A few weeks back, I caught one of my favorite Medeski, Martin & Wood shows I’ve seen to date. These guys seem to be a point in their career where they can do no wrong, and the show I saw definitely did not disappoint. So I thought I’d ask a friendly taper if we could use his source of the show for our next podcast and he happily complied with the ask, so hopefully this little podcast mix will help you groove your way through your Sunday. I threw the tracks together using my new “DJ” setup and it’s the first of many more mixes to come from me. Think of it as a dubbed out version of the memories I came away with from the show. Enjoy!

Live Music Blog.com Podcast #067 [mp3]

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I also zipped up the MP3’s from the show which can be downloaded here.

The original source was posted on bt.etree.org. Here is the summary from the info file.

Medeski, Martin & Wood
The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
February 21st, 2010

Set I

Free Go Lilly
Agmatia >
Reliquary
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Coconut Boogaloo
Amber Gris

Set II

Junkyard >
Big Time >
Spy Kiss >
Back & Forth
Amish Pintxos
Cloud Wars
~encore~
Fuck You Guys

source: Schoeps mk4v/kc5/cmc6 > Lunatec v2 > Sound Devices 722 @ 24/48 (fob/dfc/din)
transfer: CF card > Powerbook G4 > Sound Studio 3.0.1 > xACT > FLAC
taped & transferred by jeffrykennedy@gmail.com

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Phew. I’ve had one crazy summer! My sincere apologies for the radio silence. Moving to a big city will do that to a guy. For those that don’t know, I’m now officially a resident of Brooklyn and I couldn’t be more excited. Although there are ton of reasons to get excited about living in NYC, one of the great parts of my new spot is the sudden expansion of my concert calendar. Earlier today, I did a quick perusal of my options this Fall and was in shock at all the possibilities. Admittedly, free time, finances, and a need for sleep will certainly be getting in the way of those possibilities, but for the most part, I’m basically a kid in a fuckin’ candy store of rock’n'roll. Hooray NYC live music!

While I’m already looking ahead to the Fall concert calendar (and liking what I’m seeing), I can’t quite move on without a little reflection on my summer. Although things were nuttier than hell for me, I still managed to hit some good shows, including four Phish concerts when all was said and done. From all that I witnessed in person — along with a heavy bout of listening sessions — I generally liked what I heard. I think the band hit some serious high notes along the way, including some killer improvisation.

As a result, I thought the best way to get back into the live music blogging world was with one my favorite LMB past-times: creating new Live Music Blog podcasts. So in honor of Phish’s triumphant return to the summer stage –- and to me being lucky enough to enjoy much of it in person — I’ve pieced together a DJ-style mix of what I consider to be some of the band’s best improvisational moments from their 2009 summer shows. As with previous mixes, I’ve cut right to the “meat” of the improv by splicing together only the jam sections and leaving out the vocal and main song segments.

There was some pretty top-notch jamming this summer, so this one clocks in at just over an hour. Although I think I’ve covered the key highlights, I am sure there are still plenty of other gems out there that I missed. So if I somehow neglected your favorite jam segment of the summer, I apologize. There was a lot of material to sift through! Either way, take a listen and make sure to drop us a comment with your impressions or share your personal favorite jams from the summer tour. Most of all, enjoy!

Live Music Blog.com Podcast #065 [mp3]

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Best of Phish Summer ‘09 Improv
Tracklist:
8/7/09 Sneakin’ Sally “Gorge Jam,” Pt. I
6/7/09 Camden Fee
8/7/09 “Gorge Jam” Pt. II
8/7/09 Gorge “Light”
8/14/09 Hartford Down w/ Disease
8/7/09 Gorge Bathtub Gin
8/1/09 Red Rocks Down w/ Disease
8/8/09 Gorge Rock’n'Roll
6/7/09 Camden Tweezer
6/18/09 Burgettstown Tube
6/7/09 Camden Sand

All original audio tracks sourced from various audience sources (bt.etree.org, phishows.com, etc..). If you want to check out the soundboards, head on over to LivePhish.com and grab ‘em.

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Mas Bisco? Si, por favor!

We posted an update on a bunch of Disco Biscuits news the other day, but the band has since announced a number of additional summer dates in the lead-up to Camp Bisco.  The tour, aptly titled “The Road to Camp Bisco Tour,” includes dates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and a two-night run at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, NJ for all you Bisco gambling fiends. Future Rock will be joining them for a few of the dates with other opening artists to be announced.

The band also just released a new podcast with some choice cuts from their last few tours. Although we still prefer our very own Disco Biscuits podcasts the best, this new mix from the band contains some serious grooves, including an especially awesome middle section that morphs from “Run Like Hell” into a happy “island” jam right around the 49:00 min mark. It had me bouncin’ in my chair at work.

Disco Biscuits May 2009 Podcast [mp3]

Read on for the dates.

Disco Biscuits 2009 Tour Dates

June 4 – Thursday at the Square – Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY
June 24 – Bottle & Cork – Dewey Beach, DE
June 25 – House of Blues – Atlantic City, NJ – with Lotus
June 26 – House of Blues – Atlantic City, NJ – with Lotus
June 27 – The State Theatre – State College, PA
June 28 – Church of Universal Love and Music – Acme, PA – with Future Rock & more TBA
June 30 – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH – with EOTO & Future Rock
July 2 – Rothbury Festival – Rothbury, MI
July 4 – High Sierra Music Festival – Quincy, CA
July 5 – High Sierra Music Festival – Quincy, CA
July 16 – Camp Bisco VIII – ILCC, Mariaville, NY
July 17 – Camp Bisco VIII – ILCC, Mariaville, NY
July 18 – Camp Bisco VIII – ILCC, Mariaville, NY
July 26 – Fuji Rock Festival: Naeba Ski Resort – Niigata, Japan
December 10 – 14 – Caribbean Holidaze – Runaway Bay, Jamaica
July 1 – Egyptian Room at the Murat Centre – Indianapolis, IN – with Future Rock & more TBA

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Back in December, I was lucky enough to catch a reunited Brothers Past play a killer NYE show outside of Philly. With their original drummer, Rick Lowenberg, back in the mix, BP reminded me why I became such a fan of their unique brand of live electronic dance music.

As I’ve been getting back into working out and running a bit more frequently, I realized I was low on new workout tunes to get me motivated. As a result, I decided to put together another version of our Hippie Workout Mix, this time with a focus on the badass beats of Brothers Past.

BP’s precise drum and bass beats and layered polyrhythms give this mix an extra kick in terms of intensity. In fact, on my test runs with this thing, it was often pretty difficult to keep up. I have no doubt it’ll get you moving.

Enjoy:

Hippie Workout Mix, Vol. 4 – Badass Beats from Brothers Past

• Live Music Blog.com Podcast #064 – Brothers Past [mp3] (50.8 MB)
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Tracklist:
Astphadel (1-30-04)
Inside the Tinman (3-27-04)
Bitches & Candy (9-17-05)
A Wonderful Day (4-15-05)
Bottlecap (10-24-03)
I Might Be Wrong > Squeeze (11-21-03)

All tracks from the Live Music Archive.

Also, be sure to check out previous Hippie Workout Mixes, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3.

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• Podcast #063 | Hippie Workout Mix, Vol. 3

Phish Friday came a little early this week. Tune in to http://www.livephish.com/radio/listen.m3u or stream from Phish.com to hear the upcoming live album At The Roxy. The site should be streaming each night today and tomorrow, though I’m not sure how much of the album, or at what points in the day, or if it’s in its entirety or scrambled. Whatever, I’m listening to “FOAM,” how about you?

Track listing and album info after the jump.

Phish – At The Roxy

Brand new 8-CD box set, showcasing three complete shows – fully mastered soundboard recordings, with six sets of music, featuring seventy-eight unique songs with three special guests. Recorded Live February 19th, 20th and 21st, 1993, this run at the intimate Roxy Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia set the stage for many classic tripartite celebrations to follow. With the second show’s near-instant legendary status cemented among fans due largely to a non-stop thriller of a second set which included feats of rock and roll greatness, including a sit-in by a spurious Gene Simmons, At The Roxy captures a magical moment for Phish and their audience during a period of peak songwriting and experimentation.

Over three nights, the band showcased the full spectrum of their talents from ballads to blues, from master composition to fearless improvisation all simmered and served to a small crew of jubilant participants in a near perfect environment. At the same time, the quartet was experimenting with their acoustic, bluegrass side that peaked over the next several years and provided a perfect baffle to the intense, psychedelic rock of Rift-era Phish.

The 8-CD box set is the first complete multiple-show release since Hampton Comes Alive and the 1998 Island Tour. This collection simply must be heard.

DISC ONE
1. Loving Cup (6:39)
2. Rift (6:07)
3. Split Open And Melt (8:49)
4. Fee > (5:11)
5. Maze (8:53)
6. Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > (5:35)
7. Fly Famous Mockingbird > (13:29)
8. Sparkle (4:08)

DISC TWO
1. My Friend, My Friend (6:50)
2. Poor Heart > (2:34)
3. David Bowie/Moby Dick (15:49)
4. Runaway Jim (8:12)
5. It’s Ice > (7:44)
6. Paul And Silas > (3:02)
7. You Enjoy Myself > (21:17)
8. Ya Mar (6:34>

DISC THREE
1. Big Ball Jam (2:55)
2. Lawn Boy (3:26)
3. Funky Bitch (6:36)
4. My Sweet One (3:38)
5. HYHU > Love You > HYHU (9:46)
6. Llama (6:20)
7. Amazing Grace (3:21)
8. AC/DC Bag (6:50)

DISC FOUR
1. Golgi Apparatus (5:19)
2. Foam (8:50)
3. The Sloth (3:43)
4. Possum > (10:21)
5. Weigh > (5:04)
6. All Things Reconsidered (2:48)
7. The Divided Sky (13:33)
8. The Horse > (1:38)
9. Silent In The Morning > (5:09)
10. Fluffhead (14:20)
11. Cavern (4:44)

DISC FIVE
1. Wilson > (7:21)
2. Reba > (13:35)
3. Tweezer > (5:29)
4. Walk Away > (3:41)
5. Tweezer > (1:44)
6. Glide > (4:43)
7. Mike’s Song > (7:57)
8. My Mind’s Got A Mind Of Its Own > (1:09)
9. Mike’s Song > (0:49)
10. I Am Hydrogen > (0:28)
11. Vibration Of Life > (0:59)
12. Kung > (1:38)
13. I Am Hydrogen > (2:59)
14. Weekapaug Groove > (2:58)
15. Have Mercy > (1:54)
16. Weekapaug Groove > (1:01)
17. Rock And Roll All Night > (0:53)
18. Weekapaug Groove (1:32)

DISC SIX
1. Fast Enough For You > (5:09)
2. Big Ball Jam > (2:46)
3. HYHU > Terrapin > HYHU > (12:37)
4. Harry Hood (13:10)
5. Tweezer Reprise (3:51)
6. Sleeping Monkey (6:32)

DISC SEVEN
1. Suzy Greenberg > (6:10)
2. Buried Alive > (2:58)
3. Punch You In The Eye (7:14)
4. Uncle Pen (4:06)
5. Horn > (3:36)
6. Chalk Dust Torture (7:23)
7. Esther > (10:44)
8. Dinner And A Movie > (3:16)
9. Bouncing Around The Room (3:34)
10. Run Like An Antelope (12:41)

DISC EIGHT
1. Axilla (4:43)
2. The Curtain > (6:17)
3. Stash > (10:38)
4. Manteca > (0:45)
5. Stash > (0:55)
6. The Lizards (10:58)
7. Bathtub Gin > (6:16)
8. HYHU > Cracklin’ Rosie > HYHU (9:34)
9. The Squirming Coil (8:44)
10. Big Black Furry Creature From Mars (5:47)
11. Sweet Adeline (3:17)
12. Good Times, Bad Times > (3:55)
13. Paul And Silas > (2:22)
14. Pig In A Pen (3:24)

Preorder at Phish.com.

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With all the excitement of the recent announcement of Phish’s reunion, it may seem a bit odd that our Phish Friday posts have calmed down a bit here on the site. Although Justin and I have definitely been a bit nuts in our day jobs, to be frank, we have also gotten a bit burnt out on it doing Phish Friday posts. A few weeks ago, we basically hit a wall and decided that there was so much good stuff going on out there that we didn’t feel like we could keep up. Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts has been rocking out great compilations, the Coventry blog is collectively kicking some butt, and Scotty B’s HT Phish spin-off, You Enjoy MyBlog is tracking all things web and Phish. Considering this blog was founded back in ‘04 basically after Justin’s post-Phish show epiphany that “nobody was blogging about Phish,” it is honestly great to see other sites really taking this on in full swing and digging in to the band’s long history of amazing live shows.

Although our Phish Friday posts may be a bit less frequent these days, we are certainly not calling it quits. With that in mind, I decided to mix together two of my favorite types of posts — Phish Fridays and Podcasts — and piece together a new version of our Hippie Workout Mix with some of my favorite moments of Phish improv, spliced together with a nice, mellow workout in mind. Believe it or not, a while back I used to run to this band’s music all the time. There is something about a perfect Phish jam and a good run that works really well together; call it zen or something. But whether you’re really up for that long workout or just want a really killer DJ-style Phish mix, this should definitely suit your needs.

Enjoy:

• Live Music Blog.com Podcast #063 [mp3] (68.5 MB)
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Try to guess the exact tracklisting in the comments section, and perhaps we can dig up something Phish-related for the winning guess. Be sure to include both song name and show date. Here’s a hint…there are exactly eight tracks. I just got a little reminder that I never posted the full tracklist. Here it is:

4/2/98 Punch You in the Eye >
7/29/98 Bathtub Gin >
12/30/97 AC/DC Bag >
12/31/99 Down with Disease >
7/10/99 Chalkdust Torture
7/30/97 > Cities (from Bowie > Cities > Bowie)
4/3/98 Weekapaug Groove >
7/10/99 Bathtub Gin

Also, be sure to check out previous Hippie Workout Mixes, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, for a little bit more energy and intensity.

Have a killer weekend!

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• Podcast #064 | Hippie Workout Mix, Vol. 4

Editor’s note: in my haste in switching over the site to WordPress I forgot to make sure our podcast feed was rigged up correctly. I’m working on fixing it, but in the meantime you can come and stream the podcast on the site using the built in music player on the site. We’ve got a special guest podcast for our return to form (yet again) and we’re seriously would not want to miss a chance to spread a good message and some good tunes with a podcast following up the Vice Presidential debate. The title of the podcast says it all. Take it away, Ryan…

Hello Live Music Blog.com listeners and readers, this is Ryan Pedersen, Editor of livemusicpodcast.net and your guest host for Podcast #062. Justin and I have collaborated to bring you a special podcast to raise awareness of an issue that is very important to us. Voter registration deadlines are fastly approaching in many states with some as early as October 4th. Even if you are not planning on voting we still strongly encourage you to register anyway, especially if you make the decision to vote when it’s too late.

The fact is that you really have nothing to lose by registering and the process is very quick and requires little effort. A great place to start is by going to non-partisan websites RocktheVote.com or HeadCount.org to begin the registration process or to check the voter registration deadlines in your state.

To help drive home the importance of voting I will be playing a compilation of politically charged audience recordings that were downloaded via archive.org and bt.etree.org. All of the artists that will be featured have open taping policies so we encourage you to download the rest of the concerts using the links provided. A big thanks go out to these bands for their open policies and the tapers, which without their efforts this show would not be possible. Please enjoy the music and if you haven’t already done so get registered to vote today!!

• Live Music Blog.com Podcast #062 [mp3] (51.8 MB)
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Total running time: 56:31

Track Listing:
1. People, People – Derek Trucks Band – 2008-07-11
2. No More – Pearl Jam – 2008-06-14
3. Get Up Stand Up @ – Michael Franti and Spearhead – 2006-07-21
4. A Change is Gonna Come # – Gavin DeGraw – 2004-04-18
5. Come Together $ – John Butler Trio – 2007-11-16
6. Gimme Shelter % – moe. – 2008-03-06
7. What’s Going On ^ – Railroad Earth – 2006-09-03
8. Revolution $ – String Cheese Incident – 2004-10-31
9. War @ – Dispatch – 2001-04-03
10. Keep On Rockin’ In the Free World + – Outformation – 2007-12-01

Background:
Killing in the Name ** – Tea Leaf Green – 2004-01-09

Notes:
@ Bob Marley cover
# Sam Cooke cover
$ Beatles cover
% Rolling Stones cover
^ Marvin Gaye cover
+ Neil Young cover
** Rage Against the Machine cover

Make sure you check out Keep On Votin’ in the Free World (Part 2) over at livemusicpodcast.net and holla at yo’ boy Ryan for putting together a sweet podcast.

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photo by Scarlet_Fyre

I meet a lot of live music fanatics whose only exposure to Steve Kimock is his occasional affiliations with former members of the Grateful Dead in the late 90’s (Kimock played on the Further Tour with the Other Ones and occasionally with Phil Lesh and Friends). Other folks have seen various reincarnations of the Steve Kimock Band and maybe even seen his recent reunion shows with his old Bay Area band, Zero. But a lot of folks don’t know that Steve Kimock once had a near-perfect band: KVHW. Kimock, Vega, Hurtz, and White, was a two-year Kimock project from 1998 – 1999, involving bassist Bobby Vega, drummer Alan Hertz (now part of Garaj Mahal), and rhythm guitarist and ex-Zappa vocalist, Ray White.

While I am a pretty big Kimock fan in general, the reason that this project sticks out most is because of the other members of this band. In particular, it is the inclusion of the tastefully funky bassist, Bobby Vega, that allowed KVHW to bring out a distinctly funky and bluesy side of Kimock. It is a side to his playing that you might not ever hear as a part of a Grateful Dead side project or even in his later playing in any variations of the Steve Kimock Band. It’s funky, bluesy, soulful rock jamming at Kimock’s finest.

For our 58th podcast, I’ve pieced together some highlights from two nights of KVHW at the Wetlands, which basically was the unofficial ‘jamband HQ’ in New York City until it closed in September 2001. These two nights capture KVHW at its peak as a fresh, energetic, and exploratory improvisational rock band made up of four amazing musicians. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do…

• Live Music Blog Podcast #058 [mp3] (67.7 MB)
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Tracklist:
10/16/98
Poonk >
Cissy Strut (Meters cover) >
Poonk

10/17/98
Rocco >
Whipping Post (improv)
Express Yourself (Charles Wright cover) >
‘Down in the Wetlands’ improv

67.7 MB
Total running time: 49:21

Both shows are available for download/streaming at the Live Music Archive.

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