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Wed Sep 9, 2009
When approaching any new Phish studio album, there are always two levels to consider; first, assessing the album itself as a creative piece and secondly, how successfully – or insanely – will the individual songs jam out when performed live?
With most of the songs having been played during Phish’s reunion tour in 2009, many jamming questions have been addressed, so how does new album Joy (JEMP) stack up as the ninth true Phish studio LP (not counting various demo and outtake collections issued throughout the years)?
Also, how much of Phish guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio’s much-publicized personal issues – some of which lead to the premature demise of Phish in 2004 – would be reflected in the material? Adding to the intrigue is Joy being produced by Steve Lillywhite, who helmed Phish’s most critically acclaimed album, 1996’s Billy …READ MORE
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Lollapalooza 2009
Mon Aug 17, 2009
Summer in Chicago means many things; heat and humidity, Taste of Chicago food fest, Sox and Cubs baseball, political scandals and of course, Lollapalooza. Now in its fifth year exclusively in the Windy City after its 1990’s stint as the groundbreaking traveling alternative musical festival, Lolla is held yearly on “Chicago’s front lawn,” the majestic Grant Park, anchored by famous Buckingham Fountain and brushing up against the shores of sparkling Lake Michigan. Lolla is founder Perry Farrell’s musical gift to the Midwest and beyond, as people ventured from all over the country – and globe – to take in the sights and sounds of over 120 bands and DJ’s on eight different stages for the extended …READ MORE
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ALBUM REVIEW: Octahedron - The Mars Volta
Wed Jun 24, 2009
By Mark Miller
Led by the symbiotic writing combo of guitarist / composer / producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist / conceptualist / vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, The Mars Volta is one of the most purposeful bands in rock. Lopez and Zavala front a first-rate outfit – including perpetual Volta studio guest, lead guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers – as their explorations continue with their latest effort, Octahedron (Warner Bros.).
While not 2008’s wall-to-wall masterpiece, The Bedlam in Goliath, Octahedron may appeal to those preferring a more yielding side of the preeminent prog-rock band of the 21st century. It’s also a shorter, more spontaneous effort than some of TMV’s previous concept albums, like 2005’s Frances the …READ MORE
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EVENT REVIEW: 2008 Wonders of Cannabis
Sat Nov 15, 2008
By Mark Miller
The fourth annual Wonders of Cannabis event was held in its traditional slot the weekend before Halloween in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Though there were dozens of sponsors, there seemed to be fewer booths than in previous years, perhaps testament to the deteriorating economy. Still, there were more vaporizers, glassware, growing supplies, books and cannabis clothing than the average credit card could bear.
As always, the host of WOC was cultivation king Ed Rosenthal. This year the costume he donned was an ‘admiral,’ as he told attendees he was taking them “on a cruise of gentle anarchy.” Though he also noted, “every day should be like this. Not a party, but freedom.”
The ‘Hemperor’ himself, Jack Herer, took the stage and sounded better than he has …READ MORE
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GREY RAINBOWS - Brush with Law Enforcement Casts Shadow over Rainbow Family Gathering
Thu Jul 10, 2008
By Mark Miller
The annual Rainbow Family Gathering, held this year in Wyoming during the first week of July, was marred by an incident that ranges from charges of ‘hippie rage’ (by the authorities) to accusations from eyewitnesses that it was instigated by overly aggressive law enforcement.
On July 3, 400 Rainbow Family members allegedly threw sticks and rocks at officers (this according to the U.S. Forest Service) after they attempted to arrest a Rainbow Family member, and up to 60 police responded by allegedly pointing guns at children and shooting Rainbows with pepper spray (in the form of paintball-like cylinders) and rubber bullets.
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Thu Dec 1, 2005
Story & photos by Mark Miller
The spirit of Chet Helms shone down on a perfectly sunny October 30, as one final “tribal stomp” was held in Golden Gate Park in honor of the pioneering rock promoter of the psychedelic ’60s, who died on June 25 at age 62 following complications from a stroke.
Hundreds of musicians and dozens of bands donated their time for the free all-day concert that drew tens of thousands to say goodbye to Helms. Born in 1942 in Santa Maria, California, Helms relocated in Texas as a youth. He hitchhiked from Texas to San Francisco several times in the early ’60s, once bringing a then undiscovered Janis Joplin along for the ride. Helms humbly began his promoting career hosting jam sessions in his Haight-Ashbury home, which included performances by Big Brother and the Holding Company, who Helms managed as well. He then recruited Joplin to front Big Brother.
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Tue Nov 8, 2005
Story & photo by Mark Miller
Ed Rosenthal’s “Wonders of Cannabis” event provided an almost overwhelming amount of indica info, pot products and marijuana multimedia to be absorbed over the course of a weekend, October 29 and 30 at San Francisco’s County Fair building in Golden Gate Park.
Rosenthal, decked out in full Fantasia regalia, served as host and summed up the essential intent of the event: “Marijuana is more popular than any politician. Who would you rather spend an evening with, a politician or some good pot? Politicians want people to be divided, not brought together. Marijuana brings people together.”
Angel Raich, a national symbol for medical marijuana, delivered an emotional speech and broke down in tears on more than one occasion. She apologized unnecessarily for “losing the Supreme Court case” (in June 2005) but promised to return the legal struggle to the …READ MOREtags: 9 « add a comment
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Tue Oct 11, 2005
By Mark Miller
BERKELEY, CA — The ultimate Jerry Garcia tribute concert also became a de facto Grateful Dead reunion and 40th anniversary celebration, or at least as close as anyone is going to get with the sold-out show on September 24 entitled Comes A Time: A Celebration of the Music and Spirit of Jerry Garcia. Comes A Time was held at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, one of the finest outdoor venues in the nation and a locale the Dead played many times before they got too big to fit their burgeoning fanbase within its intimate confines.
Founding GD members Bob Weir and Billy Kreutzmann were on-hand as well as longtime members Mickey Hart and Donna Jean Godchaux McKay. The only noticeable absence was bassist Phil Lesh, who begged off because of helping his son move into college that same weekend.
Conspiracy theorists in Deadhead-land suggested there were ulterior motives behind Phil’s bow-out given the …READ MOREtags: 8 « add a comment
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Thu Sep 8, 2005
By Mark Miller
Camp Bisco IV (CBIV), held August 26 and 27, was dubbed “Tranceformation,” but that theme was not only a play on the predominance of trance music on display at CBIV, but also a nod to the departure of drummer Sam Altman from the Disco Biscuits, the hosts of the fourth staging of this unique musical festival that launched in 1999.
CBIV were the final shows for original DB member Altman. After a decade of providing beats for the Biscuit’s innovative melding of jam-band rock and trance rhythms, Altman is reinventing himself and attending medical school.
Though emotionally charged like Phish’s Coventry festival in 2004, CBIV couldn’t have been more different than the Phish finale (which was plagued by mud, bad weather, traffic jam nightmares and worst of all, some sloppy musical performances). CBIV limited attendance to 5,000, ensuring shorter lines and cleaner Port-o-sans. However, CBIV $10 …READ MOREtags: 8 « add a comment
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Tue Aug 9, 2005
By Mark Miller
The last Grateful Dead concert, July 9, 1995 at Soldier’s Field in Chicago was a rather mediocre finale, even by diminished 1990’s Grateful Dead standards. Jerry Garcia was clearly at the end; only singing six songs, his playing was inconsistent at best.
Still, most in attendance witnessed a positive final glimpse of Jerry, standing on the stage catwalks with his band mates as they watched post-show fireworks that marked the end of tour. Later dubbed “the tour from hell,” it was a month-long disaster that saw Deadheads struck by lighting, ticketless fans bum rushing a Deer Creek show and Garcia himself receiving death threats from Christian extremists blaming him for leading young people into drug use instead of Jesus.
Though nobody knew it at the time, that July 9 concert was the end of the Grateful Dead. Exactly one month later, Jerome John Garcia would inhabit flesh no more.
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DEA RAIDS THREE SAN FRANCISCO CANNABIS CLUBS
Mon Jun 27, 2005
By Mark Miller
On June 22, three San Francisco medical-marijuana dispensaries were raided by federal authorities as part of “Operation Urban Harvest.” The Feds maintain the dispensaries are fronts for large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering. In all, 26 locations were searched and 15 people have been arrested thus far, including Dr. Mollie Fry. The dispensaries raided were the Herbal Relief Center and the Alternative Relief Co-op both located on Ocean Avenue, and the Sunset Medicinal Resource Center.
Operation Urban Harvest marks the first Bay Area crackdown on dispensaries following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on June 6 that ruled cannabis had no legal medical use as a Schedule I drug, giving the Bush administration the proverbial green light to enforce federal marijuana laws.
The raids came a week after a grand jury indictment was handed down June 16, which charged 19 individuals with conspiracy to grow …READ MOREtags: 68 « add a comment
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Thu Jun 9, 2005
By Mark Miller
“Technology and Transcendence” was the theme for Mind States VI held Memorial Day weekend in San Francisco. This gathering of scientists, doctors, artists, philosophers and psychedelic voyagers arriving from across the globe couldn’t have been further removed from the typical American approach to the holiday. Attending the 6th annual Mind States event was quite like being transported away from America (especially given our current repressive climate) to a place that does not yet exist on the face of the Earth—but ought to
The highlight of first day was the mushroom panel, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Gordon Wasson’s first psilocybin mushroom experience in Mexico in 1955, effectively introducing entheogens into modern Western culture. The panel opened with Linda Rosa Corazon, who described the therapeutic effects of all-night mushroom ceremonies that often end in transforming group-therapy …READ MOREtags: 7 « add a comment
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Mon Jan 31, 2005
By Mark Miller
Controversial but ultimately vindicated investigative journalist and author Gary Webb, who linked the 1980’s crack cocaine epidemic to elements of the US government, was reported to have committed suicide from a gunshot wound on December 10, 2004 in his Carmichael (suburban Sacramento) residence.
Webb’s body was discovered after a moving company worker found a note posted to Webb’s front door that read: "Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance."
Webb was a rare breed, one that prioritized rooting out the truth of a story ahead of career advancement. Perhaps then, it was fitting that he of all people was thrust from the anonymity of working for a local paper into national prominence with his 1996 expose in the San Jose Mercury News entitled “Dark Alliance.”
Webb’s three-part series validated the suspicions progressives had harbored for years—that the …READ MOREtags: 7 « add a comment
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ASA SUES ALAMEDA COUNTY OVER “MEASURE R” RECOUNT
Tue Jan 18, 2005
Story by Mark Miller
The recount of Berkeley's Measure R, the Patient's Access to Medical Cannabis Act of 2004, officially ended on January 10 with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters declaring the ballot initiative failing by 166 votes.
Measure R recount was funded by the Berkeley Alliance for Patients after the November vote was declared “too close to call.” At that time, Measure R trailed by 191 votes.
Measure R would have relaxed zoning laws to permit medical cannabis cooperatives to operate in retail areas without public hearings, set up a peer review committee to oversee operations at Berkeley's pot dispensaries and replaced the city's limitations on the amount of cannabis a patient could legally possess (currently 10 plants).
While the outcome of Measure R recount has been decided, the controversy rages on over the controversial Diebold computerized election machines and the questionable recount …READ MOREtags: 2 « add a comment
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Tue Sep 14, 2004
String Cheese Incident, Dennis Kucinich, and Amy Goodman joined Michael Franti of Spearhead on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks to celebrate the power of peace.
Story by Mark Miller
A gorgeous Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s urban oasis of Golden Gate Park featured all the typical trappings of a outdoor jamband festival; tens of thousands of colorful, music-loving and liberal-leaning fans, plenty of pot and patchouli floating in the air, and vendors both official and unofficial hawking anything one could slap a price tag on.
Yet the 6th annual “Power To The Peaceful” (PTTP) event, presented by Spearhead singer/lyricist Michael Franti (in conjunction with Guerilla Management) was more than a typical concert, with considerably more political activism on display, as well as sporting an ethnic diversity one would be hard pressed to find at a typical jamband festie.
This …READ MOREtags: 17 « add a comment
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(Wed, 18 Nov 2009) Capitol Weekly (Sacramento, CA)