Archived entries for What’s That Sound?
Thank You mkdevo
This post is to thank Youtube user ‘mkdevo’ for his contributions to live music.
His attention to quality and detail while on Phish tour leave you skipping the couch for his uploads the next morning.
I’m happy to see he managed to hit Primus in NYC as well:
Goths Dancing Outdoors
Buzzfeed posted this great list today of 25 Videos of Goths Dancing During the Daytime.
It’s 110% worthy of your viewing, so go check it out now.
If you don’t you’ll be missing hilarious gems like the one below:
Animal Collective Nostalgia “Lion In A Coma”
Heard “My Girls” on WFUV the other day.
Got me going back through their other stuff.
“Lion In A Coma” is currently what I’m jamming too.
This video for it was put together by artist Ori Toor and you should watch it…NOW!
A final project made by Ori Toor at the Shenkar School of Engineering and Design – Illustration department.
A stream of consciousness animation for the song “Lion in a Coma” by Animal collective (taken from the awesome “Merriweather Post Pavilion” album released by domino records).
Frame by frame animation in flash. No script, no planning ahead.
Keller Williams and Al Schnier of Moe. “Birds of a Feather”
MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH
Birds of a Feather by Keller Williams feat. Al Schnier of moe. guesting at Club Nokia in LA Live on 2.4.12
(thanks smasher69!)
MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH – MUST WATCH
Trey Anastasio Tells the Story of “Farmhouse”
For the past few months Tom Marshall has been releasing the original recordings of many notable Phish tracks on his Soundcloud account.
With each track is a blurb about it…when it was written, why it was written, where it was recorded, etc. It’s been an incredible treasure trove of information that phans have been waiting many years for.
Last Friday, another tune popped up on Tom’s account and it was “Farmhouse” …however Tom did not provide the blurb for this one…Trey did…
I’ll post it here for listening/reading purposes but I highly recommend going over to Tom’s Soundcloud page and exploring it. Some great stuff there and hopefully more in the future:
Hi everyone,
I know Tom is writing these blurbs, but I wanted to write one. Tom and I have been writing and four-tracking together for over thirty years now, and I have so many incredible memories of our adventures: I could probably fill a book writing about them. One of my favorites is about the songs Farmhouse and Bug.
In the nineties Tom and I began renting houses in the Stowe area of Vermont and disappearing for long weekends to hang out together and write. To be perfectly honest, the hanging out part was even more important to me than the writing. With Phish’s exponential growth in the mid nineties came a whirlwind of confusion and frantic energy that I don’t think any of us in the band were completely prepared for. Our quiet little scene in Burlington and on the road exploded. Suddenly the idea of hiding out alone for three days and nights on a farm with one of my oldest friends became a precious idea that I anxiously looked forward to for weeks in advance of our trips. At that time I had neither a cell phone nor a computer, so when we disappeared, we really disappeared.
Farmhouse was written and recorded in the first five minutes of one of those trips. I picked up Tom at the airport in this cool old 1970′s RV that I had bought that had an eight track player in it, and we drove to the farmhouse we had rented. It was kind of late since Tom had left from work, and we pulled over for a second and jumped out next to a field. When we looked up at the sky, it was exploding with these deep greenish colors that we soon realized were the northern lights. We stood there and just stared in awe. We continued on, and found our house down a long secluded dirt road. We walked in and I ran over to the gear and picked up a guitar while Tom plugged in a Mic. there were some sliding glass doors that we opened, and though it wasn’t as intense as it had been when we pulled over, we could still see traces of the northern lights thru the door. Mostly, we were both buzzing from that magical feeling of being completely alone, and knowing that we didn’t have to talk to or see a single soul for three whole days and nights, which to both of us was heaven.
I started strumming and Tom started singing, and since he didn’t have any lyrics, he reached over and grabbed the note that the owner of the house had left for us and began reading it, verbatim.
“Welcome! This is a farmhouse, we have cluster flies, alas, and this time of year is bad…”
And on it went from there. I love the chorus, “I never ever saw the northern lights, I never really heard of cluster flies!”
After that I quickly constructed all the instruments. I will always to this day believe that this version of Farmhouse is the perennial version, mostly because of the genuine joy in Tom’s inspired and spontaneous vocal. Also, for the record, of course we immediately recognized that it sounded similar to “No woman no cry”, and sort of threw that “be all right” thing in specifically for that reason, amidst the frenzy of laughing and singing. It felt like the perfect sentiment for our escape. “in the farmhouse things will be alright”.
I don’t think Tom and I have ever written a single song for any reason other than to entertain ourselves. We don’t really think about the fact that anyone will ever hear this stuff. It’s in the moment. If we took the time to think about it more, we would probably edit ourselves into submission, and take a lot of the joy and spontaneity out of the songs. I know for a fact that if Tom had his way, “Yanked on my tunic and dangled my stash” would not be in the public consciousness. Personally, I happen to love that line. -Trey.
[TOM'S note: I added the "alas", that wasn't on the note. No one has written "alas" -- and meant it -- since the 19th century. Some of the songs I'm posting, this one included, were released in 2000 on a CD of 25 demos that Trey and I recorded in 1997 called "Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove" which is available on LivePhish.com. Also...Trey didn't write much about Bug, so I'll release that if/when he writes another "blurb"...or I'll write one...soon!]
Mountain Jam 2012 Lineup Announced
Ahhh my favorite festival in the Northeast is back and with an early lineup vengeance!
Usually it’s the same recurring cast of characters at this festy…albeit a great mix of genres…but you’re pining for additions to be announced in the future.
THIS TIME…it’s great right out the gates:
Mountain Jam 2012 Lineup
Steve Winwood
Gov’t Mule
Michael Franti & Spearhead
the Roots
Ben Folds Five
the Word (Ft. Robert Randolph, John Medeski, & North Mississippi Allstars)
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
the Travelin’ Mccoury’s (Ft. Keller Williams)
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
Dawes
Gary Clark Jr.
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Givers
Charles Bradley
Mariachi El Bronx
Bustle in Your Hedgerow (Ft. Joe Russo, Marco Benevento, Dave Dreiwitz & Scott Metzger)
Eoto
Anders Osborne
Sara Watkins
Zach Deputy
Break Science
Planet of the Abts
the Lee Boys
Marco Benevento
Wolf!
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds
the Sheepdogs
the Brew
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Ground up
Pedrito Martinez
Zee Avi
Aunt Martha
Kopecky Family Band
Lauren Shera
Uncle Lucius
Connor Kennedy Band
New Work Computer
Today In the next couple of days I should be getting the new computer I asked for at work. There’s really nothing WRONG with the current one per se…ok yes there is…it’s an old Pentium 4 with minimal memory. Initially I requested it so I could run my favorite linux distro, Ubuntu
I would like to take a moment to wish Ubuntu a healthy future. It was fun while it lasted, what 3 years or so. Alas, me being a web developer and your lack of compatibility with Photoshop just don’t mix and I’m moving on to greener Mac Mini pastures.
So now I’m in the process of backing up all the files from this box so I don’t lose anything important. This means there will be a lot of posting on here in the coming days as I come across long forgotten funny pictures or videos.
You’ve been warned!
Anyways…I’ll treat this post like any other. Today I’m addicted to the song “Cousin Corona” by Yuck. You should be too:
Hello From 2012!
It’s taken me a while to get back into the swing of things here! (With a domain like ‘worldISending’ you’d think 2012 would be an important one. #mayans #rapture)
Anyway I’m back and off to an amazing start. Good friends, good times aplenty already and I met/shook hands with Phish bassist Mike Gordon last Friday. Gordo and a few other musicians did a live re-imagining of, “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks” which is a tribute Brian Eno did about the NASA moon landings. They played the original movie on a screen in the background and they all just jammed some slow spacey/drone sounds. Not what you would expect at all and that’s what he said when Jen and I spoke to him. “Well that was different huh?” then went on to say that him and Fishman used to listen to the original soundtrack a lot back in the day and stuff.
…still speechless. What can top that in 2012?
TIME TO FIND OUT
A Very Dubstep Christmas
I could sit here for a while coming up with dubstep related xmas puns but I won’t.
Thomas Edison must be rolling
…in his grave…IN HIS GRAVE!
My Morning Jacket @ Madison Square Garden – 12/14/11
They came, we saw, everyone conquered.
My Morning Jacket hit Madison Square Garden yesterday, December 14, 2011.
Wouldn’t miss it for the world. Per usual, I found a 12 minute video on my phone the next morning I barely remember taking.
The show was phenomenal. In my humble opinion, the greatest live act today.
Setlist:
VD
Circuital
Beats 4 U
First Light
I’m Amazed
Wonderful (w/ BOH lead singer)
Steam Engine!!!!!
Outta My System
Dancefloors (with horn section)
Golden
Mahgeetah
Dondante (guest playing flute and keyboards; extended Carl sax)
Smokin’ from Shootin’
RunThru into Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. II
Off The Record
Extended Jam of Gideon closing first set
Bermuda Highway to start the encore – Jim solo
Wordless Chorus
Day is Coming
Cover – The Bottle (1974, Brian Jackson and Gill Scott-Heron, composers; Brian Jackson on flute)
BLACK METAL with horns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBH
BOH coming on stage for more….
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Here’s a few other videos I shot:
- The opening of, “Circuital”
- The screams of, “Gideon”
- A nod to Christmas and Bing Crosby with a show closing, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”
Some more great photos/videos of the night over at Brooklyn Vegan
Matisyahu Shaves Beard and Confuses Fans
So heady reggae musician Matisyahu posted photos on Twitter today of him with his beard shaved off.
The photos were followed by a link to his homepage with a message explaining his reasoning:
This morning I posted a photo of myself on Twitter.
No more Chassidic reggae superstar.
Sorry folks, all you get is me…no alias. When I started becoming religious 10 years ago it was a very natural and organic process. It was my choice. My journey to discover my roots and explore Jewish spirituality—not through books but through real life. At a certain point I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity…to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person I needed rules—lots of them—or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.
Get ready for an amazing year filled with music of rebirth. And for those concerned with my naked face, don’t worry…you haven’t seen the last of my facial hair.
- Matisyahu
There seems to be a mixed reaction on the new look and a lot of confusion surrounding the message.
None of this has anything to do with his new music. I saw him perform on a late show recently and it seems he’s drinking a little bit too much of the Michael Franti “everyone-be-happy-peace-love-the-world-can-unite-spread-the-love” kool-aid.
Whatever, I’m still behind him…we White Plains folk have to stick together.