I just want to give a big cheers to everyone who has shared within this thread over the years. I've been introduced to so much awesome music just from this thread alone. You all kick ass. Drink up!
 

Circles Around The Sun Announce ‘Circles Around The Sun Meets Joe Russo’ EP, Share Single & Confirm Fall Tour

https://www.jambase.com/article/circles-around-the-sun-meets-joe-russo-ep

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Instrumental quartet Circles Around the Sun teamed with drummer Joe Russo to improvise during a recording session held earlier this year at Russo’s Brooklyn studio. Highlights from the jam session will be released as the four-song Circles Around The Sun Meets Joe Russo EP on October 18. CATS and Russo unveiled the track “Peace Reprise” from the forthcoming EP and Circles Around The Sun also confirmed a fall tour.

“All of the members of CATS have been friends with Joe Russo for years between our collaborations with Phil Lesh, Cass McCombs and others. We thought it would be a great idea to do a project with him, so we met up in a studio in Brooklyn and wound up creating four songs in one day,” said Circles Around The Sun guitarist Neal Casal. “The session had a true CATS in the moment vibe with explosive improvisation, double drums between Joe and our drummer Mark Levy, conversational guitars with me and Dan Horne, and plenty of Adam MacDougall keyboard wizardry.”

 

“I was excited when Neal reached out about the possibility of this collaboration. Having played with Neal and Adam many times before over the years, and my time spent with Dan on Cass Mccombs gigs and sessions, it felt like a no brainer,” added Russo. “I was also psyched to do some double drums with Mark, especially in this context. Hope to do it again one day.”

Legendary recording engineer Jim Scott mixed the release with CATS’ Dan Horne. The EP is available for pre-order here. Circles Around The Sun will kick off their fall tour at The Crocodile in Seattle on October 16. A West Coast swing also includes dates in Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Then, the quartet heads to Colorado to end the year with stops in Denver on December 27, Fort Collins on December 29 and Buena Vista on New Year’s Eve.

Listen to “Peace Reprise” below:

I miss The Gourds.
 

 I spent a surprisingly long amount of time trying to figure out how this would sound before playing it.

I altered the headline in the thread title because this article is only about a deal made with Metallica that became public. Obviously they aren't the ones who started it, nor are they the only artists/band/promoters etc doing this shit. It's better than scalpers making the money I suppose, but I still think it's a crap practice.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/07/metallica-live-nation-deal/

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Metallica struck deal with Live Nation to place tickets directly on resale market: Report

A 2017 phone recording hears a representative for Metallica and Live Nation discussing the deal

Live Nation has acknowledged that it, at times, has facilitated the transfer of concert tickets directly into the hands of resellers at the request of certain artists.

The rare admission was made after Billboard obtained a tape conversation between Live Nation president of U.S. concerts, Bob Roux, longtime Metallica associate Tony DiCioccio, and an independent promoter named Vaughn Millette.

 

The recording dates back to February 2017, shortly before the launch of Metallica’s “WorldWired Tour” in North America, and hears DiCioccio asking Roux to set aside a portion of tickets so that they could instead be sold on the secondary market.

The conversation reportedly came about after 10,000 tickets to the opening show of Metallica’s “WorldWired Tour” sold on the secondary market without the band’s participation. Billboard reports that the band’s management was concerned that tickets were priced too low and sought to make up the revenue by participating in the secondary market.

“After seeing the volume of secondary transactions for that show and the benefit being captured by brokers, the independent consultant [DiCioccio] worked with Live Nation on a unique distribution strategy that used the secondary market as a sales distribution channel for select high-end tickets,” Live Nation said in a statement.

According to Billboard, the parties agreed to a deal that saw Metallica and LiveNation each receive 40% of resale revenue. The remaining 20% was split between DiCioccio and Millette.

Under the terms of the deal, 4,400 tickets per show (88,000 total) were set aside and placed on the secondary market. Millette himself was given access to 2,640 premium tickets as well as 1,780 “troubled” seats that seemed harder for Live Nation to move.

On their call, the executives discussed ways to keep their deal under wraps, including registering a separate email address to transfer the tickets to, and making it seem as though the tickets were being held for sponsors.

Millette ultimately lost money on the deal, even though the tour itself grossed $111 million, according to Billboard. In a bid to mitigate his losses, Millette didn’t return some of the sales revenue he earned, a move that irked DiCioccio and Metallica. Later, he emailed a recording of his conversation with Roux and DiCioccio to Live Nation, which was subsequently leaked to Billboard.

The following year, Metallica again partnered with Live Nation to sell tickets on the secondary market, this time sans the participation of Millette.

Representatives for Metallica told Billboard that the band members themselves were not aware of DiCoccio’s dealings with Live Nation. However, as of today, he “is still employed directly by the group,” working as a “ticketing consultant.”

In a statement to Billboard, Live Nation said it “does not distribute tickets on any platform without an artist’s explicit approval.” The company also noted that such deals are rare and have “declined virtually to zero” since the implementation of new tools, such as “dynamic pricing, platinum seats and VIP packages have proven to be more effective at recapturing value previously lost to the secondary market.”

Last time they sang together (duet) was in 1994 apparently.

Set volume to eleven.

 One of the weirder Dark Stars, 26 mins and trippy.

Miami Arena - 1989-10-26

Set 1

Foolish Heart
Little Red Rooster
Stagger Lee
Me And My Uncle ->
Big River % Brown Eyed Women
Victim Or The Crime ->
Don't Ease Me In

Set 2

Estimated Prophet ->
Blow Away
Dark Star ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Wheel ->
All Along The Watchtower ->
Stella Blue ->
Not Fade Away

Encore
And We Bid You Good Night

https://archive.org/details/gd1989-10-26.sbd.walker-scotton.miller.83428.sbeok.flac16/gd89-10-26d2t04.flac

Grateful Dead
Capitol Theater
1971-02-18

First Wharf Rat, and only version of the "Beautiful Jam" (transition from WF back into DS).

Dark Star > Wharf Rat* > Dark Star

https://archive.org/details/gd71-02-18.sbd.orf.107.sbeok.shnf

Black Crowes - Oh sweet nuthin'
 

8 hours ago, Booche said:

The Grateful Dead hit their highest of heights, from my perspective, prior to their hiatus at the end of 1974. 

... any Deadhead will give you their opinion on when all of that happened.

 

For me, The Grateful Dead hit those heights at a few different times through-out the years. Different line-ups, new tech, shifting social attitudes, drug addiction etc playing part in the evolution reaching those heights, for better and/or for worse. Forced to chose my favourite era I'd go with 69-72. Choosing a single point in time or even single year is impossible for me.

14 hours ago, Booche said:

One of the main musically visual memories that hits hard, for all the bands I have seen, was the bass player using the neck of his guitar to direct Jeff back to his seat after he would get so amped up he would fly off his chair and start jumping around like something out of Planet Of The Apes. 

None of that ever felt like a shtick.  It was beautifully intense.

Well said. I kind of forgot about stuff like that. He did move around a lot at times. Band was always on it.

You're right about which album tour it was. Shades was released in July 91, and the show was in the November. One set was electric, and the other acoustic. The acoustic set had tracks from Shades and Seven Turns. Also Jeff came out for Apolitical Blues according to setlist.fm and Feat-base says the same. Though neither mention Dickie and Warren, but I swear they came out during Dixie Chicken. I swore Jeff played on that too though. Perhaps my memory isn't serving me right after-all.

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Jeff and Warren played on Dixie Chicken according to the comment from 2002 at the bottom of page on the show here: https://www.allmanbrothersband.com/11&year=1991

Saw Jeff many times, always blew me away. One time at Maple Leaf Gardens - Allman Brothers (1990 or 91 - Seven Turns tour) with Little Feat opening. Jeff came out with Dickie and Warren (I believe) and played with Little Feat for their encore. Dixie Chicken if my memory serves me right. So much guitar awesomeness.

I remember seeing Alvin Youngblood Hart at the Horseshoe, and after his first set I turned to go to the bar and walked right into Jeff - literally, face first into his chest. He was a lot bigger of a guy then I would have guessed. Got to chat it up with him and his wife, bought them a beer and we talked about blues music for most of the set break. Amazing talent, and really nice guy that's for sure.

Thanks for the heads up on the book, looks like a good read.

Damn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48142765

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Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died aged 74, his family says.

He passed away at his home in Texas on 30 April with his family by his side, a statement said. They did not says what the cause of his death was.

Mayhew played Wookiee warrior Chewbacca in the original trilogy beginning in 1977 as well as later films.

"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame," his family said.

He is survived by his wife Angie and three children.

I have a lot of rehearsals/outtakes from 'Desire' and that era, but I don't think I have this version. Can't wait for the boxset.

Blackbird in Mi'kmaq