The two shows on this DVD are a lot like hearing that stutter in "My Generation" or the huge guitar of "Baba O'Reilly" for the first time. It's just great rock n roll in its purest, most deliberate form.
Merge Records, home to bands including Arcade Fire, Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub, Conor Oberst, Spoon, Buzzcocks and Dinosaur Jr., have announced that it is putting on a five-day music festival to
Bon Iver have made their forthcoming EP, ‘Blood Bank’, available to listen to in its entirety online. The EP, set for official release on January 19 after being available as
