Bc2009-08-29

Spirits in the Sky
Date	2009-08-29
Venue	Pappy & Harriet's Place (Outdoor Stage)
Location	Pioneertown, CA, US
Venue Type	Club
Capacity	600
Lineup	Corgan, Byrne, Navarro, Brown, Strawberry, Tulin, Weitz, Spevack, Dippold
Order of Bands	Spirits in the Sky
Surfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	WAV
Equipment	Binaural Mics>R-09
Length	143m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	WAV-M>FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Includes partial soundcheck.
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	WAV
Equipment	DAB>R-09
Length	8m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	WAV-M>MP3
Notes	Can't Seem to Make You Mine and Circular Change only.
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	WAV
Equipment	DPA 4061>Sony Digital Recorder(24/48)
Length	124m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	WAV-M>FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	MiniDV
Equipment	Sony HDR-FX1
Length	104m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	MiniDV-M>DVD
Video Link	YouTube
Notes	Circulates synced with AUD #1.
Unsurfaced Recordings
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Setlist

Soundcheck:

• Widow Wake My Mind

Set:

• Can't Seem to Make You Mine [The Seeds]
• Circular Change
• Emerald Green Is the Color
• Widow Wake My Mind
• West Coast
• Freak
• Morning Dew [Dobson]
• The Fellowship
• Today (tease)
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings (tease)
• The Beautiful People [Manson] (tease)
• The Time Has Come [Briggs]
• A Stitch in Time
• Caroline, Yes
• A Song for a Son
• The Trip
• Astral Planes
• Femme Fatale [The Velvet Underground]
• A New Day Yesterday [Jethro Tull]
• Lucifer Sam [Pink Floyd]

Encore:

• (funk jam)
• Long Haired Lady [Quicksilver Messenger Service]

Notes

• Moved to the venue's outdoor stage, which increased capacity by 500

Banter

Sunny Sun-Downer: ...put on a show here with Sky Saxon five years ago with his - at the time - version of the Seeds. Anybody know who Sky Saxon is? That’s what I like to hear. Got a Sky “Sunlight” Saxon shrine set up over here. Just come and...take a minute to, you know, sit in silence with Sky and his spirit because that, every person that does that will bring him in closer to this mandala that he’s a part of because he was here. Just like the Dalai Lama, I don’t mean to get spiritual - too spiritual on you but for the Dalai Lama, when he goes somewhere physically, he lays in a field of energy and Sky did that here on Valentine’s Day 2004 and um, it’s coming back to life tonight. I was amazed by Billy Corgan and his friends performing Spirits in the Sky two weeks ago - did that tribute to Sky at the Echoplex. Anybody was at the Echoplex on July 25th? Woo! Alright, I’m gonna tell you real quick while they’re tuning up how Sky met Billy Corgan and Kerry Brown. They were at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in L.A., if you’ve been there. They happened upon a book on the Source Family and uh, they got ahold of Sky and [unintelligible name] and [unintelligible name] from the Source Family. Isis put the book together and you guys, check out the Source Family on the internet, you will have your mind blown. And that’s, uh, you can read on the Smashing Pumpkins website about how Sky and his Source Family turned on these guys to Yo Ha Wha and uh, you know, very spiritual things happened. So um, I got some CDs left over from five years ago, believe it or not, that Sky gave me and I’m gonna give ‘em to, right now real quick, who can tell me the name of one Seeds song, Sky “Sunlight” Saxon song that Spirit in the Sky played at the Echoplex. No, not, no no, the Seeds played Pushin’ Too Hard but Spirits in the Sky played a song had to do - but we called it back in the ‘70s, we called it Bali. 900 people, Bali, nobody knows it, huh? Not even this town, we don’t care. How ‘bout the name of the spiritual group that Sky turned Billy Corgan on to? You guys are too stoned, did you pay attention to what I said a minute ago? How ‘bout a song that I performed here at a Sky Saxon tribute a month ago that’s now in a deodorant commercial without - hahahaha, Axe deodorant commercial and Sky and his family are not getting a cent for it? You go to YouTube and do a search on “Bettie Page dances to the Seeds” and you’ll hear what song? Starts with a C. Ho! Where are you, where are you? Come up here, get this CD, honey, Can’t Seem to Make You Mine by Sky Saxon and the Seeds. Come on and work your way up here real quick while I think of the next song. What song - our next giveaway question is what song by the Seeds, Sky Saxon and the Seeds, is in that movie called Taking Woodstock? Anybody seen it yet? Ow, Ang Lee did a great job, man, my ‘64 Dodge was in the background of the scene where the hippies, uh, cops wanna beat up the hippies and got nothing. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It was a song on - they played it! - Kevin Dippold played it on the sound system. Two words, starts with a N. Anybody know the soundtrack from Taking Woodstock, no? Come on, somebody’s real problems, there’s too much [unintelligible] out there. No, what? Not No Release, come on. Anyway, I wrote an article about Sky Saxon and Billy Corgan meeting up with Dave Navarro and everybody. Desert Valley Star, you can get it in the coffeehouse. Looks like I get to give this...to my girlfriend. Alright, you guys, let’s hear it for Spirits in the Sky. Billy Corgan, Dave Navarro, Kevin Dippold, Linda Strawberry, Ysanne - did I say that right? - Kerry Brown, Matt from Strawberry Alarm Clock, Mark Tulin from Electric Prunes: Spirits in the Sky! Woo!! Thanks, [unintelligible]! Woo!
Can’t Seem to Make You Mine
unknown: Can I get some vocal in the drum mics?
BC: Yeah, a little more geetar in the back and a little vocal. Thank you very much, thank you.
Circular Change
Emerald Green is the Colour
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. ... So anyway.... (Linda Strawberry laughs) Yeah. I’m just glad it still works. That is, I’m glad it works. So uh, this is our fourth show. That’s really loud in the - I think over here, Paul. 1-2. It might be awesome up there but up here, we’re having some issues. Uh, heh heh. We’ll get there, we’ll get there eventually. Um, that’s really loud right here.
Linda Strawberry: It’s okay.
BC: Love you too. Uh...so we’ve been doing a little audience participation on this song, yeah. Pioneertown. Riiiight. We get down like the miners, yeah. You know this. Gold rush. Uh, alright. Heh heh heh. So I’m gonna teach you this song, sing along if you like. Okay, here’s how it goes, you’ll be tested. You don’t wanna see that side of me if you don’t get it right. When dudes want me to take the head off, that scares me, okay? Girls, I understand. Dudes, I don’t get that. Alright, here, it goes like this.
Widow Wake My Mind (abandoned after 6th “oh”)
BC: If I was Freddie Mercury, okay, you would be so fucked right now.
Widow Wake My Mind
unknown guy: Can we have the vocals down in the back monitor please?
BC: Yeah, we got some feedin’ back action, there we go, look at that, hey, feedback, I love it. Yeah, feedback! Yeaah. Ironically, that’s the title of an Electric Prunes album: Feedback. Now the old Prune stoners. Hello. Hello. Hello. What is - what is going on? Paul? Mr. Paul? Free Kevin? I don’t know who Kevin is. Does anyone know who Kevin is? Was it a weed related incident? I just hate the weed related incident. It happens. I believe that was a Seeds album title. Okay, let’s try this again. This is not the public announcement part of the show, okay, okay? You know, the Pioneer food drive, [unintelligible] food drive, is a.... Yes. That’s what happens when you’re alternative, you just don’t care. That’s why I’m alternative. Anyway, this is a song - technically, you’re not on the west coast literally but figuratively you are - and this is a song about being on the west coast.
West Coast
BC: Sky’s brother Sunny said, us being here has a lot to do with Sky. And uh, this is a song that has a lot to do with Sky. Sky believed in his causes. To live life, live free. To continue to - well, I don’t know if it was anarchy, close to anarchy. Heh heh, heh, there was an order in there. Only he understood. Oh my god, I gotta tune. Does anyone know how to tune a guitar? And uh.... There’s a man over here...Anthony. You know the cartoons where there’s like a turkey? Or no, somebody’s hungry and then the person turns into a turkey? I think when Anthony looks at me, I turn into a wind-up monkey where I just do his bidding. First, I’ll be saying happy birthday to his sister and then I’ll be killing indiscriminately. Yeah, it all starts with the weed. Okay, speaking of weed, this is for Sky.
Freak
BC: Thank you, thank you.
Morning Dew
BC: Thank you. That was a song - I don’t know who wrote that song but the Grateful Dead I know did it but...you may not have heard of them. I don’t know about that. Right now, Sky and Jerry are jamming. Heh heh. Somewhere up there, man, they just...jammin.’ (laughing during next sentence) Not on the same song. Yeah, I’d like to play a new song I just wrote recently.
Guy in crowd: Alright, Billy! Billy Corgan!
BC: Why do people need to shout my name while I’m here? You know that’s not my real name, okay? If you knew anything, you’d know my name is Alabaster. Alabaster of the ethers. And I’m just jammin’ with Jerry and everything. Alright, this song called The Fellowship.
The Fellowship
BC: There’s somebody here yelling for Pumpkins? Whoa, yeah, yeah. Here’s your Pumpkins, okay, ready?
Today (tease - first 5 notes)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings (tease - 3 seconds)
> The Beautiful People (tease - first 5 notes)
BC: Yeah, that’s the way it’s gonna be, man.
The Time Has Come (Billy solo)
Girl in crowd: I wanna rock that sexy bald head!
BC: Yeah, that’s right.
A Stitch in Time (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
BC: And by the way, that is a Smashing Pumpkins song, okay? That’s right, I write ‘em. I break ‘em, I ride ‘em like a bronco. What’s the next song? Heh heh heh. Do I know this one? Yeaaah, come on. ... Yeah. I am real, I am here. I do exist, that’s right. I am here, I’m right here, I’m right here, I’m right...here. Hello, hello, hello, hello.
Caroline, Yes (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
BC: That would be a Smashing Pumpkins song. This is another Smashing Pumpkins song. Yeah, awesome. When I was a young boy, you know, I thought “One day I’m gonna grow up and do what people want me to do. That’s it, that’s what I wanna do! That’s what people want me to do, it’s gonna....” Yeaah. Heh heh heh.
A Song for a Son (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
unknown guy: I gotta Twitter this up so.... It’s hard to Twittering this tonight, hold on.
another guy: Give us up, like you like, yeah, one of these, yeah.
The Trip
Astral Planes
BC: The uh, the drummer boys are getting killed by guitar. Let’s take it way, heh, way down.
Femme Fatale
A New Day
Lucifer Sam
BC: Thank you!
[encore break]
unknown guy: Is there a Dave Navarro in the house? [unintelligible]
funk jam
(BC: Alright, enough of this funk bullshit.)
Long Haired Lady
BC: Thanks a lot, thank you.

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