Thursday, July 23, 2009

Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson

my friend sent this to me yesterday

"Anyone want two tickets to see Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson Thursday night? Face value! Show's in Jersey."

4 Day Phish Festival Indio?

WEll i was saying it all along, check the damn map, they fooled your ass! of course it will be in indio, dateland, fire ants. what pretty much everyone in the area and close to the band was saying. some flash animation is going to change all that planning.

1. AC/DC – Back In Black
2. Aerosmith – Toys In The Attic
3. Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach
4. Arcade Fire – Funeral 2004
5. Band – The Band (Brown Album)
6. Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
7. Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
8. Beatles – Rubber Soul
9. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
10. Blind Faith – Blind Faith
11. Bob Dylan – Blood On the Tracks
12. Bob Dylan And The Band – The Basement Tapes
13. Bob Seger – Against The Wind
14. Boston – Boston
15. Brian Eno – Before And After Science
16. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
17. Chicago Transit Authority
18. Clash – London Calling
19. Credence Clearwater Rivival - Green River
20. Curtis Mayfield – Superfly Soundtrack
21. David Bowie - Scary Monsters
22. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
23. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
24. Devo – Freedom of Choice
25. Doors – The Doors
26. Duran Duran – Rio
27. Eagles – Hotel California
28. Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
29. Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model
30. Eric Clapton – 461 Ocean Blvd
31. fIREHOSE – flyin’ the flannel
32. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
33. Frank Zappa – Apostrophe
34. Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
35. Genesis – The Lambs Lie Down On Broadway
36. Grateful Dead – American Beauty
37. Guns & Roses – Appetite For Destruction
38. Hall & Oates – Private Eyes
39. Huey Lewis And The News – Sports (eliminated)
40. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de Lo Habitual
41. Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?
42. Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
43. John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
44. Jonathon Richmond and The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
45. Journey - Escape
46. KI$$ - Alive II
47. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
48. Led Zeppelin – I
49. Led Zeppelin – IV (Zoso)
50. Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man (eliminated)
51. LOVE – Forever Changes
52. Manu Chao – Clandestino
53. Medeski Martin & Wood - Shack Man (eliminated)
54. Metallica – Master Of Puppets
55. MGMT – Oracle Spectacular 2007
56. Michael Jackson – Thriller
57. Michael McDonald – If That’s What It Takes
58. Miles Davis – A Tribute To Jack Johnson
59. Minutemen – Double Nickels On The Dime
60. Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
61. Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night
62. Nirvana – Nevermind
63. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
64. Pearl Jam - 10
65. Peter Gabriel – So
66. Pink Floyd – Meddle
67. Pink Floyd – The Wall
68. Pixies – Come On Pilgrim
69. Police – Ghost In The Machine
70. Pork Tornado – Pork Tornado
71. Primus – Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
72. Prince – Purple Rain
73. Queen – A Night At The Opera
74. Radiohead – Kid A
75. Rage Agaist The Machine – Evil Empire
76. Ramones – Ramones
77. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
78. Rolling Stones – Exile
79. Roots – Phrenology
80. Rush – Moving Pictures
81. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
82. Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
83. T.Rex – Electric Warrior
84. Talking Heads – Fear Of Music (eliminated)
85. Television - Marquee Moon
86. Tom Petty – Damn The Torpedoes (eliminated)
87. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
88. U2 – Joshua Tree
89. Van Halen – Van Halen
90. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
91. Velvet Underground & Nico
92. Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
93. Ween – White Pepper
94. White Stripes – Elephant 2003
95. Who – Who’s Next
96. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002
97. X – Los Angeles
98. Yes - The Yes Album
99. ZZ Top – Tres Hombes

McLovins

These kids are going to be playing the Green Vibes stage this weekend at GOTV, here they nail the most complex fish song of all time. Thanks to Hidden Track for the info. Here they got written up in Rolling Stone. Which is kind of important for a jamband. I will be at GOTV this weekend visiting shady in the historic 60's archive tent.

Also... forbes big ups grateful dead, disco biscuits, WSP and phish


Jay Z headline All Points West

H.O.V.A Yeah that's right, it may not be as phun as Jay-Z and Phish at Coney Island, but maybe we can hope for a Jay-Z Coldplay jam? that would actually suck, how about Jay-Z/Xavier Rudd Didgeridoo hop?

If you would like to volunteer at this festival contact me and i will put you in touch with the people running the work exchange team (WET ) team.

here is the official statement from APW

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Is Wilco a Jamband

I have been pondering this question lately, as they seem to headline many of my favorite type of festivals (beginning three years ago at Langerado.) I found this very entertaining article on the subject, I disagree with it completely and shows lack of data in what Jambands actually are (Dave Mathews should not be the standard). but it's still genius.

NRPS John Dawson Death

this via headcount
The New Riders of the Purple Sage co-founder died in Mexico, where he’d been living for several years. Dawson wrote “I Don’t Know You,” “Portland Woman,” “Glendale Train,” and everything else on the group’s eponymous 1971 debut album, a dusty gem of post-Summer of Love country-rock with a Bakersfield bent. He also co-wrote “Friend of the Devil” with Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. There’s surprisingly little live footage of the original band available.

Currently the NRPS lineup does not even include him though and includes Guitarist David Nelson as the only original member

Covert War on Rock and Roll: Attack on Hippies and Subversive Music or Why Indie Rock is Popular

Here is the first chapter in this very interesting book.
one has to ask themselves, why are there no politically active jambands left?


In 1967 a subversive form of music melded with politics in San Francisco.
Thus, destabilization tactics were summarized in a leaked memo, excerpt:
"show them as depraved” call attention to their habits, and every possible embarrassment.
Send articles to the newspaper showing their depravity.
Use misinformation to confuse and corrupt.
Provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in death."

For the first time since it's creation the warfare state erected by the Dulles brothers, Hoover, MacArthur, Kissinger, Nixon, etc. was threatened by an increasingly militant segment of society.
The FBI rose to the challenge.
On July 30, 1994, Intelligence files on Leonard Bernstein reveal the bureau spent countless hours examining his links with associations deemed communist to subversive.
FBI agent Jane Moore said the FBI saw the strength and power of the idea of socialism, realized it represented a very real danger to our profit-motivated corporate state and had declared total covert war against not only the denim clad revolutionaries but all progressive forces
The bureaus tactic was to cut them down or burn them out before they realized their potential.
At the federal level, the CIA. was already pursuing similar objectives under code name Operation Chaos.
Targets of Chaos
Blank Panther Movement (Geronimo Pratt, jailed for 27 yrs. for murders he did not commit. He was also a target of COINTELPRO, the FBI "counter-surveillance program)
Politically active hippies were also targets.
Many underground papers were put out of business when they were abandoned by advertisers who had been pressured by the FBI.
From 1967 to 1972 the operation compiled 13,000 files, which concerned 300,000 individuals and organizations.
The CIA directorate of operations created an index of 7 million names.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Big up to Clean Vibes


I didn't forget you guys, Bonnaroo 2006 was so much fun, only this company (clean vibes) can make cleaning up a festival like summer camp. I still see these people at ever show, covered in shwill, some still working with CV some, stage hands, sound engineers, stage managers, roadies, ect.

Bear Creek Lineup Additions

Bear Creek Music and Arts Festival, at Spirit of Suwannee in Live Oak, recently announced these artist additions. They include Include: Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Toubab Krewe, Dr. Claw, Telepath, Yonrico Scott Band, Donna Hopkins Band, Avis Berry's Soul Revue and artist's-at-large Skerik, Mike Dillon, Roosevelt Collier and The Shady Horns. The festival plans on hosting its annual pre-party on Thursday, November 12 that will feature sets from Toubab Krewe, Pnuma Live PA, The Heavy Pets, Pimps of Joytime, Brother Bean and Gravity A.

Tickets for the Bear Creek fest are currently going at $115 and pre-party tickets at $40. Purchases can be made here.. Pre-Existing Lineup:


Galactic x 2
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe x 2
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk x2
Robert Walter's 20th Congress
Lettuce x2
Perpetual Groove
Steve Kimock and Crazy Engine
The New Mastersounds x2
Hill Country Revue
Yonrico Scott Band
The Benevento - Russo Duo
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
Garage A Trois
Fred Wesley and the New JB's
Lotus
Toubab Krewe x2
Papa Mali Band
The Slip
DubConscious x2
Zach Deputy x2
The Pnuma Trio
Bonerama
The Ryan Montbleau Band
Telepath
Dr. Claw
Surprise Me Mr. Davis
Break Science featuring Adam Deitch
Brock Butler
Eric Krasno & Chapter 2
Good Enough For Good Times
The Heavy Pets
Pnuma Live PA
On The One
Donna Hopkins Band
The Malah x 2
Green Hit x 2
Stillwood
The Soular System
Avis Berry's Soul Revue
Shak Nasti
Nate Wilson Group
Pimps of Joytime
Polyester Pimpstrap
Curious Circus with funkUs
Sol Driven Train ( 1 kids set, 1 big kids set)
Corporal Boil
Catfish Alliance
3rd Stone
Savi Fernandez Band
Moseley Brown Band
Green House Lounge
Two Foot Level
Artists At Large:
Skerik,
Mike Dillon,
Roosevelt Collier,
The Shady Horns (Ryan Zoidis & Sam Kininger)

More Info Is Available At: bearcreekmusicfest.com.

music and arts blog

When children study music, they begin to understand, they are studying the life itself. That is why music is governed by the laws of life and this is the reason of its existence and its influence on people. Music is accessible to everyone. Just like literature and visual art, music broadly penetrates all the areas of upbringing and education of children, being a major and irreplaceable mean of formation of their spiritual world.

Teacher’s essential task in this respect is to help the pupils to form their musical, spiritual, moral points of view, to captivate their attention with the music in general. One cannot educate a child without motivation, especially when it comes to musical culture; that is why the lesson should be more like a free improvisation. Preschool children get the material better when it is shown in the form of a game. That is why the teacher should be not only musically educated, but also should be able to entice the knowledge to the pupil through the game and invention. Children’s mind should collect musical impressions, ideas and terms, gain acoustic experience. From the very first lessons of developing hearing sense, memory, sense of rhythm, understanding of expressive and visual features of music, developing of performer’s skills is done through such musical genres as march, dance and song.

We hear a lot of music and we can distinguish its intonations (soft, calm song, calling signal etc.) as well as musical intonations related to human speech (intonations of moan, cry, anger, tenderness, sadness, joy etc.). Intonations expressing the inner world of a human being, its different movements (step, jumps, run, dance), as well as intonations taken from the world of nature, animal world, sounds of the city etc., are endless. . When children listen to music, they also listen to its mysteries, discover a new world within themselves, the world which exists in sounds and melodic intonations.

Formation of spiritual and moral values in the younger generation, emotional sensitivity, responsible attitude to any matter is the basis of education. Signing in a choir, the child first of all gets acquainted with vivid, imaginative spoken language, learns to see the beauty of the word, its sonority and melody.

Singing is the most widespread and accessible kind of art, and song is one of the most valuable means of moral and aesthetic upbringing, thanks to the unity of musical and literary text. Singing in a choir develops emotions and feelings, artistic, imaginative and associative thinking, fancy, that’s why singing in a choir has a special role in the system of additional education.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Phish Indio

I was saying this all along. all the signs point to it being held in Indio this year and I have heard it too many places to count since way back when Bonnaroo happened.

EQUIFUNK

LABOR DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL IN THE POCONOS FEATURING THE RADIATORS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS (one of my favorite bands, they rip it up and get psychic with the improv, one of the best funk bands around for sure)


Located in the Pocono Mountains a 2 ½ hour drive from NYC, EQUIFUNK. It seems to be a departure from the massive festivals where the stage seems miles away, The 2-day event features nightly live performances by New Orleans’ artists, The Radiators and a Saturday late night performance by England’s funkiest, The New Mastersounds.

accommodations include fully renovated bunks and cabins; all meals including outdoor evening barbeques, ‘mess-hall’ breakfast buffets and lunches and poolside snacks and beverages (beer and soft drinks) throughout the day; and various camp activities including sports, crafts and/or relaxation with music at the resort style pool. Evenings will offer festivities and full nights of music with the Radiators, as well as a late night show on Saturday with The New Mastersounds.

Playing for over three decades together, The Radiators, affectionately known as “The Rads” play close to 150 dates a year, selling out shows in major markets from New York to San Francisco. Long before there was a phenomenon called Jam Band Music, The Radiators’ shows were noted for their seemingly infinite repertoire and their soulful, inspired improvisations. They have shared the stage with such luminaries as Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Bob Weir, George Porter, Jr. and Maceo Parker have sat in on occasion. EQUIFUNK provides the rare opportunity for “fish-heads” and festival goers to be a part of two rocking sets each night in an intimate outdoor setting.

The New Mastersounds are a four-piece band based in Leeds, England, with a modern take on vintage soul-jazz, funk and rock. Having toured throughout Europe, Japan and the US, the NMS have earned global recognition as a key band in the ‘New Funk’ scene and have garnered a large following both in here and abroad.

Admission is $250 per person

for all the info visit their site WWW.EQUIFUNK.COM.

Camp Bisquik or How I Ruined My Favorite Pair of Nikes












You were are not cool because you went to Camp Biso. This is a misnomer. Camp Bisco is a place to dance to trendy music while you LOSE your ego. It is a paradox and this is why it gets deep. You can not fuck with these Bikers who run ILCC have run their land they way they want and will continue to. There are too many cultures right now floating around for any to be cool anymore. All roads lead to Camp Bisco under the protective wing of the ILCC Angels, 1%.







A fragmented disjointed yet interesting essay follows, I write about what everyone else is afraid to on this Dionysian aquarian indulgence, for a good article on the music read Hidden Track

the NYC hip hop hippies came fresh and left dirty for the best party of the year. The Ill glass you see here is from Illadelph, D&G glass and many more which I will get details on later.

The Bikers had the place on lock, without a police officer in site the whole weekend. It was the nation state of Camp Bisco, where the law of the land were few but enforced with Machiavellian efficiency. Come in with your car and pockets loaded and as long as you had no trouble on your mind or in your eyes you were turned loose inside. Indian Lookout Country Club is a place were freedom rings and you might have to get ("educated") if you bring a bad ass angry attitude. This never happens though so is the reason for the long historic relationship between bikers and hippies. There was lots of exotics, to the point of saturation, it was laughable hearing about something every ten feet. One thing about ILCC is their is NO N2O because when the bikers actually want to enforce one of their few laws they DO. make sense? Three years ago Clean Vibes was in charge of running waste management at the festival. Anna B and crew are experts at this and have festival clean up and recycling to science. Last year they split the duties with Wormtown, who are affiliated with ILCC, this year there was no Clean Vibes and no recycling. A little reminder to realities of what this festival of indulgence has evolved into.

The Disco Biscuits played well, nothing really blew me away even though they are getting better in so many ways. I just feel they could venture more into experimental realms, seeing that they are such an adventurous band in other ways. Browny was going crazy on the golf cart on Thursday night he was speeding around looking for rolling papers. Unstead my buddy offered him rolls. He proceeded to purchase 5. The guy definitely has a post-show need for speed on the golf cart. Then Sunday morning he was spotted FLYING around camp looking for cigarettes. My friend had one in my hand and he about killed 2 people while trying to come over & bum a few, to no avail.

Camp Bisco holds a special niche in the festival pantheon, and every year gets more brave and creative with the bands the pic. A few years ago festivals started booking acts acts like Cat Power and Wilco at festivals typically based around Jambands, Langerado and Bonnaroo were the first to do this. These "crossover acts" are also at Camp but cross over to what? you could say electronic acts urban acts. I would describe it as Andre 3000 "power music electric revival."
It is centering more towards dance music and if you look at the scene it certainly is becoming an homage to Shiva, the hindu god of the dance, creativity and destruction (in legends Shiva smokes a lot of "Bang" or pot).


The Asher Roth set was fun just as in it was great to be able to see what a fraud he really is. I love the fact that hippies throw the best parties and have been doing so since the 60's, because of this we can get bands like Kanye West and Asher Roth and if they suck we can let them and MTV know. He was pretty much laughed offstage (I heard he was blowing beasters).


This year Andy Bernstein and the Headcount booth did something pretty smart, they had a sort of jeopardy game quizzing the party goers on politics, this an obviouse result of last years CNN debaucle at Camp Bisco.

Chad and Caren from Caren West PR did a great job holding things down, even when the rain started coming hard at the beginning of the NAS into Chromeo set, they were calm and collected and kept things moving. A great moment was when Nas finally took the stage (whats up with rappers always being late?) the rain just stopped pouring for five minutes before he busted into some old favorites from Illmatic and made it rain again. I like what he is doing mixing reggae and hip hop, and it was cool how he kept saying "fuck the radio." Rappers love it at festivals especially Camp Bisco, the weed, the women, its all good. Bisco this year was particularly interesting, I saw more black people at a festival then any other in my life, the ratio was about 1:80 rather then 5 at an entire whole festival. this could be that this year there were a number of African America performers including, Two Fresh, Kid Cudi, Nas and Damien Marley, Joe Nice, K'naan the list goes on. of course there is also the whole Trouble and Bass urban crew, which I have loved for years cause of my best buddy from home Ben Dietz aka Passions/Math Head. I pushed hard to get Trouble and Bass DJ's booked this year and MCP came through with AC Slater and Starkey, they would have got Math Head, but my buddy is a very moody artist and decided against it. Holy Ghost had some really cool lights even though the music was generic dance, there was an official dance tent this year banging electronica all night, it had a good ambiance and fun vibe. Joe Nice came through with the best electronica set, playing very mellow, chill meditative dub step. Barber is getting fatter and fatter. The two guys from LCD Soundsystem played, though they could not be formerly billed as LCD Soundsystem. They have a record label called DFA and the label Holy Ghost is on. Late night on Saturday there was a DFA dance tent all star kind of jam. What I really like about Bisco is that it breaths new life into the jamband scene, something we truly need, its bringing in new fans, and exposing them to jammy rock while at the same time exposing rock fans to electronica.

The Tractorbeam vs. Perfume wasn't all it was cracked up to be, it was supposed to sound completely different from the regular DB, Tractorbeam being their electronica alter ego and perfume being an alter ego that plays DB songs in different styles (I.E country, classic rock), Yet I didn't really hear that. It all sounded like jamming to me. I honestly think this band might be too spun out to really reach certain levels that the Dead and Phish reached at the height of their career (for about two years before hitting a drugged up stupor) The Biscuits on the other hand might have hit the stupor early and kind of plateaued, allowing for a longer run of mediocre music instead of a sharp peak into greatness and fall from grace the Dead and Phish had. They are very creative and unique, but the complexity of arrangements lack, once again this Hot Air Balloon solo from a few years back is one of the best guitar solos of all time. On a lighter note the former Biscuits drummer Sammy Altman came out to play on Sound One, a song that he wrote and one of the best and bisco songs with the most mass appeal.












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here is the setlist via fantasy tour


07/18/09 Indian Lookout Country Club, Mariaville, NY
Camp Bisco 8
other acts include STS9, Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Chromeo and The Orb
Set I: M.E.M.P.H.I.S.> Rock Candy, Frog Legs, Run Like Hell> News From Nowhere> Run Like Hell, Once The Fiddler Paid, Sound One
Set II: Sister Judy's Soul Shack, Caves of the East> Park Avenue> Caterpillar> And The Ladies Were The Rest Of The Night1> Save The Robots2
Set III: Save The Robots2> Hope3> Pilin' It High> Sabre Dance, Basis For A Day, Meditation> Hot Air Balloon4
Encore: The Very Moon> Mr. Don

1 inverted
2 dyslexic
3 unfinished
4 completes 7/17 version
This setlist is unconfirmed or incomplete
07/17/09 Indian Lookout Country Club, Mariaville, NY

Camp Bisco 8
other acts include STS9, Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Chromeo and The Orb
Set I: Rockafella, Strobelights and Martinis> Hot Air Balloon> Strobelights and Martinis> You and I> Hot Air Balloon1
Set II: new song, Floes, Mirrors> Minions> Orch Theme> Above The Waves2

1 unfinished
2 completes 7/16 version
(Thanks to workmans_comp for the texts.)
07/16/09 Indian Lookout Country Club, Mariaville, NY
Camp Bisco 8
other acts include STS9, Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Chromeo and The Orb
Set I: Morph Dusseldorf> Digital Buddha> The Great Abyss> Cyclone> Digital Buddha, Wet, Above The Waves1> Morph

Dusseldorf

1 unfinished