After 16 years, Phish finally returned to New Hampshire tonight for a performance at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. Tonight’s first set was filled with bust outs and tour debuts.
In an age of Facebook, Twitter and any number of social media outlets capable of documenting the minutia of your day to day life, sometimes something as simple as the lost art of the phone call serves as the best way to connect with someone on a personal level. For their latest social activism campaign, HeadCount is doing just that by taking a back to basics approach in order to remind people to head to the polls to exercise the Constitutional right to vote in next Tuesday’s mid-term elections.
The non-partisan organization, that was founded in 2004 by Andy Bernstein and Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein, and has helped register over 175,000 people, has enlisted a impressive roster of musicians from the indie to jam world, that includes Jim James (MMJ), Willie Nelson, ?uestlove, Matt Berninger (The National), Jon Fishman (Phish) and Warren Haynes (ABB, Gov’t Mule) to not only pre-record reminder messages, but also make live personal calls to a select number of the approximately 25,000 people who have made a “Pledge to Vote” via HeadCount.
In a media conference call yesterday to talk about the inventive initiative, HeadCount board member Bob Weir (Grateful Dead/Furthur) stressed the importance of a “Vote For You” mentality, saying that young people need to take the future into consideration and participate instead of letting a bunch of “crusty old folks” made the decisions that have direct impact on their lives and those of future generations. Weir, who joked that his call list was so large he better get to work on it immediately, said that would seize the opportunity to talk to people to help figure out where the organization’s efforts will be centered in the future.
READ ON for more from HeadCount’s conference call…
Lawyers, Guns & Money is the closing track on Warren Zevon’s seminal 1978 classic Excitable Boy
The Contestants:
Widespread Panic: According the Everyday Companion the Southern jam titans first covered LG&M all the back in 1987, playing the song semi-regularly for a two-year period before shelving it for almost all of the ’90s – busting it out just twice for Halloween shows. The song returned back into rotation in 2000, and has stayed there since. Source: 10-4-2010
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wsplawyers.mp3]READ ON for more covers of Lawyers, Guns & Money…
Yesterday, Jeff focused on the Buffalo Springfield reunion that was part of last weekend’s Bridge School Benefit concerts. Today, we wanted to share video of the event’s finale, where all
Prince has announced the initial dates of his upcoming US tour. He will hit the road in December with the likes of Janelle Monae and Mint Condition, while Prince and
Jeff Tweedy has announced details of a short US tour. The frontman will begin the gig-run in New York (December 4) before dates in Tarrytown (6) and Charlottesville (8). Tickets
Gorillaz have confirmed that Lou Reed will join them one more time on the Escape To Plastic Beach tour, appearing with Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett and crew October 27 at
The Long Surrender, the new studio album from the southern Ohio-based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Karin Bergquist, otherwise known as Over the Rhine, is something rare
The Dears have announced the release of their new album, Degeneration Street. A welcome return to form and for fans of the operatic hysteria of past albums, this effort finds
The 1st annual Project Acoustic kicks off Friday, November 5th with local and non-local musicians coming together for an experience that you won’t find outside anywhere else! Eight bands will take the stage at historic El Rey Theater in Albuquerque, NM to support local music programs and raise awareness of music appreciation.
