Ryan Adams at the Berkeley Greek Theatre, June 2, 2017

Another Planet Entertainment presents Ryan Adams, with opener, Karen Elson
William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre
2001 Gayley Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
7:30 PM, Friday, June 2, 2017

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[7:39 PM band out]

1. [7:39 PM] Wonder Blind
2. [7:43 PM] A Million Stars
3. [7:48 PM] Come Hell and High Water
4. [7:53 PM] Distant Shore
5. [7:58 PM] Call Your Name
6. [8:03 PM] Double Roses
7. [8:09 PM] Marcy's Song
8. [8:15 PM] Wolf
   [set ends 8:21 PM]

• Karen Elson: guitar (except t03), vox;
• (unidentified woman): concert grand harp (t01-02, t05-06);
• (unidentified woman): violin, harmony vox;
• (unidentified woman): guitar, harmony vox;
• (unidentified man in hat): acoustic guitar (t01-02, t05-06).

[8:51 PM announcements, dead air, 9:02 PM lights down, band out]

1. [9:02 PM] Let It Ride
2. [9:06 PM] Magnolia Mountain
3. [9:15 PM] To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
4. [9:18 PM] Two
5. [9:21 PM] Gimme Something Good
6. [9:25 PM] Dirty Rain
7. [9:30 PM] Fix It
8. [9:35 PM] Prisoner (begins RA solo on 12-string acoustic guitar; band comes in after 2 verses, and RA swaps back to electric)
9. [9:40 PM] Stay With Me
10. [9:44 PM] Shakedown on 9th Street
11. [9:49 PM] Do You Still Love Me?
12. [9:53 PM] Sweet Illusions
13. [9:58 PM] When The Stars Go Blue
    [band off; Ryan swaps to acoustic guitar and harmonica]
14. [10:03 PM] Ashes and Fire @¥
    [band back]
15. [10:08 PM] Peaceful Valley
16. [10:19 PM] Dear John
17. [10:25 PM] Doomsday
    [all off but Ryan and Ben]
18. [10:29 PM] Wonderwall
    [band back; Ryan introduces them one by one and tells stories about each one … this lasts ~5 min]
19. [10:38 PM] Everybody Knows
20. [10:42 PM] Invisible Riverside
21. [10:48 PM] Cold Roses
22. [10:54 PM] New York, New York
    [band off, Ryan swaps to acoustic guitar and harmonica]
23. [10:59 PM] Come Pick Me Up @¥
    [show ends 11:04 PM; Ryan back out to talk as the house lights go up, but we're past curfew and the mic feed has been cut, so he waves bye bye and bows as we walks back offstage]

• Ryan Adams: guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar (t08), @ acoustic guitar, ¥ harmonica, vox;
• Ben Alleman: Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, harmony vox;
• Aaron Ficca: drums;
• Charlie Stavish: bass;
• Todd Wisenbaker: guitar.

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

Very mellow scene. Full, but lot's of space in the pit tonight – more than I can ever recall, actually. Hardly anyone crashing through, all night long. Relatively well-behaved crowd. Not too many idiots! Solid show. Lot's of up-and-down pacing in the tunes. Many seemed to have new arrangements over what I remembered from the albums. Ryan didn't say a word until an hour or so into the show, and then his comment was something like, “I'm not talking tonight because everything is perfect and I don't want to f#@k it up.”

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