2013 Year-End Awards
12.28.13 (Jake Silco)
1st Team Type II Jam Vehicles of the Year: “Carini,” “Tweezer,” “Light,” “Down With Disease,” “Chalk Dust Torture,” “Golden Age”
2nd Team: “Ghost,” “Rock and Roll,” “Twist,” “Crosseyed and Painless,” “Piper”
1st Team Type I Jam Vehicles of the Year: “David Bowie,” “Bathtub Gin,” “Stash,” “Harry Hood,” “Wolfman’s Brother”
Jam Vehicle of Year: “Carini”
MVP: Jon Fishman
Best Music of the Year: “Down with Disease > Carini,” 12/29 MSG
Most Succesful Jam of the Year: “Down With Disease” 12/29, MSG
Most Sureal Jam of the Year: “Tweezer” 7/31, Stateline, NV
First Set Jam of Year: “Split Open and Melt” 7/6, SPAC
Most Sinister Jam of the Year: “Carini” 12/29, MSG
Grooviest Jam of the Year: “Carini” 12/29, MSG
Most Unique Jam of the Year: “Tweezer” 11/2, Atlantic City
Unexpected Jam of the Year: “Twenty Years Later” 10/29, Reading
Underrated Jam of the Year: “Carini” 7/5, SPAC
Best Under 10-Minute Jam of the Year: “Chalk Dust Torture” 7/16, Alpharetta
Comeback Jam of the Year:“Twist”
Best New Jam: “Energy”
Best New Original: “Fuego”
Deepest Pocket of the Year: “Carini” 12/29, MSG
Filthiest Funk of the Year: “Twenty Years Later” 10/29, Reading, PA
Most Adrenalized Moment of the Year: “Piper -> Taking Care of Business” 10/20, Hampton, VA
“Holy Shit!” Moment of the Year: “Woos!” in Tahoe Tweezer—like it or not
Phishiest Moment of the Year: “Bush” funk jam in AC “Theme”
Best Guitar Solo: End of “Down With Disease” 10/29, Reading, PA
Most Fluid and Cohesive Second Set: 7/12 Jones Beach
Most Explosive Second Set: 10/20 Hampton Coliseum
Smoothest Segue: 7/6 “Carini -> Architect” SPAC
Worst Attempt at a Segue: “Sand > Light,” 7/10 PNC
Shreddiest Peak: “Ghost” 10/19, Hampton, VA
Blissiest Peak: “Down with Disease” 7/22, Toronto, ON
Best Song in Non-Traditional Spot: “Sneakin’ Sally” E, 11/1 AC
Best 3-Night Stand: 10/31-11/2 Atlantic City
Best 2-Night Stand: 7/26-27 The Gorge
Best 2-Set Show: 12/29, MSG, NY
Best 3-Set Show: 10/31, Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City
Sleeper Show of the Year: 7/16 Alpharetta, GA
Outdoor Venue of the Year (Gorge not included): Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta
Indoor Venue of the Year: Glens Falls Civic Center, Glens Falls, NY
Best / Most wide open GA Floor: Civic Center, Hartford, CT
Venue With Chillest Employees: Hampton Coliseum
Top “What Song Are They Playing” Moment: “Chalk Dust Torture,” 7/16 Alpharetta, GA
Most Underachieving Jam: “Backwards Down the Number Line”
Best Individual Performance at a Concert: Jon Fishman 8/31, Dick’s, Commerce City, CO
Best CK5 Moment: the “rain” effect at the drop of the Hartford “Tweezer” jam
Worst Show of the Year: 10/22 Rochester, NY
Most Absurd Moment of the Year: 7/19, Chicago—Canceled show mid “Caspian” with no rain
Hardest Rainstorm of the Year: 7/12 Jones Beach
Tags: 2013, Miner's Picks
I wonder if Tela’s will drive to OKC again?
as a celebration of 5 years back, i have been revisiting 3.0 shows i have not spun in a while- 6/7/2012 is the real deal- wonderful second set! flow, improv, phishiness- holds up quite well.
he already booked a suite @palmer
Ha ha Stoney
Yea those summer rumor dates scream, pay bills and sell and album
@stoney – literal lolz re: ticket trees. Need a recycling bin near those suckers. Only the Mann will sell out.
@luther – state of PA reprise! Would certainly look forward to another show w you and your boys. Been a minute.
But biz is biz, and I’m beyond pumped, and we’re all blessed including the band that their still playing on this incredible level.
Stoney’s summer tour plan
Harvest ticket trees.
Sell mP3 codes for 50 cents each.
Sleep in car and eat PB&J 3x daily
Looks like a DF “skip tour” while he saves that West Coast Fall cheddar
Butter the Fluffer = Buttluffer
What’s this “selling mp3 code” thing you speak of?
the cycle of the conversation about dates on the bb is as reliable as the tides.
There’s an announcement moon in the sky
brushfire stankgrass kicked off their colorado tour today . . . colorado peeps, check them out . . . you will not be disappointed
http://www.stankgrass.com/
Phoamm, got any album news for us?
it’s about done, gc 😉
caught the first half of mike show tonite . . . very good . . . enjoyable. second set started off like a dud and i was bailin’ anyway for workday tomorrow. but, if 2nd set is anything like first set, then win. now how chillin’ listenin to this lucid dream
i believe you can catch some streaming from the website
“Phase 2: play every possible locale that is not anything like a destination stop”
That’s crazy talk. Since when are NYC, Chicago, and Washington DC not considered destination stops?
Though I’d agree they can’t compete with the warmer climate around the Caribbean right now
Very few of my jams are from 2014 as well.
To quote Mr Case, “I’m good at beating.”
Just over 5 minutes into the MSG ’13 Carini: Mike digs that pocket (fuck you, I’ll mix whatever metaphors if I want to) that RL was talking about.
Gah, I always forget which jams have woo’s in them and then bam!
Chicago pitchfork weekend? Cluster. NYC dead of summer when we were jus there for NYE? No thanks. Talking destination spots for fans west of the Mississippi Holmes. Come on now. You snow cones have no excuses not to hit 10 packs.
I’m still here! Who’s with me?!!
Here.
havent been around as of late….dates?
Mike Gordon Band on sunday was nice and weird, some jammy pockets and Mike being his eccentric self. that is all.
not much on the concert horizon; Shpongle and Die Antwoord (ive heard their live shows get gnarly)
I’d go see die antwoord. Seems like it could def get out there.