Summer's here and the time is right.......to go see a show

[judih]

laid us down some gorgeous description there, Lw-
you could throw it all into being a reporter
(spirit plants daily?)

[laughingwillow]

THanks for the kind words, sistah.

This was a friend's first dead related show. She told mrs lw last night that she thought it was a real snoozer. And without consuming an active sacrament, I could maybe see how it would have been experienced in that way. However, from my perspective, the first set was a cosmic pressure cooker and the second a nice warm steam bath that massaged synapses during a peaceful transition through the here and now from 4-D back to 3.

Chimenti really shined on keys. Sunshine Garcia on vocals was a nice addition to the mix.  

11/09/10 (Tue)  Stephens Auditorium - Ames, IA
Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger > Music Never Stops, Brown-eyed Women, When I Make My Masterpiece, Alabama Getaway, One-eyed Jacks > Liberty > Casey Jones

Set 2: Dear Mr. Fantasy, Playin' In The Band > Jam > Fire On The Mountain > Other One > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Black Peter > Feelin' All Right, Going Down The Road Feeling Bad, Bid You Goodnight, E: Touch Of Grey

Lineup: Phil Lesh - Bass; Bob Weir - Guitar & Vocals; Jeff Chimenti - Keyboards; John Kadlecik - Guitar & Vocals; Joe Russo - Drums; Jeff Pehrson - Vocals; Sunshine Becker - Vocals

[JRL]

Phil's not singing?

As to your friend and sacraments:

What did the Deadhead say when his stash ran out?

This band sucks.

[laughingwillow]

Phil did very little singing. Mrs lw was hoping to hear more from him, as was usual with his previous lineups.

I enjoy listening to dead bootlegs in "normal" consciousness, but that wouldn't be my first choice of realities for a live show.

lw

[JRL]

Was he singing much harmony? His tenor parts always were a part of there sound.

[laughingwillow]

I don't remember Phil really singing much the other night. He did sing a little on Brown Eyed Women. His bass work sounded great in that intimate setting. But Sunshine Garcia and another dude sang harmony for the most part.

I was just happy to have Phil and Bobby back on stage together. Stephens auditorium has great acoustics and only holds a few thousand people.

lw

[laughingwillow]

I know this isn't really the place for this conversation, but here goes....

Mrs lw has mentioned on a few occasions (including last Tuesday) that when I go down to "nap" during a show she often sees other members of the audience exhibiting signs of bad trips. I find that interesting, because before I started going with that cosmic flow, I also would have been visibly distressed. Don't get me wrong, I'm still scared shiteless when the music grows fangs and whispers sweet nothings in my ear about mortality. But for some reason, those lessons are much easier for me to take while wrapped in dream......

lw

[JRL]

Small hall sounds good. In his book Phil says they never could really get it in huge stadium shows.
I remember seeing them at Sacramento memorial Auditorium, 300o seats, or my first show at cal Expo building A, years before they built the amphitheater.

I also saw Garcia/Saunders twice at a club that help maybe 500, maybe more like 300.

[laughingwillow]

Looking back, I remember the band playing an interesting version of casey Jones last week. They made it up tempo and choppy. And I'm pretty sure they were singing, "Riding that train, high on propane," instead of the traditional coke reference.

lw

[JRL]

Reminds me of the time I was working for an asshat named Nugget. he wanted me to sing this song I had written about a girl I knew called Real Live Wire. First line was "She said hey baby want to have some fun to night, lets go get some cocaine, it will make you feel all right"

As I step up to the mic, Nugget says, "no drug references" and gives me a dirty look. (Holmes lived to fuck with people)

So I changed cocaine to propane.

[judih]

I know this isn't really the place for this conversation, but here goes....

Mrs lw has mentioned on a few occasions (including last Tuesday) that when I go down to "nap" during a show she often sees other members of the audience exhibiting signs of bad trips. I find that interesting, because before I started going with that cosmic flow, I also would have been visibly distressed. Don't get me wrong, I'm still scared shiteless when the music grows fangs and whispers sweet nothings in my ear about mortality. But for some reason, those lessons are much easier for me to take while wrapped in dream......

lw

How did Mrs. LW take it? Was she worried? Was she feeling she should alert somebody or offer help?

[laughingwillow]

LOL How does Mrs lw take it? She knows I'm OK. (I'm guessing folks on the prairie just think I'm sleeping through the show, for the most part.)  Some folks think I'm really fucked up. However, I've seen quite a few folks doing shows in the same manner on the west coast. You just have to walk around or step over them and their sitters.

I contend that folks having bad trips at shows can get through the experience easier by following this lead. (Some heads tried to demonstrate this to me years back a few times, but I was too hard headed at the time.)

The thing that seems to trip out the masses the most is that often shortly after visibly being deemed "too fucked up to function" I'm up and about with a smile on me face. And when the show ends, I'm the one behind the wheel driving home.

As far as I'm concerned, I've learned to control most every aspect of fear encountered during the psychedelic experience except for the SMELL of fear our bodies automatically emit when under that sort of psychological pressure.

lw

[JRL]

DSO tomorrow at the beautiful Crest Theater!!!

[laughingwillow]

Hope you have a good show, mon.

Keep us posted, eh?

lw

[JRL]

Thanks, bro. Will do.