Furthur Setlist and Grateful Phakecast
Set 1
Feel Like A Stranger >
Music Never Stopped
Brown Eyed Women
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Alabama Getaway >
Big Bad Blues >
Liberty
Casey Jones
Tonight’s Phakecast will recreate the set, live, using all Grateful Dead videos (save for new songs and Ryan Adams covers)
Set 2
Dear Mr. Fantasy >
Playin’ In The Band
Fire on the Mountain >
The Other One >
China Cat Sunflower >
I Know You Rider
Black Peter
Feelin’ Alright
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad >
And We Bid You Good Night
Maggie’s Farm Don’t Ease Loose Lucy Hell in a Bucket Stagger Lee Bertha Nobody Girl Sugaree
Set II
Scarlet Begonia Man Smart, Women Smarter Turn on Your Lovelight Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) > Franklin’s Tower Comes A Time Sugar Magnolia Not Fade Away
Grate show… rainy day, worried about a downpour. Set 1 opened the skies with Here Comes Sunshine… and it held for a bit! But the rain came! Didn’t;t stop them from breaking out a full Terrapin! Sweet!
Set 1
Here Comes Sunshine > Truckin > On the Road Again, Estimated Prophet > Passenger > Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance, Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion
Set 2 Scarlet Begonias > Bird Song > Uncle John’s Band, The Mountain Song, Lady with a Fan > “ Terrapin > At a Siding > Terrapin Flyer > St. Stephen > Sugar Magnolia
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.