On Saturday night we checked out the OZOMATLI show at Higher Ground. I hadn’t listened to them much before the show but it was a great time and their latin/world/funk/hip hop/jazz sound was definitely unique. You may recognize them from one of the older iTunes commercials:

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Ozomatli is a hip-hop group formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, known as much for their extremely vocal activist viewpoints as their wide array of musical styles. Ozomatli take their name from the Nahuatl word for the Aztec astrological symbol of the monkey, which is also a god of dance, fire, the new harvest, and music.

The members of the band met through their affiliation with the Peace and Justice Center of Los Angeles, and their first performance was for picketers during a strike. They began their career in the Los Angeles and San Diego/Mexico border-area club scene. (Last.fm)

Opening for OZOMATLI was Parker, House and Theory… these guys rocked too…. check them out:

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A few clips and photos from the NADA 2009 convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Click below to listen to “Right Place, Wrong Time” Live at The Blacksmith, Live Jazz on Bourbon Street, and “Sweet Caroline” during a Dueling Pianos show at Pat Obriens…

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A Jaguar and a Maserati parked at the Convention:

Workshop at the Show:

America… Live courtesy of the Aspen Marketing Folks

Toured the World War II Museum during a few spare hours on the last day of our trip:

Bourbon Street

Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. were the keynote speakers at the show:

Statues, Tourism, Fantasticks, Underwater Airplanes and a Gold Robotic Man in the Subway:

Subway Entertainment in New York City from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.

Before swinging back to BTV we stopped by to give the bull a pep talk:

Checked out a little British rock show with the The Kooks and the Pigeon Detectives in Montreal, Canada… it was definitely better than this one but not quite as good as that one.  Here are a few photos and clips:

The Kooks:

The Kooks – See the World in Montreal Canada from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.

The Pigeon Detectives (opener)

Pigeon Detectives in Montreal Canada from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.

Matt Costa, Battery Park in Burlington Vermont, July 31st 2008

This was the last show of the 2008 Burlington waterfront concert series.  We brought Toby with us (his 2nd concert) who barked like crazy during his favorite song which got him some attention and a shout out from Mr. Costa himself.

here are a couple Matt Costa video clips:

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and a few Matt Costa pictures:

Coldplay Concert, July 29th, 2008 Bell Centre Montreal, Canada

The Coldplay Show in Montreal was by far the best concert we’ve ever been to.

Reviews:

“The standing ovation started the moment the lights dropped, and didn’t let up until the end of the encore. Cheers were deafening and singalongs were omnipresent.”

“Sometimes we go to certain towns – in England, Wales, Germany or Australia – and people don’t sing along, so we get depressed,” Martin said. “So we come here, and everyone is going for it 100 per cent, and it makes us feel fantastic.” – Mycoldplay.com

Pictures from Coldplay in Montreal:

A short clip from “In My Place”
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Full Set List:
Life in Technicolor

YouTube  Life in Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks

YouTube  Clocks
In My Place
Yes
Viva La Vida

YouTube  Viva La Vida
42
Fix You

YouTube  Fix You
Chinese Sleep Chant (band playing close together, right side of stage)
God Put a Smile Upon Your Face (techno version, right side of stage)
Speed of Sound

YouTube  Speed of Sound
Yellow

YouTube  Yellow
Lost! (regular version – not acoustic)

YouTube  Lost
Strawberry Swing
The Scientist (acoustic, b-stage beside sound booth)

YouTube  The Scientist
Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic, b-stage, Will on vocals)
Talk (remix)
Politik

YouTube  Politik
Lovers in Japan
Death and All His Friends
The Escapist (outro)
Encore
Green Eyes
The Dubliners

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Matt Costa: Never Looking Back

The Kooks: Always Where I Need to Be

This one’s called “Naive” by The Kooks…

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“See The World” – The Kooks

YouTube  See The World Video

Location: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro Massachusetts

Labor Day traditionally signals the end of summer, but for many, the season’s not officially underway until Jimmy Buffett rolls into town. For them, last night’s show at Gillette Stadium must have made for a particularly brief vacation window. But urgency has never been on the menu in Margaritaville, and the easiest-going man in show business offered up a party relaxed and carefree enough that nobody realized that this left only one day before the sun and fun came to an end. – Boston.com

Set List:
Hot Hot Hot
01 On the Road Again
02 Only Time Will Tell
03 License to Chill
04 Weather With You
05 Son of a Son of a Sailor
06 Come Monday (with the BEACH BAND)
07 Elvis Presley Blues
08 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
09 Bama Breeze
10 Cheeseburger In Paradise
11 Reggabilly Hill
12 Fins
13 Brown Eyed Girl (joined by Bankie Banx)
14 Boat Drinks (acoustic solo)
15 It’s My Job (with Mac McAnally)
16 Waiting In Vain (with Peter Mayer on vocals)
17 Scarlet Begonias
18 It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
19 Volcano
20 A Pirate Looks At Forty (with Redemption Song)
21 One Particular Harbour
22 Margaritaville

First Encore
23 Everybody’s On The Phone

Band Introductions
Tina Gullickson, Nadirah Shakoor, Ralph MacDonald, Peter Mayer, Sonny Landreth,
Mac McAnally, Roger Guth, Jim Mayer, Doyle Grisham from (Millinocket Maine),
Robert Greenidge, Johnny Lovell, Michael Utley, Bill Payne

24 Southern Cross
25 Glory Days

Second Encore
26 Lovely Cruise (acoustic solo)

YouTube  Jimmy Buffett - Fins in Foxboro Massachusetts

Location: New Britain, Connecticut

If we were talking baseball, the Rock & Roll Triple Play tour of minor league ballparks that hit Connecticut’s New Britain Stadium on Saturday (8/18) would have been two days past the All-Star break–the mid point on the tour. And, judging from the audience-pleasing performances turned in by the bill of Collective Soul [ tickets ], Live [ tickets ] and headliners Counting Crows [ tickets ], these guys managed to hit more than a few out of the park… more – Livedaily.com

 
YouTube  Live in New Britain

YouTube  Counting Crows in New Britain

YouTube  Collective Soul in New Britain

• He is a regular visitor to the Caribbean island of Saint Barts and other islands where he gets inspiration for many of his songs and some of the characters in his books.
• Buffett has been instrumental in the work of the Save the Manatee Club.[1]
• He is friends with legendary investor Warren Buffett and they suspect that they are distant cousins, but they have not been able to document this. (Wall Street Journal, 5/2/2005)
• Buffett appears on a Phish tribute album called Sharin in the Groove, where he performed the band’s “Gumbo” (which references a gun-slinging parrot) with Lamont Berry of Chicago, Illinois. He also performed Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl in concert with Phish in 1995.
• Buffett wrote the music for and appears in the 1975 movie Rancho Deluxe. The movie was written by his brother-in-law, author Tom McGuane.
• Buffett has had cameos in several movies, including Repo Man as “Additional Blond Agent”, Congo as a pilot, a pirate in Hook and in a cameo in Cobb. Additionally, he and his music appear in the 2006 release Hoot.
• Buffett appeared in the May 13, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live. He also wrote and performed the theme song to the short-lived 1993 CBS television series Johnny Bago.
• An avid pilot, he owns several planes including a Grumman HU-16 “Albatross”. The plane, named “Hemisphere Dancer”, is currently parked next to his Margaritaville restaurant in Orlando, Florida. Previously it could sometimes be seen on the ramp at Princess Juliana International Airport (IATA identifier SXM, ICAO identifier TNCM) in nearby Saint Maarten while he was in the area. This is the plane Buffett was flying during the incident recounted in the song “Jamaica Mistaica” on the album Banana Wind. While in Jamaica on January 16, 1996, Buffett’s plane was shot at by Jamaican police. The “Hemisphere Dancer” had been carrying Buffett, U2’s Bono, and Island Records producer Chris Blackwell, but they were not onboard at the time. Police suspected it was smuggling drugs. No one was hurt, although there were a few bullet holes in the plane. Buffett’s company has since licensed use of the name Margaritaville to several restaurants in Jamaica, in Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Negril, where the “Jamaica Mistaica” incident took place.
• On November 23, 2004, Buffett raised USD$3.4 million at his “Surviving the Storm” Hurricane Relief Concert in Orlando, Florida to provide relief for hurricane victims in Florida, Alabama and the Caribbean affected by the four major hurricanes that year. He has donated $500,000 to Hurricane Katrina relief so far.
• Buffett wrote the sound-track for, co-produced and acted in the film version of Hoot which focuses on issues important to him, such as conservation.
• Buffett sang for President Bill Clinton on the White House south lawn for his birthday in the year 2000. [2]
• Former members of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band include saxophonist Amy Lee.
• In September of 2005, Buffett became the first musician to stage a concert at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
• Tom Corcoran shot photographs for seven of Buffett’s album covers, as well as cowrote the hits “Fins” and “Cuban Crime of Passion”.
• In 1978, the University of Southern Mississippi renovated its Student Union Building. A time capsule, found over a telephone booth, contained a picture of Buffett and several of his fraternity brothers wearing dresses. (The Student Printz, Oct., 1978)^{[citation needed]}
• Some of Buffett’s 1976 Havana Daydreamin’ albums are misprinted with two versions of “Woman Going Crazy on Caroline Street”, a song that may be titled “Please Take Your Drunken Fifteen Year Old Girlfriend Home”, and are missing the song listed on the cover and on the album label as “Defying Gravity”
• On a “60 Minutes” interview, Buffett stated that he gets letters from emergency room doctorswho operate to his music and stated that “people in high stress situations listen to it as a release” and that “If you came to one of my concerts, it would look like Sodom and Gomorrah had just landed. But I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of people are back at work on Monday.”

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Rounded out my second summer in Vermont with one more country music show at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction. Rascal Flatts was the headliner with an opening act from Gary Allan (which was so good, i am now a big fan of his). The light show Rascal Flatts put on was incredible with hundreds of mini LCD screens all synced up to display music videos and background imagery throughout the entire show. You can check out the Rascal Flatts journal entry for more details.

Location:
Section 1, Row 11 – Tweeter Center, Mansfield MA

Set List:
01 Brown Eyed Girl
02 USS Zydecoldsmobile (with Sonny Landreth)
03 Pencil Thin Mustache
04 It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
05 Grapefruit Juicy Fruit
06 Come Monday (with the Beach Band)
07 Floridays (‘06)
08 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
09 Boat Drinks
10 Cheeseburger In Paradise
11 Why Don’t We Get Drunk
12 Last Man Standing
13 One Particular Harbour

Intermission
Indiana James (video)

14 Peanut Butter Conspiracy
15 Knees Of My Heart
16 Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
17 Banana Republics
18 Window On The World
19 Werewolves Of London
20 A Pirate Looks At Forty
21 Desperation Samba (Halloween In Tijuana) [and Johnny (blow it)]
22 Dixie Chicken (with Bill Payne)
23 Volcano
24 Margaritaville

Here We Are (video)

First Encore:

25 Fins

The Coral Reefer Band:
Tina Gullickson, Nadirah Shakoor, Peter Mayer, Ralph MacDonald, Sonny Landreth,
Doyle Grisham, Mac McAnally, Roger Guth, John Lovell, Jim Mayer, Robert Greenidge,
Jake Shimabukuro, Bill Payne and Michael Utley.

26 Southern Cross

Second Encore:
27 Bama Breeze