Ghost Stories – An Audio Post
Red Rocks - 7.31 (W.Rogell)
I’ve really been enjoying the audio posts as of late, and after four-hour baseball games, there’s nothing like unwinding with some Phish to the dome as the evening moves on. Sticking with a theme, this time I focused on “Ghost,” a song that has launched jams of all shapes and sizes. “Ghost’s” improv has been diverse and consistent since its debut (see below), but for this mix, I focused more on the groove side of things, speckled with doses of fast-paced psychedelia. Pulling several classics off the shelves I’ve crafted a small musical stanza of “Ghost Stories.” With Halloween around the corner, some spooky tales should serve the season right. With most of us leaving one week from today – it’s about to be on – Indio awaits!
[audio:http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/01-Ghost-Stories.mp3]Lossless Version < Link
Van Andel 11/11/98 > Hampton 11/21/97 > Vancouver 9/9/99 > Albany 12/13/97 > Lakewood 7/23/97 > Radio City 5/22/00 > Denver 11/17/97 > Philly 12/5/97
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Jam of the Day:
“Chalk Dust > Ghost > Oblivious Fool” – 6.13.97 II
[audio:http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ph97-06-13s2t06.mp3,http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ph97-06-13s2t07.mp3,http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ph97-06-13s2t08.mp3]This late-second set segment from Dublin’s first show of Summer ’97 included the debuts of “Ghost” and “Oblivious Fool.”
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DOWNLOAD OF THE DAY:
12.18.99 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA < Torrent
12.18.99 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA < MegaUpload
The last night of a monster year of ’99 before we met up in the swamps of Big Cypress. Phish finished their December tour with a bang, opening with a goregous “Harry Hood,” and highlighting the massive second-set “2001 > Sand” and “Mike’s Goove” finale. A smoking two sets of Phish.
I. Harry Hood, Back at the Chicken Shack, Dog Log, Tube, Heavy Things, Back on the Train, First Tube, The Inlaw Josie Wales, You Enjoy Myself
II: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Sand, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Possum, Mike’s Song > Simple, Weekapaug Groove > Buffalo Bill > Weekapaug Groove
E: Ya Mar, Sleeping Monkey
Source: (FOB) Schoeps mk4 > kc5 > cmc6 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Sony D100 (@ 48kHz)
Tags: DJ mixes, Songs
Me too!
steve martin has been touring with the aforementioned steep canyon rangers fyi 🙂
I dont’ think many people realized steve martin played the banjo until his recent album and tour – but he’s the real deal from what I can tell! pretty cool ..
I’m diggin’ this track Mr. C!
Then you’ve never seen this picture, huh?
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/547/garcia_martin_mcuen.jpg
Martin used to play the banjo quite a bit in his old stand up routines, he’s a legit player
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epic T-shirt fail:
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All I can think of when I hear his name is Bowfinger and the Three Amigos.
so you haven’t seen this image, then?
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/547/garcia_martin_mcuen.jpg
Bela’s tour this summer with genius kora player Toumani Diabate was quite the match. Unfortunately, i missed their visit to Montreal. One of my friends went and said it was beautiful… Here is a clip from this year’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival…
I’m more of a Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid guy myself
I had his first comedy album, back in the day…very funny, and had some banjo on it
My friend showed me this live track called Sinister Minister, and there is a SERIOUS break down in the song. I fucking love it, but I can’t seem to find it.
I would not mind expanding my bluegrass horizons…I only really know Tony Rice and YMSB.
Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is blowing my mind right now….jazz rules.
I have a decent AUD of the Telluride show with Toumani, it’s great
I am a huge, huge, huge Toumani Diabate fan
Bleh… it was on an official release, I know that…
one of my acoustic based favs
Stephane Grapelli + David Grisman – Live
pretty common in record collecting circles and not as much amongst hippies this shit rips
Grapelli is the pimp on violin, played with Django and shit
live from 1979.
If you have never heard this def check it out
They do everything from Sonny Rollins to Ellington to Reinhardt and it all shreds
for everyone that likes pushing the boundaries of what we consider acoustic music these guys were pretty hip
Jazz blows me away. I’m auditioning for a killer jazz/funk band on Monday, I’m super nervous.
hell yeah Mr. C, never knew a piano and banjo could compliment each other so well. Hows about the rest of this album 😉
That opening scene of the Jerk when you find out Martin’s family are black and from the deep south
fuckin classic
Kind of Blue is an album that will keep revealing itself to you in layers for the rest of your life….so amazing…I find myself still floored by it after 20 years
Tony Rice is a good place to start bluegrass wise. My bluegrass mix will probably be about 15% Tony or songs that he plays on. My favorite acoustic guitar player of all time by light years.
I love toumani diabate too …
there was a cat named Mamadou Diabate at Lake Eden Arts Festie this past weekend (missed him though) and I was wondering if they were related or if Diabate is like the name “smith” in wherever they are from …
@MrCompletely- That picture is awesome. Link to some Steve Martin playing the banjo?
have not heard Toumani
@aw the Grisman/Grapelli stuff is ridiculous…I have a cut of them tearing up the Johnny Carson tonight show with that shit. love the gypsy jazz swing groove.
@Chuck D – that’s from a Bela album that’s all different styles and duets and stuff. That’s the only Chick Corea track, and one ofthe 2 or 3 best things on there. I’ll put a couple others in the mix including the epically titled “Cheeseballs in Cowtown”
he is a kora player that made me realize what those guys from toubab krewe are really trying to do .. (if you don’t know them they are an asheville band that sells themselves as african music, though they are a bunch of white dudes from here who have gone to africa a few times – they are good, but they are not that good.
Chick still shreds
saw him play with DiMieola and crew in Return to Forever and with McGlauphlin, McBride, and Garrett last summer
his sense of composition and chops, is unmatched
one of the pioneering synth players also
had all the vintage synths going at Return to Forever
mm gypsy jazz swing groove .. one of my favorite grooves