Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Poetry du Jour: A Haiku for Poo

Musings of a Maté Drinking Woman: A Haiku for Poo:

phone in back pocket  
pants down to sit on toilet 
phone now in toilet

via ohbears

Bio Toilet

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Tickets STILL Available for Starlight Theatre in KC, MO!


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Event Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 7:30 pm
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Just saying?

Monday, April 23, 2012

RSD 2012: Phish - Junta Pollock Edition LP's for sale on Amazon


Record Store Day 2012 Phish - Junta Pollock Editions for sale on Amazon

Going for $175 and up now. It will go down. Maybe.

hype hype hype 
custy custy custy 

 I did score a Deluxe Edition. I want one of these, still.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Wookiegate Hotel: Consider It Dan collusion allegations or something

Wookiegate? What's up now?

** This is a continuation/re-post of the thread that 499'd on Sunday. **

A Wookileaks Exclusive: How Trey stayed at a hotel for $84, while VMT/CID scalped $129 rooms to phans for $300+

In 2009, Phish partnered with Valley Music Travel to take care of hotel/shuttle arrangements for Festival 8. Valley Music Travel is a subsidiary of CID Entertainment, or ConsiderItDan, which is also taking care of hotel packages for Phish's 3-day Atlantic City run this summer.

Documents obtained by PT show evidence of extreme hotel price-gouging by VMT/CID, with tacit approval by the band.

1. Among the hotels in the Festival 8 travel package were the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells, CA and the La Quinta Resort & Club. VMT offered three-night packagesthat included 2 fest tickets, shuttle passes and a room for roughly $1,599 at those two hotels. (I can confirm the price of the LaQ package, and know that the Renaissance price was similar.)

2. Subtracting the price of 2 fest tickets ($199 apiece) and shuttle passes (sold individually for $90, but assuming some built-in discount into the package, we'll call them $80 each), the cost of the hotel was $1,041, or $347 per night.

3. Documents obtained by PT show that Trey stayed in the Renaissance Esmeralda from 10/23-11/2/09 at a rate of $84 per night. View the document here.

4. Another document shows that Valley Music Travel (as well as Goldenvoice) obtained a large block of rooms at a rate of $129 per night. View the document here.

5. Another document shows that the standard price of hotel rooms at the Esmeralda, booked outside of packages, was either $179, $199 or $209. We'll average this, to be generous, to $195 per night. Plus taxes that comes out to around $226 per night. These rates were no longer available once the hotel sold out, with VMT/GV controlling a massive block of rooms in time for the fest's official announcement. View the standard-rate proof here.

Conclusions:

* VMT was allowed to control the best hotels around Fest 8, and sell rooms at a PROFIT of around $200 per night, per room. (Purchased at $129+taxes, sold for $340ish.)

* The VMT purchase of rooms caused them to be re-sold for roughly $120 more, per night, than the rooms cost on the open market. (Were available at $226 including taxes, sold for $340ish.)

* Trey paid $250 less, per night, than the phans who custied up and purchased rooms from Phish partner VMT.


http://www.w00kileaks.org, lol. Just tryin to chill at my hotie, bro.

Friday, February 24, 2012

VIDEO: Page McConnell 20070708 - High Sierra Music Festival

An intimate experience with Page McConnell, solo. Come for the Tiny Dancer, stay for the workshop. Wow.


Page McConnell 2007-07-08 - High Sierra Music Festival
Running time - 49:28

***Under Law of Fair Use. For educational purposes only. No copyrights infringements intended***
Never Buy Or Sell Live Music Recordings/Videos

Wow.

Phish Rumor: No Alpine Valley 2012?

Saw on an internet board the following re: Phish dates at Alpine Valley Music Theater this summer:
Just spoke with the Hampton Inn in Elkhorn, WI near Alpine....
and Jimmy Buffet's production team has booked 40 rooms......
6/30-7/1 is not true, sad rlly

I have my doubts.

As a bonus, here's a fairly sweet audience vid of The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday from Alpine '09



Chanenu v'anenu
Avinu Malkenu
Chanenu v'anenu
Ki ain banu ma'asim
Asseh imanu
Tsadaka v'chesed

Asseh imanu tsadaka vichesed v'hoshi'ainu

Our Father Our King
Be gracious unto us
And answer us

For we are wanting
in good deeds
Deal with us in charity
And save us

Thursday, February 23, 2012

FLUFFHEAD SIGN at Arizona GOP Presidential Debate!!!

FLUFFHEAD
at the Republican Presidential Debate
Mesa, AZ - February 22, 2012

FLUFFHEAD SIGN

Just great. Nice effort, bro!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

VIDEO: Phish 1990-02-17 UMass Student Union Ballroom

ph1990-02-17

mike gif


Just passing this along. Not my recordings/channel. I'm just surprised to see this. I used to collect a lot of VHS back in the 90's and this definitely didn't circulate. Apparently it never has. Until yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Xgw9nbsDo

On the occasion of it's 22nd Anniversary. Extremely rare, never-before posted footage. Full concert by Phish at the UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom. Produced by David Caputo of Positronic Design, The SEO Company in association with The Weekly News and UMass Radical Student Union and Social Thought and Political Economy Department (STPEC). Filmed with permission of the band. Amazing AC/DC Bag. Whole show was great. Room was electric. Widespread Panic and Gene Matthews opened up.

Saturday, 02/17/1990
Student Union Ballroom, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Set 1: Possum, Bathtub Gin, Divided Sky > The Sloth, Bouncing Around the Room, You Enjoy Myself[1], Golgi Apparatus

Set 2: Reba, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag, The Squirming Coil, Harry Hood, Carolina, Mike's Song[2] > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove

[1] The Ocean teases in vocal jam.
[2] Started as David Bowie.

Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon

Notes: The opening acts were Widespread Panic and Gene Matthews. The Ocean (Led Zeppelin) was teased in the YEM vocal jam. Mike's Song started as David Bowie.

This show was part of the "1990 Tour.



Holy shit.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

CONFIRMED: Phish Will Play Bonnaroo 2012

SSIA

http://lineup.bonnaroo.com/

No offense, and I'm well aware that somebody will say this every year, and there is some great stuff in there, but this looks like the least interesting Bonnaroo lineup yet. Keep your fingers crossed for more TBA's

Monday, February 13, 2012

Record Store Day Junta Triple LP Drops April 21, 2012

This LE Deluxe 3-LP vinyl set is limited to 5,000 individually numbered copies. Junta was recorded at Euphoria Sound Studios in Revere, Massachusetts in 1987 and 1988 on 16-track 2" tape and was mixed to 1/4" stereo reels. In addition to writing and performing all the music, the band produced the album themselves.



Junta was originally self-released on cassette tape in May 1989 with packaging created by the band (included in the new vinyl package). The album was remastered and rereleased as a double CD (and cassette) in October 1992. Junta was certified Gold but, until now, has never been heard on vinyl. The vinyl release was created from the original stereo master reels with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Each LP is pressed onto 180g audiophile grade vinyl and includes a free MP3 download of the entire album (transferred from the new vinyl master).

2,500 of the Junta LE Deluxe 3-LP sets will include a brand new Limited Edition hand-carved, hand-printed linolium block poster by Jim Pollock, created exclusively for this release. These editions will be distributed randomly at participating independently owned record stores across the country, but will be clearly marked.

This LE Deluxe 3-LP vinyl set was created exclusively for Record Store Day. Junta will be available in stores only beginning Saturday, April 21st. For a complete list of participating record stores, please click here.

'Junta' Limited Edition Deluxe 3-LP Vinyl Tracklisting

Side A

- Fee

- You Enjoy Myself



Side B

- Esther

- Golgi Apparatus

- Foam



Side C

- Dinner And A Movie

- Divided Sky



Side D

- David Bowie



Side E

- Fluffhead

- Fluff's Travels

- Contact

F yeah. Looks like I'll be getting up early on RSD again this year...









Tuesday, February 7, 2012