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Does it sound like Sammy's Pool Cabana? Yes, on the original. Sorta on this reissue. On the CD? Not so much...
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The Band
Capitol Reissues The Band's Second Album on 180g Vinyl
Cover Wars: Ophelia Edition
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U-Melt ran away with last week's edition when we looked at eight covers of The Boy In The Bubble . U-Melt proves that clever setlist construction goes a long way, as the performance that was selected was in the middle of MMW's Bubblehouse (Boy in the Bubblehouse?). Congrats to U-Melt on their first CW trophy, well it's an imaginary trophy, put it on the mantle.Moving on to this week, we will be...
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Garth Hudson's live six-minute organ intro to the Band's "Chest Fever"
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Born in 1937, "classically trained in piano, music theory, harmony and counterpoint" at the University of Western Ontario [so says Wikipedia], multi-instrumentalist Band member Garth Hudson would play a different organ intro to each live performance by the Band of their song "Chest Fever." The intro soon acquired its own name, "The Genetic Method." His inventive extemporizing on this piece wa...
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Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman
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If there weren't enough reasons to love PBS already, add an exclusive Levon Helm special to list. In August, the network will debut Ramble at the Ryman - a feature filmed on September 17, 2008 at the renowned Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Ol' Levon was joined by a number of his famous friends for this gig including Sheryl Crow, John Hiatt, Sam Bush and Buddy Miller.Helm mixes songs from his te...
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Endless Highway
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I still enjoy going to music stores. Things happen in music stores. I picked up Pearl Jam's Ten months before it became a big deal because I heard it in a local shop. Same thing with Sarah McLachlan. Even now, I find things in music stores that I would never find if I always just ordered on-line. Mostly because the music stores play albums to try to entice people to buy them. So I hear th...
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Alcohol Abuse?
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Album:The Basement Tapes
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I've been posting just a few too many utubes lately, but what the heck, here's Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, and Jerry Garcia doing Ain't No More Cane from the Festival Express DVD(Danko is so obliterated that even Janis has to ask him if he's OK--when Janis is worried about your state of mind, you must be pretty messed up.)
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A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one...
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Other than the unoriginality of the bandname, I love this cd. I'd seen parts of The Last Waltz a couple times and decided to check these guys out. Got there second album because it had the highest rating on allmusic.com (I defer to that sometimes when deciding if I should buy something or not), and it is great and solid all the way around. It sounds like it's from the 70s, 'cause it is, but it ...
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The Band. Shine A Light
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.....From the first "post-Robertson" Band album...1993's Jericho was a great, if unfairly overlooked, album.
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Saturday Night Live - The Band
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The BandJuly 17, 1976 Carter Baron AmphitheatreWashington DC 01 Don't Do It 5:10 02 The Shape I'm In 4:08 03 It Makes No Difference 7:23 04 The Weight 4:44 05 King Harvest 3:45 06 Twilight 3:29 07 Ophelia 3:36 08 Tears Of Rage 5:58 09 Forbidden Fruit 6:11 10 This Wheel's On Fire 3:51 11 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 4:04 12 The Genetic Method 3:57 13 Chest Fever 4:23 14 U...
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THE LITTLE MAGIC MOMENTS THAT MAKE LIFE SO GRAND
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.......I was privilaged to spend a few hours with my granddaughter today. She's growing so fast it makes my heart ache. We talked of so many things....she's a most curious child & was a bundle of questions. She's my little Angel & i want her to stay just as she is......Foolish, huh? & then after she left i came into the house & turned on the music. This was the first song to pop up in t...
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Garth Hudson's live six-minute organ intro to the Band's "Chest Fever"
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Born in 1937, "classically trained in piano, music theory, harmony and counterpoint" at the University of Western Ontario [so says Wikipedia], multi-instrumentalist Band member Garth Hudson would play a different organ intro to each live performance by the Band of their song "Chest Fever." The intro soon acquired its own name, "The Genetic Method." His inventive extemporizing on this piece wa...
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SEE THE MAN WITH THE STAGE FRIGHT.
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".......they gave this poor boy his fortune and fame....Since that day he ain't been the same" Robbie Robertson's broad stroke sketch of the performing artist in general, (long rumored to be "about" Bob Dylan in particular) resonates a bit more today. The Death of Michael Jackson slams home the cold reality, the maddening certainty that the world has gone mad. Celebrities who once merely liv...
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