JerseyMike

God, those guys are one of the bands killing original music in NJ....thanks

Dylan plays baseball stadiums no? And isn't house of blues now live nation?

Venue is unimportant when it comes to the person promoting it. Most venues are rented by the promoter. What it comes down to is which promoter is going to give the performer the best offer. This is how Live Nation has taken control of the concert industry. They give acts more money than any small outfit can offer, and then jack up the ticket prices to maximize thier profits. On top of that, they intimidate acts by threatening loss of radio promotion and radio play on Clear Channel stations if they go with another promoter. This is how it all started a few years back and then Clear Channel (Live Nation, now, to avoid lawsuits) are buying up venues.

A promoter from Denver sued Clear Channel a few years back. His story gives you a good picture of how it all went down.

Great Band moments from SNL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjdbEr6spY0

Still there. Not pink. I think the people got sick of people coming by to check it out.

Thats great! I love me some Lou Reed...

Just found this on Utube...my band doin "OH Sweet Nuthin'"

Actually, all 369 posts are for show promotion...and not one VC'er yet!

Just kidding...I don't post my shows that much, but I haven't played in NYC in a long time. Chicago in January, I'm being told!!!

And if the show doesn't go well, we are going to mug Ben Taylor and takes his ATM card...gotta be some of daddys "Fire and Rain" money in there!

The Band are easily one of the greatest groups of all time...here are some random thoughts...

I have my doubts that Robbie really wrote all of those tunes by himself...

"It Makes No Difference" : one of the greatest ballads ever.

I got to open for Danko not too long before he passed. It was one of the saddest nights of my life, seeing one of my heroes in such bad shape...I have a song on my latest CD called "Walk on Water" that i wrote not too long after he died. I did see The Band (w/ Danko, Helm, Hudson, Bell, Weider) in Central Park the night before Garcia died and they kicked ass. Danko was so railed up on coke! And I jammed with Levon (drums only) at a private party (for Buddy Cage of The New Riders and "Blood on the Tracks" fame) in 2001. Took a couple hits of the J w/ him as well that day. And yes, he's even cooler than he seems.

Rock of Ages is a great live album.

That tribute album sucked big time. My Morning Jacket was the highlight by far. I wondered if any of those people had even heard the Band before they recorded thier tunes. Gomez killed "Cripple Creek"...awful. And Death Cab for Cutie (who I don't like that much anyway) doing "Rocking Chair" w/o any harmonies...blasphemy!!!

My vote for the band most like The Band...Los Lobos (rootsy, experimental, accordians, saxophones, multiple singers, etc.)

And if I remember correctly, they did go back and clean up some recording from the Last Waltz, but it was just some out of tune bass here and there, a few harmonies and thats about it. Defintely not to the scale of Kiss Alive!

My band does a pretty pumpin cover of "Shape I'm In"

I named my Fantasy Football team The Honkeys in tribute to the late great Richard Manuel talking about naming The Band in "The Last Waltz", the greatest rock and roll movie ever!

Defintely going to one of Levon's Midnight Rambles as soon as I can afford the pricey ticket!

disliked these guys when they were portly and named Tenacious D. Their strain to be ironic looks painful. I like oddball stuff like The State, and Get A Life, but this show makes no sense to me.

I actually agree with this statement. The whole musical comedy act thing is a little tired at this point, and the FOTC's comedy is painfully obvious.

This is just the e-mail that went out to our fanlist and I don't feel like thinkin'....

Gabba Gabba Hey Hey,

This Friday, September 21st, we will be making our first New York

City appearance in almost 4 years, and it'll totally be worth the

wait. First, it happens to be Drummer Joe V's birthday, so thats

reason enough. We'll also be debuting a few new tunes that'll rock you

and on top of all that, we it'll be our first show with the newest

Dirty Dovette, Lizzy Friel, on fiddle and vocals. So come on out,

bring your friends, and tell the world...see you all on Friday night!

THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st, 2007

Mike June & The Dirty Doves

appearing live at

THE CUTTING ROOM

19 W. 24th St. (between 5th and 6th)

New York, New York

For directions and subway info, etc:

http://www.thecuttingroomnyc.com

Mike June & The Dirty Doves (11 PM)

also on the bill:

Ben Taylor (son of James) (10 PM)

Janis Ian is another case altogether. I have an extremely soft spot in my heart for her as a 14 year old singersongwriter having a kick ass hit single that rattled some cages (Society's Child) when I was a mere teen, but my wife and I went to see her in the last couple years and talk about irritating...yikes. My wife bought some of her newer albums I think out of a feeling of nostalgia, but at one point during her show at the OTS, she asked the audience (which you can imagine was pretty damn old) to NOT sing along. Not only was that rude, it was egotistical and stupid. As a result, my wife won't play the CDs EVER. (I will send them to anyone for free if you want.) I mean I felt she had gotten lame fairly early in her career (after the Verve Folkways days) and exceptionally MOR, but we also saw her some time in the late 70s or early 80s and she wasn't too bad. This time she was just plan full of it. She can still sing and play though....just don't consider singing along with her hits.....

Ha HA! I used to work for Janis (in fact, I may have booked the show you were at!), and I know her quite well, so I can undertand this! She really means well, she been through the ups and downs of the music business and back again, so she's a little...um, grizzled?

Another set of Dylan covers I like is Red On Blonde by Tim O'Brien. His version of Senior (which is a great song) is excellent

You read my mind!

It is on some free CD from some magazine

MOJO Magazine. They put great complilations in there...

Every Grain of Sand- Emmylou Harris

Wicked Messenger- The Faces

You Ain't Goin Nowhere- The Byrds

You Gotta Serve Somebody- Mavis Staples

It's All Over Now Baby Blue- Van Morrison (Them?)

For anybody who may be interested, I will be performing with a bunch of other acts in a tribute to Bruce on Saunday. Rumor has it that the boss himself may attend, since he and the e-streeters are rehearsing down the road.

Upstage Magazine presents: TWISTED COVERS, a tribute to Bruce Springsteen

@ THE TWISTED TREE CAFE

608 Cookman Ave.

Asbury Park, NJ

Read about it:

http://www.upstagemagazine.com

Go to open mics, and even better, open jams (jazz, blues jams, etc.) so you can actually see the way people play thier instruments. Have a good idea of what you want to do before you do it, and make sure that you actually like the people you are going to play with, or you'll put yourself through hell. Good luck!

No fucking way. This guy, although principlaed and honest, wants to privatize everything, from social Secuirity, welfare, all the way down to the post office. Thats not what this country needs right now, and I personally could never agree with the privitization of welfare and social security.

went to the bookstore a few weeks ago to buy this and walked out with the Strummer biography instead. So this may be next.

I just bought, and finished, the Strummer bio. It was a great read. Very insightful and very revealing. It put me on a big Mescaleros kick!

I saw that a few months back , a Hitchcock novice at the time. Very nice film and "Ole! Tarantula" is a great LP.

TONIGHT! MJ & THE DIRTY DOVES & GARCIA LATER

Mike June & The Dirty Doves

w/ Garcia Later

The Alexus Tavern

80 Wagaraw Rd.

Hawthorne, NJ

10 PM

Come check out "The New Underpass" at The Alexus Tavern, a very nice room with great sound. We will also be celebrating the B-day of Jerry Garcia with a set from Garcia Later!

http://www.mikejune.com

Great show. Been hooked on it since episode 1!

The Dead are truly one of the under appreciated bands of all time by non-Deadheads, and the most overrated by Deadheads!

My picks would be:

Studio:

Workingman's Dead- a great, laid-back, country-blues-folk record with great storytelling.

Aoxamaxoa (sp?)- a very underrated record that, production-wise, was well ahead of its time.

American Beauty- the polished brother of Workingman's...

Ace- actually a Bob Weir solo record with The Dead backing him, but features some Dead classics like "Cassidy", "Black Throated Wind", "Mexicali Blues" and my personal fave, "Looks Like Rain" featuring Garcia on pedal steel.

Mars Hotel- Well produced with great songs, especially "Unbroken Chain"

Terrapin Station- a little taste of "disco Dead". Worth it for "Terrapin Station" alone, possibly the most underrated song of all time.

Offical live releases:

Hundred Year Hall- from the Europe '72 tour, but a better recording. A killer "truckin"

Reckoning- The Dead at their finest in a rare acoustic setting.

Live Dead- Hippies my ass! The Dead rock on this one...

One From the Vault- "Ladies and Gentleman...The Grateful Dead" and BAM! Help>Slip>Frank from the "CD Release Party" for Blues For Allah.

Its strange that there have been so many Dead threads recently. I was a hardcore Deadhead in the early '90's but became disinterested after seeing too many bad Other Ones, Ratdog, Phil and Friends and The Dead shows. But in the last few years I have had a few experiences that have bought me back:

1) singing "Shakedown Street" with the late Vince Welnick at a show for my freind and sometime bandmate Lizzy, who occasionally sings with Phil Lesh.

2) joining Phil and Friends for "Brown Eyed Women" and "Lovelight" during a rehearsal at SOB's a few months ago and then joing them for a meal.

Since then, I have taken to singing and playing in a Dead cover band, Garcia Later, on my downtime when I don't have any of my own gigs. Its been a long strange one for sure!

no we will use it in reference to jeff

But I asked nicely!

I am only half-kidding though. It does bother me a little when I hear the word genius attached to the names of musicians. In reality, there have been a small number of true musical geniuses in the last 60 years of popular music, but the label gets attached to so many that it has lost its meaning. It would be an interesting thread, but I'm too lazy to start one...

Took about 3 months to understand...changed the way music is promoted on the net...includes some of the most innovative drumming in pop music...an album Wilco made before they sold out.

Made me recognize the genius of Jeff Tweedy moreso

And can we please not throw around the word "genuis"? Please?!

Art criticism in all it's forms is horseshit. In my humble opinion, it's nothing but their less than humble opinion.

Thats exactly right. I don't understand why people get so upset at reviews and critics and say things like "this guy doesn't know what he's talking about...". Who does? Everybody hears music in their own way, and they are entiltled to their opinions.

I'm surprised that a lot of people didn't like World Without Tears. I loved it. I really like the raw, live production and how it really accentuated the rawness of Lucinda's lyrics. "Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings" may be my favorite Lucinda track.