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Uh oh, Clapton showed up on Thursday...

ABB Night 8: The Slowhand Cometh

 

Hope your husband wasn't too set on that... (maybe he'll make it a multi-night appearance?)

Answering my own post here, but I was just reading a blog that seemed to suggest that Clapton will be back at the Beacon tonight. I will be curious to see what they play if he comes back for more. I can't see them repeating songs, so.......what?

"What's Going On"- 3 Non Blondes

 

Makes me want to stab things.

See, I kind of like that song...although I always did like to play Devil's Advocate about stuff like this.

Somebody had to do it. I almost started a thread called "3 most surprisingly emotionally underwhelming songs on Bee Thousand", but figured it would be shut down almost immediately. Your thread can at least can be conceivably be somewhat serious.

Intestinally moving, eh?

Poop Ship Destroyer?

Or if we're just talking pure shmaltz, I'm gonna go with that Aerosmith song. You know, that one.

wow, the allman's are big sheryl crow fans? that's disheartening.

I remember really liking the first song on her first album. That's about it, really. Eh, oh well. I don't really see too much musical connection (although she always did strike me as a "classic rock" fangirl), but maybe she is just a friend of the band? I mean, really, what is Bruce Willis' musical connection to the band? I mean, that Seagram's Wine Coolers commercial was teh awesome all those years ago, but, really?

Yeah, I guess I'd be disappointed to be in the audience the night of the Sheryl Crow guest spot and then find out that Clapton showed up at the following show. Can't win 'em all, I guess.

My husband will be at the Beacon this Friday and Saturday. Rumor is that Eric Clapton will be there. That should be nice. For my husband. I'll be home with the kids.

Uh oh, Clapton showed up on Thursday...

ABB Night 8: The Slowhand Cometh

Hope your husband wasn't too set on that... (maybe he'll make it a multi-night appearance?)

Its about damn time.

If anybody doubts the existence of Seasonal Affective Disorder, the "Gray Season" (Oct-Apr) here in Ohio will put you to the test. C'mon sunshine, I need you now...

too bad they could not pull it off...would have been great.

Sure would have been. That was one of the few games I lost yesterday--VCU was my Cinderella pick for the day.

In other news, my wife had picked Illinois to win her whole bracket...

Well, here's one that seems obvious in hindsight, but I'll go with Dave Matthews in '97 or so. I had followed them in the early (pre-fame) days and always thought they were enjoyable. This was my first time seeing them after they got popular and this particular show was at the old Capital Center (terrible acoustics) and I was directly on the side of the stage which kind of blew--but mostly that was the night I realized that the DMB crowd was becoming increasingly dominated by a-holes who seemed to be doing anything but paying attention to the show. I don't usually complain too much about crowds, but that one really killed it for me. The band was really flat that night, too. There are very few bands where I can pinpoint the date I stopped being a fan, but this one I can.

I don't think it is suprising that Morphine would be good. I miss them a lot. There shows were awewsome. Mark Sandman's stage banter was the best!

Indeed. A huge loss. While on the topic, does anyone have any good Morphine recordings? The official "Bootleg: Detroit" release is ok, but not spectacular.

Garage a trois with Charlie Hunter on guitar. We showed up on the wrong night to see Kings of Leon (playing the next night) and since we were already there we went in. It was fantastic.

I'm jealous. That would be a fun show! I'm a big fan of all those guys--particularly love Stanton Moore's drums and would love to see Charlie Hunter live.

My pick would be Ozomatli. They were at the Warped Tour around '98 or so. There are different types of stages--the "big" stages, smaller stages. These guys, I think, were playing in the back of a pickup truck or something. (it was tiny) But they were so so good. Nobody there knew who they were before that day, but they attracted one hell of a crowd. Fun stuff.

He just put out a new album not to long ago. I figure there will come a day when he leaves the band to do his own thing full time.

When the ABB started making a big deal about the 40th anniversary of the band this year, I heard a lot of rumors that this year was going to be a farewell, of sorts. The band denies it and I don't think it is necessarily true either, but I would not at all be surprised to see the ABB become a more sporadic operation and let the younger guys spend increasingly more time on their own projects. That's great that Derek is getting more attention. He really is my favorite player out there right now. His DTB records are very good--I actually preferred it before they added a full-time vocalist, but the newer ones are good, too.

I don't have Scaggs album, but I have Duane's An Anthology and Loan Me Dime is on that. Great, great long jam.

Yeah, they played that one the other night w/ Scaggs. Awesome song. I can't check it from work here, but there very well may be a YouTube video of it out there.

From what little I heard and from what I read, the run has been great.

 

Hoping for a nice box set treatment of some sort.

I can vouch for this--the run has been fantastic. I've been following along with their streaming video service and this is just some amazing stuff. The Hidden Track blog has been keeping a nice running commentary on each of the shows.

From the shows I have heard, yeah, the one with Buddy Guy and Trey/Page had the firepower (the "Southbound" is ridiculously over the top--in a good way). And the Stanley Clarke/Randy Brecker show had some gorgeous jams. But my current underdog pick of the run is the Boz Scaggs show--with the biggest surprise being that Bruce Willis (Bruce Willis??) came out to play harmonica on One Way Out and Smokestack Lightning--and he was good!!! That was a show that looks kind of meh on paper, but was a lot of fun to listen to.

Woo Hoo! Just got my "steppin out with the GD" in the mail yesterday. Only had time to listen to CD1 but so far I am really happy with the sound quality and songs. Right out of the gate I just loved "Cold rain and snow", "Jack Straw", love "It hurts me too". I'm girding my loins for the 31 minute version of "Dark Star" on Disk 4.

I listened to that entire set a couple weeks ago on a road trip from Columbus, OH to visit my parents near DC. I was actually glad for some Beltway traffic so I could finish listening before arrival.

That is one helluva set you got yourself there. The Dark Star is nice, but don't go skipping over anything to get there. Frankly, for longer jams, I prefer the Other One on that set. Disc 3 can do no wrong, in my eyes. You heard it here first.

Props to my Buckeyes for manhandling the Spartans on the way to the Big Ten championship game vs. Purdue. Should be good, considering the series in the regular season was 1-1.

Heck, yeah. I was really just hoping for a decent enough showing in the BigTen tourney to firmly nail down an NCAA spot, but winning the tourney would be sweet. Hope they still got something in the tank after the MSU game yesterday.

FWIW, if you have the means and the interest, the Moogis.com thing is fully worth the $100+ bucks it costs. I had my doubts about it, but my dad went ahead and got a subscription and has been generous enough to "share" with me. Right now I am listening to the show with Boz Scaggs and (get this) Bruce f'n Willis on harmonica.(!!?! )

I haven't gotten to that point in the show yet, but in reference to the "Phish is destroying Hampton" thread, if Phish was destroying Hampton, then the ABB is ruling NYC right now. Every note I have heard of this year's run has been astonishing. Really, these guys seem energized.

I have the Hittin' The Note (which you can buy in Barnes and Noble now) that has a long interview with Kirk West where he talks about the archival releases. I think they originally planned to do a Dick's Picks type of deal. I think the band was not to happy about some of the releases that have come out, such as the Atlanta Pop Festival cds. I recall reading somewhere about a lawsuit they had going on with Polygram over tapes of shows and unreleased studio tracks.

That's unfortunate. A DP type deal would be cool. I know the initial focus was on highlighting the Duane years, but I'd love to hear some later years stuff, too. I haven't heard the Atlanta Pop Festival one. When you say it is "ragged", do you mean the playing or the sound quality? The sound quality on the American U and Stony Brook releases are sub-par, I would say, but acceptable. I wouldn't mind hearing what they would sound like cleaned up like some of the GD releases.

Exactly. It's his playing that stinks. I've never heard One Way Out, and I have not bought any of the vault releases except for Live at Ludlow Garage: 1970, Fillmore East, February 1970, and Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970.

Get yourself the Stony Brook 9/19/71 release.

Several of the songs on there are my favorite-ever recorded versions I've heard. Blue Sky, for one--damn. Its strange to hear that song prefaced with "Here's a new one Dickey Betts wrote..." I don't know how many live versions of that song exist with Duane on them, but this is just.....daaaaamn.

Smoking version of One Way Out. Also my favorite Stormy Monday. Dream/Liz Reed is ridiculous, too. Sound quality of this thing is iffy, but the playing is dead-on.

90% of the time by myself...baseball games too. Love the solitude of large crowds. Staerd with GD shows a looong time ago and still do it. Next solo show... Asheville NC

I love this. Its not just a thread anymore, folks, this is turning into a movement.

I will add the stipulation that I only really like it in general-admissions type situations because I like to be able to move around. Nothing worse than getting stuck in a seat in the middle of a row and you're alone and have a-holes seated all around you.

Ditto for baseball games--I've gone to those alone a lot in the past, and I got around my assigned-seating issue due to the fact that my favorite team sucks and doesn't draw very big crowds, so I can sit wherever I damn well please!

Speaking of live albums, Peakin' at the Beacon is junk. I think I actually threw that cd in the garbage.

Yeah, that one is not so good. That was right before Dickey's exit, right? One Way Out is better, but still somehow I don't think this current incarnation of the band has a truly representative live album. (a nice box set compiled from this year's residency complete with guest appearances, etc, would be awesome)

But that acoustic version on "An Evening With...#2" might just be my favorite - really unique.

Amen. I lost my copy of that cd a long time ago, but I need to get that one back. That acoustic version was astoundingly good.

Great thread. Been listening to the Bros a lot lately. My dad bought in for the Moogis.com subscription of the Beacon run and so I checked out night 1 with Taj and Levon. Tremendously great show! I'm jealous of whomever it was that said they were there. My dad and I used to go to one of the Beacon shows every year when I lived in the NYC area. We considered making a road trip this year, but the finances didn't work out. Hence, the online streaming thing.

While I never saw the original incarnation of the band (or even the second version, for that matter, post Duane and Berry), but I can say that the early-90s revival of the band AND the Derek-era '00s are both among the most amazing live bands I have ever seen. (and very different, stylistically)

The first time I saw them was at an outdoor shed on a hot summer night and Dickey's winding country-rock songs ruled the night. The Liz Reed>Jessica that closed the show was the most spellbinding/jaw-dropping/amazing thing I had ever seen. I was like 16 years old and stone-cold sober, but discovered that night just how potent of a drug music itself can be.

Fast forward a few years and my dad and I started the Beacon show tradition. By then I had moved well into adulthood and into more of my indie-guy phase and so I'm not supposed to be moved so much anymore by these old, jammy guys, or something like that. Meh. Well...search the archives, there's a post about it somewhere, but the Beacon show I saw in '06 contained my first Mountain Jam and it was nothing short of a religious experience. Derek was on another level that night and Warren, after playing catch-up all night, finally met him eye to eye on top of the Mountain and the whole thing was just absolute magic. That MJ was 30 minutes of bliss that are unparalleled in my rock-show-experience.(except by the above mentioned Liz/Jess)

Good stuff.

I will add that I did see them once in the late-90s with Jack Pearson sitting in and I remember being really disappointed in that show...except for a short guest appearance by some teenage kid named Derek who was surprisingly good...

Oh, I know all that. I was probably just trying to egg you guys on. Sorry.

I don't always bring somebody with me, but, you know, there are usually other people there.

I go to shows alone all the time.(or used to, anyway, when I went to shows a lot) Its not a big deal. Sometimes I even prefer it. I find it much easier to lose myself in the music, frankly, if I'm not worried about whether my companions are having a good time. There is, of course, the pre-show/intermission awkwardness where you have to make a choice whether to turn yourself into a social butterfly for the night and talk to anyone and everyone (this usually takes a few quickly-downed beers for me) or if you're not in the mood for that, you keep to yourself without looking like "that creepy loner guy". I'm pretty sure this is why people invented cellphones that can check sports scores. Ya gotta do something.

Wait, so you guys are upset about a thing's name being changed to something less-overtly corporate in nature? Interesting.

edit: ok, so it is still named after a corporate entity, but I choose to believe the change was inspired by a deep love of Diff'rent Strokes.

edit #2: I am not from Chicago, so I can make jokes about this because it affects me very little. To those of you whom this pisses off, I join you in saying "To hell with the bastards!!! Blaaarrgh!"