Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead at Levi's Stadium, June 27, 2015

Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead, with Trey Anastasio
2015-06-27
Levi's Stadium
4900 Marie P. DeBartolo Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054
6:00 PM, Saturday, June 27, 2015

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[6:30 PM announcements from Rosalie]
[7:33 PM band out]

1. [7:34 PM] Truckin'
2. [7:49 PM] Uncle Johns Band
3. [8:00 PM] Alligator »
4. [8:07 PM] Cumberland Blues (no JC) »
5. [8:13 PM] Born Cross-Eyed »
6. [8:16 PM] Cream Puff War
7. [8:21 PM] Viola Lee Blues
   [set ends 8:39 PM]

[9:39 PM lights down, noodling]

1. [9:41 PM] That's It for the Other One »
2. [9:48 PM] Dark Star »
3. [10:17 PM] St Stephen »
4. [10:39 PM] William Tell Bridge »
5. [10:45 PM] the Eleven »
6. [10:51 PM] Turn on Your Lovelight
7. [10:59 PM] Drums »
8. [11:14 PM] Space
9. [11:21 PM] What's Become of the Baby? »
10. [11:29 PM] the Other One »
11. [11:41 PM] Morning Dew
    [set ends 11:52 PM]
     
    Encore
12. [11:53 PM Donor rap; 11:54 PM] Casey Jones
    [show ends 12:00 PM]

[12:37 AM Riding VTA to Mountain View]

• Trey Anastasio: guitar, vox;
• Jeff Chimenti: piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, harmony vox;
• Mickey Hart: drums, lead and harmony vox;
• Bruce Hornsby: keyboards, accordion, vox;
• Bill Kreutzmann: drums;
• Phil Lesh: bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Bob Weir: guitar, vox.

Lots of fun hanging with old pals in Mountain View prior to the show – always good to stand around and shoot the bull over food and drinks!

Riding VTA in to the stadium was relatively easy, if a bit of a long, crowded ride.

We luck out time-wise and walk up to the entry gates just as a surge is passing through. Search me, scan me, let me run to my spot! This being our first visit to the venue, we take a less than optimal route: up to the concourse, then back down to field-level before racing over to the front-center section of the non-pit GA. Hooray! 5:15 and we're in! After a few hectic minutes looking for our scouts, we locate tonight's spot, as well as throwing out blankets to grab additional space for the lolly-gaggers.

Time passes pleasantly as we chat with old comrades and make friends with our neighbors – looks like everyone's aiming for a good time tonight. The band rewards us with a loose and rambling set of old favorites – the newest tune being 1970's hit, Truckin'. And to top it off, the end-of-set rain sprinkling from the sky is accompanied by a very cool purple-heavy rainbow. Cosmic!

The second set delved deeply into the weird spaces of early Grateful Dead repertoire - huzzah, huzzah, huzzah! And for the most part, the crowd goes with it – happily dancing along with band – wiggling, twitching, writhing and spinning as broken arpeggios and suspended chords ring out into the night. Well done lads!

The gig winds up right at midnight, and then begins our transport hell … almost 40 minutes to make it onto a VTA car headed west to Mountain View, then a long, very crowded ride to the end of the line. It was quite strange to hop off the VTA after 1 in the morning and find that CalTrain was holding the last run of the night for folks who were headed north up the peninsula – good for them!! We walked back to the Dispoto's house for a bit of post-show partying, then decided around 2 AM that it was time to hit the road – which we did, running first up to Glen Park (in fairly heavy traffic on 101!), then on over to Oakland. Wow. What a day! Didn't get to bed until after 3:30 AM – and I'm supposed to do this all again tomorrow? Help!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2015 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2015 event list! ☸ On to the next event!