Bobby and Phil in Boston, night 1

Tuned In Noodler - getting an Excellent feed Crispy Loud and Clear

hopefully quin is capturing

Happy hump nor'easter day!

Enjoy everyone :)

Yeah, turn Phil up.... ok that's a little better...

Deep Elem

excellent choice for first repeat. 

I do believe Larry Campbell is in the house

and Suddenly Phil Got Louder............

Good evening phreaks!!! Hope everyone is doing well.

Popped in for a few tunes but would love to actually see the boys. Too broke and cheap to do Nugs. Who's got that sweet Cosmic C youtube link?

Sorry Bob on Althea 

Where The fucK is Warren Haynes for this Tune Althea ??

Eeesh. This Althea is rough

Stormin Rain..........PL

buncha teases..

as i look back i might like that Althea

iv'e heard 4 tease songs so far

I'm enjoying the shit out of the moment here- thanks for the link!

(((( FREEBIE))))

Ouch. This is really bad.

Little weak compared to Radio City.  Had a few moments tho....

Visions of AC

Lots of repeats.  And bad. ZZZZZ

Larry Campbell & Theresa Williams are meh.

Good Crazy Fingers.  I miss Jerry still.

This is beautiful...

I could use Phil turned up just a little, and I love Wally Ingram's drumming.

thank god bobby regrouped during that hour long respite 

This is awesome!

Weir loving the guests tonight!

We are too! 

Touch was just Bobby and Phil...it was horrible !!!!!!

Something happened at the end, watching them it was awful...Phil was like  ((( WTF ))) !!  Booby could ruin a wet dream, and he should of let Teresa sing more !!  It was all going good for a while till Phil let Bob get in the driver seat ((((( CRASH ))))). 

Ohhh well, I am seeing Teresa and Larry in a couple of weeks anyway...not watching anymore of these since i dodged the mayer bullet......lol !



Other than that some of the jamming wa beautiful :)

>>>>>...it was horrible !!!!!!

Thank god Larry and Theresa tour on their own. 

Indeed ...:) I will see them in Ardmore soon !  

You know what they say

"We will get by,

We will ,,,  ahhhh fuck it!"

LMAO

Brain processing what I just witnessed.  My only comment is I am certain chasing these guys all over is not a waste of time but a blessing 

LONG LIVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!

Tonight for me was very different musically than NYC. Show experiences are profoundly

subjective and are a kind of summation of the complete constellation of your own set and setting, the drugs you took,

the friends you went with and the people around you, the venue, and then what your experience of the music  created was

nd all its variant emotions and evocations, memories and associations. Its as diverse as the minds in attendance.

that being said, I wasn’t enjoying Boston so far anywhere near how I had NYC. As far as cities they are different 

beasts entirely. And it was a fearsomely cold, wet and snowy day and night outside the Wang Theatre. 

A mention must be made of how profoundly gorgeous and ornate this theatre is. I 

mean wow man, I thought the Fox in Oakland was pretty. This was like seeing a concert inside

a cross between a Sufi Temple and a bejeweled and guilded Renaissance masterpiece of marble, gold and porcelain. I spent intermission listening to a ‘16 Harry Hood and just letting my eye skip and play with childlike delight in the 

unending intricacies of the ceiling archways and crystal chandeliers. 

I wish the same glorious praise could be given to the comfort of the seats and the acoustics. Despite its regal

and abundant splendor, the fucking seats were tight man, had to be about 3 square feet per person stacked a dozen in a row. 

I was eight seats deep and profoundly cramped and uncomfortable, claustrophobic even. If we all stood at the 

same time, we’d have to fold our arms tightly into our own bodies lest we all be touching shoulders. That sucked. 

Fortunately my neighbors were mellow dudes and too stoned to move around much.

The Wang felt smaller than Radio City and it just did not have the same caliber of acoustics. RCMH felt like a perfect

sphere made of velvet and glass with no edges or corners so the sound could just tumble and roll and bound about

unbroken between the fingers of the musicians and the ears of the listeners. In NY Phil sounded as 

mightily thunderous and glorious as I’d ever heard him. It was really something to take him in like that. But tonight his

playing was largely lost in a kind of ambient mush and rumble. Bobby stood brightly and too often pushed that

edge of unpleasant metallic treble he can be known for. 

But they seemed to really struggle. If RCMH was a solid 9, tonight was close to a 4 or generously

5. It rose to touching beauty and gathering momentum in disjointed occasions, but largely fell apart

and never got off the ground. Strangely, Phil sounded and looked five years older to me than he did 

just nights before in New York. His demeanor was so subdued and elderly - all heart and soul - but 

frail seeming. In New York he was an absolute beast and more animated than I’d seen in more years

than I can remember. 

Too often tonight it seemed like Phil would let Bobby take the wheel and Weir would just get lost in

the woods. Despite Larry and Theresa’s incredible talents, the unrehearsed nature of the gig and chemistry

onstage made for many tangled knots of discordant and unrealized musical potential. 

And then, towards the end, Bobby started to shine. Phil’s bass in the Maker was gorgeous and 

soaring, and Bobby’s Black Peter struck right to the heart and was the

finest vintage Weir one can witness in 2018.

overall throughout the night, I could hear the embarrassed, politely disappointed, even aghast at

the depth of age and deterioration of the music whispered in the group mind of those in attendance.

It occurred to me strongly tonight how unbelievably far and long we have all

come together and how age and mortality guarantees that the days the remain together are

far fewer than you’d ever want to believe. Tonight our boys seemed, in the naked light 

of this cold Boston nights reality, transfigured into elder frailty by times unforgiving hand.

And in that, it was all the more sacred and precious to me as I stepped out into falling snow and rain.

Now THAT is a review.

Well done Goldy.

It was Bob Weir & Phil Lesh in Boston, Walt Whitman.

The white stuff is snow.

I think Barry got it.

The Maker is cool.

It's very odd that Bob insists on croaking thru a beat-to-death Garcia catalog when there is a entire universe of great songs he can dip into. Does he believe that people will walk away disappointed if they don't hear Black Peter, He's Gone, Tennessee Jed etc. for the millionth time? Maybe many dead heads would, I dunno....

goldy!

great review

looks like larry & teresa playin the last 3 shows w phil & bob

that was a bad show. i wasn't there but through the stream it was i'd say a two. maybe a 1 in person? fcringe worthy stuff from bobby and phil, mostly bobby tho as dude was a complete mess lol. song selection was terrible imo. 

bobby back to himself it seemed-it was like you could feel bobby was gonna fuck up right before he did. it was like he's never played crazy fingers, he's gone, althea, any of that shit, i mean wow. awful stuff. he didn't know any of the verses haha, very confusing layout imo. it's like this stripped down sound then phil wants it to be a plf show. the whole dynamic is off. it's fucking up the music and flow of the show, then you add giving bobby the keys, disaster. 

wrf happened during touch? i mean wow-first off bad call, everyone there knew bobby was gonna fuck that up, no doubt. right from the beginning, just like althea and crazy fingers. dude had no idea how to play those tunes for the most part. then bob had a little temper tantrum ha what??! rough to witness, phil was like ok......funny thing is the jam that lead up to that disaster of an ending was pretty cool. Bad stuff all around. hopefully they get their shit together for tonight, as it can only get better imo. 

and nice review indeed, goldy. 

larry is the man tho, seeing him on stage w/ phil made me nostalgic for the sextet. now that was a band.  

Goldy - Thanks again for another great review and insight.

I look forward to the next one.

I greatly enjoyed The Maker, thanks for posting!

Thanks for taking the time to write that great review Goldy

hoping you found your sugar mag, to hang with

I do miss bucky’s Reviews from yesteryears gone by

Man, you guys are harsh LOL! I watched the webcast and while not on par with RCMH I thought the band sounded good musically. Weir's blundering of the vocals notwithstandig, the instrumentation was good. A perfectly good night of entertainment for $29 on my sofa with a nice bottle of Cab.....

I told someone that I'd struggled with the first set but was giving the second set a try. I liked the energy that Larry brought, but even with that it didn't hold my interest - I wasn't there for the energy, I was there to be swept away into the musical dynamics of the duo.

I'm looking forward to tonight to be uplifting.

Thanks, Goldy, for your reviews. And Woz, might the Cab have helped your experience?

great review GSS, glad you are on the vivaboard, even if just for a spell.

i only listened to a little bit of RCMH night 2 with Trey which sounded decent but I really appreciate what Larry Campbell adds to most music he touches so am a little disappointed to hear how off the show/philbob was/were. maybe it was due to the presence of all the chowds in the crowd. Hopefully night 2 in beantown is better.

Enjoy the rest of the tour, dude.

Without a doubt Judit!

Well said Judit

Nice work Goldy.

Is this guy a zoner?

he pretty much nails the review. Funny too

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhf5cUFKTVY

And how did I forget to mention we got five or six repeats?!

loose lucy

me and my uncle 

friend of the devil

birdsong 

touch of grey

thats surprising coming from a tour with these guys. 

Masterpiece and Black Peter were Weirs best work of the night

Phil? He tried admirably to keep the ship off the reefs

Bob Weir TWANG TWANG TWANG Althea It IS LAUGHABLE  !!!

29 dollars for a Nugs  Webcast HA HA THAT IS a Rip OFF !

Just found the whole show>>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqMbO3-IsM