WeTube Wednesdays: Deep Elem Edition

This week's WeTube Wednesday comes special from the heart of Dallas. Here's a tributary "Dire Wolf" and "Deep Elem Blues" from the Grateful Dead in 1981...



In other news...

-today is Hunter S. Thompson's birthday. Celebrate over at Rock Daily

-Ben Harper will play every theatre he possibly can this Fall

-Los Lobos announced Summer and Fall tour dates

-Hidden Track does some outsourcing to get a review of the last "Last Dispatch"

-take a ride on the Led Zeppelin roller coaster (and hold on to your feet)

-the joker's got Trancegression clips

-and some AWESOME clips from this weekend's All Good Festival

"We Could Jam in Joe's Garage..."

Bored at work like me? This might help...Frank Zappa performing "Joe's Garage" in Paris, 1980



Or if you really need a good wake-up check out these HILARIOUS Mike Tyson quotes



In the news today...

-the Trancegression schedule was released

-Tea Leaf Green added 3 New York dates, September 6-8 @ Gramercy

-the complete idiot's guide to Queen - part deux

-Gene Simmons boasts about his own awesomeness (and other tangentially-related issues)

-a Beatles statue will be built in Hamburg, Germany

-Apple will release the iPhone nano

-and more Live Earth satire; saving the world with bad music

Thirsty Thursday

Are you passive-aggressive or obsessive-compulsive? Take the Maker's Mark personality test and potentially save thousands of dollars in therapy. Afterwards, check out these stories...

-Steve Kimock will fill in for RatDog guitarist Mark Karan

-the Trancegression schedule was released

-Hidden Track posts their top 10 Singin' Drummers

-threatened with a lawsuit for illegally downloading music? Sue the recording industry back like this woman in Oregon did

D.U.M.B.(er)

The Disco Biscuits and Umphrey's McGee have expanded their plans to share the stage beyond the D.U.M.B. Trancegression Festival in Colorado this summer.

The D.U.M.B. summer-run (so far) is:
6/27 Charlottesville, VA (Charlottesville Amphitheatre)
6/28 Portsmouth, VA (Ntelos Wireless Pavilion)
6/29 Raleigh, NC (Lincoln Theatre Street Stage)
6/30 Atlanta, GA (Masquerade Music Park)
7/1 Pompano Beach, FL (Pompano Beach Amphitheatre)

The first question that comes to mind is obviously: who opens? who closes? both groups can't share the stage for the entire show, can they?

Obviously the question of who opens will not be as divisive for UM or tDB as say, David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar; but it's still a good question. Jambands.com is reporting that "in order to figure out who will close the tour's final stop, there will be a pre-show poker game between members of each band on stage at the four preceding gigs. The winner of this poker game will play the closing set in Pompano."

In other D.U.M.B. news there have been several additions to the Trancegression Festival. Additions include Galactic (late night), Greyboy Allstars (late night), Hot Buttered Rum, Zilla, Lotus, Pharcyde, and Blackalicious.