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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in Dusty Drifters @ Das Lokal (Ott.) Jan. 31   
    We went last night.  Hard to believe that was my first time seeing the Dusty Drifters.  Lots and lots of talent in that band.  I'm glad we made reservations; we showed up at 7:15 and the place was full.  Our table for two was waiting for us by the door.  I called the bar last week and was told the mucis was starting at 7:30 but they were already on when we arrived.
     
    The bar/restaurant is a bit odd.  I guess it's a German-themed place (funny the name didn't tip me off) with a really, really short menu.  There were five items on the  menu in total and fries was one of them.  There was also a sausage plate, goulash, something else and a mushroom melt, which is what Heather and I ordered to share.  At $14 it wasn't cheap but not too overpriced either, but at the same time it was pretty good but not great.  
     
    When the waiter came he explained that they had $5 pints and then he said, "But don't be embarrassed to order the $5 pint because it's good beer, Stiegl."  I thought that was really odd.  When Heather looked over the drink menu she mentioned that there were no other beers listed.  "Bummer," he said, before listing off the other two or three kinds of beers they had.  
     
    We both ordered the $5 pints and they were't pints at all.  We got tall, thin glasses of beer but we could see other beers came in proper pints.  Bummer.
     
    A final observation: I'm not crazy about restaurants that attempt to be a bit upscale but have the decor of a cheap pub.  They tables were made of roughly sawn planks outfitted with cheap metal chairs.  If you're going with that sort of decor at least have a burger on your menu.  I know this is the "in" thing, but to me it's just cheaping out on the furnishings.
     
    All that said, I'm about to reserve a table for the next Nachtmuzic, Brian Browne at the end of February.  
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    Velvet got a reaction from Booche in Phish, Riviera Maya - Webcast   
    Spent much of the second set last night waist deep in the ocean.  This is just as much fun as it looks, and just a wee bit drunker.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in Phish, Riviera Maya - Webcast   
    Spent much of the second set last night waist deep in the ocean.  This is just as much fun as it looks, and just a wee bit drunker.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in Merry Christmas Freaks!   
    Happy Everything everybody!
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    Velvet got a reaction from bradm in Dusty Drifters + Ball & Chain at Irene's (Ott.) Oct. 28   
    In.  
     
    I'll probably catch some of those Tuesday Steve & Paulie shows too.
     
    Good music, good bar, good times!
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    Velvet got a reaction from AD in Sweet Merch   
    AC$DC
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in I don't want to get political or anything...   
    ...but is Harper obviously wearing lipstick in this video?
     
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-conservative-anti-drug-1.3187024
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    Velvet got a reaction from hamilton in Halloween MSG: Dead and Company ( Core 3 + John Mayer, Chimenti and Burbridge)   
    Agreed (as usual).
     
    Dude is a really good guitar player and he is no stranger to jamming.  It's weird that an audience known to accept such a variety of sonic experiences within a rock band context (drums/space, country music, occasional extremely questionable vocals, barbershop, vacuum solos, etc) can dismiss things out of hand before they hear them*.  And it's not like this is a court-ordered sentence or anything...Bobby, Billy, and Mickey CHOSE to play with this guy.  How can people not have any faith whatsoever in the musical opinions of their musical heroes?
     
    *I did this in the early 90's with Nirvana; heard the first ten seconds of Smells Like Teen Spirit and had the band pegged as talentless hacks.  Never went to see them live and only realized Kurt's genius after he was dead.  I'm not gonna let that happen again.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in IFA Benefit featuring John Kadlecik and Lucas Haneman   
    Instruments For Africa benefit concert and silent auction
    Featuring John Kadlecik w/ special guest Lucas Haneman
    Saturday, September 5, 2015
    Irene’s Pub
    885 Bank Street
    Ottawa
    $10/9pm/19+
    www.instrumentsforafrica.com
    www.johnkmusic.net
    www.lucashaneman.com
    irenespub.ca
     
    International touring artist John Kadlecik and local guitar phenom Lucas Haneman will showcase their talents at Irene’s Pub to raise funds for Instruments For Africa’s upcoming shipment to Zambia.  The night of music will be accompanied by a silent auction, featuring items from local merchants and memorabilia signed by artists including Daniel Lanois, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin and others.
     
    American singer and guitarist John Kadlecik made a name for himself performing the music of Jerry Garcia in the world’s premier Grateful Dead tribute act, Dark Star Orchestra.  In 2009 he was recruited by Grateful Dead founding members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir for their most popular post-GD project, Furthur, and with his musical heroes transformed into musical partners Kadlecik spent the next five years on an endless tour of sold-out arena and festival dates helping to continue the legacy of the Grateful Dead.
     
    Making his home in Washington, DC, Kadlecik keeps himself busy with a myriad of projects.  In addition to performing solo concerts and working with performers like Melvin Seals, Kadlecik is currently touring with the Golden Gate Wingmen, a jamband supergroup that includes Kadlecik, Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane, and Reed Mathis.
     
    The IFA benefit concert at Irene’s will land between two standout shows for John Kadlecik: an appearance at the Peach Festival in Scranton, PA just a couple of weeks before and a set at the Lock’n Festival in Arrington, VA the following week.  Kadlecik will be in Italy in October to take part in the annual REX benefit Experimental Residency. 
     
    While it’s easy to classify Lucas Haneman as a new sensation on the Ottawa scene, in reality the 28-year-old has been playing around Ottawa for almost two decades.  While in high school he received the CBC Rising Star Award at the 2005 Ottawa International Jazz festival.  In 2010 he graduated from Concordia University with a BFA in Jazz Studies where he received the prestigious Oscar Peterson scholarship.
     
    In his short career Haneman has toured across Canada sharing the stage with a host of artists, including Curtis Fuller, David Newman, Guido Basso, Jeff Healey, James Cotton, Sloan, Don Ross, Terry Kelly and David Usher.  In March Haneman was honoured with an invitation to London, England to perform at the international Visually Impaired Musicians Live conference.
     
    Instruments For Africa is an Ottawa-based Not-For-Profit that collects musical instruments and accessories here in Canada and donates them to schools and community groups in select African countries.  In the last two years IFA has donated hundreds of musical instruments to fifteen schools and organisations in three countries.
     
    IFA founder and local musician Todd Snelgrove will be leaving for Zambia on September 23rd to distribute another 100 trumpets, flutes, trombones, guitars, clarinets, and keyboards to five schools throughout the country.  The goal of this benefit concert is to cover all costs related to the shipping and distribution of the instruments.
     
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    Velvet got a reaction from bradm in IFA Benefit featuring John Kadlecik and Lucas Haneman   
    Instruments For Africa benefit concert and silent auction
    Featuring John Kadlecik w/ special guest Lucas Haneman
    Saturday, September 5, 2015
    Irene’s Pub
    885 Bank Street
    Ottawa
    $10/9pm/19+
    www.instrumentsforafrica.com
    www.johnkmusic.net
    www.lucashaneman.com
    irenespub.ca
     
    International touring artist John Kadlecik and local guitar phenom Lucas Haneman will showcase their talents at Irene’s Pub to raise funds for Instruments For Africa’s upcoming shipment to Zambia.  The night of music will be accompanied by a silent auction, featuring items from local merchants and memorabilia signed by artists including Daniel Lanois, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin and others.
     
    American singer and guitarist John Kadlecik made a name for himself performing the music of Jerry Garcia in the world’s premier Grateful Dead tribute act, Dark Star Orchestra.  In 2009 he was recruited by Grateful Dead founding members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir for their most popular post-GD project, Furthur, and with his musical heroes transformed into musical partners Kadlecik spent the next five years on an endless tour of sold-out arena and festival dates helping to continue the legacy of the Grateful Dead.
     
    Making his home in Washington, DC, Kadlecik keeps himself busy with a myriad of projects.  In addition to performing solo concerts and working with performers like Melvin Seals, Kadlecik is currently touring with the Golden Gate Wingmen, a jamband supergroup that includes Kadlecik, Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane, and Reed Mathis.
     
    The IFA benefit concert at Irene’s will land between two standout shows for John Kadlecik: an appearance at the Peach Festival in Scranton, PA just a couple of weeks before and a set at the Lock’n Festival in Arrington, VA the following week.  Kadlecik will be in Italy in October to take part in the annual REX benefit Experimental Residency. 
     
    While it’s easy to classify Lucas Haneman as a new sensation on the Ottawa scene, in reality the 28-year-old has been playing around Ottawa for almost two decades.  While in high school he received the CBC Rising Star Award at the 2005 Ottawa International Jazz festival.  In 2010 he graduated from Concordia University with a BFA in Jazz Studies where he received the prestigious Oscar Peterson scholarship.
     
    In his short career Haneman has toured across Canada sharing the stage with a host of artists, including Curtis Fuller, David Newman, Guido Basso, Jeff Healey, James Cotton, Sloan, Don Ross, Terry Kelly and David Usher.  In March Haneman was honoured with an invitation to London, England to perform at the international Visually Impaired Musicians Live conference.
     
    Instruments For Africa is an Ottawa-based Not-For-Profit that collects musical instruments and accessories here in Canada and donates them to schools and community groups in select African countries.  In the last two years IFA has donated hundreds of musical instruments to fifteen schools and organisations in three countries.
     
    IFA founder and local musician Todd Snelgrove will be leaving for Zambia on September 23rd to distribute another 100 trumpets, flutes, trombones, guitars, clarinets, and keyboards to five schools throughout the country.  The goal of this benefit concert is to cover all costs related to the shipping and distribution of the instruments.
     
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in AGWATA   
    Last night I biked over to Brewery Creek in Gatineau (kind of behind the Terrace de la Chaudiere buildings) for AGWATA, a multimedia show that projects the story of Gatineau from 1800-1900 onto a screen made of water.  They've installed fountains, sprinklers, and lights in the creek itself and they have lights, speakers and projectors to create the show.  It's free, beers are $5, and the show is really awesome.  It's similar to Mosaika, the show that projects onto the Parliament Buildings, only smaller and cooler.
     
    It runs from July 24-August 2, the show is about twenty minutes long and plays thrice a night, at 9:30, 10:00, and 10:30.  I'll be going again either tonight or tomorrow night, weather dependant.
     
    http://www.mixmediarts.ca
     
    http://www.sto.ca/index.php?id=577&L=en
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in Promoter kicks band from stage   
    That happened to me once.  Rollies Wharf in North Sydney.  The promoter literally pulled the plug in the first set while we were mid-song and fired us on the spot.  We were booked for three nights.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in Steal Your Face?   
    So I found myself gazing around at the Chicago show on July 4th and I noticed a few Steal Your Faces around.  I locked into a staring contest with one and started pondering why the head part was so round...like it's a skull but way too bulbous.  Then in a flash it hit me that the logo I had been staring at (intermittently for the last 30 years) was actually a skull as seen from above, and as such wasn't bulbous at all.  This also explained why the eye sockets were oval and not gaping round holes.
     
    So my two questions are:
     
    1)  Am I right?
     
    and 2)  Has this always been painfully obvious to everyone?
     
    http://s4.photobucket.com/user/cocheese323/media/skull005.jpg.html
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in The Chicago Thread   
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grateful-dead-end-50-year-career-with-moving-magnificent-final-show-20150706
     
    "I have spent my life/Seeking all that's still unsung/Bent my ear to hear the tune," sang Phil Lesh last night, harmonizing with colleagues new and old, on "Attics of My Life," the final song of a fraught, moving, ultimately magnificent five-night, two-state Fare The Well concert series — billed as the final shows that the surviving members of the Grateful Dead will ever perform together. The final concert was also the run's strongest, showcasing a new band hitting its stride precisely as it was set to retire. The new guys — Phish's Trey Anastasio, RatDog's Jeff Chimenti and returning moonlighter Bruce Hornsby — found equal footing and perfect sync with original band members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzman and Mickey Hart. It was clear from the opener, "China Cat Sunflower" into "I Know You Rider," one of the band's most emblematic and potent pairings. When Anastasio and Hornsby, not Weir or Lesh, traded lead vocals on the former, it felt like a torch was passed. And when the 70,000 fans sang "I know you rider/Gonna miss me when I'm gone" during the latter, it was like they were singing those words to each other.
    SIDEBAR The Grateful Dead Say Farewell: Fricke's View From the Bowl »As good as the music was, much of the night's magic was in the connections: meeting fellow fans, finding out where they travelled from, a bit of what their lives are like, how long ago they saw their first Dead show; or showering ushers and security staff with grins, salutations and high-fives, like a bunch of tipsy, T-shirted Jehovah's Witnesses working a neighborhood. I came to this show with a friend who joined me at my first Dead show in 1977, but variously hung and partied with a Santa Monica children's book writer, a Wisconsin college professor, an L.A. vapor-pen manufacturer and an Illinois Spanish teacher. Strangers stopped strangers just to shake their hand, share a joint, dance a jig, hug it out or serenade each other. Friends and lovers sang into each others' mouths and dove into each others' eyes, swimming through flashbacks of who-knows-what. 
    Bob Weir If there's a lesson in this, it's that music's true value is not so much about the individual players, distinguished and virtuosic as they might be; it's about the beauty, pleasure and love it communicates, and the community it engenders. The relationship Deadheads have with these songs is deeply personal: We've eaten, slept, and breathed this music, bonded and tripped and fucked and fallen in love to it. It seems to carry with it an implicit set of spiritual, ethical and hedonistic values, and it marks the tribe, which extends beyond the Dead's music. Over the course of this weekend's shows, improv-minded acts flooded Chicago. Among them were Jerry Garcia's old confidant and side-project partner David Grisman, who played jazzy bluegrass fusion with his sextet on Sunday afternoon to a reverent mob at the historic Palmer House Hotel ballroom. The town became jam-band ground zero.
    SIDEBAR Inside the Grateful Dead's Final Ride »But it was all gravy for the final event. Sunday's set list was scattershot, a mix of songs not yet played during the previous shows with the exception of "Drums"/"Space" and the signature "Truckin,'" whose iconic reprise "What a long, strange trip it's been" never felt so earned. There was a powerful "Estimated Prophet," with a guitar rave-up so intense, Bob Weir missed his vocal cue. A leisurely stroll of a jam came out of "Mountains of the Moon," cast more as a jazzy blues than the space chant of the studio recording, with notes looking around and smelling the flowers. Lesser songs ("Built to Last," "Throwing Stones") featured some of the night's most beautiful playing. It proved a Dead truism that when the group of abstractionists is on point, the specific material isn't always important.
    For his part, Anastasio — the show's wild card, as the man who had to fill Jerry Garcia's shoes — came across as a musician transformed. He worked grooves more supple than most anything in the repertoire of Phish, his day job, with remarkable restraint, marked by longer sustains and more soulful phrasing, while his signature antsy-ness help embellish and goose along slower songs. Maybe his finest moments were on a majestically thundering "Terrapin Station," where he spun out lines like baroque morse code. It's hard to imagine that his playing won't emerge significantly changed from this experience.
    "Terrapin"'s lyrical crescendo — "but the train's put its brakes on and the whistle is screaming" — would be echoed much later in the night's improvisational "Drums"/"Space," with a howling electronic outburst of train whistle and shrieking brake tones, followed eventually by the angular jazz-funk of "Unbroken Chain." Bob Weir delivered a haunting version "Days Between," a darkly handsome obscurity written by poet-lyricist Robert Hunter and Garcia during the guitarist's plagued final days. It moved like a processional, graced by Anastasio's slow-motion melody lines, earning itself a newly privileged place in the band's songbook. 
    Trey Anastasio and Phil Lesh The show ended with Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" fading out beneath 70,000 fans chanting the title reprise and clapping out the beat even after the band left the stage — yet another family tradition. Phil Lesh, the Dead's default leader since Garcia's death, came back before the encore to pitch the importance of organ donation (he is most likely alive because of a 1998 liver transplant) and to thank fans for listening.
    Two more songs, the last accompanied on the projection screens by a brief photographic history, and it was done. The band repeated the bow and group hug sequence, while fans cheered and brushed away tears. Mickey Hart offered some parting words: "The feeling we have here," he said, "remember it, take it home and do some good with it." And then approximately 70,000 Deadheads floated out of Soldier Field and up through Grant Park, presumably with thoughts of doing just that.
    Set 1:
    "China Cat Sunflower" > "I Know You Rider"
    "Estimated Prophet"
    "Built to Last"
    "Samson and Delilah"
    "Mountains of the Moon" > "Throwing Stones"
    Set 2:
    "Truckin'"
    "Cassidy"
    "Althea"
    "Terripin Station"
    "Drums" > "Space"
    "Unbroken Chain"
    "Days Between"
    "Not Fade Away"
    Encores:
    "Touch of Grey"
    "Attics of My Life"

    Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grateful-dead-end-50-year-career-with-moving-magnificent-final-show-20150706#ixzz3fBjkMWtI 
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    Velvet got a reaction from Jaimoe in The Chicago Thread   
    Oh, and if anyone bumps into Trey, please tell him I finally forgive him for Coventry.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in The Shoots - for real?   
    Perhaps he's busy maintaining his integrity?
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    Velvet got a reaction from bouche in Prince in Toronto - May 19   
    Made it in for the second show.  It was incredible.  The whole room was on its feet from start to finish.
    Let's Go Crazy    Take Me With U    Raspberry Beret    U Got the Look    The Question of U / The One    Electric Man  (Muddy Waters cover) Controversy    1999    Little Red Corvette    Nothing Compares 2 U    Encore: Kiss    When Doves Cry    Sign “☮” the Times    Housequake    Forever in My Life    Hot Thing    Nasty Girl  (Vanity 6 cover) Darling Nikki    A Love Bizarre  (Sheila E. cover) 17 Days    Pop Life    Mountains    Love    U Know    I Would Die 4 U    Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough  (Michael Jackson cover) Cool  (The Time cover) Encore 2: Diamonds and Pearls    Love Me Tender  (Elvis Presley cover) The Beautiful Ones    Purple Rain
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    Velvet got a reaction from Davey Boy 2.0 in Velvet and phorbesie climb the CN Tower (again) for polar bears and such   
    Looks like we're climbing the tower again this year on April 25!  
     if anyone would like to donate to World Wildlife Fund and support our climbs, here are the links to our fundraising pages.  Cheers!  

    phorbesie's page:

    https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=2829084&langPref=en-CA

    Velvet's page:

    https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=2826180&langPref=en-CA&Referrer=%26Referrer%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.wwf.ca%252f#&panel1-2   
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    Velvet got a reaction from Freak By Night in RBC Bluesfest 2015 lineup   
    Clearly I'm referring to the Quebec Summer Music Festival and not the Ottawa Bluesfest.
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    Velvet got a reaction from Freak By Night in RBC Bluesfest 2015 lineup   
    Wow.  $81.33 per ticket for an eleven-day festival, taxes/fees/shipping included.
     
    And hands down the most accurate, efficient, and non-frustrating online ticketing system ever.  Like, ever.  Leaps and bounds better than anything else.
     
    The site had a countdown to onsale.  When onsale happened you were randomly given a place in line.  The page told you your place, told you how long your wait was, kept a descending tally of how many orders remained ahead of you, had an email notification option to let you know when your turn came up, told you you'd have ten minutes to fill the order when your turn came and you could leave the page without leaving your place in line.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bradm in Bumping Binary @ Mugshots (Ott.) residency   
    This is gonna be an awesome month of shows at Mugshots with Mike.  I'm especially excited for the April 16th show with just the two drummers.
     
    Can't go to every one without going tomorrow!  See you there Bradm, hope to see some of you other music-lovers there too.
     
    No cover.
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    Velvet got a reaction from mark tonin in Dan Walsh + No Buds For Bob @ Carleton (Ott.) June 5   
    Wow, the doc looks super-great.
     
    Oh, and that Dan Walsh guy rocks.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bradm in Bumpin' Binary 2015-03-29 available for download   
    I'm about halfway through listening to this in an on-again off-again manner.  I gotta tell you, that's a lot of great music for free on a Sunday afternoon.
     
    Zeke Gross has such a great tone on the sax.  He makes everything sound like the closing credits of Saturday Night live.
     
    You should listen to this recording.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bradm in Rake-star @ Mugshots (Ott.) March 28   
    Tomorrow is Doug's (from the John Henrys) birthday too.  I think he'll be there.
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    Velvet got a reaction from bradm in Ottawa Jazz Fest 2015   
    Newly announced on CBC All In A Day:
     
    June 24 Huey Lewis & The News
    June 28 Beirut
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