Kevin's Watch

DISC ONE
1. Andre the Giant
2. Prologue
3. The Inlaw Josie Wales
4. All Things Reconsidered
5. Coming To
6. Discern (Intro)
7. Guyute (Orchestral)

SEIS DE MAYO
Seis de Mayo is an album of all-instrumental compositions written and recorded over the past couple of years. The seven tracks are performed by a variety of ensembles -- string quartets, brass quintets, small and full orchestras -- and though some of the titles may be familiar to Phish fans, the settings are radically different.

The orchestral version of "Guyute", debuted by the Vermont Youth Orchestra two years ago, is performed on "Seis de Mayo" by Seattlemusic, a 66-piece orchestra. "Prologue" -- previously integrated into Phish's "Pebbles and Marbles" -- performed here as the orchestral miniature Anastasio originally scored in his basement. "The Inlaw Josie Wales", a solo guitar piece from Farmhouse, has been reconfigured for guitar and string quartet. The introduction to "Discern" has been restored to its intended horn-based format. And "All Things Reconsidered," first heard on Phish's "Rift", is at last a fugue for string quartet. In addition, "Andre the Giant" opens the album with Trey on guitar, Mike Gordon on bass, performing with musicians playing the djembe and balifon, an African gourd instrument that sounds something like a marimba. "Coming To" is an orchestral Dixieland fantasio for horns and strings.

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Puccini's 'O Mio Babbino Caro'

I took my girl out to a ball, it was a fancy hop,
We danced until the people left, the music it did stop.
I took her to a restaurant, the best one on the street;
she said she wasn't hungry, but this is what she eat:
A plate of slaw, a cabbage raw, a chicken and a roast,
asparagrass and applesass and soft-shelled crabs on toast,
oyster stew and crackers too, her appetite was immense;
but I thought I'd die when she asked for pie, 'cuz I had but fifty cents!
She took it in so easy, she had an awful tank,
she said she wasn't thirsty, but this is what she drank:
A whisky skin, a glass of gin, a schooner full of beer,
a glass of pop with rum on top that made me shake with fear,
a gin cocktail a glass of ale, I thought she'd have more sense,
but I fell on the floor when she asked for more, 'cuz I had but fifty cents.
She said she'd bring her family 'round and we'd have lots of fun.....
I showed the waiter my fifty cents, and this is what he done:
He punched my nose, he tore my clothes, he threw me against the door,
he made me a prize of a couple black eyes and with me swept the floor,
he kicked me where my pants hung loose and threw me over the fence;
take my advice, don't try it twice, when you have but fifty cents!

VIDA BLUE


Baseball fans know Vida Blue as a Cy Young Award-winning lefthander who was the ace of Oakland Athletics' pitching staff in the early Seventies. Music fans are coming to know Vida Blue as an adventurous trio fronted by Phish keyboardist Page McConnell. Making the most of his time while on hiatus from Phish, McConnell has recruited a Hall of Fame-caliber rhythm section - Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band, Aquarium Rescue Unit) and drummer Russell Batiste (the Meters) - for this atmospheric jazz - and funk-flavored project. On their self-titled debut album, Vida Blue explores textures and grooves that sound like nothing you've ever heard.

"You may know all the players going into it," says McConnell, "but you couldn't really predict what it would sound like. It's been a refreshing surprise."

The seeds for Vida Blue were sewn when McConnell attended shows by the Allman Brothers Band and the Meters in April 2001. McConnell honed in on the playing of Burbridge and Batiste, and the wheels began turning. When both enthusiastically assented, McConnell took the reins and made the arrangements, booking time for the trio at a New Orleans studio.

The trio cut tracks and jammed for a week at Piety Street Recording, a brand-new studio in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. McConnell subsequently added instrumental overdubs and vocals back home in Vermont. He didn't approach the project with an agenda beyond his intention to focus more on synthesizer, organ and electric piano than the grand piano that had been a signature part of his playing with Phish. In terms of sonics, the principal inspiration for Vida Blue's first studio foray was "some of the stuff Miles Davis and his keyboardists did with the Fender Rhodes electric piano circa Jack Johnson, In A Silent Way and Get Up With It. The texture of the Rhodes, the sound of the drums — it opens up in all sorts of ways."

Some of the tracks unfold like musical conversations among three highly skilled players, while others — notably "Most Events Aren't Planned" and "Electra Glide" — are songs featuring McConnell's vocals and representing his first foray into lyric-writing. "Without a doubt, that was one of the most challenging aspects of this project, because I'd never done it," he says. "I spent a lot of time and worked really hard at it."

Of his fellow players, McConnell has nothing but praise. "They're phenomenal musicians," he says. "I feel challenged, but I'm comfortable with them also." McConnell has known bassist Burbridge from the days when Phish shared bills with Oteil's former outfit, the Aquarium Rescue Unit. "When the Aquarium Rescue Unit was playing in the early Nineties, they were my favorite band," McConnell recalls. "I saw them as often as I could. It may have been the last time I unequivocally knew what my favorite live band was."

Drummer Batiste, who joined New Orleans funk legends the Meters when they re-formed in the late Eighties, was voted Musician of the Year in New Orleans a few years back. "He is a musician from a family of musicians in a city of musicians, not unlike the Neville or Marsalis family," notes McConnell. "It's no secret to the people down there; everyone knows who Russell is."

What has McConnell the most pumped up about Vida Blue is the indefinable chemistry that emerged during their recording sessions and is further developing in concert. "Vida Blue has brought out something new and different in our playing," he enthuses. "We're developing a personality and character as a band. It really does have its own sound and chemistry and energy. We're still a relatively young band, but it's going so well right now. I didn't imagine it would be coming together this quickly."

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Dr. Dennis R. Wood is a veterinarian and owner of All Creatures Animal Hospital and Bird Clinic in Crescent City. Besides treating most family pets, he specializes in the treatment of rare birds and exotics. Dr. Wood is founder and Board President of the nonprofit North Coast Marine Mammal Center, where he supervises the treatment of all rescued and injured animals.

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Estivation is another form of torpor, dormancy, or "sleep". Animals that estivate are trying to escape things happening in their environment. This happens in hot, desert climates where heat and water are so important to the animals that live there. Estivation protects these animals from high temperatures and drought.
Just as animals hibernate in order to stay alive in cold places, animals estivate [or aestivate] in hot, dry places. The bodies of estivators will slow down. Breathing and heartbeat get very slow. The animal doesn't need as much food and water to live since food is fuel for energy and they aren't using much. Reptiles use 90-95% less energy when they are estivating. Animals don't move, grow or eat during this time.
When hot and dry times come, estivators will find themselves a safe place to sleep--usually underground. This is the only way some animals can live through high heat and no water.
Some examples of estivators are:

Bees
Earthworms
Frogs and Toads
Hedgehogs
Snails
Snakes
Mud Turtles
Lizards

Reptiles estivate in the middle of summer. Because they are cold-blooded, their bodies stay the same temperature as the air around them. If it is 40 degrees outside, their bodies are 40 degrees. If the air is 110 degrees, then their bodies are, too. High temperatures plus lack of water make estivation the animal's only chance to survive in that climate. This is a way that animals adapt to the climate they live in.

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Buffalo Tom, Birdbrain (1990)
The group's second album, produced Dinosaur Jr. leader and fellow Massachusetts alt rocker J Mascis (along with Sean Slade). They're already mired in the monotonous, deafening hard rock sound they stuck with throughout the 90s: brutal rhythm guitars, hoarse, gut-spilling vocals, and ear-busting arrangements with too few shifts in tempo, volume, instrumentation, or just about anything. Humorless and disdainful of experimentation, they're like a more conventional, slightly countrified, not-really-punk take on Hüsker Dü. Frontmen/writing partners Chris Colbourn (bass) and Bill Janowitz (guitar) could use another player to give them some variety, and drummer Tom Maginnis wants nothing more than to out-Bonham John Bonham. That's the bad news. The good news is their emotive, introspective songwriting. They do typically hit the mark several times per album, and this one is no exception. The thumping, militaristic lead tune "Birdbrain" is crafted and hummable. Some of the Hüsker Dü schtick is amusing ("Directive"). And although they don't always pull it off ("Skeleton Key"), usually they're best when they chill out: the sing-along number "Baby" is reminiscent of "Wild Horses," there are two fine power ballads ("Enemy," with a memorable refrain; "Fortune Teller," with a nice 6/8 country beat), and on the two CD bonus tracks they mercifully go acoustic (the plaintive "Reason Why," from their debut disc; a fine cover of the Psychedelic Furs' "Heaven"). It's just too bad they don't ditch the amps more often; there's one pedestrian rocker after another here ("Caress"; "Guy Who Is Me"; "Crawl"; "Bleeding Heart"). There's a user-friendly, semi-official fan-run web site. (JA)

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From David Zindell's The Lightstone:

Evil, I knew then, was much more than darkness: it was a willing turning away from the light of the One. It was a poison that twists the soul, a madness, a terrible need to inflate one's self at the expense of others, as a tick swells on its victims' blood.

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