A few months back we reported that seminal pop-rock band The Cars had taken to their official Facebook page posting a photo of the surviving band members in a recording
Today we introduce a new column called A Memory of Music put together by HT’s Photo Editor, Jeremy Gordon. Each month, Jeremy will compile a collection of his favorite shots along with the story behind the photos…
[Anders Osborne w/ Stanton Moore Trio, photo by Jeremy Gordon]
The first photo comes from the Brooklyn Bowl, where Anders Osborne shared the bill with the Stanton Moore Trio in front of a packed house. The band continued down to New Orleans for the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival where Stanton Moore tabbed the talented Scott Metzger to join up for the rest of the tour. As Scott explains, “When Stanton calls, no matter how early in the morning, you answer the phone.”
[Lotus w/ Max Weinberg, photo by Matthew Balch]
While some sit-ins require hours of planning to happen, others occur more spontaneously. As Lotus prepared to take the stage at the Westcott Theater in Syracuse, NY, E Street Band – and former Conan O’Brien drummer – Max Weinberg was in town to give a keynote speech at the Music Industry Conference. Well, Lotus’s tour manager saw him back stage, Max asked about sitting in with the band and voila. You can check the audio and video from the night here and here.
READ ON for more of the debut installment of AMoMusic…
Back in August, Phish put together two fabulous shows on August 14th and 15th at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. According to Direct Current, the band will release a box set featuring audio and video from the pair of landmark performances on December 14th called Alpine Valley 2010.
While Alpine Valley 2010 will feature all of the first show (8/14), it will only include select tracks from the second show (8/15). All tracks were recorded using seven cameras and 57 channels of digital multitrack audio. No official word from the band yet, but an Amazon.com pre-order page is already live with a price of $34.99. [via @PhishTwit]
READ ON for the full track listing for this release…
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…
Phish returned to the Mullins Center in Amherst, MA this evening for the second of two shows at the 10,600-person capacity UMASS basketball arena. Ride Captain Ride came off of
Phish performed at the Mullins Center on the campus on UMASS-Amherst four times between April 16, 1994 and December 5, 1995. Fifteen years later, the group finally returns to the basketball-centric arena for two shows starting tonight and continuing tomorrow.
Chris Glushko will be reporting live from Amherst for @YEMblog this evening. You can enjoy the full “Couch Tour” experience by visiting PhishTwit.
READ ON for tonight’s setlist…
Phish @ Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence RI – October 22 Phish returned to the Providence Civic Center for the first time in nearly 11 years tonight to find a venue
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
Phish Fall Tour 2010 has arrived in the Northeast for two weeks worth of shows starting tonight at the tiny Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, ME. [Photo by Eric Wyman]
