February 9, 2010

Trey Anastasio & Classic TAB @ 9:30 Club

Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB continue their tour in Washington D.C. this evening at the legendary 9:30 Club. The snow is falling hard in our nation’s capital which we think

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Tour Dates: Forked Up

Love ’em or hate ’em, the folks at Pitchfork sure know how to put together a music festival that is big on heavy hitters and low on price. The influential

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Bonnaroo Lineup Revealed Today

Over the last couple of weeks, there has been a lot of news swirling in regards to the lineup for the ninth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. All the

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Listen To The Four New Trey Tunes

Last night was the tour opener for Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB. It was a busy night as the band played until Midnight, performed a five-song double encore and debuted

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Hidden Flick: The Bridge on the River Why

The simple truths, moments when reflection during a key event can spring a new way, a profound epiphany, and give birth to hidden wisdom can come when one least expects it. Consider the end of a war, and what happens to the soldiers who may still be fighting in a particular battle, during a specific campaign, neither knowing nor caring about war’s end.

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Well, that is exactly what happens in a film about the closing moments of World War II as a group of Japanese soldiers, during a campaign on Burma, fighting a group of British soldiers, face a basic fundamental dilemma, and one of the soldiers, sent to stop the others from fighting as, after all, the war IS over, finds his entire way of life questioned. Indeed, it is that simple truth which we explore for a brief moment in this week’s Hidden Flick, the ruminative masterpiece, directed by Kon Ichikawa, and adapted for the screen by Natto Wada from a novel by Michio Takeyama, called The Burmese Harp.

You Can’t Go Home Again was a 1940 novel by Thomas Wolfe, and published posthumously. In its pages, Wolfe wrote about the notion that one could not return to the basic ideals, concepts, and dreams of youth once experience, hardship and broken promises have shattered those illusions. When one’s grandiose hot air ballooned-fairy tale myths have been replaced by the dark realities of what appears to be wretched existence, one could never just head back into the safety and security that home once offered.

READ ON for more on this week’s Hidden Flick – The Burmese Harp…

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Dark Star Stories: Port Chester ’71

“You gotta remember that you and I are talking about two different “Dark Stars.” You’re talking about the “Dark Star” which you have heard formalized on a record, and I’m talking about the “Dark Star” which I have heard in each performance as a completely improvised piece over a long period of time. So I have a long continuum of “Dark Star” which range in character from each other to real different extremes. “Dark Star” has meant, while I’m playing it, almost as many things as I can sit here and imagine, so all I can do is talk about “Dark Star” as a playing experience. “ – Jerry Garcia

1971 Grateful Dead

Welcome back to Dark Star stories. I’m excited about this month’s installment since it is one of my all-time favorites – February 18, 1971.

The February 1971 run at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York is significant on many levels, first of all, the first night of the run, February 18th, was Mickey’s final performance with the band until the last of the retirement shows in October, 1974. Secondly, these were the first “Betty Boards” – recorded on 7” reels by Betty Cantor for possible inclusion on the 1971 Skull and Roses (aka Skullfuck) live album. Third, these shows featured the debuts of Bertha, Greatest Story Ever Told, Playing in the Band, Loser, Deal, Bird Song and Wharf Rat, the debut of which we’re talking about today. What an impressive break out of material! All of these songs were among the band’s best and brightest and stayed in the repertoire up until the end.

But there’s one other significant footnote to these shows. Dr. Stanley Krippner recruited the band and audiences’ help in what would become the largest ESP (that’s Extra-Sensory-Phenomenon folks) experiment of the age. While the band performed, a series of slides appeared on a screen over the stage. Deadheads would focus on the image and try to “beam” it to the test subject – a guy sleeping in a Brooklyn hospital. When the test subject awoke, he would report on his dreams and see if there was any sort of correlation between the images seen at the concert.

The results of the experiment were “inconclusive”, but you can read all about it here and here. READ ON for more of this month’s Dark Star Stories…

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