Author Topic: Furthur!!!!!!!!!!! (Read 285 times)

smokinbear · « **on:** March 07, 2010, 06:48:57 PM »

I know this sounds cliche, but I must say the 2 shows I just saw at the newly redone 1st Bank center in Broomfield Colorado were superb! Last night the 6th was the best post Grateful Dead Show i have ever been blessed to see. Granted I only saw THe Dead from 1989 on but Damn this feels sooooo goood!! So soory for all the excited punctuations but the magic is surely afoot again. I say this being a serious 68-74 devotee especially 3-71 10-74 era with just Billy and i have to say Russo and Lane are so tight and locked in to Phil and his style....WOW. People go see this band if your a head you won't likely be dissappointed. The band played Darkstar>Time>Darkstar,Dew and the Dew was the best one i've seen in my days seeing music(@ 23 years) with or without Jerry.(please people i'm in no way trying to be blasphemist or whatever but it was not just the lsd the music really was that good!!)What a grateful way to break in a new venue. Now i just gotta get to s.f. for Phil's 70th celebration. I'm pretty sure i wasn't the only one who was utterly devistated after The Dead shows last year that were....well to put it mildly, sucked big time. Phil to me has never looked so blissful whilest playing music in the other bands in my honest opinion and thats all this really is is my opinion. PEace and low notes to all............Bear

David Houck · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2010, 07:14:30 PM »

What's the lineup?

smokinbear · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2010, 09:55:11 PM »

Phil,Bobby,john kadlecik from dark star orchestra, jay lane from primus, joe russo , jeff chimenti,sunshine becker, and zoe ellis. The drummers are what make this beast the best so far.(imho)

lbpesq · « **Reply #3 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:28:14 AM »

Is Kadlecik still doing his Jerry imitation on vocals? I loved the lineup when I saw them on Oakland last year, but Jerry's voice coming out of Kadlecik was a little creepy, IMHO.

Bill, tgo

rusty_the_scoob · « **Reply #4 on:** March 08, 2010, 10:25:19 AM »

Kadlecik isn't doing his full Jerry imitation anymore. He still has the right range and phrasing but it's more natural now, he's singing more like himeself.

I didn't know Jay Lane was in Primus! That's cool.

benson_murrensun · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2010, 10:51:43 AM »

And here is my 2 cents -

I chose not to go to the Furthur shows in Broomfield mainly because I was grossly disappointed by the Ratdog show in Boulder recently; that, and the bad rep the venue had under it's last ownership. It's good to hear that the shows were a success.

I think the Dead show in Denver last year was GREAT, other than being in a venue with poor sound, that is (Pepsi Center). Good song choices and good playing, too.

glocke · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2010, 01:39:44 PM »

I saw a Hammerstein show, and the Bethlehem PA show. I thought they were ok, though both times I left after the start of the second set....I just dont have the stamina to stand for 3+hours on a concrete floor these days (maybe if I dropped 50 lbs I could).

Dont mean to be a wet sponge, but I dont think these these shows have the energy that some of the earlier P&F friends shows had....especially that tour that had Barry Sless and Chris Robinson....

crobbins · « **Reply #7 on:** March 08, 2010, 06:20:19 PM »

crobbins · « **Reply #8 on:** March 08, 2010, 06:52:19 PM »

edwin · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2010, 08:53:08 PM »

Is Phil playing the Modulus more these days?

I was going to go to these shows, but I'm broke and after my H1N1 bout, way behind on everything.

It's great to see Joe get this gig. He spent a while here in Boulder. In the mid 90s when he had a great band called Fat Mama with keyboardist extraordinaire Erik Deutsch. We used to play every now and then at Nederland Acid Jazz jams and what not.

I listened to the show being streamed and I am awfully sorry I didn't go.

I am a fan of Barry too, but I think this band sounds more like a band in terms of how they all gel together. From the other bits and pieces of the other shows I've heard from this lineup, it sounds like they are just getting started as Saturday seemed head and shoulders above the earlier shows.

lbpesq · « **Reply #10 on:** March 09, 2010, 07:33:45 AM »

Am I crazy, or is Bobby looking more and more like Commander Whitehead from the old Schweppes commercials these days? lol

Bill, tgo

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cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2010, 07:58:16 AM »

Are the two things mutually exclusive, Bill?
Whose headstock is that coming out of Bobby's right hand in the top picture?

Peter

smokinbear · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2010, 09:25:41 AM »

phil's backup modulus is behind bobby's hand.

smokinbear · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2010, 09:28:35 AM »

Also it was nice not hearing the Dr. Suess bass(Ritter) again. Hope he busts out Big brown for a caution jam soon!!!!!

sonicus · « **Reply #14 on:** March 09, 2010, 09:42:52 AM »

YES !