Full Show Friday: The Isley Brothers - Welcome To America Concert 2004

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...The Isley Brothers!

Some months our Full Show Friday's will focus on specific artists, years, venues, festivals or some combo of it all. 

This months Full Show Friday Series is brought to you by the letter I.

Here are The Isley Brothers playing in Philly around the 4th of July in 2004. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, more info below. Enjoy:

The Philadelphia Welcome America Festival is an annual series of celebrations leading up to Independence Day, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently sponsored by convenience store chain Wawa. Coverage of events on July 4th airs on NBC10 & Telemundo62. The 6-day festival features multicultural and multigenerational events, including free concerts, fireworks displays, block parties, a parade, and educational activities. Every year a free outdoor concert is held on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The concert is followed by fireworks. The free live performance has been a Philadelphia tradition for more than two decades.[4] Past performers have included notable hometown acts and top selling artists. From The Reelblack Archive. Shared for historical purposes. \

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Full Show Friday: Wu-Tang Clan- Rock The Bells 4/17/04

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week.. Wu-Tang Clan!

Back to 2004 for Disciples of the 36 Chambers Live. Here comes the Wu-Tang Clan, closing out our Full Show Friday for 2017. While hip-hop is def a studio genre ( it loses most of it's power and precision on the live stage) a Wu Tang show is such an overwhelming experience we needed to share one of their concerts.

We also wanted to feature one with Ol' Dirty Bastard who is amazing in multiple aspects. ODB is the MVP of the Wu and it is a shame he passed away only a few months after this performance. The whole group get in on the act here and it is damn good capturing of the crew. Pro Shot Pro Sound (but out-of-synch unfortunately) and a joy to listen to. Enjoy...and see you in 2018.

The Grateful Dead in Saratoga Part V: The Encore 8-1-2004

Originally I had planned to only do Grateful Dead shows in this Monday's project, but as it turned out I started a theme with this Saratoga August thing and of course this year there had to be 5 Monday's in August with the problem being the Grateful Dead only played Saratoga 4 times in their career.  So what to do?  I am dipping into one of the post Jerry incarnations of the group for today's show, but first a bit on the weekend...

Had an amazing time up in Saratoga this weekend with family, friends, horses and happenings.  Thanks to everyone who made it up and out, I certainly had a blast and Travers Weekend is consistently one of my favorites of the year.  I didn't do so well on the horses, just hitting one true winner on Friday, but I also didn't bet heavily at all this year.

 In the closest Travers Race in my memory Afleet Express won literally nosing out Fly Down in a photo finish!  I stuck with my initial feeling betting on A Little Warm who ended up being 5th.  An exhilarating race that couldn't have been any closer.  Maybe I will post some pictures from the weekend in the future, but now onto the show.

Today's we travel not to far back in time, only to  8-1-2004 Saratoga Performing Arts Center. It finds "The Dead" on their 2004 Summer Wave That Flag Tour, and I was lucky enough to be sitting up in the grass with some friends and family on this night: