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BOB DYLAN SUCKS! Okay dimafleck you are now my arch nemesis!

Name the artists that you listen to that have written better lyrics to music than Bob Dylan. I will laugh at your sad attempts to do so.

F Wal-Mart!

I mistakingly wished Bob Weir a happy birthday ten days ago because of a mistake from billboard. So today I say Happy Birthday Bobby, May you have many more.

i think, its most important quality is proving that the rolling stones are a bunch of over produced, pretencious limey bastards that have done absolutely nothing for the good of mankind

The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock and roll band in the history of rock and roll music, period. To say they've done "nothing for the good of mandkind" is quite the loaded statement. If to say that to make one individual smile because of the beauty of a song is something that is good for mankind. Then the Rolling Stones have made hundreds of millions smile, if not more over their forty year plus career.

Have you ever even listened to the Rolling Stones from "Beggar's Banquet" to "Exile On Main St.?" Or even albums like "Out of Our Heads, "Some Girls" or "Tattoo You?"

Last night I saw the Slip perform "Midnight Mile" from "Sticky Fingers." The night before that I saw Rich Robinson perform "Memo From Turner" from the soundtrack from "Performance." The opener from Robinson's show played "Shine A Light" from "Exile On Main St."

The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, The Who, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Phish, Widespread Panic, The Black Crowes, Col Les Clapool and the Fearless Frog Brigade and I could go on have all covered the Rolling Stones. I don't think it's because the Stones are over produced.

Hey MuleMomma,

I was wondering if you were at the gig or not? I too wanted to go to the Slip, though only after Rich Robinson's set was done, but my girlfriend was tired so we went home. If the Slip performed to anywhere near the time in Toronto as they did in Hamilton (3:04AM), I guess we could have caught an nearly an hour or so of the Slip in Toronto. Oh well.

I'll probably see you at Gov't Mule this upcoming weekend.

from www.billboard.com

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. October 14, 2004, 3:50 PM ET

Grateful Dead's 'Movie' Revamped For DVD

How does one improve upon what is already considered a landmark concert film? In the case of "The Grateful Dead Movie," it's by restoring the negative and improving the sound for its DVD release, and adding a second disc of with 95 minutes of concert footage that didn't make the cut for the film's 1977 release.

Due Nov. 9 via Monterey Video, "The Grateful Dead Movie" captures the band's legendary mid-October 1974 "farewell" concerts at San Francisco's Winterland. The project was taken up by frontman Jerry Garcia as the Dead prepared for a hiatus of undetermined length.

Garcia worked on the film for more than two years with film editor Susan Crutcher. Together they preserved not only the band's performance through its groundbreaking (if behemoth and fiscally crippling) "wall of sound," but what it was really like to attend a Dead show when the act was in its ramshackle prime.

The first disc boasts a high definition transfer of the film, restoring the full frame that was edited for its VHS release. Fans can choose from three audio selections: a Dolby Digital 5.1 version of original theatrical mix, as well as Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0 mix from the master multi-track tapes. There is also a feature-length commentary track with Crutcher and editor John Nutt.

The second disc includes unreleased performances of such Dead favorites as "Uncle John's Band," "Sugaree," "Dark Star" and "China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider," among others. All of the footage was transferred from the original 16mm camera film negative and can be heard in either Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby Digital 2.0 mixes.

Also included on the bonus disc are documentaries on the making of the DVD and the animated sequences in the film, plus a third titled "A Look Back" featuring new interviews with surviving band members. Additionally, a 1974 TV commercial for the Dead's "Mars Hotel" album is included, as is a gallery of photos, film stills and other items related to the project.

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

I'm in a huge Band mood right now, especially after seeing Garth Hudson with Wilco last Saturday and Rich Robinson performing a common band cover "Don't Do It" last night. Last night after the show I watched "The Last Waltz" again, which opens with "Don't Do It." I look forward to this new and hopefully much improved box set.

I can't believe I have an opportunity to correct a detail.

George Harrison left this world-line on Nov.29, 2001...nearly THREE years ago.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365600/

My bad, I'll be editing it after this post, though this acknowledgement of it and your previous post will be a constant reminder of my error. I really don't know why I wrote 2002, no defense but it was 6:30AM when I wrote the review.

You are my editor after all bouche!

Nice review Tim. Great quotes too - or were they paraphrases?

I got back to Toronto ( from Kingston ) at 7pm and I posted that I couldn't make the show. I figured that you were already in-transit to Toronto and missed my post.

One question: How was the crowd in terms of numbers? Lee's holds about 700-800.

It's too bad you couldn't make the gig, it was fantastic. Rich's new solo material rocks like the Crowes in a way that Chris's could not. And what covers! The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye/The Band, The Rolling Stones!

I write a pretty decent short hand, so those quotes were for the most part exact quotes.

As for the crowd it was over half full, but nowhere near capacity. This Rich Robinson show wasn't properly promoted at all. It never had more than a small blurb in the Lee's Palace section in the Now and it didn't even have any advertisments in the window outside of Lee's, which is inexcusable.

Rich Robinson @ Lee's Palace Thursday October 14, 2004.

Start time 11:22PM

1. Jam>

2. Know Me

3. Stand Up

4. Falling Away

5. Jam

6. Yesterday I Saw You

7. Veil

8. Leave It Alone

9. Forgiven Song

10. Walking By Myself

11. It's All Too Much (Harrison)

12. Begin>

13. Places

14. Answers

15. Oh No>

16. Fearless (Gilmour/Waters)>

17. It's Over

Encore: 18. Pardon My Heart (Young)

19. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Dylan)

20. Don't Do It (Holland/Dozier/Holland, Jr.)

21. Memo From Turner (Jagger/Richards)

End time 1:46AM (Total time 2 hours and 23 minutes)

The setlist sheet on stage had 'Corrina, Corrina' written in instead of the songs by Neil Young and Bob Dylan. Before Rich Robinson came back out for the encore I put on one of his monitors a multiple request that said "Could you please play 'Pardon My Heart' and/or 'Song Of Love' and/or 'Hand Of Fate.' Thanks " Rich saw it and said "Who put this here?" I replied "I did." Rich then changed the tuning on the guitar he had strapped on and played one of my three requested. It happened to be the one by one of my two all time favorite artists. Coincedently the next song Rich decided to do was a song by my other favorite. Neil and Bob! It doesn't get much better than that.

The show started off with Rich introducing Gordie Johnson to his fellow Canadians by saying "You might not know this guy, he's from Texas." Referring to Gordie's current home state.

After 'Stand Up' Rich said Gordie's "as hot as satan's left ass cheek. He lives in Texas now." And he's now known as "Suckatash Johnson."

Before Rich introduced 'Leave It Alone' he said "It's good to hear (screams for) Big Sugar, instead of 'Wiser Time,' 'Remedy,' 'Jealous Again.' Although I love those songs, I wrote them."

When 'Leave It Alone ended Rich mentioned how there was an uncomfortable silence between the songs. Gordie, I mean Suckatash then said "Might be a Toronto thing. I thought we were over that quiet British conservative attitude...I know you can do it." The crowd cheered and then Rich said "It takes a Canadian to get things going." A person in the crowd then said "Rich is a Canadian!" Rich laughed and said "Yah Man! I'm a Canadian. South Canada. Georgia, Saskatoon."

In the middle of the non album track 'Walking By Myself' Rich switched guitars and told the crowd "We were doing some jazz tuning earlier and it looks really cool to change guitars in the middle of the tune."

Rich hearing more audience screams for Gordie said "'Diggin' A Hole' who the fu©k said that? 'Run Like Hell? 'Ride Like Hell?' I don't know Big Suckatash. Gordie asked me to send this to a fine bunch of fellows called the Trews." Who I was told were in the audience. Then they went into the Beatles song 'It's All Too Much.'

It's almost been three years since the passing of the great George Harrison (November 29, 2001) and I'm glad people are keeping Harrison's spirit alive by covering his songs. I feel that 'It's All Too Much' is a great choice as it's one of those songs that has fallen through the cracks. You always hear 'Taxman,' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' 'Something' or 'My Sweet Lord' never 'It's All Too Much.'

Continuing with the Gordie theme Rich then said "This song is on Big Sugars first record. This is a song called 'Begin.'"

After 'Answers' Rich said "Joe deserves an applause for that one."

As Rich was telling the crowd how the last three songs (before the encore) were going to be played nonstop he said "This is a southern mans interpretation of British pop called 'Oh No.'" Then they went into an amazing bluesy version of Pink Floyd's 'Fearless.' Which reminded me of the time I saw former Black Crowe Marc Ford peform the same song with Blue Floyd in 2000 at the Comfort Zone.

After 'Fearless' and before 'It's Over' Rich to my surprise teased for a good couple of minutes the Black Crowes song 'Soul Singing' off their last studio album 'Lions.'

The last two songs of the night were a couple more amazing covers of the Marvin Gaye song 'Don't Do It' though you could tell this version was inspired by The Band. The show closed off with another obscure cover song, the Rolling Stones song 'Memo From Turner' which was apart of the Mick Jagger film 'Performance.'

It was great to see Rich step up to the mic and sing lead through out an entire show. No he doesn't have the powerful voice his brother Chris has, but that doesn't matter, his vocals fit the music perfectly. Also his guitar work was mesmerizing, he was all over the fretboard playing lick after lick. Rich has truly mastered the instrument as a rhythm player and now on lead as well. Performing as the sole guitarist he had nowhere to hide and didn't need to either. It was also interesting to after years of seeing Gordie Johnson playing guitar in Big Sugar, to watch him perform the bass for an entire show. His playing was very melodic and had several opportunities to solo, specifically on 'Answers.'

The opener was the local band Braveheart Whips. If you like Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band then you might like this band, though it might be hard to find them onstage since the lead vocalist said they change their name on a weekly basis. During their set they did 'I Can't Dance' in tribute to Gram Parsons, who made the song famous to those who love rock and roll. It's also funny to note that both bands ended their sets with songs by the Rolling Stones.

Here's the set for Braveheart Whips.

Start time 10:14PM

1. Fast Train

2. Something You Got

3. The Fever (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes)

4. Men Without Women (Stevie Van Zandt)

5. I'll Be Back (Pat Temple)

6. I Can't Dance (Tom T Hall)

7. Thelma Jane (Tim the guitarist in the band)

8. Shine A Light (Jagger/Richards)

End time 10:57PM (Total time 43 minutes)

I know most will be at the Slip tonight. But if anybody feel like heading to Lee's Palace to see Rich Robinson, I'll see you there. It's going to be amazing.

Glad to read it. The Flaming Lips rule!

According to www.pollstar.com the Tralf is still happening. Also the aforementioned Nietzsches looks like a good bet as well.

Hey zero,

That's sarcasm right? I'm guessing it is as why would you just throw out the String Cheese Incident out of all the jambands out there? IMO The Flaming Lips kill the SCI anyday of the week and twice on Sundays.

from www.billboard.com on October 13.

1941 - Paul Simon is born in Newark, N.J. He teams up with boyhood schoolmate Art Garfunkel to form one of pop music's most successful duos. Simon & Garfunkel's biggest hit is the million-selling "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which tops Billboard's Hot 100 for six weeks. Their first Grammy comes for the 1968 Record of the Year, "Mrs. Robinson." The duo is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

Happy Birthday Paul Simon,

And thanks for touring with your one of your "Old Friends" last year. That Simon & Garfunkel gig at the Air Canada Centre was one of the best I've ever seen.

PS I hope that it being your birthday today isn't goodluck for the Yankees and all. I don't want the spirit of Joltin' Joe Dimaggio around Yankee Stadium tonight in that song you wrote for that Dustin Hoffman movie directed by Mike Nichols

from www.billboard.com

By Jonathan Cohen. October 13, 2004, 3:25 PM ET

Flaming Lips Dreaming Up New Sound Collages

The Flaming Lips have begun work on their next Warner Bros. studio album with longtime producer Dave Fridmann. However, Lips frontman Wayne Coyne admits to Billboard.com, "It isn't as though we have an album's worth of songs ready to go. We have maybe five or six things that have some shape to them, but we're not in any real hurry to say, 'Let's get these in shape and put them out.'"

The reason? The group is busy with any number of other projects, including shooting a video in Austin, Texas, this week for "SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy," which has been tapped as the first single from Warner Bros.' "SpongeBob SquarePants" movie soundtrack. Work is also resuming on the Lips' long-in-the-works feature film, "Christmas on Mars."

But Coyne says the songs committed to tape so far, including "Time Travel??," "Mr. Ambulance Driver" and "Space Bible," point at exciting new directions for the ever-evolving Lips. "Some of this new stuff hints at more of a collage of classical, jazz, rock and folk, all sometimes happening within in the framework of the same song, but not a collection of cliched sounds," he says. "We just want to get a strange collection of moods."

"Have you seen those ads in the back of Reader's Digest where you can send in a poem and have it set to music? They are so strange and unique," Coyne continues. "Sometimes, I kick myself that we haven't done something of this ilk, where there's no limits or embarrassment. Are we being retarded or super-geniuses? You just don't really care. I don't know if ["Time Travel??"] will make the album, but it was a lot of fun to do when you're reaching for new stuff. It's about time travel, but not something that will be invented by scientists. It's something we already have within the power of our own minds -- we can transcend living and breathing and travel through our own memories."

The new album, tentatively titled "At War With the Mystics," will be the follow-up to 2002's "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." That set has sold a career-best 398,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Meanwhile, during a recent session at Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studio in upstate New York, the Lips also began work on a 5.1 Surround Sound mix of their acclaimed 1999 release "The Soft Bulletin," tentatively due next spring.

"That, of all the records we've done, is really the only one that had seven or eight other songs we didn't release," Coyne says. "For fans of that record, this is going to be a very cool item. I can talk about the songs and the making of them, and it will have these little psychedelic cartoons in the spirit of the album. 'The Soft Bulletin' gave us such a different perspective and a new life -- there's a richness there that will be fun to go back and revisit."

As for "Christmas on Mars," Coyne says "about half" of the film is still left to be shot. "I'm building the sets myself and I write everything out that people say," he adds. "It's not all my ideas, but as much of the Flaming Lips are in this as can be."

"At the moment, we're thinking of releasing a DVD of the movie and a bunch of extras with behind-the-scenes footage, along with a CD that is basically the soundtrack, but also some pieces that go beyond what's in the movie," Coyne says. "Bands limit themselves to thinking, 'This is what I do. I'm just in a band.' But I figured, let's do movies! Let's do soundtracks! Let's do it all ourselves!"

"In the best of both worlds, we'd have a new Flaming Lips album by the summer of 2005 and a Flaming Lips movie in the fall of 2005," he concludes. "You can only be one person in one place at one time, but if you make a movie, you can be a lot of places at the same time!"

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Honkity,honk,honk! :: Can hardly wait to see some Slip. Plus I have never been to Hamilton...I hear you folks can throw down something feirce...excited to experiance the ever famous PepperJacks....Hello Steeltown.

Somebody tell me it's a 6(not 7) hour drive from Ottawa....oofskies...it'll make the 2 hour drive home from Montreal feel breezy.

Hey howler, It's a five to five and a half hour drive going 130km/h from Ottawa to Hamilton. It's seven if you stop at a nice place to eat or something.

See you all tomorrow night.

I'll be at Black Crowe Rich Robinson's gig at Lee's Palace. Big Sugar leader Gordie Johnson will be Rich's bassist. I'm really looking forward to it.

Though I'll be seeing The Slip on Friday at Pepper Jacks.

Hey LionLocks,

I just checked on my digital cabel box and it does not look like "Greendale" will be re-run later tonight. I too am going to watch the Sox/Yankee game though I have "Greendale" on DVD so it doesn't really matter.

PS GO SOX GO!

Nice Trev,

Remember on that trip when you went into a motel to see if we could get a room and you came back to the van and you told me to drive as you thought the place was being held up? That was crazy, eh?

Did anybody watch this last night? Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama was inspriational, even if you're a nonbeliever! They performed the opening track titled "Take My Hand" from their album "There Will Be A Light." The song culminated with the crowd clapping led by Harper with Blind Boy George Scott leading a vocal solo that nearly sent me to tears. Not often does Television relay that type of power, it was truly something to behold.

Hey Trevor,

I think I told you this before, if so others maybe will enjoy this.

A couple of years ago at a Farm Aid Matthew McCoughney was the host and almost everytime after the commercial break McCoughney would start off by saying. "Alright, Alright, Alright." Exactly like his character in "Dazed And Confused." He had me in stitches. And at the end of the night McCoughney was doing a rain dance with aboriginals right beside Neil Young who was also laughing at him. It's a classic picture in my head.

After McCoughney's naked bongo incident a few years back I bet he barely had to act whils shooting "Dazed."

That lawsuit better get thrown out of court. Everytime I read about a case like this I cringe at our society.

Hey Trevor, I remember you used to quote from "Dazed And Confused" everytime I saw you back in the mid-ninties, thanks for posting this, even though it made me cringe.

This must have been before Sir Paul McCartney became a strick vegetarian, as I couldn't see Paul doing a cover like that now.

Hey bouche,

Another time I'll tell you about how I garnered different responses from Phil Keaggy, Dan Murphy (Soul Asylums guitarist at a Golden Smog gig) Jim Cuddy (at a Blue Rodeo gig), Bruce Cockburn, Beck and Chris Robinson (at a solo New Earth Mud gig) to name a few. I guess I'm good at getting a reponse from musicians on stage.