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Hmmm, yes. It might as well be though.

I'm hoping to go to either SPAC, Syracuse or Chicago. Syracuse is closest, but on a weekday..

The dates are here! Phish's 2016 Summer Tour begins on June 22 with the band's first concert in the Twin Cities since 2000, and culminates with its sixth year of summer-ending shows in September at Dick's Sporting Good Park in Commerce City, CO. The tour will include the band's first appearances at Chicago's storied Wrigley Field, as well as returns to Saratoga Performing Arts Center, The Mann, and The Gorge Amphitheater. An online ticket request period is currently underway at http://tickets.phish.com and will end Sunday, February 21st at 11:59pm ET. Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning Thursday, February 25th. Ticketing details are available at http://phish.com/ Phish Summer 2016 Tourdates 06/22 Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN 06/24 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL 06/25 Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL 06/26 Klipsch Music Center, Noblesville, IN 06/28 The Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA 06/29 The Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA 07/01 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 07/02 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 07/03 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 07/07 Cross Insurance Arena, Portland, ME 07/08 Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA 07/09 Xfinity Theatre, Hartford, CT 07/10 Lakeview Amphitheater, Syracuse, NY 07/15 Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA 07/16 Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA 07/17 Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA 07/18 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 07/19 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 07/20 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 07/22 The Forum, Inglewood, CA 07/23 Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA 09/02 Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO 09/03 Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO 09/04 Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO

Also, a friend of mine has one extra for sale for face value ($205) in Section 103, Row 17. Hit me up if interested and I can put you in touch with him.

Tickets available right now! No cheapies though, which is what I am in the market for.

Kevin Breit is playing tonight at The Pearl Company in Hamilton with Gregory Hoskins and Lisa Hodgon and who knows who else. http://thepearlcompany.ca/?p=6233

Watching out for a last minute ticket release on TM.

Here's what Mike had to say: http://www.glidemagazine.com/154504/mike-gordon-cuts-creative-clutter-new-bandmates-finds-inspiration-bowie-interview/

Jeez tough crowd. I watched all of the shows and enjoyed them all quite a lot, save for a few unfortunate song placements and most of night 2, set 2 due to a setlist that doesn't really float my boat (zing). None of the run of shows really blew me out of the water (zing) but honestly that happens so rarely that I never really expect it to anymore. Instead I find we just get consistently great shows.. What Velvet said.

Curious to know more about that Misty Jazz Festival, Velvet. Looks pretty good! Got a log?

Here is what I have in my Google Calendar: The Good Family Band @ Hamilton Downtown Library - Feb 6 Barr Brothers @ Lee's Palace - March 12 Foggy Hogtown Boys @ The Local - April 7 Stewart Copeland @ Koerner Hall (21C festival) - May 20 Constantines @ Massey Hall - May 27 The Sadies in a barn in Prince Edward County - May 29 Field Trip in Toronto - (My Morning Jacket, Alabama Shakes, Hayden, War on Drugs, Father John Misty) - June 6 & 7 Stars Of The Lid @ Hearn Generating Station (Unsound Toronto, part of Luminato) - June 19 Contemporary Colour (David Byrne, St Vincent, others... part of Luminato) @ ACC - June 22 The Ex @ Hard Luck Bar - June 23 Kevin Breit @ Hugh's Room - June 25 Apocalypsis (part of Luminato) @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre - June 28 Ernest Ranglin @ Lula Lounge - July 9 Big Sugar (Part of Panamania) @ Harbourfront Centre - July 18 Supercrawl (The Sadies, Sharon Jones, Daniel Lanois) @ Hamilton - Sept 12 & 13 Michael Feuerstack (part of Bloor Ossington Folk Festival) @ Menalon Restaurant - Sept 18 Constantines @ Lee's Palace - Sept 24 BA Johnston @ Junction City Music Hall - Nov 7 Dead & Company @ Marine Midland Arena - Nov 11 Zeus @ Collective Arts Brewery (Hamilton) - Nov 14 Mercenaries @ Fat City Blues Bar - Dec 30 The Sadies @ Horseshoe Tavern - Dec 31 Also saw the Mark T Band once at some point. The Ex @ Hard Luck Bar was my favourite show of the year by far!

Happy holidays! My gift to you all is this online theremin: http://femurdesign.com/theremin/

Good call c-towns... Included on my list is: Circles Around The Sun (Neal Casal) - Interludes For The Dead Ever since GD50 I've been putting these tunes on as a quick and dependable go-to when I've got people over. I love these tunes. The rest of my list coming sometime before Dec 31st... As always, it will be short as I haven't heard much new stuff. I'm usually at least a year late.

Pretty cool story here.. http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/New-photo-of-bluesman-Robert-Johnson-unearthed-6703035.php A newly-analyzed photo purportedly shows Robert Johnson, the mysterious blues legend whose meager recordings became a groundwork for American popular music. Only two such photos have been unequivocally confirmed, and the prospect of another is held as a holy grail in blues society. Johnson was an influential early blues singer and guitarist whose songs have been covered by the likes of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Fleetwood Mac and countless others. He also infamously is alleged to have made a deal with the devil, who personally tuned Johnson's guitar at a crossroads in Mississippi, thus giving him his extraordinary guitar skills in exchange for his soul. He wandered the South and earned acclaim picking guitar tunes, but he made just two recordings—in San Antonio in 1936 and in Dallas in 1937. The identification comes from Lois Gibson, award-winning forensic artist for the Houston Police Department and professional analyst of historical photographs. She also announced identification of a Johnson photo in 2008; that one was accepted by the Johnson estate but widely contested by blues historians. The new photograph turned up in an antique Winthrop desk, filled with odds and ends, bought in a 2013 auction by Donald Roark, a 64-year-old retired lawyer and professor in Pensacola, Florida. In a cluttered draw was a three-by-five inch photo of four people seated at a public table, the man in question on the left. "I guess it was because of the hat," Roark said, recalling his first glimpse of the picture, and his memory of the photo cover of the Robert Johnson album he owns. "I chuckled and thought that guy kind of looks like Robert Johnson." When he asked his wife who the man looked like, she said Robert Johnson. He sat on the suspicion for two years, until reaching out to Gibson's manager online for a professional take on the photograph. It was one of the five-or-so requests for a photo identification Gibson gets each month, she said. "Ninety-nine percent of them I look at and well, I don't laugh in their face, but I shrug it off," she said. But the purported Johnson photo gave her pause. Gibson, who spent the last three decades analyzing and reconstructing faces, said she recognized Johnson's face. But the scene offered further evidence—three people who Gibson identified as known acquaintances of Johnson: Calletta Craft, Johnson's wife from 1931, who bears a marked eye condition; Estella Coleman, who housed Johnson since 1933; and her son Robert Lockwood Jr. That crowd would set the purported image in the mid 1930s, before Johnson made a name as a nomadic guitar player and blues singer, and before was afforded the privilege to record. Two years after his first session, Johnson died in 1938 at age 27 (making him the first great musician in the notable company of the "27 Club," alongside Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain).

The thing is I selected the cheapest possible shipping method provided on the form (International Standard). USPS and Canada Post would have been just fine for me! On the bright side, the stuff just arrived. I won't be using Dry Goods again but I WILL be going home and listening to "What's The Use" on vinyl, on repeat 67 times - one time for each dollar paid for shipping, handling, duties and taxes. PS: I think surely Phish outsources the Dry Goods operations to an outside agency no?

Hi all, So I put in an order for USD $95 worth of stuff from Phish Dry Goods. This was during the 7 Below sale with an advertised "free shipping" on orders over a certain threshold (I think it was $47 or so), and no fine print to indicate that the deal didn't apply to Canada. Got hit with a USD $28 shipping and handling fee anyways. Emailed them three times with no response, called them, and was told the deal only applied in the States. They agreed that this was not stated in the fine print and so knocked off USD $10. A minor victory. My selected shipping method was International Standard. The receipt said it would be shipped via UPS Mail Innovations International. I get home from work yesterday to find a notice on the door that DHL had come by to drop it off, and there is an additional Duties & Taxes fee of CAD $39.30. Called Phish Dry Goods today and they were adamant that this additional fee is to be expected and has nothing to do with them. Just wondering if this is indeed the standard for Phish Dry Goods orders in Canada. With shipping, handling, duties and taxes I'm paying over $60 on top of the price of the actual goods. Seems ridiculous!!!

I ended up missing the on sale completely! So no tickets for me as of yet. I'll be keeping an eye out for cheap seats over the next few months.

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/grateful_dead_tour_book_being_turned_into_show By Alex HudsonPublished Dec 15, 2015We're still waiting for that Martin Scorsese-backed 50th anniversary documentary about the Grateful Dead, but now there's yet another filmic examination of the legendary jam rock band on the way. This one, it seems, will be a biographical television series for Amazon Studios. As The Hollywood Reporter explains, the show will be based on Steve Parish's 2003 book Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead, which documented the decades the roadie spent touring with the group. Parish will executive produce, as will Grateful Dead member Bob Weir (who is also overseeing the music). It seems that the project is still in its very early stages, since there isn't a scriptwriter yet. The folks behind the series will be apparently searching for one in the coming weeks. This team-up with Amazon Studios marks a departure for Weir, since the documentary The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir was exclusive to Netflix. It was released this past May. Here in Canada, Amazon shows often end up on Shomi.

Someone get them up here to Canada eh?

Hey hey! Any pre sale info afloat?

Barr Brothers win!

Thanks a lot Esau! This is very helpful. Not a lot to add beyond that for now, but as I get into the process I will keep posting.

Hi skanks, I know that a lot of you are seasoned users of lossless formats, and some have recently gone through these 'changes' so was hoping to gather some input from you. For a while now I've been considering making the shift towards a lossless audio format for my music collection. I've always stuck with the MP3 format to date, which has been very convenient as I use iTunes, an iPod and an iPhone. One of the things that has been on my long term to-do list, which I may actually have time to do during the holidays in December if I commit to it, is to digitize all of the CDs that I have sitting around collecting dust. If I'm going to go to the trouble of carrying out this task, and if in the long term I intend to switch to a lossless format, it occurs to me that I should convert to lossless and not MP3. - Format: I assume FLAC is the way to go. It seems to have come out on top as the most common lossless format that I see being peddled around on the internet. Would you agree? (I'm going to refer to FLAC in the questions below instead of 'lossless formats' but this can be substituted if it makes more sense that way.) - What is the best (most user friendly) media player for FLAC? Is there any downside to going FLAC in terms of what is available for media players? - How compatible is FLAC with portable music players? What is the best portable music player to get that I can play FLACs on, that doesn't cost like $400+? What are the limitations that you have faced in making your FLAC collection portable? - Any recommended software for converting CDs to FLAC? - Any other tips or factors that I haven't taken into consideration? And finally: Is it worth going to all of this trouble? Won't we all just be streaming FLAC quality audio via services such as Spotify like 2-3 years from now? How soon will this practice of having audio data stored on a local drive become obsolete altogether? Thanks for whatever you can muster! Cheers.

This was my first return to the venue where I saw my first Phish show, 10/19/96, a pivotal moment for me. So going back was exciting in and of itself. Highlights for me were Dark Star, Viola Lee > Wang Dang Doodle, China Doll and Althea. I thought 2nd set was WAY noticeably tighter than first set. Our seats were back at the back of the upper deck, but with plenty of empty seats in sight we stayed there for exactly one song. We watched most of the first set from the side of the stage (Chimenti's side) on the upper deck. It was alright, but for second set we were glad to relocate to NW's section in the 200s where the sight lines and sound were x300 better. And catching up with NW was sweet. I'm telling you guys, taking a limo to a show is the way to go. I only go to shows in limos now!