Ross James & Scott Law's' Cosmic Twang at the Grate Room at Terrapin Crossroads, May 22, 2019

Terrapin Crossroads presents Cosmic Twang featuring Ross James, Alex Koford, Scott Law, Adam MacDougall, & Dave Schools
the Grate Room at Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA
8:00 PM, Wednesday, May 22, 2019

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[8:22 PM lights down, band out]

1. [8:23 PM] A Bullfrog's Pipedream (RJ)
2. [8:30 PM] It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (RJ)
3. [8:37 PM] Gettin' Bluer All the Time (SL) »
4. [8:49 PM] Roll Away (RJ)
5. [8:56 PM] Magic Man (RJ)
6. [9:03 PM] Make Up Your Mind (SL)
   [SL swap to acoustic guitar]
7. [9:11 PM] Leave the Leavin' Up to You (SL)
8. [9:18 PM] Juarez (RJ)
   [SL back to electric/ new song from Scott next]
9. [9:25 PM] Fallout Shelter (SL) »
10. [9:33 PM] Fire and Brimstone (RJ)
    [Pause for a minute or two]
11. [9:46 PM] Henry Hill (RJ) »
12. [9:53 PM] Don't Let Go (SL) »
13. [9:02 PM] Henry Hill reprise
    [10:08 PM pause]
14. [10:09 PM] Get It While You Can (SL) > [10:19 PM] spacey noodle for a minute >
15. [10:20 PM] Chinese Rocks (RJ) >
16. [10:22 PM] Cream Puff War (RJ/AK) >
17. [10:26 PM] Lawyers, Guns and Money (RJ)
    [set ends 10:30 PM]
    
    Encore
18. [10:32 PM] Texas Gales (RJ)
    [show ends 10:40 PM]

Thanks to Brian Markovitz for sharing a picture of the setlist

• Ross James: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Alex Koford: drums, lead & harmony vox;
• Scott Law: guitar, acoustic guitar, lead & harmony vox;
• Adam MacDougall: keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ;
• Dave Schools: bass, harmony vox.

Met Ting a little earlier than usual and zoomed around the North Bay to get a parking spot in the front lot (!) and then a dancing spot in the rail in the middle once the doors opened. Yahoo! The stars are lined up nicely tonight!

Showtime rolls around and the guys are pretty fired up: happy to be headlining in the Grate Room instead of playing for free in the bar? I'm not sure if that's the motivation, but the playing is certainly charged with energy. Front row isn't the best place to hear the singing, and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to identify the tunes, but Brian Markovitz made things lots easier by sharing a snapshot of the handwritten list in his FB feed. Thanks Bri! I'm not 100% sure that the titles of tunes 4 + 5 are correct – those could simply be shorthand, but at least the titles matched part of the lyrics I'd scribbled during the performance.

Phil Lesh was walking around the Grate Room before the show, and at mid show he came in and sat at side stage to nod and listen to a few tunes. Given that his rig was absent from the stage, I didn't expect to see him at all tonight, so that was a nice surprise, and a good vote of confidence from the boss for Ross!

Highlight of the show for me was the slinky rendition of Don't Let Go late in the set. Hard to go wrong with a classic like that!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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