After last night’s smoker in Augusta, Phish Fall Tour 2010 moved to another small venue this evening – the Memorial Auditorium in Utica, NY. [Photo by OnlinePhishTour] The tease trend
Tonight was a big night for Phoenix as the French alt-popsters headlined at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In breaking wews, Robot Dance masters Daft Punk sat in with their fellow
HT fave Marco Benevento will perform a solo piano show at City Winery in NYC on November 1st and thanks to eMusic you can win the opportunity to have dinner
Phish @ Augusta Civic Center, October 19
Words and Images: Eric Wyman
“Never miss a Tuesday show!” That’s how the old tour saying goes…right?
Augusta was prime for everyone missing it. It’s 3+ hours from Boston and 9 hours away from Utica. Anyone who wanted to take a little detour through Maine on a Tuesday probably should have their head examined. From seacoast New Hampshire though, it’s almost a hometown show. The State of Maine has played host to some of the finest moments in Phish history, you can’t skip this one. Memorable things happen on the nights everyone drives by on to the next tour stop (11/2/98, being the most famous). So as I’m driving up 95 I’m thinking about this and wandering, maybe they’ll play Gamehendge, maybe they’ll bust out a pre-halloween cover. So I walk into the show with all this unwarranted anticipation and the place is a shoebox, it’s the state championship game in Hoosiers. It’s all happening!
Now, anyone who’s been around knows that shit’s just a pipe dream. They’re not playing Gamehendge tonight. They didn’t learn Dark Side on the way up here. This could potentially go from being the most awesomest show ever to a total snoozefest, all from expectations. So you gotta sit back take a breath and soak it in. This place is amazing, let’s see where it goes. No expectations.
We chatted pre-show with a couple of very nice ladies in the row behind us. They ask “So how many Phish shows have you been too?” My friend responds modestly, “This is number 153 for me…I was a junkie for a bit back in ’98 and ’99.” Quickly correcting the statement with a subtle, “music junkie…not like junkie junkie.” We all laughed. They respond by saying “This is our first show and Jon Fishman gave us the tickets or we probably wouldn’t even be here. So you guys think it will be fun?” Yes, yes we do.
READ ON for more of Eric’s take on last night’s show…
The year 2009 was a jamband renaissance. Phish, the Dead and the String Cheese Incident all reunited after parting ways for indefinite periods of time for varying reasons. However, unlike Phish and the Dead, who came back with the pedal to the metal in terms of their workload, SCI made a decidedly more cautious return to grace.
[Photo by Jason Gershuny]
Hoping to appease even the most persnickety of fans, while balancing personal lives and other responsibilities, the band has yet to tour or record an album, instead focusing on sporadic runs of blowout shows at monumental locations. SCI’s venue selections since their comeback have represented a short list of fan favorites including Rothbury, Red Rocks, Oregon’s scenic Horning’s Hideout, and soon, the famed Hampton Coliseum.
The String Cheese Incident seems to have found a common ground business model that works for everybody. Periodic destination getaways afford the members flexibility to entertain the seemingly endless side projects they’ve birthed in recent years while the SCI camp has focused on releasing archival music to fans via various channels. Yet, some wonder if there are elements of a Favre, Shaq and Jordan comeback in that, yes, some greats are playing again, but is their head in the game? Can they still bring it? The answer is seemingly, yes. READ ON for Ryan’s interview with Billy Nershi…
In this installment of Postcards From Page Side, HT Featured Columnist Brian Bavosa looks at the influence technology has had over the past decade, while tying it in to the music of The Samples…
Back when I started seeing live concerts around ’93 or ’94, there were always the rituals performed, which made things seem special and significant. Securing tickets, waiting days and weeks for a certain show to arrive, all the while hearing setlists far after the fact, and waiting seemingly countless months to secure a recording of a certain show, often times on a 5th-generation crackly, hissing cassette tape that would have made a dying alleycats groans seem more pleasant. It gave seeing shows and growing up a sense of mystery, a sense of accomplishment, and secured an overall snapshot in my mind’s eye that will live on forever, no matter how hazy other, minute details may become.
My, how things have changed. Nowadays, in a world connected via every every angle to every corner of the globe, it is virtually impossible for a cell phone or Facebook account not to start pinging and ringing with alerts every three seconds. So, when I was deciding on what to write about for this installment of Postcards, I found myself struck by this idea while viewing a friends pictures she recently posted on Facebook. As my mouse simply slid across the screen, it highlighted the name of a certain man, a name that instantly zapped my memory log, before a few second recognition of who this guy actually was in my own mind.
The man’s name was Charles Hambleton. He was one of the founding members of a band I hinted at in my last column, and possibly the one I first fell in love with, The Samples. I’ve always considered them to be the perfect set of training wheels, or starter kit, for opening and broadening my horizons for much of the other music I would eventually get into.
READ ON for more of this week’s Postcards From Page Side…
Set to the music of Booker T and the MGs, this savvy team of Youtubers compiled a montage of 100 well-remembered Seinfeld quotes. Amazingly, what’s most striking about the clip
Minus the Bear’s May release OMNI, the Seattle-based band’s fourth full-length recording and debut for Dangerbird Records, shows the band making a sharp transformation in their sound. OMNI dives head first into the electro-pop sound that Minus the Bear flirted with in earlier works, building off the guitar focused works of 2007’s Planet Of Ice.
Third Day is a Grammy and Dove award winning southern rock band from Marietta, Georgia who have recorded over 14 albums and were inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2009 with fellow Georgia rockers, Widespread Panic. Third Day continue to progress and enhance their sound with each album, while managing to stay true to their southern rock sound.
Featuring three of the biggest bands in the thrash/speed metal genre, the Jagermeister Music Tour has been rumbling across the states like a hell-bent tornado, sweeping up fans and tossing them into a whirlwind frenzy. Loud, fast, sweaty music never sounded so, well, entertaining.
