The Derek Trucks Bands’ (Band’s? Bands?) NYE show has appeared on etree for those of you who are bittorrent inclined. If you’re not, I’m going to post a few of the tracks in MP3 here at some point, so maybe leave a comment if you have a request for a specific song. Or not. Also, some dude has very cool pictures of said NYE show, including shots of the Susan Tedeschi Band and what appears to be the coolest setlist ever (??).

In the meantime here’s the Derek Trucks Bands’ take on a Son House (the father of delta blues, fact and best-of album title) classic -

The Derek Trucks Band - Preachin’ Blues

Though I’m not sure I like them, I’m certainly going to stick around after Ben Kweller to catch Gomez. I picked up their latest CD, How We Operate, and after the first listen it was the title track that stood out most for me.

Gomez - How We Operate

I’ve never listened to much Gomez, in fact the one thing that sticks out in my head each time I hear their name is the dude holding up a sign that says “I violated parole to see Gomez” @ Bonnaroo 2004.

The first time I saw Grace Potter & The Nocturnals was when they opened for the North Mississippi Allstars @ the TLA in Philly on 11/19/2005. It would be safe to say that I was totally blown away. In the following couple of months I managed to attend 6 other GP&TN shows, and each one was better than the last.

Additional videos here.

Also - Raised On Indie gives Nothing But The Water a pretty positive review - and includes several mp3s.

Here’s a dumb little story. I used to have a web page dedicated to Pearl Jam. It was actually dedicated to live Pearl Jam mp3s (legal) more than anything. I should also mention, this was 1997. MP3 was not a common household term. The RIAA hadn’t started suing children and dial-up was by far the most common method to connect to the Internet. There was a pretty small community of people who would convert their tape, vinyl and CD bootlegs to MP3, and since I was able to host a lot of MP3s on a fairly fast connection, a few people would send me songs to share. On December 24th, 1997 I got an email with a 3.2MB attachment. The file was titled ‘faithful.mp3′, and the email read something like this:

Hi,

Here’s a holiday treat that you can share if you’d like, I assure you it’s fine with the band. Please don’t try to figure out who this is. Thanks,

Anonymous

I opened up WinAMP and started listening. Sure enough, it was Pearl Jam. Someone had emailed me a studio version of a track that wasn’t scheduled to be released for another month. Now by this point in the time Pearl Jam had played ‘Brain of J,’ ‘Given to Fly,’ ‘Wish List’ and ‘Do the Evolution’ (from Yield) live, but that was all anyone had heard. The track was rather poor quality, clearly had not been mastered/finished, and as I would find out later, not the actual version of Faithful that ended out on Yield.

Before you ask, of course I tried to figure out who sent it. The farthest I got was using the headers of the email to determine that it had originated from a small ISP in Seattle. When I inquired with that ISP who the email address belonged to, they rightfully told me to piss off. To this day I have no idea if it was someone in the studio, a band member, or just some random fan who obtained some of the studio outtakes.

I’ve spent the last 20 minutes using the Wayback Machine to try and find a copy of that web page from 1997, but right now I’m striking out. Somewhere on a CD in my brothers apartment I’m sure I have a copy of the faithful.mp3 that my anonymous friend sent - until I find it, here’s a live version -

Pearl Jam - Faithful (from Philadelphia, PA. 10/03/05)

I was a bit surprised that they played before Gov’t Mule, I kind of expected it to be in between Mule sets. Either way, it was great fun, though rather mellow (expected). If they had played the night before I doubt I’d have appreciated it as much (freezing cold rain). Several lamps were brought out to create an “intimate” atmosphere on the stage. It worked.

Come On Into My Kitchen

Soulshine

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