Dave McMurray at Beach Park, August 14, 2021

Terrapin Crossroads presents Dave McMurray's Grateful Deadication; Michael LaMacchia 3io opens
the Backyard Stage in Beach Park at Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA
3:00 PM, Saturday, August 14, 2021

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[2:50 PM] {performers out}

1. [2:57 PM] Dupree's Diamond Blues
2. [3:02 PM] Tomorrow Never Knows
3. [3:10 PM] Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodle-oo
   {Michael introduces the band}
4. [3:18 PM] New Speedway Boogie » [3:25 PM] Crosstown Traffic » [3:30 PM] New Speedway Boogie
5. [3:33 PM] Ship of Fools (ML)
6. [3:40 PM] Theme from the Flintstones
   {thanks from ML}
7. [3:44 PM] Birdsong / Footprints ? Mashup
   [3:54 PM] {set ends}

• Jim Bove: drums;
• Edo Castro: 7-string bass;
• Danny Eisenberg: Nord Electro 5, Hammond B3 organ;
• Michael LaMacchia: guitar, vox.

[4:00 PM] {performers out, getting set to play}

1. [4:09 PM] Fire on the Mountain
2. [4:21 PM] Dark Star
3. [4:30 PM] Estimated Prophet
4. [4:40 PM] Touch of Grey
5. [4:49 PM] Sugaree
   {DM swaps to flute (Eyes intro only: back to tenor sax at 5:04 PM)}
6. [5:02 PM] Eyes of the World
7. [5:15 PM] Loser (MO)
8. [5:22 PM] Franklin's Tower
9. [5:35 PM] the Music Never Stopped
10. [5:52 PM] Crazy Fingers
    [6:00 PM] {set ends}
    
    Finale
11. [6:01 PM] the Eleven
    [6:12 PM] {show ends}

• Jeff Canady: drums;
• Wayne Gerard: guitar;
• Ibrahim Jones: electric contrabass;
• Dave McMurray: tenor saxophone, flute;
• Maurice O'Neal: Nord Electro 5, Kurzweil PC3x, Hammond B3 organ, vox.

Traffic is all messed up in the 80/580 interchange for (the usual Saturday morning/afternoon disaster), so we try zig zagging across Berkeley to save time, only to end up stuck at a railroad crossing for five minutes while a long freight train rumbles by. Sometimes you just can't win! Happily for us we end up first in line, even though we don't arrive until 10 or 15 minutes before the gate time. Guess today is going to be pretty chill, yay!

Hah. Not chill out in the sun in front of stage. While the air temperature isn't too hot (less than – doh, notes cut!!

[3:12 PM] Jordan and Don Was walk in, head backstage to say hello to David; hang out for about 40 min, then leave. Rats! No surprise guest!

More things to write about:

• bass solo during Franklin's: Chameleon (Herbie Hancock) » ? Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (nah, not quite. Something else from Parliament/Funkadelic) » something else?
• My Favorite Things jam during Music Never Stopped
• ? Spanish jam at end of Crazy Fingers

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Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2021 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2021 event list! ☸ On to the next event!