I seen the Grateful Dead play 150 times and Furthur only once before this and I have to say they were at the top of their game. As far as the shows go, all I can say is Mind Blown! Perhaps I say that every time, or maybe it is because in the last 20 years I have only seen Bob and Phil play 3 or 4 times. I also caught the surprise Bob Weir acoustic set, I got front row for that.
Recently I have been on a Pig Pen era kick, I pretty much only listen to shows pre 1973 and have been loving all the older songs which the dead never played in the 90s when I was touring, so I was really excited that Furthur has brought back the old repertoire . I know the last 4 years they have played it all, yet I never got to hear it live though. I got to hear many songs for the first time, Cosmic Charlie, Pride of Cucamonga, Unbroken Chain, Viola Lee Blues, Mason’s Children, Cryptical Envelopment, The Mountain Song, St. Stephen, The Golden Road, Eleven, Death Don’t Have No Mercy, and At a Siding / Terrapin Flyer.
The best part of the shows was the second set of the last night, Dark Star > Morning Dew > Dark Star > St. Stephen > Eleven > Death Don’t Have No Mercy. I wanted to hear those songs, but in that order in the original way they used to play it was too much to ask. So Grateful.
Here are the setlists:
January 20th
Set 1:
Feel Like a Stranger
Crazy Fingers >
China Cat Sunflower >
Cassidy
Althea
Loose Lucy
Cosmic Charlie
Set 2:
Help on the Way >
Slipknot! >
Let It Grow >
Eyes of the World >
Wharf Rat >
Let It Grow>
Jam >
Playing in the Band >
Dear Mr. Fantasy >
In the Midnight Hour
Encore:
Franklin’s Tower
January 21st
Set 1:
Hell in a Bucket >
Brown-Eyed Women
Me and My Uncle >
Mexicali Blues
Loser
Pride of Cucamonga
Bertha >
Good Lovin’ >
La Bamba >
Good Lovin’
Set 2:
Truckin’ >
Deal
Terrapin Station >
Unbroken Chain >
Viola Lee Blues >
Dear Prudence >
Shakedown Street >
Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
Ripple
January 22nd
Set 1:
Mason’s Children >
Jack Straw
Here Comes Sunshine >
Cumberland Blues
Bird Song >
Lost Sailor >
Saint of Circumstance
Set 2:
Uncle John’s Band >
The Wheel >
Cryptical Envelopment >
The Other One >
Cryptical Envelopment >
Standing on the Moon >
Scarlet Begonias >
Reuben & Cherise (Mind Blown!!!) >
Fire on the Mountain >
Encore:
Box of Rain
January 23rd
Set 1:
The Music Never Stopped
Built to Last
Estimated Prophet >
Foolish Heart >
Sugaree
The Mountain Song >
I Know You Rider
Set 2:
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) >
Dark Star >
Morning Dew >
Dark Star >
St. Stephen >
Eleven >
Death Don’t Have No Mercy >
At a Siding / Terrapin Flyer >
Not Fade Away >
Encore:
Brokedown Palace
Bob Weir Surprise Acoustic Set – January 23rd
K.C. Moan
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Black Throated Wind
Loose Lucy
Peggy-O
Not Fade Away (tease)
Easy To Slip
Not Fade Away
