On most days I'm now certain that Phish's Amsterdam box contains the finest music I've ever heard (other days it's Hampton/Winston-Salem, Ventura, Chicago...). Trey's play here exemplifies a couple characteristics that were central to Jerry's style, that is, the note unplayed and emotivity. Check out his resurrectory solo beginning at 4:20 (!) - following a midsong wind down to baseline pulse - that is at first poignant, then positively uplifting after rebirth from pregnant pause at 5:42, and which finally soars at 7:28 under power of an updraft generated by Page's piano...
Track: Let Your Fingers Do The WalkingLP: Live at Austin City Limits (liberated bootleg)
Year: 1984
http://youtu.be/eGttmRw3hWw
Happy Cinco de Mayo mis amigos
I wonder, just how the heck is it I've never heard of NOFX(?); yet, between a generally aging fan base across my favourite Dead sites and an odd fealty to the increasingly blurred country/pop/hiphop genres here in Appalachia, punk play (like "Charlie don't surf...").
Anyhow, I've discovered an early penchant for later material, so I began by ordering Wolves and Coaster as well as the '99 opus "The Decline"...to the hardcore among you tsk-ing me for neglecting Drublic, White Trash, and the 2 live releases, I assure both you and Bank of America (my warm, fuzzy, caring, corporate VISA underwriter) they'll be coming soon!
Archivist David Lemieux pulled out 5/8/77, beginning w Scarlet Begonias, this morning on his Grateful Dead history show on SiriusXM. Wonder if his copy is a digital bootleg too?
A. Identify Problem B. Implement Solution
C. Fail
D. Rinse
E. Repeat
I've all the resolve of cooked fettuccine. Not even al dente. Apparently an internet moratorium is required to arrest expenditures on new music.
Discovery of Fat Wreck Chords (think about it) yielded a profligate spree that hooked the VISA for child support toward my collection's new sextuplets, all with punky, alt names like NOFX, Pear, Tony Sly, Fat Mike, and Me First (the last being a uniquely American patriotic gesture).
Ah well, good cause you know, patronage of the arts, starving musicians, and all that.../p,k
Brian Eno
The Mothers of Invention
Rise Against
Dutch Masters
Yes
Neil Old and the International Harvesters
Cultural Divide
Cake
M83
The Naked and Famous
Lowell George
Bjork
Roxy Music
Keane
Cornell 5/8/77
Toots & the Maytals
Zhané
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Miles Davis
A 5-Step Program in Futility.
Purge Then Burge
Kool Moe Dee
Amy Helm and the Handsome Strangers
Chuck Brown And The Soul Searchers
Bob Dylan
Experience Unlimited
Lou Reed
Miles Davis
Amina Claudine Myers
Mavis Staples and the All Star Band
more music
Spiralling....
ZZ Top
EPMD
Jackson Browne
Corrosion Of Conformity
Linda Ronstadt
Iron Maiden
Bad Religion
Live & Let Live!
Professor Longhair
System of a Down
Ry Cooder
The Flower Duet
A niice harmony...
In da club
Have a little Faith... John Hiatt
silver-maned godess
wake of the flood
Little Feat