Last year Phish set a record for most songs performed in one year from their vast repertoire with 248. It looks like the quartet is gunning for 2009’s record as
Words: Eli Badra
Images: Robert Chapman (From 6/19/2010)
June 2010 has been good to Phish: riding the momentum from a widely-praised New Years run, as well as solo tours from Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon, the band has, over the course of about a dozen shows, effectively answered all of the questions raised during 2009’s comeback tour, returning to the spontaneity and fiendish musicality that drove so many to catch as much live Phish as possible.
Another transformation has occurred, too. The fanbase, and the underlying tour community, has also hit its stride, bringing excitement and passion for Phish’s music that far surpasses that of last year. A number of factors are responsible for this change, but one of the most significant has been newer fans settling in and finding their own niche. Being a relative newcomer to the band, this has certainly been the case for me, as I’m sure it has been with many others out there.
There are a number of writers who are far more qualified to discuss the music itself than I could ever hope to be, and so I’d like to focus more on the influx of new fans brought in during 2009, and my own experiences as one of those fans. READ ON for more of Eli’s take on Phish in 2010…
During the peak hours of the year I search for tapes on my usual sites and realize: Oh, all the big dogs are out at the same time. And that’s what this week’s edition is going to be, four of the biggest touring acts that allow taping every night: Dave Matthews Band, Furthur (Featuring Bob Weir & Phil Lesh), Phish and Widespread Panic.
[Thanks to wmule for this week’s photo]
And we continue to take all the selected tracks, normalize them, create some simple fades and put it into one easy to download MP3 for you.
Click here to download the Last Week’s Sauce Podcast
Artist & Title: Dave Matthews Band – Busted Stuff, Time Bomb, All Along The Watchtower
Date & Venue: 2010-06-23 DTE Energy Music Theatre – Clarkston, MI
Taper & Show Download: adamdowns
This three song encore segment features the title track from the 2002 DMB album, a tune from 2009’s Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King, and of course the DMB-cover staple All Along The Watchtower. Also of note, Dave has been playing a solo rendition of Neil Young’s Needle And The Damage Done this tour. DMB plays tonight at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/dmbsauce.mp3]Video of Gravedigger from the same show:
READ ON for tracks from Furthur, Phish and Panic…
Most fan sites are a labor of love, so it’s not a surprise that the average lifespan of your typical fan site is extremely short. All it takes is getting a new job or a change in lifestyle to take away the free time that allows the creators of these sites to provide new content for their readers.
For today’s B List we’ve put together a list of ten sites that are gone but not forgotten. A few of ’em still exist but aren’t active anymore. Check out our list and then let us know some of your faves from the Jamband Website Graveyard by leaving a comment after the post…
1. Phans.com
While Andy Gadiel’s Phish Page (remember the http://www.cps.msu.edu/~gadielan/phish address??) was the homepage for nearly every Phish fan I knew in the late ’90s, Phans.com was the second best fan site out there for years and years. Combining a message board with surveys, news, phacts of the week and all sorts of other intriguing content, the site provided hours of entertainment for the group’s followers. Site creator Beeno posted something on Phans.com when last year’s Hampton shows were announced, but other than that there’s been no content on the portal.
Relix/Jambands.com Executive Editor clearly has his hands full running both publications, but before he took on the added responsibilities that come with his current title, he ran a semi-regularly updated blog called The Greenhaus Effect that always had interesting content. Mikey’s prose and work ethic have served as an inspiration to me as I got into the writing game and I always loved reading his first-person accounts on The Greenhaus Effect. Hopefully one day he’ll resurrect the site (hint, hint, hint).
READ ON for eight more sites we wish were still around…
Later this month the granddaddy of all music festivals, George Wein’s Newport Folk Festival, will get under way at Fort Adams State Park in scenic Newport, RI. The festie, which
If you missed Phoenix’s recent appearance on MTV’s Unplugged, you can still watch each of the songs the Gallic rocker performed at MTV’s Buzzworthy Blog. The grammy winners mix the
You’d think bands who improvise such as Phish, moe. and Umphrey’s would feel comfortable taking the stage without a setlist, but that rarely happens. Just because these groups like to
One of 2010’s most buzzed-about bands has been The Morning Benders, a group of trendy, Urban-Outfitted prepsters that resemble the unsigned younger cousins of Vampire Weekend. Nattily dressed in cardigans, skinny ties, and Sperry’s, the band has been riding the success of their release Big Echo and parlaying it into a plush opening spots for Black Keys and Broken Bells and late-night appearances on Jimmy Fallon and Carson Daly.
This Brooklyn Sextet hopes to have created your electronica-pop soundtrack to the summer with Travel Book. Motoring in multiple directions, the album has a mission to build, layer and sift through tweaks, sonic-yelps and bleeps while tying everything together with head-bobbing rhythms. The best tracks start simple, piling on sound and beats before letting the combination blossom under Sam Tyndall’s vocals.
The dream originated in 2004 when Eric Clapton decided to gather the top guitarists in the world to share the same stage for a hot summer weekend festival in Dallas, Texas. Since then, Crossroads has returned every third year, the last happening at Toyota Park in 2007 and back again at the same venue now in 2010. Having collaborated with so many amazing musicians over the years and honoring many of the legendary blues guitar heroes from long ago, Clapton has paid tribute to those who have influenced him throughout his career and those whom he admires. The day-long festival is a benefit for The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment center for chemically dependent persons, founded by Clapton himself in 1998. With the help of his friends and peers, Eric Clapton once again succeeded in assembling some of the best collaborative performances on the greatest of stage, and it’s all for a good cause.
