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what up ya’all??? they’re announcing the artists next tuesday, 9/5/06… can’t wait to see who they’ve got this year.
the organizer has said “The bands are ALL excited to be there, and it’s going to be a slightly different kind of party next March…but truly amazing as always.”
my prediction, but it won’t happen:
umphrey’s
claypool
railroad earth
tea leaf green
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
This shit is guaranteed to be off the hook
See you there buddy
alright, we’re two members strong in Amsterdam…solid showing…
im so jealous!! ive been to amsterdam, its amazing!! everyone is SO nice and the dutch are beautiful people!! i loved how people would try to figure out where you were from and then speak your language to you… .
i wanted to go to jam in the dam SO bad but alas, i am not!
have an awesome time and take lots of pics!!
BUMP! ;D
Here is a sample of the great live tunes available in europe this early spring:
March 14th - Umphrey’s in London @ Mean Fidler
March 15th - Umphrey’s in Milan @Transilvania Club
March 16th - Umphrey’s in Paris @ La Boule Noir & STS9 In London @ Mean Fidler
March 17th - Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey in Rotterdam
March 18th - The Bays @ Melkweg & JFJO @ Sugar Factory
March 19th/20th - Umphrey’s/STS9/Disco Biscuits/Bene-Russo Duo & David Gillmore at Heineken Music Hall
March 21st - Umphrey’s/STS9/Disco Biscuits/Bene-Russo Duo
March 22nd - Black Crowes @ Paradiso & JFJFO at Bimhuis & Xavier Rudd in Hamburg @ Knust
March 23rd - Black Crowes @ Paradiso & Umphreys in Hamburg @ Knust
March 24th - Jack Johnson Heineken Music Hall & Black Crowes at Paradiso
March 25th - Charlie Hunter at Bimhuis
That is one jam-packed schedule (pun intended)…not to mention some Joan Baez in Germany, and loads more Hunter & Rudd dates…
http://www.charliehunter.com/gigs/index.htm
http://www.xavierrudd.com/shows_europe.php
I’m literally counting down the days now…(32!)
I guess it’s still just me & you Tube47…
^ yep. it’ll be interesting to see what kind of turn-out among americans there’ll be over there…
Dude, it’ll be nearly ALL americans…at least for the JITD shows…
but yeah, I’ll be interested to see some other shows and what sort of turn out they get…I think I’m goin to the JFJO in Rotterdam, the Bays, maybe Rudd in Dam, Umph in Hamburg, and maybe Charlie Hunter in Dam again
i know, i wish we had more time over there (and money) to see all these shows. might have to skip our trip to london just to stay in the Dam and catch everything!
i’m pumped for JFJO in amsterdam on the 18th…those guys rip!
we’ll have to figure out a way to meet up while there, have a laugh or two…
Tube, what is the cost for this? You know, Aprox money you figure… You might have a MPLS couple going also…
Pm, me if you do not mind sharing a number or thoughts…peace⁄
bump!
With the good times quickly approaching I thought I’d share a couple of highlights from last year:
umphreys covering a rufus wainwright song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYsL0mtJ3U
keller covering a song you all know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-88RpvQfkM8
more to follow
sweetness…Tank you.
no probs. here’s a few more:
particle with jake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–U_2f6xsnk
umphreys with aaron from bisco and steve from particle (3 keys):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV5_SJMJqlQ
umphreys hot for teacher:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_WyRDlpmxE
umphreys doin what they do (i think it may be nothig too fancy?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ptq9FNVBM
i truly can not wait to be back
Hot fer teacher…Hey ya…
ahhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!! these are great. it makes me want to quit my job and get on a plane right now. thanks dan!
OH MAN!!! I bet your having soooo much fun brad…Shit, I’m sooooo jealous…I keep reading jambase’s updated reviews. Cripes!!!
i could totally go for some hot girls from amsterdam.
Brad, The tunage was the bomb as we all see, but how was the coffee?..
Check with me when you get back…I got some shit fer ya!!
dudes…the coffee was delicious!
seriously, i did have some coffee in abraxas that had hash in it. very tasty. but the “coffee” was flowing all week long.
highlights include:
Grey Area - Grey Diesel
(Grey Haze was good too)
Rookies - Rookies Blend
Damkring - AK47 & Kush
Blues Brothers - Eidelweiss
Don’t know (someone else in my group bought it) - Juicy Fruit
Other coffee shops I recall making it to this year: Noon, Greenhouse, Katsu, [color=limegreen]Easy Times*, Global Chillage, The Dolphins, 420 Cafe…i really should be able to list more…
I had a fucking blast man, what a great city. Even when it’s cold and windy you can easily make it all around a town when there’s a bar or a coffeeshop around every corner.
Still didn’t manage to make it to any museums, which is pretty criminal having been there for like 7 days in total, and for the 3rd time…but stayin up late and partyin down to great music with like-minded people was why I went anyway, and that’s what I did. It was cool getting to hang with my brother for an extended period because that’s pretty rare these days. And of course meeting new heads in strange places is always fantastic.
I met up with Brad (tube#47 himself) at 4:20 at Rookies the first day of the fest and didn’t manage to see him again until he somehow finds me hangin out after the umphreys show in hamburg. We had a nice little american posse rolling around town a while before winding up in a cool bar, and eventually Brad and Mal (his gf), me, my bro, two other kids from philly and a couple kids from CO all went back to hang in our hotel room after that tour-closing umphreys show in hamburg (my bro is in the forsberg jersey, with [clockwise] brad, mal, darryl, sandy, andy, and marcus):
well, i could go on all night about the trip (and the tripping…). OK, I’ll mention the mushrooms. Perhaps Ive done them too often now, but I was weary of trying hawaiins again after barely being able to stand at last year’s opening keller show…but Ben convinced me, if we’re going to do them (which we were) then we’re both taking a full dose of hawaiins, and so we did on the second night and had such a blast (WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE ABLE TO HEAR THE MASSIVE-MIDLESS-DRIBBLE-WICH!..STS9 blew me away with the closing set as well) that we did the same for the third night. I wish I had some crazy tripping stories for y’all, but it was mainly dancing my ass off and hearing great music. Actually one thing did kinda freak me out…when we got back to the hotel the second night (on the FOURTH floor, and up these stairs[still another flight after the picture was taken]:
) after tripping balls all night, my bro somehow managed to pass out within 20 minutes, but i was up trippin, smokin and watching some late-late night dutch tele…so i found this channel where there was a still picture of train tracks entering a tunnel (a bit curious to see such a still picture on tv in amsterdam at 4:lets-say-20-ish in the morning, i wondered whether i was actually seeing this or if too much blood had run to/from my head after climbing those stairs). So i watch this channel for what seems like a minute and finally there is movement. Not within or across the picture, but movement along the track…like a camera was mounted on the nose of a train that was on those tracks the whole time but stood motionless until now. Anyway I cannot begin to describe the scenery this train proceeded to move through, but it went from luscious to arid and crazy to calm, and through PLENTY more tunnels. I really don’t even know if I was awake for this or not, but I was on the strongest mushrooms available, that’s for sure 
ok, i’m definitely not telling these stories in order, so i’ll just tell the rest visually:
‘bumpy’ bridge near Grey Area and Abraxas
view from irish bar between museums and casino (on only sunny day)
the view out of my hotel window
the opening ‘day’ of madness
chillin wit wuhnah’teh dawgs
drive by shot of a fair (dom) in hamburg near the venue
absynthe bar we hit on our final night (a bit pricey, but still worth it at 10 euro a drink [although no green fairies were seen])
one of many night-time canal shots
…oh yeah…uh, the music:
The Bays (please listen to em peeps)
duo w/ manger
Umph!
BISCO!
Well, I guess that’s enough sharing for one post. What a friggin blast…i would recommend it to anyone. Even if I’m back in the states next year I’m pretty sure I’ll go if there’s a third one.
Unfortunately I think I beat Brad back home (i.e. ha and Mal are lucky enough to be out and about in europe for a bit longer i think), but I look forward to his stories when he gets back.
Dude… AWESOME!
Now I want to go next year!
what hotel is that?
the winston art hotel?