TimmyB

What in the name of God was that?!

Tim

I have seen the Allman Brothers with Warren and without, I have also seen the Allman Brothers with Jack Pearson who I thought was great. The never ending revolving door of guitarists in the Allman Brothers is often dizzying at times.

I have a ticket for the Molson Amphitheatre on Tuesday and I am still looking forward to it Warren or no Warren. Though I would prefer it if Haynes was there. I would prefer it if Dickey Betts was back in the band but that isn't going to happen, so I'll take what I can get.

That being said a friend of mine said he probably isn't going now because Warren won't be there. So I think the walk up at the Amphitheatre won't be as good since Warren is going to be a no show.

Tim

The Rolling Stones performing in Moncton will probably do more for their economy over that weekend then anything that city has ever seen!

It is foolish to complain about such things when you look at the bigger picture, to me those complaining are quite selfish.

Tim

I saw the Allman Brother Band perform the Band classic "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" at bonnaroo in June. It would be great to hear the Allmans perform this song written by the great Canadian Robbie Robertson in Toronto.

In 1997 I saw the Wallflowers perform "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" at the Molson Amphitheatre. It was interesting as Jacob Dylan looks at Robbie and Levon Helm and the rest of the Band as like uncles, who helped raise him as he was growing up.

Happy 64th Birthday David,

May you have many, many more in health and happiness.

Though let us be honest you are lucky to have made it this far.

Tim

PS I've seen you once on your own, three times in Crosby, Stills & Nash and nine times in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. I hope to see you in CPR one day, but what I really wish for is for you to get together with Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman. There is no reunion of bands that I want to see on this planet more than the three of you together again as the Byrds.

From www.billboard.com

THIS DAY IN MUSIC For August 14, 2005.

1941 - David Crosby is born David Van Courtland in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Byrds, then teams up with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash to form Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1968. The group wins the best new artist Grammy in 1969. CSN's two top 10 songs are "Just a Song Before I Go" and "Wasted on the Way."

Happy 56th Birthday Mark,

May you have many, many more in health and happiness.

Your show I attended this year at the Molson Amphitheatre was one of the best I have seen in a long time, I look forward to your next effort in the studio and to the next time I see you live. You are truly one of the most awe inspiring guitarists I have ever seen.

Tim

From www.billboard.com

THIS DAY IN MUSIC For August 12, 2005.

1949 - Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is born in Glasgow, Scotland. The group's biggest hit is "Money for Nothing," which Knopfler writes with Sting. The song tops Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks in 1985.

Here is my review found in the review section on this site:

http://www.jambands.ca/sanctuary/showtopic.php?tid/223967/

Rolling Stones - 8/10/2005 - The Pheonix - Toronto, ON

Show Review

By Tim Batke

The majority of the fans that were lucky enough to get into the Phoenix Concert Theatre last night to see the Rolling Stones likely went from one extreme to another.

For the most part over the past thirty years you could only see the Rolling Stones at a football stadium in the nearest big city in the province or state in which you live. It was not until the Stones 'No Security Tour' in 1999 that you could even see the band in an basketball and/or hockey arena since the early seventies.

For most Stones fans in Toronto that got into the surprise club gig their last Stones show was at the Toronto Rock/Sarstock show on July 30, 2003. So many fans went from seeing the Rolling Stones perform in front of around 490,000 people at Downsview Park to around 1,000 people at the Phoenix Concert Theatre. I was one of those fans and I can honestly say that I will never see that big of a change from one crowd to the next for one band for the rest of my life.

I will not lie to you people reading this I am a big fan of the Rolling Stones. I have all of their albums and The Phoenix show was my eighth time seeing the band starting in 1994 and before this upcoming tour is over I'll have probably see them at least two more times.

That being said I still can look with objectivity at a Rolling Stones concert and say what I love about the band and why, but also say what I don't enjoy and why.

Now my biggest complaint about a stadium and/or arena Rolling Stones gig is this, the stage is so huge that often Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood are running around too much not focusing on playing the guitars strapped on them as much as they should.

When it comes to Mick Jagger, he can run around as much as he likes, as for the majority of the show he is not playing a guitar and even when he is, it is usually not an important part of the song. But in Keith and Ronnie case I sometimes wish they would just stand on one spot and play like Eric Clapton stands and plays his guitar.

Now this complaint has not stopped me from going to Stones concerts and it will not stop me from going, as the interplay between Keith and Ronnie is still great and often times brilliant. I'm just pointing out my least favorite thing about a stadium/arena Stones show to make this point.

Last night Keith and Ronnie had no where to run! With the small club stage of the Phoenix and when all of the backing vocalists and the horn section was playing there was up to thirteen people on stage. So Keith and Ronnie were often shoulder to shoulder playing off each other and I was focused on that for most of the night loving every moment.

Being three rows of people back from the front at the Phoenix would be like being right on stage with the Mick, Keith and the boys and girl at the Rogers Centre (formerly the Skydome). I was literally less three meters from Keith and Mick the entire night.

Being this close one thing becomes abundantly clear, either the Rolling Stones are actors worthy of an academy award or they really love performing live. I tend to believe the latter. Mick was so into the entire show, and by the way in fine vocal form, that during their performance of Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" the song ends and Mick still into it starts singing again with the crowd forcing the band to go through the chorus a couple more times.

"Get Up, Stand Up" was one of five debuts for the Stones first gig of the "On Stage Tour." They also performed a great version of Otis Redding's "Mr. Pitiful," who would have surely appreciated the Stones again paying homage to him as he was a Stones fan that even covered the Stones (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."

The Stones also debuted three new songs from their forthcoming studio album out September 6, 2005 entitled 'A Bigger Bang." The opening track of the night was also the opener on the album called "Rough Justice." The Stones haven't opened their shows with a new song for years, but they could possibly pull it off even in the stadiums with "Rough Justice." I also believe that if this upcoming tour is not their last "Rough Justice" would go over well in a couple years just like the Stones consistently perform "You Got Me Rocking" from their 1994 album 'Voodoo Lounge.'

The next debut off the new album was the bluesy "Back of My Hand." Mick Jagger played guitar on this number, which is not unusual as at each show he does play guitar for a few songs, but Jagger for "Back of My Hand" played slide guitar, which is something that is unusual. Jagger had the slide intro for the song and even played off of Ronnie Wood during the solo who was also playing slide.

The final debut of the night was the Keith Richards album closing track "Infamy" which was a play on words as the chorus states "You have it in for me."

The Stones also did a completely different arrangement of the 1966 hit single on both sides of the Atlantic "19th Nervous Breakdown." Mick also played guitar on this song, which was slower paced and it will be interesting if the Stones can bring this new version over well in Stadiums, but in the club it went over like gang busters.

Personal highlights for me came back to back with "She's So Cold" and "Dead Flowers." First the 1980 'Emotional Rescue' hit single "She's So Cold" is a song that the Stones could play in any environment and it would likely go over well. It's such a fun song and Mick was dancing all over just like he did twenty-five years ago when the Stones recorded the early video for the song for MTV/Much Music.

"Dead Flowers" the great country-rock track from the 1971 album 'Sticky Fingers' was my favorite song of the show. The song that many feel is a song written for the late great Gram Parsons, who was given the Stones song "Wild Horses" to record with the Flying Burrito Brothers before the Stones released it themselves. It had my mind racing all over thinking about Keith inspired by Parsons working with Mick writing such a great country song even though these two are from Dartford, Kent, England.

The rendition of the Temptations "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" recorded by the Stones for their 1974 album "It's Only Rock 'N Roll" and also released as a single was also great to hear.

The fourteen song set took to song twelve to get to some Rolling Stones staples rounding off the show with "Tumbling Dice," "Brown Sugar" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."

When the final notes of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" came to an ended all the back up musicians left the stage and there was Mick, Keith and Ronnie bowing for the crowd. No Charlie Watts? I figured the grand ol' Stone was tired, he did only just recently beat cancer.

Though when the stage was empty of everybody Charlie still came out alone with a smile and waved to the crowd and took a little bow. It was a touching moment to think about all the stuff this band has gone through, drinking, drugs, police busts, Hells Angels, lineup changes cancer and ultimately death (Brian Jones and the sixth Stone Ian Stewart just to name two) and that the Stones are still around and kicking. It is quite inspiring to think about growing old when you look at the Stones.

Looking back at not sleeping for twenty-four hours and being lined up for eighteen hours straight the wait was well worth it. For me it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the greatest rock and roll band of all time so close that when Mick Jagger throws water into the crowd I actually got wet.

Amazingly enough it wasn't even a once in a lifetime opportunity for all those in Toronto that have seen the Stones perform their surprise gigs at the RPM in 1994, the Horseshoe in 1997, the Palais Royale in 2002. All Rolling Stones fans in Toronto should thank Michael Cohl for that fact. And who knows maybe I'll get to live that moment again? But if not I'll remember it for the rest of my life.

The Rolling Stones

Phoenix Concert Theatre

Wednesday August 10, 2005.

Start time 9:33PM

1. Rough Justice *

2. Live With Me

3. 19th Nervous Breakdown

4. She's So Cold

5. Dead Flowers

6. Back of My Hand *

7. Ain't Too Proud to Beg

8. Infamy *

9. Oh No Not You Again

10. Get Up, Stand Up *

11. Mr. Pitiful *

12. Tumbling Dice

13. Brown Sugar

Off 10:43PM Back 10:45PM

14. Jumpin' Jack Flash

End Set 10:50PM Off stage 10:51PM

(Total time 1 hour and 17 minutes)

* First time performed live in front of a paying audience

THE ROLLING STONES

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 2005 8:30PM

Setlist

Start time 9:33PM

1. Rough Justice

2. Live With Me

3. 19th Nervous Breakdown

4. She's So Cold

5. Dead Flowers

6. Back of My Hand

7. Ain't Too Proud to Beg

8. Infamy

9. Oh No Not You Again

10. Get Up, Stand Up

11. Mr. Pitiful

12. Tumbling Dice

13. Brown Sugar

Off 10:43PM Back 10:45PM

14. Jumpin' Jack Flash

End Set 10:50PM Off stage 10:51PM

(Total time 1 hour and 17 minutes)

I'll write a review tomorrow. After not sleeping yesterday for 24 hours straight and waiting in line for 18 straight hours I don't think I could write a good review at the moment.

I'll say this, no surprise it was a great show.

I'm assuming no one taped the Codetalkers show... Did anyone see any mics?

I did see someone taping the show, though I don't know who it was that was doing it.

By far the best show I have ever witnessed at the PJC and it was one of the best club shows I have ever witnessed ever.

I'll later write a review of the gig when I have the time.

Tim

Happy Belated Birthay Mike,

I hope you had a great day.

Tim

I like the new Saturday Night Live better than any other era. Tina Fey really makes it tick as head writer, the two chick weekend update is pretty good too. I cannot get enough of Fred Armisen - he should be in every freaking skit - the Prince show is a classic to begin with. His bit on the Wilco DVD (the extras particularly) 'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart' is priceless and he really seems to cheer up a disconsolate Jeff Tweedy.

When I saw Wilco, the Flaming Lips and Sleater Kinney for New Years Eve at Madison Square Gardens Fred Armisen came out to introduce each act, one time he came out dressed as Prince with the guitar and everything! I nearly pissed myself laughing.

Tim

When is Beck coming to Toronto?

BTW, jamnut, were you at Panic in Cleveland?

Beck is opening for the Rolling Stones at the Rogers Centre on Monday September 26, 2005.

It will be my sixth time seeing Beck live and I have always walked away surprised how much I enjoy his gigs!

Tim

I just saw beck back home and see that he's on his way to Toronto but by then I'll be back in my home town. For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to catch this wonder dropping some bones on a ticket will not be a risk.

Nice board you have here!

Agreed on both acounts.

Tim

To me M*A*S*H is the greatest live action sit-com besides Seinfeld ever!

I grew up watching the show and I have never gotten sick of how it. It is also the only comedy show that really could make you laugh and cry in the same episode.

Tim

Damn I wish I could go to these Nashville shows. At least it looks like I'll see Emmylou Harris perform with Neil Young at Farm Aid at the Tweeter Center since she will be on stage with Neil in at the Ryman.

From www.billboard.com

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. August 03, 2005, 4:10 PM ET

Emmylou To Join Neil In Nashville

By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Neil Young will be joined at his upcoming stand at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium by Emmylou Harris, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, the Fisk University Jubilee Singers and Carl Gorodetsky and the Nashville String Machine. As previously reported, the Aug. 18-19 shows will be taped for a concert film by director Jonathan Demme.

Sources say the shows are expected to encompass a complete performance of Young's new album, "Prairie Wind," due Sept. 27 via Reprise. As on the record, the artist will be backed at the Ryman by keyboardist Spooner Oldham, pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, drummer Chad Cromwell, percussionist Karl Himmel and bassist Rick Rosas.

A small amount of tickets will likely be available to the general public closer to the date of the event. Paramount Pictures will release the film in theaters and on DVD, but no schedule has yet been announced.

At deadline, the only other shows on Young's schedule are a Sept. 18 appearance at Farm Aid outside Chicago and Oct. 29-30 at his annual Bridge School Benefit outside San Francisco. However, sources say the artist is mulling a handful of other dates in the fall.

Congratulations!

Tim

Ronnie and Keef like to hang out at some of the pubs at Yonge & Eglinton/Davisville. On a lucky night, you may run into one of them.

Thanks for the heads up, but I'm kind of done with all of that stuff as it's too much of a hassle.

Maybe in my younger days I would have been more into it. Personally I would love it if I got to talk to Keith even if for just a minute or two, but the likelihood of that happening is slim to none.

Tim

I saw all four members of the Rolling Stones, though it wasn't too much of a surprise as I was waiting for them to get to their rehearsal space.

Boy, I will never do that again! I spent three plus hours in the sun to see Keith, Mick, Charlie and Ronnie walk out of their cars and into the building. They sometimes sign things but it is rare and it didn't happen on the day I was there.

I didn't bother taking any pictures as I suck at photography and I have a bunch of books where professional photographers had taken pictures of the Stones.

Speaking of pictures there were so many paparazzi there as well as autograph hounds(sellers) that on couple days at the rehearsal space the cops have been called in to break up fights or stop paparazzi or crazed fans from following the Stones to wherever they call home while they practice in Toronto.

I hope to get into the reheasal gig, but I don't think I would wait outside of their rehearsal space again.

Tim

Happy birthday Garth. Man, I can't believe he's 68. He's always looked 68.

Statements don't get much truer than the one you just made Jaimoe!

Tim

Happy 68th Birthday Garth,

May you have many, many more in health and happiness.

Tim

I loved seeing Garth last year at Massey Hall in Toronto play with Wilco, though I'll never understand why they didn't do a Band song together (Or Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Relased" which I saw Wilco perform this past New Years Eve at Madison Square Garden. "I Shall Be Released" appeared on the Band debut album 'Music From Big Pink'). Either way it was great to see and hear Hudson with Wilco.

I was also lucky enough to see Garth on two other occasions. Once he played with former Band-mate Levon Helm and wife Maud at a Massey Hall tribute show to their ol' leader Ronnie "The Hawk" Hawkins. And the first time I saw Garth was at a Band gig at the Masonic Temple in 1996.

From www.billboard.com

THIS DAY IN MUSIC For Tuesday August 2, 2005.

1937 - The Band's Garth Hudson is born in London, Ontario.

Happy 52nd Birthday Geddy,

May you have many, many more in health and happiness.

Tim

From www.billboard.com

THIS DAY IN MUSIC For Friday July 29, 2005.

1953 - Vocalist Geddy Lee of Rush is born in Toronto. He is also featured on the No. 16 single "Take Off" by Bob & Doug McKenzie, characters from "SCTV" played by comedians Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.

More New Artists Added!

Great News! Two days before tickets go on sale, we are happy to announce that four additional top acts will perform at our 20th anniversary concert. New to the line-up of Farm Aid 2005 Presented by Silk Soymilk are the ever-famous touring band Widespread Panic, queen of all musical genres Emmylou Harris, folk legend Arlo Guthrie, and acoustic rock artist John Mayer.

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Tickets On Sale at Ticketmaster Saturday

Tickets will go on sale to the general public on July 30 at 10 a.m. CDT and are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Tweeter Center box office, charge by phone in Chicago at (312) 559-1212, or online at http://www.ticketmaster.com/. Ticket prices for Farm Aid 2005 Presented by Silk Soymilk begin at $30 for lawn seats, $65 for pavilion seats and $85 for corn belt seats.

I'm so happy about these additions.

In Farm Aid '98 I saw Phish at the Tweeter Center in Tinley Park, Il, now in their place you get Widespread Panic. Now I'm a bigger Phish phan, but Panic are still a good addition.

I've seen Emmylou Harris at a previous Farm Aid where she performed a mini set with her sometime producer/lover Daniel Lanois, I'm hoping this time she sings with Neil Young or at very least Willie Nelson.

I've seen Arlo Guthrie at two Farm Aids and it would be amazing to see Arlo play a song by his father (Woody) with Wilco!

I don't have much of an opinion on John Mayer, but if it is his trio with Pino Palladino on bass and Steve Jordan on drums then it should be interesting.

Now where's Bob Dylan?

Here is the updated lineup:

Willie Nelson

Neil Young

John Mellencamp

Dave Matthews

Buddy Guy

Emmylou Harris

Arlo Guthrie

Wilco

Widespread Panic

John Mayer

Susan Tedeschi

Los Lonely Boys

Kenny Chesney

From www.rollingstone.com

Dead Come Alive on Box

Ten-disc set captures legendary 1969 Fillmore West stand

The Grateful Dead recorded their historic double LP Live/Dead -- the first of their many multidisc concert albums -- during a four-night stand, February 27th through March 2nd, 1969, at San Francisco's Fillmore West. Guitarist Bob Weir has not listened to the original tapes from all eight sets for thirty years. "But I remember most of what we were up to back then," he says. "We were testing the limits, looking for places to go. Wild and woolly was the flavor of the day."

In November, Grateful Dead Records will issue every note from that long weekend as a ten-CD box, Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings. The original vinyl release -- the first live album recorded on sixteen-track tape, featuring definitive live takes of the Dead classics "Dark Star" and "St. Stephen" and some of Jerry Garcia's best lead guitar on record -- used only about an hour of music from the whole engagement, along with two tracks from an earlier gig at the Avalon Ballroom. This lavish set, available only from the Dead's Web site for $79.95 and limited to 10,000 copies, has four different, epic versions of "Dark Star" as well as long spins through "That's It for the Other One," from 1968's Anthem of the Sun, and songs from the then-unreleased Aoxomoxoa. (In October, Rhino will release a three-CD retail edition of Fillmore West 1969 with tracks from the box, none of which duplicate those on Live/Dead.)

"I always said that if we ever did a complete run of shows as a release like this, this one stood head and shoulders above everything else we have on multitrack tape," says Dead archivist David Lemieux, who co-produced Fillmore West 1969. "This is similar to a run of John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard, where you get repeats of songs, but each performance is unique and excellent. This is the Dead at the height of their powers."

Weir agrees. "Dark Star," which the Dead then played in a medley with "St. Stephen" and a rhythmic twister called "The Eleven," was "the grit of the set," he says. "'Dark Star' was this little ditty written a couple of years earlier. Jerry probably pulled it out in a jam one night, and it took on a whole other aspect. You can hear it here, night after night, going through different progressions."

The jamming extremes of Live/Dead marked the end of an era. The band was soon writing songs for the 1970 acid-cowboy classic Workingman's Dead. But onstage in 1969, Weir says, "we knew we were on to something." The only glaring exception on the ten CDs, he admits, is an encore of the Beatles' "Hey Jude" from the third night, in which Ron "Pigpen" McKernan sings wildly out of tune. "He was pretty safely into his cups," Weir says, laughing. "But there is a fearlessness you have to bring to a project like this. Not many fans will want to hear that, but you have to call a spade a spade."

DAVID FRICKE

(Posted Jul 28, 2005)

Hey Deeps,

Did you just call me a jerk?

I love you too, Tim

PS Let me know when you decide what you are going to do about the Farm Aid weekend?