Northern Wish

I brought boring, old school skates. I'm in Buffalo now, waiting for Dr Dog tonight!

Nice thanks Rossolee! I will be staying at the Hilton near the venue.

DaveyBoy always had a smooth touch with the plunger.

Check out this full show from the glory years: http://www.jambase.com/Articles/123771/Full-Show-Friday-Black-Crowes-With-Marc-Ford-1996

And It Stoned Me Handle with Care The Weight Harvest Moon Me and Bobby McGee What I Got Better Man Born to Run and thought it pains me to say, but the mainstream fans have just recently found this one and they fucking love it: Wagon Wheel

If they turned down $3,000,000 from Bonnaroo, this will be it. No other promoter in their right mind would offer that kind of flip for one headlining slot.

I should add that while I loathe Chris, I do love his new band and will go see them whenever I can. I just don't want to listen to Chris speak. Ever.

It does because I am sure his brothers role as a sports radio producer must have had something to do getting the gig. His radio gig is a Fox Sports Radio show that was spawned from a popular podcast that Steve did for a few years which combined stories of the road, with his love of sports and pop culture. That podcast led to him being broadcast on a few southern radio stations. I agree on choice to publicly broadcast but I believe in PR they call that 'getting out in front of the story'. Knowing the Robinson boys penchant for dragging things out in the open and through the mud, this is far from the last we will hear of this.

Steve Gorman's brother is a producer of the show, and works for ESPN. I still contend that Steve has every right to be pissed. When he came back to the band in 2005, that was the best tour the Crowes ever played. He is vital to the band. And he deserves the $$, you should see what that mans hands look like after a show! If any of us started a company and every year we got paid less and dictated to more, we would all be disgruntled. I fucking loathe Chris Robinson. He has been a total asshole to me on two separate occasions and I've seen him berate other band members, fans, audience members, venues and even his gorgeous movie star wife - all live and in person. I love the line from Steve about Axl Rose, about how if you added a private school education and a boatload of artistic pretense- that you have Chris Robinson.

I just need one for Saturday.

http://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/musicians/chris-robinson-interview-the-black-crowes-to-be-honest-became-a-very-tedious-scenario

Rich should be bitter. So should Steve. Those guys founded band TOGETHER and then Chris went off and became the king of the rock n roll pricks. One of my favorite bands of all time were also one of the most dysfunctional. That sounds about right.

I thought it was too, but financially speaking that wouldn't have been a success. Tbh I wonder how magical that place will be with twice as many people there.

I have hotels booked for both of the late August weekends in Watkins Glen. Aug 21-23 is the most likely of the two weekends according to all of the rumors at this point. I think the fact that Phish isn't doing SPAC on July 4 is a sure sign that they have something bigger planned for the NE. I am confident that this rumor will become reality and I can't freaking wait. Superball was damn near a perfect festival (except for ticket sales) and I hope history repeats itself - especially Phish playing Monkey Man!

For some reason High Speed reminded me of Pin Bot- without the multi-ball achieving robot eyes. Now that was a fun game!

Awesome. I am having a hell of a time with this. The pricing is highly volatile depending on who you talk to and where; some machine conditions have been totally misrepresented in their ads and there are a few characters who are buying and selling with one another and won't let a noob into their scene. This feels like Phish 95 all over again. At last check I have been in contact with 9 different people; made offers on three machines only to have them back out/ sell it elsewhere/ increase their price. I am waiting on responses from people with Iron Man, Whodunnit? and Rolling Stones (the newer one) - and I already have a 60 in 1 stand up machine in a Ms Pac Man cabinet confirmed. Does anyone have any experience with the Stones or Iron Man? I haven't played either but they get good reviews and the youtube vids of them are pretty enticing.

PM me.

I'd like to just stay in Buffalo for the week: Dr Dog - 1/21 moe. - 1/23 moe. - 1/24 I am working hard on my Watkins Glen project so that I need to be making a site visit next week. Stay tuned!

It wouldn't shock me to learn that he has a bouncy castle in his house. Dude is the fucking man.

Dave Grohl really needs to start acting the serious, affected, vulnerable artist part. Enough with the fun already Dave!

If it turns up please upload it Bradm, that OFF performance was one of the last handful of full shows of Levon's life. Address sent Bouche, thanks man! I'm super intrigued.

What a great day that was. Freaker and I were on site very early to load in Bruce's truck and got to set up all of his gear, including the (massive and very road weary) Steinway. After we were done we watched his sound check while tossing around a football labelled "Bruce". Nearly everyone of his road cases had some type of Grateful Dead sticker, both official and fan made. I'd rank him up there with Bruce Cockburn and Joel Plaskett as the nicest, most chill musicians I have ever had the pleasure to work for. Thanks for the tunes Brad (and Chris)! Is there any chance that Chris taped Levon Helm's set from that weekend?

Fine, just for that I reported you. For being a hippie. Can you tell I am having a slow week too? I haven't left my property since I got home from vacation on Saturday night. Which reminds me, I should really throw this bathrobe in the washing machine!

A great local event for sure, but their programming has really fallen off over the past two years. Ps. you really need to get off that hipster soapbox. The term is as ubiquitous and meaningless as "alternative" was in 1998. And for the record I have never been to a festival outside of North America

Well I stand corrected. I haven't been back since 2013 so it must have been last year. We vend and opted for TURF instead. Perhaps they have room for camping because their lineup sucks recently and they have more space due to low attendance