From The Mountain Jam Blog:

The webcast will use 5 HD cameras. The video will be fed into a mobile production studio. The audio mix will come from the festival sound board. Then magically distributed to your computer via the Internet.

And you wonder why I call Gov’t Mule the most fan-friendly band of our time… I know what I’ll be doing this weekend.

Sometimes I wonder if I should rename this site ‘all-mule-all-the-time’.

Something I’m going to try and do more of here @ RMD is cover artists who are unsigned and relatively unheard of. The first is Jack Babineau, a 16 year old from Rhode Island. To date, Jack has been playing a lot of Dave Matthews covers, but has recently broadened his musical taste to include The Allman Brothers. Aside from an obvious natural talent, he has an outstanding stage presence, even though he admits (in the video) to being quite nervous. Jack does have a MySpace profile with more music, but has suggested that I not link to it quite yet, as he’s not entirely happy with the stuff up there. When Jack becomes a star, remember you read about him here first.

Because I get to see Derek Trucks twice in June, I won’t complain too much about the lack of left coast dates. That and I’m crossing my fingers that more dates will be announced..

07/31/07 Rama, ON Casino Rama
08/01/07 Rama, ON Casino Rama
08/03/07 Gilford, NH Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center
08/04/07 Newport, RI Fort Adams State Park
08/05/07 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
08/07/07 Boston, MA Bank Of America Pavilion
08/08/07 Boston, MA Bank Of America Pavilion
08/10/07 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
08/11/07 Raleigh, NC Deep South Acous. Stage@Alltel Pav.
08/12/07 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach
08/14/07 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion
08/15/07 Burgettstown, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
08/17/07 Camden, NJ Tweeter Center At The Waterfront
08/18/07 Bushkill, PA Mountain Laurel Center
08/19/07 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Theme Park Resort
08/21/07 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
08/22/07 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
08/24/07 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/25/07 Boyne Falls, MI Boyne Mountain Resort
08/26/07 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theatre
08/28/07 Saint Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
08/29/07 Rosemont, IL Rosemont Theatre
08/31/07 Council Bluffs, IA Harrah’s Council Bluffs
09/02/07 Aspen, CO Jazz Aspen Snowmass

With Luther Dickenson of the North Mississippi Allstars

Update: everyone who has commented so far (12 26 42 folks) has been sent an invite. If it didn’t arrive (check your spam folders) please let me know and I’ll have it resent. Plenty of invites left….

Update 2: ok I’ve sent out over 200 invites now (248 exactly) via this site, another one of my blogs and a mailing list that I participate in. Due to the recent Joost update, I’m no longer able to copy and paste email addresses into the “invite” section of Joost. Which makes it a huge hassle, so I’m afraid I’ll have to stop sending them.

If you’re looking for an invite, I would strongly recommend heading to Technorati and search for Joost. You should find plenty of bloggers who are willing to give out invites. Cheers!

I’m trying not to go overboard w/ the embedded youtube video’s, but uhh.. fuckit.

If you get a chance to see her, GO.

Upcoming Regina Spektor dates:

04/24/07 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
04/25/07 Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
04/26/07 Sacramento, CA - Empire Events Center
04/28/07 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field
04/29/07 San Diego, CA - House Of Blues
04/30/07 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
05/04/07 Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre
05/13/07 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
06/17/07 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival

Sorry about the lack of posts.

Silly note about video: YouTube allows videos that are 100MB in size, and up to 10:00 minutes in length. After 14 (fourteen!) tries, I managed to capture this video from DVD as a 99.5MB, 9:59 video.

Gov’t Mule performs I Shall Return > Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings @ Stubb’s Barbeque in Austin, TX on 05/08/99

And to take w/ you on your portable music player (borrowed from nugs.net) -

Gov’t Mule - I Shall Return (from 08/22/99)