Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Top 5 for 2008

Top 5 Shows:
1) Radiohead, Great Woods, Mansfield, MA 8/13/08
2) Trey Anastasio, Lupos Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI 10/21/08
3) Return to Forever w/ Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA 08/06/08
4) The Dead & Allman Brothers Obama Benefit, Bryce Jordan Center, Happy Valley, PA 10/14/08
5) Stevie Wonder, Great Woods, Mansfield, MA 06/22/08

Honorable Mention:
Zappa plays Zappa, Rothbury Music Festival, Rothbury MI 07/03/08
Phil Lesh & Friends w/Levon Helm, Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA 06/21/08
Alan Holdsworth, Johnny D's Somerville, MA 04/16/08
Lettuce, Newport Jazz Fest, Newport, RI 08/09/08
Chris Potter, Newport Jazz Fest, Newport, RI 08/09-10/08
Trey Anastasio, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA 10/23/08
B3 King's/Public House, Matt Murphy's, Brookline, MA (Any given Tuesday)

My top 5 albums:
1) Radiohead- In Rainbows
2) Lettuce- Rage!
3) MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
4) Apollo Sunshine- Shall Noise Upon
5) My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges

Honorable Mention: Robert Plant & Allison Krauss- Raising Sand
David Byrne + Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes (I just heard this album for the first time this past week and it already gets me)
Return to Forever- Anthology (this is questionable, I know Brian, but it was released this year and it was new TO ME).

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