Big Blue Sky

Looks like this will be available online via webcast...  looks like it will be east coast friendly as it airs at 8pm EST....  now if I can remember to tune in... 
https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/rising-up-paradise-webcast/
Nugs.tv will webcast The Big Swell’s upcoming NYE set, which will air on a tape-delayed basis on January 1st at 8 p.m. (EST) here.   <<<<Link<<<< 
Bob Weir & Bill Kreutzmann’s “Rising Up To Paradise: New Year’s Eve On Kauai” Announces Webcast
Sam Berenson | Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 Photo: Jake Sudek; from Dead & Company 7/12/18 in Albuquerque A new destination New Year’s event destination dubbed Rising Up To Paradise: New Year’s Eve On Kauai is gearing up for its inaugural voyage. The celebration is set to take place on December 31st at the Crazy Rooster Ranch on the beautiful North Shore of Kauai, HI—which also happens to be the longtime home of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The one-night event will feature newly formed supergroup The Big Swell, which includes Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, George Porter Jr., Jeff Chimenti, Robin Sylvester, Steve Kimock, and Wally Ingram.
  Nugs.tv will webcast The Big Swell’s upcoming NYE set, which will air on a tape-delayed basis on January 1st at 8 p.m. (EST) here.
In addition to The Big Swell’s very first headlining appearance, Rising Up To Paradise guests will be treated to performances by The Dirty Knobs with Mike Campbell, Taj Mahal, and local band Island Grass, plus a late-night set hosted by DJ Logic.
Proceeds from Rising Up To Paradise will benefit two nonprofit organizations close to the hearts of the event’s performers, The Hanalei Initiative and Earthjustice. The Hanalei Initiative was formed to identify and solve the immediate and long-term community and environmental needs of Hanalei and Kauai’s North Shore. Their main areas of focus are water quality, transportation and the maintenance and beautification of community spaces. Earthjustice, the nation’s largest nonprofit environmental law organization, leverages their expertise and commitment to fight for justice and advance the promise of a healthy world for all. To secure a flourishing world, their fleet of 130+ lawyers defend the wild and promote healthy communities, clean energy and more—because the earth needs a good lawyer.

there is a 40 min interview with Ruben at the end of the article  that may be below, if not its at the bottom of the article online at this URL:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-petty-wildflowers-rick-rubin/?fbclid=IwAR2XCMwAAhU3srhasXNLVuq9dJ0V_4nAswOBQz-Jq1FZTmZ-XpBezw6yQd4
TOM PETTY WAS ‘HAUNTED’ BY ‘WILDFLOWERS,’ SAYS RICK RUBIN
DAVE LIFTON December 27, 2018
Larry Bussaca / Ari Perilstein, Getty Images
While there's no word on the long-promised expanded edition of Tom Petty's 1994 album Wildflowers, we have some new insight of the sessions courtesy of its producer, Rick Rubin. In a new interview, he discussed the recording of the tracks and how Petty was "haunted" by its legacy.
As Rubin told Malcolm Gladwell on their Broken Record podcast (embedded below), the genesis for Wildflowerscame from the sessions that resulted in the bonus tracks for the Heartbreakers' 1993 compilation, "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and the cover of Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air." After the meticulous work they did with Jeff Lynne, Rubin freed them in the studio, and it resulted in what Rubin called a more "organic" sound, that "felt more alive and more human," and they decided to continue working together.
  It was a particularly "fertile" and "prolific" period in Petty's career, as Rubin noted. Plus, Petty was eager to please his new producer and open to suggestions. "Hope You Never," one of the leftovers that wound up on the She's the Onesoundtrack, was a particular example.
"We did that very in a straightforward way, kind of almost Jeff Lynne-y drumwise," he said. "Very straight. And we probably played that a bunch of different ways before we decided, 'Oh, we like it this way.' [We] probably played it more like band-style and then it's like, 'This lends itself more to the kind of hypnotic, locked-in sound.' It's a more down-tempo, moody piece, sort of the sarcastic Tom -- 'I hope you never fall in love with somebody like you.'"
Rubin said that they recorded "between 26 and 28 songs," but Warner Bros. felt a single LP would have greater commercial potential. Petty, who repeatedly fought with his former label MCA, agreed with his new bosses and they went about figuring out which songs to include and in what order. Wildflowers was eventually released in November 1994 with 15 tracks. But Petty always hoped to put out the others.
"He thought it was really important because the legacy of the Wildflowers album loomed large in his career," Rubin continued. "And he knew that the second half of Wildflowers was an important statement. His issue was [that] he didn't want to put it out as a new Tom Petty album, 'cause it's not a new Tom Petty album -- it was recorded 25 years ago -- and he didn't want to release it as an old catalog album because he thought it deserved more than being a catalog album. He felt like it was too good to just put out and was sort of looking for the right story where it would have the exposure that it deserved. And he never came up with it."
About two and a half years ago, Petty went to Rubin's house and played the unreleased tracks, which he had since made a few changes to, for Rubin, and the quality "floored" him. "I had, like, a vague memory of them," he said, "but some of them just hit me like, 'Wow, what a great song! How did we ever miss this?'"
But during that listening session, Petty opened up about how he knew they had channeled something magical on those tapes, and could never get it back.
"He told me Wildflowers scares him, because he's not really sure why it's as good as it is," Rubin said. "So it has this, like, haunted feeling for him. ... He loves it, but it's not like he can turn that on again. He couldn't make Wildflowers 2today. That was the point. The point was, 'I can't do this now. This was then, and it was where I was then and it was a prolific period. This is an extension of that moment.'"
Listen to Rick Rubin Talk About Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers'
 

I for one would love Paddington Bear in the Oval Office.

:-) In my vocab it is. Just an ugly word I'd prefer not to use; you can obviously still get the drift. 
How would Paddington Bear express himself?

^ He was complicit far too long, though. 

So, now the last grown-up person has left the oval office.

I always preferred Taj Mahal the monument over TM the rocker. I would love to see/hear Bob Weir join the Knobs though! Sounds like a fun show either way..

Heh, he wants a short ride home. 

In a shop with storms outside pushing people (dripping wet) inside + Christmas shoppers (looking for stuff) + staff (carrying boxes from out the back)... carols on the shop's loudspeakers...
suddenly ka-boom Rudolph & his red nose stops 1/2 way through & it's only Sweet Home Alabama (!!!) followed by Freebird & other great guitar- based songs (at least until I bought what I needed & escaped). Oh man, whoever was in charge of that music cheered up a lot of people!

In a shop with storms outside pushing people (dripping wet) inside + Christmas shoppers (looking for stuff) + staff (carrying boxes from out the back)... carols on the shop's loudspeakers...
suddenly ka-boom Rudolph & his red nose stops 1/2 way through & it's only Sweet Home Alabama (!!!) followed by Freebird & other great guitar- based songs (at least until I bought what I needed & escaped). Oh man, whoever was in charge of that music cheered up a lot of people!

was listening to Albert King earlier. Album of "I'll play the blues for you"  Title track below.
 
 
 

^   The J. Geils Band   -  Nov. 5th 1977  -  Winterland
 

"Southern Accents" – Charles Kelley featuring Stevie Nicks (apologies if this is a duplicate):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx9hUB7S2xs

Alright then. Good to know, thanks! Must have just went passed me, I suppose. A rare thing when it comes to Tom Petty. Even more so back in 92..
Side note: Since the song is a statement/charity release, dealing with a serious tragedy, I'm happy to say that they had the decency to just put straight up TV clips to this video. No effects. In fact, they even refrained from editing/cutting the pics in sync with the music in the much standard making-it-catchy kind a way. Very tasteful, that way. Very matter-of-fact:ish.
On a related note: if you haven't read Ryan Gattis' novel "All Involved", on the 1992 LA riots from various perspectives, give it a go. Some rather nasty passages, (of course) but over all quite fascinating. 

I went back to Youtube and this was "published" by the Tom Petty official page back in 2009 so my guess is official but if memory serves they still showed the occasional video on MTV at the time and I was at least an occasional viewer back in 91....  I had seen the band 4-5 times by then and was a fan as I bought the CD single at Tower Records..... Its somewhere in a box in the basement these days . ah the memories of going to a B&M super-store for music in Boston.....   

Happy Birthday!
{this is just one I found in on-line images but I hope it's adorable enough to give your heart a surge of joy!}

12/17/18
Bob Dylan
 

another hopeful sign from MIke Campbell's instagram - a face in the crowd!
  
 

Don't sweat it.

Maybe the universe heard you, Tomfest or maybe the Campbells are on a roll - they've just posted another really good couple of minutes!!!
dang for some reason it won't copy & paste in the usual way (sorry!)
so please go to his instagram yourself to see!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWiCUrHuHQ/
 

Hey that was great!  Keep 'em coming!

Running the risk of becoming the party p***er, my list for Santa contains no music this year.
So, what do I wish for?
* For people to plant more trees.
* For people to stop using unnecessary plastic.
* For people to dismantle, junk and scrap any gun they may possess.
* For people to stop dismantle, junk and scrap our precious democracy by letting unfit, ignorant and crooked leaders run free.
I don't ask much, do I? But, by all means, if, for some reason, people find these things too dear or costly for their comfy lifestyles, then please, in the little time we all have left on this planet, I could do with a new Rickenbacker guitar instead. A 660/12TP? Thank you Santa!!
 
 

Reunion backstage at The Forum!