Mountain Jam 2008 was another amazing weekend for the jam scene with mind blowing performances by the country’s best bands.

I wasn’t able to make it this year but we still enjoyed the festival from home. We had a party in the back yard with a fire going and and thanks to iclips.net we had sweet sounds of Umphrey’s and Gov’t Mule blasting through my stereo. For pics from the weekend check out the excellent photos from Dino Perrucci.

Here’s a few shows that have started appearing online. Be sure to check back for updates. Read the rest of this entry »

Mountain Jam IV returns to Hunter Mountain Ski Resort with one of the best lineups of the 2008 festival season. Gov’t Mule whose Warren Haynes is jam scenes most polarizing figure will be playing 2 sets on both Friday and Saturday night followed up by Bob Weir & Friends on Sunday night.

iClips.net will be streaming live video and audio all weekend starting Friday May 29th at noon. If you can’t make it to the show or are catching a session in your chalet at Hunter Mountain tune that PC to the net for all the jam band goodness.

iClips.net Full Mountain Jam Schedule and streaming links

For those of us with Sirius they will be re-broadcasting Umphrey’s McGee and Gov’t Mule this weekend on Jam On 17.

• Also be sure to check out The Official Mountain Jam Blog for coverage through out the weekend. Currently they have some great coverage of the transformation of the festival grounds from ski resort to festival site.

Related Link: Mountain Jam 2008 Torrents & MP3’s.

Gov’t Mule jammed on Monday night in Buffalo. It was a cool rainy night but we didn’t mind making the trip up to UB Performing Arts Center for one of the best bands currently on tour.

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals opened the evening with a great set. We later had the pleasure of meeting them and having a few drinks with a couple of guys from the band during the Gov’t Mule set break.

When Gov’t Mule hit the stage they were dead on at this great sounding venue. Unring The Bell in the second set was the highlight of the show with Warren going nuts on the improv.

Many thanks to Chris for uploading a great audience recording of this show. To grab the FLAC files for this show check out the torrent at etree.org

To grab this full set now in VBR ZIP click here.

To purchase the soundboard FLACs head on over to Mule Tracks.

Setlist a few tracks are available for streaming below.

[Show as slideshow]

Set List:Intro
Hammer & Nails
Thorazine Shuffle
Fools Moon
I’ll Be The One
Thelonius Beck
Gameface>Mountain Jam>Gameface
Million Mikes From Yesterday
Brand New Angel
Brighter Days
Like Flies
Unring The Bell
Effigy

Drums

Birth Of The Mule
Rocking Horse
Goin’ Out West
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It Hurts Me Too

Gov’t Mule kicked off another week in Europe last Thursday and Friday in Madrid and Barcelona. Tonight they kick off the first of two nights in Warsaw, Poland before rolling on through Stuttgart, Germany (July 11th), Amsterdam, Holland (July 12th), London, U.K., (July 14th) and Peer, Belgium (July 15th). Tickets are still available for these shows, but going quickly. Head to www.mule.net to get tickets.

WARREN HAYNES CUSTOM GUITAR AUCTION

Donny Barnes, wife of Mike Barnes, has breast cancer and has had a bi-lateral mastectomy (removal). She’s undergoing chemo-therapy, and as you might guess, their bills are astronomical with very limited coverage. Mike, as many of you know, is one of Warren’s oldest and closest friends and has participated in many Christmas Jams through the years. We will have several auctions in hope of at least partially covering their needs. Any money left over will be donated to Breast Cancer Research.

The first auction will be a Gibson Warren Haynes signature Les Paul (signed by WH). This is a Gibson Custom Shop model, of which only 150 are being made. For more info on the guitar go to www.gibson.com/warrenhaynes. To bid on the guitar head to www.muleauction.net.

source: Gov’t Mule Newsletter