BoxoJams: Galactic

BoxoJams: Robert Randolph and the Family Band

New Jimi Hendrix Footage to be Released

This footage is not the rare footage in question.

The sister of the late Guitar God Jimi Hendrix announces that some new rare footage of her late brother, from a camera crew that caught footage of Hendrix both on and off stage, will be released on DVD soon.

Current TV:

Candid, “reality TV”-style footage of Jimi Hendrix at home, backstage and “hanging out” will soon be released, according to the late musician’s sister.

The footage dates from 1969, when a camera crew followed Hendrix for a month, catching him both on and off stage. The Hendrix estate will release the footage in a DVD later this year, as part of a new deal with Universal Music Publishing Group.

Universal is taking over from Sony/ATV Music Publishing, who have represented Hendrix outside of the USA since 1998. Experience Hendrix, a company run by the late guitarist’s sister, Janie Hendrix, continues to represent his music within the US.

BoxoJams: Keller Williams

He’s coming to Northampton, MA this week.

BoxoJams: Max Creek does "I am the Walrus"

Went and saw Max Creek Friday Night at Pearl Street in Northampton. Didn’t get their show on tape, but here is some footage from a show back in 2001 at the Hippodrome in Springfield, MA.

Boxojams: Jimmy Cliff- "Rebel in Me"

Dead Heads for Obama

The surviving members of the Grateful Dead will be reuniting for an October 13 concert and fundraiser for Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill).

Centre Daily:

Ticket sales begin Friday at noon for the Grateful Dead reunion concert Oct. 13 at the Bryce Jordan Center to benefit Democrat Barack Obama for president.

Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kretuzman and Mickey Hart will reunite.

They’ll be joined by friends Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti.

Tickets are priced at $50 for the general public and $30 for Penn State students.

More ticket information is available at: http://www.barackobama.com/psu.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 13.

THIS JUST IN: Leroi Moore, Saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, Dies at 46

Leroi Moore, Saxiphonist for the Dave Matthews Band, Dead at Age 46. (1961-2008).

Just tonight, I heard at around the 9:00 hour on CNN. Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist and band member Leroi Moore died today at the age of 46.

Moore was a crucial member of the band whose saxophone playing lent much to the popular band’s sound. Evidently he died from injuries sustained in a vehicle accident earlier this Summer. The band released a statement on their website.

We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.

Meanwhile here is the news from the San Jose Mercury News:

LOS ANGELES—Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group’s founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.
The band released a statement on its Web site confirming Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center.

Moore was initially hospitalized in late June after the ATV accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va. He was later discharged and had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin a physical rehabilitation program when complications forced him back to the hospital on July 17, the band said.

It was not immediately clear what complications occurred. Galina Shinder, a nursing supervisor at Hollywood Presbyterian, said the hospital could not release any details.

Ambrosia Healy, the band’s publicist, said the band’s show Tuesday night in Los Angeles was not canceled. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin, who played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, had been sitting in for Moore during the band’s summer tour.

Moore had classical training but said jazz was his main musical influence, according to a biography on the band’s Web site.

“But at this stage I don’t really consider myself a jazz musician,” Moore said in the biography. Playing with the Dave Matthews Band was “almost better than a jazz gig,” he said. “I have plenty of space to improvise, to try new ideas. Matthews credited Moore with arranging many of his songs.

The band formed in the early 1990s in Charlottesville and broke out of the local music scene with the album “Under the Table and Dreaming.” The band won a Grammy Award in 1997 for its hit song “So Much to Say” off its second album “Crash.”

Two Intense shows Coming to the Calvin

Two really good shows are scheduled to be coming to the Calvin Theater in Northampton, MA in the coming months.

August 3 (Sunday): Zappa on Zappa
Show begins at 8PM.

November 13 (Thursday): Dark Star Orchestra
Show begins at 8PM
Tickets go on sale July 18

The Mickey Hart Show

Photos from Tuesday night’s Mickey Hart show at the Calvin Theater in Northhampton, MA. These are just two of a few pictures I had taken

Here is another: