We are now heading into the new normal with live music. Live shows will need to be flexible and streaming is a great way to keep music going. Streams have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. We will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing/listening pleasure. You can check out our weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past and as always, please support the artists any which way you can.
Live Stream: Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Stream Bob Weir & Wolf Brothers entire New Years Eve run, starting tonight, on nugs.net.
To get in the mood, here is some live music from the band.
For the last year live music was on lock down (like everything else in New York City). Live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. Things are improving on the pandemic front in this city, but live streams will be an option for the foreseeable future. We will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and as a way to help out the artists. You can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past and as always please support the artists any which way you can.
Today we highlight: St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Live From Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
Ring in the New Year with St. Paul and The Broken Bones. Grab tickets here.
To get in the mood, here is an older tune from the band:
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...Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers!
Let's go back to New Years Eve 1978 as we celebrate New Years Eve 2021 tonight. Who better to host than Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers?!?!? From Santa Monica California, Pro Shot, Pro Sound, full set list below.
Happy New Year and as always, thanks for reading, listening, commenting and participating in any way. All the best to you and yours in 2022 and beyond.....
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica Ca
Setlist:
1:11 I Need To Know
3:33 Surrender
6:26 Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)
12:34 Tom Talks, Intro To Casa Dega
13:10 Casa Dega
18:27 Refugee
22:18 You're Gonna Get It
26:36 Mystery Man
29:56 American Girl
34:19 Breakdown n/a Runaway
41:30 Too Much Ain't Enough
46:00 Band leaves
48:02 (Encore) Shout
For the last year live music was on lock down (like everything else in New York City). Live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. Things are improving on the pandemic front in this city, but live streams will be an option for the foreseeable future. We will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and as a way to help out the artists. You can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past and as always please support the artists any which way you can.
Today we highlight: Phish Live on New Years Eve
Phish had to reschedule their upcoming New Years Eve run at Madison Square Garden until April, but are not taking 12/31 off from playing. They have announced a free, streaming 3-set show, that they will be playing sans audience at The Ninth Cube (a reference to their Halloween Sci-fi Solider performance):
Omicron is reeking havoc with holiday events and Phish (along with their fans) are no exception.
The Vermont jamband had been scheduled to start a 4 night run next week at The World's Most Famous Arena, but now that will have to wait until April 20th. From the band:
With the Omicron variant of Covid-19 surging in New York City, we have made the very difficult decision to reschedule next week’s run of shows at Madison Square Garden.
The health and safety of Phish fans, our crew, and venue staff is paramount in our minds. While Phish has played shows this year as the pandemic has continued, this variant’s ability for rapid transmission is unprecedented.
We are also mindful that a significant number of people travel for these shows and then return to their communities, and we want to avoid accelerating transmission of the virus. Finally, even with the strictest of tour Covid protocols, the prolonged exposure of a four-night indoor run (plus the days of preparation and travel) to critical crew and staff considerably increases the possibility of having to shut the shows down once they’ve started.
We’re fortunate to have found a four-night window in The Garden’s schedule, and the shows will now take place April 20-23, 2022, including a three-set show (as originally planned for New Year’s Eve) on April 22.
Ticket holders can request a refund anytime over the next 30 days, beginning today, if they cannot commit to the rescheduled show date. If a refund is not requested during the allotted time, tickets will be valid for the new show date. Please note: If you purchased from an authorized ticket sales channel.(Ticketmaster, Phish Tickets, CID or venue website) these ticketing partners will be contacting all buyers shortly with further instructions.
Thank you all for your understanding. Stay healthy and safe, take care of each other out there and please get vaccinated and boosted if you haven’t already.
That is just one of the many shows/events that will be getting canceled/rescheduled in NYC over the next few weeks. Let's hope Omicron leaves just as quickly as it arrived.
To cheer up the mood here is a live version of "Punch You In The Eye" from MSG back in 2011:
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...Phish!
For December RtBE is having a special focus with our Full Show Friday's. This month we will showcase live shows, that we were at and also were huge influences on our musical tastes. We will also be trying to get some outside perspectives when we can. This will be a fun and personal month for us, hope you enjoy.
We are finishing up this week with the mother of all shows. We gathered a great group of friends and loved ones to head down to Florida for the show that ended the millennium in the swamps. Phish put on a mega weekend of music, we have said this before but we will say this again....
Out of every live show we have ever seen, this one takes the top spot.
Today we are just showcasing the midnight set, but hot damn is this a doozy, the band played from midnight til 7:45 in the morning...straight. Just when you thought it might fall apart, it soared. The band was in the best form of their career and they knew it.
We thought they may cover a full album, we thought they may pay tribute to The Grateful Dead, but all they did was play beautiful tunes in their fashion. This is also our peak involvement with the band. We had done a few shows on the Winter Tour, a week on the Summer Tour and basically caught every show we could after getting into the band in '96 and '97.
The band went loooooong and it was classic, the highlights are numerous. "The Twist">"Prince Caspian">"Rock & Roll" trio was a blast, we were stoked for the mid-set "Albuquerque", the "Drowned"> "After Midnight Reprise" was a huge blast. The peak may have just been "Piper">"Free" two of our favorite songs that are just played at the peak of the band and crowds power...huge.
We could probably write a book about this show, but for now the music will do the talking....Enjoy:
While Phish is most certainly a Vermont band, they have a second home inside the Worlds Most Famous Arena and will be returning there to say goodbye to 2015 and hello to 2016 for another New Years Eve run at MSG.
Glide has all the info on the tour here and you can start putting in for tickets here. We always try to catch the band at least once when they play the Garden and this year will be the same. Pre show beers at Billymarks West, a fun ass show, then probably more local drinks and that sounds like a damn good holiday night.
Below are some videos from their past NYE MSG run from 12/29/13 to get you in the mood. Good luck with tickets and hope to see you there.
"It's Ice" 12/29/13 Live
New Years Eve used to be one of my favorite holidays on the calendar but I have burnt out on it in recent years and will probably just be chilling at home.
That said why not relive one of the best new years I have ever had via the old You Tube:
I don't care that the quality sucks, the best live concert I have ever been to hands down, and for any Phish fan who doesn't think so obviously wasn't there...Here's hoping that the band plays half as well as then for any of you going tonight.
Out with 2013, in with 2014...see you on the flipside...
With Halloween here, the New Years Eve Show announcements are in full swing as tickets are being bought, plans are being made and rocking into the new year is not that far off on the horizon. While there are some intriguing local things we may or may not partake in, so far our to our eyes the best looking gig will take place on the left coast.
A quick side note, dressing as Wonka was one of the finalists for Halloween Costumes this year...we will be dressing up tomorrow....but back to NYE. I don't think we will make that one, but we are hoping for some good live audio, and maybe some visuals to trickle back our way come the new year. Here is some live old Primus with Herb, some live Frogs, and some Wonka, cause Why not?
Primus "Tommy The Cat" and "Sgt. Baker" Love Les's Steal Your Face Shirt...
Col Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade (Herb on drums here too) "Thela Hun Ginjeet" King Crimson Cover:
After being much more involved in the Phish scene in the past Phish 3.0 has been regulated to a once a year happening for RtBE and for the last 2 years those shows have come during the New Years Run held at MSG. Last years show was an old school setlist, throwing down with friends I hadn't seen in a long time, amazing MSG energy levels (floor bouncing and all) and all this was going on during a pretty ripping "Axilla"
When things wrapped up after a "Run Like an Antelope" >"Tweezer Reprise" encore, I couldn't have asked for anything more; it completely satisfied my Phish fix for exactly 364 days. On 12/29 this year more old friends gathered in the "new" garden to get the festivities going. Shortly stated, the first set on this night was top notch all around. Every song was a highlight in some way, starting with "Y.E.M" as the second song, after a really old "Sloth" opener. The second set was a mixed bag.
One of my hang ups with Phish 3.0 (as to say 2.0 or pre-hiatus) is that there seems to be a lack of real adventure. They still will jam out (and are the best live band I have ever seen) but in past incarnations of the group ANY song could explode into unexplored territory, and that just isn't the case with 3.0. Now you get LOTS of songs per show, expertly played, and you can expect a bust out here or there...but that sense of pure abandon, or playing with zero net doesn't seem to be something they are that interested presenting anymore. I always enjoyed a shallower song pool with the possibility that any song could be the platform for magic any night.
One example of this is "Back On The Train" whose version from Nassau in 2003 blew my mind. Here was a simple song of the bands that rolled into one of the highlight jams I ever heard them play. It instantly became a favorite of mine and was a delight to hear tonight in the Garden with the same people I caught the barn burner in 03 with.
That personal fav, leaked into a funky as all get out "MOMA Dance" before the band shifted it over gear during "Funky Bitch" which found Page McConnell playing his face off on his keys. It has been said when Page is in high gear Phish will be rocking and that was exactly the case on this night:
They kept up the Page/Trey interwoven/dueling motif with a blistering (as always) "Maze" next before the much loved cover of Ween's "Roses are Free". It is always fun to see fans cheer out to certain lines that apply to them and "Get In Your Car And Cruise The Land Of The Brave & Free" certainly adds up nicely with Phish's constantly touring fan base:
The "Halley's Comet" > "Run Like An Antelope" set closer was a great way to cap off a fantastically scripted set. No downers in the bunch and the arena was primed for things to soar even higher...
With those opening notes of the Talking Heads live classic "Crosseyed & Painless" the 4 guys seemed to want to push the envelope as well while Fishman sang and Mike grooved away. This is a fantastic cover by the band and one that shines the more exposure they give it.
The "Simple" seemed a bit jarring and while a decent version that song benefits from bubbling up organically from a jam and surprising. The fans seemed to really be pumped to hear "Lifeboy" but I am not really sure why as this ballad has never been one of the bands best, in fact it seemed to suck the life completely out of the second set and proves the point while and amazing live act, Phish has never really written a great song, arguably "Bouncing Around The Room" is their high water mark on that front.
That evil pig "Guyute" tried to dance a jig and re-energize things via Chris Kuroda's consistently best light arraignment, but things really didn't pick back up until "Mike's Song" got down and funky. The band surprised many in attendance by amping the rock factor by segueing into "Chalkdust Torture" which got the crowd cheering before flowing via hard rock riffs into "I Am Hydrogen"
That segue (13:45 in above video) had an Allman Brothers flair and was the highlight of the night as "Hydrogen" and "Chalkdust" proved they could meld nicely. It would have been interesting to see the band keep this up longer, yet it showed they are not against toying with their own "classics". The funky "Weekapaug Groove" followed, but the band clearly wanted to keep rocking and tried to do so via their new song "Show of Life" which plays like a classic rock radio number, very straight forward for this weird band. It must be noted though a lot of fans flooded the bathrooms for this one before they rushed back for the set closing "Character Zero" RtBE did just the opposite as Zero has never been a favorite and we were curious to hear the new tune.
The rock jones was still alive in the Vermont foursome as they ripped out a screeching cover of the Rolling Stones classic "Loving Cup" to end the night via a killer one song encore.
While perhaps not as consistently great or personally pleasing as 12-30-10 this should hold me over for a long time with the band as there were glimpses of their past greatness, but a reminder that they just aren't the same band who I used to tour with in the late '90's early '00's, and that's fine for both of us...who knows though, maybe we will meet again for a show on Summer Tour this year.
So I passed on catching Phish so far in 2011. There were lots of reasons, but it mainly boils down to I am not nearly as enamored with version 3.0 of the band as I was of 1.0 or 2.0 (I know I am probably in the minority with the 2.0, but I dug that era immensely).
All that said, one reason I held out was I love seeing the band in MSG more then any other arena out there and the combo of NYE+NYC and Phish is pretty much perfect.
("Harpua" from the 1997 NYE run which ranks as one of my personal favorite tours of the band, just check out this "Tube" from 12-29 a show that I was at)
Getting a chance to catch up with old friends, see people from tours long gone, and being in my home city all help, but the real magic lies in the band's playing when they are on that particular stage. I have traveled across the country to see them in the past and no other venue gets the boys as juiced as MSG.
("Ghost" from 12/31/2010)
So it is with much joy that I read this AM that Phish will be doing another NYE run at the Garden. 4 nights, 28-31 so grab your tickets now. I am looking at 29 or 30th at this point, but open for all. Get in there, and have a good show, maybe I will see you at Billymarks pre and post, partyin' it up, best of luck getting good seats.
