Warren Haynes has never hid his appreciation of the music of Deep Purple, so he must’ve been as happy as a kid in a candy store last night when he
This week’s edition of the “world’s only rock ‘n roll talk show” – Sound Opinions – features a rather interesting discussion on prog-rock. Sure the genre is loaded with bloated
Mike Greenhaus may not have gotten his start as a writer quite as far back as 15th century ancient Europe, but he is a Renaissance Man so-to-speak.
Having cut his teeth at just about every task under the jamband and indie sun, he now holds down the role of Executive Editor at Relix/Jambands.com, co-hosts the ever popular Cold Turkey podcast series, developed a burgeoning videocast for the forthcoming Relix website and continues to help lead both Relix and jambands.com into the next generation.
With all the positive changes a foot over yonder, Mike kindly offered to shed some light on everything from his humble beginnings, to the future of the Jammy’s, to the redesigns of both websites, to some tips for Larry David in this, one of our most insightful editions of Writer’s Workshop to date.
Hidden Track: For starters, could you explain how you got started writing about music and ultimately grew into the Executive Editor seat at Relix?
Mike Greenhaus: Well, I was always the type of dork that spent more time working on the school newspaper than playing hockey, but I guess I really started writing about music in college. I went to a small liberal arts school at a time when the jamband scene was coming into its own before the first Bonnaroo and got to interview String Cheese Incident, the Disco Biscuits, moe., Dispatch and Addison Groove Project as an editor at my college newspaper. Relix was my favorite magazine, and I also started writing reviews for Jambands.com, one if our websites, after sending in a blind pitch.
READ ON for more of Writer’s Workshop with Mike Greenhaus…
It’s been a little over a week since Bruce Springsteen returned to the NY Metropolitan area. After closing down Giants Stadium with two performances each of Born To Run and Born In The U.S.A apiece (but sadly only one of Darkness Of The Edge Of Town), the two Garden shows looked to be even more special. Earlier that week, it was announced that on the first night, he would play The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle and on the second, the entire 20-song double album, The River. Neither of these had ever been performed in their entirety and the second show looked to be an especially ambitious project, even for The Boss. Then again, Bruce wouldn’t have tried if he knew he wasn’t up to it.
We’re getting incredibly excited for Phish Fall Tour around these parts, as the quartet hits the road tomorrow night for a two-week-plus jaunt that begins at the Cobo Arena in
Wolfgang’s Vault expanded their operations over the past few years from selling the contents of Bill Graham’s vault to offering streams and downloads of live music from many genres. Music
Jambands.com published a number of new features yesterday including Brian Robbins’ chat with Jim Weider, Mike Greenhaus’ conversation with John Medeski and Greg McLoughlin’s (of BuzzUniverse) heart-warming story. As much
When you put together a list of venues where Umphrey’s McGee always delivers, you’d have to start with Higher Ground just outside of Burlington, VT. The Chicago-based sextet finished a three-night stand at the rock club on Saturday night that will go down among the best in their history. Whether they were kicking out a spirited dose of improvisation, welcoming one of their friends to the stage for a sit-in or dusting off a rarity, everything Umphrey’s touched over the six sets at Higher Ground turned to gold.
[Photo from 11/11 – Toronto by Tammy Wetzel]
As we mentioned last week, Thursday night started off with the first songlist show in years to fill a fan request. On Friday, the band shared the stage with a member of Phish for the first time when Mike Gordon took over bass duties from birthday boy Ryan Stasik for In The Kitchen.
Guest spots are always a crap shoot that have just as much chance of trainwrecking as of working out well. The Mike sit-in worked really well as Cactus came up with some inventive bass lines that kept the jam interesting throughout its 16 minutes. Other Friday highlights were a groovy Pay The Snucka opener and adventurous versions of Hangover and Higgins.
READ ON for more about the Burlington run and Tammy’s photos…
Incredible multi-camera shot videos of this past summer’s Phish shows at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO have been uploaded to YouTube at a fast and furious pace thanks to gdoucette78. So far he’s uploaded all of the third (8/1) and fourth shows (8/2) of the run and most of the second night (7/31). As someone who grades every video uploaded to YouTube for YEMblog, I can honestly say these could be the best fan-shot Phish videos of the year.
YouTube isn’t the most conducive website for watching multiple videos from the same show, so we put together playlists of each night in the order the shows were played to help that process. Check ’em out…
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Phish @ Red Rocks – 07/31/2009 Playlist
READ ON for playlists of the last two Phish shows @ Red Rocks…
Singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King share a unique bond, as King made her first public performance with Taylor some 40 years ago at LA’s famed venue the Troubadour. The
