Organic Jam Radio Playlist 2/17/13

Organic Jam

WGAO Power 88

February 17, 2013

1.     Dead Flowers – Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

2.     The Fox in the Snow – Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister

3.     We The Common – Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – We the Common

4.     Black Spot – Local Natives – Hummingbird

5.     San Francisco – Foxygen – We Are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

6.     Glass Girls – Wig Party – Glass Girls

7.     One More Day – Sol Driven Train – Underdog

8.     Mustang Ranch – Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears – Scandalous

9.     Oh Yea – Les Racquet – Be Water My Friend

10.  Steve Kimock Interview

11.  Hey Man – Steve Kimock Band Live

12.  Empty Pages – Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die

13.  Cool it Down – Velvet Underground – Loaded

14.  Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again – Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde

15.  It’s Gonna Be (Alright) – Ween – The Mollusk

16.  Did You See the Word – Animal Collective – Feels

17.  Say That – Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return

18.  Who Sees You – My Bloody Valentine – mbv

19.  Two Headed Boy – Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

20.  Im Straight – Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers

21.  Fire on the Bayou – Neville Brothers – Fiyo on the Bayou

22.  Trevorgus – Cymande – Renegades of Funk

23.  Palm Grease – Herbie Hancock – Thrust

24.  Losing my Edge – LCD Soundsystem – st

25.  Starship Trooper – Yes – The Yes Album

26.  Le Brers in A Minor – Allman Brothers band – Eat a Peach

27.  Sheep – Pink Floyd – Animals

28.  In the Light – Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

29.  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise) > A Day In Life – The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

30.  On Blue Mountain – Foxygen – We Are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

Phishtory

08/05/2011
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA

Set 2: Backwards Down the Number Line > Rock and Roll^[1] -> Meatstick^[2] -> Boogie On Reggae Woman > Farmhouse > Show of Life > Julius > Character Zero

Encore: Loving Cup

Grateful Dead

Curtis Hixon Convention Hall,

Tampa, FL (12/18/73) 

Promised Land > Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude -> Weather Report Suite Part 1 -> Let It Grow -> Dark Star -> drums ->Eyes of the World -> Wharf Rat -> Sugar Magnolia 

Encore: Uncle John's Band

Organic Jam Radio Playlist 2/10/13

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Organic Jam

Power 88 WGAO

February 10, 2013

1.     Snakes on Everything – Little Feat – st

2.     In the Aero plane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aero plane Over the Sea

3.     One More Day – Sol Driven Train – Underdog

4.     Shuggie – Foxygen – We Are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

5.     Street Joy – White Denim – D

6.     Only Tomorrow – My Bloody Valentine – mbv

7.     Sunset – The XX – Coexist

8.     On Repeat – LCD Soundsystem – st

9.     Black Spot – Local Natives – Hummingbird

10.  Cat Fantastic – This Town Needs Guns – 13.0.0.0.0

11.  Silent Wood – Wig Party – Glass Girls

12.  I Don’t Wanna Leave You on the Farm – Ween – 12 Golden Country Greats

13.  Harvest – Neil Young – Harvest

14.  Golden My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves

15.  This Wheel’s On Fire – The Band – Music From Big Pink

16.  Chank – John Scolfield – A- Go Go

17.  Zion I – Cymande – Renegades of Funk

18.  Johnny Too Bad – The Slickers – The Harder they Come

19.  I Zimbra – Talking Heads – Fear of Music

20.  Chameleon – Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters

21.  All the Critics love You in New York – Prince – 1999

22.  Jeepster – T-Rex – Electric Warrior

23.  No Destruction – Foxygen – We Are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic

24.  Yours Is No Disgrace – Yes – The Yes Album

25.  Quadrophenia – The Who – Quadrophenia

26.  Watching the Wheels – John Lennon – Double Fantasy

27.  Feels Like We Only Go backwards – Tame Impala – Lonerism

28.  Studies – Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return

29.  Like A Sundae – Black Moth Super Rainbow – Cobra Juicy

30.  One of these Days – Pink Floyd – Meddle

31.  Yyz – Rush – Moving Pictures

32.  Back to Basom – Ween – White Pepper

33.  Golden Slumbers>Carry That Weight>The End – The Beatles – Abbey Road

34.  I Heard You Looking – Yo La Tengo – Painful

Phishtory

10/26/2010
Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH

Set 2: Possum > Light > Mike's Song > Simple^[2] > Makisupa Policeman^[3] -> Night Nurse^[4] -> Makisupa Policeman > The Wedge, Ghost -> The Mango Song^[5] > Weekapaug Groove^[6] -> Llama Reprise

Live Dead

The Spectrum

Philadelphia, PA

(3/24/73) 

Promised Land, China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider, Big River, Stella Blue, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone -> Truckin'-> Spanish Jam -> Dark Star > Sing Me Back Home

Live Phish Release: Star Lake 98 DVD

This is a bit dated, but wanted to archive it on the web.  I wrote this for Surrender to the Flow the independent newspaper in the Phish tour community. It was featured in the NYE edition #36.  

by Mike Akers

The newest DVD release from Phish is a legendary show from the considerably popular summer tour in 1998.  Star Lake 98, recorded live August 11^th, 1998 in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania is archived video from the venue’s three-camera general admission video feed.  Phish’s own label JEMP is handling the release.  In fact, this particular show is the only show released in full by the band for that particular summer.  The “summer of covers” is how fans identify the summer’s diverse one off cover selections the band chose for each stop on tour.   The two-disc set was made available for pre-order in late November and shipped to fans just in time for the holidays.  The set was made available to order directly on December 11^th.  The audio from the show can also be downloaded on livephish.com. 

Fans who pre-ordered the release received a one-disc bonus compilation (So Inclined) of Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro’s favorite selections from past Phish performances in Burgettstown.   A mix of song selections from 1997, 1999 and 2000 were included on the bonus disc.  Shapiro noted, “Star Lake 98 was the twentieth of the summer to showcase the loose, experimental vibe of a tour that began in Europe and jumped to the United States en-route to the summer’s ending Lemonwheel festival.”  The summer ending festival in Limestone would have a late night ambient set to pay homage to this particular chapter in Phish’s jamming catalog.  Shapiro added, “The introduction of a never-before-played cover each night earned the tour the nickname “summer of covers” from fans and Star Lake’s contribution was a Trench Town Rock opener.”

The video was reformatted from analog VHS tapes to digital DVD.  A three camera shoot captured all the footage from the built in amphitheater camera feeds.  One important thing you should consider when watching the DVD set at home on a high definition TV is to set your video display to 4:3 instead of 16:9 so it does not appear stretched.  The picture quality is nothing incredible, but you will have to remember how far high definition video technology has come in the last ten years.   Looking at it from a production standpoint, the release was an afterthought so you cannot really criticize the video quality.  The re-mastered audio is the real treat here.  A popular show previously circulating only as an audience recording gets a serious upgrade for audiophiles.  Current LivePhish.com remote sound engineer (and Phish studio engineer) Jon Altschiller mixed the audio from multi track analog master tapes recorded by Paul Languedoc to stereo PCM (2-channel uncompressed digital audio) and 5.1-surround sound. 

Artwork is something that always is a critical element to Live Phish releases.  The eclectic style of the Star Lake 98 packaging is nothing new to Landland as they have designed several pieces of artwork for other notable musicians today including Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, Bob Mould and even the Black Keys.   Show posters and album artwork seem to be LandLand’s specialty.

As stated, this tour was dubbed the summer of covers and Bob Marley’s reggae staple Trenchtown Rock surprised fans as a show opener.  Having hooked the crowd from the get-go, they took the song’s momentum and the audience’s into a rowdy Julius.  A highlight heavy set one includes a funk heavy Wolfman’s Brother which feeds itself into Little Feat’s classic from the album of the same name, Time Loves a Hero.  It was the first time in almost ten years Phish tackled the song and they have only busted it out 4 times since the 1.0 era.  Bittersweet Motel made its sixth appearance at this show and got a huge ovation from the crowd after the locals heard the line, “Halfway Between Eerie and Pittsburgh.”  It also earned itself a bit of banter afterwards. The once extremely popular live tune for the band Fee made only its third appearance this year, the first stateside. 

Getting back to the ambient jamming, the set two opener Runaway Jim was only a precursor to what would happen a few days later in Limestone.   The technical preciseness the band displayed here is what Phish fans come to see at a live show.  Meat and Limb by Limb, fresh off of the Story of the Ghost album made a set two appearance and was surprisingly conducive to the experimentation and improvisation.   The Los Lobos tune, When the Circus Comes and Down with Disease make a sound pairing as well.  Another local reference made in the lyrics of Wilson (King of Prussia) got a rousing ovation during the encore. 

Due to the quality of the video, this five star performance will get four stars.  As noted, the audio is the winning factor here and worth the purchase of the set alone.  This only has me wondering, where is the HD release?

Organic Jam Radio playlist 2/3/13

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Organic Jam

WGAO Power 88

February 3, 2013

1.     One More Day – Sol Driven Train - Underdog

2.     A Go Go  - John Scofield – A Go Go

3.     Silent Wood – Wig Party – Glass Girls

4.     Battle – Dangermuffin – Olly Oxen Free

5.     Japanese Cowboy – Ween – 12 Golden Country Greats

6.     Catfish John – Jerry Garcia – Reflections

7.     Jump Sturdy – Dr. John – Gris Gris

8.     We The Common – Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We the Common

9.     The Headmaster Ritual – The Smiths – Meat is Murder

10. I Didn’t See It Coming – Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love

11. Dear Doctor – The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

12. Stage Fright – The Band – Stage Fright

13. No Destruction – Foxygen – We Are the 21^st Century Ambassadors of peace and Magic

14. Black Spot – Local Natives – Hummingbird

15. Straight to Hell – The Clash – Combat Rock

16. Who Sees Who – My Bloody Valentine – MBV

17. Cosmic Dancer – T-REX – Electric Warrior

18. Uncle Remus – Frank Zappa – Apostrophe

19. Apocalypse Dreams – Tame Impala – Lonerism

20. Empty Pages – Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die

21. Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down – Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights

22. Fearless – Pink Floyd - Meddle

23. Oh Yea – Les Racquet – Be Water My Friend

24. You Wanted a Hit – LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening

25. Rose Quartz – Toro Y moi – Anything in Return

26. Girlfriend is Better – Talking Heads – Speaking in Tongues

27. Roadrunner – The Modern Lovers – st

28. Uncontrollable Urge – Devo – Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!

29. Corona – Minutement – Double Nickels on the Dime

30. Right Off – Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson

Phishtory 9 pm to 10:30p

02/20/2003
Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL


Set 2: Tweezer > Punch You In the Eye > Fast Enough for You > Seven Below, Pebbles and Marbles


Encore: Golgi Apparatus, Anything But Me > Tweezer Reprise

Live Dead  10:30 to midnight

Providence Civic Center

Providence, RI (6/26/74)

Me and My Uncle>jam>China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider -> Truckin' -> Other One Jam -> Spanish Jam > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia 

Encore: Eyes of the World