I was recently exploring the world of live recordings and I came across
The Bonnaroo 2004 Music Festival,
which was held this past June in Tennessee.
The usual suspects were there
(String Cheese Incident, The Dead, Trey Anastasio)
(actually, to be fair, there were a lot of interesting acts at the festival)
but what caught my eye was an appearance by the mighty Praxis.
Praxis, for those of you who don't know, play a sort of fusion.
However, whereas fusion is usually a cross between jazz and rock,
Praxis are more of a cross between jazz, speed metal, and space aliens.
This version of Praxis is pretty much the original lineup,
Buckethead,
Bernie Worrell, and Brain,
with Bill Laswell filling in for
Bootsy on bass.
They even throw in guest
Lili Haydn for a few numbers.
The great thing about this Bonnarroo Festival is that they are making
recordings of the performances
available for download.
They're not free but what I paid for a 2 1/2 hour Praxis performance
was pretty darned reasonable.
You get a choice of downloading MP3s or uncompressed FLACs.
I am really happy to see things like this
(Metallica's
Live Metallica,
the
Instant Live site,
etc.) starting to take off.
Check out
Vertebrae
and
Machine Gun
to get a taste.
2020 UPDATE: Praxis later released the album Tennessee, which is this recording.
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