Furious E's Mike Keneally CA Tour $ back guarantee!

No worries, lance. 

Overly thorough and verbose reviews will still qualify for partial or full refunds and b much appreciated!

 Good shit, Bill.

i forgot about that.

i guess I'm making this a sort of zone tradition then.

And nice find, robo

It's the gesture that counts, Tony.

I'd love to see springsteen and E street with ya one day

Hats off to ya, Daylight.

U is on fire this evening

Well, Beer for Dolphins has been around since the early 90's.

It has gone through a few configurations of different drummers, bassists, keyboardists and I think even a small  horn section for one tour.

By 2005 it had pretty much settled on the same quartet doing the current tour and started being billed as The Mike Keneally Band.

People really loved the Beer for Dolphins moniker though so just within the last couple years Mike's started using again, pretty much only as a power trio but it looks like Musallam was available for this tour.

Mike's had all kinds of other side stuff going on, live and studio, in the meantime.

Try checking out http://www.radiokeneally.com/ sometime, u can even locate and request obscure old live cuts from the archive

I think of Mike as the Buddha of prog.

 it's certainly not for everybody but if you're at all appreciative of stuff like Zappa, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Yes, latter day umphrey's mcgee, phish, ween, moe., planet X, Dream theater or any of those G3 type wankers: Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen, etc. u owe it to yourself to experience a Mike Keneally project in a live setting.  

There really is nothing quite like it

>>>much more down to earth, real rock band sound. but idk ive only played thru a few songs so far

No, no, you're really getting it!

and after spamming Mike on the zone for years I'm excited to really b getting through to somebody.

This isn't the cape and dragons type prog. 

Mike could write a song about checking the mailbox that would make your toes curl.

and yes, there's this heavy element of 90's, almost grunge, rock anchoring a lot of the material.

I can't recommend the official live Keneally releases enough, but u really gotta see it for yourself in person.

for people who love diverse, experimental, intricate live music u will not believe what these guy do in rooms of only a couple hundred people capacity for $20.

Mike keneally will rip your head off!

yep, tiny northeast tours mostly, usually once or twice a year.

Just did one a couple months ago in fact.

I didn't start a thread about it cause the thread I made for the northeast tour they did right before the philzone shut down got so little attention.

That one was special too, if for no other reason than they got as far south as N. Carolina which is very rare.

U gotta understand, Mike make's virtually no profit on these tours.

I don't think I've ever seen him with an audience of over 100 people, usually closer to 50, and these have been in areas where's he's better known.

He's even come out of pocket a few go rounds.

They're labors of love.

He makes most of his money playing keys and back up guitar for Joe Satriani these days.

That and by releasing an album mostly constructed solely by himself and a couple friends using protools once a year, or every other year, for his small legions of prog nerd fans.

These live shows r strictly for the love of the art, it's part of what makes them so special.

If you don't take advantage of seeing them when u can, you're really missing out.

I know, the middle of the week thing is brutal.

I want to hit that Thurs. Napa show so bad but between my wife's birthday on Weds, my work sched. and The Meters at the Fillmore on Saturday, it's probably not gonna happen.

I almost even bailed on the Meters for it, it's a 1/5th of the price too, but had to remind myself this will probably b my only time seeing the full original Meters lineup.

Still, I've never seen Keneally booked in Napa before and the effort that would save me from having to go into the city or, even more rarely, out to Humboldt where he usually plays combined with the fact that it will probably b another couple years before he's up here again makes missing this one sting.

I take some solace that I finally got to see him at the Baked Potato last year while down south visiting family.

That venue has really become his home base over the years and gets the best he has to offer, they're probably crushing it there right now!

It's become quite the hub for that whole keneally scene: Rick Musallum, Jamie Kime, Pete Griffin, Brendon Small, Joe Travers, Ben Thomas, etc. are all featured in various projects that regularly perform there. 

Seems to b a fairly trodden path of prog nerd performance majors graduating from Berklee, getting hired by dweezil, quitting or getting fired and winding up kickin it w/keneally at the potato.

I'm saying u probably wouldn't regret that decision as unappealing a hassle as it seems.

U could also go on a relaxing drive all the way up to Napa on Thursday and saunter your way into a middle of the road wine bar to check this guy out, which is what I would absolutely be doing if I hadn't committed to the Meters at the fillmore on Sat, a decision I'm still a little torn about and I love's me some original meters!

But I get it, whole reason I started this thread is cause I wussed out.

However, if it's at all a feasible option I'm of the opinion it's usually always best to go to the show!

I haven't really jumped on this whole sour craze either, turtle.

u should still probably get your head ripped off at the potato sometime though.

The name of the song in the first video is 'roots twist'.

sucks about the rig failing and the venue trying to make folks pay for the second set; That's not how Mike likes to typically do bizness.

That's rad thunes showed up!

(((88' fz band)))

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cHEz_t-X1eo

Real special tour, glad some of y'all checked it out.

I know the compositions r over the top dense; at times almost as challenging to process, digest, and appreciate as a listener as they are to perform as a musician.

Thunes showing up to jam a little Zappa with Mike in SF is super cool, no idea when those guys last performed together.

Napa was a great show, they were playing it real loose which is rare for Keneally, even throwin in a couple brief meters jams ;)

His songs are so structured I love to see him stretching them out, re-working and adding to them.

There were some bust outs this tour he hadn't done for a while and as a long time fan I was very satisfied, real cool rendition of Inca roads too.

The input jack on his trademark green strat was acting up so he was unable to use it for the second half of the show which took a little bite away tonally when it would have been welcome, but other than that I had no complaints.

Travis Larson band was very skilled but didn't do much for me, my favorite part of their set is when Larson declared Keneally as the true torch bearer of the Zappa Legacy.

Amen, travis!

Music is the best, get some on ya!

Mini Tour finale hometown show in San Diego is about to kick off.

The Napa show in it's totality can be viewed here:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mike+keneally+silos&&view=detail&mi...