December 2008
12 posts
LIVEPHISH 12/30/97 AUDIO & VIDEO RELEASED
After a standout show on 12/29/97, the band gave a loose, funky performance on the second night of their three-night holiday stand at MSG on 12/30 with a show-opening “Sneakin’ Sally Thru The Alley” and a playful, non-stop second set that highlighted a sublime “AC/DC Bag”, “McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters” and “Harpua” which introduced...
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NEIL YOUNG & WILCO
December 7th, 2008 Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan
***Wilco*** You Are My Face I Am Trying To Break Your Heart The Late Greats War On War Handshake Drugs Shot In The Arm Jesus, Etc. Impossible Germany Hate It Here Walken I’m The Man Who Loves You
***Neil Young & His Electric Band*** Love And Only Love Hey Hey, My My Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere ...
Silent...
Take me to the silent places Places I can think Looking at the silent faces Hoping that they blink
Feeling just the wind Nothing pre-arranged Sending salutations To the homeless and deranged
Thinking in those silent places Thoughts that simply come Listening for the traces Of voices now long gone
When the time displaces All the woes and wants Now I am complacent This moment now will haunt...
November 2008
19 posts
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“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier...”
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of ...
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The Grateful Dead talk "In the Dark"
Brent Mydland conducts this off the cuff 1987 interview with his fellow band-mates on the subject of The Grateful Dead’s new album In The Dark. In this questionably sober discussion, the subject matter ranges from the bands view of the new album to Jerry’s diabetic coma in 1986. The band also discusses who they would choose to play themselves in the movie of The Grateful Dead should...
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Wilco: Live at Tanglewood (2008-08-12)
1. Either Way 2. Hummingbird 3. Remember The Mountain Bed 4. Muzzle Of Bees 5. You Are My Face 6. Impossible Germany 7. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 8. A Shot In The Arm 9. What Light (w/Total Pros horns) 10. California Stars (w/Total Pros horns) 11. Pieholden Suite (w/Total Pros horns) 12. Handshake Drugs 13. Pot Kettle Black 14. Summer Teeth 15. Jesus, Etc. 16. Poor...
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