Phil Lesh on the Backyard Stage, July 25, 2017

Terrapin Crossroads presents Songs to Phil the Air featuring Phil Lesh with Jordan Feinstein, Alex Koford, and Greg Loiacono
the Backyard Stage at Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA
5:00 PM, Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2017 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2017 event list! ☸ On to the next event!

[5:10 PM band out and getting things together, noodling]

1. [5:17 PM] Bus Ride Blues (GL)
2. [5:25 PM] Big River (JF)
3. [5:32 PM] Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (AK)
   [Long pause for no good reason]
4. [5:41 PM] Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodle-oo (PL)
5. [5:52 PM] Mama Tried (GL)
6. [5:58 PM] Hard to Handle (JF)
7. [6:07 PM] Eyes of the World (AK/GL)
8. [6:19 PM] On the Road Again (GL) £
9. [6:27 PM] Franklin's Tower (JF)
10. [6:37 PM] It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (AK)
    [set ends 6:42 PM]

• Jordan Feinstein: keyboards, £ melodica, lead and harmony vox;
• Alex Koford: guitar, lead & harmony vox;
• Phil Lesh: bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Greg Loiacono: guitar, lead and harmony vox.

Today's event was pretty laid back, if slightly more crowded than last week. I was psyched to hear Greg's opener, Bus Ride Blues again – it's always nice to get something different into the setlist rotation!

Hard to Handle was rather funky, thanks to clavinet-like keyboard leads from Jordan. Jordan also contributed a very nice wah-wah guitar-like solo to Eyes of the World that somehow transmogrified into an organ solo in midflight. Good stuff!

On the Road Again was a mellow rendition of the Canned Heat boogie rather than the Memphis Jug Band's traditional tune picked up for awhile by the Grateful Dead.

Surprisingly, today's Songs to Phil the Air set omitted Ripple. Guess you can't take anything for granted these days!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2017 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2017 event list! ☸ On to the next event!