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Concert Words

2008-11-17T19:15:00.001-08:00

Tonight on the bus ride home my mind began to wander, as it's often known to do, to words associated with Concerts.

I put out a note on Twitter:

Thinking about concert words: soundcheck, setlist, setbreak, encore, house lights, stage, crowd, PA, mics, monitors, soundboard, what else?Quickly the responses started coming in through the various communication channels:

band, fans, dancing, spinning, venue, tapers, backstage, green room, amps, pedals, guitars, gear, front of house, crew, roadies, stage right, stage left, feedback, front of house, laminate, load in, lout out, backline manager, house mix, escotr, backstage, ticket, bouncer, gear, load-in, roadies, fans, scalper, taper, VIP, beer, lyrics, opener, closer, segue, jam, cover, first time played, special guest, floor, seats, band, green room, roadcase, craft services, house music, stage call, tuning, venue, glowstick war, Load in, load out, catering, hospitality, backstage, guest list, shore power, bus parking, settlement, backline, local crew, loaders, stage left, stage right, upstage, downstage, setlist, PAGESIDE!, stage right, stage left, upstage, downstage, center stage... load-in, load-out, doors, support act, headliner, B Stage, spotlights, spotlight operators, stagehands..., doors...curfew...load-in...load-out..., aisle, gobo, scaffold, points, truss, skrim, Jerry's side, Phil's side....Shakedown Street...,cattle, front of board (fob) , back to paul (btp), official taper section (ots), rail, TAPER'S SECTION!!, groupies, GAFF Tape!!!, Zip ties, Load In, MORE COWBELL!, taper, afterparty, rider, opener, closer, rodie, rail rider...,segue, Vendors!, um, don't forget your Ticket! ticket stub, tickets, Front Gate, Backstage, Staging, Tomcat roof, Amplifier, Guitars!, monitors, front of house, backstage, drum riser, roadies, soundboard, laminate, crew bus, merch table, smoke.

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President Obama

2008-11-04T21:26:00.000-08:00

Happy Anniversary!

2008-10-23T14:38:00.000-07:00

10 years ago today, The Disco Biscuits, Mike Keneally and Beer for Dolphins, Oteil and the Peacemakers and The Slip played a show at the Wetlands together to celebrate the release of Dean Budnick's new book, Jambands, and the launch of Jambands.com

It's been an unbelievable decade. Enjoy the show from The Disco Biscuits

Powell Endorses Obama

2008-10-19T10:18:00.001-07:00

Big Light's Bonebreaker

2008-10-17T12:07:00.001-07:00

we like you alllllready gone...

Drill Palin, Not Alaska

2008-10-17T11:49:00.001-07:00

If you could drill Sarah Palin w/ anything, what would it be?

Troublemakers- If not Barack Obama then what?

2008-10-14T22:26:00.001-07:00

Do you know about twitter search?

2008-10-14T14:08:00.001-07:00

Seth says it better than anyone, so I might as well just quote him. I've literally found myself getting my breaking news from Twitter Search for the past week.

From: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/do-you-know-abo.html

Warning: addictive, disheartening, thrilling or banal... often in combination.

Visiting twitter search will allow you to track what the anonymous masses are saying about you, your favorite politicians, your brand, whatever...

You can grab an RSS feed of any search you do, so your rss reader will be always updated with what's going on with the buzz on things you care about.

It's sort of like a 24 hour a day focus group, a never-ending riff on what people are buzzing about. Don't say I didn't warn you.

PS if you use twitter, remember that what you say is not just seen by your few followers. It's seen by anyone who searches.

Twitter Search

RIP Good Times

2008-10-12T00:20:00.000-07:00

Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession)

Why Wouldn't You Vote?

2008-10-04T13:52:00.001-07:00

Phish Returns

2008-10-01T02:04:00.000-07:00

03/06-08/09 Hampton, VA

Happy Birthday Trey!

2008-09-30T16:36:00.001-07:00

Gary Vaynerchuk

2008-09-24T09:31:00.000-07:00

Jerry Phil & Bob - She Belongs To Me

2008-09-15T13:31:00.000-07:00

Hope

2008-09-08T11:33:00.000-07:00

It's a Boy!

2008-08-30T13:34:00.001-07:00

Alex Rhodes Gadiel
Born 8/26/08 1:01am
6lbs 2oz, 19"

Ubiquity

2008-08-29T23:45:00.000-07:00

The web is a connective medium, yet still incredibly disconnected.

While everyone has or is building an API for interoperability between sites, it still can be a abit of a pain to perform basic combo routines, email information around or search for data online.

Enter Ubiquity: a plug-in for Firefox which enables a flurry of commands and add-ons that make navigating the waters of the web a bit more interactive, connective and fun.

You can subscribe to the JamBase search command here

Check it out for yourself at:
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Outside Lands Fest in San Francisco this weekend

2008-08-22T15:04:00.001-07:00

Most of our office has cleared out as folks make their way westward into Golden Gate Park for the first ever Outside Lands Music Festival.

I won't be going, as my wife and I are expecting the birth of our first child any day now and the last place I want to be when her water breaks is in the middle of a field of 50k Radiohead fans (radioheadheads?) with limited cellphone reception.

To assist or combat my FOMO (fear of missing out), I'll have plenty of distractions to keep me tuned into the action all weekend long:

AT&T Blueroom will be webcasting many of the sets from the weekend.

Crowdfire will be updating with words, photos & videos

Twitter has a bot which will send out any message sent to @osl back to anyone following. I built this based on the wonderful success of the @nojf bot we used for JazzFest. If you've got any ideas for an automated twitter group, let me know and I can add it to the queue.

If you're going, be sure to check out the JamBase booth in the CrowdFire tent in the Polo Fields. Tell 'em I say hi! :)

Whether you're there or not, enjoy your weekend, and give thanks for all you've got.

Phish Friday

2008-08-15T10:23:00.000-07:00

In honor of so many Phish anniversaries today (Clifford Ball, The Great Went, Lemonwheel, Coventry) I streamed my iTunes Phish library all day today

We had about 50-60 people listening and chatting throughout the 8-9 hours I was broadcasting while at work.

It was pretty cool, since I was going to simply honor the day by listening to Phish in my headphones. Now I could do it while sharing it with some friends on the web. People had some great suggestions and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

I don't have a full setlist, but we played a bunch of Great Went, Dayton 97, 5/14/92 Fluffhead!, the OJ show, Divided Sky from Greatwoods '03, and a YEM from 86 to close.

I'll hopefully do it again sometime in the future.

Thanks to everybody who tuned in. Happy Phishiversaries.

-Andy

O CHUTUP

2008-08-09T00:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.archive.org/details/zero2008-08-08.flac16

Happy Birthday Jerry

2008-08-01T00:02:00.000-07:00

Google Idea: Eureka!

2008-07-28T06:31:00.000-07:00

Here's an idea.

It's all about the "search" for information, right? Well, Google knows what I'm searching for, and they know which links I'm clicking on.

If I go to a webpage and don't find the answer, chances are I'm going to search again.

The website which has the answer I'm looking for will likely be the last one I click on during the last time I search for those terms.

Over time, and with a lot of data, they could correlate search terms with websites based upon which ones caused people to stop searching, and raise their rankings.

They could also see which sites caused people to search again, and lower their rankings.

The feature could be called Eureka! (aka "I have found it!")

Phish Great Went Bathtub Gin Jam

2008-07-26T14:36:00.001-07:00

one of the all-time greatest.

Thanks Mr. Miner!

Geographic Annotated Lyrics

2008-07-24T21:24:00.001-07:00

Tea Leaf Green's Annotated Songs got a heady upgrade this week with the inclusion of custom Google Maps.

How many songs are there in the world which evoke the sense of traveling across the country from town to town, written by artists shoving themselves in a bus and carrying their music on the back.

You can check out the initial implementation for the song Let Us Go which happens to open their latest album, Raise up the Tent.

Nice work DGold!

Wilco Song Requester

2008-07-23T16:17:00.000-07:00

We're doing a ticket giveaway contest at JamBase for Wilco's summer tour, and while I was enjoying the link to our site from Wilco's homepage, I noticed another link for "NOW TAKING REQUESTS FOR UPCOMING DATES"

Curiously thinking this would take me to their booking agent's page where I could arrange for the band to play my town, I was pleasantly surprised to find a song request form, along with which show I'd be attending.

This is a cool way to engage the audience, collect email addresses (although no opt-in) and get people to be part of the process.

Bravo Wilco!

My suggestion: Either Way