08 photos

well the year is almost over, here is a collection of pictures from my shows this year, enjoy!
check out the headcount review here

We Are Douchebags - watch more funny videos

banjo lessons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tujc7EpBrb0&feature=related

this guy gives lots of really good banjo lessons, learning these songs is the basis of bluegrass so you can start learning the rolls and begin to solo

Who Own WHO?

Diagram of the music industries power hierarchy

Waterfall Sculpture

the waterfalls sculpture from the governers island ferry

Park Slope Food Co-op

these are pictures of the kitchen/basement where the food processing is done.

If you like to eat healthy and do it at a reasonable price this place is definitely the place to go, you only have to work around two hours a month, and it's easy and borders on fun, my job was food processing where you work with food the whole day. There are all types of fancy, organic and healthy varietys of food here, so if you live in the neighborhood it's worth looking into, its between 6 & 7 ave on Union. It dates back all the way to 1973

Happy Halloween

this track will blow you away

Mac Phanboy Contest

so i got a new iPhone and am deciding to give away my old one to one lucky reader, i know a bunch of you have blogs, so the first five people to link to me in a blog post or in their site, get a chance to win the iphone, ill choose randomly out of the first five and you'll win an iPhone, simple as that. givin that no more then five will actually do this, a one in five chance to win an iPhone isn't bad. so get blogging kids!

Experience Hendrix Tour NYC

New York, NY — United Palace Theatre

This years experience Hendrix tour will be something else, check out this lineup.
Mitch Mitchell
Billy Cox (original Hendrix Bassist)
Chris Layton
Brad Whitford
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Eric Johnson
Indigenous
Eric Gales
Buddy Guy
Hubert Sumlin
Bernard Allison
Jonny Lang
David Hidalgo
Mato Nanji

Dub Is A Weapon this weekend in BK

date: 10/25/08
Location Zebulon

With almost five years, hundreds of shows, and thousands of miles behind them, Dub Is A Weapon has truly earned the title of the hardest working band in dub business. What started out as little more then a recording project in a Brooklyn loft has now turned into a full-fledged sonic assault force, with "bass and drum coming so hard and dangerous you can see the competition's bloodstains." (Village Voice)

Matt Butler Performs Living Yoga Gala

» Friday, October 24, 2008
Matt Butler Performs
Living Yoga Gala
Portland, Oregon

Featuring:

1. Asher Fulero (Surrounded by Ninjas)
2. Chris Haugen

Widespread Panic to Play at Fillmore Irving Plaza 11/19

WSP is to receive the Road Warrior award from Billboard Magazine in honor of it's heavy touring schedule, their upcoming tour includes a stop at the small 2000 person venue of Fillmore east, at Irving plaza, if you have not yet been to this venue, it is awesome, there are all sorts of hallways and starecases and nooks and crannies, and people running all around, its a very fun place. The show will be in support of the Bill Graham Foundation. The Foundation awards grants mostly in music, the arts and education, while also supporting social work, environmental protection, and spiritual and compassionate projects in communities.

Tour Dates
10/15/08 Wed Mud Island Amphitheatre Memphis, TN
10/17/08 Fri Lakewood Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
10/18/08 Sat Lakewood Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
10/19/08 Sun The Tabernacle Atlanta, GA
10/22/08 Wed Leon County Civic Center Tallahassee, FL (w/ Los Lonely Boys)
10/24/08 Fri North Charleston Coliseum Charleston, SC (w/ DJ Logic)
10/25/08 Sat North Charleston Coliseum Charleston, SC (w/ DJ Logic)
10/26/08 Sun St. Augustine Amphitheater St. Augustine, FL (w/ Los Lonely Boys)
10/28/08 Tue Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater Miami Beach, FL
10/29/08 Wed Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater Miami Beach, FL
10/31/08 Fri UNO Lakefront Arena New Orleans, LA (w/ Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave.)
11/01/08 Sat UNO Lakefront Arena New Orleans, LA (w/ Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk)
11/05/08 Wed The Murat Theatre Indianapolis, IN
11/07/08 Fri Riverside Theater Milwaukee, WI
11/08/08 Sat Riverside Theater Milwaukee, WI
11/09/08 Sun Riverside Theater Milwaukee, WI
11/19/08 Wed The Fillmore at Irving Plaza New York, NY
12/30/08 Tue Pepsi Center Denver, CO (w/ Yonder Mountain String Band)
12/31/08 Wed Pepsi Center Denver, CO (w/ Yonder Mountain String Band)

FLAWED ECONOMIC POLICIES: MORE OF THE SAME? YOU BETCHA, DOGONNE RIGHT!

The economic supporting principle behind tax cut for high income persons has been captured and crystallized as the “trickle down” theory. The idea is that the money saved by these high income persons with be spent on business initiatives, such as new factories, additional equipment, hiring additional employees or new business startups that will result in new jobs, new hires for existing companies or higher salaries for existing employees in the companies or business that these persons own or control. In other words the money will “trickle down” to lower income persons, benefiting them.

What actually seems to have happened is that those tax savings of the rich have been spent on luxury items and lifestyles which, although some number of lower income persons benefited by producing these items or serving at these luxury locations, there was little large scale or long lasting stimulus to the economy that benefited large numbers of workers.
A completely different approach, indeed, exactly the opposite, could be called the “trickle up” theory. This would involve cutting taxes for vast numbers of middle income persons, who could be depended on to spend the money saved on a wide variety of basic consumer items sold, manufactured or imported by those higher income persons, thereby benefiting them.
Make sense? You betcha ! Dogonne right it does! Neither Palin nor her running mate can afford to change the economic policies of the party that supports them or they will forfeit the support of that party.

While most of the voters in that party, and those independents that sometime support the candidates of that party, are not the high income persons who benefit from the Republican tax cuts, they don’t control the party. Those controlling persons have traditionally had a very cozy relationship with that party when it is in power, as it has been for the last eight years. Those high income persons, with large inherited wealth or the money and power that come with corporate control, always advocate for smaller government and less regulation and government oversight. It is disturbing, to say the least, to see them now begging for government funds and having the effrontery to ask for it with no control or oversight,e.g., the first three page proposal by Paulson.
Paulson is not, at present, part of the business hegemony that influences the Republican Party, but he was; he always will be; and he follows their script, as that party always has.

The cozy relationship with the party in power has other perks and pleasures, as we are finding out from the latest investigations at the SEC. So far, it looks like John J. Mack, currently CEO of Morgan Stanley and an associate of the founder of the hedge fund, Pequot Capital Management, was about to be called to testify about insider trading at Pequot, when suddenly the SEC attorneys in charge of that investigations were terminated. That’s the kind of “deregulation” that really pays off for big businesses and corporations that call for smaller government and less oversight.

The consistent theme of the present party in power, and that party’s candidate, John McCain has been deregulation. The mantra is: "let the market rule and competition and market forces will result in the best benefit for the most people" (except, of course, when some few need large amounts of government money to bail them out.)

It would be amusing, if the overall situation were not so tragic, to see McCain’s attempts to distance himself from the failed economic policies and practices of President Bush (another person, who has said that economics was not his strong suit.) The oratorical twists and turns of logic, or illogic, have been mind boggling and it just might have worked to win the election, in connection with an assortment of smear tactics like the “Swift Boat” attacks that helped turn the last election. However, a funny thing happened on the way to the White House: the economy collapsed. Suddenly, somebody shouted out from the crowd that “the emperor has no clothes!”
The polls across the nation are showing what people are thinking: that there must be a change from the policies of the present party in power; government turning a blind eye to financial excesses , greed driven speculation and impossible to understand financial derivative instruments. Structures that enrich and benefit only those who create and control them while the same government winking and smiling at the corporate predators, part of their elite circle.
In the 1992 successful Clinton election campaign against Bush the cry was, “ it’s the economy stupid.”

In this election is well might be, “ it’s the stupid economy.”

Robert Borsody, Is a graduate of Virginia Law School, and has worked as a lawyer in Manhattan for over 30 years.

Vh1 Honors Cypres Hill, Chuck D, Too Short, Slick Rick De La Soul and Mos Def get down: Hammerstien Ballroom NYC

Too Short, Slick Rick, De La Soul, Naughty By Nature and Cypress Hill couldn't just sit back while Mos Def, Estelle, Busta Rhymes, Eve, Fabolous, Scarface, Chuck D, Flavor Flav, and others honored them by performing their hits at the fifth annual VH1 Hip Honors show that took place last Thursday night at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom and aired last night. never thought I would say it but VH1 really came through here, this is a veritable line up of greats with underground as well as pop credentials from the golden age of rap.

Drop The Lime, Alicia Keys T Pain: Math Head/ Passions Europe Tour

Passions AKA Math Head Ben Dietz, had his Manic party last night at the Trophy Bar, and a it was a good turnout. For anyone interested in heavy bass music and a cool, alive, unpretentious scene, stop by this dive on 351 Broadway, right outside Williamsburg, Manic goes down the second and fourth Monday's of the Month. Trouble & Bass Crew, also had a party this weekend, bringing it back to where it all began, BROOKNAM. Math Head is now Gearing up for his Tour of Europe, while Drop the Lime may be working with the likes of Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys and T-Pain. Not exactly my cup of T-Pain but should be a good producing gig if it happens and pay some of them beels.

Here are the Dates for Math Heads Tour of Europe

Oct 23 2008 10:00P	T&B Crew In London	London, London and South East
Oct 31 2008 10:00P	Superfilth!!	London, London and South East

And Passions

Oct 24 2008 10:00P	Tilt	Paris
Oct 25 2008 8:00P	Dry Guillotine w/ Mr. Oizo, More	Berlin, Berlin
Oct 30 2008 10:00P	R-P-Z @ Glasgow School Of Art	Glasgow, Scotland
Oct 31 2008 11:00P	(as Math Head) @ Superfilth!!!	London, London and South East
Nov 1 2008 10:00P	SUPERSUPER CLUB DARKWAVE SPECIAL	London, London and South East
Nov 5 2008 10:00P	DJ SET (as Math Head) @ Calling All Tribes	London, London and South East
Nov 8 2008 10:00P	DJ SET@ Lolita	Barcelona, Barcelona

blue eyed good two eyed bad

watch the documentary of an interesting social experiment on segregation

Tom Green Gets Brave with a Freestyle with Xzibit

a case against ticket master

no one likes a 300 pound gorilla

http://consumerist.com/5062273/ticketmaster-is-evil-and-must-die

Ask a Cop Anything Day on Reddit

hey crew Q and A with a couple of cops on reddit, some juicy stuff for my readers, and everyone who has had questions for our mysterious force in blue. http://www.reddit.com/user/1812overture/.

bear creek music festival

Looking for a review of the bear creek 2008 music festival? look no further, a full review is up on glide magazine. and some video is on this page of our site


p.s the 2008 bear creek was perhaps the best festival of all time. for sure the best in the southeast.












































































































want to read more?... go to glide magazines hidden tracks....








Florida is the kind of place where otiel burbridge the bass player for the allman brothers plays small clubs and hangs out with the audience, where JJ Grey from Mofro jams on his guitar by a campfire and Dereck Trucks shows up impromptu at your local annual festival to kick out some southern slide guitar gospel.

“when I pulled up to the camp ground [for the 2008 Bear Creek Music and Arts Festival] it seemed like every person I saw was a friend saying hi, that's when a festival turns out to be more like a family reunion.” This paraphrased quote was spoken by Florida native JJ Grey of Mofro, and it sums up the sentiment at the event. Nestled in the woods of the Spirit of Suwanee Music Resort in Live Oak Florida, the harvest moon hung over head as the spell of the season of the witch spread throughout the campground like the spirit of music itself.

Being a bassist I have particular respect for funk bass. The creative rhythms created throughout the weekend played with negative space, and the length of notes, creating catchy danceable grooves, a rare and mysterious skill in music. The talented funk guitarists, organ players and drummers were equally rare and exceptional. Some of the worlds funk bands were in full effect this weekend including, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Lettuce, Soulive, Papa Mali, Cadillac Jones and Dumpstaphunk. That many elite funk bands in one place is a truly uncommon occurrence and cause for celebration. The soulful music complemented the crisp, fall air, awakening primordial emotions and creating a sentimental and celebratory environment for this uncommon, harvest festival.

PGroove Thurs http://www.archive.org/details/pgroove2008-11-13.flac16

PGroove Fri http://www.archive.org/details/pgroove2008-11-14.flac16

Ancient Harmony http://www.archive.org/details/ah2008-11-14.flac16

Dirty Dozen http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=520296

Dumpstaphunk http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=520274

YMSB http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=520272
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NYC taper showcase

NYC taper showcase, check it out at the NYC taper blog

My Morning Jacket Guitarist Jim Injured-Iowa City 10/07/2008

Gathering of the Vibes 2009

Gathering of the Vibes 2009 lineup

Assembly of Dust, Bob Weir & Ratdog, Buddy Guy, Deep Banana Blackout, Donna Jean Godchaux Band, Dark Star Orchestra, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Harlem Gospel Choir, JJ Grey and Mofro, John Brown’s Body, Keller Williams (w/ with Moseley, Droll & Sipe), King For a Day, Lettuce, Levon Helm Band, Max Creek, moe., Perpetual Groove, Ryan Montbleau Band, State Radio, Strangefolk

GWAR!

This is Funny, Please take this as a joke and entertainment. those five wild art students we all remember from beavis and butt head

Gwar with Kingdom of Sorrow, Toxic Holocaust

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza

Doors: 7:00 pm | Show: 8:00 pm

17 Irving Place

New York, NY 10003

Tonight! Late Show

Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers

Pine Hill Haints

Wed 10/8

Tickets

This is a band from St. Peteresburg, my college town, the band is pretty big down there and worth seeing, strait up florida rockabilly two days later o

10/10/08

another florida band, The Heavy Pets, will be there.

Fri. 10/10 LATE NIGHT SHOW
MSTRKRFT
CONGOROCK
FELIX CARTAL
GBH & WEBSTER HALL PRESENT

Sullivan Hall a great place for good heads in NYC

a very decent band from down south

Wed 10/1
Live Reggae
Dubconscious
w/ Under The Rasta Influence,
True Theory

Phish Returns

Phish returns - Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia on March 6, 7 and 8, 2009.

for ticket requests go to http://phish.portals.musictoday.com. This will end on Wednesday October 8 at 11:59 a.m. EST.

also try

at http://ticketmaster.com or 757.671.8100, 757.872.8100 or 804.262.8100.

additional touring to be announced in 2009 early next year.