Blues Traveler was great. They played a some great covers (Devil Went Down to Georgia, What I Got by Sublime, and What You to Want Me). Popper was taking shots on stage all night, and by the end of the show he was obviously trashed, but it seemed to only make him play better. The crowd was surprisingly old, I'm pretty sure I was the youngest person there.

Just uploaded a couple must-hear shows on my blog- [url]http://chinacatsunflower.tumblr.com/[/url]

Uploaded 2 David Nelson Band soundboards from this past summer tour. David Nelson is from New Riders Of The Purple Sage and his band is incredible and pretty different from NRPS. Lots of very psychedelic jamming, but there's some country rock/roots stuff too. All five members played with Phil Lesh & Friends at some point and the band just plain rocks, especially Barry Sless. Check out his playing, it's incredible.

furthur tour announced.

it'll be hard for me to make it any of the shows, i might have to wait until festival season (I would expect them to play the last night of Vibes, as it will be Jerry's birthday and all)...

Had the Umphrey's S2 show on Saturday. It was a really cool experience being in such an intimate environment with the band. I thought for the most part the guys did a great job playing along to the themes, and a few of them resulted in some truly great jams. My brother and I both got texts put up (mine was the very last one), which was cool.

You can see all the themes that were used here: http://blog.umphreys.com/cs/blogs/thefloor/


Some of the better ones were "slayer plays techno," "sesame shakedown street," and "Johnny Cash vs. Jerry Garcia."

Damn, I would like to hear how that sounded.

Lunch, I know you have Widespread tickets for tomorrow, might want to check this out: http://www.jambands.com/news/2009/11/23/free-acoustic-widespread-gig

Hopefully you see this in time! I'm thinking about heading to both if I can get out of work early enough.

Man, I am so diggin the Biscuits right now. Their 2007-10-12 Echo Project set:

1: Run Like Hell -> Story of the World (><) -> Basis for a Day

2: Save the Robots -> Home Again -> Spacebirdmatingcall -> Save the Robots

They have some really awesome jams in this one.

[QUOTE=magicbus;17662377]Man, I am so diggin the Biscuits right now. Their 2007-10-12 Echo Project set:

1: Run Like Hell -> Story of the World (><) -> Basis for a Day

2: Save the Robots -> Home Again -> Spacebirdmatingcall -> Save the Robots

They have some really awesome jams in this one.[/QUOTE]

Wooord. 10/12/07 was a pretty damn good show.

Full setlist reads:

Set I: Run Like Hell (1)> Story Of The World (2)> Basis For A Day

Set II: Save The Robots> Home Again (3)> Spacebirdmatingcall1> Save The Robots

Encore: Moonlight Sonata (4)> Spaga

(1): unfinished
(2): inverted
(3): ending only
(4): 1st time played (Beethoven)

What a terrible thread.

I caught Dark Star Orchestra last night, it was quite a good show. One of John K's final shows with DSO, since he just resigned because of his commitment to touring with Furthur. So it was cool to see him with DSO one more time. Jeff Mattson is replacing him and is an excellent guitarist but man, I love John K's playing and he was really on fire last night. They created an original setlist, and previously when I've seen them do that it's been a little questionable and some songs seemed out of place. Last night's original setlist was different though, it flowed very, very well and was full of great songs. Check it out, I wish the Dead played something like this-

I.
Hey Pocky Way
Hell In A Bucket
Row Jimmy
Minglewood Blues
Two Souls
Jack-A-Roe
Greatest Story Ever Told
Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues
Touch Of Grey

II.
Feel Like A Stranger
Foolish Heart
Blow Away
Weather Report Suite (eaton on acoustic)
Let it Grow
Drums
Space
St. Stephen
William Tell Bridge
The Eleven
So Many Roads
Satisfaction

E: Second That Emotion

Freaking great setlist, especially the 2nd set. St. Stephen > William Tell > Eleven > So Many Roads > Satisfaction was incredible as was the Weather Report Suite > Let It Grow. Cool stuff. The venue was awful though, security was out of control.

Pacific Northwest Heads - Keller Williams @ Showbox Dec 5th
 

Any Pacific North West People out there getting excited about Keller this weekend?

Its been a while since Ive seen a solo Keller show and I can't wait.

Keller with the SCI boys at Rothbury this summer was nothing short of extraordinary!

See you there!

Govt mule
 

For all you that really like jam bands, GOVT MULE Tickets for the House Of Blues Chicago show on 2/5/10 goes on sale This Saturday 12/5/09. Don' miss out these tix will go fast and also proceeds of the concert will be donated to the Chomers Childrens Hospital. Get tix where tix are sold.

Just got back yesterday from my trip to New York and Charlottesville to see Phish. Both shows were absolutely mind blowing, definitely the two best shows I've ever seen.

The best part of the weekend was seeing a naked guy jump on stage during Ya Mar in Charlottesville, hug Trey, then evade security for at least 30 seconds. During "Run Like an Antelope" Trey replaced the lyrics with "You've gotta run like a naked guy out of control!" Needless to say the crowd loved it.

You guys ever listen to Jazz Is Dead (Jazzy, instrumental covers of Dead songs, featuring Jimmy Herring, T Lavitz, Billy Cobham, etc.)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXozVen2bBo

Jimmy's guitar is basically singing. I've got a cool SBD where they feature Derek Trucks and Vassar Clements on a few songs, I'll see if I can find a link or upload it somehow.

Jazz is Dead is awesome.

I have Jazz Is Dead's albums but I've never really listened to them.

I've never really been able to get into Herring's playing dead material. i've met a few people at shows that swear Phil Lesh & Friends with Herring was the best dead music anyone has played post-Jerry but I don't know, never really done much for me. I need to listen to more.

By the way, there is a live stream of Furthur's show tonight on gdradio, check it out. beginning of set 2 now.

and i would love to hear that jazz is dead show with Vassar and Derek though. There's a great Phil & Friends show with Derek on archive, 1999-11-15 by the way.

I remember Jazz is Dead from the old old CR days.

yeah i know i got those albums from that thread. along with lots and lots of other good music.

Here's the link to that set: http://www.sendspace.com/file/b2sqjw

It's pretty cool. Good song selection too.

What's up guys I am new to this site and I was hoping I could find some sbd's for EOTO and Lotus. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

probably some stuff on archive.org or etree.org

How about a link to these shows from EOTO?

1) 09/24/09 The Fez Ballroom, Portland, OR
http://www.livedownloads.com/show.aspx?show=3035

2) 12/05/09 Canopy Club, Urbana, IL
http://www.livedownloads.com/live-music/0%2C4526/EOTO-mp3-flac-download-12-5-2009-Canopy-Club-Urbana-IL.html

Please?

Looks like you already have some links there. And they aren't up on the archive, you'll probably have to purchase the show if you want to hear.

Incredible.

someone help me decide- gov't mule or soulive/lettuce for NYE?

Gov't Mule all the way.

Definitely Gov't Mule. Seeing the great Warren Hayes play is an absolute pleasure.

Yeah that's my feeling too but I've seen Mule like 8 times or so and it's much more expensive. i'd still rather do that, especially since they're doing a tribute to woodstock (seeing mule cover hendrix, ten years after, santana etc would be incredible) but my brother really wants to do soulive so we'll see.

well soulive/lettuce sold out so looks like mule it is... should be crazy. the chick that sang in across the universe is confirmed to be sitting in with them to do the janis/jefferson airplane stuff.

Gov't Mule NYE was maybe the best show I've ever seen. They played 3 sets over 5 hours, and the last 2 sets were a tribute to Woodstock which they absolutely nailed. It was probably like my 10th time seeing Mule and I've never seen them this good. Every song was just incredible.

Here's the setlist:
Set 1
Bad Little Doggie
Inside Outside Woman Blues
Larger Than Life >
Frozen Fear
Forevermore
Painted Silver Light
No Need To Suffer
Mule > with Highway Star Tease
Whole Lotta Love >
Mule

Set 2
Freedom*$ (Warren & Marc)
Coming Into Los Angeles*$ (Without Matt)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Going Home*
Ball & Chain*@#
Piece Of My Heart*@#
Savior*$ >
Jingo*$
Soul Sacrifice*$
Delta Lady*$@#
Let's Go Get Stoned*$@#
With A Little Help From My Friends*$@# >
New Years Countdown >
With A Little Help From My Friends*$@#
Dance To The Music*$@# >
Music Lover*$@#
I Want To Take You Higher*$@#

Set 3
Fish Cheer* (Matt Solo Acoustic)
Dark Star*$ >
Somebody To Love*$@
I Put A Spell On You*
Don't Do It*&#
Mean Mistreater*
Helplessly Hoping* (Warren acoustic with Marc, Danny, Dana & Pam)
"Don't Eat The Brown Acid"
Helplessly Hoping Reprise*
I'm Free* >
Listening To You*

Encore
Star Spangled Banner* >
Purple Haze*

* First Time Played
# Buford Osullivan - Trombone, Pam Fleming - Trumpet, Jenny Hill - Sax
@ Dana Fuchs - Vocals
$ Marc Quinonnes - Percussion

Lunch, you'll be happy to know that at the end of Listening To You Warren listened to his inner Pete Townsend and knocked over a couple amps. Warren also played an upside down lefty strat for the Hendrix songs. Crazy night.

Anyone else see a show on NYE?

Damn Robo that sounds awesome. I've only seen Mule once and it was pretty boring, although they played a killer No Quarter that made it worth it. I also gained a lot of respect for Warren as a real musician's musician at the Dead last spring. Those second two sets look wild. It would be funny so see Warren rage on his gear a la Pete.

I went to this band called Ultraviolet Hippopotamus that played at Founder's Brewery in Grand Rapids, MI. The band was just ok but it was more about hanging with some close friends and drinking great beer at Founder's than the music, and that was perfectly fine with me. A fun night all in all. Looks like I should have gone to Atlanta for Panic though.

warren didn't quite rage on his gear like pete. he did it as delicately as possible, it was like he didn't want to damage anything. It was pretty funny.

And Warren really nailed the Dark Star too. Really fantastic Dark Star. One of the things I hate about post-Jerry projects is that Dark Star always gets split up. I hate how Ratdog will weave through Dark Star (or Bird Song) multiple times in a night. It was fantastic seeing a band actually play the whole damn thing straight through, which Mule did.