22/03/26 Richmond

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22/03/26  The National,  Richmond, VA

 

Original Recipe

 

Set One

St. Stephen>Not Fade Away>St. Stephen, Corinna,

So Many Roads, Masterpiece, Who Was John, You

Ain't Women Enough, Broken Arrow, Bird Song>

Not Fade Away.

 

Set Two

Scarlet Begonias>Fire On the Mountain, Women Are

Smarter>Gimme Some Lovin'>He's Gone>Drums>

Space>Low Spark>Standing on the Moon, One

More Saturday Night.

 

E:  The Weight, White Rabbit.

 

Rob Barraco's stool breaks after YAWE.

Happy Birthday for attendee before Scarlet.

 

Saturday tour closer in combination with the

all powerful elective proves to be a lethal

combination for a sold out venue in Richmond.

First set a layer cake of delight, the St. Stephen

jumping off a joy.  Later material lovingly delivered.

Thankfully Rob Ok after stool gives out from under 

him after Woman Enough.  Bird Song drove me to

Balcony hall for unlimited space and the pop back

into NFA a nice first set bow.

Called the Scarlet>Fire on the Metro coming home

from Anthem, it did not disappoint.  After a few steps

with Meili during the Women, popped Rude into my 

balcony aisle floorspace and retreated to the hallway.

Low Spark a fully developed slinky journey.  Standing

on the Moon spiritual ecstasy, Saturday Nite a ripping

close.  Double encore the cherry on top of this monster.

I spent the evening with dear friends old and new, 

I love every one of you.  Much thanks band and  crew,

enjoy a couple days of rest.

 

Praise DSO.

 

 

 

 

[Rude]

Sold out show. Happy for the band. There was no getting to the floor. Was oppressively packed. The crowd was full of vigor. Greg Allman finally got his revenge on barraco for abusing his antique piano bench. Who knew playing the keys could be so dangerous. Luckily Rob B didn’t break a hip. It may be time to get one of those life alert systems in case you have another bench malfunction while at home playing. What’s weird is it wasn’t some antique bench. It looked like a modern professional folding one and it straight up broke and looked like was replaced by a drummers stool. Looked like it stung. We were oh shit he left the stage. We started asking who up in the balcony could play accordion and switch to Bruce style original. All kidding aside, we had a great run and got to get a break for the 1st time in a while and see 3 fantastic shows. Sort of rare to get 2 originals in a 3 show run, but to be honest we were prob the only ones who did all 3 of those. We met several who had been on tour for a while. I’m like cool did you do cincy. No man. That’s a haul. The only longer drive I can remember with no day off was Minnesota zoo to St. Louis for a 6pm St. Louis show. Needless to say I think no one attempted that combo in 2019. Meili tried to explain to a coworker why she was seeing the same band 3 straight nights. They will do completely different shows and songs all 3 nights. Yeah but they will play their hits every night right? So do people get mad if they don’t play their famous songs?  It’s sort of funny trying to explain this scene and music. The dead had no hits but every song was a hit with a few exclusions like samba in the rain and dso ain’t busting that crap out. 
 

cheers DSO. See you guys at Jubilee.