• Talking Heads — 7/4/82 — Rock Werchter Fest, Belgium
• Jimi Hendrix — 7/4/70 — Atlanta, Georgia
• Jeff Beck Group FEATURING ROD STEWART, RON WOOD AND TONY NEWMAN — 7/4/69 - Newport Jazz Festival, RI
• Stevie Ray Vaughan — 7/4/81 — Kansas City, Missouri
• Neil Young — 7/4/85 — Austin, Texas
• Pink Floyd — 7/4/77 — New York, NY
• Wilco — 7/4/01 — Grant Park, Chicago IL
• Buddy Guy — 7/4/92 — Sydenham, UK
• Creedence Clearwater Revival — 7/4/71 — Fillmore West, CA
• Radiohead — 7/4/00 - Berlin, Germany
• John McLaughlin — 7/4/86 — Hollabrunn, Austria
• David Bromberg — 7/4/92 — High Sierra Music Festival
• Doc & Merle Watson — 7/4/80 — Charlotte, North Carolina
• Ornette Coleman — 7/4/78 — Berlin, Germany
• Ray Charles — 7/4/96 — Lugano, Switzerland
• Grateful Dead July Fourth Shows: 1969, 1981, 1984, 1987 with the Lucious Bobby Dylan and 1990
• Phil Lesh & Friends — 7/4/01 — Snoqualmie, Washington
• Leo Kottke — 7/4/92 — New York, NY
• Yonder Mountain String Band — 7/4/06 — Cincy, Ohio
• Finally, here are a couple of Phish shows, if you’re into that sort of thing: 7/4/99 in Atlanta and 7/4/00 in Camden

Enjoy your holidays, and try not to blow off your fingers with idiocy…

As there are many people who read this blog that are annual JazzFest visitors, I have to say that I had the Banana’s Foster flavor and it was great. As you can see on the attached pic, Two Boots has even taken the extra step to suggest their custom slice->Max & Mina ice cream pairings. This is some good stuff, I may have to head out to Queens to check out the original Max & Mina’s in Kew Gardens which is at 7126 Main St, Flushing. I am always out there looking for new foodie discoveries…

Other goings on in the foodie-verse this week

With all of the new food trucks popping up, you knew something was brewing behind the scenes: The NY Times broke the story Tuesday afternoon: Six Arrested in Probe of City’s Food Vendors.

READ ON for more goings on from Jon…

4th of July means Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest, which is included in Ed Levine Eats list of NYC Food Events for the Weekend (and Beyond) who also bring us: Learn It, Don’t Burn It: NYC Food Classes, 7/2 to 7/10

Don’t know if you have been to Mayahuel, Phil Wards new bar on East 6th Street that is focused on Tequilas and Mezcals. He partnered with Time Out NY to shows the rest of us How to make the perfect margarita.

While we are on the subject of cocktails, The bar in the Crowne Plaza Times Square (On Broadway and 49th) will be serving free mojitos every Monday from 6pm to 8pm, throughout the Summer. (from Midtown Lunch via RareDaily).

Grub Street reported that The Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory has pitched a tented cart outside Grand Central to sell ice cream daily through August from noon to 7 p.m. (via Blondie and Brownie).

If you are a wine person, check our the article that Bon Appetit’s Andrew Knowlton wrote: What to Drink on the 4th: Best BBQ Wines Under $15.

Here’s a great roundup of summer foods found in NYC restaurants called  Summer Treats by RestaurantGirl.

The Feedbag reviewed and took some great pictures at both The Fancy Food Show at the Javitz and The Unfancy Food Show in Williamsburg.

A few food related things from the twitter feed as well.

bayareabites Microbrewer Brian Hunt founded the Moonlight Brewing Company in Santa Rosa http://ow.ly/gpEI Hear him talks about the craft of brewing beer.

Rick_Bayless http://twitpic.com/93f8t - It’s time: retesting Summer Margarita (muddled cuke with tequila, lime, simple syrup, cilantro); on menu July 14!

savoryexposure This looks delicious, having flashbacks of Eatzi’s lemonade RT @smittenkitchen New post! watermelon lemonade http://tinyurl.com/n9t2ql

TastingTableNYC Pre-fireworks, get 50% off wines-by-the-glass at City Winery (7/4, 9 to 10 p.m.): http://bit.ly/qLsT9

terroirNY Did you know that we r baking a fresh pie everyday at Hearth? Today it’s rhubarb-strawberry w vanilla ice cream.When we sell 8 slices, gone!

SylviaEnder Best Prix Fixe menu in #Hamptons is at Almond http://bit.ly/4g5FD $25 6-7pm EVERY NITE! Recommend mussels & roast chicken!

EatingLA Free screening of “Food, Inc.” next Thursday at Sunset 5, courtesy of Chipotle. Go to Chipotle.com/foodinc for tix.

evankleiman Pie-a-Day #14 Fried Peach Pie…sick good http://twitpic.com/933lu

hotfoodporn From failblog. #RestaurantNameFAIL http://bit.ly/uGt5E

To finish things off, since this is the 4th of July weekend, The NY Times decided to speak to some of the top food people around for their article: The Perfect Burger and All Its Parts.

Friday, July 3 [all times EDT]:

• Genesis: When In Rome [Palladia HD 9:30PM]
• Conan O’Brien: Incubus [NBC 11:35PM]
• Jimmy Kimmel: Bat For Lashes [ABC Midnight]

Saturday, July 4:

• Live From The Artists Den: Ben Harper [PBS Check Local]
• Austin City Limits: Van Morrison [PBS Check Local]
• Jimmy Hendrix Experience: American Landing [Ovation 2:30AM]

Sunday, July 5:

• John Fogerty: The Long Road Home [VH1 Classic 9:30AM]
• Jack Johnson et al: Kokua Festival [Sundance 12:15PM]
• Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live @ Radio City [HDNet 6:20PM]

[Photo by Dave Vann]

Today, the Desert Sun ran a follow-up article indicating that Coachella concert promoter Paul Tolett was due to meet with Phish production manager Hadden Hipsley yesterday without revealing any details about what transpired between the two. Meanwhile, city officials claim they haven’t seen any contract or agreement. The Save The Date graphic on Phish.com still has plenty of States left, but it’s becoming clear which state will host the festival on October 30 through November 1.

Over on the East Coast, our friend Sam McDonald of the Daily Press - a fine journo who wrote a ton of articles about every aspect of Phish’s three-night stand at the Hampton Coliseum in March - has put together a piece about speculation that the jam maestros will return to the Mothership as part of their fall tour. McDonald even got a source to give the rumor legs…

A Hampton city government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Phish is definitely coming back this year — probably sometime in the fall.

In these harsh economic times local officials LOVE the financial shot in the arm that the Phish community can bring making a potential visit from the quartet a big story. Times have certainly changed from the days when Phish was supposedly banned from Red Rocks and other venues.

Steve Winwood - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

It’s an odyssey to undertake, delving into deep, deep caverns of frightening emptiness and space, but eventually the band works through a maddening meltdown and eases into that gorgeous GDTRFB passage that shows up periodically in early ’70s GD in any number of places, and it glows. The jam bounds upward, and the group tears into Sugar Magnolia and then surprisingly into the first Caution in a year and a half. Phil and Jerry pound into the final train wreck with stunning, evil grin eliciting force. Enjoy!

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Rumors are swirling that the quartet will perform at the Polo Fields in Indio, California where the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals are held each year near Palm Springs, but nothing is confirmed at this point except for the date and the fact that the band will indeed be hosting a festival. Starting on October 31, 1994, Phish concerts on Halloween were three set affairs in which the band would don a “musical costume” in the second set by performing a classic album by another artist. The group played The Beatles’ White Album in 1994, Quadrophenia by The Who in 1995, Remain In Light by the Talking Heads in 1996 and Loaded by the Velvet Underground in 1998.

This announcement leaves fans with a number of questions, so we want to hear from you. Where do you think they’ll play and what album do you think they’ll cover? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

UPDATE: All sorts of theories abound in our comments section. Be sure to read all of the insightful comments from our readers.

I’ll never forget the day late Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland passed away in 1990. I was playing hockey at Camp Westmont when a bunkmate’s brother came down the hill to tell us Brent had died. Now, I’ll be honest - I didn’t know a thing about the band at the time, but I wanted to find out. One of my Deadhead counselors turned me onto David Gans and Peter Simon’s well-written biography of the band, Playing in the Band, and I was immediately fascinated by the history of the band.

Over the past twenty years, I’ve read a number of books on the Grateful Dead and some are spectacular and some aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. The latest tome on the band - Peter Conners’ Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead - is available now at Amazon.com and in honor of what looks to be a terrific addition to a Deadhead’s bookshelf, I’ve put together a list of my ten favorite books on the band…

10. Skeleton Key - David Shenk, Steve Silberman

I’ll never forget David & Steve’s book as the first time I ever saw the phrase 4:20. Skeleton Key offers bite-sized tidbits on phrases that are part of the Deadhead vocabulary - such as 4:20 - among its 400 pages of history, lore, and interviews about the band.

READ ON for nine more of Scotty’s favorite books on the Dead…

9. Between the Dark and Light: The Grateful Dead Photography of Jay Blakesberg

Legendary photographer Jay Blakesberg provides over 900 mind-blowing photos of the band in action that are complemented nicely by essays from Dead historians Blair Jackson and J. C. Juanis as well as Blakesberg’s own reflections on following and shooting the band from 1979 onwards.

8. Grateful Dead Gear: All the Band’s Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions, 1965-1995 - Blair Jackson

One of the most recent books on the band comes from longtime Deadhead writer Blair Jackson. This whole list could’ve been filled with Jackson’s comprehensive studies of the band including the engaging Jerry biography Garcia - An American Life, the quick and easy reading Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad - A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion and 1983’s The Music Never Stopped biography, but as a music gear geek I’ve gotta tip my hat towards his book on the band’s gear and recording “adventures.” I find cool new gems of information each time I pick it up.

7. Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Dead - Rock Scully with David Dalton

I always felt a little dirty reading former Dead manager Rock Scully’s tell-all book about the Dead, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t interesting to read about all the glorious moments and nasty shit that went down during his tenure with the band.

6. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - David Dodd

Back in 1994 - before everyone knew what the internet was - David Dodd started building a website with the goal of annotating the entire Grateful Dead catalog. After 13 years - and many submissions by Deadheads including GD lyricist Robert Hunter - Dodd compiled an encyclopedic book with annotations on nearly every Dead original and many covers.

5. Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia - Robert Greenfield

Jerry Garcia’s life story isn’t filled with sunshine and lollipops; Captain Trips had some major demons that kept him down for decades. Dark Star was a painful but intriguing read filled with interviews from nearly 70 Grateful Dead associates. Sometimes oral biographies have a tendency to be choppy and lack focus, but Greenfield weaves the words of Jerry’s friends well and engages the reader throughout.

4. Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead - Steve Parish

No one spent more time with Jerry Garcia than roadie Steve Parish. Parish waited till Jerry was long gone to finally put his thoughts together in a respectful way, but with plenty of inside stories to keep us entertained. Look for a movie based on Parish’s book soon.

3. Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead - Phil Lesh

Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh penned an autobiography in 2005, just in time to celebrate the band’s 40th Anniversary. Lesh tells the story of the band’s early days from his own perspective. He doesn’t ignore the bad times and injects his personality throughout.

2. Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead - David Gans and Peter Simon

I would hide under my covers after lights out at summer camp to read one of the first - and still one of the best - histories of the band. There have been plenty of exhaustive examinations of the band, but for a newcomer to the scene this book’s light touch gives the perfect intro to the history of the Dead.

1. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead - Dennis McNally

Whereas Playing In The Band is perfect for the casual Deadhead, Dennis McNally’s book offers new information for even the most seasoned of veteran fans. McNally was originally hired by the Dead to write a biography but his duties as the band’s publicist kept him away from that task as they toured the country throughout the ’80s and into the mid ’90s. At over 600 pages, A Long Strange Trip tackles every era of the band’s existence in depth. This masterfully written volume stands out as the definitive book on the Dead.