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  8. Dead Set discovery

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    Dead Set has always been one of my favourite albums, and was the one that really hooked me onto the Dead 20 odd years ago. More recently I picked up a vinyl copy in Germany. And just now was pleasantly surprised to hear something new on it.  Til now, it always went from Rhythm Devils right into Fire, with that riff emerging out of the last few thunderous blows at what I imagine to be a 10 foot high drum smacked with a mallet. I've always enjoyed this transition.

    But now I see that the original release has Space wedged between Rhythm Devils and Fire. News to me! Wikipedia tells me that the original CD pressings omitted the track "Space" so the entire album could fit on one CD. However, "Space" was included when the album was later rereleased as part of the 2004 Beyond Description box set, as well as on one CD in 2006. The 2006 release also included a bonus CD of live material.

    Learning something every day.

  12. Harvest Picnic - Dundas, ON : Sat August 27th

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    Chiming in late here but it was a really beautiful night last Friday. The festival was pretty sparsely attended that night - I would guess maybe 500 people??  Hard to say. Given this festival's track record, I wasn't 100% convinced he would actually be there until he walked out on stage. We got there with plenty of time to scarf back an indian taco from the Flying Chestnut before the show. With so few people there it felt like having Ryan Adams play in our own backyard. He had tweeted the night before something along the lines of he was preparing the darkest/saddest setlist of all time for this show. It was a nice, mellow show with some of my favourites of his, and I gather there were more than a few songs that he doesn't often play live.  And indeed plenty of sombre melodies. Glad that we went.

  13. Gord Downie

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    I know there's been a lot of articles.  But here is a good one from Vish Khanna. Your post Phorbesie reminded me of the ending of this article.

    http://www.labelobscura.com/the-end-and-the-beginning-the-tragically-hip-k-rock-centre-kingston-on-august-20-2016/

    The End and The Beginning : The Tragically Hip, K-Rock Centre, Kingston, ON August 20, 2016

     

    ning : The Tragically Hip, K-Rock Centre, Kingston, ON August 20, 2016

    August 21, 2016

    This can't be the end.  You probably saw what happened on TV. The whole thing, right? 

    As the show ends and the encores loom, a man breaks down in tears. He sits in his seat on the arena floor for the first time all night, cradling his head and vibrating in agony. A cameraman runs over and points his machine at him forever. The man finally collects himself, as the Hip come back out onstage to play longer than they ever have on the Man Machine Poem Tour. It is their hardest show.

    Kingston is sunny and breezy and beautiful on this day. On my drive in, a postcard came to life; I see a float plane take off over a boat in the lake.

    This is where this band started in 1984. This is their turf.

    The streets of downtown Kingston are almost all closed to cars and there are people walking everywhere. All of the pubs, restaurants, and coffee shops are bursting at the seams. I am with Richard and Dave, two of my oldest friends. From childhood. And my dear colleague Sean Michaels, the author and music writer, joins us. We walk the streets, laughing hard at every hilarious joke Sean makes, as the Tragically Hip’s music blasts out of every place with power.

    Inside, our seats are so close to the stage. First row in the stands. Most of the ones around us stay empty until just before the show starts when the Hip’s friends and family emerge. My friend spots a familiar and, to me, meaningful face. I approach him.

    “Excuse me Mr. Aykroyd?”

    “Yes?”

    “‘My name’s Vish–”

    “Hello Vish!”

    “I just wanted to say I’m a tremendous fan.”

    “Oh, thank you.”

    “Yeah. Spies Like Us changed my life.”

    “Oh, well, my wife here [actress/SLU co-star, Donna Dixon] killed three of my friends!”

    “Ha, right. Look, I don’t mean to bother you but would you mi–”

    “No,no, none of that. I’m not even supposed to be here! If I draw any attention to myself they’ll kick me out of here!”

    “…Uh, ok. Understood. Well, have a nice nigh–”

    “They’re gonna kick me out of here!”

    In any case, Spies Like Us is hilarious. Dan Aykroyd also helped start Saturday Night Live. Curiously, I don’t mention that show. Just Spies Like Us.

    It’s almost showtime. I feel nauseous. The gravity of this show, which might be the band’s last, is hitting me. I need to sit down but I don’t. I stand, dazed, talking to my friends.

    It’s all being broadcast live on CBC TV.  There are cameras everywhere. This is the smallest arena I’ve seen the band in on this tour but it’s also, the loudest one.

    Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is at the band’s hometown show. But the crowd circulates a sign that reads, “Thank You Prime Minister Downie.”

    The band play a new song called “Tired as Fuck” on television. Maybe for television. Every accentuated “fuck” is surely causing someone, somewhere some stress.

    When it’s done, played pretty much perfectly, Gord Downie suggests we’re in good hands with Trudeau, who he says will help our country resolve its crimes against First Nations people. Reparations. It’s a point he raises again and again. With the whole world watching, it’s a bold challenge to the PM and to us, to make sure it’s done, even if it takes 100 years. He’s right.

    The singer wails and howls during many songs, feeling it all, deep within.

    Gord has always trusted us to understand. His lyrics and intentions and roaring vocals aren’t easy things. They don’t pussyfoot around. They’re heady and majestic and some of the words live in the far reaches of the dictionary and history books and alternative news sources. But he trusts that we’ll get it.

    A Canadian flag is crowd surfing its way around the arena and I’m reminded of what this band stands for to some people. An elusive, fluid cultural identity requires an enigmatic ambassador. We chose ours and it’s from Kingston, Ontario.

    That so many citizens have anointed the Hip–the weird, darkly optimistic, loud, loud, loud Hip–as Canada’s band must say something about us. To grossly generalize, we must be pretty demanding and that’s good. Keeps the quality of our art high maybe. Everyone feels engaged with how complex our world really is when we listen to the band.

    Over breakfast in Ottawa that morning, my dear, childhood friend, Steven, suggests that bassist Gord Sinclair is the Hip’s secret weapon, which is a truth I hadn’t considered before. I know he’s integral but a secret? I pay closer attention. Steven is right. Sinclair holds the whole thing together. He’s the unassuming bandleader. It only took me 30 years to notice.

    The performance has its highs and frightening moments but it’s the best show ever. It’s got some of the band’s greatest songs and some of their gutsiest, most topsy-turvy, and beautifully executed renditions of their work. Certainly features material I haven’t seen over five Ontario shows I’ve attended. It covers the breadth of their status, as radio darlings and cult favourites.

    “Grace, Too.” So devastating. Tears and tears and tears. Who can restrain themselves? The spirit of it all in the room is impossible to capture in some ways. It feels like a new feeling.

    There is no mention of this being the last show. But something has closed. There’s some resolution to a 32 year-old chapter.

    But. What?

    No one knows. I feel like something else can come of all of this. It’s not over. It’s not fan greediness or neediness. I just think working people will work until they can’t work anymore. This band works. Hard. Together.

    I feel lucky to be here and the arena’s surreal.

    This can’t be the end. It’s not. It’s just not.

  18. Phish Fall 2016 Tourdates

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    Phish will hit the road in October for a 13-date Fall Tour beginning October 14th in North Charleston, SC and concluding with a four-night Halloween Run at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on October 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st.

    The tour includes two-night stands at North Charleston, SC’s North Charleston Coliseum (October 14th and 15th); Nashville, TN’s Ascend Amphitheater (October 18th and 19th); Alpharetta, GA’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park (October 21st and 22nd); and Grand Prairie, TX’s Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie (October 24th and 25th) as well as the band's first-ever performance in Jacksonville, FL.

    A limited number of tickets are available now via Phish Tickets at tickets.phish.com through Sunday August 14th at 11:59pm ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning August 18th. For more info, visit phish.com.

    Phish and CID Entertainment are also offering travel packages for the Halloween Run (which include hotel and tickets). Travel Packages go on sale August 17th at Noon PDT. Full details available at bit.ly/2at0XxJ

    PHISH FALL TOUR 2016

    10/14 North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, SC
    10/15 North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, SC
    10/16 Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, FL
    10/18 Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN
    10/19 Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN
    10/21 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, Alpharetta, GA
    10/22 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, Alpharetta, GA
    10/24 Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie, TX
    10/25 Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie, TX
    10/28 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV
    10/29 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV
    10/30 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV
    10/31 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV

  20. The New Deal are back

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    Remember these guys!? Just noticed that The New Deal have a show coming up in October at Lee's Palace, the after party for some kinda weed fest. Looks like they've got a new album too. 

    https://www.facebook.com/events/1731887140385507/

    ILLUMINATION PRESENTS:

    theNEWDEAL with special guest DrFameus

    Live at Lee's Palace
    529 Bloor Street West
    Toronto, ON

    October 22, 2016

    Official Afterparty of The Karma Cup
    (http://thekarmacup.com/)

    theNEWDEAL:

    theNEWDEAL have released Mercury Switch, the band’s first studio album in over a decade. The seven-song affair will be followed by a series of remix releases, beginning with Avenue’s indie electronic remix of “Quattro”.

    With over 1400 legendary late nights, sold-out clubs and triumphant festivals under their belts, theNEWDEAL returns with a passion in 2016. Recently released tracks “Quattro, “Mercury Switch” and “Sabotage the System,” offer a preview of the studio release which bassist Dan Kurtz describes as their “most creative” endeavor to date. “In the last few months we've been pushing ourselves to work with new sounds, new styles, new ways of arranging jams, and the stuff we've come up with has felt great and exciting to us as a result. We're listening back to the board tapes of all the shows and finding the parts, even if they're just a couple of seconds long, that sound the most inspiring and then building studio recordings around them. In some cases we'll glue a bit from one show in one city to another completely unrelated piece from another town, and create something we'd never have come up with in either just a live or just a studio setting.”

    Keyboardist Jamie Shields agrees: “I think we've come up with a way to take the best from both the live and studio worlds and make something that's going to have the energy of a live show, but shaped in a way we could only do in the studio. theNEWDEAL has always been about development. When we’re performing on stage our goal is always to create a fresh musical idea and see in real-time how we can develop it - melodically, harmonically and structurally. Because we approach every show with an improvisational mindset, we know that every night brings a different concert, a different vibe and a different audience experience. Even with all those variables, it always ends up sounding like a New Deal show; exciting, driving and incredibly danceable!”

    theNEWDEAL first began in Toronto in 1999, quickly gaining support from Toronto’s underground club scene as pioneers in electronica, recreating the DJ experience with live, improvised music. Soon the band brought their interpretation of Electro House, Trance, Breakbeat and Drum & Bass to the US, where they were embraced by the crowds at NYC’s Wetlands Preserve and cultivated a loyal following in the American jam scene. After twelve years of touring, theNEWDEAL took a hiatus in 2011; Dan spent much of the next few years touring the world with Electropop band Dragonette. When theNEWDEAL returned to stages in 2014 they brought on board a new drummer in Dragonette’s Joel Stouffer.

    Website http://www.thenewdeal.com/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenewdeal
    Instagram http://instagram.com/tndontour
    Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/tndontour

    DrFAMEUS:

    DrFameus is an electronic music project created by the versatile drummer, Allen Aucoin. In this Disco Biscuits side-project, Allen explores many realms with DrFameus ranging from breakbeats to drum 'n' bass to dubstep to techno/house.

    Website: http://www.drfameus.com/
    Facebook: http://facebook.com/drfameus
    Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/DrFameus
    Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/drfameus
     

     

  21. Harvest Picnic - Dundas, ON : Sat August 27th

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    Looks like I'll be going on the Friday night, to see Ryan Adams. I just went to the HP website which now clearly states that Ryan Adams will be solo acoustic. No Infamous Stringdusters for us.  :/

    Edit: If Ryan Adams' show falls through a la Neil Young or Iron & Wine and I am stuck with a $60 ticket to see Jeremy Fisher, I'm gonna lose it.

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