Time Turns Elastic

Today is Trey Anastasio's 44th birthday!

My red-headed hero gave a very special performance on Saturday 9-27-08 at one of the great churches of country music, the epic Ryman Auditorium.

Trey headlined Orchestra Nashville’s season-opening show along with a 60-piece orchestra for the world premiere of his 30+ minute piece called “Time Turns Elastic”, composed with collaborator Don Hart.

The evening's performance created a common ground for the hardcore Phish fans, classical music aficionados, and music lovers of all kinds.

Below is a link to some footage from the Ryman. It's a track from Trey's Bar 17 record: "Let Me Lie". This beautiful song has been in my heart for the past few weeks, and this is the best live version I've heard yet.

I love how the orchestra lovingly backs Trey's guitar and vocals. Watch for the moment when Trey switches guitars and plays a heart-melting solo over the strings before singing the song home.

Here's another article written before the show from one of my favorite music blogs, Hidden Track: Trey Takes Nashville.

I highly encourage you to download the torrent and give Time Turns Elastic the deep listen it deserves.

Happy Birthday Big Red! Can't wait for the shows in two weeks...I hope you play this one in Albany:

Peter Mulvey: No Gasoline Tour 2008

Featured Pump Audio Artist: Peter Mulvey has got it going on!

He's embarking on his second concert tour by bicycle on September 10th, which he calls the "No Gasoline Tour." It was a big success last year, so he's hitting the road again for ten days, making stops to play gigs across Southeast Wisconsin. He'll be riding a Rans recumbent bicycle, equipped with a custom guitar-carrying rack, and encouraging fans to ride along and help spread his message of music, fun, and clean energy.

Go Peter, go!

Last Call

Local heroes: Dead Unicorn. Paul Heath (bass, vocals) and Zac Shaw (drums, vocals) rock with the raw, unbridled, masculine force of an exploding solar system -- these guys just play their wild hearts out. Let me tell you, seeing them live and feeding off/back their energy is one hell of a rush.

Dead Unicorn plays "Music For End Times", the appropriate title of their independent record label. Chris Rahm creates apocalyptic video feeds to synch up with Zac & Paul's live soundtrack. The whole experience truly makes you feel like the world is ending, and if it actually was, it just wouldn't be quite so bad to have them take us all to the other side, raging off into an incendiary blaze of glory.

The message of Music For End Times is: "Whatever you do on the last day of your life is probably what you should be doing more of in your normal, boring, everyday life." I love that. I'm gonna do that. Fuck that, I'm doing it now!

Last Call is my favorite song that they play, and it will be released on Dead Unicorn's sophomore record: Code Orange: Global Thermonuclear War, due out this fall with a tour to follow.

Chris directed and produced this amazing video and it just gives me the chills:


Dead Unicorn - Last Call from Chris Rahm on Vimeo.