Notes from the Phil Tour II

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October 23, 2007
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Notes from the Phil Tour II

Updated Set Lists and Another Chat with Jackie Greene, Boy Wonder
With the Phil & Friends tour now on a much-deserved break before the big ten-night “New York City Marathon” at the spankin’-new Nokia Theatre in Times Square, we thought this might be a good time to look in at the second leg of the tour and point up some highlights and cool happenings.
There seems to be near-unanimity among the band members that the group has gotten stronger as the tour has gone on, tighter in some ways but also looser and more flexible in the big jams that have become more frequent; indeed, who would expect otherwise? The mood has been very upbeat out on the road and by and large the tour has garnered strong, favorable reviews from most fans. Since our last tour update there have been a few song breakouts, including versions of Dylan’s “Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat,” “All Along the Watchtower” and the triumphant return of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” (a Phil standard since the mid-’80s); the rarely played Mars Hotel nugget “Pride of Cucamonga”; a smokin’ take of Big Walter’s mid-‘50s R&B hit “Pack Fair & Square” sung by none other than former J. Geils lead singer Peter Wolf during the Boston run; the spry, fiddle-fueled instrumental showcase “Big Mon”; “Wharf Rat,” “Unbroken Chain”; and a few more Jackie Greene tunes, such as “About Cell Block #9” (from his Sweet Somewhere Bound album), “Cry Yourself Dry” (from Gone Wanderin’) and “The Gambler” (from the recent Small Tempest EP). There have been three more acoustic mini-sets since the first go-round at Red Rocks: one each at the Riviera in Chicago, the Orpheum in Boston and at the Tweeter Center in Jersey; good stuff! And fans (and synapses) are still buzzin’ from the appearance of Trey Anastasio at the Glens Falls concert: The band played two of his tunes—“Shine” and “Plasma”—and from all reports, the T-Man definitely added some psychedelic gravitas to the proceedings. Yowza!
As was the case with the first part of the tour, there are a of number audience recordings of shows from the latest leg up on archive.org which you can access by going to that address and then typing in “Phil Lesh and Friends 2007.” The big news since our last update, though, is that now there are also downloads for sale of any show on the tour at Phil’s official site, www.phillesh.net. The live soundboard recordings have been lovingly prepared for release by long-time Grateful Dead mastering engineer Jeffrey Norman, so you know they’re gonna sound fantastic. Downloads are available in two formats: MP3 and the beloved top-quality FLAC. (There’s technical information on the site about format differences, etc.)
We managed to track down Jackie Greene on the P&F bus as it sped from Atlanta to Baltimore, and peppered him with a few questions about the tour…
So how’s it goin’ out there on the East Coast?
It’s goin’ really well. The shows are going good, we’re playing a lot of different songs, and I think the band is really playing well together and getting better. I think we’re all getting a better sense of how each other play these songs. It’s still really lively and free, but I think it’s also gelling a little better.
What would you say has been the hardest aspect of it?
For me it’s been learning some of the songs that I have to sing that I wasn’t as familiar with. It’s funny, though, the same thing that’s hard about this gig is the thing that’s easy about it.
How so?
Well, Phil is fearless. He likes to try new things and it’s okay to come within inches of falling on your face every night. It takes a while to get used to that notion, but when you can embrace that idea, it makes it sort of an easy thing to go out there and try new things all the time. It’s a cool way to do music.
That’s the Grateful Dead ethos is a nutshell. What have you discovered about a song like “Dark Star”?
That’s been a lot of fun for me, because it’s one of those songs we’ve been doing that always goes into other songs and other songs go into it, so it’s a challenge figuring out how to develop it and play with it. Phil sings that one so I’ve been enjoying being back there making sound effects and stuff and playing off Larry [Campbell] and Steve [Molitz]. It’s only a two-chord song, so there’s so much room to interpret the mood of what direction it’s going. From my perspective—and I don’t know how it is for the audience—I really get off on the fact that when we get into stuff like that, we have the freedom to interpret it however we want, all of us at the same time. It can turn into something really, really beautiful, or really aggressive and nasty. It can even sound kind of sexy and smooth, which isn’t maybe what you’d expect from it. But it can go anywhere, really.
How has playing your own songs in the context of all these Grateful Dead songs affected how those songs sound to you?
That’s an interesting question. I’m not sure. A lot of the songs of mine we’ve been doing seem to be going over pretty well and seem to work well in that framework. There have been a couple of times we’ve been able to go out of one of my songs into one of the [GD] staples, which is cool. God bless Phil for figuring that out; I would never thought they would fit like that, but he heard it somehow. Of course a lot of my songs are a lot longer with this band than they would be in mine. [Laughs] We jam on them more and we change around the groove sometimes. There’s one song of mine we’ve probably done four different ways already—“Tell Me Mama, Tell Me Right.” It’s a blues tune, basically, but we’ve done it acoustic; the other night I turned around and said, “Let’s do it really slow, 6/8 time”; and we also did it sort of as a faster boogie-woogie on the piano one night. That’s a lot of fun for me.
What’s this instrumental you guys have done a few times, “Big Mon”?
Oh, that’s a really fast, barn-burning, traditional fiddle tune.
So I presume Larry brought that in?
Right, it’s Larry. He’s so great. Actually, some of the most fun I’ve been having on this tour is on the bus playing music with Larry. It turns out he knows a shit-load of old folk and bluegrass songs, and I grew up with a bluegrass influence, too, so we’ll jam for hours on the bus. That’s how that one came into the set, I guess. It’s a good chance for Larry to show off! [Laughs]
Are you the one who brought “Loan Me in Dime,” which I presume you got from Boz Scaggs’ first album?
Yeah. I thought it would be a good slow song that would give the band a chance to stretch out a little and also get really big. I thought it would be a neat moment for us. It’s pretty straight forward, but it can be really powerful.
And I see you played “Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat”—nice choice!
Phil likes to do Dylan songs and I like to sing no more than one a night—I already get enough flak for being like Dylan, so I don’t want to overdo it! [Laughs] I figured that was a pretty easy one for everybody to learn. It’s a blues, and so you can make it funky, do it as a shuffle, whatever.
Your song “Cold Black Devil” has been sounding good.
Thanks. It’s kind like of swamp jam; it’s a good excuse to jam, which is probably why Phil likes to do it.
Are you enjoying playing this big variety of places, from Red Rocks to those intimate theaters in Chicago and Boston?
Oh, for sure! Chicago was a little rough because the building was very old and it was packed—it was like 90 degrees in there. We were a having a hard time in there even though we had fans on us. The crowd must’ve been miserable.
Ah, they can take it. They’re troopers. Every one of ‘em has been through worse, I guarantee you!
You’re probably right. [Laughs]
Why have there been so few acoustic sets?
I don’t know. I’d like to do it more often. Probably because it involves a whole ’nother level of setup for the crew and we haven’t always had the luxury of a lot of time in some cities. I like ‘em a lot. The Red Rocks acoustic set was definitely one of the highlights of the whole tour for me, because I really got the sense that it meant something special; it felt “important” maybe. It’s such a nice way to present some of those songs. I really love a lot of those tunes.
Have you had much interaction with fans?
A little bit. But we’re on a pretty tight schedule here. We’ve been leaving after every show and getting on the bus. But what interactions I’ve had, everyone has been really nice and warm. They seem to be digging it. I know I am.
Phil looks and sounds like he’s digging it, too.
Phil is having a great time. He’s smiling, dancing…he’s excited. He can’t wait to get out there. We have to hold him back sometimes: Wait, Phil. It’s not time yet! He’s pretty amazing, actually.

Set Lists for the Second Leg

10/03/07 Uptown Theater (Kansas City)
Alabama Getaway, About Cell Block #9, Big River, Candyman, Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat, Mississippi 1/2 Step, Cold Black Devil, Good Lovin’

Brown Sugar, Bertha, Uncle John's Band> Scarlet Begonias> The Wheel> Sugaree> Tom Thumb’s Blues, Casey Jones, Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad / Ripple
10/05/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)
Deal, Mississippi 1/2 Step, Deep Elem Blues, Loose Lucy, When You're Walking Away, Cumberland Blues, Seven Jealous Sisters, Cold Rain & Snow

Cosmic Charlie, China Cat Sunflower> Eyes Of The World> St. Stephen> Mountains Of The Moon> Midnight Rider> I Know You Rider> The Golden Road> Sugar Magnolia / Tom Thumbs Blues
10/06/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Pride Of Cucamonga, This Wheel’s on Fire, Scarlet Begonias, Spots of Time, Althea, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, Bertha

Playing In The Band> Uncle John's Band, Birdsong, Loan Me A Dime, Dark Star> New Speedway Boogie> Fire On The Mountain> Dark Star> Viola Lee Blues / Alabama Getaway
10/07/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)
Good Lovin', Mexican Girl, Candyman, Let It Ride, Sugaree> Casey Jones

(Acoustic) Ripple, Cry Yourself Dry, Friend of the Devil, Big Mon, Brokedown Palace

The Wheel, Cryptical Envelopment> All Along the Watchtower> Other One, Help on the Way, Slipknot > Franklin's Tower, Lovelight / Not Fade Away

10/09/07 Orpheum Theater (Boston)
Jam> Friend Of the Devil, Pride of Cucamonga, Big River, I'm So Gone, Loose Lucy, When You’re Walking Away, Pack Fair and Square*, Brown Sugar*

Spots Of Time, China Cat Sunflower> Eyes Of The World> A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall> Viola Lee Blues> Althea> Viola Lee Blues> Cold Black Devil > Viola Lee Blues, Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain / Ripple

* with former J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf
10/10/07 Orpheum Theater - Boston, MA
Cosmic Charlie, So Hard To Find My Way, Deal, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, Cold Rain and Snow, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Alabama Getaway

Shakedown Street, Mississippi Half-Step> New Speedway Boogie> Loan Me A Dime> The Other One, Down in the Valley Woe, St. Stephen> The Wheel> Sugar Magnolia / Brokedown Palace
10/12/07 Tweeter Waterfront (Camden, NJ)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Deal, Mexican Girl > Scarlet Begonias > I'm So Gone, Lovelight

(Acoustic) Lost Highway, Tell Me Mama, Deep Elem Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Big Mon

Playing In The Band > Cumberland Blues > Uncle John's Band > Mountains Of The Moon > Terrapin Station > I Know You Rider / Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
10/13/07 Charlottesville Pavilion (VA)
The Golden Road> Bertha, Candyman, Bird Song, Big River, Gone Wanderin', Cold Rain and Snow

Althea, The Wheel> This Wheel's On Fire, Cryptical Envelopment> Dark Star> Eyes of the World> Dark Star> Sugaree, Cosmic Charlie / Not Fade Away
10/14/07 Echo Project (Fairburn, GA)
Friend of the Devil, Pride of Cucamonga, Loose Lucy, Deep Elem Blues, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Althea, Alabama Getaway

Shakedown Street, Casey Jones, Midnight Rider, New Speedway Boogie> Loan Me a Dime> Fire on the Mountain> China Cat Sunflower> St. Stephen> Franklin's Tower / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
10/16/07 Lyric Opera House (Baltimore)
Playing In The Band> This Wheel’s On Fire, So Hard To Find My Way, Mississippi Half-Step, Deal, Mexican Girl, Good Lovin'

Gone Wanderin'> Cumberland Blues, Jam> Eyes Of The World> Brokedown Palace, The Golden Road> Viola Lee Blues> Why Don't We Do It in the Road> Viola Lee Blues> All Along the Watch Tower> I Know You Rider / Box Of Rain
10/18/07 Shea's Performing Arts Center (Buffalo)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Big River, Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat, The Wheel> I'm So Gone, Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain

Cosmic Charlie, Althea, Cold Black Devil, Cryptical Envelopment> The Other One> Caution, Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower, Sugar Magnolia / Lovelight
10/19/07 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
Shakedown Street, Gone Wanderin', Mississippi Half-Step, The Gambler, Candyman, Loan Me a Dime, Brown-Eyed Women

China Cat Sunflower, Uncle John's Band, Down in the Valley Woe, Mountains of the Moon > Terrapin Station > St. Stephen > Stella Blue (instrumental) > Sugaree > I Know You Rider / Not Fade Away
10/20/07 Glens Falls (NY) Civic Center*
Alabama Getaway, Pride of Cucamonga, Friend of the Devil, Deep Elem Blues, Deal, Bird Song, Bertha

Shine, Viola Lee Blues > Cumberland Blues > Viola Lee Blues > Cumberland Blues > Viola Lee Blues, Plasma, Unbroken Chain, Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Dark Star > Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower / Box of Rain
*entire show with Trey Anastasio on guitar
10/21/2007 War Memorial at Oncenter (Syracuse, NY)

Ripple, Gone Wanderin', Althea, Sugaree, Spots of Time, The Wheel> Cosmic Charlie

The Golden Road> The Other One> Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad> Eyes of The World> Scarlet Begonias, New Speedway Boogie> St. Stephen> Terrapin> Fire on The Mountain / Brokedown Palace
:: Phil & Friends Tour Schedule

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Notes from the Phil Tour II

Updated Set Lists and Another Chat with Jackie Greene, Boy Wonder
With the Phil & Friends tour now on a much-deserved break before the big ten-night “New York City Marathon” at the spankin’-new Nokia Theatre in Times Square, we thought this might be a good time to look in at the second leg of the tour and point up some highlights and cool happenings.
There seems to be near-unanimity among the band members that the group has gotten stronger as the tour has gone on, tighter in some ways but also looser and more flexible in the big jams that have become more frequent; indeed, who would expect otherwise? The mood has been very upbeat out on the road and by and large the tour has garnered strong, favorable reviews from most fans. Since our last tour update there have been a few song breakouts, including versions of Dylan’s “Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat,” “All Along the Watchtower” and the triumphant return of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” (a Phil standard since the mid-’80s); the rarely played Mars Hotel nugget “Pride of Cucamonga”; a smokin’ take of Big Walter’s mid-‘50s R&B hit “Pack Fair & Square” sung by none other than former J. Geils lead singer Peter Wolf during the Boston run; the spry, fiddle-fueled instrumental showcase “Big Mon”; “Wharf Rat,” “Unbroken Chain”; and a few more Jackie Greene tunes, such as “About Cell Block #9” (from his Sweet Somewhere Bound album), “Cry Yourself Dry” (from Gone Wanderin’) and “The Gambler” (from the recent Small Tempest EP). There have been three more acoustic mini-sets since the first go-round at Red Rocks: one each at the Riviera in Chicago, the Orpheum in Boston and at the Tweeter Center in Jersey; good stuff! And fans (and synapses) are still buzzin’ from the appearance of Trey Anastasio at the Glens Falls concert: The band played two of his tunes—“Shine” and “Plasma”—and from all reports, the T-Man definitely added some psychedelic gravitas to the proceedings. Yowza!
As was the case with the first part of the tour, there are a of number audience recordings of shows from the latest leg up on archive.org which you can access by going to that address and then typing in “Phil Lesh and Friends 2007.” The big news since our last update, though, is that now there are also downloads for sale of any show on the tour at Phil’s official site, www.phillesh.net. The live soundboard recordings have been lovingly prepared for release by long-time Grateful Dead mastering engineer Jeffrey Norman, so you know they’re gonna sound fantastic. Downloads are available in two formats: MP3 and the beloved top-quality FLAC. (There’s technical information on the site about format differences, etc.)
We managed to track down Jackie Greene on the P&F bus as it sped from Atlanta to Baltimore, and peppered him with a few questions about the tour…
So how’s it goin’ out there on the East Coast?
It’s goin’ really well. The shows are going good, we’re playing a lot of different songs, and I think the band is really playing well together and getting better. I think we’re all getting a better sense of how each other play these songs. It’s still really lively and free, but I think it’s also gelling a little better.
What would you say has been the hardest aspect of it?
For me it’s been learning some of the songs that I have to sing that I wasn’t as familiar with. It’s funny, though, the same thing that’s hard about this gig is the thing that’s easy about it.
How so?
Well, Phil is fearless. He likes to try new things and it’s okay to come within inches of falling on your face every night. It takes a while to get used to that notion, but when you can embrace that idea, it makes it sort of an easy thing to go out there and try new things all the time. It’s a cool way to do music.
That’s the Grateful Dead ethos is a nutshell. What have you discovered about a song like “Dark Star”?
That’s been a lot of fun for me, because it’s one of those songs we’ve been doing that always goes into other songs and other songs go into it, so it’s a challenge figuring out how to develop it and play with it. Phil sings that one so I’ve been enjoying being back there making sound effects and stuff and playing off Larry [Campbell] and Steve [Molitz]. It’s only a two-chord song, so there’s so much room to interpret the mood of what direction it’s going. From my perspective—and I don’t know how it is for the audience—I really get off on the fact that when we get into stuff like that, we have the freedom to interpret it however we want, all of us at the same time. It can turn into something really, really beautiful, or really aggressive and nasty. It can even sound kind of sexy and smooth, which isn’t maybe what you’d expect from it. But it can go anywhere, really.
How has playing your own songs in the context of all these Grateful Dead songs affected how those songs sound to you?
That’s an interesting question. I’m not sure. A lot of the songs of mine we’ve been doing seem to be going over pretty well and seem to work well in that framework. There have been a couple of times we’ve been able to go out of one of my songs into one of the [GD] staples, which is cool. God bless Phil for figuring that out; I would never thought they would fit like that, but he heard it somehow. Of course a lot of my songs are a lot longer with this band than they would be in mine. [Laughs] We jam on them more and we change around the groove sometimes. There’s one song of mine we’ve probably done four different ways already—“Tell Me Mama, Tell Me Right.” It’s a blues tune, basically, but we’ve done it acoustic; the other night I turned around and said, “Let’s do it really slow, 6/8 time”; and we also did it sort of as a faster boogie-woogie on the piano one night. That’s a lot of fun for me.
What’s this instrumental you guys have done a few times, “Big Mon”?
Oh, that’s a really fast, barn-burning, traditional fiddle tune.
So I presume Larry brought that in?
Right, it’s Larry. He’s so great. Actually, some of the most fun I’ve been having on this tour is on the bus playing music with Larry. It turns out he knows a shit-load of old folk and bluegrass songs, and I grew up with a bluegrass influence, too, so we’ll jam for hours on the bus. That’s how that one came into the set, I guess. It’s a good chance for Larry to show off! [Laughs]
Are you the one who brought “Loan Me in Dime,” which I presume you got from Boz Scaggs’ first album?
Yeah. I thought it would be a good slow song that would give the band a chance to stretch out a little and also get really big. I thought it would be a neat moment for us. It’s pretty straight forward, but it can be really powerful.
And I see you played “Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat”—nice choice!
Phil likes to do Dylan songs and I like to sing no more than one a night—I already get enough flak for being like Dylan, so I don’t want to overdo it! [Laughs] I figured that was a pretty easy one for everybody to learn. It’s a blues, and so you can make it funky, do it as a shuffle, whatever.
Your song “Cold Black Devil” has been sounding good.
Thanks. It’s kind like of swamp jam; it’s a good excuse to jam, which is probably why Phil likes to do it.
Are you enjoying playing this big variety of places, from Red Rocks to those intimate theaters in Chicago and Boston?
Oh, for sure! Chicago was a little rough because the building was very old and it was packed—it was like 90 degrees in there. We were a having a hard time in there even though we had fans on us. The crowd must’ve been miserable.
Ah, they can take it. They’re troopers. Every one of ‘em has been through worse, I guarantee you!
You’re probably right. [Laughs]
Why have there been so few acoustic sets?
I don’t know. I’d like to do it more often. Probably because it involves a whole ’nother level of setup for the crew and we haven’t always had the luxury of a lot of time in some cities. I like ‘em a lot. The Red Rocks acoustic set was definitely one of the highlights of the whole tour for me, because I really got the sense that it meant something special; it felt “important” maybe. It’s such a nice way to present some of those songs. I really love a lot of those tunes.
Have you had much interaction with fans?
A little bit. But we’re on a pretty tight schedule here. We’ve been leaving after every show and getting on the bus. But what interactions I’ve had, everyone has been really nice and warm. They seem to be digging it. I know I am.
Phil looks and sounds like he’s digging it, too.
Phil is having a great time. He’s smiling, dancing…he’s excited. He can’t wait to get out there. We have to hold him back sometimes: Wait, Phil. It’s not time yet! He’s pretty amazing, actually.

Set Lists for the Second Leg

10/03/07 Uptown Theater (Kansas City)
Alabama Getaway, About Cell Block #9, Big River, Candyman, Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat, Mississippi 1/2 Step, Cold Black Devil, Good Lovin’

Brown Sugar, Bertha, Uncle John's Band> Scarlet Begonias> The Wheel> Sugaree> Tom Thumb’s Blues, Casey Jones, Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad / Ripple
10/05/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)
Deal, Mississippi 1/2 Step, Deep Elem Blues, Loose Lucy, When You're Walking Away, Cumberland Blues, Seven Jealous Sisters, Cold Rain & Snow

Cosmic Charlie, China Cat Sunflower> Eyes Of The World> St. Stephen> Mountains Of The Moon> Midnight Rider> I Know You Rider> The Golden Road> Sugar Magnolia / Tom Thumbs Blues
10/06/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Pride Of Cucamonga, This Wheel’s on Fire, Scarlet Begonias, Spots of Time, Althea, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, Bertha

Playing In The Band> Uncle John's Band, Birdsong, Loan Me A Dime, Dark Star> New Speedway Boogie> Fire On The Mountain> Dark Star> Viola Lee Blues / Alabama Getaway
10/07/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)
Good Lovin', Mexican Girl, Candyman, Let It Ride, Sugaree> Casey Jones

(Acoustic) Ripple, Cry Yourself Dry, Friend of the Devil, Big Mon, Brokedown Palace

The Wheel, Cryptical Envelopment> All Along the Watchtower> Other One, Help on the Way, Slipknot > Franklin's Tower, Lovelight / Not Fade Away

10/09/07 Orpheum Theater (Boston)
Jam> Friend Of the Devil, Pride of Cucamonga, Big River, I'm So Gone, Loose Lucy, When You’re Walking Away, Pack Fair and Square*, Brown Sugar*

Spots Of Time, China Cat Sunflower> Eyes Of The World> A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall> Viola Lee Blues> Althea> Viola Lee Blues> Cold Black Devil > Viola Lee Blues, Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain / Ripple

* with former J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf
10/10/07 Orpheum Theater - Boston, MA
Cosmic Charlie, So Hard To Find My Way, Deal, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, Cold Rain and Snow, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Alabama Getaway

Shakedown Street, Mississippi Half-Step> New Speedway Boogie> Loan Me A Dime> The Other One, Down in the Valley Woe, St. Stephen> The Wheel> Sugar Magnolia / Brokedown Palace
10/12/07 Tweeter Waterfront (Camden, NJ)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Deal, Mexican Girl > Scarlet Begonias > I'm So Gone, Lovelight

(Acoustic) Lost Highway, Tell Me Mama, Deep Elem Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Big Mon

Playing In The Band > Cumberland Blues > Uncle John's Band > Mountains Of The Moon > Terrapin Station > I Know You Rider / Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
10/13/07 Charlottesville Pavilion (VA)
The Golden Road> Bertha, Candyman, Bird Song, Big River, Gone Wanderin', Cold Rain and Snow

Althea, The Wheel> This Wheel's On Fire, Cryptical Envelopment> Dark Star> Eyes of the World> Dark Star> Sugaree, Cosmic Charlie / Not Fade Away
10/14/07 Echo Project (Fairburn, GA)
Friend of the Devil, Pride of Cucamonga, Loose Lucy, Deep Elem Blues, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Althea, Alabama Getaway

Shakedown Street, Casey Jones, Midnight Rider, New Speedway Boogie> Loan Me a Dime> Fire on the Mountain> China Cat Sunflower> St. Stephen> Franklin's Tower / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
10/16/07 Lyric Opera House (Baltimore)
Playing In The Band> This Wheel’s On Fire, So Hard To Find My Way, Mississippi Half-Step, Deal, Mexican Girl, Good Lovin'

Gone Wanderin'> Cumberland Blues, Jam> Eyes Of The World> Brokedown Palace, The Golden Road> Viola Lee Blues> Why Don't We Do It in the Road> Viola Lee Blues> All Along the Watch Tower> I Know You Rider / Box Of Rain
10/18/07 Shea's Performing Arts Center (Buffalo)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Big River, Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat, The Wheel> I'm So Gone, Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain

Cosmic Charlie, Althea, Cold Black Devil, Cryptical Envelopment> The Other One> Caution, Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower, Sugar Magnolia / Lovelight
10/19/07 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
Shakedown Street, Gone Wanderin', Mississippi Half-Step, The Gambler, Candyman, Loan Me a Dime, Brown-Eyed Women

China Cat Sunflower, Uncle John's Band, Down in the Valley Woe, Mountains of the Moon > Terrapin Station > St. Stephen > Stella Blue (instrumental) > Sugaree > I Know You Rider / Not Fade Away
10/20/07 Glens Falls (NY) Civic Center*
Alabama Getaway, Pride of Cucamonga, Friend of the Devil, Deep Elem Blues, Deal, Bird Song, Bertha

Shine, Viola Lee Blues > Cumberland Blues > Viola Lee Blues > Cumberland Blues > Viola Lee Blues, Plasma, Unbroken Chain, Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Dark Star > Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower / Box of Rain
*entire show with Trey Anastasio on guitar
10/21/2007 War Memorial at Oncenter (Syracuse, NY)

Ripple, Gone Wanderin', Althea, Sugaree, Spots of Time, The Wheel> Cosmic Charlie

The Golden Road> The Other One> Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad> Eyes of The World> Scarlet Begonias, New Speedway Boogie> St. Stephen> Terrapin> Fire on The Mountain / Brokedown Palace
:: Phil & Friends Tour Schedule

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tenacjed

17 years 2 months ago

Nov.10th 2007 Fine friends, fine tunes
I scratched your name in sand, but you thought it was just a place for you to stand. I caught one show in NYC. A bunch of friends, I've been trading music with for years over the internet, finally got me up from Maryland to the Big Apple. Together, on November the 10th we got together as a small family of 10 or so and WOW ! Never(well,you know what I mean, Jerry wasn't there)had such a good time ! I was so happy to meet these old friends who I'd never seen before and Phil musta known cuz he threw us one hell of a party ! I am 40 years old and it keeps up with me well. It ain't the same as it once was but what is ? it's Grate, not GD but Grate just the same!!!
DaffyDuff

17 years 2 months ago

Trey did get busted
I heard he got caught with a ton of pills-pharmy's. He had to do community service as well as treatment. That's the briefing I got. I think his options were to do a work release type program/ w/treatment.
DaffyDuff

17 years 2 months ago

Common guys, hook up and play together
I know Bobby and Phil have their thing happenin. But what the heck guys, if it's pride, well, it all come w/ "Playing in the Band". Why don't you guys get together and do a string of summer shows? You could probably sell out stadiums for crying out loud. Your both playing hot shows. What do ya say. Bob and Phil, together again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Updated Set Lists and Another Chat with Jackie Greene, Boy Wonder

With the Phil & Friends tour now on a much-deserved break before the big ten-night “New York City Marathon” at the spankin’-new Nokia Theatre in Times Square, we thought this might be a good time to look in at the second leg of the tour and point up some highlights and cool happenings.

There seems to be near-unanimity among the band members that the group has gotten stronger as the tour has gone on, tighter in some ways but also looser and more flexible in the big jams that have become more frequent; indeed, who would expect otherwise? The mood has been very upbeat out on the road and by and large the tour has garnered strong, favorable reviews from most fans. Since our last tour update there have been a few song breakouts, including versions of Dylan’s “Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat,” “All Along the Watchtower” and the triumphant return of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” (a Phil standard since the mid-’80s); the rarely played Mars Hotel nugget “Pride of Cucamonga”; a smokin’ take of Big Walter’s mid-‘50s R&B hit “Pack Fair & Square” sung by none other than former J. Geils lead singer Peter Wolf during the Boston run; the spry, fiddle-fueled instrumental showcase “Big Mon”; “Wharf Rat,” “Unbroken Chain”; and a few more Jackie Greene tunes, such as “About Cell Block #9” (from his Sweet Somewhere Bound album), “Cry Yourself Dry” (from Gone Wanderin’) and “The Gambler” (from the recent Small Tempest EP). There have been three more acoustic mini-sets since the first go-round at Red Rocks: one each at the Riviera in Chicago, the Orpheum in Boston and at the Tweeter Center in Jersey; good stuff! And fans (and synapses) are still buzzin’ from the appearance of Trey Anastasio at the Glens Falls concert: The band played two of his tunes—“Shine” and “Plasma”—and from all reports, the T-Man definitely added some psychedelic gravitas to the proceedings. Yowza!

As was the case with the first part of the tour, there are a of number audience recordings of shows from the latest leg up on archive.org which you can access by going to that address and then typing in “Phil Lesh and Friends 2007.” The big news since our last update, though, is that now there are also downloads for sale of any show on the tour at Phil’s official site, www.phillesh.net. The live soundboard recordings have been lovingly prepared for release by long-time Grateful Dead mastering engineer Jeffrey Norman, so you know they’re gonna sound fantastic. Downloads are available in two formats: MP3 and the beloved top-quality FLAC. (There’s technical information on the site about format differences, etc.)

We managed to track down Jackie Greene on the P&F bus as it sped from Atlanta to Baltimore, and peppered him with a few questions about the tour…

So how’s it goin’ out there on the East Coast?

It’s goin’ really well. The shows are going good, we’re playing a lot of different songs, and I think the band is really playing well together and getting better. I think we’re all getting a better sense of how each other play these songs. It’s still really lively and free, but I think it’s also gelling a little better.

What would you say has been the hardest aspect of it?

For me it’s been learning some of the songs that I have to sing that I wasn’t as familiar with. It’s funny, though, the same thing that’s hard about this gig is the thing that’s easy about it.

How so?

Well, Phil is fearless. He likes to try new things and it’s okay to come within inches of falling on your face every night. It takes a while to get used to that notion, but when you can embrace that idea, it makes it sort of an easy thing to go out there and try new things all the time. It’s a cool way to do music.

That’s the Grateful Dead ethos is a nutshell. What have you discovered about a song like “Dark Star”?

That’s been a lot of fun for me, because it’s one of those songs we’ve been doing that always goes into other songs and other songs go into it, so it’s a challenge figuring out how to develop it and play with it. Phil sings that one so I’ve been enjoying being back there making sound effects and stuff and playing off Larry [Campbell] and Steve [Molitz]. It’s only a two-chord song, so there’s so much room to interpret the mood of what direction it’s going. From my perspective—and I don’t know how it is for the audience—I really get off on the fact that when we get into stuff like that, we have the freedom to interpret it however we want, all of us at the same time. It can turn into something really, really beautiful, or really aggressive and nasty. It can even sound kind of sexy and smooth, which isn’t maybe what you’d expect from it. But it can go anywhere, really.

How has playing your own songs in the context of all these Grateful Dead songs affected how those songs sound to you?

That’s an interesting question. I’m not sure. A lot of the songs of mine we’ve been doing seem to be going over pretty well and seem to work well in that framework. There have been a couple of times we’ve been able to go out of one of my songs into one of the [GD] staples, which is cool. God bless Phil for figuring that out; I would never thought they would fit like that, but he heard it somehow. Of course a lot of my songs are a lot longer with this band than they would be in mine. [Laughs] We jam on them more and we change around the groove sometimes. There’s one song of mine we’ve probably done four different ways already—“Tell Me Mama, Tell Me Right.” It’s a blues tune, basically, but we’ve done it acoustic; the other night I turned around and said, “Let’s do it really slow, 6/8 time”; and we also did it sort of as a faster boogie-woogie on the piano one night. That’s a lot of fun for me.

What’s this instrumental you guys have done a few times, “Big Mon”?

Oh, that’s a really fast, barn-burning, traditional fiddle tune.

So I presume Larry brought that in?

Right, it’s Larry. He’s so great. Actually, some of the most fun I’ve been having on this tour is on the bus playing music with Larry. It turns out he knows a shit-load of old folk and bluegrass songs, and I grew up with a bluegrass influence, too, so we’ll jam for hours on the bus. That’s how that one came into the set, I guess. It’s a good chance for Larry to show off! [Laughs]

Are you the one who brought “Loan Me in Dime,” which I presume you got from Boz Scaggs’ first album?

Yeah. I thought it would be a good slow song that would give the band a chance to stretch out a little and also get really big. I thought it would be a neat moment for us. It’s pretty straight forward, but it can be really powerful.

And I see you played “Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat”—nice choice!

Phil likes to do Dylan songs and I like to sing no more than one a night—I already get enough flak for being like Dylan, so I don’t want to overdo it! [Laughs] I figured that was a pretty easy one for everybody to learn. It’s a blues, and so you can make it funky, do it as a shuffle, whatever.

Your song “Cold Black Devil” has been sounding good.

Thanks. It’s kind like of swamp jam; it’s a good excuse to jam, which is probably why Phil likes to do it.

Are you enjoying playing this big variety of places, from Red Rocks to those intimate theaters in Chicago and Boston?

Oh, for sure! Chicago was a little rough because the building was very old and it was packed—it was like 90 degrees in there. We were a having a hard time in there even though we had fans on us. The crowd must’ve been miserable.

Ah, they can take it. They’re troopers. Every one of ‘em has been through worse, I guarantee you!

You’re probably right. [Laughs]

Why have there been so few acoustic sets?

I don’t know. I’d like to do it more often. Probably because it involves a whole ’nother level of setup for the crew and we haven’t always had the luxury of a lot of time in some cities. I like ‘em a lot. The Red Rocks acoustic set was definitely one of the highlights of the whole tour for me, because I really got the sense that it meant something special; it felt “important” maybe. It’s such a nice way to present some of those songs. I really love a lot of those tunes.

Have you had much interaction with fans?

A little bit. But we’re on a pretty tight schedule here. We’ve been leaving after every show and getting on the bus. But what interactions I’ve had, everyone has been really nice and warm. They seem to be digging it. I know I am.

Phil looks and sounds like he’s digging it, too.

Phil is having a great time. He’s smiling, dancing…he’s excited. He can’t wait to get out there. We have to hold him back sometimes: Wait, Phil. It’s not time yet! He’s pretty amazing, actually.

Set Lists for the Second Leg

10/03/07 Uptown Theater (Kansas City)

Alabama Getaway, About Cell Block #9, Big River, Candyman, Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat, Mississippi 1/2 Step, Cold Black Devil, Good Lovin’

Brown Sugar, Bertha, Uncle John's Band> Scarlet Begonias> The Wheel> Sugaree> Tom Thumb’s Blues, Casey Jones, Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad / Ripple

10/05/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)

Deal, Mississippi 1/2 Step, Deep Elem Blues, Loose Lucy, When You're Walking Away, Cumberland Blues, Seven Jealous Sisters, Cold Rain & Snow

Cosmic Charlie, China Cat Sunflower> Eyes Of The World> St. Stephen> Mountains Of The Moon> Midnight Rider> I Know You Rider> The Golden Road> Sugar Magnolia / Tom Thumbs Blues

10/06/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Pride Of Cucamonga, This Wheel’s on Fire, Scarlet Begonias, Spots of Time, Althea, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, Bertha

Playing In The Band> Uncle John's Band, Birdsong, Loan Me A Dime, Dark Star> New Speedway Boogie> Fire On The Mountain> Dark Star> Viola Lee Blues / Alabama Getaway

10/07/07 Riviera Theater (Chicago)

Good Lovin', Mexican Girl, Candyman, Let It Ride, Sugaree> Casey Jones

(Acoustic) Ripple, Cry Yourself Dry, Friend of the Devil, Big Mon, Brokedown Palace

The Wheel, Cryptical Envelopment> All Along the Watchtower> Other One, Help on the Way, Slipknot > Franklin's Tower, Lovelight / Not Fade Away

10/09/07 Orpheum Theater (Boston)

Jam> Friend Of the Devil, Pride of Cucamonga, Big River, I'm So Gone, Loose Lucy, When You’re Walking Away, Pack Fair and Square*, Brown Sugar*

Spots Of Time, China Cat Sunflower> Eyes Of The World> A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall> Viola Lee Blues> Althea> Viola Lee Blues> Cold Black Devil > Viola Lee Blues, Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain / Ripple

* with former J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf

10/10/07 Orpheum Theater - Boston, MA

Cosmic Charlie, So Hard To Find My Way, Deal, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, Cold Rain and Snow, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Alabama Getaway

Shakedown Street, Mississippi Half-Step> New Speedway Boogie> Loan Me A Dime> The Other One, Down in the Valley Woe, St. Stephen> The Wheel> Sugar Magnolia / Brokedown Palace

10/12/07 Tweeter Waterfront (Camden, NJ)

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Deal, Mexican Girl > Scarlet Begonias > I'm So Gone, Lovelight

(Acoustic) Lost Highway, Tell Me Mama, Deep Elem Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Big Mon

Playing In The Band > Cumberland Blues > Uncle John's Band > Mountains Of The Moon > Terrapin Station > I Know You Rider / Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower

10/13/07 Charlottesville Pavilion (VA)

The Golden Road> Bertha, Candyman, Bird Song, Big River, Gone Wanderin', Cold Rain and Snow

Althea, The Wheel> This Wheel's On Fire, Cryptical Envelopment> Dark Star> Eyes of the World> Dark Star> Sugaree, Cosmic Charlie / Not Fade Away

10/14/07 Echo Project (Fairburn, GA)

Friend of the Devil, Pride of Cucamonga, Loose Lucy, Deep Elem Blues, Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Althea, Alabama Getaway

Shakedown Street, Casey Jones, Midnight Rider, New Speedway Boogie> Loan Me a Dime> Fire on the Mountain> China Cat Sunflower> St. Stephen> Franklin's Tower / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

10/16/07 Lyric Opera House (Baltimore)

Playing In The Band> This Wheel’s On Fire, So Hard To Find My Way, Mississippi Half-Step, Deal, Mexican Girl, Good Lovin'

Gone Wanderin'> Cumberland Blues, Jam> Eyes Of The World> Brokedown Palace, The Golden Road> Viola Lee Blues> Why Don't We Do It in the Road> Viola Lee Blues> All Along the Watch Tower> I Know You Rider / Box Of Rain

10/18/07 Shea's Performing Arts Center (Buffalo)

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Big River, Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat, The Wheel> I'm So Gone, Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain

Cosmic Charlie, Althea, Cold Black Devil, Cryptical Envelopment> The Other One> Caution, Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower, Sugar Magnolia / Lovelight

10/19/07 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT

Shakedown Street, Gone Wanderin', Mississippi Half-Step, The Gambler, Candyman, Loan Me a Dime, Brown-Eyed Women

China Cat Sunflower, Uncle John's Band, Down in the Valley Woe, Mountains of the Moon > Terrapin Station > St. Stephen > Stella Blue (instrumental) > Sugaree > I Know You Rider / Not Fade Away

10/20/07 Glens Falls (NY) Civic Center*

Alabama Getaway, Pride of Cucamonga, Friend of the Devil, Deep Elem Blues, Deal, Bird Song, Bertha

Shine, Viola Lee Blues > Cumberland Blues > Viola Lee Blues > Cumberland Blues > Viola Lee Blues, Plasma, Unbroken Chain, Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Dark Star > Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower / Box of Rain

*entire show with Trey Anastasio on guitar

10/21/2007 War Memorial at Oncenter (Syracuse, NY)

Ripple, Gone Wanderin', Althea, Sugaree, Spots of Time, The Wheel> Cosmic Charlie

The Golden Road> The Other One> Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad> Eyes of The World> Scarlet Begonias, New Speedway Boogie> St. Stephen> Terrapin> Fire on The Mountain / Brokedown Palace

:: Phil & Friends Tour Schedule

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Thanks again, Blair for the great interview. You ask the questions that "we" are thinking, which is way cool, to me.My wife and I were going to wait for the guys at the bus, which we passed on our way to our car (parking was kind of weird that night), but we were beat and didn't want to scare poor Jackie. My wife felt quite certain that he needed to get home and study for an exam or get some homework completed. She's worried that this life may interfere with Jackie's high school studies. I assured her that "this" is High School. The security team didn't seem to thrilled about having anyone near-by so we went home but I really felt we should have stayed and told those guys how much that show meant to us. It was awesome! I feel alive, again. As for Trey, I'm so relieved to hear he's OK and playing with Phil again. Aside from Jerry and Larry, Trey is my most favorite guitar player, ever. I have hope of a miracle, in that sense, for the Nov. 5th show in NYC. I'll be there man!

Phew! PHIL!

Great article. Nice to have Philanthripuss's like him & his band of all around good guys touring the country. Positive vibratos!

Phil us up

Thanks for the update Blair. Will definitely get some of these shows. Phil is the Miles of the scene. Ever-changing, ever-growing. The metamorphism of sound. Strands of DNA evolving to the what. Futhur!Nice to see Trey here. I hope he stays healthy. We do not need any more rock n roll casualties. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. Wiliam Blake

loan me a dime

tj crowley great tune..i had made mention of that choice in my 1stb posting re: story/set list for this tour,,,really surprized that no one has done that yet...great tune to stretch.....way to go jackie/phil

Trey

Was Trey sick? Did not know. I would really love to catch a show, but I'm with family and pretty much given up on the travlin scene. Erie,PA has a nice cozy theater called The Warner, Please come!!!

Nice Article

Its cool to keep up with Phil's ever-changing lineups. Its always fun to read the reactions of the "uninitiated" cats who have the challenge of learning the Phil's cavernous canon of music.

Phil & Friends w/Trey

Hey all, I was lucky enough to have seen the Glens Falls show with Trey and they absolutely blew the roof off the place!!! Trey played with such intensity that it almost turned out to be Trey & Friends instead of Phil & Friends! Such a great show! Hope you all get a chance to catch Phil this tour!! Definitely worth the trip......... Jayare ~Don't lend your hand, to raise no flag, atop no ship of fools!!!~

I love you Phil

About Trey

Steve -O,Trey has had problems with drug addiction, he was busted last year for driving under the influence and was in extended treatment this year. That was what I was talking about when I said I hope Trey stays healthy. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. Wiliam Blake

Thanks

I had not heard. I hope he can battle the demon and stay healthy.

I really hope that Phil

I really hope that Phil keeps this band together as one for a long time to come!!! It would be nice to have them at the Grateful Garcia Gathering 2008 next summer! =) Wishful thinking I suppose... "Welcome all you Deadheads, Hippies, and kind folks to this Grateful place, where Garcia fans will be Gathering! www.GratefulGarciaGathering.com www.Myspace.com/GratefulGarciaGathering

PHIL IN NYC!!!

I JUSt saw Phil in NYC on MONDAY NIGHT at Nokia Theater! GREAT SHOW!! Honestly, The best Phil lineup and show I have seen in YEARS!! And I saw The Grateful Dead (W/ jerry). The intensity of the jams is so great i am going back to Nyc this weekend try and get tix for Fri, Sat and Sun!!! God what a great place to see a show too! That place is HIGH CLASS!!! just watch out for the staff, Your not allowed to SMOKE in there, I recomend just ducking down and lighting up down there, bring J's its easier amd make SURE you cufdf them and keep your eyesx peeled for the staff, One fat dude was like a Nazi about smoking, it was kinda lame that they can't just let us do our thing there.. OTHER THEN THAT - Phil was looking better then i've seen him in years and playing so MANY older great songs, What a great show!!! Peace everyone!! Thankx Phil and friends.. Without the "FRIENDS" there wouldn't be a thing, so we gotta recognize that they are the band!! Phils bass was so LOUD it loosened up my throat!!! Talk about hittin those bass notes HARD!! WOW!!!!!!! Cosmic Travelers - Gypsy Blue Tshirts, Glass, something 4 U!

All I can say is THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

I saw the entire Chicago run, or as I like to call it HELL COMES TO THE RIV TOUR!!! It was 105 degrees in that building (it was 90 outside that weekend) but Phil was AMAZING!!!! I never thought I would see a lineup as good as THE QUINTET (Warren, Jimmy and Rob) but I LOVE this lineup!!! Jackie is unreal, great voice and plays a mean axe, Larry as usual is great and Phil's singing keeps getting better and better......Molitz is a badass and Molo is GOD!!!! Please go to ARCHIVE.ORG and go to the P & F section for most of the Fall Tour (YOU CAN DOWNLOAD MP3's) including White Plains with Trey on some great AUDs....... Dead to the Core www.myspace.com/bongwizard

This band smokes...

I've really dug following the tour on archive.org (though still no Halloween and a few others yet!). I really love this band, too; definitely my favorite since the Q and I think there are things they do better than the Q. Molitz has really come into his own and is adding so much...but they're ALL good and you gotta love the song selection and cool covers...

If you haven't heard this show (Charlottesville), check it out! Smokin' "Althea," "This Wheel's on Fire," Cryptical," "Dark Star," all sorts of goodies...

http://www.archive.org/details/paf2007-10-13.akg-c480b.tetzeli.xxxxx.sb…;

Blair

- Good to have your work again. Not just the tone, which takes me back to all those great years with the GD when you kept us so valiantly as close as we ever could hope to be to the experience... but also the fact that you're applying the same tone to the PLF [ at last :-) ] There's such a need for the interviews you are doing, ideally with each band member, and you ask the questions many of us would like to see asked too :-) So if you get the chance, I for one would love to know more about the Hard Rain and whose idea that was. More pics on here of the special moments wud be great too - ie pics of Trey, Berlin, Larrys wife etc with band members, Ryan Adams birthday cake, the Phil Nudie suit and the Toast, y'know, that kind of thing :-)

Phil nudie suit?

Phil nudie suit? I didn't hear about that!

This lineup is imveryho is the best I've heard.

I've heard many a post Dead lineups and this is for sure my favorite. Jackie's youthful voice and really nice, and even firey playing has the best blend w/ Phil that Ive ever witnessed. And of course, Phil is not only on top of his game, you can tell he's having a really really good time. How's about another tour guys?

Birthday Cake

My son got an OK pic of Ryan with his birthday cake (kind of blurred because they were not allowing pics, so he turned off his flash and gave it a try) but it hasn't posted to my "Submitted Photos" yet. I'll see if I can get one up here by using a third party embed. "Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision." - Norman Mailer

Common guys, hook up and play together

I know Bobby and Phil have their thing happenin. But what the heck guys, if it's pride, well, it all come w/ "Playing in the Band". Why don't you guys get together and do a string of summer shows? You could probably sell out stadiums for crying out loud. Your both playing hot shows. What do ya say. Bob and Phil, together again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trey did get busted

I heard he got caught with a ton of pills-pharmy's. He had to do community service as well as treatment. That's the briefing I got. I think his options were to do a work release type program/ w/treatment.

Nov.10th 2007 Fine friends, fine tunes

I scratched your name in sand, but you thought it was just a place for you to stand. I caught one show in NYC. A bunch of friends, I've been trading music with for years over the internet, finally got me up from Maryland to the Big Apple. Together, on November the 10th we got together as a small family of 10 or so and WOW ! Never(well,you know what I mean, Jerry wasn't there)had such a good time ! I was so happy to meet these old friends who I'd never seen before and Phil musta known cuz he threw us one hell of a party ! I am 40 years old and it keeps up with me well. It ain't the same as it once was but what is ? it's Grate, not GD but Grate just the same!!!

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