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Let it be known that 4/22 is my favorite day of the whole year and so this post is brought to you by all current awesomeness and great things to come to fruition with the patience that time itself gracefully allows.

This has been a great couple weeks for live music in NYC.

I’m sure that sentence has been uttered before but in the light of this last week, this statement stands on its own legs and is raging.

Monday started off at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom with the anticipated debut of Thom Yorks’ new project  ATOMS FOR PEACE, featuring:

Thom Yorke – lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards (Radiohead)

Flea – bass guitar (RHCP)

Joey Waronker – Drums (Beck’s drummer)

Mauro Refosco – percussion

Nigel Godrich – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals

Quoted from Wiki:

“Until February 2010, the band did not have a name and was known as either “Thom Yorke’s live band” or “Thom Yorke????”, as some marquees and the poster for the2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival read. However, on the official website, the band was listed simply as “Thom Yorke”. Through Radiohead’s official website, Yorke officially named the band as “Atoms for Peace”.  The band shares a name with both The 1953 speech by American President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a song from Yorke’s debut solo album The Eraser.”

^WHICH I SAY, IS AN AMAZING ALBUM!

(I never really got into or understood Radiohead until I met J, but I have met its fans throughout the years and they are one damn passionate bunch of music enthusiasts and I appreciated the opportunity to get a bit more insight into what it was that they know that I was previously unaware of. And I was stoked for that. Reminds me of course of a direct correlation of Phish insight but in a totally different genre.)

Needn’t I shant say but nonetheless, this show was incredibly sic. Show of the year and a night to ignite rockets to the outer solar nether regions of space.  I’m not even kidding, I was in awe of how fucking good every single song was and how thick their rock version grooves set in to each second. As far as I know, the tour only hit a few select cities and we were very lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and i just barely scored a sold out ticket just two days before, out of sheer chance.

Tuesday night took us out of the city a short distance and up to Connecticut to The Ridgefield Theatre for some good ‘ol TEA LEAF GREEN.

The opening band had cancelled their set so to our advantage we received a special acoustic set by TLG’s alter-ego, COFFEE BEAN BROWN.

Both sets were classically constructed with many old school favorites which sounded so sweet and quite a few newer tunes too. The venue was an old theatre style that fir about 500 but the room was less full than it should’ve been.  The sound and lights were on point and it was overall an entirely groove packed night. It was great to see my good friends again and I truly felt that the entire show was played for me. I will ask the band someday if this was the reality but for now, as far as OB and myself are concerned, this show will forever be known as “The Phoreal Show”. And I really dig that. Thanks guys, it was great to see you too.

Friday night again we headed up to our sister state of my birth place, Connecticut for TURBINE headlining The Fairfield Theatre and supported by THE SCARECROW COLLECTION back in action. Solid sets by both bands and a lot of new material throwdowns by Turbine in their extended set.

The rest of the week winded down to a tame and celebratory excursion for a perfect spring invitation to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Every flower and fruit tree was in full exquisite bloom and it left us in its wonderland gazing for hours. J and I were joined by Dexatrim and Gretchstables after they got our textables and were roamed free on a Sunday stride whilst feasting on natures tasty vegetables.

Anyways, I start my new job on Monday so I’m keeping things low key this weekend but I looking forward to lots and lots of good shows coming up in the area like ALO at The Brooklyn Bowl 5/22 and Turbine w/ The Brew on the Rocks Off boat cruise in June. It would also be very cool if I could somehow swing out to Berkeley for the Phish Greek shows in August, so I’ll keep my hopes high.

Until next rhyme.

Lates. -B

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