Phish - Summer Tour 2014 - Tour Dates

Dates officially dropped. 25 shows. Interesting to see where the boys from Vermont will be playing... and where they WON'T be playing.

Phish - 2014 Summer Tour Dates
July 1 - Old Great Woods, Mansfield, MA
July 3 - SPAC
July 4 - SPAC
July 5 - SPAC
July 8 - Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA
July 9 - Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA
July 11 - Randall's Island -  NYC
July 12 - Randall's Island -  NYC
July 13 - Randall's Island -  NYC
July 15 - CMAC, Canandaigua, NY 
July 16 - DTE, Clarkston, MI 
July 18 - Northerly Hell Hole, Chicago, IL
July 19 - Northerly Hell Hole, Chicago, IL
July 20 - Northerly Hell Hole, Chicago, IL 
July 25 - Charlotte, NC
July 26 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, MD
July 27 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, MD
July 29 - Portsmouth, VA
July 30 - Portsmouth, VA
August 1 - Orange Beach, AL
August 2 - Pelham, AL
August 3 - Alpharetta, GA
August 29 - Dick's, Colorado
August 30 - Dick's, Colorado
August 31 - Dick's, Colorado

More tour date info.

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By the way, the Triad owns Phish now.

Monday Morning Key Bumps: 50 Cent

Sometimes, when I'm stricken with a case of the "Mondays", I turn to the great poet known as 50 Cent to bring me out of the doldrums.

Ah, good old 50. This song reminds me living in Las Vegas in 2005-06 and spending too much time in places like Cheetah, OG, and the Rhino and have existentialist conversations with stripper...


By the way, if you dig 50 Cent, check out the latest episode of Dope Stories -- Ep. 006 Tripping in the House I Live In. We devoted a segment to a pair of documentaries on 50 Cent that I watched.

G-Money Picks: Little Feat - Winterland, SF - 1976 Valentine's Day

G-Money (@777GMoney) suggested some Little Feat to kick back with on Sunday. He actually gave me this CD last summer. Little Feat from 2/14/1976 live show at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

"Lowell George is still into it," explained G-Money. "He's killing it at that show. It's actually better than Waiting for Columbus."

You should recognize some of these songs...

Little Feat - Winterland, Valentine's Day 1976 - Setlist:
00:00 Introduction (1:08)
01:08 A Apolitical Blues (3:28)
04:36 Skin it Back (5:25)
10:01 Fat Man in the Bathtub (5:33)
15:34 One Love Stand - (4:15)
19:49 Rock and Roll Doctor (5:14)
25:03 On Your Way Down (7:22)
32:25 All that you Dream (5:05)
37:30 Cold Cold Cold - (6:02)
43:32 Dixie Chicken - (8:22)
51:54 Tripe Face Boogie (7:39)
Encore:
0:59:33 Willin' - band introduction - Willin' (5:07)
1:04:40 Teenage Nervous Breakdown

Listen to entire Valentine's Day show...


For more G-Money picks, check out... Slave and Ohio Funk Scene and Grateful Dead - Egypt 1978.

Flashback: Hampton Montage Video

Five years ago. Unreal. Time flies when you're having fun.

This is a montage video I shot throughout the Hampton reunion weekend.


I wrote recaps of each show: 3/6 - 3/7 - 3/8

I took pics too... Hampton Reunion Photo Gallery.

More Hampton videos: Hood & Bouncin -  Lawn Boy & Gumbo - Frankenstein - 2001 & Tweprise

Punk House Record Shop

My pal Mitchell is one of the many Phisheads from across the pond in Europe.  He has a new project that I want to bring to your attention...

Punk House Record Shop

Mitchell is a former punk rocker from the early 80s and lead singer of the DC10'S. Talk about being at the right time and the right place. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, punk exploded in Great Britain and Mitchell and his mates from Swansea in South Wales carved out their own little niche scene.

Punk House Records is a special label dedicated  to release the original demo tapes of bands from the burgeoning punk scene in Swansea from 1978 to 1985. Those bands included Autonomes, Lost Boys, Tunnel Runners, Venom and the Dodos, who were re-named The Urge.

As Mitchell explained, "My marketing slogan would be 'Never Mind The Music' i.e. these records aren't for listening to - they are artifacts, little works of art to collect and treasure."

 

I always wished I could have experienced the British punk scene at its peak in the late 70s. Mitchell's label will give you a glimpse into that vibrant past.

Check out... Punk House Record Shop.

Monday Morning Key Bumps: Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

Crank it up. Let it rip. Funkadelic to the rescue. This will cure your case of the Monday Blues.