The Dead's first tour in five years - Audio link to last night's opener in Greensboro NC:

[slay]

Available to download or to stream in mp3 at: http://www.archive.org/details/thedead2009-04-12

Listening to the opener - "The Music Never Stopped" now and it sure sounds like it didn't! Also, The Dead have given their permission, as usual, for tapers to post audience recordings from the tapers section to the net, for free. Gotta love that. :hippie:

FLAC torrent can be found here: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=524216

Reviews seem to be quite good - especially considering this was the opening show and that they hadn't toured together in five years. Smoke um if ya got um yall. Enjoy. :smoke:

[Bennyboy]

1. Thanks a lottage! Streaming right now on gdradio.net.....

Did you see the wake up call for the astronauts? http://www.xs4all.nl/~animals/GratefulDead_wakeupcall_ISScrew/

[slay]

2. Nice - figures xs4all.nl would have that

they rock.. they run an awesome irc server which i am on all the time.. even have SSL for a secure connection.. very cool, laid back peeps.. they frequently have a pro-marijuana "message of the day" on login..

but no, i hadn't seen that dead in space!.. very cool.. you gonna be able to make it to any shows this year? my sis lives out in cally and went to a DC show with me back in 93 but i doubt she'll go this year.. i'd love to be able to see um play cally - only seen um on east coast stops.. listening to last night's He's Gone now.. quite good :)

[Bennyboy]

3. I'll be at shoreline. This summer is all about Phish for me....

Got shoreline and Gorge tix and about half of REd Rocks lined up so far...

[slay]

4. Wow I didn't even know Phish was touring this summer

Then again I've only ever been to one Phish show. Guess I'm more of a golden oldie.. doh. I'll have to see if they're playin round here at some point.. :)

[Bennyboy]

5. TOOOOOOOOOOOOR! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!

Weird but I am old guy but I love the newer music. Nobody my age knows what the hell I am talking about when I talk about music. FUNNY. Of course being a deadhead and all that brings, I am used to that.


(I am guessing tix will be cheap out front. lots of deals on the intenets right now, so they will only get more and more plentiful.


Phish Summer Tour 2009
5.31.09 Fenway Park, Boston, MA
6.02.09 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
6.04.09 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
6.05.09 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
6.06.09 Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
6.07.09 Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
6.09.09 Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC
6.10.09 Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN
6.12.09 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
6.14.09 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
6.16.09 Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO
6.18.09 Post Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
6.19.09 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
6.20.09 Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI
6.21.09 Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI

7.30.09 Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Sold Out
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Park
Morrison, CO 80465

7.31.09 Red Rocks Amphitheatre -
8.01.09 Red Rocks Amphitheatre -

8.02.09 Red Rocks Amphitheatre -

8.05.09 Shoreline Amphitheatre -
S
8.07.09 The Gorge Amphitheatre -
8.08.09 The Gorge Amphitheatre - Sold Out

8.11.09 Toyota Park
Toyota Park
71st & Harlem Avenue
Chicago, IL 60455
tel: [phone]


8.13.09 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center - Sold Out
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

Meadows Music Theater
61 Savitt Way
Hartford, CT 06120
tel: [phone]
website venue map area map
Show Starts: 8:00PM Doors Open: 6:30PM Pricing: $49.50 Reserved and GA Lawn Click here for additional venue/local info.
8.15.09 Merriweather Post Pavilion - Sold Out
Merriweather Post Pavilion
10475 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
tel: [phone]
website venue map area map
Show Starts: 7:00PM Doors Open: 5:30PM Pricing: $49.50 reserved and GA Lawn Click here for additional venue/local info.
8.16.09 Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Sold Out
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
108 Avenue of the Pines
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
tel:
website venue map area map
Show Starts: 7:30PM Doors Open: 6:00PM Pricing: $49.50 reserved and GA Lawn Click here for additional

[slay]

6. Very cool - maybe I can make the 6/09 show in Ashville

have to see how my $$$ situation is when it gets a bit closer.. thanks for the info! :hippie:

[piratefish08]

7. WooHoo - Thanks for that! I'm going to the Worcester show this Saturday night!

[Bennyboy]

8. have fun and do everything that I would do!!!!

Or something like that.. report back and tell how it was!!

[slay]

9. One More Saturday Night...

You just KNOW they're gonna play it! Yeah let us know how it was.. (when ya sober up).. ;) :hippie:

[piratefish08]

13. I'll definately report back with a review and a setlist!

Saturday can't come quick enough for me.........

If I can hear "eyes", "estimated prophet" and "he's gone" I will die a happy man!

[slay]

14. I got 2 out of 3 with mondays' Greensboro opener

Estimated and He's Gone back to back. He's Gone was awesome. :)

He's Gone from 4/12/2009 (better quality than my first link) -- http://www.archive.org/download/thedead2009-04-12.DPA4017.flac16/thedead2009-04-12d1t06_vbr.mp3

Set 1:

01. The Music Never Stopped>
02. Jack Straw
03. Estimated Prophet>
04. He's Gone>
05. Touch Of Grey>
06. I Need A Miracle>
07. Truckin'

Set 2:

01. Jam> Shakedown Street>
02. All Along The Watchtower>
03. Caution>
04. Drums> Space>
05. Cosmic Charlie>
06. New Potato Caboose>
07. Help On The Way> Slipknot!> Franklin's Tower
08. Encore: Samson And Delilah

[piratefish08]

15. Like I told you, what I said, Steal your face right off your head.........

:smoke:

[piratefish08]

16. Yeah they did! Here's the set list from last night (4-18) in Worcester:

AMAZING show! To think these guys have been playing 40+ years - man, wow............. The show started nearly on time (7:45p) and went almost exactly 4 hours - great vibe inside and outside the DCU Center. There is no doubt that pot has been decriminalized in MA - lots of smokin' inside and outside the building and I didn't see anyone hassled in the least. From what I've read online last night some people are calling last night a highlight of the tour - I feel lucky to have seen living legends still on top of their game.... Jerry would be proud!

Anyhow - set list:

Set 1
Feel Like A Stranger
Going Down The Road
Mountains > Jam > Dupree's Diamond Blues
Althea
Birdsong
Chinacat > Know You Rider

Set 2:
Milestones Jam > Dancing In The Street > Milestones
Terrapin Station
Space > Drums > Space
Days Between
Jam > Bird Song
One More Saturday Night

Donor Rap
Encore - Johnny B. Goode

[vi5]

10. Tour opener?

I saw reviews and pictures and set lists from shows they did last week in NYC?

[slay]

11. According to their website - dead.net - those were warm up shows not part of the tour

See here --> http://www.dead.net/dead09

And here --> http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/27130862/the_deads_new_york_tripleheader

Not exactly sure why these aren't part of the tour, but technically they aren't. :shrug:

[Bennyboy]

12. At the WHITE HOUSE!!!!!

by Mark Silva

We haven't seen any Jerry Garcia ties on President Barack Obama lately, but the Washington Post's "Sleuth'' has a great off-the-schedule sighting:

"The surviving (and formerly feuding) members of the Grateful Dead had a secret impromptu meeting Monday evening with the man they credit with reuniting them: President Obama. The president welcomed all the members of The Dead, who are performing tonight at the Verizon Center in Washington, to the Oval Office just before dinner last night.

"Apparently the band was quite taken with how tidy the president keeps his desk. And how down-to-earth he seemed, according a source who was there. "The president was so gracious. Really, really nice and so welcoming. It hit you: you're in the Oval Office, but it was so normal," the source told the Sleuth.

The visitors: The four surviving members of the Dead - Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann - plus keyboardist Jeff Chimenti (from Weir's Ratdog) and Warren Haynes, joining the Dead on their Spring tour as lead vocalist and guitarist -- the late Garcia's old job.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/04...

[Initech]

17. I really want to see The Dead.

The only problem was the LA show the only tickets I could get were behind the stage. Fuck Ticketbastard.

[arcadian]

18. Who sings the Jerry tunes?

Gotta be Phil Lesh, please tell me it's Phil and Bobby isn't singing everything.

[piratefish08]

20. Weir and Warren Haynes sang most of the Jerry tunes....

I don't think Lesh did much singing last night, but I didn't have as good a view of him - he hung back on the left side of the stage....

I was also pretty stoned, so don't trust a thing I tell you.

[AngryAmish]

19. MOre lives than Jason Voorhees

Can't seem to kill that damn band, no matter how much they deserve it...