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Yet another Frank Zappa goodie form the good folks at zappateers.com. An upgrade of performance with the Ensemble Modern.

Frank Zappa / Ensemble Modern
The Yellow Shark
Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
1992/09/17
1h 29mn 22s (trailer + intro: 2mn)

Recording & encoding by CosmikD
TV sat > SkyStar2 > DVBDream > PVAStrumento > TMPGEnc Plus > Synchro with TVP audio source.
Video (Classica source): DVD PAL MPEG-2 720x576 25 i/s CBR 6000kbps
Audio (TVP Kultura source): 48000 Hz 384 Kb/s)
Authoring & animation by unicrayon
Menu with Chapters

1. Classica Trailer
2. Overture
3. Dog/Meat
4. Outrage at Valdez
5. Times Beach II
6. III (Revised)
7. Magnesium Dress
8. Be-Bop Tango
9. Food Gathering
10. Ruth is Sleeping
11. Amnerika
12. None of the Above pt1
13. Pentagon Afternoon
14. Times Beach III
15. Welcome to the United States
16. Pound for a Brown
17. Get Whitey
18. G-Spot Tornado

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The 2008 edition of Jam In the 'Dam line-up is completed. Four nights, six bands:

• Dark Star Orchestra
• Disco Biscuits
• Lotus
• Perpetual Groove
• Tea Leaf Green
• Umphrey's McGee

Jam in the 'Dam
Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 16-17-18-19, 2008

First off, we want to thank everyone for participating in our additional artists' poll. The poll on our message board has gotten around 13,000 views in less than three weeks. We tried to narrow the choices to artists that had expressed interest in past years, and who would also contribute to an amazing show.

Well, as hard as we tried, we couldn't narrow it down to two more bands. So, we're bringing three! Six bands, you ask, how is that going to work in three nights? It won't. So we are expanding the festival to four nights!

We are very excited to add the Disco Biscuits, Dark Star Orchestra, and Perpetual Groove. These were the top three vote-getters in the poll. You spoke, we listened. But we had to get very creative to accomplish this lineup. Here's how:

The festival will now span four nights, March 16-17-18-19, 2008. We are also taking the unusual step of announcing the schedule concurrent with this announcement, so folks can get a gander at exactly how it will work. In short, DSO will only play the first two nights in the Max. Umphrey's McGee and the Disco Biscuits will each have one night off out of four to potentially come and act as fans/guest musicians. We will play Tea Leaf Green, PGroove, and Lotus in the Old Hall each night, but only for March 16-17-18. On the 19th, the only show will be Umphrey's McGee and the Biscuits in the Max, doing slightly longer sets.

» jaminthedam.com
» Jam in the 'Dam schedule

The Steepwater Band is a power trio from Chicago, keeping the flame of blues rock alive. Their album Revelation Sunday is a 101 for rockers who are into acts like the Bachman Tuner Overdrive, Rory Gallagher and Gov't Mule. They will be sharing the bill with the Mule in Spain this summer. The Steepwater Band are traditionalists who have no trouble finding new licks and riffs that sound familiar and refreshing. Their high energy playing is for real. Like it says on their manager's business card: "Better living through rock and roll music". Plug in your air guitar and turn it up.

The Steepwater Band:
Jeff Massey: vocals & guitar
Tod Bowers: bass guitar & backing vocals
Joe Winters: drums

Revelation Sunday is distributed through Diamond Day Records (USA) and Evangeline Records (Europe). Buy the album at CD Baby or iTunes.

MP3: The Steepwater Band - Baby, You're On Your Own
MP3: The Steepwater Band - Revelation Sunday

» steepwater.com
» myspace.com/thesteepwaterband

USA tour dates

• 05/25 Melody Inn, Indianapolis, IN
• 05/26 Tidball's Music Club, Bowling Green, KY
• 05/31 Czar's 505 Music Club, St. Joseph, MI
• 06/01 Billy's Blues Club, Grand Rapids, M
• 06/02 Shoreline Brewery, Michigan City, IN
• 06/15 Up & Under, Milwaukee, WI
• 06/16 Frankie's Inner City, Toledo, OH
• 06/29 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• 06/30 TBA, Chicago, IL
• 07/02 Main Square Park, Highland, IN
• 07/03 Ribfest Music Festival, Naperville, IL w/ Heart

European tour dates

• 07/05 B-Estival Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, Spain w/ Gov't Mule and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
• 07/06 Fantasy Bike Rally, Sestao, Spain
• 07/07 Fantasy Bike Rally, Sestao, Spain w/ Marc Ford
• 07/08 Sala Savoy, Gijon, Spain with special guests Alto Volto
• 07/10 TBA, TBA, France
• 07/11 Corral de las Cigüeñas, Caceres, Spain w/ special guests Maggot Brain
• 07/12 Pub Gabanna, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
• 07/13 El Sol, Madrid, Spain
• 07/14 TBA, Alicante, Spain w/ special guest Smoking Bird
• 07/15 TBA, Barcelona, Spain

More USA tour dates

• 07/21 The Abbey Pub, Chicago, IL
• 07/28 Sugarstock Music Festival, Bloomingdale, IN
• 08/01 Dinosaur BBQ, Rochester, NY
• 08/02 Dinosaur BBQ, Syracuse, NY
• 08/03 TBA, Northeast Kingdom Music Festival, East Albany, VT
• 08/11 Billy's Blues Club, Grand Rapids, MI
• 09/03 Labor Dayz Festival, Michigan City, IN
• 11/09 Leroy's, Porter, IN
• 11/10 Billy's Blues Club, Grand Rapids, MI
• 12/22 The Quest, Schererville, IN