Steve Miller Band - I'm no Joker, this is one of the oddest headliners in a while, maybe Warren has just packed it in and decided just to take the money and run, or maybe Asheville is not such a swingtown after all. Well maybe its not that strange since last year featured Counting Crowes and Ani Difranco, maybe they could all get together and Abracadabra! a whiney boring rock band sure to tear the roof off the place. Thankfully the guy is so old we have to assume it will be one of the earlier sets since he will meet his threshold way before midnight, unless his big ol jetairliner runs late in which case we just hope everyone is drunk enough by the time he goes on that jungle love has taken over the Asheville Civic Center. Regardless its an odd pick for the wintertime classic, just hope everyone has enough spirits to dance, dance, dance.
This quote was shared with me yesterday and is too classic not to share:
"I remember one time-it might have been a couple of times-at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn;t have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry ass records out. so I would come late and he have to go on first and then we got there and smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it" - Miles Davis
The Warren Haynes Band- this one i am actually really intrigued by, it is supposedly Warren's first venture into soul and will be the debut performance of this band. However I fear we may get a lot of man ballads here. The lineup looks great, with George Porter Jr. of Meters fame on bass, Ivan Neville from Dumpstafunk on keys and Raymond Weber on drums. This will surely be late night and hopefully we have good stuff to report back, Warren with those guys should not dissapoint.
Gregg Allman- Come and let me show you my tattoo - what else can I say.
John Bell (Widespread Panic) - Jojo is one of the special guests, so this begs the question what are the rest of these assfaces doing that they can't show up, School's too busy eating kittens? JB solo is usually pretty entertaining.
Umphrey's McGee - never been that big of a fan, always thought their original music sounded like someone who kept going from being wasted drunk to snorting coke constantly but never mixed the two. However, they are pretty good musicians and do some strange things with combining covers, so it could be interesting. And can you really hate on a band that has covered Dick in a Box?
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - good ol new orleans music, hope we get some of JB with them and Warren, George Porter and Ivan Neville.
Missing Cats - never heard of them
Drive by Truckers- in the original lineup but canceled along with their Scandinavian tour cause they went too hardcore in Scandanavia, big disappointment that they canceled, was looking forward to a rousing rendition of the president's penis is missing.
Special Guests:
Mike Barnes
Cody Dickinson
Fred Eltringham
Sherman Ewing
Ruthie Foster
Audley Freed
John "JoJo" Hermann
Terence Higgins
Ron Holloway
Ron Johnson
Robert Kearns
Kevn Kinney
Ivan Neville
Should be a great way to celebrate 14 days early the random day that has been chosen to celebrate the birth of the lord, no pagans allowed.
