(from Phish.com): On July 22, 1997, Phish performed the second show of their U.S. summer tour at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in Raleigh, NC through a torrent of rain, thunder and lightning. Rather than cancel the gig, the band played on with the music mirroring the peaks in the storm’s intensity. Highlights include “Down With Disease” that slowly segues into “Mike’s Song” – the first and only time these two classic tunes were ever paired together in such a way – as well as “Taste,” complete with near Biblical thunder and lightning display. Other great moments include “Stash” and the “Harry Hood” closer!

Overall the show is remembered as a significant example of Phish’s hallmark approach to group improvisation with the performances here characterized by an exceptionally democratic and refined balance of four musical voices. This 2-DVD set features more than 2 1/2 hours of 5-camera footage with 5.1 Dolby Surround or optional stereo sound.

Disc One:
Runaway Jim
My Soul
Water In The Sky
Stash
Bouncing Around The Room
Vultures
Bye Bye Foot
Taste

Disc Two:
Down With Disease
Mike’s Song
Simple
I Am Hydrogen
Weekapaug Groove
Hello My Baby
When The Circus Comes
Harry Hood

Disc Info:

Audio = PCM Stereo & Dolby AC-3
NTSC – All Regions
both discs: DVD9 format

John Davis’ “Marshfield Tornado” Enhanced CD is ranked #1 on Amazon.com following feature on NPR Radio’s ‘Here and Now’ program.

With audio production by Dubway Studios and interactive development by Brian Brodeur and NewYorkDVD, John Davis’ latest CD, released by Newport Classics, earns sales rating of #1 Ragtime CD and #3 Solo Instrumental on Amazon.com sales charts.

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NPR Website overview:

John William Boone was a blind African-American pianist and composer from Missouri, the son of a runaway slave. Still, he became a pioneer in the development of 20th century popular music. But his contributions to Americana would be lost if not for the efforts of John Davis. We speak with Davis about his latest CD, “Marshfield Tornado: John Davis Plays Blind Boone.”

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Product Description
At last comes the release of Marshfield Tornado: John Davis Plays Blind Boone, the follow-up to John Davis Plays Blind Tom, the top-ten selling, critically acclaimed CD of piano works by the Georgia slave sensation, Thomas Wiggins. With Marshfield Tornado, Davis’ latest recording, John William ‘Blind’ Boone (1864-1927), a sightless black pianist from Missouri who modeled his career after Blind Tom’s, will assume his rightful place as the last of a trio of overlapping nineteenth-century pianist/composers (before Boone came Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Blind Tom) who were seminal links between rural African-American folk culture of the Deep South and the more urban Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, and Pop styles to emerge in the twentieth century. As John Davis Plays Blind Tom did for Thomas Wiggins, Marshfield Tornado should do for Boone – draw further attention to heretofore unacknowledged American roots music and to a seminal figure in the development of twentieth-century popular music in the United States.

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Disc Features Acclaimed Rush Drummer Nine-Minute Drum Solo

FOR RELEASE ON: MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2006

NEW YORK — NewYorkDVD, a leading DVD development, design and authoring firm, today announced that it has received the ‘Excellence in Music DVD’ award by the DVD Association for development for Neil Peart’s “ Anatomy of a Drum Solo‚” which was released by Hudson Music in the fall of 2005. The announcement was made as part of the DVD Excellence Awards presentation at the Spring Digital Hollywood event, at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel on March 29th.

Bernie Mitchell, president of the DVD Association, presented the award to NewYorkDVD CEO, Brian Brodeur (pictured above with Bruce Apar).

Developed for Hudson Music, ‘Anatomy of a Drum Solo’ is a two-disc DVD which features Peart, the acclaimed drummer for rock group Rush, discussing the elements of his nine-minute tour de force solo, which is a highlight of each Rush performance. Brodeur completed the work for long-time client Hudson Music in the fall of 2005. The disc is a must-have for Rush fans as well as drummers, featuring more than three hours of instructional and performance material. “The DVD format is an ideal way for music fans to examine and enjoy multiple elements of the musicians they worship, and it was a treat to work with such a hard-working professional as Neil Peart,” said Brodeur. “I am extremely honored to have been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Music DVD award; as a long-time member of the DVD industry, this is a capstone to a career dedicated to the fusion of music and DVD.”

Using the “Der Trommler” drum solo recorded in Frankfurt, Germany in September, 2004, Peart describes the inspiration and conceptual thinking behind his solos. Included are three multi-angles of the Frankfurt solo, two “explorations” — 30-minute-plus improvised workouts on the drums — as well as a never-before-released solo recorded in Hamburg, Germany in September, 2004 (“Ich Bin Ein Hamburger”); the Grammy Award-nominated solo “O Baterista‚” (from the “ Rush in Rio”‚ DVD); two full Rush performances (“Tom Sawyer‚” and “Subdivisions‚”) from the Frankfurt, 2004 concert, shot from the point of view of the drum cameras; interviews with Lorne Wheaton, Peart’s drum technician; Paul Northfield, Rush co-producer and engineer; a previously unreleased solo from the 1994 Rush “Counterparts” tour, alternate edits, audio-only bonus tracks, and a photo gallery. “The superb design, treatment of subject matter, and overall technical brilliance of the ‘Anatomy’ disc made it a clearly superior choice for the DVD-A Excellence award,” said Mitchell. “NewYorkDVD’s work with Hudson Music is a tremendous example of the creative choices that music producers can make with DVD.”

“Anatomy of a Drum Solo” is the latest collaboration between NewYorkDVD and Hudson Music, which includes the award-winning “Creative Control‚” with drummer Thomas Lang, “Liquid Drum Theater Featuring Mike Portnoy,” and high-profile live music DVDs, including “Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Concert‚” and the 2004 release, “Steve Gadd Tribute Concert.”

With NewYorkDVD, Brodeur has developed and produced numerous music DVD titles, including Rod Stewart’s “One Night Only” Live at Royal Albert Hall‚ for J Records as well as the “Dog” title from Mike Keneally’s Exowax Recordings label.

NewYorkDVD operates a turnkey studio for expert-level DVD authoring, menu design, and replication. The company offers record label clients – including Warner Music Group, Sony/BMG Music, EMI, and Universal Music Group, as well as leading independent labels “a true creative partner in the conception, production, design, and authoring of high-quality DVD titles.”

Brodeur has developed several innovative concepts for music DVDs, including the first integration of ACID loops into an instructional music DVD, as well as early work with Web-connected DVD functionality.

NewYorkDVD maintains several complete authoring suites, including several Sonic Solutions workstations, Surround-sound Pro Tools mixing and 1:1 Final Cut Pro motion graphics/editing stations.

About NewYorkDVD
NewYorkDVD’s principal, Brian Brodeur, has been producing music and multimedia for more than 15 years. He has created award-winning DVDs for the corporate, entertainment and instructional markets, including discs for Pfizer, Columbia/Tristar, KINO International, and Fender Guitars. Mr. Brodeur is an expert in all stages of DVD production; from audio/video compression to creative interactive design and stable DVD functionality programming that enhances the user experience. He is a sought-after DVD consultant for leading vendors, including Video Technologies Group and Sonic Solutions.
NewYorkDVD’s extensive capabilities include expert-level encoding and authoring with Sonic Solutions systems, Final Cut Pro, comprehensive graphic design and motion menu development, surround sound mixing, multi-language translation/subtitling, DVD packaging, Adobe Flash development, and full-scale production and post-production services. NewYorkDVD provides competitively priced disc replication services, in small or large quantities, and offers comprehensive warehousing/fulfillment and e-commerce distribution solutions. For more information, visit the Web site at www.NewYorkDVD.com.
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EDITOR’s NOTE: For a color photograph of screenshots the ‘Anatomy of a Drum Solo’ DVD or NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, or shots of NewYorkDVD production suites, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com

NewYorkDVD NEWS
FOR RELEASE 7/21/02

Fifth Annual DVDPro Discus Awards Finalists Announced – NewYorkDVD Nominated for Best Instructional DVD

NewYorkDVD has been nominated as one of three finalists in the fifth annual DVDPro Discus Awards for distinction in DVD creation sponsored by Emedia Magazine. NewYorkDVD was nominated in the category of Best Instructional DVD for its development of the ‘Getting Started on Guitar’ DVD by Fender Guitars.

The Best Instructional category includes both educational and training DVD titles. The category judges the intent of the DVD disc and how effectively the disc uses the interactive and content delivery capabilities of DVD to provide a useful and informative instruction vehicle.

The Discus Award finalists run the gamut from Hollywood blockbusters to corporate promotions to educational titles, representing work from major studios, small production houses, and even college art students.

“This year’s entries reflect the great diversity of DVD development currently afoot,” said EMedia editor Stephen Nathans. “The titles selected as finalists represent the artistry and craft of the most accomplished pros plying the DVD trade today.”

Judges for this year’s competition looked at more than 100 entries in seven categories including Best Interactive Menu Design, Best Additional Features and Best Overall DVD. Winners will be announced in the August issue of EMedia and on August 6 on the magazine’s Web site, www.emedialive.com.

Look for more DVD titles developed by NewYorkDVD – including Hudson Music’s “Making Music – Victor Wooten and Carter Beauford in the Studio”, “Classic Drum Solos 2″, “Buddy Rich At the Top Concert”, and more.

NewYorkDVD NEWS
FOR RELEASE 3/12/02

2002 Modern Drummer Magazine Reader’s Poll Winners Announced – NewYorkDVD Titles Win First and Second Place.

Two of the recent titles authored by NewYorkDVD for Hudson Music have won 1st and 2nd place in the Modern Drummer 2002 reader’s poll awards. “Liquid Drum Theater – featuring Mike Portnoy” – is a double DVD set featuring in-studio performances with Mike, including Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment songs. Some features included on this double disc set include multi-camera angle capability, commentary by Mike Portnoy, Photo Gallery, and Bonus Performance footage.

“Classic Drum Solos and Drum Battles” features many drums solos from great Jazz/Big Band drummers. This DVD features commentary by Peter Erskine (Steps Ahead, Weather Report, Steely Dan) – as well as Mac/PC weblink functionality.

Both of these titles were encoded and authored by Brian Brodeur utilizing Sonic Solutions DVD systems.

Look for more titles from Hudson Music developed by NewYorkDVD – including “Making Music – Victor Wooten and Carter Beauford in the studio”, “Classic Jazz Drummers”, “Fender – Getting Started on Guitar – feat. Keith Wyatt, Double DVD set”, and many more….

2002 Modern Drummer Reader’s Poll winners:

Category: EDUCATIONAL VIDEO/DVD 1st Place: MIKE PORTNOY: LIQUID DRUM THEATER DVD (client:Hudson Music; Developed by NewYorkDVD. Compression/authoring/project management by Brian Brodeur. Graphic Menu Design by Jon Ratcliff)

2nd Place: Various Artists: Classic Drum Solos And Drum Battles DVD (client: Hudson Music; Developed by NewYorkDVD. Compression/authoring/project management by Brian Brodeur. Graphic Menu Design by Jon Ratcliff).

For more information about NewYorkDVD, please email Brian Brodeur: brian@newyorkdvd.com or visit www.newyorkdvd.com.