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if you were watching a 50 year old fat dude play like that I doubt he'd be playing with herbie hancock, prince, or even jeff beck

No, the 50 yr. old fat dude's tit doesn't hang neatly over the body of the bass in quite the same way.

Does anyone remember where the broke the sets up? Cool seeing G.E. Smith playing with the band presumably he has for years, you'd know better.

I found the thread or url that one of the readers was on before searching the jill lesh stuff. It reads the part about being by Phil's side at 12:37 and then she posts later about her creating the band's setlists (which I admittedly find a bit odd but don't doubt) at 1:06 or something.

By Jill Lesh (Jill_lesh) on Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 12:36 pm: Edit Post

This is what I emailed to Simpson-

Wow, how do you respond to something like this.

I have been with Phil for 28 years this month and NEVER cheated on him. I have raised two wonderful sons who adore both of us, when he was vomiting blood and down to 132 pounds I slept on hospital room floor to watch over him, I have traveled with him when I would rather stay home as he wants me with him. I cook for him, make fresh juice for him, I love him with my whole heart and soul.

What a horrible sick thing to spread.

Please direct any accusations to Phil and I now and we will respond the best we can.

Jill

By Jill Lesh (Jill_lesh) on Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 01:07 pm: Edit Post

I have been doing the set lists for Phil and Friends for as long as I can remember. The band and crew need the lists early and the road doesn't leave much time. I alway try and have Phil participate but sometimes he has instrument issues, interviews etc etc. I put a huge amount of time and care into them. I am the one who started the story set lists and I am very proud of them. Phil and I put in a lot of time doing the Fall Warfield set lists with Chris Robinson as we knew that those shows were going to be special. We still talk about how the idea for those shows came while on a hike and we both were suddenly flooded with ideas - put singers in the Lincoln booth, horns in the balcony!

Matt is fantastic and I love working with him, He loves the music and does a great job on the set list also, we both work very hard to make sure each and every show is special for you.

Easy pardners. Yeah I ended up seeing that post that was some troll she perhaps ill advisedly responded to, I do find it odd that she apparently writes the majority of the setlists to Phil and Friends shows or did dating to the time of these remarks. I just find those really specific search phrases odd and there's usually some strange logic to it (i.e. it came up on some other board and someone got curious).

That is full bore.

Well if I'm getting this right I'd guess, and this is just a lame duck guess, that maybe Simpson is someone on the crew and heads have heard something about a supposed email. Sorry it presumes that someones typed that in a search engine, I see the search engine phrase and that actually 3 people have searched that and returned a northernheads page and then chosen to read a story about Bob Weir 'getting dosed'. It's just interesting is all if there's anything to it. I presume it's somehow related.

I don`t know what to make of this but I figured someone here would. Basically people are still really interested to see what the deal with that bobby `dosing` was - people search variations of what you`d expect (Bobby, Nokia, dosing, dosed, El Paso...) - then I notice this one today just pouring over search keywords:

(jill lesh) this is what i emailed to simpson

Presuming that's the worst bit of sarcasm ever people really should take any chance they can to see Steamboat. Some of the band members were saying they're going to do a monthly (with a DJ/s) at the Piston (b/w Ossington and Dovercourt on Bloor) which should be a way better locale. The Dakota's great when the right band is playing i.e. Steamboat but it starts to lose it's appeal quick (if you spend a ridiculous amount of time there). I think the bar was being a bit shady with their take at the door from the sound of it so this was likely a random show at the Dakota to reconnect with their fanbase and take it somewhere else.

Read their write ups from Sappyfest where they played with 3 horns on top of their usual 6 piece. They went over well.

This is a super score as the cover's always $5 on Sunday and if they're going on that early, one band's supporting it basically means 3 messy tight sets of Steamboat. Fucking Rights!

Definitely the original Steamboat myspace - I know they don't keep that very up to date. I only heard the date from bandleader Matt McLaren - I didn't read it anywhere - I seem to recall they had a Rivoli date in September too.

Honestly hands down - well quite possibly the best live band in Toronto- amazing songs, compositions, highly danceable, major league chops.

I saw so many bands during NXNE and the only sets that standout were De La Soul, Young Empires (opening for a thoroughly forgettable Japandroids surprise set) and well Steamboat (who weren't part of the festival) on the closing Sunday with extended drinking hours (where the core festival diehards ended up including Justin Peroff after the BSS island show, Sexsmith and Sebastian Grainger - fucking Steamboat are just that good). I gather there's another Steamboat show on the 17th or something at the Rivoli - couldn't more highly recommend a Toronto live band.

I always thought I was cool for realizing that (Majestic) Superior Cackling Hen was a Hendrix quote (clearly little has changed).

That's hilarious I remember that Battle of the Bands too. I want to say they beat (being fellow Lawrence Park C.I. alums- although I'm 95% certain Chris never graduated) the Rustic Gomers from Leaside who were sort of a country rock unit. Chris Coules - one of the better banjo players in the city was in that band.

Okay I got the wrong gist - I think it's that he hasn't been brought in as a principal was what I was getting at.

There's a few different 'Bahamas' - Pink Strat is a really limited and breezy insight into what he's on about. On the Bonfire Ball Revue he was like a guitar god- total Crazy Horse styles, I think that's closer to his heart. There's one song he has in his repertoire that only The Golden Dogs, Zeus, Danielle Duval (the Zeus Family Tree), and undoubtedly Feist adore called Traffic Cops- he told me it's going to come out at some point soon. That's how those guys are they largely listen to and play one another's music. Traffic Cops is supposed to be insane, Azzolini ripped off a drum part for one of the Coat of Arms songs from it. Azzolini (who I want to say our own Todd Snelgrove - no slouch on the guitar - describes as at very least a very versatile guitarist) calls Jurvanen one of the 'biggest monsters on the guitar' he's ever heard. He is.

It really was a truly truly beautiful show. I'm biased as I've been a fan of the Bourbons for years and am fortunate enough that I became friends with Chris and Kate at one point but I really believe they're some of our finest cultural exports (Chris splits his time between Brooklyn and Wolfe Island, where he helped get the festival off the grand but has oddly not been invited to participate since, Kate lives in Manhattan with her husband and child). I hadn't seen them in 5 years, other than the Bourbons reunion at Hillside's 25th anniversary I want to say they've played here a really limited number of times.

Both are fairly in demand (particularly Chris) as session guys and he produces alot of stuff. His focus is very much on activism of course and he is very passionate about the prison farm issue in Kingston as he mentioned a number of times by anecdote during the show.

They're working on an album of new material for the first time in years. Again it was really as Kev mentioned (and yes, Tony played some monster bass and guitar, Chris Miller joined on 12 string for the 'encore'). They had the audience (including yes, Gabrielle and Jason Collett whom Kate described as their 'corporate sponsors' - lodging and feeding them) rapt with admiration. I cried for most of it. I wasn't the only one.

Avi Buffalo's a kid, an 18 year old (born Avigdor) - it was a solo act and now a band. He's a blindingly good guitarist and doesn't spare on the effects whatsoever- total gear hound. Remember The Time is the song that best highlights his guitar playing but his songwriting is really strong on the whole as is his band particularly his drummer (who is good not just as a chick drummer but a drummer drummer) who figures prominently on alot of his harmonies. They're on SubPop.

It shows you where 'truth's debatable not taste' - I likely would have loved Think About Life's set. Still are you fugging kidding me- you missed Bahamas!!!

I don't mean to rub it in (really) but Louis' set at Ottawa Bluesfest was handily in my top 3 of all the sets I saw. In fairness a good chunk of why I haven't been able to write pretty much anything substantial since then has to do with whatever the fuck happened in the Black Sheep Stage tent that night. Let's put it this way, I stealth taped the whole show with my blackberry and can't even think about listening to it. Seeing him work closeup and actually improvise and spritz with the audience is really mind boggling.

There's absolutely 0.0 publicity and a helluva lot of well earned hype (really on the strength of their live show). Check the Aug. 3 live review in NME if you're skeptical.

They're a 3 man show literally. There's no publicist, label, infrastructure really. They've just jerry rigged a handful of tunes together democratically and built a reputation for delivering in their live show. They are in Dave Neufeld's studio right now working up much bigger mastered versions of what they have so far but as it stands it's just guitar, 2 keys, bass, Ableton Live.

Just at first glance and I can't believe you didn't asterix Felice Brothers (they are just killer live, a seriously credibly band and so young- raucous, deep songwriting).

I'd definitely give Antlers, Cymbals Eat Guitars and Here We Go Magic a chance live I bet they deliver on their really well produced albums. Also I'm presuming The Minnikins is Ruth and Gabe Minnikin formerly of the Guthries (which gave us Matt Murphy's solo career and was also Dale Murray - Anne's nephews- first big band now Cuff The Duke and all sorts of shit).

It was during Antelope, he lived - the Swell Season guy didn't.

The guy died man. What do you want me to say I found out about it 10 minutes ago, I'm still in tears listening to When Your Minds Made Up. Have a fucking heart.

I haven't read any accounts other than the National Post's (which also mentions the Jones Beach suicide). This one's particularly brutal and really really sad given the choice of song he went out on, and that Hansard rushed to find his dead body onstage.

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/08/swell-season-suicide-when-your-minds.html