2011

Who Has The Best Couch Tour Set-up?

Andy Kahn June 15, 2011 10 Comments

Tonight Phish plays the second of two sold-out performances at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta, Georgia, which will also be the second and final night of official couch tour. Like last evening, tonight’s show will be webcast via LivePhish.com allowing fans to experience couch tour at its finest.

We took to @Hidden_Track and asked fellow webcasters and followers to tweet pictures of their #couchtour (or #couchtore as @phish put it) set-up with the winning submission receiving a copy of the Live In Utica 2-DVD/2-CD box set. Check out last night’s contestants below and send us a picture of your couch tour operation for tonight. Tomorrow, head over to our Facebook page and “like” your favorite set-up with the winner announced later this week.

READ ON for a look at the Couch Tour set-ups…

Giveaway: Noah & The Whale @ Irving Plaza

Jeffrey Greenblatt June 15, 2011 4 Comments

There’s a good chance that you’re already familiar with the music of Noah & The Whale, though you may not even know it, as the band’s music has appeared in

Postcards From Page Side: Summertime Serenade – A Mix

Brian Bavosa June 15, 2011 1 Comment

So, after pulling double-duty this week and reviewing Phish’s Camden show, I decided for this Postcards From Page Side to do something that anyone who knows me thinks is a physical impossibility: stop talking. Instead, I have a jamband-heavy playlist to celebrate the summertime, and the now norm, “everywhere-you-turn-there-is-a-new-festival” mentality.

For a quick recap of what this playlist entails, let me say just a few words (I told you it’s tough for me to stop chatting). What better way to kick off the Summertime Serenade than with a Hot Air Balloon ride? That is exactly what we will do courtesy of the Disco Biscuits, who will be hosting their Tenth Annual Camp Bisco in upstate New York next month. Contrasting that with a live rendition of Bruce Hornsby’s beautiful tale of heartbreak, Mandolin Rain, I follow him up with a choice cut, Rebubula by moe. I figured both were appropriate in back-to-back slots since Hornsby was recently added to the moe.down lineup, traditionally one of the summer’s last festivals.

Next up is the first of a few tracks from My Morning Jacket, Golden, for a few few reasons. First, they are seemingly playing a ton of the big festivals this year, and secondly, this band deserves a few tunes in this playlist for simply being at the top of their game at this time, with the recent release of their new album, Circuital. Ween is another band that gets the double-dip here, with one of my favorite tunes, The Mollusk, and a dark, parting anthem, Buenos Tardes Amigo. Ween is headlining High Sierra Music Festival – one of the most well guarded secrets not only on the festival circuit, but all of the western hemisphere.

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Video: Widespread Panic – Red Hot Mama

Jeffrey Greenblatt June 15, 2011 1 Comment

Much like how Desmond Hume was Daniel Faraday’s constant, the same could be said about Bonnaroo and Widespread Panic. The Southern jam- titans have a long history with the fest,

Phish Alpharetta #1: Setlist and The Skinny

Scott Bernstein June 14, 2011 4 Comments

Phish fans raved about the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, GA after the band’s two performances there last summer. Tonight, Phish returned to the venue for the first of two shows. If you can’t make it to Alpharetta you can watch all the action live through a Live Phish webcast.

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As with each of the past three shows Phish picked a sign in the audience to provide the name of the opening song. This time for the fitting Dinner and a Movie got the call. Moma Dance followed and led into the sixth Possum of the tour. There were other rotation staples a plenty in the opening stanza including Cities, Fluffhead, Ocelot and Kill Devil Falls. The band also dipped into their catalog for a bluegrass cover, Norman Blake’s Ginseng Sullivan, which saw live action for the first time in 50 shows. While the start of the 87-minute set didn’t contain much improvisation, the end was a different story. Bathtub Gin came to a big climax similar to the version from two nights earlier at Merriweather and a cover of Traffic’s Light Up or Leave Me Alone featured an extended solo filled with firey work from guitarist Trey Anastasio that was the clear highlight of the set.

Carini may have been a jam vehicle for Phish in 2010 but in 2011 each version has been of the straightforward variety and tonight’s set two opener quickly segued into Sand in what seemed like a surprise to every member of the band except Trey. Sand has had a fine tour thus far and tonight’s take was no exception. Down With Disease once again featured out of the box exploration for a spell before the band deftly worked their way towards Maze. Anastasio and Page McConnell were both in fine form technically throughout the light on improv second set, so Maze was a good choice to give them each a chance to shine. A sequence of well-played, heavy rotation stalwarts followed to close the set – Meatstick > Also Sprach Zarathrustra > Bug > A Day in the Life > Run Like An Antelope leading to a Quinn The Eskimo encore. Phish returns to Alpharetta tomorrow night.

READ ON for the setlist and The Skinny…

Briefly: moe.down XII Additions – Bruce Hornsby, TV on the Radio and More

Scott Bernstein June 14, 2011 No Comments

You’ve got to give credit to the moe. camp for the diversity of acts they’ve brought to their moe.down festival over the years and that wide range of artists will

Phish Merriweather Run: A – Z

Scott Bernstein June 14, 2011 8 Comments

Continuing a Hidden Track tradition started last summer, today we break down Phish’s recently completed two-show run at Merriweather Post Pavilion with a look at the performances from A – Z.

A is for Access Me – Mike Gordon’s Access Me was dusted off for the first time in 2011 on Saturday night and in this writer’s opinion it was the best version of the Undermind tune yet. It wasn’t a perfect rendition (as pointed out by DaveO) but far surpasses the flub-laden versions from Alpine ’04, Miami ’09 and Manchester ’10.

B is for Badass Boogie On – Following on a trend started at Bethel, Phish had fun with the outro of this Stevie Wonder cover on Sunday night making for quite the interesting take on the tune. We’ve reached the point where we’re excited to hear Cactus kick on his micro synth signaling the start of Boogie On after a few years of mostly standard versions.

C is for Crab Cakes – I stumbled upon a small crab cake stand at the venue and was so hungry that I didn’t care about the $15 price tag. I was shocked when I took my first bite and realized this was no ordinary crab cake. It was all killer crab and very little filler and quite honestly was the best venue food I’ve ever eaten.

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Best of Cover Wars: Hallelujah Edition

Andy Kahn June 14, 2011 4 Comments

[Originally Published: May 25, 2010]

Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, off his 1984 album Various Positions, is one of those songs that seems ubiquitous but the original version rarely heard. The song plays out as an epic saga and has a seemingly endless supply of lyrics that never drag on if delivered properly. It’s been covered nearly as many times as there are verses. Countless times it’s appeared on soundtracks to films and television shows as a poignant backdrop to directors’ attempts at tugging on heartstrings. While what follows are each great renditions, I implore you to start with the original done by a maestro and true craftsman of song.

Cover Wars

The Contestants:

Jeff Buckley: Buckley’s hauntingly dramatic version from his 1994 debut Grace is the best known cover of Hallelujah. It’s one of the best known covers of any song ever. Many people who love the Buckley version have no idea Cohen was the originator – I know I’ve met more than a few.

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Hidden Flick: The Mountains In The Mind

Randy Ray June 14, 2011 No Comments

In the end, it is not our minds that fail us, but our hearts.

Indeed. The resolve to hold onto one’s convictions can be a very tricky thing. Once faced with death, one is apt to just give up, and run towards safety. After all, isn’t life itself preferable to certain dissolution? But what if one has had a vision? Ahh…tricky, yes. This little Flick ditty is dedicated to those who must do something, never expecting to get paid, or rewarded in any way, but doing it because they have to, they must, they need to fulfill some sort of higher purpose—indeed, the resolve to hold onto one’s convictions.

In Carl Theodor Dreyer, the cinema gained not only an original visual eye, but one gained a sometimes rather surreal look at what drove motivations, what kept focus, what swelled the heart of the beast within. Floating away, skin is temporary, but the soul shows the true power, does it not? Or, is that an illusion, too? Idea to material mist to oblivion?

Dreyer’s greatest treat for the mind’s eye may have been Vampyr with its otherworldly imagery and performances, but nothing can quite compare to his tour de force, which is rightfully heralded as one of the outstanding works of the silent film era. Released in 1928, it was almost lost to the hourglass of the modern age, but has avoided complete obscurity. The film also contains the hidden secret for all truth-seeking thespians—an ethereal and beautiful performance comes from within; specifically, the eyes.

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Video: Dr. John and The Original Meters – Desitively Bonnaroo

Scott Bernstein June 14, 2011 No Comments

A number of great clips from last weekend’s festival have been uploaded to the official Bonnaroo YouTube channel over the past few days including this video of Dr. John performing

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