This weekend in the California desert near Indio, the Coachella ValleyMusic and Arts Festival. It’s the biggest thing in the desert this side of Burning Man, and in fact, often has Black Rock City artisans and performers involved. Many bands, from The Cure to Leonard Cohen, Morrisey to Paul McCartney (in his first ever festival performance!), and dozens of others, big and small. It started today. No need to drop everything and run to the desert… becaus thanks to the ATT BLUE ROOM the festival comes to you. Coachella becomes Couch-ella. Order some take out rather than questionable festival food, grab a sixer at the corner store for the price of one show beer, and spark up your party without looking over your shoulder. Or get all Woodstock on yourself and watch the show naked.
It is realitivley easy to click into the Blue Room and watch a festival. Sure, they don’t show every band and sometimes they cut a set short… but if you don’t have travel or parking hassle, no overbearing weather (heat, mud, etc.), no obnoxious drunks except those you invite to your home for the viewing.
Many major festivals this season, Bonaroo, Wakarusa, High Sierra, Jazz Fest, Rothbury, Outisde Lands, 10klf, All Good Festival and more. Not all of them have webcasts, and sometimes they announce the webcast later closer to the date, becasue of course they want to sell tickets! Just check their sites for more information.
Along with ATT Blue Room, iClips is another site that hosts many live webcasts.
The economy is tight, but the music is flowing abundantly. Complain all you want about high ticket prices, and how much it costs to travel… from the comfort of your own home.
Coachella is this weekend 4/17-19 and the webcast is already begun…. Sir Paul is scheduled at 10pm Pacific Daylight Time. Rock On!
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While waiting for McCartney tune into the PHAKECAST of The Dead 4/17/2009 Albany. That’s very soon… aprox. 4.30pm Eastern time!
I love the modern technology and the way it all connects us. The conciousness we all share is enhanced by the flow of info. Deadheadland worked with two Brian’s yesterday, and we all know two brian’s are better than one! (straight up song tweets, no chaser @deadheads )
PHAKECAST: The DC song tweets were fast sweet, and our netjockey rode the tube and derived some great sets. A surprise Passenger by Cubensis made the list, Southern California’s longest continual Grateful Dead tribute, and the only tribute band with the Jerry Garcia’s personal seal of approval! Special appearances abounded on the Phakecast including Brent, Pigpen, Kieth, Donna, Jerry, Jackie Greene, Mark Karan, John Molo and more. We even had Neil Diamond in the mini middle set! Not sure if it was the right song, but the title matched! Want to watch the Phakecasts again? Or share them with a friend? You can always go back and watch them again and again! Really fun playlists. 🙂
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In the real show, heard reports of Wavy Gravy being onstage. And Tipper Gore played drums, and took a bow with the band. This has been confirmed by @postrock who is seemingly the official rock tweeter for The Washington Post (is a tweet a real journalistic source? I am sourcing from tweets to get my facts folks! It’s ok, this is not serious journalism, this is deadheadland dammit!)
Of most importance, the show was spectacular in terms of songs! Unlike any setlist ever….
Washington 4/14/09
Setlist:
Setlist:
(set 1)
Cassidy
Passenger
Pride Of Cucamonga
Easy Wind (Warren vocals)
Lazy River Road
Alabama Getaway (Warren vocals)
Big Railroad Blue
(set 2)
Peggy-O (acoustic)
Glory Road (acoustic)
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (acoustic)
Jam>
Dark Star>
King Solomon’s Marbles>
Drums>
Space>
Come Together>
Dark Star>
Sugar Magnolia (Tipper Gore percussion)
(encore)
Uncle John’s Band>
Ripple
Download the soundboards from the Dead – 4/14/2009 The Dead In DC Official Download
Not sure why I am not seeing many recordings turn up on eTree. Is there a new policy I didn’t hear about?
Did you go last night? If you have pictures we can post, please share, and if you want to write a review, I would love to publish YOU!
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Oh yeah, OBAMA! The Dead had a private meet with the man. And the staff even had some scarlet begonias in a vase outside the Oval Office. Wow! Read about it here:
Scarlet Begonias in The White House
We sure live in new times. I remember an Irvine show traffic jam in 89 caused by a Bush Sr. visit to El Toro Airbase…. and then later some copters buzzing the hill during the show, I always thought it was George trying to kill our buzz, and looking at those damn hippies. Maybe it wasn’t him in the whirly’s – i do have an active imagination… but still…. he never woulda had a private with Jerry.
We will recreate the show for you ALMOST LIVE! using the newest in PHAKECAST 2.0 technology we will attempt to bring the concert to you via any device you can go online with! Deadheadlands own netjockeys will comb the matrix and glean the set list from The Dead’s show in DC right before your very eyes….
just a set list? with PHAKECAST we bend time, space, reality to bring you the show – via a carefully selected mix of YouTube videos – many featuring Jerry Garcia himself! Possible appearances by Brent, Kieth, T.C., Pigpen, special guests…. and if the Boys in DC do something new…. well, um… we are just not prepared for that (emotionally speaking.)
In many ways the PHAKECAST may be better than the actual concert….
NO BEER LINES
NO BATHROOM LINES
NO W00KIES – unless you have your own. or are one…
NO NITROUS – unless you like it, and have your own…
NO SEARCH ON THE WAY IN!!! unless you… y’know!
and best of all… no ticket surcharges!
(Just send me face value!)
Viewing terminals will be placed on websites near you!
http://deadheadland.com/tv or
http://blogs.myspace.com/deadheadlands
A fun way to stay tuned in, before you get to download the real thing!
Official Live Download Soundboards: OFFICIAL DEAD.NET STORE – buy each show, or buy the whole tour!
Audience recordings are availabnle on the Live Music Archive (LMA) of the Internet Archive – The Dead LMA
Another in the PHENOMENAL PHAKECAST series….
be there when
stay right where you are
don’t click that mouse. oh, ok, go ahead, refresh.
We will recreate the show for you ALMOST LIVE!
Our technology enables us to do this for you! It might be better than the show itself… it certainly will cost less. And it is a virtual good time!!!
The Wonderful World of Deadheadland
phaking the sets for you with video found on You Tube slight delay from real time!
once the show has begun I will add the songs as I get them!
refresh the page to add new songs –
songs that are loaded will play continuously in player –
enjoy the show!
You can also follow along on YouTube, Myspace, Facebook or Twitter – look for deadheadland!
4/12/2009 SET 1
4/12/2009 SET 2
once the show has begun I will add the songs as I get them!
refresh the page to add new songs –
songs that are loaded will play continuously in player –
enjoy the show!
You can also follow along on YouTube, Myspace, Facebook or Twitter – look for deadheadland!
set break…. will be updating this page as it happens…
Check out the TV page to watch the WHOLE show via PHAKECAST an amazing new technology…
Set 2
Shakedown Street
All Along the Watchtower>
spacey jam >
Caution (do not stop on the tracks)>
drums/space>
Cosmic Charlie>
New Potato Caboose>
Help On The Way>
Slipknot!>
Franklin’s Tower
E: Samson and Delilah
I think, after seeing this setlist… they had to get some of the stuff out of the way in the first set, like the fact there is no Jerry, and also get rid of some of the “expected” hits (Truckin’, Touch) – and now they are going to get to business! I am going to get to business of actually listening… I’ll let you know if I find the downloads!
Thank you for joining me, and I hope you enjoyed the PHAKECAST technology. It was developed at mark-O-vision Labs just for you!
happycat!
