The Dead

[el-bagr]

Just got tickets to see the Dead tonight at the Tweeter Center. Mini TR will follow!

Toots last night, the Dead tonight, Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival tomorrow -- it's hard to get much adventure in with so much good music going on.

[Affix Snow]

Originally Posted by el-bagr

Toots last night, the Dead tonight, Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival tomorrow -- it's hard to get much adventure in with so much good music going on.

I had to come home from the Adirondacks to see Sevendust on Wenesday. Great show. Im bruised.

Have fun at the show.

[M@]

Originally Posted by el-bagr

J Tweeter Center

We saw DMB at the "Great Woods" or "Tweezer" center last month, here's some BETA:

1: Parking - if you get there near show time, you'll end up in the BACK LOT. The show must end by 11pm (regulation) and we took our time walking abck to the car, and it still took about 3 hrs to get out of the lot. There were $15 parking spots right before the last turn into the main parking - on retrospect I really wish I had done that.

2: Beers - The good beers are drinkers LEFT after you walk in. There are other beers but they are all bud/coors/whatever. The Harpoon is in the first beer tent on drinkers left when you walk in. nice Pisser right there too.

4: Security - they searched bags, but didn't even pat us down. Dunno if this policy will be the same - but I wouldn't recommend trying to get a bong in. There were a couple cops riding bikes around the parking lot - so be kewl.

5: Driving in - skip the main exit, take the next one and back track. There will mayb eme a LONG line at exit 11 - skip it, goto exit 10, take a right off the exit, and a right in the middle of the first little town you come to (signs to tweeter center) and you'll miss a good 30min of traffic.

Also: I saw this - people were cooking with hibachis in the parking lot... and when they were done they would slide the hibachi under their car. I saw a pathfinder with a still smoking hibachi directly under the gas tank. Didn't hear any splosions so I guess it was okay. So - if you park next to joeys with hibachis, ask them not to do this.

M@

[el-bagr]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to M@ again.


Thanks for the great advice M@. I've never been to the Tweezer, so I especially appreciate the tips. I turned down the $30 "priority parking" from ticketripper, but I get enough "3 hour tours" on the water... We won't be getting down there until right around 6, so I will look for the $15 lot.

[Justin]

Originally Posted by el-bagr

Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival tomorrow

Hey cool be sure and support Portland's own "Jerks of Grass". Might swing into amigs tonight to see them as a matter of fact


Disc Golf tourney for me in the A.M.

[el-bagr]

Excellent show. I hadn't seen the Dead in a while, partly because I was skeptical that they still had it together. My mistake! This show rocked all around. The first set was great, but the second set was mindblowing. Warren and the other two ringers did a great job of keeping the music close to the traditions while (in Warren's case) adding something of his own. Both my wife and I teared up when they played Ripple. (Aren't I lucky?)

Set 1:
Help On The Way> Slipknot!> Franklin's Tower> Truckin'> Love Supreme Jam> Me & Bobby McGee
Strange World> The Wheel> Candyman
Just A Little Light
U.S. Blues

Set 2:
Lady With A Fan> Terrapin Station> St. Stephen> High Green Chilly Winds> The Eleven> Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain> Drumz/Space> Mountains Of The Moon
China Cat Sunflower> I Know You Rider

E: Ripple

Tweezer Center was a fine venue, but the drive down took forever -- about 4 hours to go the 150 miles from Portland even though we took 495. (Portland to Bangor is about the same distance and is just about 2 hours.) We arrived just before 7, parked in the free lots and took our seats just as the intermission between Warren's opener and the main show was ending. Good timing. On the way out, we walked quickly to the lot and got out of there before almost everyone even in the $30 "priority" lot. The vehicle in front of us was a large bus... so I pulled up alongside and saw Bob Weir kicking back in a comfy chair. (As a note, the band gets out of the venue immediately... no hanging around for those pros.)

I doubt anyone else has been holding back for fear it wouldn't be as good as hoped, but if you are, get your tickets the next time they're around.

[DMC]

Wow.... "Just A Little Light".... I think it's the best song Brent wrote... I love that they play his songs...

I heard it was a barn burner of a show....
Can't wait to see Warren.... I mean - The Dead this Sunday in Camden...

[Moose]

Went to the show Saturday night. I'd have to say Friday's setlist was better IMO, but it was still a good show and good time. Warren did a fantastic cover of Stella Blue coming out of Space - gave me goosebumps during his solo.

Setlist:
Set 1:
Jam> Jack Straw>
Dark Star(v1)>
All That We Are>
Little Red Rooster
Stagger-Lee
Cosmic Charlie
She Said She Said
Althea
Cassidy
Set 2:
@Looks Like Rain
Lost Sailor>
Saint Of Circumstance>
Only The Strange Remain>
Drumz/Space> Stella Blue>
Mason's Children>
Standing On The Moon
Dark Star(v2)>
Cassidy Reprise>
One More Saturday Night

E: Johnny B Goode

@Bobby acoustic

[M@]

Originally Posted by Moose

Standing On The Moon

I love that song, heard Jerry do it in Highgate, VT, just as a big full red moon came over the treeline.

Saturday was a "Blue Moon." I wonder who on "The Dead" staff noticed that and got the song into the setlist. I wanna be "staff astronomer" for something.

M@

[el-bagr]

Mountains of the Moon also was accompanied by a fat orange moon rising above the trees. Excellent synchronicity.

[DMC]

The final night of the Deads Egypt run in 78 was a total Lunar eclipse..
The stage was repositioned so the eclipse would occur behind the band...
I think it was a long Shakedown jam that it occurred during...

Not the best run for the Dead but cool to listen to...

[Harkin Banks]

The Dead TR for Saratoga, NY, 8/1/4 (What would have been) Jerry's 62nd Birthday

Warren Haynes Opening Set:

And It Stoned Me
Lonesome Whistle Blow
Tastes Like Wine
Wasted Time
I Shall Be Released
Goin' Down Slow
Patchwork Quilt
Soulshine


The Dead

1st Set

Jam->
Uncle John's
Lazy River Road
Estimated (you shoulda heard 'Jerry' Haynes! WOW!)
No More Do I
Down The Road Again
The Music Never Stopped

2nd Set

Me & My Uncle
Cryptical Envelopment->
Death Don't Have No Mercy
Bird Song->
Ruben & Cherise->
Drums/Space->
Shine On You Crazy Diamond->
St. Stephen->
Comes a Time->
Other One->
GDTRFB->
Angel Band

Encore:

The Real Thing

Fantastic show! I liked the Great Woods shows better (I saw all three, with one more to see tom'w in Hartford), but all were outstanding!
It was just like old times, seeing old friends that I hadn't seen in 10-20 years!
People just kept coming up to me left and right, what a trip! (No, I wasn't!)
Just looking at the setlists from the last three nights.... I said this about a dozen times over the weekend:
"If we ever got a setlist like this 20 years ago, the entire audience would pee their pants en masse!!"
Seriously! Two St. Stephen's in three shows?!?!?!?! I would have gladly cut off my arm for that in the early 80's!!
Too bad they couldn't have dug out all those old chestnuts before he checked out.
So, who's going to Hartford?
Harkin

[BerkshiresBoarder]

I'll be at the Hartford show! I can't wait, i'm guessing you're going to be on the lawn also? Maybe I'll see you there!

[summerskier]

I was at the Friday night Tweeter Woods show too and it was great- we had a grand old time. I think Warren is doing a good job, though last summer shows with Joan Osbourne were stellar. The Candyman made me miss Jerry almost to much to bear though. . . . Bobby can't really pull of singing that one wihtout it being too painful. I'm with Harkin- it is so nice to go to shows and see all the old heads you used to see everywhere. . . .some really good people in that scene. Snif. Happy Birthday Jerry. Trying to talk the fella into going to Hartford tonight but he hates that venue too much for me to be very persuasive. Don't drink too much on that lawn-- it's steeper than Tucks.

[Harkin Banks]

Originally Posted by BerkshiresBoarder

I'll be at the Hartford show! I can't wait, i'm guessing you're going to be on the lawn also? Maybe I'll see you there!

Nope, I'll be either in the front middle section (possibly front row) and/or standing onstage. But I will be on the (very green) grass inside the pavilion!
Harkin