The Derailers play Booker T & The MG\’s \”Green Onions\”

Sweet Basil McJagger of The Derailers wails away at “Green Onions”. Performed at the 2011 Zoofest in Lincoln, NE.

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The Derailers play “Green Onions” is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

Merry Christmas from BurningOak.com and The Staxx Brothers!

All I Could Get You Was A Slow Jam For Christmas… is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

I’d just like to say a quick thanks to all of you who stopped by yesterday for the contest. The following winners selected from the comments on the contest page have been contacted:

Grand Prize:

Kody K from Washington
John B from Illinois

Poster Prizes:

Jeff T from Vermont
Jeremy R from North Carolina

Thanks again everybody and congratulations to the winners!

Phish 3D Contest Winners is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

Alright, I just received this package in the mail today compliments of Phish and the Phish 3D production agency.   I’ve got 4 passes and 4 movie posters to give away randomly to the people who comment on this post by Midnight Pacific time tonight, Sunday, May 2nd.

There’s not much time left to see the movie, it’s only in theaters until May 6th I think, and some theaters only had it last weekend, so look up the local show times at Phish3DMovie.com > Theaters and make sure there’s a showing near you Wednesday or later this week (to make sure the package has time to reach you).

How To Enter:
Leave a comment down below and be sure to leave your email in the email field (I’m the only one that will see it).  If you’re one of the lucky winners, I’ll contact you tomorrow (Monday) to arrange for shipping for one of the following prizes.  Also, if you don’t have any local movie showings later this week but still want to be in the running for a poster, let me know in your comment that you just want the poster.

• Two (2) “Grand Prizes”: Each containing 2 movie tickets and a concert poster.
• Two Poster Giveaways: Each containing 1 of the official movie posters.

Good luck!

Contest: Win Phish 3D Movie Tickets and Poster is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

PHISH 3D – In Theatres April 30TH, click here if you can’t see the video.

Just got offered a pair of tickets.  I can’t actually go to the pre-screening but I’m hoping to make it to the opening night on April 30th…

3D Phish: The Movie Trailer is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

“Everybody’s smilin’ as they march in the parade, and there’s something that they’re drinkin’ and it isn’t lemonade, whether you are black or white or even old and gray, everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day…”

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

Monday I posted the first disc of a bootleg of Ryan Adams playing Grateful Dead songs.  Today I’ve just updated that post with disc 2 of the collection featuring Wharf Rat, St. Stephen, Bertha, Franklin’s Tower, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Stella Blue, and Ripple.  The tracks were all collected from live shows throughout 2005 and 2006, some from Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, and some from live shows with Ryan Adams joining Phil Lesh & Friends.  Here’s a repeat of the tracklist, or you can just go download a .zip of the disc 2 files at 2Shared (Download ZIP of MP3s Expired).

Track 201. Wharf Rat
Date: 7/23/2006
Location: Charlottesville Pavilion-Charlottesville, VA

Track 202. St. Stephen
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: Track 212/29/2005
Location: Fillmore Auditoium-San Francisco, CA

Track 203. Bertha
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 7/16/2005
Location: Red Rocks Amphitheater-Morrison, CO

Track 204. Franklin’s Tower
Date: 7/25/2006
Location: Bijou Theatre-Knoxville, TN

Track 205. (Please visit link to download Track 5) – China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: Track 27/16/2005
Location: Red Rocks Amphitheater-Morrison, CO

Track 206. Stella Blue
Date: 10/16/2006
Location: Muffathalle-Munchen, Germany

Track 207. (Please visit link to download Track 7) – Ripple
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 12/31/2005
Location: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium-San Francisco, CA

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Ryan Adams Plays Dead – Disc 2 Now Uploaded! is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

“The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society” is being presented between now and July 4th in NYC.  If you have the chance to visit be sure to check it out, it looks fascinating.  From the New York Times, by Larry Rohter:

The Grateful Dead performed the last of their more than 2,300 concerts in 1995 and thus belong increasingly to history, not the present. Two related events make that reality clear: a new exhibition about the band that has just opened at the New-York Historical Society and the recent creation of the much larger archive, housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which it is drawn.

“The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society,” which continues through July 4, includes only a tiny part of the material that the band donated to the university in 2008. But as the first large-scale public showing of artifacts from the collection, it offers a tantalizing glimpse of material that is stirring the interest not just of hard-core Deadheads but also of scholars.

The items on display include instruments, letters from Deadheads, memos from the band’s business meetings, newsletters, concert programs and T-shirt designs. There is also a rare original poster from one of Ken Kesey’s mid-1960s Acid Tests, and even the 1968 letter in which Warner Brothers Records renewed the band’s recording contract, with a paltry 8 percent royalty rate for domestic releases (and 5 percent abroad).

Though the Grateful Dead were based in the San Francisco Bay area and were closely identified with the psychedelic movement that emerged in the mid-1960s there, Louise Mirrer, president of the historical society, justified the exhibition by referring to the band’s “great New York pedigree.” The Dead first played New York City in June 1967 and went on to perform here more than 150 times, including many shows at the Fillmore East, which Ms. Mirrer called “the band’s home away from home.”

The larger archive at the university, which has received a $615,000 grant from the federal government’s Institute of Museum and Library Services but is looking for additional financing, will have both a physical and an online presence. But even before the archive is fully mounted, the historians, sociologists, anthropologists, theologians, musicologists and other academic researchers who make up the growing field known as Grateful Dead Studies are eager to plunge in.

“We’re ecstatic with anticipation,” said Nicholas Meriwether, editor of “All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon” and a historian at the University of South Carolina. “That archive is a remarkable window not just into Haight-Ashbury and the dawn of the modern rock theater, but to all the documentary evidence and heritage of the counterculture and all the issues historians are concerned about in discussing the 1960s.”

The archive was one of the subjects talked about last month when the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus convened in Albuquerque for its 13th annual meeting. In a journal called Dead Letters some of the researchers have also published essays with titles like “The Taoist Perspective in ‘Weather Report Suite,’ ” and “How the Music Played the Band: Grateful Dead Improvisation and Merleau-Ponty.”

“If I were starting out, I’d find the archive to be amazing as a way to bring a fresh eye and new perspective to what happened,” said Rebecca G. Adams, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who has been researching the Deadhead phenomenon for more than two decades. “There are millions of projects people could do.”

In addition business scholars and executives are starting to regard the Dead’s business model as worthy of examination. This month’s issue of The Atlantic includes an article called “Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead,” and band members have recently appeared on cable television business channels to discuss their consensus-based management style.

“They had a brilliant business acumen without being business people, and may have been the most egalitarian business organization ever,” said Barry Barnes, a Deadhead and professor at Nova Southeastern University’s school of business and entrepreneurship in Fort Lauderdale, FL. “They are credited with inventing viral marketing, and with their emphasis on superior customer value and use of technology, long before the Internet, they were in tune with a lot of practices we see now.”

Like so many other things related to the Grateful Dead, though, the archive is largely the product of happenstance, not design. Early on, the band hired a veteran of the Acid Tests, Eileen Law, as a liaison to its fans, and she made a point of preserving what other musical groups of the era would have considered ephemera.

“Eileen saved everything and was extremely methodical,” said Dennis McNally, author “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead” and the band’s longtime publicist. “She began as the ministering mother to all Deadheads, the voice on the answering machine, but she became the keeper of stuff, and that all this marvelous material is there is to her credit.”

After Jerry Garcia, a founder of the band and its lead guitarist, died in 1995, the group gradually wound down its business affairs, a process that lasted well into the next decade. Fredric Lieberman, chairman of the music department at the Santa Cruz campus, had traveled with the band and worked with Mickey Hart, one of the band’s drummers, on some projects, including a pair of books. He was aware of the extent of the material Ms. Law had collected and thought that scholars would find it useful — if it could be preserved.

“It was taking up a lot of space in a storage area in Marin, and it looked like they were just going to throw it away,” Mr. Lieberman said. “I basically said that I didn’t care where the archive went so long as it was maintained and not dispersed. Mickey thought first of the Library of Congress, since he’s on the board there, but given all the other things they have to do, their budget didn’t seem conducive to the kind of cataloging that was going to be required.”

Other universities besides Santa Cruz were also contacted and expressed interest in the archive, among them Stanford. But in the end band members decided they “wanted to go to a public institution because the whole idea of it being public and free was important to them,” said Christine Bunting, the director of special collections and archives at the Santa Cruz university’s library.

What remains unclear, however, is to what extent, the archive will be able to make available what is probably the band’s most valuable asset: its own recordings of three decades of live shows.

“We’re not going to be doing anything that people haven’t heard anywhere else,” Ms. Bunting said. “That doesn’t mean people can’t come here and listen, because we will have music playing. But we’re not competing with their business.”

The university is now engaged, though, in digitizing much of the other material, including documents and photographs. The plan is to make as much as possible available online through what is being called Virtual Terrapin Station, a name taken from a 1977 album, where Deadheads past and future not only can come to look but also can donate items and ideas of their own.

“I always knew what this was worth — the artwork, the guest lists and all the other things the crew brought back from the road,” Ms. Law said in a telephone interview. “It was just something that came naturally to me. People in the office would say, ‘We don’t need this stuff, get rid of it,’ and instead I would hide it all. So I’m just so happy that it has found a home, the right home.”

Grateful Dead at The New York Historical Society is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

So, one of my absolute favorite sources for live shows online posted another gem today:  A collection of Ryan Adams live recordings chronicling his covers of the Grateful Dead.  It appears to have been compiled by Chris Goodwin over at RyanAdamsArchive.com.  Adams fans will recall him playing a number of shows with Phil Lesh in the past, but this is a 2-disc collection of highlights from his shows with Phil Lesh, with The Cardinals, and his solo work.  The first disc has been posted and the 2nd disc will be posted next week.  Here’s what we’ve got so far:

RYAN ADAMS
Ryan Is Dead: Ryan Adams performs The Grateful Dead [no label, 2CD]
Selection compiled by Chris Goodwin (goodwin1970 (at) verizon.net). More good stuff at www.ryanadamsarchive.com. Almost all soundboard.

“Adams befriended Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, after first meeting him at the Jammys awards in New York in 2005. The two performed Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter’s Grateful Dead classic, Wharf Rat. Adams performed at subsequent outings of Phil Lesh and Friends, including a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver, Colorado and on New Year’s Eve 2005 at the Bill Graham Event Center in San Francisco. Throughout 2006, Lesh’s live performances included compositions by Adams, including several from Cold Roses (Cold Roses, Let It Ride, and Magnolia Mountain).”

There are three or four songs here without Phil Lesh. When Adams do these Dead tunes, his band the Cardinals’ enthusiasm make them different from the Dead’s style of controlled majesty, knowing how to build a song quietly until it reaches maximum intensity. Franklin’s Tower departs from Dead territory and sounds like an indie rock song.

This is a splendid collection with great sound. Thanks go to Chris Goodwin who made this compilation and xxxballion who shared it.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality MP3s – sample rate of 192 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.”

Disc One: – CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD DISC ONE FROM (SENDSPACE) (2SHARED)

Or cick below to download track by track (Please email updates (at) burningoak (dot) com if you have download troubles):

Track 101. Cold Rain & Snow (14.5MB – visit the html page to download the track)
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 7/16/2005
Location: Red Rocks Amphitheater-Morrison, CO

Track 102. Friend Of The Devil (8.9MB)
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 7/16/2005
Location: Red Rocks Amphitheater-Morrison, CO

Track 103. Bird Song (11.6MB)
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Date: 6/3/2005
Location: Northern Lights-Clifton Park, NY

Track 104. Truckin’ (17.1MB – visit the html page to download the track)

Track 105. Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad (5.7MB)

Track 106. Not Fade Away (3.1MB)
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 7/15/2005
Location: Fillmore Auditorium-Denver, CO

Track 107. He’s Gone (8.8MB)
Date: 7/22/2006
Location: Norva-Norfolk, VA

Track 108. It Must Have Been The Roses (9.3MB)
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 7/15/2005
Location: Fillmore Auditorium-Denver, CO

Disc Two Available for Download!  (Sendspace) (2Shared)

Track 201. Wharf Rat
Date: 7/23/2006
Location: Charlottesville Pavilion-Charlottesville, VA

Track 202. St. Stephen
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: Track 212/29/2005
Location: Fillmore Auditoium-San Francisco, CA

Track 203. Bertha
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 7/16/2005
Location: Red Rocks Amphitheater-Morrison, CO

Track 204. Franklin’s Tower
Date: 7/25/2006
Location: Bijou Theatre-Knoxville, TN

Track 205. (Please visit link to download Track 5) – China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: Track 27/16/2005
Location: Red Rocks Amphitheater-Morrison, CO

Track 206. Stella Blue
Date: 10/16/2006
Location: Muffathalle-Munchen, Germany

Track 207. (Please visit link to download Track 7) – Ripple
w/Phil Lesh & Friends
Date: 12/31/2005
Location: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium-San Francisco, CA

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The band for July 15-16, 2005 are
Phil Lesh, Ryan Adams (guitar+vocals), Jimmy Herring (guitar), Jeff Sipe (drums), Rob Barraco (keys), Barry Sless (guitar+pedal steel)

The band for Dec 31, 2005 are
Phil Lesh, Joan Osborne (vocals), Ryan Adams (vocals, guitar), Larry Campbell (guitar & more), John Molo (drums), Rob Barraco (keys), Barry Sless (guitar+pedal steel)

The rest of the tracks are Ryan Adams and the Cardinals.

Ryan Adams Plays The Grateful Dead is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog

YouTube user iamhydrogeno2 has assembled an awesome collection of Muppet band Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem covering a TON of Phish songs, including Cavern, Llama, and Birds of a Feather. Not only that, but he’s got more videos, including Jim Henson’s Muppet Band, and Count von Count from Sesame Street singing Scents and Subtle Sounds. Most of these only have a couple hundred views and a few were just posted yesterday, but they’re all awesome:

Cavern

Birds of a Feather

Llama

Split Open and Melt

Jim Henson’s Muppet Band covers Scent of a Mule by Phish

Down With Disease

Count von Count from Sesame Street sings Scents and Subtle Sounds by Phish

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem cover Phish Tunes is a post from: Burning Oak Music Blog