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
Summer Camp 2011 included a fun new addition for the smaller bands on the docket called The Matchups, which provided an opportunity to jam with members of the bigger acts
Our pal Sunil sent over a batch of videos from last night’s Warren Haynes Band show at the Beacon, where the group was joined by Stax legend William Bell and Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford. Let’s take a look…
Born Under a Bad Sign w/ William Bell…
Warren Haynes Band – Beacon Theatre Setlist
Set One: Man In Motion, River’s Gonna Ride, Sick of My Shadow, Invisible, Your Wildest’s Dreams, A Friend To You, Fire In The Kitchen, On A Real Lonely Night, Born Under a Bad Sign*, You Didn’t Miss Your Water*, Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday*
Set Two: The Real Thing@, In My Life@, Back Where I Started@, Old Friend@, Save Me, Beautifully Broken, Power & The Glory, Hattiesburg Hustle, Sneakin Sally Through The Alley, Tear Me Down
Encore: Grinnin’ In Your Face > Soulshine, Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home**
* – w/ William Bell
** – w/ Brad Whitford and Danny Louis[Setlist via KD of TinyRager.com]
READ ON for more of Sunil’s killer clips from the WHB @ the Beacon…
Last July Roger Waters made big news when he announced that his former Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour would join him on stage at a The Wall gig to play and sing Comfortably Numb. Apparently tonight’s the night as Gilmour’s blog includes an entry stating that David will join Rog at the 02 Arena in London this evening.
Those hoping for future Gilmour guest spots will be disappointed to know that this is a one-off appearance…
I should also remind you that tonight is most definitely a one-off; David is not repeating his special guest performance at a later occasion, I’m sorry to disappoint those of you with fingers crossed and tickets for later shows.
We’ll be sure to share some videos and photos as they surface.
[via CoS]
UPDATE: As expected Gilmour did join Waters for Comfortably Numb. The other surviving Pink Floyd member, Nick Mason, joined Gilmour and Waters for the Outside The Wall finale. Mason joined his old mates on tambourine. READ ON for a photo and a video of Dave tearing shit up…
Back in October the members of Ween donned Bunny Suits for their Halloween show at the 1st Bank Center in Denver. The band is now auctioning off those actual suits
While we didn’t make it out to Indio for this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Art Festival, plenty of bloggers and journalists did make the trip. We wanted to point
Thirteen years ago today Phish’s much-beloved Island Tour came to as close in Providence, RI. Over the course of four shows, which were organized quickly to give the band a break from prepping the Story of the Ghost LP, Phish built on the funk-laden improvisational style it had honed in 1997 and debuted three new songs they were working on. All in all, the Island Tour stands out as one of the best four-night stands in the group’s history.
For this morning’s video post we’ve compiled playlists of all four Island Tour concerts made up of newly-ripped videos uploaded by YouTube user Duanebase. Back in 2005 Phish put out perfectly-mixed official recordings of each show that are must-haves if you don’t own them already. Let’s go to the videotape…
April 2, 1998 – Nassau Coliseum
Phish – April 2, 1998 [Entire Show]
READ ON for videos of the final three Island Tour gigs…
On Tuesday night at the Best Buy Theater in New York City, Furthur finished covering The Beatles’ landmark Abbey Road LP by performing the medley that makes up most of
Yeah THEY Right!!! aka The Funky Meters @ Brooklyn Bowl, 2/15-17
FIVE YEARS. Seems kind of crazy but when somebody said to me the other night that it had been five years since the most popular version of N’awlins’ original Funk band had played New York, I had to think about it for a minute. And then I responded with what any true fan would say: “Yeah, you right.”
[Photos by Marc Millman]
The Meters formed at the tail end of the ’60s. They released Cissy Strut and Sophisticated Cissy in 1969. And with those songs, the four original members of the group (Art “Poppa Funk” Neville on organ, George Porter Jr. on bass, Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste on drums and Leo Nocentelli on guitar) helped to create a new genre in American music. Funk was born out of James Brown’s shift in style in the mid ’60s. And The Meters along with Sly & the Family Stone, George Clinton and other seminal acts like Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, the Ohio Players and Kool & the Gang brought a whole generation to the dance floor by getting people to dance “On the One,” as James used to shout at his band.
The Meters were THE backing band in New Orleans the way the Funk Brothers were at Motown or Booker T & the MGs were at Stax. But the band broke up in the mid ’70s during a dispute over recording contracts. Just over 10 years later, Porter decided to put a new version of the band together that would feature himself with Neville & Russell Batiste on drums. Guitar would be played by Brian Stoltz and sometimes by Nocentelli. And this is the version of the band that most of us grew up seeing regularly in the ’90s and beyond. But then…IT HAD BEEN FIVE YEARS!
READ ON for more from Marc on The Funky Meters…
Ozomatli @ Irving Plaza – February 3rd, 2011
Jam bands tend to try and be a little bit of everything to everyone. And a lot of the time they just fall flat as pale imitators. Hip-hop acts tend to recognize their “roots.” Sometimes this comes off as phony; just another way to try and gain “street cred.” Last Thursday evening at Irving Plaza, there was a party goin’ on. Sly would have said that at moments, it was worthy of a riot. But what exactly was being played? I’m still not totally sure. But I know one thing: Ozomatli rocked the house making a cold Winter Thursday night feel like a “Saturday Night.” And the audience in attendance could have cared less what type of music was coming from the stage.
[All words and photos by Marc Millman]
According to Wikipedia, in a 2007 NPR interview, band members Jiro Yamaguchi and Ulises Bella described Ozomatli: “You drive down Sunset Boulevard and turn off your stereo and roll down your windows and all the music that comes out of each and every different car, whether it’s salsa, cumbia, merengue, or hip-hop, funk or whatever, it’s that crazy blend that’s going on between that cacophony of sound is Ozomatli, y’know?” And if you dance your way through one of their almost two hour sets, you will see that this is the perfect description. The band has varied in size since its inception in 1995. Thursday night’s shows featured seven members that included the core six found in every incarnation.
Over the course of an 18-song set, the band bounded from rock to soul to funk to reggae to hip-hop to cumbia and back again. One really did feel as though they were making their way down Sunset. And while Asdru Sierra (lead vocals, trumpet), Raul Pacheco (lead vocals, guitar) and Justin Poree (rap vocals, percussion) led the band through their paces, the crowd got a taste of all sorts of genres. But never without a bit of rock to smack your ass while you were busy shakin’ it.
READ ON for more of Marc’s thoughts and photos on Ozomatli…
