Island Bro

Fun to hear Koritz’s end of show statement about an upcoming exciting band announcement 🤩

Dug the stream…crispy clean…such a tightly played show!! Very thankful to whom ever produces these occasional free streams😉 Softened the re-entry coming in from SoCal…got off the plane and was on the stream within minutes for the drive home and rest of the evening… thanks for that!

Dang Gr8ful…you were there too?!? glad to hear you were around and fun to be in the same room with you guys even if we didn’t see ya… enjoy your western musical adventure!! ⚡️

Also noting the let it rock was super smokin hot missed ya Bill! Pulling out after tonight until NW but passing the torch off to ya for your central coast /norCal run…enjoy it all man! 😎

Thanks for tracking and dialing that set list Bill… dug the Lisa/Barracco vocal chanting during the Tommorow Never Knows jam….have only heard instrumentals up until tonight… amazingly young crowd in this college town…I dig that…and they were getting down and getting off sweatiest damn Tuesday night I can remember 😱

Thanks for that interesting post AC…yes, firing on all cylinders indeed. wasnt sure they played the middle Playin’ jam between Black Muddy and Miracle found in the original show, but maybe that just flew over my head,,,,when they did come all the way back into Playin’ to finish it off at the end of show it was this precision shift out of Around and Around…not slowly woven together out of a transition jam. They fully finished Around and then a split second later dropped right into the Playin’ jam….just full band completely turned on a dime so suddenly like a well oiled machine. Listened to the original show and it was kinda like that but different—this was better and crispier cleaner, I’d say…(honestly most of the show was played better than the original but maybe I wouldn’t say that if I was actually at the original 😅) The jam out of Miracle rolled out an exquisite grroove with a slow slinky drift towards drums… The Sound venue is so new and impressive, $17 million facility and indeed had very good sound throughout venue. Main floor got ridiculously crowded for second set and retreated to balcony and found solid space up in center with killer sound and view of band so I guess even in a sellout it’s safe to say that good dance space can be found…lots of fun dance pockets out on the edges of both levels… Holds 1900. Definitely better than house of Blues in San Diego and nice to be just north out of the city in smaller town on the beach. The space certainly doesn’t have soul, being so new, but it has a lot going for it….but nothing like being in an old beauty like the Wiltern in LA which is just an incredible expression of artistic beauty…possibly most intricate and gorgeous old theater on all the west coast from what I’ve seen…..

Completely GAME ON show…such a different experience than Del Mar which was super fun, played so well and arguably had better sound in the brand spanking new venue but…. complete roof blowout during Deal after a super solid first set and just total second set beauty perfection…whatever words you use for speechless situations… LA crowd was full throttle and giving it loud and clear back to the band right out of the gate and all the way through and the symbiotic organism fed on itself thoroughly throughout the night…band was so ready to go out on limbs and lay it all down…never recall seeing Jeff quite so animated and playful and literally getting down while slaying the shit out of so many jams… it was just one of those nights…. the Wiltern is such an old beauty (had seen them there 4yrs? Ago) and it makes me wonder how the influence of such a beautiful space that clearly has soul and so much history influences the music… terraced floor so no slope dancing, like the warfield and other small halls I’ve seen that have Eliminated the slope floor for flat terraces….boulder theater comes to mind too… didn’t talk to tons of people but was surprised how many peeps we came across who were DSO virgins in last couple nights. Definitely DandC splillover in there… getting their minds blown I’d say! wow thanks for this full throttle dialed in Saturday night in LA Smokin’ Hot🔥 ⚡️🌹⚡️

Enjoy the ride tonight!!

Been a long time comin’

Methinks you guys don’t have Sir Kensington’s mayo out there? It just might be on the top of your list if you did… However,,Duke’s we do not have out here so perhaps I don’t know what I’m missing…

Now how could that not be a big ol’ bundle of fun?!? 🤩

Woo hoo!!! welcome to your new little one! Definitely the best of reasons to be missing the beach shows…enjoy meeting your new family member tomorrow!! 🤩

That must’ve been thoroughly enjoyable 😄

Thoroughly appreciated that stream,,Thanks again Tea, for the tip-off about that a few days back. Fantastic show,,tore it up dancing all of second set in the living room,, Noting there was a pretty clear Tomorrow Never Knows (?) instrumental jam coming out of space after drums before the drop into Mr Fantasy. Thought we might get dosed with Hey Jude after that but clearly they had a lot of other material to get chomping on… huge thanks for that stream!

Cool that DSO is headlining this year… Wondering if that means they get 3 nights this year…? At least 2 nights for sure I would think…

That is indeeed a fact. Im glad there are many other bands out there exploring this music and also glad that some of them are worth going to see live… And yeah, Tea,,,more DSO streams would be most welcome 😉 And more double and triple headers would also be most welcome on the tours these days,,as I’ve said many times before…but maybe that conversation belongs in a different thread 😆

Cool,,see what you think,,should be a good night. I caught them Friday night and then Terrapin Flyer on Sunday night so it was an interesting weekend of two different GD bands. I had seen Terrapin Flyer once before and Melvin played with them,,but overall I enjoyed them more this time around. First set was JGB and second set all GD…kinda think overall I’d lean a bit more toward Terrapin Flyer over Zach Nugent as the jams felt a bit more sophisticated if that’s the right word… But they are both bands I’d enjoy seeing again when it lines up. However I’d say that other than DSO I’m most interested in catching some more live shows with Grateful Shred and Hyryder…keeping both of those bands on the radar for sure…

I hear that fer sure… im definitely as much of a 69 slut as you are and I’d be disappointed if I just barely missed one . Could see them drop another Pigpen in your run,,,maybe a ‘71,,,but I guess you’ll get a lot of other goodies out of yer 6-pack no matter what 😉

Zach Nugent’s Dead Set Had a fun Friday night with these guys. Didn’t realize Sunshine Becker (Furthur backup vocalist) was gonna be singing with them. A solid, young shredding band well worth catching when in the area. The dude on keys/organ is someone to keep an eye on in the coming years… Good stuff!

Niiiiiiice!

Ahhhh…nice work Count2!!! Stoked you are releasing the ponies out into the world… Your work and countless hours on this project offer something that is truly fun, useful, and fascinating for all deadheads to explore and learn from… Thank you!!

What did they play for the Saturday night show?

Rude,,I’ll try and keep an open mind about oysters from other regions but I do hope I get to introduce you to some super freshies from Hood Canal and Willapa Bay out in Western Wa….top notch bi-valve mollusks I must say…

Looking like it’s gonna dry out and be quite WARM this time around…

Stoked the see that the Capitol Theater shows will be streamed this weekend… $20 bucks for both shows and you can watch them for a week… thank you