so yeah. the music was really really really good last night. i mean, workingman's dead followed by american beauty?! i'm sorry. what? i started to say that last night was my favorite night then my friend reminded me of the second set on my birthday and i had to rewind. i am sososo impressed by this band, and particularly jackie greene. most of you who are even bothering to read this know that i am super into jackie. but this is jackie 2.0 or somethin. he is seriously raging into a whole new level for me. its not even just about liking his voice or playing. his poise and stage presence is so happenin for me. so fun seeing all my shiny happy friends for this final run of the warfield!!!
guess my hand wasn't steady on this shot!!! crazy!!!
after a first night birthday bonanza show hearing the dead's first two albums, set one being the self-titled grateful dead album, followed by set two with anthem of the sun (are you kidding me? NO!!!), night two was under way with set one being AOXOMOXOA, and set two being live dead.
it didn't seem possible to get two st. stephens in one night, but it happened. after bobby guested on tuesday night, it was a curious thing to know...is he going to sit in every night? nope. last night mark karan stepped in. their are imaginable other guests for the next few nights as well (3 more nights of grateful dead music at the warfield as we know it). sooooooo...
thank goodness for a night off. tomorrow night should continue the trend of playing the next two albums in the g.d. catalog, and what that means for us is good news! workingman's dead, and american beauty. OMG.
phil and friends definitely is NOT the grateful dead. but i'd be lying if i told you that hearing the music of the grateful dead played by founding member(s) of the grateful dead did not somehow bring jerry just a little closer to my heart. still and again, thank you jerry!
i actually took these. i'm entertained by them. i now love sepia. again or already. can't remember which. um. to everyone who was a part of my bday celebration, WTTW (wow to the wow)!!! i have the best friends anyone could ever ask for. i was so spoiled yesterday. i am indeed grateful. the music of the second set was somethin else. a friend grabbed me and dragged me into the pit where there was seriously magically a total spot for us to dance. it was bizarre. i was rocking like 4 people back from the rail. it sounded incredible
it seems the script is still being written for phish.
they each showed up at the jammy's the other night in NYC to receive the lifetime achievement award. the speculation of a musical reunion that night was high. alas, that moment when those four tap into the musical cosmos together is still looming.
most of my friends know how grumpy i am about the idea of a phish reunion. but i may have just turned a corner. i really wanna hear trey play. and yeah, i'll settle for any of the incarnations that he comes up with, i guess. i am finally thinking about thinking about being almost maybe sorta kinda ready for a phish reunion.
i'm lucky. i found something special (for me) to sink my teeth into almost immediately after phish's last performance, 8.15.04. my first ryan adams show was at the warfield, 9.22.04. after the coventry disaster, i was swept away by a new muse: ryan adams. i consider that one to have been ridiculously exceptional karma on my part.
since, i've even heard trey play ryan's songs (first time was the beacon, 2.12.06 with phil and friends). talk about WOW. major worlds colliding.
so with the announcement of trey's first full appearance in 17 months at the Newport Folk Festival in august, well, i got inspired to post about my jones to hear trey play.
completely unrelated, this is a very busy week of shows, with the last five nights of performances at the warfield as we know it. maybe i'll get inspired to do some reviews of the gigs.
in the meantime, here is trey's acceptance speech from the jammy's. photo cred to jeff kravitz for the shot up above.
in my little sidebar, you'll see a bunch of my favorite websites. one, in particular, keeps me super keen with insightful new music industry stuff. i'm always intrigued by Bob Lefsetz's perspective; sometimes he is talking shit about big shots at record labels, sometimes he talks about how good the snow was in vail (yawn), but his latest entry zeroed in on something pretty seemingly epic: neil young's archives being available on blu-ray. here's a link to the site that has a vid of the press conference. i'm not even half-way thru watching it, but had to start this post, because this seems pretty wild. and honest, i'm glad bob talks about his skiing, even if i could care less. i feel like it gives me permission to write about stuff here just cuz. i really don't know what i am doing here. this pic is from 2002 bridge school benefit: thom yorke, ryan adams, james taylor, neil young. of course, shot by jay blakesberg
so yeah. the music was really really really good last night. i mean, workingman's dead followed by american beauty?! i'm sorry. what? i started to say that last night was my favorite night then my friend reminded me of the second set on my birthday and i had to rewind. i am sososo impressed by this band, and particularly jackie greene. most of you who are even bothering to read this know that i am super into jackie. but this is jackie 2.0 or somethin. he is seriously raging into a whole new level for me. its not even just about liking his voice or playing. his poise and stage presence is so happenin for me. so fun seeing all my shiny happy friends for this final run of the warfield!!!
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