Alabama Getaway Don’t Ease Me In Mama Tried Dire Wolf Hell In A Bucket Bertha Truckin’ > Smokestack Lightning > Casey Jones I Need A Miracle > Help On The Way > Caution > New Speedway Boogie > Wharf Rat > I Fought The Law > Liberty
Furthur Mon. July 5, 2010 Sherman Theater, Stroudsburg, PA Set 1
thanks to Gayland Morris and John Sullivan and Brian McCaffery and everyone else on Deadheadland for their help with the setlist and thanks to unbroken joe & A snacks and Rob S and everyone at PhilZone.org
Scarlet Begonias > Shakedown Street > The Promised Land Candyman Playin’ In The Band > The Eleven > Colors of The Rain > Playin’ In The Band > Throwing Stones
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Set 2 China Doll > Fire on The Mountain > The Other One > Time > Breathe reprise > Death Don’t Have No Mercy Unbroken Chain The Music Never Stopped > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
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3:26:18 PM: Our Man is at the castle…
5:27:45 PM: Set 1
5:28:30 PM: Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion 5:29:16 PM: Born Cross-Eyed 5:29:50 PM: Alligator 5:36:00 PM: Truckin’ 5:51:42 PM: Feelin’ Allright 6:10:13 PM: New Potato Caboose Cream Puff War 6:20:17 PM: Viola Lee Blues
RHYTHM DEVILS WITH MICKEY HART AND BILL KREUTZMANN ANNOUNCE SECOND LEG OF SUMMER TOUR NEW DATES WILL FEATURE SIKIRU ADEPOJU, DAVY KNOWLES, ANDY HESS, AND TIM BLUHM
Just as summer moves in to full swing and the Rhythm Devils pack up to hit the road, the band announces a hefty number of new dates for late summer. The Rhythm Devils – Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, the polyrhythmic engine that drove the Grateful Dead for nearly three decades – will make stops throughout the Midwest and Northeast covering some of the territory they’ll miss when out west for their earlier summer shows.
Joining Hart and Kreutzmann in the Rhythm Devils for part two of the tour will be Nigerian talking drum master Sikiru Adepoju, returning from the last RD tour in 2006, Back Door Slam’s Davy Knowles (guitar, vocals) and Andy Hess (bass). The Mother Hips’ Tim Bluhm (guitar, vocals) extends his first run as a Devil.
The Rhythm Devils name has its origins in the late ’70s. As Hart explains, “I remember Jerry looking at Bill and I one time. He shook his head and just said, ‘You guys are Rhythm Devils.’” But the 2010 incarnation of the Rhythm Devils is guaranteed to be unlike anything that’s come before—the dynamic mix of the musicians’ individual but complementary styles and approaches is sure to lead to some serious sparks. “The music is quite different,” says Kreutzmann. “It’s real groove-based. It has lots of percussion and electronics. It’s very danceable. It’s gonna be quite a mix up there.”
“It’s a great combination,” says Hart. “You have the deep trance music from Nigeria and West Africa that Sikiru brings to us and there’s Davy who at any moment just might rip the sky apart with his guitar and Andy Hess is a real gem of a bass player. We’re also excited to have Tim Bluhm, who will bring his ferocious California guitar style and beautiful vocals to the mix.” While both Hart and Kreutzmann promise that the music will be percussion-driven, another factor contributing to the Rhythm Devils’ special mojo is the troupe’s repertoire: Not only will they be reconstituting some familiar Grateful Dead tunes in their unique way, but the Devils will also be performing numerous tunes written exclusively for them by Robert Hunter, the legendary songwriter whose collaborations with the late Jerry Garcia provided the Dead with their most beloved and durable material.
“Robert Hunter is a major force in all of this. He has written his heart out in these new songs,” says Hart. “There will also be enormous, exciting electronic sections of pulsing, throbbing, beautiful zones. There are places and sounds still unknown and unborn that we will no doubt visit.”
Kreutzmann and Hart have been inextricably entwined as partners since they first met in 1967, two years after the formation of the Grateful Dead with Kreutzmann the sole drummer. On that first night, they literally “played the city,” walking around San Francisco with drumsticks banging on everything in sight. Hart joined them immediately and except for a brief hiatus in the ’70s, the pair remained with the Dead until 1995, when Garcia’s death signaled the end of an era. Since then, Kreutzmann and Hart have continued to make music both together (most recently in The Dead) and apart, but they both agree that a special chemistry takes place when their percussive minds are in sync.
“When we get together and we’re in the groove it’s a tractor beam,” says Hart. “Anyone around that will be drawn in. But we always thought of the Grateful Dead, and anything that we did together, as a work in progress. This too is a work in progress and that’s the best thing you could say. We’re looking to the future with this kind of music. In the Grateful Dead we created a body of work that we’ll not leave behind. But we also have an identity as the Rhythm Devils, and that’s who we’ll be.”
Rhythm Devils complete summer tour schedule is as follows: Summer Tour 2010 Leg One, with Keller Williams: Friday, July 16 Arcata Theatre Arcata CA Saturday, July 17 String Summit North Plains OR Sunday, July 18 Britt Festival Jacksonville OR Thursday, July 22 Ogden Theatre Denver CO Friday, July 23 Steamboat Springs Concert Series Steamboat Springs CO Saturday, July 24 Spud Drive In Driggs ID Sunday, July 25 Red Butte Garden Salt Lake City UT Tuesday, July 27 Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff AZ Wednesday, July 28 Rialto Theatre Tucson AZ Thursday, July 29 Soundwave San Diego CA Saturday, July 31 Gathering of the Vibes Bridgeport CT
Summer Tour 2010 Leg Two, with Tim Bluhm: Saturday, August 21 Hoxeyville Festival Cadillac MI Sunday, August 22 House of Blues – Chicago Chicago IL Monday, August 23 Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis MN Tuesday, August 24 Pabst Theatre Milwaukee WI Thursday, August 26 Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead Munhall PA Friday, August 27 The Sherman Theatre Stroudsburg PA Saturday, August 28 The Music Hall Theater Tarrytown NY Wednesday, September 1 B.B. King Blues Club & Grill New York NY Thursday, September 2 Northern Lights Clifton Park NY Friday, September 3 Showcase Live Foxboro MA Saturday, September 4 Hampton Beach Casino Room Hampton Beach NH Monday, September 6 Nelson Ledges Quarry Park Garrettsville OH Wednesday, September 8 The Stage Theatre State College PA Thursday, September 9 Water Street Music Hall Rochester NY Friday, September 10 The Bears Den @ Seneca Niagra Niagara Falls NY Saturday, September 11 Higher Ground Ballroom South Burlington VT Tuesday, January 4 – Sunday, January 9 Jam Cruise 9 Fort Lauderdale FL Sunday, January 9 Revolution Hall Fort Lauderdale FL www.rhythmdevils.net
When Brian (happycat!) asked me to blog a bit about the first two Phish shows for this site, I was all gung-ho about it right away – sounds like a total blast, right? But as I began to think about what I was really going to say, I gotta admit I was kinda apprehensive. I didn’t want to gush about Phish or simply give you guys the facts – we have Surrender to the Flow for that. And I definitely didn’t want to start analyzing the music and get all critical – we have PhantasyTour.com for that. So what am I gonna say? Like so many other phans, I’ve been listening to these guys since I was young hippie kid, and I’ve schlepped all over the country to see them. I love Phish. And most of the time they leave me pretty much speechless after a good show. I guess the best I can do is give you guys a bit of my experience from the road.
Back on Super Bowl Sunday, a few Phish-head friends and I made a pact – we would all go to the first show of the year, no matter where it was going to be. So on March 15, when the Summer Tour Announcement Video (featuring a bunch of synchronized swimmers and a very graceful Jon Fishman set to the jammy outro of “Taste”) blasted on to the front page of Phish.com, we were beyond pumped. CHICAGO, HERE WE COME!
Click here to see Phish’s 2010 Summer Tour Announcement Video:
When we think back on all the beautiful locations Phish has played: The Gorge, Red Rocks, Big Cypress… Toyota Park is, in all honesty, a pretty anti-climatic tour-opening venue for a show. It’s an open-air soccer field (or “pitch”, as you footballers would like me to say), home to the MLS’ Chicago Fire, with 28,000 seats and God knows how many kids cramming down onto the field. The venue staff had covered the expensive turf with huge aluminum pallets and let me tell you, it was HOT down on the field. But as the sun set and the band floated into “Boogie on Reggae Woman”, the smiles came out, the dancing shoes were tied and people seemed to start ignoring the heat or whatever else they felt like complaining about.
At Toyota Park you pretty much have to be right in front of the soundboard for optimum sound quality. Everywhere else in the Park, the audio sounds “just OK”.
Musically though, the show was awesome.
The band sounded every bit as tight as they did at Madison Square Garden and Miami last year. In bold 3.0 fashion, they started the night off with some of their super-jams ("Disease", "Wolfman’s"). The setlist was chock-full of classics, especially the first. “Reba”, with all its intricacies & layers, was fantastic.
And the highlight of my night was most definitely Set II’s ridiculously funky “Story of the Ghost” (Thanks Page). We got a really cool verison of "Light", with some interesting fake-outs and strong vocals and a really nice "Limb by Limb" with a sick afro beat vocal jam at the end. During the Limb jam, we wandered to the outskirts of the crowd and watched a girl with an LED hoop display some mad skills (video to come).
We were also blessed with a brand-spanking-new tune entitled “Show of Life”. When the band started to play it, everyone turned to a buddy and asked “What is this?” to which the buddy replied, “It’s a Trey song.” Ha…
Anyway, over the next few days I took some time to ask a few phriends what they thought about this new PHISH song, “Show of Life”. Most people seemed to like it, but nobody expressed a whole lot of excitement. Zach from Chicago described it as a “typical Phish ballad” that reminded him of The Band’s “I Shall Be Released”. Mike from Colorado told me that he liked it, and it was “along the same vein as Let Me Lie” which by the way, has really grown on me over the past year. And its also worth mentioning that Phish played "Show of Life" again in Saratoga 6/19, and its really taking a cool form, so I think we can be hopeful about this new tune.
On Saturday, as we drove through Indiana en route to Ohio, my good friend Chris (also from Southern Cal – going for his 100th show this year) said he was really stoked that on this tour, Phish is testing the waters with a handful of new tunes. They’re taking the time to play them live, check out the audience reactions, and really feel the songs out before recording another album. It shows how much the guys care about their fans. So keep your ears open (and your mind too) for some new songs on this tour. And remember, just because you don’t recognize it right away, it may not just be “another Trey song.”
I’m kind of equal parts audio and visual, so Chris Kuroda – the lighting designer for Phish – is in my book the 5th member of the band. I think a lot of phans would agree that the lights at a Phish show are almost as important as the music and can really take the experience to a whole other level (substances aside). Last year, he implemented three white circular panels that hovered above the band, bouncing multi-colored beams and spirals across and through them. The discs are still there on this tour, but talking to a lot of different people throughout the night, we had noticed some new bits of eye candy in his designs – new color combinations, and different sequences of movement to flow with the music. All in all, it was a great night.
The air was filled with plenty of good energy and lots of anticipation for this summer’s tour. Aft
er Toyota, we were ready to get on the road, destiny unbound, to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio – 7 hours due east.
Ed. Note: thanks Cece and we look forward to your next report from the Phield!
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RHYTHM DEVILS 
Joining Hart and Kreutzmann in the Rhythm Devils for part two of the tour will be Nigerian talking drum master Sikiru Adepoju, returning from the last RD tour in 2006, Back Door Slam’s Davy Knowles (guitar, vocals) and Andy Hess (bass). The Mother Hips’ Tim Bluhm (guitar, vocals) extends his first run as a Devil.
Summer Tour 2010 Leg Two, with Tim Bluhm: 
When Brian (happycat!) asked me to blog a bit about the first two Phish shows for this site, I was all gung-ho about it right away – sounds like a total blast, right? But as I began to think about what I was really going to say, I gotta admit I was kinda apprehensive. I didn’t want to gush about Phish or simply give you guys the facts – we have Surrender to the Flow for that. And I definitely didn’t want to start analyzing the music and get all critical – we have 
show. It’s an open-air soccer field (or “pitch”, as you footballers would like me to say), home to the MLS’ Chicago Fire, with 28,000 seats and God knows how many kids cramming down onto the field. The venue staff had covered the expensive turf with huge aluminum pallets and let me tell you, it was HOT down on the field. But as the sun set and the band floated into “Boogie on Reggae Woman”, the smiles came out, the dancing shoes were tied and people seemed to start ignoring the heat or whatever else they felt like complaining about. 
Ghost” (Thanks Page). We got a really cool verison of "Light", with some interesting fake-outs and strong vocals and a really nice "Limb by Limb" with a sick afro beat vocal jam at the end. During the Limb jam, we wandered to the outskirts of the crowd and watched a girl with an LED hoop display some mad skills (video to come). 
designer for Phish – is in my book the 5th member of the band. I think a lot of phans would agree that the lights at a Phish show are almost as important as the music and can really take the experience to a whole other level (substances aside). Last year, he implemented three white circular panels that hovered above the band, bouncing multi-colored beams and spirals across and through them. The discs are still there on this tour, but talking to a lot of different people throughout the night, we had noticed some new bits of eye candy in his designs – new color combinations, and different sequences of movement to flow with the music. All in all, it was a great night. 
