Phish & Chips: August 2005

Monday, August 29, 2005

Sex In The 70s

Another powerful band out of San Francisco, Tea Leaf Green has begun their ascent into "stardom" with the jamband circuit. After touring heavily in the summer while hitting up several festivals such as Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, and High Sierra Music Festival people are beginning to notice the powerful rock and roll style that TLG brings to the table. Guitarist Josh Clark definately demonstrates that he was influenced by guitar legend Jimi Hendrix with his strong work during expressive and exciting live shows. However, singer/songwriter Trevor Garrod who also plays piano reminds me of Paul Simon really brings the band together with his smooth vocals.

Most of TLG's recent success came from best form of publicity as in word-of-mouth from tape traders. Their most recent studio release Living In Between was self-released in 2003 otherwise you'll have to head over to etree.org to find recent live shows. This week they'll be headed to Turin, New York to make an appearance at the 6th annual moe.down.

TLG supported the Dave Matthews Band in late August with side stage performances at the Gorge and while my roommate was taking in the beautiful sound he was able to pick up a performance recorded live compliments of KPFA.

Sex In The 70s
TLG at Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz,CA

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Columbia Prepares to Shine With Trey

After spending his entire career with Elektra Records Trey has recently signed with Columbia. Trey's record debut with Columbia will be a dualdisc titled "Shine". The record will feature 12 tracks and was produced by Brendan O'Brien who in the past has worked with Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen. And, this time around Trey wrote all the lyrics himself. Songs include "Come As Melody", "Air Said to Me'", "Love That Breaks All Lines", "Love Is Freedom", and "Sweet Dreams Melinda".

This is what jambands.com had to say about "Shine" and the upcoming DVD from Red Rocks:

"Earlier this week we reported that Trey Anastasio's next studio album, Shine, will be released November 1 on Columbia Records. Jambands.com/Relix has also recently learned that Shine will be issued as a DualDisc set containing DVD footage shot earlier this month at Red Rocks. Among the studio tracks tentatively included on the disc are "Shine," "Tuesday," "Invisible," "Come As Melody," "Air Said To Me," "Wherever You Find It," "Sweet Dreams Melinda," "Love Is Freedom," "Sleep Again," "Spin," "Black" and "Love That Breaks All Lines." A sharp departure from his previous projects, Anastasio penned all of Shine's lyrics."
"While Anastasio's new backing band, 70 Volt Parade, appears on Shine producer Brendan O'Brien also supplies some of the disc's bass, keyboard and vocal parts and Jon Fishman is believed to be among the disc's drummers. Drummer Kenny Aronoff, whose credits include John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, also guests on the album. Anastasio has also added an extra headlining date at Asheville, NC's Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on October 7 between opening spots for The Rolling Stones. The guitarist is expected to begin a full-scale headlining tour following Shine's release."

Trey also added a show at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, NC on October 7, 2005 between his opening dates with The Rolling Stones.

To keep you satisfied here is a link to Trey's recent Red Rocks appearance.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

10,000 Lakes Festival, Detroit Lakes MN

The music roars from a far off place in Minnesota for the third straight year as the 10,000 Lakes Festival came to Detroit Lakes, MN during July. The Soo Pass Ranch that features an amazing camping experience, and not to mention a great sound system. After I posted the Bonnaroo torrents I decided I would try and post many more torrents from this Summer's various festivals.

Friday, July 22nd

Widespread Panic
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=16974

The Black Crowes
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=16588

Rusted Root

STS9
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=17065

Jazz Mandolin Project

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

The Breakfast

Sue Foley

Fat Maw Rooney

White Iron Band

Bump

56 Hope Road

HMHR

T.U.G.G.

Saturday, July 23rd

Widespread Panic

G.Love & Special Sauce

Particle
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=16890

Everyone Orchestra w/ Steve Kimock
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=16896

Buckethead

Jazz Mandolin Project
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=17290

ALO

Bockman
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=16619

Delta Nove

Smokin' Bandits

Hooch

Down Lo

Convert Operations

Roadside Zoo

Sunday, July 24th

Trey Anastasio

Les Claypool
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=17094

Cyro Baptista

MOFRO
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=16735

Perpetual Groove

Gabby La La
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=17341

Green Lemon

Grace Potter

Freshwater Collins

Madahoochi

Mr Blotto

I hope to update this post as I find the torrents. If you know where a torrent exists please comment or send an email to guss@wsuw.org

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Spreading the Love of Bonnaroo 2005

Monday, August 15, 2005

That This Has All Been Wonderful But Now I’m On My Way

I almost forgot what today was until I popped in an old Phish disc from 2/20/1993 (featuring an amazing Cavern). Today, marks the 1 year aniversay that Phish moved on their separate ways. I still believe that it was a good thing musically for all of Phish to move apart and start their own projects. We now have Trey on tour playing with 70 Volt Parade, Mike Gordo

n and Leo Kottke, Page with Vida Blue, and Fishman playing with various acts. We will never be deprived of these musicians due to these new projects they have taken on. I apologize for the short post, but I don't feel that it's my place to ramble on how great I think Phish was, but I do know Phish touched millions of fans with their amazing live performances and the memories that happened at these shows. Below I posted some torrents from 2004, but left off Coventry because I think every fan should have the soundboard copy from livephish.com.

8/11/04 Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA
The Complete Run of Las Vegas

The Wall Came Down and Big Mac Beat the Communists.

The John Butler Trio may be the best kept secret outside of Austrailia, but don't worry their preparing for their first US tour later this month. JBT who just recently signed with Lava Records this past year after spending most of their time since 2002 with the independent label Jarrah Records. Jarrah Records whose primarily goal was to represent The Waifs and JBT's crossover to the US. JBT's first independent release, Three made its way to the United States in 2000. I can remember when my friend Dan first picked this CD up at Atomic Records and I was quite amazed by the finger picking John Butler. The native Austrailian sound that created a grassroots rock was simply stunning to my ears. This past spring, they released their first CD titled Sunrise Over Sea and have been on tour ever since. A small US tour was scheduled during the Spring and they played at numerous cities including opening up for Trey Anastasio this past March at The Rave. Their national tour has begun this past week and they have five highly anticipated shows with the Dave Matthews Band beginning at the end of the month in California. They will tour until mid-October also playing gigs at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival and Austin City Limits Festival.

Here are two of my favorites from Sunrise Over Sea.

Betterman
Oldman

Monday, August 08, 2005

How Ya Feelin?

I happened to be lucky enough to catch the BIG Summer Classic at Summerfest during the summer. It was my second time there that week because I was able to catch Robert Randolph and Galactic on the 4th of July.

Out of all the bands at the BIG Summer Classic that included SCI, YMSB, New Monsoon, Keller Williams, Umphrey's McGee, and finally the band that stood out from the rest was Michael Franti & Spearhead. There was something special Franti and the entire band. Spearhead would've have been great to see without Franti but with his powerful political voice thundering over the crowd I was awe struck. The next day I immediatly picked up a copy of a few of their shows one from Red Rocks and the other from the All Good Festival on July 16. So I decided to find out some more information about Michael Franti & Spearhead. Here is some more links where you can find out more information about Michael Franti & Spearhead.

Michael Franti took a recent trip to Iraq and Israel. You can check out his interview with jahworks.com here.

Franti's video documentary is headed to the Slamdance Film Festival. The documentary is titled "I Know I'm Not Alone" and covers his trip to the Middle East.

Their headed to Jam Cruise 2006. A glance at the lineup includes Galactic, Les Claypool, Keller Williams, and Umphrey's McGee.

And finally, Superfly Productions is at it again by announcing a Halloween festival in Las Vegas called Vegoose. Hopefully, this doesn't turn into another Zooma Tour or Bonnaroo Northeast. I think this one will be successful and I wouldn't mind going to Las Vegas for my first time.

Until next time...here is a active torrent for some Michael Franti & Spearhead from Pier's Landing in Pittsburgh.

Saturday, August 06, 2005

Opening Act

Well, I jumped on the blog bandwagon and decided I would entertain you for at least thirty seconds or less. This blog will contain setlists from my radio show "Phish & Chips" weekly, and more than likely a few posts that I create while I am completely bored and full of knowledge.

"Phish & Chips" began in the spring of 2004, and has been playing on the airwaves every Friday while school is in session. The goal was to explore what made Phish so great and why the people flocked toward their live shows. It was simply too easy after sitting back and listening to hours on end of Phish shows that I picked up from various sources. However, things have changed a small bit. I stopped playing entire Phish shows during my 4 hour sets each Friday nights and usually just play one set from whatever show I have lined up for the week. I enjoy doing this because that means I have more time to let everyone listen to other great music that I stumble upon.

We're less than a month away before "Phish & Chips" takes its final voyage on the airwaves of 91.7 WSUW.