New TLG CD/DVD Haters don\'t bother...

[leith]

I\'ll be gone this weekend in S.F. seeing them Acoustic(GAMH) and Electric(Fillmore).
So your haterade will go to waste.

For the few Leafers here, you may not have heard of this so here is the info.


“Making Rock and Roll is an art form best performed with an understanding of its tradition.”

Such are the words of Tea Leaf Green\'s guitarist Josh Clark, as he discusses their musical approach during the creation of their SCI Fidelity Records debut, a live DVD and companion CD, entitled Rock \'N\' Roll Band, available in stores October 31st.

SCI Fidelity is excited to welcome this band of youthful San Francisco gypsies who put their own original spin on rock & soul.

On October 31st, Tea Leaf Green will release Rock \'n\' Roll Band, a live CD and DVD (sold separately) from an epic night of music recorded at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO on May 19, 2006. The DVD will be 97 minutes of performance and interviews, directed by Justin Kreutzmann.


CD:
1. These Two Chairs
2. One Reason
3. If It Wasn\'t for the Money
4. The Garden (Part II)
5. The Garden (Part III)
6. Faced With Love
7. Incandescent Devil
8. Jezebel
9. Franz Hanzerbeak
10. Make a Connection
11. Devil\'s Pay
12. Taught to be Proud
13. All of Your Cigarettes

DVD:
1. These Two Chairs
2. One Reason
3. Georgie P
4. If It Wasn\'t for the Money
5. The Garden (Part II)
6. The Garden (Part III)
7. Faced With Love
8. Criminal Intent
9. Flippin the Bird
10. Franz Hanzerbeak
11. Incandescent Devil
12. Jezebel
13. All of Your Cigarettes (sound check)
14. Devil\'s Pay
15. Morning Sun
16. Truck Stop Sally (closing credits)
BONUS

[boombox]

Hope you enjoy the shows, leith.

As for this release, not enough of the old stuff on there for me - not even a nice funky Sex In the 70s - so I think I\'ll pass on this.

SCI Fidelity though? Are we going to see SCI/TLG double headers? Josh and Bill duelling on acoustics would definitely be fun. Now if they brought that tour over here, that would be one to follow. :duck: (Anticipating the usual missiles from the tlg haters!!!)

[leith]

Clip of One Reason:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8578539219782582796&q=tea+leaf+green&hl=en

[davepeck]

cheaper than musictoday, even with the combo deal.. free shipping when you get both:

[obsession600]

this is a better way to spend your money

[Me!]

Tea Leaf Green:
Rock \'n\' Roll Band

Fundamentals. It\'s the lesson coaches beat into their players\' heads. It\'s the mantra of the piano teacher and the kung-fu sensei. Learn the essentials, and the rest will unfold properly. Build a sloppy foundation, and anything built on it will tumble in time. Tea Leaf Green lives this principle in a quietly righteous way. They fully comprehend the power and beauty of good songs played with clear-eyed conviction, technical proficiency, and just a lil\' swagger. In the past couple years, they\'ve whittled and polished the true spirit inside their music. Like vintage Little Feat, Guess Who, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, their conviction and smiling passion shines through every album cut, every concert. There\'s a nourishing meat-and-taters quality to everything they do. And these qualities are on full display in their new live CD/DVD set, Rock \'n\' Roll Band.

This is music to be experienced arm-in-arm, smiling, glasses raised. Where so much rock today seems pried from tormented bedrooms and angry journals, Tea Leaf proffers soulful sing-a-longs full of non-preachy worldly wisdom. This last part creeps up, but there\'s more than cheery ditties here. Rock \'n\' Roll Band peels away a few musical layers, offering open-hearted snapshots of the boys at home between chunks of a very good night at The Fox Theater in Boulder, Colorado. The juxtaposition of their thoughts on what they do with a fine example of them in the throes of live ecstasy proves enlightened bohemians can also play hard. While often tagged a "jam band," this set places them more in the exploratory rock field, far closer to say Deep Purple or Peter Frampton than Phish.

A spirited reading of "Morning Sun" on the DVD nicely sums up their overall vibe:

There\'s a storm on the dance floor,
There\'s a cloud in this club.
Lightning\'s a warning
For the thunder struck.
You know how to shake it,
You really know how to move.
We\'re gonna make it,
With nothing to prove.

No props, no gimmicks, just four guys blossoming as showmen and songwriters. Director Justin Kreutzmann lingers over the band in a way that\'s far more revealing than today\'s penchant for ferret-on-espresso jump-cuts and shallow sound bites. He mixes up wide shots and close-ups so the scope of their playing dances with an intimacy the folks in the stalls rarely encounter. The live footage wisely gets the lion\'s share of screen time. The intercut off-stage moments pop in appropriately, expanding on the moment at hand. So often this sort of thing feels intrusive but not so here. Kreutzmann leaves few directorial fingerprints, choosing instead to showcase the band in as direct and pure a way as the camera allows. It\'s a rare thing to truly serve one\'s subject and something that makes him a director to watch in the future.

Listening to the CD, one is struck by the paring back of their solos. This leaner approach serves the songs more, which in turn increases the overall density of things. Guitarist Josh Clark manages to be eloquent without the need to showboat. Singer-keyboardist Trevor Garrod continues to master texture over multi-note flurries. And it\'s fun to hear him work in more harmonica these days. The fundamentals we spoke of at the start are seen most clearly in the rhythm team of bassist Ben Chambers and drummer Scott Rager. While always present, they rarely solo, and when they do, it packs a wallop. This pair is the sturdy heartbeat that fuels this agile body. That they perform this role with such humility and skill is impressive.

This set is Tea Leaf\'s new calling card, the proper showcase for the story so far. Taken together, the music on both the CD and DVD (track listings vary slightly) have a breezily universal appeal. Their music is the sort that ignites crowds, a cleansing fire that clears away the overgrowth of day-to-day life. It\'s not the emotional thunderstorm of say The Mars Volta but something subtler, closer to their \'60s and \'70s forebears. It\'s good-time music built from the ashes of hard times. This is the reason for TLG\'s growing popularity. They create music that speaks to life lived on the ground. It\'s the stuff that makes folks "turn it up" when Ronnie Van Zant tells \'em to. It\'s why rock \'n\' roll truly never forgets Bob Seger. We need anthems to help us through all the time-clock punching and rough, gray days. When Garrod sings, "I was once a flower and I\'ll be a flower again," it\'s a glimpse of the world our eyes are often too clouded by debts and drama to really see. Rock \'n\' Roll Band is chock full of such moments.

[leith]

Thanx for posting this Chris. I wanted to but you know....
This paragraph right here totally sums up a big reason I love TLG:

Their music is the sort that ignites crowds, a cleansing fire that clears away the overgrowth of day-to-day life. It\'s not the emotional thunderstorm of say The Mars Volta but something subtler, closer to their \'60s and \'70s forebears. It\'s good-time music built from the ashes of hard times. This is the reason for TLG\'s growing popularity. They create music that speaks to life lived on the ground. It\'s the stuff that makes folks "turn it up" when Ronnie Van Zant tells \'em to. It\'s why rock \'n\' roll truly never forgets Bob Seger. We need anthems to help us through all the time-clock punching and rough, gray days.

[skalnbyc]

I suppose you have heard about the two-night double-header of TLG/New Monsoon at the Crystal Bay Club Casino?  Man, that is a great venue.

[leith]

I suppose you have heard about the two-night double-header of TLG/New Monsoon at the Crystal Bay Club Casino?  Man, that is a great venue.

You mean the Tea N\' Ski in January?

1.19.07 Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Casino (TLG opens, NM closes)
1.20.07 Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Casino (NM opens, TLG closes)

TLG management rocks bringing Leafers dates like this.

[skalnbyc]

You mean the Tea N\' Ski in January?

1.19.07 Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Casino (TLG opens, NM closes)
1.20.07 Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Casino (NM opens, TLG closes)

TLG management rocks bringing Leafers dates like this.

Yeah, what I would give for two nights of Breakfast paired up with another band at this venue.  I\'m even tempted to hit up one of the above nights.

[oldnewbie]

Yeah, what I would give for two nights of Breakfast paired up with another band at this venue.  I\'m even tempted to hit up one of the above nights.

i\'m not a hater and even have a bit of a curious interest in tlg...but....is it me...or is tea\'n\'ski pretty geigh sounding. that shit would never fly on this coast.

[leith]

Yeah, what I would give for two nights of Breakfast paired up with another band at this venue.  I\'m even tempted to hit up one of the above nights.

Yeah well that\'s not likely to happen anytime soon. As for you hitting up one of the shows. You really shouldn\'t travel all that way to just see New Monsoon.

i\'m not a hater and even have a bit of a curious interest in tlg...but....is it me...or is tea\'n\'ski pretty geigh sounding. that shit would never fly on this coast.

It\'s just you. It rhymes, the band is Tea Leaf Green and the shows are in Lake Tahoe a major Ski resort area.
Makes sense.
If your curious abt the band you should really download 9/29 GAMH acoustic(1st set only came out but it is ser) and 9/30 Fillmore. That or just about any show from the past few months. They are really getting tighter touring every month. Each time I see them is leaps and bounds better than the last.

[skalnbyc]

Yeah well that\'s not likely to happen anytime soon. As for you hitting up one of the shows. You really shouldn\'t travel all that way to just see New Monsoon.

I actually like some of the TLG songs.  Not everyone has to have the desire to enter into a same-sex partnership with any willing band member in order to consider a show.