Phil Lesh & Friends
2013-12-31
Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA
8:30 PM, Tuesday, December 31, 2013

[8:27 PM Phil out and noodling; 8:30 PM off; 8:31 PM band out, with Emily, lights down; 8:33 PM noodling]

1. [8:34 PM] Ship of Fools (JK)
2. [8:42 PM] In the Midnight Hour (AO/ES)
3. [8:46 PM -ES; 8:48 PM] Loose Lucy (JK)
4. [9:00 PM] Peggy-O (PL)
5. [9:11 PM] Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodle-oo (JK)
6. [9:23 PM] Mason's Children (PL/JK)
7. [9:37 PM +ES] Gimme Shelter (AO/ES)
   [set ends 9:47 PM]

[10:06 PM band back, lights down, noodling space to bring the aud back in]

1. [10:11 PM] After Midnight (JK)
2. [10:19 PM] Terrapin Station: Lady w/Fan (PL) » Inspiration (PL/JK)
3. [10:33 PM] Space » [10:37 PM] Dark Star » [10:40 PM] verse 1 (PL/ JK) » jam »
4. [10:48 PM] Unbroken Chain (PL) »
5. [11:00 PM] Watchtower (AO) »
6. [11:06 PM] Rockin' in the Free World (AO)
   [set ends 11:15 PM]
    
   [head to the bar for a leak and stay to listen to American Jubilee rip through Sweet Jane]

[11:45 PM lights down, no band; 11:48 PM Phil & Jill sneak across the stage; 11:50 PM video loop of rolling waves on the ocean + symphony playing on the PA – sounds to me like Debussy's la Mer? Anders, Phil & Jill watching with us from the lip of the stage; 11:54 PM the float – a boat – appears, Emily Sunderland aboard as baby New Year, dressed in a white night gown; 11:57 PM PA cuts to Ship of Fools (the album version, which cuts after a minute or twoo back to orchestral countdown music); 11:58 PM And the float is a go! … 11:59 PM Father Time (Bill Walton) comes out on stage, float arrives, led by Robbie, dressed as a terrapin; JC as jester leads the countdown; HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! lots of kissing and hugging and general merriment while the band takes the stage and kicks off the first set of 2014.]

1. [12:02 AM] Not Fade Away
2. [12:11 AM] Playin' in the Band (JK) »
3. [12:22 AM] (Turn On Your) Lovelight (AO) »
4. [12:29 AM] Sugaree (AO) »
5. [12:42 AM] (Turn On Your) Lovelight (AO) »
6. [12:45 AM] Playin' reprise (PL/JK)
   [set ends 12:48 AM; Phil says, “see you over in the bar in a few minutes”. We eventually head,outside to wait in line again – another clusterf#@k, but all the more enjoyable for the 40 degree air of merriment – then worm our way up and in past the security gauntlet to stake out a few square feet of space in the bar.]

Phil Lesh & Friends & Special Guests in the Bar

[1:10 AM noodling JC RJ JK TL PL AO]

1. [1:12 AM] Samson & Delilah (RJ)
2. [1:19 AM -RJ] Cortez the Killer
3. [1:31 AM +BL: acoustic] the Mountain Song (BL)
4. [1:42 AM -BL] Eyes of the World (PL) »
5. [1:54 AM] Touch of Gray (JK) »
6. [2:01 AM] Ship of Fools reprise (JK)
   [2:03 AM show ends with Phil's announcement: “God Bless this Terrapin Nation”]

• Jeff Chimenti: piano, Hammond B3 organ, keyboards, harmony vox;
• John Kadlecik: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Tony Leone: drums, harmony vox;
• Phil Lesh: bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Anders Osborne: guitar, slide guitar, lead and harmony vox;
  - with special guests -
• Ross James: guitar, lead vox;
• Brian Lesh: acoustic guitar, lead vox;
• Emily Sunderland: lead and harmony vox.

American Jubilee

• Ross James: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Alex Koford: drums, lead and harmony vox;
• Brian Lesh: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Craig MacArthur: % weissenborn guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Scott Padden: bass.

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

We leave the house a little after four, hit light traffic in the maze heading on up to the 80-580 split, but then cruise the rest of the way west. Arriving around five, the scene is remarkably mellow for the next hour or two, and while my preshow butterflies gradually dissipate (floating away with the dropping temperature), the crowd energy rises: there is a definite buzz in the air, as there should be, 'cuz it's NEW YEAR'S EVE BABY! Compared to past years' bad weather, tonight's wait is a piece of cake – a little chilly, but nothing unbearable.

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