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Clifford fries Phish
Old Phish never goes stale.
Phish, that little ol' jam band from Vermont, reunited a few weeks back to play their first gigs in over four years. For Phish-heads who couldn't make those shows in Virginia, the band celebrated by releasing "The Clifford Ball," a seven-DVD set (yep, seven!) that chronicles almost every nano-second of the band's two-day fest in upstate New York in August 1996.
The set features nine hours of concert and event footage, including the band's extended soundcheck and its "late-night flatbed truck jam."
No word on whether the box includes footage of Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio combing his beard. "The Clifford Ball" is available now at Amazon or phish.com.
Clifford fries Phish
Old Phish never goes stale.
Phish, that little ol' jam band from Vermont, reunited a few weeks back to play their first gigs in over four years. For Phish-heads who couldn't make those shows in Virginia, the band celebrated by releasing "The Clifford Ball," a seven-DVD set (yep, seven!) that chronicles almost every nano-second of the band's two-day fest in upstate New York in August 1996.
The set features nine hours of concert and event footage, including the band's extended soundcheck and its "late-night flatbed truck jam."
No word on whether the box includes footage of Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio combing his beard. "The Clifford Ball" is available now at Amazon or phish.com.
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Pearl Jam cranks it up to "Ten"
Webster once again is defining "grunge" as "garbage" or "dirt." But graying Gen-Xers now have evidence to slap in the face of Gen-Y kids and Jonas Brothers cults -- evidence that, once upon a time, there indeed was a mighty rock sub-genre known as grunge.
That evidence? A remastered version of Pearl Jam's 1991 debut album, "Ten."
The remastered "Ten" comes in several versions, including a two CD/one DVD set, and a pricey box that includes two CDs, one DVD, four slabs of vinyl, one cassette and memorabilia. Among the bonus tracks: a ditty titled "Evil Little Goat."
The various versions of "Ten" are available Tuesday.
GO ONLINE
Snopes snoops into rumors
Are people suffering from physical ailments being healed by President Obama's touch?
Was a photo of a topless woman visible in "The Rescuers," that Disney animated flick?
Those questions and more concerning urban legends, pop culture myths and conspiracy theories are addressed at the Web site snopes.com. Of course, the investigations and explanations supplied by Snopes could be a hoax, satire or sheer rumor, just like the Obama bit cited above (whose source was a satirical Web site).
But the Snopes folks seem legit, even when they reveal that, yes, a naughty photo could be seen in a few frames of that Disney movie.
The Snopes Web site includes such subjects as "Cokelore," "racial rumors," "risque business," "horror" and one devoted to the veracity of photos titled "fauxtos."
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