I went to Sunday's show - bass sounded nice, low end was extremely clear, had a bit of a Precision-y growl to it. Looked great of course!
Set 1 really meandered in my opinion - if you think about it, the main soloists are not really band members so it felt like they were tiptoe-ing around at best, lost at the worst. I almost wanted Bobby to conduct and tell people when to solo and when to stop, but of course that's not the Dead way. Things finally took off in the last song of the first set, Hell in a Bucket - there was a moment during Trey's solo when drummer Bill Kretuzmann was on the screen and lifted his right arm egging Trey on just as the magic was happening! That was awesome, and a great way to close the set.
Set 2 had some amazing jamming between songs, though the people around me all sat down since it wasn't a song but to me it was really really nice, interesting, aggressive improvisation, something I actually didn't expect, especially given set 1 (though of course set 2 is more the place for that kind of thing to happen).
I was up in the upper section furthest away from the stage (free tickets!) - kind of scary, there is only a little railing at the edge of the balcony - in fact, near the end someone in the back row behind me fell, knocked over the guy in front of him, who came down next to me - could have been a tragedy.
Phil came out before the encore and spoke - expressed his gratitude to the crowd - it was pretty amazing for them to play two nights in a 68,000 seat arena - he also encouraged everyone to become an organ donor, given that he is a liver transplant recipient.
All in all a nice show, glad that I went. Phil seemed to have a really good time - one of his comments when thanking all the people who came and made it possible was who knew? - maybe they'll keep playing?
