The Wailers, Live in 1973

Check this out - early wailers in HQ sound. thanks to Taco for the heads up on this.

Phil n' Friends in Denver, Feb16-18

Wow - Scofield, Haynes and Greene with Joe Russo!?! Might have to make the trip.

Widespread Panic Wood Tour and why Aspen Blows

Widespread Panic has announced a short series of acoustic "Wood" shows to cap their 25th anniversary celebration that has been rolling all year. Folllowing some dates out East, plans are for a three night run at the Fillmore in Denver for us commoners, followed by an exclusive run in Aspen, CO, at the Belly Up Tavern, with tickets for each evening starting at $350.

While an all acoustic set sounds cool, I can't help but think of the winter run they did through Colorado back in '96, when they would play one set acoustic and one plugged in. Some of my favorite tapes are from these dates, and I am sure that tickets were not in the $350 range at that time.

Ahh, Aspen. I hope shit like this is not a trend, or at least one that does not extend beyond the circle of non-relaity that Aspen is part of.

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band - Keystone, CO 8/6/2011

We made the run up to Keystone to catch the Bluegrass & Brews festival, and to see two sets by Peter Rowan. The brewfest was choked with people, but Peter delivered on the main stage. A later, second show, commenced in the performing arts center, and blew us away. Awesome!

So GOOD!

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band

8/6/2011 Keystone Bluegrass & Brews Festival

Keystone Village, Colorado

Peter Rowan - Guitar

Paul Knight - Bass

Keith Little - Banjo

Michael Richard - Dobro

Early Set (Brewfest Stage)

1. Jailer, Jailer

2. Father, Mother

3. The Raven

4. So Good

5. Cold Rain & Snow

6. Dustbowl Children

7. Dobro Instrumental (Michael Richard)

8. Little Maggie (Keith Little vocal)

9. Blue Moon of Kentucky

10. Walls of Time

11. Midnight Moonlight ->

12. Hey, Bo Didley ->

13. Not Fade Away ->

14. Midnight Moonlight

Encore:

1. Panama Red ->

2. Tea Party

3. Live and Let Live ->

4. Mountain Dew ->

5. I Saw the Light

Second Show -

Montezuma Events Center

Keystone, CO

The second setlist is more fuzzy. The first four or five songs were the same, as Peter, IMHO, wanted to more fully flush out those melodies in the silence that the evening audience allowed him. It was *SO GOOD*! He then cut into a number of his other tunes. I've heard Land of the Navajo many times, but he played the shit out of this one. I thought the Vulture Peak was really well done as well, but that's an old favorite of mine.

There was also a workshop and then a third set at the beer tasting on Sunday the 7th that we we're not able to attend.

Ska "ModusHead" to be tapped tonight

From Ska's Facebook page:

"International IPA Day is Thursday. Hows about some Modus and Metal? We have a souped up Modus cask (Modushead) dry-hopped to the gills with Simcoe and Amarillo, and two metal bands, Towrdis and Sagerith. Rock on bitches."

I can't wait. More Hops, bitches!

KOTO DOO-DAH 2011!

All right! Keller Williams on Town Park Stage!

Hoopin!

Keller & the Keels played the first set, then he came back solo. They crushed it! I think they were *REALLY* enjoying being back up here.

Keller n' Larry layin' it down.

Check out the sweet little 12 string. It was mic'd through the port in the upper body. He spanked the thing like a hound all night.

Summertime!

I don't have a setlist or a recording, but I'd love to find both!! Drop me a note if you can help.

Hiking Bear Creek - KOTO Doo-Dah 2011

Took a hike up to Bear Creek Falls prior to the Doo-Dah.

Bear Creek valley looking back towards town.

At the falls.

Way to pose for the camera, puppy.

Camping at Alta Lakes - KOTO Doo-Dah 2011

Above Trout Lake, near the cutoff for Ophir on Hwy 145

Hell Yeah!

Camping just below the mine structure ruins at Alta Lakes

The view from the campsite in the morning. Sunshine Peak & Lizard Head with Wilson Peak and Mt. Wilson hiding in the background.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2011

I missed Thursday, but finally made it up to the show on Friday. This is the Durango Crew for 2011.

This is the only pay phone in Telluride. Time to get that iPhone, babe.

The direct effect of 90% market penetration for cell phones.

The old home place.

Hoopin!

Drew Emmit & Billy Nershi

Emmit/Nershi Band with Sammy Bush on Violin.

Yonder!

Femi Kuti - Boulder Theater, May 9th, 2011

This past New Years eve, we sat down and wrote down ideas for what we would like to do with the coming year. When it came to live music, we both agreed that the only musician we would travel more than a few hours to go see would be Femi Kuti. Sometime in February, I was looking around online and saw that he would not only be in the US this spring, but that he would be playing at the 1200 capacity Boulder Theater. Despite the show falling on a Monday night, tickets were bought, and us, Dave, and The Schmig went down for the show.

My camera was not adequate for the lighting, but there are some pro shots intermixed.

I likened the sound from the band to the well orchestrated violence of a diesel locomotive made of pure funk rolling through the Boulder Theater at 70mph. I was beyond blown away.

Yes, Epic!

The Shpongletron Experience pt 2

Some video from the occurance in Boulder. When the guy says, "Wow, that's the craziest thing I've ever seen..." :-)

The Shpongletron Experience

Wow - where to begin on this one... So a year ago, I ran across this live video of Shpongle from back in the day. I was intrigued enough to check out their website, and disappointed to find out that they had not been touring for a while. One day this past spring, while perusing email, I ran across a listing for "The Shpongletron Experience" appearing at the Boulder Theater in April. A quick web search turned up the following on YouTube. Since the "experience" was the night after Microbreweries for the Environment featuring 'Head for the Hills', the decision was easy.



Behold, the Shpongletron!


The EYE!!

Frickin' Laser Beams!

R.I.P Owsley Stanley

"I always trusted what happened on acid. Everything that happens to you on acid is real. Everything you see is real, everything you experience is real, everything you think about is real. The thing about it is, that a lot of the stuff you see is not stuff you see when you're straight, because when you're straight you're limited. The acid removes the "filters" and lets the noise through. That "noise" is as real a part of the universe as the other part that you do allow to pass through, it just hasn't been important for you. That's a survival issue, we discard a lot of sensory information to make our daily lives simpler. When you open those floodgates and let it all pass, you let in a lot of stuff that's as real, and often more interesting than the stuff you usually let through. The patterns that you see when stoned, for instance, are an artifact of the way the nerves in your eyes are arranged and mapped into the brain. Beautiful noise!

...Psychedelics are a gift of nature that brings tribalism to people; they bring an understanding of the ecology of the planet and the interaction of all living things, because that's one of the first things you become aware of when you take psychedelics--how everything is alive and how everything depends on everything else. You go take a look at every indigenous culture that has a respect for its environment -- unlike the hierarchical approach of the feudalistic structures that the world is now run by -- and you will find that these people use psychedelics of some sort, usually in a regular, ritualized manner.

The music of the Grateful Dead is an important assistant to the revival of tribality. Because it has to do with the way things are. It's not somebody's idea about the way things might be, or the way things could be or should be. It's what it is. It's real music about real things. The whole thing is about a social movement. It's tribalism. Which is the only social structure that is truly human. The structure of the world today runs on feudalism--governments, companies; all those structures are feudalistic, arranged in a hierarchy which at the root of it follows Parkinson's law. That is, once you create a hierarchy or bureaucracy, it has only one purpose, and that is: To Continue. There's nothing else. But that has nothing to do with the tribal entity. The tribal entity exists so as to abide in harmony with its environment. It's something that benefits everyone, not just this one structure." -- Bear.

Friday DuB!

Cool pics from the past

Dead - 1986.

Peter Rowan in Durango!!

Panama Red, live and in person at the Durango Performing Arts center on Halloween night. I couldn't believe it. The show was a benefit for the Tara Mandala Buddhist center in Pagosa Springs. Rowan crushed! Two songs I had never heard, and a bunch of classics. Opening the show were local favorites, Wild Mountain, shown here with Red, kicking ass. I had a blast, and multiple times declared it the best Peter Rowan performance I have seen.