Skiing and Music

[chuckstah]

This is a great Dead cover band. I have an Indy day left for Tenney, so I think I'm in on this. What to do after skiing til an 8 o'clock show....

Fire on Tenney Mountain Featuring Zach Nugent's Dead Set

After a year off, Monte Alto and Very Cool are stoked to rekindle the 2024 FOTM Anniversary Concert with Zach Nugent's Dead Set.

www.eventbrite.com

 

[Hawk]

Zach has done a couple of shows at Sugarbush. I think his guitar play is one of the best reflections of Jerry’s style

 

[Hawk]

Back to reality. Heading back home. Amazing trip. More later

 

[tumbler]

Zach has done a couple of shows at Sugarbush. I think his guitar play is one of the best reflections of Jerry’s style

I wish they would get him back, would be great in the courtyard

 

[Shredmonkey254]

I wish they would get him back, would be great in the courtyard

The drug den music they are playing on Saturdays now is so much better!

 

[jimmywilson69]

The drug den music they are playing on Saturdays now is so much better!

Please explain

 

[urungus]

Please explain

Apparently an old deadhead is complaining without irony about the kids and their “drug den music”

 

[jimmywilson69]

Harrisburg is popular stop for ae 2nd tier jam bands this summer.

moe./Umphrey's McGee
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (not my thing)
JRAD
String Cheese Incident

JRAD and SCI will both be outside along the river which is a great place to see a show.

 

[Shredmonkey254]

Please explain

It looks like you have not been to Sugarbush this year. On Saturdays they are playing modern EDM music thru the new courtyard music system above Johnny's Juice Box. I think it's a fairly up to date play list of new stuff, at least new to me. A couple weeks ago I was Shazamming tracks to see what they were playing but with no luck. It's the first time in 25 years being there on a steady basis that they played music I actually like! And it appears to me the younger crowd actually likes it too!

 

[Shredmonkey254]

Apparently an old deadhead is complaining without irony about the kids and their “drug den music”

This truly made me laugh out loud, thank you very much! Yup, I completely missed the irony of what I typed. We were hanging out with friends Saturday and one called it drug den music which I thought was a great comment. Just to age myself, saw the Dead like 8 times, Bobby and the Midnights and JGB back before having my eyes to music opened up by punk rock in about 1978. Never looked back, except when at Sugarbush where the music never stopped... until this year!

 

[LuckyStrike]

The Sugarloaf apres dj was playing for the courtyard in a repainted gondola cabin (fallen and shipped from from Sunday River?). It was a series of bad pop/classic rock edm remixes. The crowd was LOVING it.

 

[deadheadskier]

Harrisburg is popular stop for ae 2nd tier jam bands this summer.

moe./Umphrey's McGee
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (not my thing)
JRAD
String Cheese Incident

JRAD and SCI will both be outside along the river which is a great place to see a show.

I'm not thrilled that moe. is touring with Umphrey's this summer. UM bores the living hell out of me. I've tried. Been to probably ten UM shows over the years. Tried again last summer and was bored. Their shredding talent is undeniable, but they can't write songs to save their life. Same is true of many jam bands. I wouldn't count moe. among them. They have some fantastic songs.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

I'm not thrilled that moe. is touring with Umphrey's this summer. UM bores the living hell out of me. I've tried. Been to probably ten UM shows over the years. Tried again last summer and was bored. Their shredding talent is undeniable, but they can't write songs to save their life. Same is true of many jam bands. I wouldn't count moe. among them. They have some fantastic songs.

i think UM sucks. i also peg the 2022 co-headline tour with UM and the disco biscuits as the beginning of the end of the disco biscuits, tho that was not UM's fault. the biscuits are really crashing and burning right now with a very public ugly dispute with their recently laid off drummer. speaking of new drummers, UM parted ways with their long-time drummer on good terms, and a good friend from my childhood got called up to the big leagues and is UM's full time new drummer. good for scotty from summer camp, but UM sucks.

 

[deadheadskier]

i think UM sucks. i also peg the 2022 co-headline tour with UM and the disco biscuits as the beginning of the end of the disco biscuits, tho that was not UM's fault. the biscuits are really crashing and burning right now with a very public ugly dispute with their recently laid off drummer. speaking of new drummers, UM parted ways with their long-time drummer on good terms, and a good friend from my childhood got called up to the big leagues and is UM's full time new drummer. good for scotty from summer camp, but UM sucks.

I assumed Kris left on his on accord because UMs popularity has been falling for several years.The show a friend dragged me to last summer had a venue capacity of 2200 and I would be surprised if 1000 were in the audience. If the band also wanted him to leave, that would surprise me as he was the most talented musician in the band. Some would say it's Jake because of how fast he plays. But that's all he does. Plays fast.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

i dont know very much about their music or band dynamics, but my understanding is he left on very good terms, the opposite of how tdb handled allen's departure.

the dwindling crowd sizes seems to be afflicting that entire generation of the jambands. college kids dont give a shit anymore and older fans grow up or die. the young kids like goose i guess?

 

[cdskier]

It looks like you have not been to Sugarbush this year. On Saturdays they are playing modern EDM music thru the new courtyard music system above Johnny's Juice Box. I think it's a fairly up to date play list of new stuff, at least new to me. A couple weeks ago I was Shazamming tracks to see what they were playing but with no luck. It's the first time in 25 years being there on a steady basis that they played music I actually like! And it appears to me the younger crowd actually likes it too!

It isn't always EDM every Saturday...Metallica was playing over the system in the courtyard the Saturday prior to this one when I was walking through after skiing...

 

[letitsnow1]

On Saturday Killington had a DJ at bear mtn playing edm from the top of a red bull truck. I think it was for the snowboard race.

 

[deadheadskier]

i dont know very much about their music or band dynamics, but my understanding is he left on very good terms, the opposite of how tdb handled allen's departure.

the dwindling crowd sizes seems to be afflicting that entire generation of the jambands. college kids dont give a shit anymore and older fans grow up or die. the young kids like goose i guess?

I think there's a lot of factors. Ticket costs are probably a big factor for many. The cost of booze at shows has gotten insane and the younger generation just isn't partying like we once did because of those costs and just realizing how terrible binge drinking is for you.

Goose has some normal people appeal, so that certainly helps them. Not my thing. Dogs in a Pile seem to be on an upward trajectory, but probably top out at like a Disco Biscuits level of popularity, but only if they keep putting in the heavy touring work. I like those guys a lot when I've seen them, but I couldn't name a single song.

I still catch about one show a month, but for 25 years I was at live music probably an average of once a week. Now it's gotta be someone new I haven't seen or someone I haven't seen in a long time, or a cheap local tribute act from musicians I'm friends with. I've got only three shows on my calendar currently and they all fall into those categories.

Seacoast Last Waltz - this Sunday. Friends with the players

High Fade (kick ass funk band from Scotland I've never seen) in May

String Cheese - August. Been close to ten years

 

[jimmywilson69]

I too am not to fond of Umphrey's. they are ok but not my thing. the only other time I've seen them was at the pinnacle of the Lock'n festival. They actually weren't even a headliner then. Ween was Thursday, Phish, MMJ (Best headlining set of the fest), Phish. UM opened for Ween.

moe. played this venue in harrisburg in 2023 shortly after Chuck came back from his stroke. I thought it was too small for moe. back then and am surprised that now moe. and UM will share the same stage. beyond capacity of the crowd (~500) the stage is not huge. moe. was packed in there in 2023 I have no idea how they'll even fit both band's shit on stage to make the switch easy between bands! The outside venue along the river, which is just a portable stage among trees, would've been a better fit unless they didn't think they'd sell enough tickets. hard to believe String Cheese Incident is a bigger draw than a combined moe. / Ump ticket. By the way its been 25 years since I've seen SCI, so I'm sort of looking forward to it.

I agree that the younger generation is not into partying and seeing "rock" driven jam band music like much of us were/are. My son is 25 and he thinks concerts are a waste of money. Maybe my wife and I scarred him by going to a lot of concerts when he was younger and dropping him at the grand parents LOL

outside of the Harrisburg Jam band exposition we have tickets to the following so far

• Noah Kahan in Pittsburgh. I'm not as passionate about him as my wife or our friends, but his music definitely refreshing and I'm interested in seeing him live.
• Avvett Bros Hershey. We drunkenly agreed to avett bros LOL. Not my thing but I do like live music and they are good musicians.
• Tyler Childers in Hershey Will grab a cheap ticket to watch this from the back of the field.
• Iron Maide / Megadeth in Hershey. 14 year old me wants then 49 year old me to go see this. Not too much time left for either of those bands.
• Steve Martin and Martin Short tickets got pushed back until September. REALLY looking forward to seeing those 2 comedy gems! I believe Steep canyon rangers (blue grass band) is touring with them so we'll get to see Steve Martin's banjo prowess, which is apparently very impressive.
• Might hit up 1 night of Phish at Merriweather

ok yeah we have a concert problem...

 

[pinion]

Iron Maide / Megadeth in Hershey. 14 year old me wants then 49 year old me to go see this. Not too much time left for either of those bands.

I was just in Quebec City to ski Le Massif and as I was bar hopping Thursday night, I met quite a few people up there to see Megadeath/Anthrax the next night. The general sense was that this is gonna be the last go around for Mustaine even if he has not said so officially. Almost went on Friday night but tickets were pretty high $$, I needed to ski the next day, and I plan on seeing them play with Iron Maiden in Sept.