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  6. Just received my Bonaroo Tix

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    I got mine today as I missed yesterdays UPS delivery!

    I've been to all of the bonnaroo festivals so far so I guess I should have something to say about how it all goes down.

    Firstly, You can't see it all.

    Don't let it bring you down when you're watching an artist on one stage while there is another artist you enjoy (or two or three or four!) is on another stage at the same time as the one your are watching.

    Just let go to the music that you're seeing.

    I generally go with who is my favorite artist on stage. Though a few times I have gone to an artist that I might like less than someone else who is playing at the same time, but the lesser act in my eyes is a very rare thing to see and hear in the region in which I live.

    And if you miss something special because you were watching something else, let it go.

    Secondly, you can bring unopened bottles of water and soda pop into the concert area. Just you're not supposed to bring beer (though I see many get beer by the security guards).

    Thirdly, if you want to leave on Sunday night make sure you are packed before Widespread Panic get off and that your vehicle is in a position that you can leave quickly. In my first year it took me twelve hours to get in, but only a half an hour to get out as we were packed and moved our vehicle to the nearest exit (but make sure your vehicle is off the road). The second year it took fifteen hours to get in and an hour to get out. The third year it only took three hours to get in and it was the first time we slept over night on the Sunday so getting out was a breeze.

    Patience is the key.

    Fourthly, Bring lots of sunscreen and a hat and drink lots of water. Also find shade when you can in one of the mist tents or music tents or under a tree. Us Canadians often don't realize how hot it gets in Tennessee in June!

    Finally, when it comes to start times bonnaroo is usually right on the ball. Except for the last act on any given stage that night might get on a little late and go long. So long that if you're at a late night tent and want to see the whole set, expect that you might be there until past dawn.

  8. Happy 60th Birthday Pete Townshend 5/19/1945

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    Happy 60th Birthday Pete Townshend,

    To one of my alltime favorite guitarists and songwriters may you have many, many more in health and happiness.

    www.billboard.com

    THIS DAY IN MUSIC For Thursday May 19, 2005

    1945 - Pete Townshend, lead guitarist/songwriter of the Who, is born in London. His biggest solo hit is the top 10 "Let My Love Open the Door" in 1980.

  11. Happy Birthday, MarcO!

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    This is from Rachael,

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARC!!!

    hope you are having a great day? I look forward to eating pizza and drinking beer with you tonight. I am thinking about what toppings to have on our pizza. I like pizza, and I like you too. love you rach xoxoxoxoxoxoxxox

  12. DMB Defeats NIN, Weezer As Album Chart Champ

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    from www.billboard.com

    DMB Defeats NIN, Weezer As Album Chart Champ

    By Margo Whitmire, L.A.

    Dave Matthews Band earns its fourth No. 1 on The Billboard 200 as the DualDisc release of "Stand Up" (RCA) bows way ahead of the competition with sales of 465,000 U.S. copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Following a chart-topping entrance last week, Nine Inch Nails' "With Teeth" (Nothing/Interscope) falls 1-5 with a 67% drop to 89,000 copies.

    DMB's first studio album in three years falls short of its last appearance on the big chart in 2002, when "Busted Stuff" started at No. 1 with 622,000 units. To-date, the set has sold 1.9 million. The band's latest single, "American Baby," holds at No. 11 this week on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart.

    At less than half of DMB's sales, Weezer's "Make Believe" (Geffen) starts at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 with 193,000 copies. Led by the current No. 3 Modern Rock single, "Beverly Hills," this is the highest Billboard 200 showing for the group, who previously went as high as No. 3 with "Maladroit" in 2002. That album started with 152,000 and has sold 583,000 so far.

    Weezer's entry ends the three-week second-place stint of Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi" (Island/Def Jam), which dips to No. 3 on a 13% decrease to sales of 173,000 copies.

    At No. 6, Dierks Bentley earns his first top 10 debut with "Modern Day Drifter" (Capitol Nashville), which starts with 75,000 copies and also earns the artist his first No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums list. Bentley's self-titled debut opened at No. 26 with 39,000 units in 2003 and has sold 849,000 to date.

    Rounding out the top tier, 50 Cent's "The Massacre" (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) holds at No. 4 for a second week despite a 13% fall to sales of 90,000 copies; Gwen Stefani's "Love, Angel, Music, Baby" (Interscope) is No. 7 for a second week with a 6% drop to 74,000; Rob Thomas' "...Something To Be" (Melisma/Atlantic) falls 3-8 on a 47% slide to 67,000; Mike Jones' "Who Is Mike Jones?" (Swishahouse/Asylum/Warner Bros.) climbs 10-9 despite a 9% dip to 59,000; and Bruce Springsteen's "Devils & Dust" (Columbia) drops 5-10 on a 47% fall to 54,000.

    John Cena & Tha Trademarc's "You Can't See Me" (Sony) opens at No. 15 with sales of 43,000, marking the first chart appearance for the hip-hop act and professional wrestling champion.

    With 42,000 copies, the Starting Line enters The Billboard 200 at No. 18 with its fourth and highest-charting Drive-Thru effort, "Based on a True Story." The group's previous set, "Say It Like You Mean It," started at No. 109 with 11,000 and boasts a to-date total of 306,000.

    Top 50 debuts this week include Van Zant's "Get Right With the Man" (Columbia) at No. 21 with 41,000; Robert Plant and Strange Sensation's "Mighty Rearranger" (Sanctuary) at No. 22 with 39,000; Spoon's "Gimme Fiction" (Merge) at a career-best No. 44 with 20,000; and Styx's "Big Bang Theory" (New Door) at No. 46 with 19,000.

    Overall U.S. album sales were down 8% from the previous week at 10.2 million units, about 13% lower than the same week last year. 2005 sales trail those of last year by 9% at 207 million units.

  15. They're Back! The Black Crowes Kool Haus 5/17 Review & Setlist

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    Liked the review... but do we really need to slag Panic!

    The Crowes are not going to get that big... lets not forget the way the Further Fest would empty out after Ratdog when the Crowes closed...

    I'm feeling all mean and nasty.

    I don't think I'm putting down Widespread Panic, I just feel in the pantheon of Southern Rock bands from Georgia that the Black Crowes are higher on the pecking order than Panic.

    Panic are great players and have a good body of material. But in comparison to the Crowes, Panic just do not have the quality of songs and/or albums that the Crowes have.

    And in the North East where I'm assuming you saw the Furthur Festival in 1997 if Panic were in the spot the Crowes were in coming on after Bob Weir and Ratdog there would have been a very similar situation with many fans leaving before Panic finished their set.

    Let us not forget that Panic only a couple of years ago had to cancel their show in upstate New York due to a lack of tickets sold. The Black Crowes have never had that problem up in the North East.

  17. Neil Young Honored in L.A.

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    God bless Neil Young!

    My favorite line from the article is where Young states "My mission now is to go where no hippie has gone before. And tomorrow, I go back to Reprise and give them another record."

    from www.rollingstone.com

    Young Honored in L.A.

    Rocker makes first public appearance since surgery at ASCAP awards

    Making his first public appearance since his April surgery for a brain aneurysm, Neil Young received the Founders Award, given to "pioneering songwriters," at ASCAP's twenty-second-annual Pop Music Awards Monday in Los Angeles.

    Folk duo the Indigo Girls performed a rousing acoustic rendition of Young's "Down by the River," and a video with clips stretching from black-and-white footage of Buffalo Springfield to the recent concept album/movie Greendale celebrated Young's music. Mo Ostin, the former head of Warner Bros. Records and the man who gave Young his first solo recording contract, then took the stage to introduce the veteran rocker.

    "There is only one Neil Young," said Ostin, recounting their turbulent but fruitful collaboration. "Neil's first album for Reprise had a great song, 'The Loner.' Looking back, it defines Neil: a man willing to stand alone. He follows his own brilliant -- and shaky -- muse."

    Young, who had been seated at a table with his wife and son, took the stage and thanked Ostin, ASCAP president and chair Marilyn Bergman. After a meandering start -- "I should have written something down!" -- Young told the crowd, "It's great to be able to do what you want to do." Perhaps acknowledging the evening's other honorees, including OutKast, Young added, "I can't get up and rap. If I do that, I think you'll get up and shoot me. My mission now is to go where no hippie has gone before. And tomorrow, I go back to Reprise and give them another record." Young has been at work on his next album in Nashville, with longtime collaborators keyboardist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Ben Keith and drummer Carl Himmel.

    Though he did not perform, Young stood at the front of the stage for his standing ovation and played air guitar before making his exit.

    Prior to Young's award, dozens of awards for hit songs were handed out. Unlike other awards shows, no speeches were given, as recipients posed only briefly for photos with their plaques before leaving the stage. OutKast's Big Boi, Ashford and Simpson, and Usher were among the artists recognized for their songs' significant airplay in 2004. Guests ranged from author Maya Angelou to Clay Aiken to ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons.

    Scott Storch, whose credits include Beyonce's "Naughty Girl" and Christina Aguilera's "Can't Hold Us Down," was named Songwriter of the Year, while songwriter/producer Jermaine Dupri took home the Golden Note Award. Two of Dupri's disciples, pop diva Mariah Carey and R&B star Usher, presented the award, with Usher touting his longtime collaborator as "an extraordinary individual, my mentor, my confidante, my best friend." Carey added, "He's the truth when it comes to songwriting."

    Like Young, Dupri apparently failed to prepare for his time on stage. "I ain't wrote nothing down," he said, "'cause that ain't how I do my records." With much hooting from the audience, Dupri finally turned to Carey: "Mariah, we about to have the new Number One record in the country!"

    CHRIS RUBIN

    (Posted May 17, 2005)

  19. They're Back! The Black Crowes Kool Haus 5/17 Review & Setlist

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    Ever since the beginning of this year when the Robinson brothers announced that the Black Crowes would be reforming for a series of gigs at the Hammerstein Ballroom in the Big Apple there were several weeks where Crowes fans openly discussed which musicians would be flying along with Chris and Rich Robinson.

    Nearly all fans wished the for lineup the Black Crowes had from 'Southern Harmony and Musical Companion' to 'Three Snakes and One Charm' which included guitar virtuoso Marc Ford.

    The fans got their wish with Ford coming back under the wing of the Robinson brothers along with Toronto native Eddie Harsch on keyboards who had been with the band since 'Southern Harmony,' Sven Pipien on bass who was apart of the band for their 'By Your Side' album and newcomer Bill Dobrow on drums. And all was good.

    It went from good to great a couple of weeks ago when original drummer Steve Gorman rejoined the Black Crowes during their hometown run in Atlanta, Georgia at the Tabernacle.

    For all of those who saw the Black Crowes between 1992 to 1997 and felt that the Crowes where missing something 1998 on, I have only this to say to you.

    They're back!

    The Black Crowes at the Kool Haus was one of the best "rock and roll" concerts I have seen in a long time. The Crowes again are the best band on the planet to see "rock and roll."

    From a set that was dominated by material from their sophmore masterpiece released in 1992 'Southern Harmony and Musical Companion' to material that covered all their other albums, minus 'Three Snakes and One Charm,' the set didn't stop rocking, even when they slowed down to perform the Flying Burrito Brothers version of the Aretha Franklin song "Do Right Woman."

    Highlights included 'Amorica' tracks "Ballad in Urgency" into "Wiser Time" which were immediately followed by what might be the most epic song in the Black Crowes canon of material 'Southern Harmony's' "My Morning Song." During the crescendo at the end of "My Morning Song" it was like Chris Robinson was a southern baptist preacher and the backing singers Mona and Charity were his choir.

    During "Thorn in My Pride" Steve Gorman had a drum solo which made me think that of all the musicians that were on stage this night that went on tour with Jimmy Page in 2000, Gorman was the one that came closest to recreating Led Zeppelin's sound. After the drum solo still in a jam in the middle of "Thorn in My Pride" Chris picked up a harmonica to do some soloing of his own.

    When they performed "Nonfiction" from 'Amorica' they extended the song with some jamming. And suprisingly there was an extended spoken word rant from Chris, where he stated repeatedly "It's right here, It's right now," "And we are all the same breath in, And we are all the same breath out" and "In the centre of your mind" ending with "Cause no one can take you all the way, You can only stop yourself half the way, ya."

    The set closed out with the Crowes performing their classic "Remedy."

    The encore included the Fred McCowell and Rev. Gary Davis composition "You Gotta Move" that the Rolling Stones made famous on 'Sticky Fingers' with both Marc and Rich on slide guitars. And the show ended with a jam up of the Black Crowes most famous cover, Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle."

    Instant Live is on tour with the Black Crowes and the recording of this show has been improved by leaps and bounds compared to the quality of the Instant Live show I aquired at a moe. concert at the Phoenix in 2003.

    I look forward to seeing the Black Crowes again on Saturday June 11th on the What Stage sandwiched between fellow Georgia bands Gov't Mule and Widespread Panic. I believe the impression the Crowes will make to those in attendance that were to young to see the Crowes with Marc Ford will send shock waves throughout the jamband scene. And I predict that at the next bonnaroo the Black Crowes will be headlining over Widespread Panic.

    Setlist

    The Black Crowes

    Kool Haus Tuesday May 17, 2005

    Start time 9:19pm

    1. Virtue And Vice

    2. Sting Me

    3. Jam>Black Moon Creeping

    4. Soul Singing>Jam

    5. Ballad in Urgency>Jam>

    6. Wiser Time

    7. My Morning Song

    8. Do Right Woman

    9. Thorn in My Pride>Jam>Drums>Harmonica>Thorn in My Pride

    10. Sister Luck

    11. By Your Side

    12. Nonfiction>Jam

    13. Remedy

    Encore:

    14. You Gotta Move

    15. Hard to Handle

    End time 11:32pm (Total time 2 hours and 13 minutes)

    www.theblackcrowes.net

    www.InstantLiveConcerts.com

  25. Trey is loving the beatles lately...

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    I like Trey have been loving the Beatles lately. Not that I don't always love the Beatles, but I've been into them a little more lately after getting tickets to two Paul McCartney shows this upcoming fall. Which has got me listening to a little more of the Fab Four than usual.

    A friend of mine said that he hopes that when we see Paul McCartney in the fall that he would perform the second side of "Abbey Road."

    Leave it to Trey Anastasio to do it first in 2005, not that I'm holding my breath for McCartney to do the same.

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