Grateful Dead

Okay... I just realized that in less than 44 hours, I'll be in the car headed to Chicago to take in this final hurrah. 3 solid days of all Dead, all the time! What could really be much better than that? I hope to meet lots of new, friendly faces, and I hope that the boys are on fire. I feel like they were just getting comfortable with one another last weekend from what I've seen of the shows in Santa Clara. So... here's my wishlist for this weekend. Don't judge... some of these aren't crowd-pleasers, but they are me pleasers! And they're in no particular order: 1) Jack Straw w/ Bruce on lead vocals; 2) A Saturday night encore of either One More Saturday Night or U.S. Blues, with a killer fireworks display accompanying said performance; 3) A smokin' Big Railroad Blues with Trey on lead vocals; 4) A Sunday night second set opener with a driving Samson & Delilah; 5) One last killer Dark Star; 6) An even hotter St. Stephen > The Eleven (complete with the William Tell bridge) than was played in SC; 7) One last Not Fade Away; 8) A beautiful rendition of To Lay Me Down with anyone on lead vocals except Phil; 9) A thumping Shakedown Street to open up Friday's show; and 10) An epic Scarlet > Fire. Honorable Mention to a sighting of a New Speedway Boogie. Am I asking too much?

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