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Delegate Toscano and Senator Deeds,

I urge you to support Delegate Morgan’s HB 1443 that is proposed for the upcoming session. As budgets are… squeezed, instead of laying off teachers or public safety officials, the state should quit taking an interest in subsidizing the persecution of private activities which some do not agree with. The facts are that non-violent marijuana offenders are the least of the state or law enforcements worries. Marijuana consumption is widely accepted as safer than alcohol or cigarettes yet it is much more regulated. Enforcing prejudice against a non-intrusive lifestyle choice is not in the government’s interest. It criminalizes otherwise law abiding citizens and breeds distrust where otherwise none is warranted. Substances abuse is a medical problem not a criminal problem. Help Virginia get on the right track by supporting HB 1443.

-Joe

Shows Selected

• 2/21/91 Trax, Charlottesville, VA
• 7/24/91 Trax, Charlottesville, VA
• 11/15/91 Trax, Charlottesville, VA
• 3/25/92 Trax, Charlottesville, VA
• 7/15/92 Trax, Charlottesville, VA
• 10/27/94 University Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

78 songs have been played (11% of songs Phish have played).
The average number of songs per show is 23.1.
The average amount of times each song was played is 1.78.
There were 39 onetimers

Total Times Played

Golgi Apparatus – 5 (83%)
My Sweet One – 5
Split Open and Melt – 5
Cavern – 4 (66%)
Chalk Dust Torture – 4
Suzy Greenberg – 4
Bouncing Around the Room – 3 (50%)
Divided Sky – 3
Guelah Papyrus – 3
Possum – 3
Sparkle – 3
The Landlady – 3
The Squirming Coil – 3
All Things Reconsidered – 2 (33%)
Bathtub Gin – 2
Big Black Furry Creature From Mars – 2
Contact – 2
David Bowie – 2
Fee – 2
Glide – 2
Harry Hood – 2
I Am Hydrogen – 2
Llama – 2
Maze – 2
Mike’s Song – 2
Poor Heart – 2
Reba – 2
Run Like an Antelope – 2
Silent in the Morning – 2
Stash – 2
The Horse – 2
The Lizards – 2
Tweezer – 2
Tweezer Reprise – 2
Uncle Pen – 2
Weekapaug Groove – 2
Wilson – 2
Ya Mar – 2
You Enjoy Myself – 2
Buried Alive – 1 (16%)
Colonel Forbin’s Ascent – 1
Cracklin’ Rosie – 1
Destiny Unbound – 1
Dinner and a Movie – 1
Down With Disease – 1
Eliza – 1
Esther – 1
Foam – 1
Frankenstein – 1
Funky Bitch – 1
Highway To Hell – 1
Horn – 1
I Didn’t Know – 1
Icculus – 1
It’s Ice – 1
Jesus Just Left Chicago – 1
Julius – 1
Lawn Boy – 1
Love You – 1
McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters – 1
Mound – 1
My Friend My Friend – 1
Rhombus Narration – 1
Rift – 1
Runaway Jim – 1
Setting Sail – 1
Slave to the Traffic Light – 1
Sleeping Monkey – 1
Sweet Adeline – 1
Tela – 1
The Asse Festival – 1
The Curtain – 1
The Famous Mockingbird – 1
The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony – 1
The Sloth – 1
The Vibration of Life – 1
Tube – 1
Vacuum Solo – 1

Full setlists from Phish.net:

1990

• 1990-10-10 (Trax, Charlottesville, VA (No Known Setlist)

1991

• 1991-02-21 (Trax, Charlottesville, VA)
• 1991-07-24 (Trax, Charlottesville, VA)
• 1991-11-15 (Trax, Charlottesville, VA)

1992

• 1992-03-25 (Trax, Charlottesville, VA)
• 1992-07-15 (Trax, Charlottesville, VA)

1994

• 1994-10-27 (University Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)

2009

• 2009-12-05 (John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA)

A side thought, I am running an old Pentium 4 into the TV that I picked up from work.   Working with an ATI Remote Wonder, I am able to navigate Hulu’s desktop app and control the ESPN360 nearly seamlessly.  Cable and the TiVo’s collection of my favorite programs will be missed, but on demand Internet steaming is definitely the future. Hopefully local television and their parent companies will realize the future and offer web based steaming of their local broadcast.  Being able to queue up your own program is nice, but sometimes I enjoy letting the pros figure out the schedule.  How about some XML based broadcast exchange.  You want a program, you submit a request for the steam, and different companies compete to fill the request.  Queuing for each section of programming is on half hour increments to all help with bidding and some standard of which commercials may be inserted.  You choose your broadcast company.  They know what you like, sorta how Netflicks knows how you like your movies, they the multiplex steams of your taste.  Some steams are traditional scheduled based broadcast while others are a dynamic blend based off of your preferences.  Broadcasters are paid off of the value of their steam, just like normal television, and the multiplexers sell their audience. Everyone wins.

Here is the breakdown:

• 16-1 ABC16 720p
• 16-2 CBS19 480i
• 19-1 CBS19 1080i
• 19-2 19NOW 480i
• 19-3 FOX27 480i
• 27-1 FOX27 720p
• 27-2 MyCvill 480i
• 29-1 NBC29HD 1080i
• 29-2 Wx+ 480i
• 29-3 CW29 480i
• 41-1 WHTJ-HD 1080i
• 41-2 WHTJ-D2 480i
• 41-3 WHTJ-D3 480i

Having all the channels in HD is exciting.  I’ve found that the extra weather channels on the side are useful.  The extra feature makes the weather channel a necessasity of the past.  If there are other channels any one has found.  Let me know.

Big thanks to the crowd and security for making the venue such a great success.

After the big show everyone dispersed to do their bidding. Balloons seemed present and welcomed. Everyone needs a good laugh. That being said, we made our way to Obit to check out Tucker’s fantastic Wednesday Night Music Showcase where the Kings of Belmont (K.O.B.) rocked it out with a high energy infused rocking party. People were getting down while Max tore notes well into the night.

Set List:

06.27.07 WED
Charlottesville Pavilion

UMPHREYS
I: Jam> Plunger> JO> Plunger-> Rock Fuzz> Partyin’ Peeps, Wizard Burial Ground> Stew,
Thin Air, Great American, Got Your Milk (Right Here)> All In Time, YYZ

BISCUITS
I: Caterpillar, Highwire> 7-11> Above the Waves (Inverted)> (Echoes fakeout)> Spaga>
Story of the World, Spacebirdmatingcall

Encore: Rock Candy

Disco Biscuit Videos:

Kings of Belmont Videos:

Looking ahead, April is going to be solid.

04/05: Antibalas*
04/11: Toubab Krewe* or Trans Am, Zombi, and Psychic Paramount`
04/19: Robert Randolph & The Family Band^
04/22: Acid Mothers Temple`
04/26: Rose Hill Drive`
04/28: Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band#

* Starr Hill
` Satellite Ballroom
^ Charlottesville Pavilion
# Outback Lodge

Grudge Match of the month is Toubab Krewe vs Trans Am.  I’m still not sure which I will goto, new age indy craziness or good old hippy get down.  I dig the psychic electronic sound of indy and am more or less just discovering it.  Major props to Satellite for delivering the goods.  On the other hand, I haven’t ever caught Toubab and would love to see them take Starr Hill down.  Acid Mothers Temple is a must see.  Touring from Japan, AMT shows America how psychedelic rock is done. 

Will Satellite continue bringing the goods and top the big guy on the hill’s lame top 40 replays or will Starr Hill wake up and deliver some quality music over the rehashed RIAA quick bucks?  I hope so because competition is good.  If not for that you get the same old garbage.  Starr Hill used to deliver in spades twice a week, now we are lucky to get the phatty goodness twice a month.  All things equal though, Coran does bring the love through the Pavilion and perhaps the Jefferson will reopen as a premere midsize venue, however only time will tell.

Did I miss anything?  Let me know.

3/10 – Guano Boys @ Satellite
3/20 – Tea Leaf Green (Opening:William Walter & Co.)
3/22 – Larry Keel & The Natural Bridge
3/28 – Galactic (rescheduled from 2/11)
3/31 – Hackensaw Boys

Starr Hill has lined up four excellent bands in the final two weeks of March. Hopefully the venue can deliver some solid bands for the Spring but so far we have only a twinkle of the energy delivered in 2006. Looking forward, April is already highlighted by Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra hailing from Brooklyn and Toubab Krewe from Asheville, NC.

On the Corner we always have the Wednesday Night Music Showcase at Orbits, which showcases bands from Charlottesville. You never know what guests might play, previously members of Parliament sat in during some Man Mountain Jr. Meanwhile, In April Satellite Ballroom will feature Acid Mothers Temple; a psychedelic rock band from Japan.

Del. Harvey Morgan, R-Gloucester, warned that Hogan’s measure could help an already prospering Dominion to get even richer at the expense of its 2 million Virginia customers. He also suggested “re-regulation” is being rammed through the legislature in too much of a rush.

From Bill to end electricity deregulation clears Senate – DailyProgress

I wrote the State Corporation Commission to make sure what was happening is true and this was the response:

As the legislation now stands, it would end retail electric choice for residential and most business customers. That would include the 1,335 retail customers in Virginia currently receiving their electricity supply service from a competitive supplier providing renewable energy options. The proposed legislation includes incentives for utilities like Dominion Virginia Power to use renewable sources of energy through voluntary renewable portfolio standards.

Andy Farmer
Education Resources Manager
State Corporation Commission

You can see the two bills here:
Senate 1416
House 3515