Well, I just have to say that last night at JPJ Arena on the beautiful UVA campus was off the freaking hook ( for the most part ). Nice smallish venue, good sound, mellow vibe - the campus police were being mostly benign.
New Speedway Boogie opener, pretty well done. Bertha next, nice and bopping - Weir and Warren trading vocals. High Time with warren singing, very sweetly played. An epic Mason's Children after that, with an okay Big Boss man following. Doing That Rag was awesome! - Warren sang it. Standing On The Moon followed - musically very nice, I personally don't care for how Bobby sings this.
Off the top of my head I don't remember if there was another first set song after that - I don't think there was. VERY long set break, about 45 minutes.
Second set was short on songs, but they were almost all monstrous jams. Playing opener, extremely well done, into an unbelievable Crazy Fingers, with just epic jams. Phil was killing this one. A really cool drums, space was actually a bit more interesting than usual, and out of that a killer St. Stephen - The Eleven St. Stephen sequence. This is where it kind of lost me me , though - Mississippi Half Step ( an "eh" rendition ) into Foolish Heart to close it out. This one was played okay enough, just a weird way to end a show, I thought.
Encore was a smoking Gloria.
New Speedway Boogie opener, pretty well done. Bertha next, nice and bopping - Weir and Warren trading vocals. High Time with warren singing, very sweetly played. An epic Mason's Children after that, with an okay Big Boss man following. Doing That Rag was awesome! - Warren sang it. Standing On The Moon followed - musically very nice, I personally don't care for how Bobby sings this.
Off the top of my head I don't remember if there was another first set song after that - I don't think there was. VERY long set break, about 45 minutes.
Second set was short on songs, but they were almost all monstrous jams. Playing opener, extremely well done, into an unbelievable Crazy Fingers, with just epic jams. Phil was killing this one. A really cool drums, space was actually a bit more interesting than usual, and out of that a killer St. Stephen - The Eleven St. Stephen sequence. This is where it kind of lost me me , though - Mississippi Half Step ( an "eh" rendition ) into Foolish Heart to close it out. This one was played okay enough, just a weird way to end a show, I thought.
Encore was a smoking Gloria.
Out of the loop? I didn't know there was a loop!