Terrapin Crossroads presents Lebo's 40th Birthday Party featuring Dave Brogan, Jason Crosby, Phil Lesh, Greg Loiacono and special guests TBD!
2014-10-15
the Grate Room at Terrapin Crossroads
100 Yacht Club Drive, San Rafael, CA
8:00 PM, Wednesday, October 15, 2014

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[8:11 PM lights down, band out, noodling and getting ready…]

1. [8:13 PM] I Wanna Feel It (L)
2. [8:23 PM] Tennesee Jed (GL) »
3. [8:32 PM, +SA: maracas, vox] Falling Dominoes (SA)
4. [8:39 PM] Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (PL)
5. [8:49 PM] Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1 (introduced by Lebo as “a hit from the 1850's”) ^ »
6. [8:56 PM] China Cat Sunflower (L) »
7. [9:03 PM] I Know You Rider
8. [9:10 PM] Infinite Eye (DB) » [9:19 PM] spacey segue $ »
9. [9:20 PM] Candyman (JC) $
10. [9:29 PM] Away from the Stones (GL)
11. [9:39 PM] [Happy BD Song; cake & candles; cakepops for the audience]
12. [9:42 PM] Reuben & Cerise (L) »
13. [9:50 PM] the Other One (PL) »
14. [9:58 PM, +JF: B3, hvox] Not Fade Away (Lebo dedicated this one to Larry & Denise Bressler)
    [show ends 10:08 PM after group hugs, band introduction; no encore]

• Dave Brogan: drums, vox;
• Jason Crosby: piano, keyboards, ^ 6-string violin, guitar, acoustic guitar, vox;
• Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz: acoustic guitar, $ lap steel guitar, vox;
• Phil Lesh: bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Greg Loiacono: guitar, acoustic guitar, vox;
  - with special guests -
• Steve Adams: maracas, vox (t03);
• Jordan Feinstein (t14): Hammond B-3 organ, harmony vox.

Tonight was really fun! What with the abundance of singers present, we got quite a variety of tunes on the setlist. It was interesting hearing Lesh take on all of the non-dead tunes for a change, all the more so for the novelty of hearing new material myself! Having a new mix of players to take on the core Dead repertoire was also fun. The band did a fine job with the Bakersfield-influenced material – as might be guessed from the musicians varied backgrounds playing in other contexts – and the other revisions were plenty cool too.

Surprising me, the Satie cover segued into a bouncy version of China Cat Sunflower rather than Eyes of the World (as occurred on June 13, earlier this year, which in turn rolled on into the rich harmonies of I Know You Rider. Very nice!

Somehow I was able to exert a bit of willpower and refrain from grabbing a cake-pop or three during the late-mid-set celebration break. They looked very tempting, and all reports indicate that they were quite yummy. Maybe next time!

Reuben and Cerise was a nice treat too, but I'll cop to being a bit bored with the current iteration of the Other One – with the frenzied jamming and rumbling solo bass runs almost entirely relegated to the sidelines, there's not enough meat left to the tune for me to sink my teeth into. Maybe I need to let go of the past and be happy that the band is throwing out some old bones for us to worry, I dunno. Sometimes innovative renditions of old standards work out, other times they don't.

Anyways, it was a fun time tonight, and I'm glad we got to hear it! Hopefully we'll be able to share many more birthday celebration with Levi as the future unfolds

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