Atlanta Slave Appreciation
August 31st, 2008
This post has nothing to do with Gone With the Wind or the South’s shameful history of chattel slavery. Instead, it’s your chance to sink your ears into “one of the most sublime transitions Phish has ever pulled off,” the set-opening Story of the Ghost > Slave to the Traffic Light from Atlanta’s Lakewood Amphitheater, July 4, 1999. Go on, click it. You won’t regret it. Trust me. I was there.
Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro just released this soundboard recording during his latest “From the Archives” broadcast, which I highly recommend downloading in its entirety — every track is a gem. It also made me dig through my own archives for some of the earliest digital photos in my collection. One point three megapixels!
More Music
- Two recent Radiohead soundboards: Lollapalooza and Outside Lands
- Love or hate his blog, Ryan Adams’s Bedhead collections are pretty sweet
- The Steam Engine also has the MMJ @ RCMH XRT SBD
- The RIAA shut down Muxtape, but now there’s Opentape
- From my good friend Dan, a Late Summer Acoustic Mix
- Stream Jesse Jarnow’s radio show
- Dee-Lite Rocks the Vote (1992)
The Week in Music
August 16th, 2008
Dylan in Prospect Park, Wilco at McCarren Pool, Trey Anastasio’s triumphant return to full-on electric shredding with Classic TAB at All Points West and the Music Hall of Williamsburg — and that’s just the stuff I missed.
The shows I managed to catch weren’t too shabby either: Animal Collective driving a sun-blitzed afternoon crowd wild, Kings of Leon, a heavy Roots throwdown with Immigrant Song tease just across from Ellis Island, Radiohead’s stunning second night at APW, Bob Weir’s Masters of War, a blissful seaside evening with the Allman Brothers, and perhaps best of all, the U.S. premiere of Manuel Göttsching’s seminal electronic piece E2-E4, accompanied by the mesmerizing Joshua Light Show at Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Wordless Music event. Rhys Chatham’s A Crimson Grail — a piece for 200 electric guitars — had to be canceled due to the rain, but Beata Viscera’s performance of the music of Pérotin was gorgeous.
A few clips of varying quality:
Animal Collective: Fireworks
The Roots: Next Movement
Trey Anastasio Band: Gotta Jibboo (part II)
Ratdog: Masters of War
Radiohead: 15 Step
Radiohead: Ideoteque
Radiohead: Reckoner
E2-E4 with the Joshua Lights
