[Bootleg] Phish @ Encore Park, Alpharetta (7/3/10 & 7/4/10)

Phish
July 03, 2010
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre At Encore Park
Alpharetta, GA
Taped by Taperhead: Lossless version available here

Set 1:

Character Zero
Destiny Unbound
Rift
McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters
Bathtub Gin
Mountains In The Mist
NICU
Gumbo
My Sweet One
Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
Strange Design
Sanity
Run Like an Antelope

Set 2:

Rock & Roll (Velvet Underground)
Prince Caspian
Tweezer
Slave to the Traffic Light
Bouncing Around the Room
Possum
Backwards Down the Number Line
Harry Hood
Loving Cup (Rolling Stones)

Encore

Sleeping Monkey
Tweezer Reprise




Phish
July 04, 2010
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre At Encore Park
Alpharetta, GA
Taped by Taperhead: Lossless version available here

Set 1:

The Star-Spangled Banner
Punch You in the Eye
Colonel Forbin’s Ascent >
Fly Famous Mockingbird
Camel Walk
Ocelot
Heavy Things
My Friend, My Friend
Lawn Boy
David Bowie
Gotta Jibboo

Set 2:

Down with Disease >
Piper >
Ghost >
Waste
Julius
Mike’s Song >
Tela
Harpua >
Killing In The Name (Rage Against The Machine)>
Harpua >
Weekapaug Groove

Encore:

First Tube

This Week In Atlanta Music


(Photo Credit)


This looks to be a fun holiday week. I plan on welcoming back The N.E.C. from a short tour tonight, then I’m celebrating our independence with Phish on Sunday. Eyedrum has a slew of interesting shows this week, including both Lightning Bolt and Islands. To help you feel the freedom, here’s Phish covering Neutral Milk Hotel at their show a couple of nights ago:

Phish : “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” (Neutral Milk Hotel cover live 6/26/10)




The Best Concerts In Atlanta June 28 – July 4:

Monday:

The NEC, Soft Opening, Idiot Glee, Trailblazer @ 529

Wednesday:

Kamana, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, Samuel Fisher @ Eyedrum

Thursday:

Abby Go Go, Carnivores, Grenadines @ Star Bar

Animal City, Lara Ruggles, Horse Marriage, Hanna Barbarian @ WonderRoot

Killick, Tatsuya Nakatani (First Thursday improv & guests) @ Eyedrum

Le Castle Vania, RRRump (Fuck YesssDance Party) @ Drunken Unicorn

Friday:

Soft Opening, The NEC @ Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge

Noise Night @ Eyedrum

Saturday:

Islands, Steel Phantoms, Active Child @ Eyedrum

Phish @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park (SOLD OUT)

Blair Crimmins and the Hookers, A Fight to the Death, Lindsay Appel @ The Earl

Besides Daniel, Mouse Fire, Black Panther Party @ Drunken Unicorn

Sunday:

Lightning Bolt, Lyonnais, Big Dad @ Eyedrum

Phish @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park (SOLD OUT)

Bonnaroo 2009: Wrap-Up And Final Thoughts

Now that I’ve finally gotten over my Bonna-flu, here’s one last post to talk about what I took from this year’s shenanigans. The Bonnaroo guide book talked about the weird familiarity that Bonnaroo becomes after several years of attending, and that definitely struck me this year. The place now certainly feels “like going back to the neighborhood where you grew up as a kid”. But this installment still managed to be a unique experience from every other. Outside of the hurricanes Thursday night, I think this was the best weather this festival has ever seen, and I feel the constant cloud cover really helped the energy overall stay strong through the last night. The vibe is always fun at the ‘roo, but I felt like this year there was a little extra electricity in the air with the crowd. Having Radiohead on a lineup is pretty awesome, but I think in the end this year’s event will be most remembered for having the strongest top to bottom lineup.

I think you could find a rather large collection of music journalist/blogger types that would agree that Animal Collective‘s Merriweather Post Pavilion, Grizzly Bear‘s Veckatimest, Dirty Projectors‘ Bitte Orca, and St. Vincent‘s Actor are all legitimate contenders for album of the year and Bonnaroo showcased all four artists within a matter of hours. This lead me to ponder some things and I came up with a few observations. First, Brooklyn, New York is the undisputed new music mecca right now. Atlanta has some cool stuff going on, but Brooklyn is the center of the universe. Also, I think harmony, particularly vocal harmonies, is a musical concept that is going to be on a hott trend for the years to come. Complexity, nuance and classical notions of musicianship are also concepts that I believe to be on the upward swing right now in the direction indie pop music is taking. There are plenty of exceptions and even healthy pushback against these trends in this “any flavour you like” internet world, but there is a renaissance going on and Bonnaroo is one of the best places to get a real glimpse at it.

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Bonnaroo 2009: Saturday & Sunday (Days 3 & 4): So Much To Roo, So Little Time

Saturday began with hot and sunny conditions, and after hanging at camp and doing some blogging, I went to go see Bon Iver. I arrived late so I couldn’t get inside the packed out This Tent, but listening to them from far away didn’t work out so well for me. The distance from a stage has a large affect on how one experiences a show, especially at a festival. Bon Iver has too many quiet parts for a huge, boisterous crowd and competing stages blasting bass, but the band did do a good set from what I could hear. He even did a Yo La Tengo cover, which was my favourite part of the show.


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Bonnaroo 2009: Friday (Day 2): Oh So Harmonious

Friday morning started with some nice cloud cover that made it easy to sleep in a little while. After hanging out at camp, I headed for the press area to work and sit through an orientation, and then I went to see some tunes. I caught the last half of Katzenjammer‘s set, and it was really good. The Norwegian 4-piece was comprised completely of ladies and they put on a damn good show. They would all be switching instruments between every song and had a striking sense of showmanship to match their musical prowess. At one point they did an a cappella number with everyone singing that was impressive, and this would seem to be the theme for most of the day: Stunning vocal harmonies.

After that I managed to get one person back from the front for Dirty Projectors on That Tent, and they totally brought it as per usual. I’m still blown away by the vocal tricks they employ. They opened with a slow jam in duet form, and then brought the rest of the band in for the second tune as they would continue changing their on-stage configuration for different sections of the show. They rocked some older jams this time in addition to all the best stuff from Bitte Orca. Pretty much everyone expected a David Byrne & Dirty Projectors team up on “Knotty Pine”, and when they closed with just that, the crowd went nuts.


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Ohmpark Mixtape #9: Bonnaroo 2009

Right now I am totally obsessed with Bonnaroo and getting very excited about the coming week. I’ve built my annual playlist of ‘roo artists, but even if you aren’t going, some of these will be swinging by Atlanta as well. Also, I’ve dropped some fun Bonna-links below to get you in the mood too. If you are still on the fence as to whether to go to this fest or not, I suggest you go big, but if you can’t attend, you can go along vicariously with our total coverage.

Grizzly Bear : Southern Point
Dirty Projectors : What I See
Phoenix : Lisztomania
Passion Pit : The Reeling
Portugal The Man : Elephants
Animal Collective : The Purple Bottle
Tobacco : Backwoods Altar
St. Vincent : Dig A Pony (The Beatles cover)
White Rabbits : Percussion Gun
Phish : The Divided Sky

Bonnaroo website
Bonnaroo 2008 coverage
Bonnaroo 2007 coverage
Stories from Bonnaroo 2002 – 2006
Guide to Bonnaroo 2009 Schedule
2009 Weather (Updated daily)
Inforoo (The Bonnaroo message board that can answer any question you have)

Live Show: Phish (11/22/1997)

With Phish now officially headlining Bonnaroo, I decided to give you guys a little hippie action this week. If you are not a fan of people who can play their instruments well, then checking out this band may not be for you. But if you aren’t scared off by the jamband tag, these guys are pretty damn good. I’m not crazy about most of their studio work, but even it has its moments, and a live Phish concert is a seriously special event. Here is a show that many diehard fans consider one of their greatest:

Phish
November 21, 1997
Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, VA

Set I
01 – [16:33] – Mike’s Song ->
02 – [04:34] – I Am Hydrogen >
03 – [14:56] – Weekapaug Groove

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Humpday Randomnimity

I just wanted to thank everyone who came out last week for our show at WonderRoot. Royal Bangs, This Piano Plays Itself, and Nomen Novum all put down fabulous performances. We video taped everything and will have that, as well as all the Bonnaroo footage I got, available soon.

Get the new Girl Talk album here.

Silver Jews will be at The Variety Playhouse September 13th.

Dead Confederate‘s CD release show will be at The Earl September 20th.

Fag Static‘s debut LP comes out July 12th.

Tilly And The Wall and The Ruby Suns will be at The Variety Playhouse July 24th. Don’t miss this one!

Wolf Parade will be at The Variety Playhouse July 28th.

Black Kids will be at The Earl September 23rd.

Mogwai will be at The Variety Playhouse September 15th.

Stereolab will be at The Variety Playhouse September 26th.

Dr. Dog will be at The Earl September 6th.

Tegan And Sara will be at The Tabernacle September 30th.

Conor Oberst is touring but the closest he is coming to Atlanta is Tennessee in August.

A Place To Bury Strangers and Sian Alice Group will be at The Drunken Unicorn October 18th.

The Shins are releasing their next album on their own label.

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are releasing their next album (January 2009) om their own new label.

Smashing Pumpkins are planning a Gish box set re-release and a tour based around it.

Festival Happenings:

Athens Popfest schedule up

All Good schedule up

Lollapalooza schedule up and late night shows announced

Voodoo announced line-up

Austin City Limits schedule up

Zach Hill video (really awesome, watch this one!):

Lil Wayne on Jimmy Kimmel:

HEALTH live at ATJ Fest:

And for laughs Trey Anastasio (Phish) graduating from drug court:

Friday Free-Style

November 30th, The Black Lips, Snowden, Deerhunter, and The Selmanaires will be at the Variety Playhouse together for an epic night of Atlanta music.

The Sword will be at The Earl on December 3rd. Check them:

The much-anticipated-by-me new The Mars Volta album, Bedlam In Goliath, is not going to be released until January 29th of next year. An old school vid for you:

The Langerado Music Festival in Florida, which usually kicks off the festival season, has moved to Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation(most famously known for the place Phish played new years eve 2000) for next year’s event taking place March 6th-9th 2008. The line-up announcement and tickets sales are coming in November and we’ll hit you with it when it happens. Phish at Big Cypress:

Battles are releasing a new EP, Tonto+, featuring live tracks and and remixes from their stellar full length of this year, Tonto.

Nirvana‘s MTV Unplugged performance will finally be released on DVD, which means that now you have to pay for it instead of downloading it for free on the live music torrent sites.

New Eminem track might be here.

Of Montreal will be at the Variety Playhouse on November 20th. Tickets are on sale today so get them quick because this will sell out.

Opeth and Dream Theater will be touring together in the US next year. No word if their coming here yet. Opeth vid:

White Rabbits will be at The Earl November 6th.

Before playing at the Earl October 22nd, Japan’s Boris will be playing at Criminal Records at 4pm in the afternoon. I highly recommend checking them out:

Morrissey will be at The Tabernacle on November 5th.

Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to F@ck with, and they cleared the first ever Beatles sample.

Read about the guy who makes crazy-ass guitars for Sonic Youth, Liars, Blonde Redhead and Lightning Bolt.

Read some interviews:

I leave you today with this controversial SNL vid: