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nice. $75 for Massey Hall is a great price.

wha? ed is with the fatties? that is huge news....ed is a major, if not one of the best drummers in our scene... amazing.

well, actually you need the drugs to make the electronic jamband bearable at 2am.

i saw tragically hip there about four years ago or so.... the fans sure are different in sarnia.

wow those things die easily....

i dont ... but have many friends that do.... the thing with charleston is the lakers are super popular, which keeps the pressure down on the smallies....which are the true trophies on that lake... i can get you info re: streams in this area if you wish...

charleston lake is an amazing lake! jaybone, want some company this summer? the smallie fishing on that lake is some of the best in Eastern Ontario!

ya, i fish....a little, lol. you want neoprene waders.....basically they breathe a bit...keeping you from boiling in the water. boots generally are part of the waders....only super expensive waders have seperate boots from the waders. as for the cottage....i have tons of friends in the East that fish...let me know how much you want to spend, and if it matters what you fish for...

i played the drums...and i found it "easier" as the difficulty went up.... trying playing on "easy"....you have to stop yourself from playing...

"James Blood Ulmer" really? Seriously? wow!

9pm ... that doesn't mean start time does it?

ray davies mentioned on his interview with Kim Mitchell on the Q that anything is possible...and he feels more "alive" now than ever before.... i'll say it'll happen w/in the year.

shut the crapper down. if the owners, after what happened, are still willing to have folks in their 20s arrested inside the club for selling ketamine, marijuana, GHB and ecstacy, they deserve to be shut down.

i am just about 100% SURE something happened with the production crew/rights/ etc. with big cypress. phish has been trying to make money the last two years....releaseing, re-releasing, etc, etc anything they can to make money. it would only have made smart business sense that they would have released it in the last few years.... it would be a major cash score...IF they could have released it, they would have already.... i'm betting something to do with the Indians and video rights etc.

i agree. although i wasn't part of went, i was part of cypress.... and i miss Phish.

i'm beginning to get as disgusted with canada's decisions as I am with the united states.... fuck...i'm going back home to Finland.

nice, Return to Forever... my second fav Corea band next to his Elektric Band... that man sure is fun!

Last night, March 5th, Massey Hall played host to an intimate and interactive (literally) solo performance from Jazz Monster Chick Corea. Starting at 8pm, Chick Corea entered stage left in a grey suit and Converse high tops and commented on how lonely he had felt during sound check, being the only person on stage. But now that the crowd was with him, he felt a lot more comfortable. Walking around the stage, Chick commented on how many of his hero's walked on the exact same stage. Looking down, he called the stage funky, saying the funk was created by such amazing shows like the historic "Quintet" concert in 1952, considered by many to be the greatest jazz show ever. (Dizzy, Mingus, Parker, Powell and Roach). Following the Quintet recount, Chick proceeded to talk about the importance of Massey Hall and Toronto in Jazz History, mentioning two of his piano hero's, Oscar Peterson and Glenn Gould whose history went back to Toronto. Sitting down at the lone Baby Grand, he shuffled some papers, preparing some music for the evening. It was then Chick confessed to being a little uncomfortable playing solo, and that this would be his only solo gig of the year. Nice! He opened with a 20 minute unnamed composition of his own. Upon finishing, Chick explained that he was going spend the remainder of the set paying homage to some of the musicians that inspired him. Following, Chick started playing the opening bars to an upbeat, ragtime song that I recognized as Thelonious Monk's Blue Monk. Upon finishing Chick said it was indeed Blue Monk, then spoke a few minutes about how the Monk influenced him. Chick continued to play three more rag time Monk songs. I recognized one as Monk's Mood and the other Trinkle Tinkle. Following Monk Chick started a beautiful classical style composition. At the end he introduced it as a Bill Evans piece, and spent a few minutes commenting on Evan's influence on his playing. At this point Chick checked his watch and commented that we were already an hour in the set, and he hadn't played the third musician yet...so he was going to play a medley of three compositions.... Seamlessly flowing between recognizable themes, I thought for sure it was Herbie Hancock...but when Corea finished, he identified them as Bud Powell; music from the 1950's. Music that certainly stood the test of time, sounding straight out of a modern movie soundtrack. Standing up, Chick declared it was time to rest his fingers. Amusingly, he said anyone who has had enough, and wanted to go, he wouldn't be upset. Exactly half an hour later, Chick came back out, sat down at the piano, and started belting out a Latin-Caribbean style piece. Probably my favorite composition of the evening, he ended identifying it as Yellow Nimbus, a song he wrote with Paco de Lucia in the early 1980's. Highlight of the evening I think. Reaching into his seat, Chick pulled out two musical scores and declared it a great time to practice his skills. Identifying them as Alexander Sciabin pieces from early in his life, Chick reasoned that later in his career his compositions were much too difficult. The next forty minutes were spent filling Massey Hall with two beautiful Russian Classical pieces. Upon finishing, Chick commented on how heavy the pieces were and that he was going to change up the mood with some compositions from a children’s book of music he wrote earlier in his career. Shuffling through an actual book, he played pieces between four and five minutes in length. Each different piece reflected the spirit and innocence of a child. Closing out the second set, Chick said he was going to play two pieces from back in the day. Opening by furiously plucking and tapping the piano strings, i immediately recognized it as the beginning of a section from Light As A Feather from his Return to Forever band. Nice! He ended at 11pm exactly. 3 hour concert; with a half hour set break. Wow. Back out for an encore, Chick again mused if anyone wanted to leave, to leave now. Sitting down he closed the night with a track from his album with Michael Brecker; another musical highlight.

not too sure... i saw his name, and jumped on a ticket...sitting front row balcony... i'll post a review tonight or tomorrow....

Checking out Chick Corea tomorrow night at Massey Hall.... anyone heading out and want to join me for a few brew before hand? (two shows in one week, i almost feel like a member here again)

I had a fun time.... the show was ok.... if i was a huge springsteen fan, i might have recognized more songs....for a so-called greatest hits night, i guess i dont know many of his hits... his band was tight. Max W, well, i wish he would have went off a little more, ala stu copeland, but nonetheless, he was entertaining.... was a good length of good songs...what more can you ask for in hamilton? (would have much rather paid $40 from scalpers though)

i'm going. going solo. not sure where i'm sitting... but i'm looking forward to being there....

hmmmm....sounds like a major fun time!

my first real concert ever was the who playing quadraphenia. it was in 1999 if i remember correctly. at molson ampitheatre. gary glitter was a flamer. the ox was amazing. wont get fooled again was acoustic and crappy. behind blue eyes was worth the price of admission alone. i took the further stills bus and had two smoking hot girls sit behind us, feed us beer, and make the show great....(they received tix from their father who couldn't make the show). none of this has any relevance to the topic at hand.