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...which coincides perfectly with my all-meat-and-coleslaw diet. BYOWetnaps

I'm starting to seeeeee!

Sounds to me like Northern Wish doesn't need any pickup lines at all.

Woah.

Manoman, that lightning show was fantastic. Kuroda never ceases to amaze. Y'know how you learned in science class that lighting actually goes up from the ground? Well, the lightning was flashing upwards and in slow motion. Over and over, a consistent webbing of light rose around the venue, sometimes enveloping the whole sky. I remember the crowd collectively envision doom when an airplane flew across the sky aimed right in the path of the lightning. Somehow the made it through. I actually thought we might magically not get rained on, but on the way to wait it out in the parking lot it started to come down, and hard. We were running our asses off trying to make it to someones car before getting soaked but we didn't get there in time. When the second set started it was actually a beautiful night. The set was spectacular. During the encore came the actual torrential downpour. It was raining cats and dogs and moose I mean it was raining. And we were walking, kept dryish by our matching Maid Of The Mist plastic rain ponchos. And me with a poster to keep dry. Walking to the increasingly inappropriately named Closeby Campground. Man it was raining. The poster made it just fine.

Looks like bouche owes us all a lot of fucking money.

That was such a great show. Didn't get the Loving Cup/Stanley Cup thing until reading this thread.

I soooo hope that's not for real. Maybe I'm just a bit strained just getting off a 15 1/2 hour drive, but I don't find that funny at all. Like why not shit in the ditch?

As I understand it, the Byward Market is mainly an after hours component.

Watch for a major announcement coming today!

Bradm and ollie wrote exactly what I would have written and I hope to hell you did what Booche suggested.

Agreed hamilton, and agreed Ms.Huxtable.

I'm curious where they are rebooked: OTTAWA SHOW DATE RESCHEDULED For all of our friends with tickets to the sold out show in Ottawa on October 29, we hope that date is on your calendar in pencil! We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but that show has changed dates and we will now be at Scotiabank Place five days later on November 3. Of course your tickets will be good then, and if you cannot join us on the new date, you may return your tickets to the place you purchased them for a full refund. And for your trouble, everyone who attends the show on November 3 will receive a voucher for a free MP3 download of the show that can be redeemed at www.livemetallica.com. We're happy to report that it has nothing to do with oysters, but can only tell you right now that the date change is due to a scheduling conflict with a very cool event coming up around that time. We wanted to let you know about the new date in Ottawa ASAP, but we've been sworn to secrecy on all other fronts, so keep checking www.metallica.com. . . more details in mid to late July.

This is part of a line of products for the obese. Pardon the puns, but it's a huge group of people that grows larger all the time. They skirt around it but the people who need it know who they are. It's the start of wall-e.

It's the lead story on CBC Entertainment: They were chanting "Bruuuuuce" at Bonnaroo all weekend, as Bruce Springsteen performed a three-hour set with the E Street Band one night and joined Phish on stage another. Springsteen and Phish were the headliners at the eighth annual festival, held on a giant farm in the Tennessee hills. Phish first played Friday night, then Springsteen played Saturday. The two worlds — far apart in rock 'n' roll — combined during Phish's closing set Sunday night. Phish frontman and guitarist Trey Anastasio introduced Springsteen as "my boyhood hero and still hero." Anastasio recalled seeing Springsteen perform when he was young as a foundational experience, forever giving him unrealistically high expectations for concerts. With Springsteen as lead vocalist and joining Anastasio on guitar, they played Wilson Pickett's Mustang Sally and Springsteen's Bobby Jean and Glory Days. Anastasio beamed throughout while the Boss immediately played bandleader, even calling for a "little more keyboard" for Page McConnell. It was a symbolic moment for a Bonnaroo notable for its musical cross-pollination and expanded view of what it means to be a "jam band." Though Bonnaroo was founded as a roots-rock, jam band festival, it years ago adopted a wider musical spectrum that draws from all genres, including hip-hop, heavy metal and pop. Bonnaroo's origins were easy to recall with Phish — today's pre-eminent jam band, reunited after a five-year hiatus — performing for the first time together at Bonnaroo, a festival founded in the image of the Vermont band's destination concerts. But as Bonnaroo has grown to become arguably the country's biggest music festival, its essence still remains centered on live performance and virtuosity — which came in all sounds over the weekend. Springsteen might rarely deviate much from his decades-long catalogue, but he (again) proved there's no better showman in rock. Across three hours, he repeatedly ran into the crowd, leaning out across the barricades, taking requests — even the out-of-season Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town — and dancing with a young, awestruck girl. The Boss also struck a tone mindful of the current economic climate. Along with his songs about down-on-their-luck characters and blue collar life, Springsteen encored with Stephen Foster's Civil War-era Hard Times Come Again No More. "You pick up the newspaper and you look out and you see millions of jobs here in the country lost. Hundreds of thousands of jobs every month," said Springsteen. "You see things that I never thought I'd see. There's many, many folks struggling out there." He wasn't the only one to touch on the recession. Jenny Lewis, the singer-songwriter who sometimes fronts the California band Rilo Kiley, introduced a new song about today's times, noting she comes from "a state that's totally bankrupt." On the song, Big Way, she sang, "They're gonna get you in a big way." But Springsteen was far from the only showman at Bonnaroo. Few weren't impressed by The Rev. Al Green's performance Friday afternoon. The 63-year-old Memphis resident sang his soul classics — Let's Stay Together, Here I Am — with a gospel flair, hitting high notes that he said proved he still had it. Wanting to come down and dance with the crowd — whom he tossed roses to — Green admonished the "yellow shirts" (the security guards): "We didn't come out there to hurt nobody. We came to love." There were many neo-soul acts at Bonnaroo who showed influence from Green. Among them: Raphael Saadiq, who sped up his pace on his 100 Yard Dash, and an afro-less Erykah Badu, who performed a slow-burning set Sunday afternoon. She was followed by Snoop Dogg, who declined a lazy summer show and instead rocked with a bass-thumping, audience-bouncing performance. Green played at nearly the same time Friday as David Byrne. Some hoped they would unite to perform Green's Take Me to the River, which Byrne memorably covered when he was with the Talking Heads. Instead, Byrne played it himself. It was part of a memorable set of art funk for Byrne, who brought his conceptual stage show of dancers to Bonnaroo. Many other pairings between the 100-plus acts at the festival did happen. The Beastie Boys were joined by Nas to perform a new song off their upcoming record. Elvis Costello, who performed solo, joined Lewis for her Carpetbaggers. Byrne, who curated a stage on Friday, hopped up to sing with the buzzed-about Dirty Projectors. Jimmy Buffett was a late addition and joined his Coral Reefer All-Stars, who were being led by his recent discovery, guitarist Ilo Ferreria. Buffett said he had some difficulty adjusting to the early noon showtime (especially for a festival that goes until 4 a.m.) but said margaritas were still in order. Some of the best jamming came from the tent devoted to African music on Friday. Femi Kuti, Amadou & Mariam and — in particular — Vieux Farka Touré played top notch Afropop from West African. Touré, the son of Mali legend Ali Farka Touré, tore through bluesy, funky tunes. He led the crowd in a chant, only afterward informing them of the translation: "Love is good." The same tent on Saturday transformed into a bluegrass stage featuring the Del McCoury Band and the David Grisman Quintet. There, the solos became fast-paced banjo and acoustic guitar flourishes. And some of the strangest, most psychedelic jamming came from the mostly electronic outfit Animal Collective, who hypnotically pushed their Fireworks past the 10-minute mark. Ashley Capps, the co-founder of Bonnaroo and the president of AC Entertainment (which produces the festival with Superfly Productions), said about 75,000 attended. That's up significantly from last year's fest, no doubt partially thanks to the thousands of devoted Phish fans who were eager to see the reunited band. Capps acknowledged Thursday, with its pounding thunderstorms and tornado warnings, was "a challenging night." But the rest of the festival was marked by mostly sunny, clear and hot weather. Capps said it was one of the smoothest-running Bonnaroos yet. None benefitted from the good weather more than Wilco, who played a scintillating sunset performance Saturday, running the gamut of their earlier material as well as songs off their upcoming disc, Wilco (The Album). The band played on the main stage before Springsteen, and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy could already feel the Boss's presence. "If anybody boos us tonight, we have a built-in excuse," said Tweedy. "They're just yelling 'Bruuuuuce."' Any summary of the festival is sure to leave many out. Others performing included: Nine Inch Nails, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Public Enemy, Gov't Mule, Grizzly Bear, Lucinda Williams, Santigold, The Decemberists, the Mars Volta, moe, Of Montreal, Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Girl Talk and Neko Case. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/06/15/bonnaroo-festival-jam.html

What a fantastic job. A thousand congratulations to you Shain.

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I thought it was just me!!! Is it true, do some people just naturally not hear lyrics while others do? I have to struggle to hear lyrics in pretty much any live setting, and even when I struggle half the time I can't make them out. I seriously thought it was just me. ps I appreciate stupid lyrics. It's actually one of my specialties.

Yeah, couldn't disagree with Giggles buddy more, except to agree that Danny Michel could be said to have stolen the show. I thought his arrangement of Helpless was incredible, though I heard others thought otherwise.

I haven't seen them live but I'd sure like to. For vanity's sake here's a link to the article I wrote about them: http://www.soundproofmagazine.com/Canada/Features/Bell_Orchestre_-_Communing_With_God.html

I'm sorry you and the Bash weren't there too. Glad you're starting to feel better.

I'm just going by info on phish.com. I defer to phorbesie for all my real phish info. 6.18.09 Post Gazette Pavilion - Sold Out Post Gazette Pavilion 665 Rt. 18 Burgettstown, PA 15201 tel: (724) 947-7400 website venue map area map Show Starts: 7:30PM Doors Open: 6:00PM Lots Open: 3:00PM Pricing: $49.50 Reserved and GA Lawn Click here for additional venue/local info.

Oh, and YATS, take it from me, phorbesie definitely has her "ear to the ground" on this stuff. No question. Basher I won't speak for, though his advice to keep an eye on the ground is a good one - I found $10 and $5 in Jones Beach in two seperate finds.

I have to agree with phorbesie - there's no reason to expect that you're gonna get tickets to a show. Every show is sold out, and in the five shows we've seen so far we've seen lots of people searching for tickets, seemingly in vain. Combine the fact that Phish has more fans now than they ever have with consistently good to great shows, new songs that people seem to like (in some cases quite rabidly), and the summer in full swing I think it will be hard to accurately predict which shows will have lots of extras floating around.

It completely slipped my mind that I saw two friends seperately offering up their extras at great woods. It was like tossing a steak to a pack of starving wolves. Not an easy ticket. Jones Beach #3 was more of a huddle in the rain lot scene, so I don't know about that, but I do remember seeing people wandering through the rain with their fingers in the air.