Till The Next Show: 2010-11

2010-11-23

The Last U-melt!!!!

2010-11-26 U-melt - Highline Ballroom - New York, NY

w/ The Heavy Pets (opener)

I still remember my first U-melt show! They opened for moe. back in 2006 at Starland ballroom in Sayerville, NJ. I am glad we got to spend this amazing night with the boys.

2006-10-21 opening for moe.

Question Matters, Marvin the Pussy, Air w/ Chuck Garvey (moe.) on guitar, Cloud Box

U-Melt consists of Adam Bendy (electric bass), George Miller (drums, vocals), Kevin Griffin (electric guitar, vocals), and Zac Lasher (keys, synth, vocals). This was my first show with out the original guitarist, Rob Salzer. Rob was the man, but if my information is correct Rob left to write three minute pop songs.....Lame!!!! (Sorry Rob!)

The Heavy Pets put on a great opening set! It wasn't my first time seeing them but it was the first time I was able to enjoy them and really get into them! They are great!

U-melt took the stage and the lights lowered and their last show ever began. We danced all night and had so much fun.

We were actually able to sneak in out own beers to the show which was great and saved us mad money since they were about $7 each! So crazy!

Last DiSGRACeful Night!

2010-11-22 (12:30 a.m.) DiSGRACe - Sullivan Hall - New York, NY

This was another amazing intimate set with Chuck, Al & Rob!
We got to Sullivan Hall at 11:30 and they didnt go on till about 12:15a.m. or so and they played till 2:15a.m.
I met up with a bunch of my friends and made new friends..or moe.rons!(JETS FANS TOO!!!....oh what a game!)

Rob is just the man coming out with his boot on his foot since he broke it! But he rocked the show with his awesome acoustic bass!

Disgrace Set I:

Time Again, St. Augustine, Shake Your Hips, Where Does the Time Go?, Haze, Cornflake Girl, Letter Home, Deep This Time, Little Miss Cup Half Empty, Shoot First > Moth

Encore: Fixing a Hole, Okayalright

I don't know what it is with these drunk assholes at these shows! But the shits gotta stop!

This one guy had to save Chucks without him knowing. The kid went to grab him and the guy pulled him back! Special Thanks to that one guy!!! (NOT ACTUALLY 'that one guy')

2010-11-21

Brooklyn Bowl

2010-11-21 (3:00 p.m.) Mclovin's - Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY

The McLovins perform a free show at Brooklyn Bowl. Phish lyricist, Tom Marshall and former Spin Doctors guitarist Anthony Krizan sat in with the trio during the show.

The Mclovins were so great. They came right out on stage and rocked the Bowl!

Set1:

Deep Monster Trance, This Town, Purple Trees-> Rappers, Tokyo Tea, Shakedown Street, Conundrum, TETOP,

Set2: Wading In The Velvet Sea @, Farmhouse @, Cohesive @, Caravan %, Cissy Strut %, Virtual Circle, Beadhead Crystal Bugger, YYZ

E: Free Bird %

@ - with Tom Marshall and Ant Krizan
% - with Ant Krizan

Cohesive is a song written by Tom Marshall for the Mclovins...It was so Phishy!!! but amazing!

They performed so many great covers:

Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead

Wading in the Velvet Sea - Phish (Sung by Tom Marshall)

Farmhouse - Phish (Sung by Tom Marshall)

Cissy Strut - The Meters

YYZ - Rush

Free Bird - lynyrd skynyrd

The best part was during Free Bird it was also the Last 2 minutes of the Jets games being played on a big screen off the right from the stage. The game was really intense during that time and watching the game while listening the free bird was amazing since we won with seconds left!

2010-11-20

DiSGRACefully Amazing!

2010-11-19 DiSGRACe - Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ

DiSGRACe is an acoustic moe. trio (Rob Al & Chuck)

Derhak

Schneir

Garvey

Rob

Chuck

The show at the pony was very chill. It felt as though we were just hanging out in our friends living room with the guys! We were right in the front and talking to Rob the whole time. I asked Rob what was with the "i" and "e" and he responded with "It's for an example."

Last night was the first time I saw an acoustic bass that Rob played. It was so cool looking and he played the shit out of it!.

I met about 15 of my friends at the show and it we DiSGRACefully popped Levine's moe. cherry so to speak. Happy Birthday Hayter!!!

***I don't know what it is with these kids and their white hats!...

***ATTENTION moe.ron's!***

*** Say NO to "White Hats"!***

Both sets were amazing! They performed 'Fixing a Hole' by The Beatles sung by Chuck, 'Dead Flowers' by The Rolling Stones sung by Al and 'Willin'' by Little Feat sung by Rob.

'Bullet' was so sick acoustic. They sped up the song and it was so nasty!

Set two was my favorite! They performed a 20+ min 'Recreational Chemistry' or Rechem!!! and Jamed out Spine of a dog into my personal favorite 'Buster' The great story of the pig who could fly! "PIG CAN FLY PUG CAN FLY!" As soon as they played Spine or (pinball machine) We had to make sure there were no chairs for my boy not to break!...He loves that song!

Acoustic Set I:

Happy Hour Hero, Gone, Fixing a Hole, Macintyre Range> Tambourine, Bring You Down, Z02> Bullet

Acoustic Set II:

Can't Seem to Find, Recreational Chemistry, Willin', Daydreaming, Spine of a Dog> Buster

Acoustic Enc: Threw It All Away, Dead Flowers

Best part of the night was when we were walking over to the pony and Rob, Al, & Chuck were standing there on the side. I yelled what's up guys and continued walking. I figured that my one friend did not realize at all who I said hi to. So I said look! it Al, Chuck, Rob and my friend ran over to them like a little school girl! haha

Quincy Mumford performed before DiSGRACe. He played solo and was pretty enjoyable to listen to. But he blew everyones mind when he covered Phish's 'Boogie on a Reggae Woman'!

2010-11-05

Elvis is in the building!

2010-11-05

Elvis Costello w/ The Roots

For those of you who do not know, I intern at NBC Music Services and do the Music Licensing for 'The Roots' on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Today we had Elvis Costello perform on Late Night with a little help from The Roots.

I got to watch them perform and rehearse:

1. "Station of the Cross" (Elvis on Keys)

2. "Black and White World" (Elvis on Guitar)

Watching Elvis and ?uest Love (drummer of The Roots) work together was definitely a sight to see! Both songs were amazing!

"Big Brother is Watching You"

2010-11-04

Roger Waters - IZOD Center - East Rutherford, NJ

"Is there anybody out there?"

Roger Water, bassist of Pink Floyd, has now performed 'THE WALL" for the first time in 30 years. The show featured a 240 foot wide, 35 foot tall wall that was built by the intermission and torn down at the end.

“The Wall” was released in 1979 to loads of critical acclaim, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest albums ever released. The album focused on a young musician facing a personal crisis, which has been described as Waters state of mind at the time of release.

For those of you who have lived under a rock for the last 40 years:

The show was amazing due to the visual effects on the wall with all the projectors, the plane that crashed with large explosions, fire, large puppets, flying pig, and kids singing "We don't need no education."

Since "The Wall" was originally written about WWII the visuals projected on the wall had a lot to do with the war that been going on now.

During 'Mother,' when Roger sang, "mother should I trust the government" the wall showed "NO FUCKING WAY!"

During 'Goodbye Blue Sky' the wall showed hundreds of planes flying overhead but instead of dropping bombs they dropped (dollar signs, crosses, jewish stars, shell gasoline symbols, and Mercedes symbols and the star with crescent moons.)

'Young Lust' was amazing and so was 'Comfortably Numb' (My two favorite songs off the album) During Comfortably Numb the guitarist played the solo's at the top of The Wall.

"This next song is dedicated to all the paranoids," said Roger before they performed 'Run Like Hell.' A large black big with slogans all over it flew over the crowd. "FEAR BUILDS WALLS" "YOU BETTER RUN."