From Phil’s Facebook Page:
Phil Lesh and Friends will be playing three shows at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, CO February 16, 17 and 18, 2012! The band features Phil, John Scofield, Warren Haynes, Jackie Greene and Joe Russo. Mail order starts Saturday, November 26 through GDTS (www.gdtstoo.com) and internet pre-sale (http://furthur.frontgatetickets.com/) starts Monday, November 28 at noon EST through Thursday, December 1 at 6 PM EST. Public on-sale Friday, December 2 at 10 AM Colorado time.
Phil and Friends is also scheduled to play 12/10/2011 at the 23rd Warren Haynes, Xmas Jam – Scofield is not there; Jeff Chimenti will be part of P&F at the XJ.
Deadheadland will do our very best to give you our usual live reporting from these Phil and Friends shows!
This was the 10th show in a 12 show run by The Allman Brothers Band
at New Yorks’ Beacon Theater.
Furthur is currently on Spring tour. The band had the night off, after a 5 show run in the Philadelphia area. Furthur will be playing this weekend at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The shows are completely sold out.
Furthur had played for 5 nights, earlier on their tour, at New York’s Best Buy Theater (formerly the Nokia), and on Sunday 3.13.2011, one of the ABB off night’s during their Beacon run, their guitarist Warren Haynes joined Furthur on stage, though since he had previously been part of The Dead and Phil Lesh and Friends, and is well steeped in the music of the Grateful Dead, Warren sat in with Furthur for the complete second set.
Phil Lesh and Friends were cooking! The line up known as the PLQ or the “Q” – the Phil Lesh Quintet – were ripping our minds open for a couple years, with great new songs and a tight sound. The Q was comprised of Phil Lesh (bass/vocals), Jimmy Herring (guitar), Warren Haynes (guitar/vocals), John Molo (drums), and Rob Barracco (keyboards/vocals). Their CD There and Back Again came out in Spring 2002, and features “Celebration” and “No More Do I”, two songs Furthur has performed in 2010.
And Ratdog was smoking as well! 2001 was a very busy year, they had many newish songs too, from 2000’s Evening Moods (including “Ashes and Glass” and “Two Djinn”, also in Furthur’s current song list).
Mickey Hart was busy as ever, with a ton of projects! He had done Supralingua in 1998, and then in 2000 the book and CD set Spirit Into Sound.
Bill Kreutzmann had released Backbone in 1998 and was playing with the Trichromes who would put out an album in 2002.
My point is, individually, these guys were busy making music in their own ways, doing their own things!
Plus, they all four had not played together officially since 1995.
Take another step back…
Yes, Mickey, Phil and Bob did tour in 1998 as The Other Ones, with both Mark Karan and Steve Kimock on guitar, and John Molo on drums (Only The Strange Remain), and at the final tour stop, 7/25/1998 Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View California (the place built for The Grateful Dead to play), Billy the K did sit in with his grateful bandmates.
After that tour, there was a semi-public disagreement between Phil and Bob on internet distribution of the Grateful Dead Vault recordings (Bob wanted to make a deal that Phil didn’t, is the gist). Anyway, word on the Shakedown street was they were not really friendly for a couple of years there.
Then, one night in June 2001, as they tend to do, Phil and Bob made up. They played a gig as Crusader Rabbit Stealth Band, at The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, California, and the rest of the band was Phil’s friends: Molo, Herring, Barraco (Haynes joined in on the last song). The Sweetwater, sadly no more, was a bar, so this was a small show, 100 or so people.
Crusader Rabit Stealth Band
Sweetwater, Mill Valley, California
June 10, 2001
Set 1: Jam > Truckin > Smokestack Lightning > Friend of the Devil > China Cat Sunflower > The Eleven > Brown-Eyed Women
Set 2: The Music Never Stopped > Jam > Get Together > Cassidy, Mason’s Children > Viola Lee Blues > Maggie’s Farm >
Viola Lee Blues
Encore: Promised Land > I Know You Rider
(Warren Haynes sat in for the encore)
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Then, came New Years eve… Exciting enough to hear that Phil and Friends and Ratdog were sharing the bill… CRSB is listed on the line up! And rumors were rampant that Bill and Mickey would be there…
The New Years float featured four Wizards, and behind glimmering robes and fake beards, we slowly realized it was the boys themselves. As they landed on the stage, they were fleshed out by Jimmy and Rob, and played for us all a real sweet set. It was a pretty awesome night, really felt like a healing, all four guys coming together after so long.
12/31/2001
Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium
Oakland, California
Ratdog (listen to the RDog set here)
Jam > Feels Like A Stranger > Easy Answers > Youngblood, Odessa, Bury Me Standing, Scarlet Begonias > Aiko Aiko > Dear Prudence > Stuff (drums, bass, dj) > jam > Two Djinn > Touch of Grey
Phil and Friends (1st set)
Midnight Hour (w/Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks) > Hard To Handle > Viola Lee Blues > Tons of Steel > Viola Lee Blues > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Viola Lee Blues > Cosmic Charlie
Crusader Rabit Stealth Band – New Years Set featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Rob Baraco, Jimmy Herring (and possibly others… did Jeff Chimenti sit in at all?)
Intro – Happy New Year, Not Fade Away > Truckin’ > Playin’ in the Band > Space > Playin’ in the Band > The Wheel > Uncle John’s Tease > Sugar Magnolia (Warren joins at middle of song)
Phil and Friends (2nd set)
tuning > Help On The Way > Skipknot! > Dark Star > Terrapin Station* > No More Do I* > Uncle John’s Band*
Donor Rap – “Unity is Possible”
E: Celebration > Franklin’s Tower
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 (~);}
came out in Spring 2002, and features “Celebration” and “No More Do I”, two songs Furthur has performed in 2010.
(including “Ashes and Glass” and “Two Djinn”, also in Furthur’s current song list).
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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 (~);}