Yeah Tea, exactly. He started the set off with the acoustic for the Dupreeās and somewhere mid Mountains switched to electric as the jam drifted toward the Dark Starā¦.
And there was Cosmic Charlie to open the encore filler before the Hard to Handle (not before Bid you Goodnight)
That has absolutely got to be the best Monday night this here sack of bones has ever experiencedā¦holy sheesh,,Ventura got the goods in a very cool small intimate venue (640 peeps)
Full throttle all band craftsmanship leading the night through the most peculiar and wondrous caverns of outer spaceā¦
Skip was absolutely on fire and exercising leadership throughout the night on so many of the jamsā¦driving the train through such fantastic old school grease pitsā¦
Skip and Barracco were dialed in together tightly and carving all sorts of new ground together and clearly enjoying the hell out of it togetherā¦Those two held down and launched out a lot of the jams throughout the night and Barraco fully brought in the spirit of pigpen to the maxā¦King Beeā¦ahhhhhhhhā¦.Hey Judeā¦ahhhhhhhā¦.lovelightā¦ahhhhhhh
Note that this show was the first of just 2 times (both 69) that Pigpen sang Hey Judeā¦and didnāt show up again til late Brent era.
extremely thankful that our timing included this show on a Monday night after the 2 rippin electives in Del Mar and LAā¦back outta the game now til Seattle/portlandā¦
Thanks for such a good time down here in SoCal!!!!