Phil Lesh at Terrapin Crossroads, August 8, 2013

Telstar – Keeping it Weird featuring Phil Lesh
2013-08-08
Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA
8:30 PM, Thursday, August 8, 2013

[8:33 PM Phil out to mess around with his bass; off at 8:41 PM] [8:44 PM lights down, band onstage]

1. ? (multiple jam episodes) »
2. [9:06 PM] Deep Elem Blues (LC, +TW) »
3. [9:15 PM] ? (jammin') »
4. [9:28 PM] Sugaree (TW) » [9:41 PM] (noodling) »
5. [9:44 PM] the Other One (PL) »
6. [9:52 PM] Junco Partner (AO) »
7. [10:03 PM] She Belongs to Me (NC)
   [10:11 PM show ends; all off after a few words from Phil; no encore tonight]

• Marco Benevento: piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards;
• Larry Campbell: guitar, $ pedal steel guitar, vox;
• Neal Casal: guitar, vox;
• Phil Lesh: bass, + lead and harmony vox;
• Tony Leone: drums;
• Anders Osborne: guitar, slide guitar, vox;
• Teresa Williams: vox.

Tonight's set was short but sweet! It wasn't nearly as spacey and abstract as I expected, but the two big jam segments were plenty interesting, and really wandered from one theme to another without particularly sounding like established classic tunes. I was almost disappointed when they slid into Deep Elem, as i was expecting a purely instrumental, exploratory evening, but it was a fun rendition of the tune, and the nights other songs were equally refreshing. Hard to know at this point what it means when a Telstar show has tunes … I guess it's an evolving entity, just like everything else in the universe.