Happy Birthday, America!
While a good majority of the US population is gearing up for BBQ’s and firework displays in the major metros or local suburban villages they frequent, live music fans across the country know that Fourth of July weekend brings some seriously fun festivals and concert events that simply can’t be missed. I’ve rounded up the main five events that many of us crazy music fans will be attending this weekend, but as always this hardly scratches the surface for great live music happening across the country. If we missed an event, drop some comments to let us know where you’ll be partying this Independence Day.
In the meantime, read on to get our take on what’s happening this weekend and how we plan on drinking it all in. READ MORE
I just tuned into the stream. Follow along as we get the setlist for Phish’s one-off night up near Rochester, NY before they head down the East Coast…
Phish @ CMAC Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua, NY 6/29/10
Set I: The Connection, Down with Disease, Sample in a Jar, Ocelot, Reba, Horn, Funky Bitch, Undermind, Ballad of Curtis Loew, David Bowie
Set II: Possum, Mike’s Song > Simple > I Am The Walrus > Weekapaug Groove, Limb by Limb, Joy, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus
Encore: First Tube
I was recently asked for some thoughts on the Nateva Festival and how it’s shaping up buzz-wise on a national scale. Here’s what got printed…
Nateva is a big deal nationally, said Justin Ward, editor of livemusicblog.com. “On the festival circuit, bands like Furthur, moe., STS9, She & Him, Grizzly Bear and the Flaming Lips are all a pretty big deal. For an inaugural fest to book a lineup like this could be called a big deal, yes,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I’d say the buzz is that this has a potential to be a big festival and/or largely successful for years to come assuming they properly plan the logistics.”
Yeah that’s right, bitch. Better plan those logistics!
Jamtown, U.S.A. [The Portland Press Herald]
Phish just began their second night in Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Follow along with @phish_ftr for the setlist action as it comes in.
Phish @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD 6/26/10
Set I: Crowd Control, Kill Devil Falls, AC/DC Bag, Sugar Shack, Tube, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Stash, Backwards Down the Number Line, NICU > 46 Days, Suzy Greenberg
Set II: Rock and Roll > Free, Fast Enough for You, Sparkle > Tweezer, The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Wolfman’s Brother > Slave to the Traffic Light > Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Show of Life, Good Times Bad Times
Phish @ Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD 6/27/10
Set I: Walfredo, Mellow Mood, Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan, The Divided Sky, Tela, My Soul, Ginseng Sullivan, Sample in a Jar, Bathtub Gin, Brian & Robert, Run Like An Antelope
Set II: Wilson > Meatstick > I Saw It Again > Piper > Ghost > Jumping Jack Flash > I Saw It Again > Contact, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Fire
Phish is about to begin their second night at Susquehanna Center in Camden, NJ and we’ll be following along with @whitperson, @yemblog, and @phishtwit as usual (among others).
Phish @ Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ 6/25/10
Set I: Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Runaway Jim, Army of One, Free Man in Paris*, Summer of ’89, Split Open and Melt, The Sloth, Time Turns Elastic, Golgi Apparatus
Set II: Chalkdust Torture > Prince Caspian > Heavy Things > Alaska > 2001^ > Light > Possum > Character Zero
Encore: Shine a Light
Notes:
* Joni Mitchell cover
^ Michael Jackson teases all over the place here
Roundup:
SETLIST: PHISH 6.25.2010 SUSQUEHANNA BANK CENTER ~ CAMDEN, NJ [oh kee pah blog]
Notes (from @whitperson):
I got a degree! Lolz
Why do I try to kill you?!?
Jim. Shit is about to go down tonight. Feeling it.
Nice Jim is getting whammy’d
I could see them doing another rockin bust out. Saw it again?
Perfectly timed pee break.
Dude seriously? Two shows and I get the lion king theme twice? Lolz.
