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Eric Clapton with Robert Randolph and the Family Band at the Air Canada Centre

JOHNNY CASH "Unearthed" (It's been over a year this week since the Man in Black left us)

WILCO "A Ghost Is Born"

NEIL YOUNG "Harvest" (In tribute to Kenny Buttrey)

VARIOUS "Timless: A Tribute To Hank Williams" (It would have been Hank Williams birthday today 09/17/1923)

BEASTIE BOYS "To The 5 Buroughs"

R.E.M. "In Time 1988-2003 The Best Of R.E.M."

Hey Velvet,

If I were you I'd be going to R.E.M.. I'm on night shift the week of the R.E.M. shows in Ontario but I'm taking the night off for it. I'm not taking the night off for moe. as I can see them anytime.

Who knows when you'll see R.E.M. 200 metres from your door again?

Tue, 11/09/04

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Winnipeg, MB More Info

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Calgary, AB More Info

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Hey Swan, I went to the Bridge School Benefits in '98,'99 and '00 and they were easily some of the best shows I've seen in my life.

Unfortunately I haven't been back since '00 and I can't make it this year. I hope for your sake and the 24,999 other people that will be in attendance that Neil and Paul perform together. I think the Landmine Benefit on October 15, will be a good precursor to what will happen at the Bridge.

Neil repeated concepts before, ie "Harvest" and then "Harvest Moon," just to name one. Also the concept of "After The Goldrush" has never been fully realized.

Neil Young

Berkeley Community Theatre\

September 15, 2004

Solo set

Pocahontas

Harvest Moon

On The Way Home (on grand piano)

Journey Through The Past (on grand piano)

Cowgirl In The Sand

Don't Let It Bring You Down

Birds (on grand piano)

Human Highway (w/ Pegi Young on vocals)

Goin' Back (w/ Pegi Young on vocals)

Old King (on banjo, w/ Pegi Young on vocals)

Four Strong Winds (w/ Pegi Young on vocals)

1st Encore

Field Of Opportunity (w/ Pegi Young on vocals)

Comes A Time (w/ Pegi Young on vocals)

2nd Encore

Heart Of Gold

"Journey Through The Past" would have blown my mind! I wish I lived in the Bay area, at least until Neil Young passes away.

They think alike, you silly bastard!

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut

Reporter: The Family Jules

Topic: After the Goldrush movie

There's an article/interview about the Greendale movie in the brand new issue of UK's Uncut magazine.

Usual stuff except for one interesting little item.....

For his next movie project, Neil is thinking of taking another album and having actors mime and act out the story as they did in Greendale. The album in question is After the Goldrush. Neil mentioned how the songs were written for Dean Stockwell's movie that never happened in the first place, and that he'd like to finally make a movie with those songs.

This tour would be absolutely amazing! I loved the Greendale tour, but I know a lot of people who didn't due to the overabundance of new material. This tour would alleviate that problem for all of those by Neil playing one of his classic albums front to back!

I wonder what the backing band would be if he actually went through with this tour? Danny Whitten and Jack Nitzsche have left this earth. But Neil Young could recruit Billy Talbot or Greg Reeves on bass, Nils Lofgren on piano (which would be amazing as I've only seen Nils with Bruce Springsteen), Ralf Molina on drums and he could even bring Stephen Stills along for the ride for vocals. If Stills and Lofgren were on board I would be in heaven if they both played guitar at points with Young! Though it would be easiest if Neil just brought along Crazy Horse again.

Interesting, and revealing, that Hornsby stayed away from Dead-related material at this show. Makes sense.

Hey MarcO, I thought the exact same thing. You know what they say about great minds.

I can't wait for the NBA! I mean that too.

now, does anyone think that perhaps the break-up of phish is directly related to the decision for this band to get back together and tour in 2005? the next summer without phish...

Why the hell would Chris and Rich Robinson give a hoot and holler what happened about Phish? I bet Phish has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that two brothers decided to reform their old band. The world doesn't revolve around Phish.

And if Phish didn't break up The Black Crowes would do just as well on tour next year, they have a large hardcore following of there own of people that love great southern based rock and roll, which has nothing to do with jamming.

I can't wait to see the Black Crowes again! I'm so happy they are getting back together, but no Steve Gorman? Now the only two original members are the brothers!

The best line up the Black Crowes had was with Marc Ford (from "Southern Harmony..." to "Three Snakes") on second or lead guitar, I wish he was back in the band instead of Audley Freed. Freed is good but he is no Ford.

All that said I still can't wait.

May you rest in peace Kenny,

I'm glad to read that he died with those he loved and those who loved him by his side. I hope his bout with cancer wasn't to long and painful.

I had always hoped to see a Stray Gators show one day, I guess that's becoming less and less likely. Jack Nitzsche left us a couple of years ago, but he was replaced by Spooner Oldham in the Stray Gators for the "Harvest Moon" sessions. But now that Kenny Buttrey is gone it looks like it may never happen again.

I guess the closest I'll ever get to a Gators show with Neil Young are the Friends & Relatives shows in 2000 with Ben Keith and Spooner Oldham. Though I do hope Neil tours with Tim Drummond again with Ben and Spooner plus someone else on drums to replace Kenny. Maybe Jim Keltner? It would be a great tour.

Hey Shain looks like another great show. How did it compare to the Toronto show at the Glenn Gould Studio?

I'm still currently debating whether I'm going to attend Bruce Hornsby (with his band) in Buffalo in November.

from www.billboard.com

This Day In Music

For September 12, 2004

2003 - Country music icon Johnny Cash dies at 1 a.m. ET of heart failure at Nashville's Baptist Hospital, stemming from complications from diabetes. He is 71, and had been in poor health for several years. His wife, vocalist June Carter Cash, died May 15 following heart surgery.

Everyone knew it was coming soon, but when it happened it still hit me pretty hard. It sad that there will be only one more new Johnny Cash American album produced by Rick Rubin. Cash to me is the greatest country artist to ever live and will never be replaced. He could sing anything and make it a great song.

Good Question \/\/illy, and I really don't know. I've seen Gordon Lightfoot a couple of times, but never on back to back nights at the same venue. The show did change up quite a bit from year to year.

Gordon Lightfoot is playing in Hamilton at Hamilton Place. Lightfoot promised that his first full shows after his illness were to be in Hamilton and he delivered on that promise.

I'm so sad that I don't think I can afford to go to the Bridge School Benefit this year. I would love to see Neil Young and Paul McCartney perform together by the Bay, it would be absolutely amazing!

from www.billboard.com

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. September 08, 2004, 12:00 AM ET

McCartney, Peppers To Rock Bridge School

Paul McCartney, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tony Bennett, Sonic Youth, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Los Lonely Boys and Tegan & Sara will join event founder Neil Young on the bill for the 18th annual Bridge School Benefit. The shows will be held Oct. 23-24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre outside San Francisco.

Performing as part of Bridge School's traditional acoustic format will be unfamiliar to a number of the artists, particularly McCartney. The former Beatle will be offering what is believed to be his first acoustic set since a 1991 taping for "MTV Unplugged," which was later released on CD.

Harper will be making his second Bridge appearance. His guest turn on Pearl Jam's "Indifference" at the 2001 event was released on a holiday single for members of the band's Ten Club fan organization.

The Peppers, Tegan & Sara and Sonic Youth will also each be making their second Bridge School visits, while Bennett and Los Lonely Boys will be making their event debut.

As for Young, the shows will cap a brief run of performances that comprises a Sept. 15 show in Berkeley, Calif., the Sept. 17 Clean Air benefit in Duncan, British Columbia, and the annual Farm Aid benefit on Sept. 18 outside Seattle.

Tickets for this year's Bridge School go on sale Sunday (Sept. 12) via Ticketmaster.

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

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Edited By Jonathan Cohen. September 07, 2004, 3:45 PM ET

Stones Return To 'Rock And Roll Circus'

As tipped here last month, ABKCO will on Oct. 12 offer the first DVD release of the Rolling Stones' "Rock and Roll Circus." The December 1968 concert was filmed for a television special but was never broadcast. It was finally released on CD and VHS in 1996.

The DVD edition is sourced to the original 16mm negatives, while the audio has been remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound. Commentary tracks are offered from Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman, plus Yoko Ono, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Marianne Faithfull and director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, among others.

Among the previously unreleased clips are a backstage meeting between Jagger, Ono and John Lennon; an alternate take of Lennon performing the Beatles' "Yer Blues" with Mitch Mitchell, Richards and Eric Clapton; three additional Taj Mahal songs; an interview with the Who's Pete Townshend; and Fatboy Slim's 2003 remix of the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil."

"Rock and Roll Circus" features the Stones performing tunes that had just appeared on their "Beggars Banquet" album: "Parachute Woman," "No Expectations," "Sympathy for the Devil" and a giddy version of "Salt of the Earth." They also performed their current hit at the time, "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and premiered "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which would debut the following year on the album "Let It Bleed."

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

If you also like Bobby "Blue" Bland then you should look up B.B. King & Bobby Bland "Together for the First Time...Live" (MCA/1974) and "Together Again...Live" (MCA/1976). The interplay between these two is amazingly smooth. A lot of improvisation occurs between these two blues greats.

If you don't know Bobby Bland has been covered by the Grateful Dead (Turn On Your Love Light), The Band (Share Your Love With Me), Van Morrison (Ain't Nothin' You Can Do)and many more.

Buddy Holly Not Fading Away

Late rockers' brothers, band members pay tribute in Texas

In April, Buddy Holly's brothers Larry and Travis; his former bandmates Tommy Allsup, Larry Welborn and Carl Bunch; and members of his twang-rock disciples the Flatlanders and the Mavericks gathered in Azle, Texas, to record Stay All Night -- Buddy Holly's Country Roots. Out September 7th, the twenty-track compilation features new recordings of songs Holly cut his teeth on and incorporated into his own songwriting. It also includes a pair of Holly's own unreleased tracks, "I Saw the Moon Cry Last Night" and "I Hear the Lord Calling For Me," that he and Jack Neal first played on their weekly radio show on KDAV in Lubbock, Texas.

Holly, one of the first rock stars to write his own songs, wracked up hits such as "That'll Be the Day," "It's So Easy," "Peggy Sue," "Maybe Baby" and "Not Fade Away," before his death at the age of twenty-two in the 1959 plane crash that also claimed the lives of Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, in what became known as "The Day the Music Died."

Growing up the youngest of four children in Lubbock, the horn-rimmed Buddy was never regarded as particularly musical by older brothers Larry and Travis. "Buddy had tried the violin and he didn't like it and we just didn't figure he had any talent at all," says Larry Holley (Buddy would later drop the "e" from his last name). "But you know a kid's got to come to a certain age and find an instrument. The first song I heard him learning was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams. And then it was Hank Thompson and Marty Robbins, and eventually he got to listening to the radio at night to people who blues-ed things up. About the time Elvis came out, he thought that was really nice and he learned to do everything by Elvis real quick. First thing we knew, we turned around and he was playing better than we could."

Holly's mother used to sing with her twin sister and encouraged her youngest son's earliest songwriting efforts. "Buddy must have took after mother because mother was always sort of guiding him on his songs," says Larry. "She'd say, 'I can write a song,' and he'd say, 'Oh mother, you can't write a song.' She said, 'What about this? Maybe, baby, if I had you.' Buddy picked up on it and first thing you know he had it. She was the one to give him that. Buddy would get an idea from somebody and then make a song out of it. He'd make up a song over night."

In addition to the blues and country from radio, Holly was exposed to gospel music in church, and on Stay All Night his brothers perform a pair of standards -- "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again," and "Softly and Tenderly" -- still played during services in their hometown.

The young Buddy got the ultimate stamp of approval in high school when his band opened for Elvis Presley. "He got a group together and began to realize he might be able to make it in the music industry," says Travis. "Elvis told him 'You're ready now.'"

Covered and cited as an influence by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead, among many others, Holly's body of work continues to hold up more than forty-five years after his death. "He had more talent in his little finger than most people have now," says Travis. "He was so versatile and innovative. He could take old songs that came back through the Appalachians from the coal mining days and make them sound brand new."

A CD release concert featuring many of the musicians from Stay All Nightwill be held at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas, on September 3rd. For more information about the album, go to westtexasroots.com.

COLIN DEVENISH

(Posted Sep 03, 2004)

from www.billboard.com on Tuesday September 7, 2004.

1936 - Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) is born in Lubbock, Texas.

1976 - Paul McCartney, who earlier purchased rights to Buddy Holly's song catalog, commemorates Holly's 40th birthday with the inauguration of "Buddy Holly Week" in the U.K.

All you Deadheads should know this because of "Not Fade Away." Also I find it funny that whenever the Grateful Dead or anyone else for that matter releases "Not Fade Away" on a live disc or record it in the studio now, Paul McCartney gets the royalties.

from www.billboard.com on Tuesday September 7, 2004.

2002 - Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, 63, is rushed to the hospital with an undisclosed stomach illness, just hours before he is due to perform in his hometown of Gorilla, Ontario. Lightfoot undergoes surgery the following day.

Thank the maker that Gordon Lightfoot is still with us. After being treated at MacMaster for some time he has promised to do his first full concert as a benefit to the workers at Mac in Hamilton. Hopefully he keeps his word, I would love to go to this gig.

from www.billboard.com on Tuesday August 7, 2004.

2003 - Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon dies in Los Angeles. He is 56. Zevon was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in August of the previous year. A spokesperson for the artist says that Zevon had been feeling well of late, and died peacefully in his home.

I'm sad I never got to see Warren Zevon live. I remember the last time he came to Toronto he performed at the Horseshoe and I missed it because of work. On September 10, of last year I saw Bruce Springsteen perform at the Skydome and the first song of the night he did Zevon's "My Ride's Here" in tribute to his friend, it was a beautiful moment. Also the previous year I saw Bob Dylan tribute Zevon while he was still living by performing several songs of Zevon while on his fall tour. In Elmira I saw Dylan do "Mutineer." Both of these songs will appear on an upcoming Tribute album to Warren Zevon.