Last night Jackie Greene opened for Gov’t Mule at the Royal Oak Theatre. The venue was amazing with a sort of Art Nouveau theme in the entry room. The inside was small but plenty of space for the crowd and a bar right inside. We were about 20 feet from the stage and could see the guys very well. The complete show went from 8:00 PM until after 12:30 AM. Jackie Greene opened with a fabulous set including New Potato Caboose and Mama Tried. Warren and the boys played two sets and two encores, full of long jams and covers including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton to finish it off. I shook my bones the whole time! Don’t have much of a voice this AM (~);}
Darrin is the incredible artist who donated her talents to create much of the Dedheadland banner art.
Darrin also has done years of incredible poster art, including posters for High Sierra Music Festival
and the Rex Foundation.
Darrin has created a REMARKABLE body of work for the band Cubensis, as well as many other bands, from The Eagles to Godsmack.
Darrin served as the artist in collaboration on the Dark Star t-shirts and stickers sold in the happeningest places on earth. Even better than that, she is an awesome mom (from what I can tell), and it is my honor to know she is also a good friend.
In 2010 Darrin hired MarkoVision to launch her new website at DeeArtist.com
You can see much of her work on her site, and also be her fan on Facebook (click here).
If you need a graphic artist, especially for Rock Art, Darrin is a great choce.
Thank you Darrin! Have a hippie one Darrin!
^ Darrin did this poster for Happycat’s Birthday celebration at Red Rocks!!!
^ One of Darrin’s best known pieces, her Jerry portrait was part of the shrine at Jerry Day 2010, and is available on posters from www.Stealicon.com
One long set, no encore. Furthur rocked the park, and this was also the first time ever a “Grateful Dead” band played in the park at night, with the show starting in the evening, a little after the scheduled 7:30 start, and going right up to 10:00 pm, which is the sound curfew on the permit Outside Lands Festival has in the park. Reports that lots of the crowd were not Deadheads can be evidenced by the amount of chatting overheard in these video clips.
Being as that we were just a few days into a Ramadan moon, and the location, certain songs were predicted by our experts at Deadheadland, including the complete Terrapin Suite (“From the northwest corner, or a brand new crescent moon…”), thought they did avoid the cliche of a “Standing on the Moon” (“Somewhere in San francisco…just looking up at heaven, at this crescent in the sky”).
Since the Mt. Aire debut of the complete and full Terrapin suite, it has become their “showpiece” this summer. Terrapin always was the grandest of epics, though historically only the first 3 parts have been played (“Lady With A Fan”, “Terrapin Station”, “Terrapin”), though most setlists simply refer to this as “Terrapin Station” or “Lady with a Fan”. Ratdog often did a nearly full Terrapin, including the Terrapin Flyer and At A siding movements – through in a “Terrapin Transit” in the middle, wrap it with “Terrapin Refrain” and you got the whole thing, running at 20 minutes more or less – and truly desrving the overused phrase EPIC.
Furthur performed this a few times this summer, even doing a split version – the old school “LWAF>Terrapin Stattion” at a Friday night gig at All Good Music Festival in West Virginia, and picking up at “Terrapin” and the rest at the Mann Center in Philadelphia two nights later. A musical sandwich for the weekend!
That was the one thing that was almost a given at this show in San Francisco. The show otherwise was full of surprises. No one would have called the “Cassidy” opener (I think Cassidy Law’s birthday is right around now, perhaps…?) and the big surprise was the cover of Pink Floyd’s “Time” – not new to Furthur, though not expected…
Please enjoy these clips! We will rejoin Furthur on Fall Tour part 1 beginning Sept. 16th in Eugene OR.
An amazing musical reunion. Of all the shows I have seen this year, it ranks as one of the best.
Music flowed joyously!
While generally considered a Venice Beach band, this show in La Jolla, California was a “hometown” return for a few of the band members, so it was full of local family and friends, and a lot of us from Venice/L.A. drove down too. Many old friends reconnected –and then we reconnected with some great music!
Zoo People delivered a rocking playful two full sets of originals and covers that had the crowd going! The energy peaked with an inspired Magic Carpet Ride, which I believe was a first for them.
The overwhelming feeling in the crowd after the show was: Why did they ever stop playing, and when will they again!
Thank you Zoo People, and Beaumont’s, for a real great time!
Zoo People Brian Chapman (guitar) Andrew Harvey (drums) Greg Hyatt (bass) John Jakubek (guitar) John Nau (keys) and: Mitch Manker (horns)
Saturday August 14, 2010 Beaumont’s La Jolla, CA
Set 1 Lay Low Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad > Pieces Of Man Justify Fields I’ve Been Working Eyes of the World > What’s Going On Falling to the Ground Unlucky Captain John
Set 2
Rocky Come and Go Blies Oye Como Va Let The Children play Half Way Gone Billy’s Palace Down By The River Magic Carpet Ride Cajun Sun Wildflower Sorcery Don’t Want You No More What’s The Buzz Stop Troubling Me
Last night Jackie Greene opened for Gov’t Mule at the Royal Oak Theatre. The venue was amazing with a sort of Art Nouveau theme in the entry room. The inside was small but plenty of space for the crowd and a bar right inside. We were about 20 feet from the stage and could see the guys very well. The complete show went from 8:00 PM until after 12:30 AM. Jackie Greene opened with a fabulous set including New Potato Caboose and Mama Tried. Warren and the boys played two sets and two encores, full of long jams and covers including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton to finish it off. I shook my bones the whole time! Don’t have much of a voice this AM (~);}
as well as many other bands, from The Eagles to Godsmack.
Compiled by Canyon Critter! 
One long set, no encore. 
