Podcast appearances and mentions of chris harford

If you are a fan of the scene you are most likely going to come across this gentleman pretty soon upon hanging out for a bit, but unless you dive deep you won't know Chris. Talk about prolific, Chris Harford has been making amazing music since his high school days with no signs of stopping soon. Not only does he write, record and produce his own music, he also runs his own record label supporting other awesome independent artists and collaborators. You could keep digging into this guy's career all day and still not get to everything! For the sake of sanity, we stuck to a few points for this interview, and it will take us awhile to unpack all of these! We spoke with Chris about his early bands, including the cult favorite Three Colors, which he started in college with some fellow art students. The seminal album "Be Headed" that just happens to be the major label debut of some of our other musical friends being released in 1992. The independent record label "Soul Selects" that Chris and his friends started in the 80's and still run to this day. Living with Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain while the early Ween albums were being made, and Chris explains to everyone once and for all what the hell the "Zion House of Flesh" actually is!!Chris explains what it was like to be produced by Mickey and working on the Chocodog Records release of his record "Looking out for Number 6"; a true anomaly among the Chocodog and Schnitzel projects. We also talk about some of the really cool current projects that Chris has worked on within the last few years; like the Birdfeeder collaboration with Mark Mulcahy of Polaris and Miracle Legion. The very groovy instrumental record he made with the Philly based Jazz band Channel Collective, and his travels with Paul Muldoon and the rock-poetry group Rogue Oliphant. Please go to Soul Selects.com to see all of the available releases by the record label, and Chris Harford.com to download all of the catalog releases by Chris and his constantly evolving Band of Changes.Join us on Patreon.com for some more fun and exclusive material including the entire Chris interview where we discuss Chris' Dub project Blanc du Blanc, his thoughts on vinyl vs and download, and some other fun surprises! Also live is a new episode of Shane's Ween Vinyl featuring the Chris Album "Looking out for Number 6", its a cool mini-sode talking about the albums vinyl and some fun facts about the CD compared to the record. Thank You and Please enjoy!!!

Happy 4th of July Weencast listeners, and welcome to another episode. To celebrate Independence Day, we go back to 2002 one more time. We revisit 2002 one more time because that year wrapped up with a series of events that would end up playing a significant role with the band as well as the surrounding music scene for years to come.  August 7th, 2002. A date that will live forevermore in infamy: the day of Claude's devastating car accident. We recount that horrible day, as well as his path to recovery, and go into all the deets about the resulting cascade of events, a laundry list of the legendary, revolving around what we've come to call the Josh Freese Era.  Consider such seminal events as Claude Aid at the Whiskey Bar in Hoboken, New Jersey, which was the last time Aaron and Mickey played as a duo with the DAT. And the short-lived residency of future Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese, who replaced Claude for six shows, and who will forever be a part of Ween lore due to the celebrated job he did as stand-in drummer. He learned more than 50 Ween songs in a matter of days, and rocked them out like he knew them his entire life.  The conversation goes on to the legendary two night stand at the Bowery Ballroom. These were the so called “Concerts for Claude,” where the dream of witnessing a “Ween” festival was finally realized with two nights that included not only Ween, but also acts from the family tree such as Chris Harford, Sound of Urchin, Chocolate Genius, Instant Death, and Sharief in Burgundy. Never before, and never since, have all the guys gotten together like this. To round it out, we also discuss the impact Claude's accident would end up having on the Ween community writ large: how it led to a resurgence in such acts as the Moist Boyz, Sound of Urchin, Instant Death, and others. These were difficult but heady times indeed! So come check out the episode while you enjoy a beer at your 4th of July cookout or pool party. And when you're done, come on over to Patreon for some amazing dessert because we got some great bonus material including interviews with fans who were there, as well as Tomato of Sound of Urchin, who played at Claude aid and the Concerts for Claude, and had quite the tales to tell. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weencastpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weencastpodcast/support

Welcome CHRIS HARFORD (Band of Changes, BlancDUBlanc) to Episode 044! What an honor & a privilege to host such an esteemed rock n' roll troubadour to the show. Prepare for a lengthy, profound powwow with more rabbit holes than you can shake a chalice at. Ep.044 also includes a short, sweet tribute to the late, great Shock G of Digital Underground, the East-Bay psychedelic funksta/hip-hop pioneer/Humpty Hump who recently passed away at just 57 years young. @ 5min: News! KRAZ Plus One + Upful Life = The Guest List  @ 9min: Shock G  R.I.P. Tribute  @ 22min: Introducing CHRIS HARFORD / @ 27min : Interview Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Chris Harford is a man of many talents, and wears numerous artistic hats. The veteran-rocker checks in from Central Jersey, and unpacks his own fascinating journey in progress. For over 90 minutes, Harford earnestly reveals an abundance of perspective. Among the more fulfilling conversations I've had the pleasure of hosting in the podcast medium.  Right off the top, we go ham singing the praises of reggae music and its medicinal, spiritual qualities, especially in times of peril. The erstwhile sound-scientist expounds on his dub reggae syndicate BlancDUBlanc, before we hop in the wayback machine to the Elektra Records era with Chris Harford & the First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Plus a special Nov.2000 Amfibian show in Burlington VT, with Tom Marshall and Trey Anastasio, one of the first JamBase reviews yours truly ever published. From Bob Marley at the Philly Spectrum in '79, to Richard Thompson and Lee Perry working on his records, from London to Boston, New Hope PA and Hopewell, New Jersey too, Chris explores what it means to be in a Band of Changes, as he details his deep, filial roots with the likes of Sir Joe Russo, Scott Metzger, Marco Benevento, Chuck Treece, Dana Colley, Dean Ween, Robbie Seahag Mangano, plus the STAX-like scene and studio coming together with these cats (and more!) in the fertile Garden State soil. One of the more unbelievable tales Chris unspools is the story behind his dub-cover EP of "Wind of Change", yep, you read that right, the titanic political power ballad from the halcyon days of the hair-band era. This is my favorite part in a conversation filled with choice nuggets. All that jazz plus a tribute to Shock G of Digital Underground, who recently transitioned, truly a gut punch in a pandemic-year that seemingly never ends. It's hard to keep up, or even grieve, with so much loss, however I felt called to send my man Shock G (Gregory Jacobs) up with his propers, and his flowers. Long Live this Son of the P!   Vibe Junkie JAM "Cometh Dub" BlancDUBlanc (The Blanc Album)   BIG THANKS to our friends at LIVE FOR LIVE MUSIC!   Please support Upful LIFE on PATREON ! www.patreon.com/upfullife EMAIL the SHOW! B.Getz@UpfulLIFE.com PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW on iTunes/Apple Podcasts! Listen on Spotify ! Theme Song: Mazel Tov by CALVIN VALENTINE

"Open your mind to hot, fresh jams from top artists including Tash Neal, Dumpstaphunk, The Motet and more. Feel good music from with moe., Kind Country and Upstate. Plus this week, you’ll discover the Jam Session debut of widely respected singer, songwriter and guitarist, Chris Harford & the Band of Changes. 00:00 - Mic Break 01:39 - Where Do We Go From Here? - Dumpstaphunk 10:08 - Drift - Cousin Fungus 16:48 - Healing - Upstate 19:55 - Mic Break 20:41 - In Love With This World - Chris Harford & the Band of Changes 24:13 - Way Past Midnight - Seth Walker 28:25 - The Pines and the Apple Tree - moe. 32:13 - Mic Break 32:51 - Mr. Blue Shield - Vinyl Soup 37:16 - Like A Glove - Tash Neal 40:50 - James Brown - Mother Superior & The Sliding Royales 45:49 - Mic Break 47:04 - False Prophets - The Motet 52:50 - Ride On To The Dream - Kind Country 56:22 - Outro 57:08 - Finish "

Singer/songwriter talks about his latest artistic creations and the need for patience to see them come to fruition in divine radiance.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

It’s Just Metal, Joey ​by Joe Russo ​What a badass move by Phil! He took a chance on a guy (me) who had never really listened to the Grateful Dead, except begrudgingly at parties or quitting my high-school band ’cause they wanted to play “Fire on the Mountain.” It just wasn’t my thing. ​Our paths crossed in 2006, when Marco Benevento and I were play-ing with Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio and we did some dates with Phil & Friends. ​We played together at The Jammys and did “Casey Jones” and “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad.” I was yelling out, “Guys, I don’t know this song. How does it end?” These were two of the easiest starter tunes, and I didn’t have a clue. I asked Phil, “Hey man, is there an ending?” He just laughed at me. ​For him to tap me for Furthur three years later was such a badass move. He knew I didn’t know anything about this, and I do think that was his plan. Why are we going to have people just regurgitating what he and Jerry and Bob did? Let’s share these songs that we wrote, that are clearly important songs, and let’s get some new information on them. ​That’s such a punk rock move to hand over something so cherished to a bunch of as*holes who have no idea what they’re getting into. I’m thankful every single day for that opportunity. He brought me into this world, and it changed my life in so many ways. ​When Terrapin Crossroads opened, I was pretty much the house drummer for Phil for months and months. It was me and Phil and whoever else was brought in. I was pretty much on every single gig. I remember Neal Casal coming in, and I believe that’s where we first met. Phil never gave anybody a set list and never gave us tunes to work on in advance. ​One of the first gigs, Phil said, “We’re going to play ‘Terrapin Station.’” Neal was petrified, just petrified. We got to talking and became fast friends. We were both from Jersey, we both realized we like really shitty hair metal. I had no idea how deep that well went for him. I was trying to help him out. We were taking about Terrapin and Keel and all these shitty metal bands that we both love, intermixed. ​The next day we were going to play “Terrapin Station,” and I was on the back patio smoking a cigarette. He came up to me and told me, “Joey, I fu*king got this sh*t.” He put his legs in an A frame and held his guitar metal style and said, “It’s just fuc*king metal, Joey.” He went and played all of “Terrapin.” He adjusted his view on how to approach it. We were laughing our asses off, and he killed it that night. It was such a lovely cool moment of seeing him have this breakthrough and the connectivity of all the stuff we learned up to a certain point that can inform how well we do in the current state. ​I always joke that my life in Furthur was like that movie Slumdog Millionaire. The only reason I was able to play all this Grateful Dead music was because, all through the years, these little tiny moments informed the way I played. I played more country/rock singer-songwriter music with my friend Chris Harford in Band of Changes, and all the crazy jazz shit with Fat Mama and odd-time stuff being a proghead as a kid. That all informed me to be the guy for that time to be in that band. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

Rise of the resistance, Smugglers Run, Locke & Key and more!!!Have you been wondering what its like to experience the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge park at Disney World?  Well you're in luck because a one, Chris Harford has been there, and is going to lay it all out for you in this episode.  What rides he liked, what rides he loved, and the experience as a whole.  It sounds incredible and I think everyone could enjoy this park!  We move on to what we have been watching, and boy the new Locke & Key show on Netflix has really peaked our interests!  Coming from huge fans of the comic book run, Snarf had to binge this show real quick!  We go over what went well, what went wrong, and the overall opinion of the show. We've watched so many other things as well, Joe Rogan on youtube, Hells Kitchen, and Avenue 5 on HBO.  Open your ears and prepare for the next installment of the one and only Snarf Talk!Make sure you head over to instagram and check out the artist Erick Macias @emanmacias.  He's drawing some things up for us and he does really incredible work, you can see him at C2E2 February 28th - March1st doing caricatures and other commission work.  He deserves all the love so check him out!!   You can leave comments and reviews on any of our Social Media links below, and make sure to check out our multi-cam video podcast on YOUTUBE!Thank you for being a friend!SnarfComics.comPatreon.com/SnarfComicsYouTube.com/SnarfComics@SnarfComics Instagram@SnarfComics Facebook@SnarfComics TwitterPlease subscribe and leave us a review on the Apple Podcast App or iTunes, and send us your feedback, comments, and show ideas! 

God Ween Evan continues its periodic interview series, where someone in or around Ween and the Ween community chews the fat with the team. Next up is Ashton Freeman. Ashton is not only the child of Gene Ween, but an extremely talented musician in their own right. Ashton is a 20 year old multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, New York, currently working towards their BA in Music from Goucher College. Ashton has been involved in music their entire life, starting early in Paul Green’s School of Rock at age 8. There, they first performed on stage in venues such as the Highline Ballroom and The Knitting Factory. Ashton released an EP (You Make Me Happy, produced by Chris Harford) in 2016, and is currently working on their first full-length album. In this episode, one which concludes with Ashton performing two songs exclusively for the GWE audience, Ashton speaks on their musical influences, when they first came to realize how remarkable Ween was, their songwriting processes, and much more. Follow Ashton at: ashtonfreeman@bandcamp.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dave Dreiwitz was born in NY to traditional jazz musician parents, Richard and Barbara Dreiwitz. His father plays trombone and his mother plays tuba. In 1983, at the age of seventeen, Dave joined the Hoboken, New Jersey based psych rock band Tiny Lights, his first professional band out of high school. In 1986, while attending Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he met fellow schoolmate and drummer Scott Byrne and through a love of similar music, they started the rock band Instant Death in 1991. Instant Death dissolved with the passing of Byrne in 2005. In 1997, Dave joined Ween. Dave also performs in The Marco Benevento Trio, Joe Russo's Almost Dead, The Dean Ween Group and the Led Zeppelin instrumental tribute band, Bustle in Your Hedgerow. He occasionally plays bass with Chris Harford and the Band of Changes, Old Rugged Sauce as well as in his own drum and bass duo, Crescent Moon, which features Dreiwitz on bass and vocals alongside various guest drummers. Crescent Moon drummers have included Claude Coleman of Ween, Tomato from the Sound of Urchin, Eric Slick of Dr. Dog and Joe Russo of Furthur.  

Lockn Festival 2018