Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
This is my first try at live-blogging from the Beacon, and my first try with this phone. If things don’t go perfectly, please accept my apologies in advance.
During the course of the evening I will do my best to update the setlist (including the VIP Soundcheck at 5:00PM). The blogging client I’m using on my phone seems to crash every time I try to include a picture, so I’m not hopeful that I’ll be able to include any during the show. When I get home (I live close to the venue) I’ll be sure to update this post to include some photos.
4:57pm – waiting in lobby while they do the real soundcheck…
5:14 – VIP Soundcheck Setlist
Warren has specifically said “bad karma will fall on anyone who leaks what we play now on the Internet”. And I don’t need any bad karma, so I’m respecting his wishes.
6:00pm stage dark
6:30pm @ Starbucks keeping warm, waiting for friends to arrive. The VIP soundcheck was interesting – it seemed to be an actual soundcheck, not a “mini-set” of pre-determened songs, which is what a lot of folks thought it would be.
8:07pm in the Beacon again, security decided to push the border of inappropriate on the way in
Set 1
Broke Down On The Brazos
Rocking Horse >
Banks Of The Deep End
Lay Your Burden Down
Steppin’ Lightly
Any Open Window
Devil Likes It Slow with Jon Herrington & Bill Evans
Sco-Mule with Jon Herrington & Bill Evans & Dance To The Music chorus
Set 2
Railroad Boy >
Monday Mourning Meltdown >
Beautifully Broken >
Wandering Child >
Drums >
Drums & Bass
Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home with David Hidalgo
Dear Mr. Fantasy with David Hidalgo
Thorazine Shuffle
Encore 1
Low Down Dirty Shame with David Hidalgo
Look On Yonder Wall with David Hidalgo
Encore 2
Woodstock First Time Played
Gov’t Mule
David Hidalgo and Danny Louis
More photos here.
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
I haven’t heard every album released in 2009 (not by a long shot) so I think it’d be a bit presumptuous to claim these seven albums to be the best albums of the year, instead these are just seven albums released in 2009 that I’ve enjoyed and that I think you may enjoy as well. [...]
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Phish @ AAA, Miami, FL 12/29/09
Set I: Golgi Apparatus, Maze, Driver, The Connection, Wolfman’s Brother, Ocelot, Reba, Access Me, The Divided Sky, Cavern
Set II: Kill Devil Falls, Tweezer, Prince Caspian, Gotta Jibboo > Wilson > Gotta Jibboo > Heavy Things, 2001 > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Sleeping Monkey, Tweezer Reprise
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Why all the nudity in 2009? Well, look at this way: The affordability of video production technology has made it easier for everybody to get in the game; the unceremonious death of music television has shifted the means of music video distribution to the internet, where it’s less about FCC than about NSFW; and let’s face it, blogger hit counts love no four letters more than NSFW. More than ever, video directors and bands are cutting through the iMovie inundation by setting their songs to a bunch of extras parading their giggly bits. (Occasionally the artists themselves are baring more than just their souls, too.) To memorialize the year in NSFW, here are ten of the most prurient sets of moving pixels we’ve seen all year. Any other week we’d say you shouldn’t watch this at your cubicle, but you deserve a reward for even being at work this week, so go nuts! Lots of nuts here.
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
The opening night of the Phish NYE run in Miami is right in the middle of the second set and the setlist looks pretty good so far:
Phish @ AAA, Miami, FL 12/28/09
Set I: Sample in a Jar, NICU, My Soul, Roggae, Undermind, Bouncing Around the Room, Poor Heart, Stash, I Didn’t Know, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Possum
Set II: Mike’s Song > Light > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Alaska, Backwards Down the Number Line, Makisupa Policeman > Harry Hood > Contact > Character Zero
Encore: First Tube
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
On the final Billboard 200 album chart prior to Christmas a total of eight Beatles releases made the top 200 sellers of the week:
#082 Abbey Road (1969)
#085 The White Album (1970)
#099 The Beatles in Stereo Box Set (2009)
#126 1 (2000)
#130 Sgt. Pepper’s… (1967)
#163 Rubber Soul (1965)
#170 Revolver (1966)
#184 Love (2006)
Not a bad showing considering that [...]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
A top 150 albums of 2009 list has been voted on (and then compiled) at what I believe is the biggest Radiohead fan forum on the internet.
As a big Radiohead fan (and a member of that forum, although I didn’t take part in this vote as I’m not much of a regular because the [...]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
For those of us who will be watching the Phish New Year’s Eve run in Miami from the sidelines, tonight is the night it all begins down there…
The Miami Herald offers a nice preview with an interview with Trey via phone:
The Miami shows culminate in Phish’s first New Year’s Eve concert since 2003, which was also at the AAA. The band, which reunited earlier this year after a four-year hiatus, performed at Big Cypress to ring in 2000, so South Florida obviously holds a special attraction for the veteran Vermont musicians.
Who’s got my heady stream?
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
It was a tumultuous year for late night laffs, with Jimmy Fallon joining the fray, Conan taking over Tonight only to find awful Leno sink the NBC ship at 10PM, and Letterman enjoying career-high ratings despite (or because of?) a sex scandal. It was, however, a solid year for late night music booking. We regularly saw bands leap from our backyards and comments section to network television, and indexed highlights for you the mornings after. Here’s a look back at a dozen memorable late night TV jams in reverse chronological order. It kicks off with last week’s surprise in which a Stroke and some ex-SNLers revisited a yuletide classic.
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
As first reported by @KristinHersh, the paralyzed Athens singer/songwriter overdosed on pills and was pronounced dead on Christmas day. Constellation has collected words from admirers like Jeff Mangum and Michael Stipe, along with info on public memorials and donating in his honor.
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