Views Skewed (repost): Furthur, Radio City Music Hall, 2.23.10
This review of last night show is reprinted with permission from Views Skewed by M. Berke
Pre-show: Yet another line. The email from Radio City Music Hall said: “Doors to the hall will open at 6:30pm. Furthur will take the stage at approximately 7:30pm.* As always, we suggest that you arrive early and travel light. Enjoy the show!” I have been watching set lists tweet out and knew the band had a habit of starting this tour before 8pm. I had no idea though it would be this nuts. It was Cold. It was Cold Rain. And people were talking about snow. I thought that song was a shoe in for tonight. Nope, bad call for me.
7:50 pm, finally in the doors, we found our seat exactly as lights went down and the first noodling began. I heard distinctive The Other Ones notes. Nice, we are in for a ride. (more…)
