TXR presents Phil Lesh & the Terrapin Family Band, with Scott Law
2014-06-27
Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA
8:00 PM, Friday, June 27, 2014

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2014 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2014 event list! ☸ On to the next event!

[8:05 PM, Phil out to noodle, off at 8:11 PM]
[8:25 PM lights down, band out and noodling]

1. [8:26 PM] Friend of the Devil (PL)
2. [8:33 PM] ? “I don't know what for” (RJ)
3. [8:38 PM] Factory Girl (SL)
4. [8:47 PM] Unbroken Chain (PL) »
5. [9:06 PM] He's Gone (GL) »
6. [9:16 PM] Eyes of the World (SL) » 9:27 PM out jam »
7. [9:27 PM] Franklin's Tower (PL)
   [9:37 PM; full stop, pause for a bit, whew!]
8. [9:40 PM] Viola Lee Blues, v1 »
9. [9:47 PM] ? somebody please help me (AK) »
10. [9:51 PM] Viola Lee Blues, v2 »
11. [9:54 PM] ? Falling by the Way (GL) (maybe “Fallin'” or “Long Road” off Midnight North?) »
12. [10:01 PM] Viola Lee Blues, v3
    [10:05 PM; brief pause to stoke the engines]
13. [10:06 PM] Mystery Train (SL)
    [set ends 10:14 PM]
     
    Encore
14. [10:19 PM Donor rap; 10:22 PM] Help on the Way (SL) »
15. [10:25 PM] Slipknot! »
16. [10:31 PM] Tangled Up in Blue (SL)
    [show ends 10:40 PM]

• [10:50 PM over in the bar for Tea Leaf Trio]
• [11:45 PM done]

• Ross James: guitar, pedal steel guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Alex Koford: drums, harmony vox;
• Scott Law: guitar, acoustic guitar, vox;
• Grahame Lesh: acoustic guitar, guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Phil Lesh: bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Jordan Levine: drums.

• Trevor Garrod: keyboards, vox;
• Reed Mathis: bass;
• Cochrane McMillan: drums;
  - special guest -
• ? guitar player, didn't catch his name, (not Josh Clark; maybe Fred Torphy?)

Happily, tonight's show exceeded my expectations in pretty much every category – I'm a happy camper! Scott's cover of the Jagger/Richards classic, Factory Girl, early in the set was a nice treat, if not totally unexpected, seeing as he recorded it for his 2012 EP CD, Scott Law Reunion Band.

And the subsequent run of tunes was masterfully delivered, with excellent interplay between the performers. Standing next to one another, Ross and Scott were naturally positioned to swap riffs back and forth, and it was great fun to watch them as they egged each other on throughout the show. Grahame continues to step up his game, and more than once caught my attention with an ear-catching lick or an inspiring solo.

The Viola Lee Blues sandwich in the second half of the set didn't come off quite as polished, no doubt in part due to the insertion of two newer tunes, but possibly also by plan, as it seemed to me that two of the out jams were steered into noise and chaos: fun for a change, if not the sort of squealing and howling that I want to hear every night!

Mystery Train was a real hoot – and it coulda been stretched out even longer if they'd been willing to spin those clattering train wheels round the tracks again – wouldn't have bothered me in the least!

Closing the show by encoring with Help

>> _Slip_ >> _Tangled_ was also pretty cool, and even if they muffed the "eye of the needle" transition a little, the guys deserve credit for daring to tweak orthodoxy by splitting _Franklin's Tower_ off from it's typical place in that run of tunes.