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I heard you HAD to be easy to be Diesy. I also heard Robbie Robertson's sister is singing on their new album

Great night - great seeing all you wonderful folks - from the red heads to the curly hairs to the short hairs to the long ones! Alison, great meeting you! Thanks for making things happen around these parts! AWESOME!!

That setlist must have been from the Sat. night Swan. Pretty close to the Friday night one though - order is a bit different and they didn't play Atlantic City on Friday. Shit, I totally forgot about Chest Fever!! Larry Campbell did a solid job on guitar of playing Garth's organ intro. Ollabella did open but Amy Helm wasn't playing because she just had a baby. They only played 3 songs - seemed good but 3 songs wasn't long enough for me to get a true sense of who they were. They played Ripple which was nice! Levon's autobiography is great! When I was reading it we got a cat - so I called him Levon. Found out after that the cat has the same birthday as Levon too!! CRAZY!!

Looks like fun. Wish we could make it to see the Daddy's in the Fatties play for St Patty's but it's not in the cards.

Looks like Gilligan's Island was just one big buzzfest. I think I'm going to get out on my own 3hr tour.

Do you play in your scuba gear? If so, I might check it out.

Didn't she get in trouble a few years for sending pot to Gilligan? (Bob Denver...is that his name?)

Mud and I made a trip to NYC to see Levon at the Beacon on Friday. The show was amazing - it surpassed my expectations - and I had some big hopes. Levon looked so happy to be up there playing - smiled the whole night. And considering he can hardly talk, his singing was absolutely amazing! His band was just a huge rotating assortment of musicians. There were usually around 10 people on stage, including a 5-piece brass section (min of 4 people on stage at once, max of 13 - unless you count the encore when there wer 18 people chimming in on The Weight). And everybody was smokin'! And Larry Campbell is a mad-man on everything he plays! It was really nice seeing Levon playing mandolin (he isn't a "picker", just played chords) but it was soooo nice seeing him play on the kit - you can see every beat flow through him. The band played one LONG set, somewhere between 2.5 - 3hrs. Highlights included; - Ophelia openener - Shape I'm in - Rag Mama Rag - Tears of Rage - The Weight (2nd encore) - I Shall Be Released (1st encore) - False Hearted Lover Blues - Long Black Veil - Into the Mystic (w/ Phoebe Snow on vocals) and the 2 biggest and nicest surprises of the night for me were; - Ashes of love (had a real nice bluegrass-y styling to it w/ Levon on mando) - Deep Elem Blues (included a full brass section breakdown.....out of this world!) Amy Helm (daughter) is usually in the band but wasn't there because she just had a baby. Stevie Wonder's daughter was sick when we saw him in TO. Seems like if someone's daughter is in their band, we're destined not to see them) And I couldn't believe it when we stopped in at Backbacon's on Sunday and saw Larry Campbell playing with Phil and Friends at Langerado after he'd just played Fri and Sat with the Levon Helm Band in NYC!!! MAD-MAN!!!

Happy Birthday KK! So thankful to have such a great friend. Great seeing you last night! Glad we were able to celebrate a bit. And thanks for all laughs - so so many laughs!!

Happy almost birthday Auxilary-Carrie. Hope you had a great birthday weekend. Lets celebrate again next weekend!! (you going to Collingwood?) Hope you have a great day Wed!

Ya, I can part the Thames River in Chatham when I'm high too!! Take Your Shoes Off Moses (The Stanley Brothers) Well, God spoke to Moses at the burning bush Burning bush, Lord the burning bush God spoke to Moses at the burning bush Saying I am the Lord, thy God Take your shoes off Moses you're on holy ground Holy ground, you're on holy ground Take your shoes off Moses you're on Holy ground For I am the Lord, thy God Go yonder Moses and smite that rock Smite that rock, Lord smite that rock Go yonder Moses and smite that rock For I am the Lord, thy God Stand still Moses see salvation work Salvation work, see salvation work Stand still Moses and see salvation work For I am the Lord, thy God

BULLSHIT! NOBODY puts baby in the corner!

Esau - thanks for the link. 'ersh - nice job on the cow bell - you played the shit out of it - way better than Will Farrell! Seriously, that was awesome - those guys must be soooooo happy to have you in the band! side note - the lead singer looks like Steve Murphy with about 5 more years of hard partying under his belt

That all sounds great!! happy folks, late night campfire jams - it sounds soooo sweet! And I'm sure Boss will be thrilled to have his own stage!! ha ha! And Joni, I'll push your bike over when I get there and get that out of the way for you ;^)

Of the ones mentioned above I'd go if either of these 2 were playing; Gordon Lightfoot Sarah Harmer I'd consider going if any of these were playing; Luther Wright and the Wrongs Creaking Tree String Quartet Don Ross Good luck marge!!

Forget it schwa - I took a look back at the thread - answered my own question! Will be a good time!

Are you going to Gratefulfest again this year Mousepad? That would be great! Schwa - you going too? Should be fun!

A DJ with Steve Earle sounds HORRIBLE!!

I saw them at the Molson Amphitheatre when I was in University. Was good - sounded a lot like their albums. Have fun!

I had a dream about John Hartford the other night (seiously) - I was telling him of all the songs that I like of his......it just kept going on and on and on. I actually had to get up, go about my day and then continue the dream the next night. Man he's awesome! Love his version of Piece of My Heart - phunkyb you should check out the Glitter-grass album he does with The Dillards. He's Hartfordized alot of great songs. Favourite album would have to be Morning Bugle. Favourite song of his right now is All Men Want to be Hoboes. From what I understand he more or less put together the Down from the Mtn Tour in 2000-2001'ish. I went to that show at the ACC with Lisa - when I got into Hartford a few years later and found that out I thought that there might have been a chance I saw him live without even realizing it - but when I checked the setlist fromt the Toronto show he wasn't there - I think he was too sick at that point. So sad, that he's gone!

That would be sweet!! Todd and Brad would have a FUN time jamming together! And despite the loss of Mr Tonin and perhaps Sarahbelle, it still looks like it's going to be a great crew assembled! Tigger and Becky - SWEET!!

LUCKY!!

Looks like we're still going to try for the Labour Day Grateful Fest......we'll see though.

Rumours 'round here are that it was Stu-dog's Birthday yesterday!! Happy Birthday Stu-zie......hope you had a great day!

bounce bounce!! You're only 52? I thought you were only a couple years away from you old age pension! You look great for 52! Happy Birthday Tigs!