MTV Streaming the Hangout Festival

Some confusion on whether or not Trey is performing on the live stream. MTV took it off their schedule. Looks like they are cock-blocking Trey and the bigger acts (Black Crowes, Tom Petty & Stevie Wonder). But, you can still see some other kick ass bands on two different channels over the next two days.

Anyway, line-up info here.

Watch it live-stream here:

Happy 50 Page!

Page turns 50 today. A half-a-century of Leo. Let's celebrate...

Monday Morning Key Bumps: The Rapture and House of Jealous Lovers

Disco punk. Get rowdy. Here is The Rapture...

Dead Flashbacks: 5/13/81 Providence, RI

32 years ago today, the Grateful Dead's circus blew into Providence...


Here's the setlist:

5.13.81 Grateful Dead, Civic Center, Providence, RI

Set 1: Wang Dang Doodle tease > Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed > CC Rider, Friend of the Devil, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Bird Song > Let It Grow > Deal

Set 2: Finiculi Finicula > Samson And Delilah, Terrapin Station > Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance > Drums > Space > Iko Iko > I Need a Miracle >  Stella Blue > Good Lovin'

E: Brokedown Palace

Funky Monks, Scare Tissue, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers

I read Anthony Keidis' memoir, Scar Tissue, for a work project. Over at my main blog, I posted a review of the book titled Scar Tissue and Funky Monks. If you dig the Chili Peppers, then please check it out.

The embedded video below is Funky Monks, a documentary filmed by Flea's brother-in-law in 1991. It covers the period of time the band recorded Blood Sugar Sex Magik in the same mansion they crashed for several months in the Hollywood Hills that was supposed to be haunted and where Harry Houdini once lived.

Enjoy....

Grateful Dead Barton Hall Conspiracy?

Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest Grateful Dead shows ever recorded. The Dead achieved perfection in 1977 (the year Donna Jean sounded the least annoying) and their May shows are among the tightest the band has ever played. Much like Phish's renown Fall 97 tour, the Dead's spring 77 tour is revered as one of the most magical moments to be on Dead tour.

But did Barton Hall really happen? I love a good conspiracy theory (Paul is dead, the Queen is a Reptilian, or the NFL rigged Super Bowl III for the Jets), but this is one of the weirdest ones I ever heard about the conspiracy of Barton Hall.

But then I wondered... I never actually met anyone who went to that show. We all had a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy from the original Betty Boards. I went on Spring 94 Dead tour during college and I was a snot-nosed 20-year old punk hanging out in the lot with these older hippies. They loved to talk about their favorite runs, but no one ever spoke about being present at the Barton Hall show. I met heads who saw the Boston shows or the Buffalo shows, but not the Barton Hall shows.

5.8.77 Barton Hall, Ithaca, NY

SET 1: Minglewood Blues, Loser, El Paso, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Deal, Lazy Lightning > Supplication Blues, Brown-Eyed Women, Mama Tried, Row Jimmy, Dancin' In The Streets
   
SET2: (Take A Step Back Banter), Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain > Estimated Prophet > St. Stephen > Not Fade Away > St. Stephen, Morning Dew

ENCORE: Saturday Night

On paper, it looks very similar to other shows/sets from that run but the sound was near flawless and even Donna Jean meshed with the mix.

Listen to my favorite part of that evening... Scarlet > Fire...