Well, let’s all get our traveling festival hats on for this weekend, the Big Summer Classic begins! Two nights at Red Rocks. Yeah Yeah!
JamBase put together a great page that will be collecting the setlists, photos, info, etc. as they come in. Also, The101Report has also posted a friendly reminder as well.
Adam is hitting the two nights in Red Rocks, so I hope to pick his brain once he gets it wrapped around how sweet this is going to be. Also, I’m hitting the Schaumburg show (only Saturday), so I’ll make sure and have some photos and setlists posted once I get them in…
About a month after my 14th birthday, in the summer of 1993, I heard Contact for the first time. What the hell is this? Who are these guys? This is hilarious!
Then someone played Weigh and Bouncin’ for me, and Sparkle soon followed. It’s like, they’re like They Might Be Giants, only better. Much better. So much better. But they’re not just funny fockers, they’re awesome. Listen to these guys!
I bought Junta, devoured it and re-played it all hours of the night. Rift made its way into heavy rotation pretty quickly. Nearly every day after school I went on a double date with Reba, Esther and David Bowie (Reba was mine, Esther was Bowie’s, he’s the one into weird chicks and necrophilia). Okay, I really dig this music. I can get into this.
A friend then introduced me to the Prime Cuts Music Emporium, a Long Island fortress of aural pleasure that had hundreds of dubbed bootlegs ready for purchase — there was no better enabler in the universe, this place was the crackhouse equivalent. We’d go on occasion and grab a handful each visit, although at the time I was still buying mostly Grateful Dead tapes. New Years ’92 and ’93, Arrowhead Ranch, Waterloo ’93: my real introduction to live Phish.
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Some of you accessing the site today might have had some difficulties. Internet Explorer decided to bust a cap into my stylesheet. Totally uncool.
So, it’s fixed now. Let me know if it still looks crappy after I implement some more features…
And, by the way, the whole time the site looked fine in Firefox. You should download it and enjoy it. Now.
As I’m sure most of us are aware (unless you live in a cave), The Supreme Court passed down some serious decisions yesterday. One of the craziest involves the controversial P2P technology giants Grokster and Morpheus. The Supreme Court passed down judgment allowing the RIAA, record companies, distribution companies, copyright holders, etc. to sue P2P networks for providing a tool encouraging copyright infringment.
Unfortunately, anyone with any sort of technology knowledge knows that this will not stop P2P networks at all. In fact, it’ll probably encourage some to actually build more transparent networks. This is a huge decision for the future of online music, digital music distribution, online sharing, etc. and I hope that another appeal might turn the decision back to where it should be. We’ll see…
Here’s some roundup over at Boing Boing…
Initial Roundup
Notes on the Conference (live blogged)
Hillary Rosen’s (ex-CEO of RIAA) Thoughts
Download the nail-in-the-coffin itself
Even though I know that Umphrey’s McGee’s podcasts are far superior in sound quality, professionalism, credibility, I’m still going to try and share some of my favorite Umphrey’s McGee moments from their already productive festival season. From one set at Langerado, two and half sets at Summercamp, two sets at Bonnaroo, and two sets at Wakarusa, I can only imagine that these boys are feeling the burn.
Jamcast #006 (91.0 MB) [XML]
Hosted by: Justin, Editor
192kbps (right-click link to download)
00:00 : Intro
Summercamp 2005 (source: Archive.org)
00:30 : Atmosfarag
Wakarusa 2005 (source: Archive.org)
06:16 : All in Time
Bonnaroo 2005 (source bdifr78, bt.etree.org)
18:52 : Making Flippy Floppy >
24:00 : Jam >
31:24 : The Bottom Half
38:31 : Bridgeless
48:59 : Women Wine and Song
52:34 : JaJunk
Total running time: 66:19
Have fun all the time, indeed!
Previously: Jamcast #001, #002, #003, #004, #005 (note: I’m going to move these soon so grab them while you can.)
Wow! I can’t even express how excited I am to see that 
