Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros September 2023

That was fun.  I finally saw Willie! 

Jack Straw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPFdxaliYg

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inaPXUCeuhg

What's Going On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=falt57V-M1c

Standing on the Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8WcBfhlXPY

Lovelight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DvPmaQAbQ

Fort Lauderdale NYE run about to be announced. This was sent to subscribers:

> Fort Lauderdale NYE run

Well, that's kind of odd, isn't it?

Very Odd, considering he will be playing there again for the second, third and fourth times in a year if this is true.

In doing a simple search this turned up, small world right?

https://patch.com/virginia/manassas/2023-candidate-profile-bob-weir-gainesville-supervisor

and a review of his 2/4/2023 show at the same spot:

https://jambands.com/news/2023/02/05/bobby-weir-wolf-bros-debut-they-love-each-other-in-fort-lauderdale/

Aw. The reason DNB is not doing a NYE show this yr.  

Very Odd, considering he will be playing there again for the second, third and fourth times in a year if this is true.

Not really, it's a chip to Mexico from there. Five shows at the Cap beforehand, Dec 12-19 or thereabouts.

Tonight's Vermont show was really, really fun.

Bobby Weir And Wolf Brothers

Shelburne Museum Green

Shelburne, VT

September 19, 2023

Set 1:

Truckin’, Mississippi Half Step, My Brother Essau, Mission in the Rain, Odessa, Friend of the Devil, Throwin’ Stones, Deal.

Set 2:

Bomb Away, Help on the Way>Slipknot, Franklin’s Tower, Silvio>Tequila> Silvio, The Other One, Dear Prudence, Terrapin Station Suite, Ripple.

Me on the way to the show the other night...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hu_hyorm72o

Very Odd, considering he will be playing there again for the second, third and fourth times in a year if this is true.

<<<Not really, it's a chip to Mexico from there. Five shows at the Cap beforehand, Dec 12-19 or thereabouts.>>>

To my knowledge Bob Weir and/or any of the band incarnations he's played in for 50+ years have NEVER done a NYE show outside of the Bay Area, CA.  

Odd choice to me still. Very.

thank you.

Hitting Outlaw tonight in Bridgeport.

The last time I saw Bobstar he was weeble-wobbling and falling down on the Cap stage floor. I assumed that was the last time I'd attend a concert with Bob Weir on the bill but here we are.

He's rebounded nicely from those days

To my knowledge Bob Weir and/or any of the band incarnations he's played in for 50+ years have NEVER done a NYE show outside of the Bay Area, CA.  

12/31/69. Boston Tea Party, so that has been awhile.

I'm just looking at it in the context of of the logistics of the Wolf Brothers December tour.

Although I'm a Bobby fluffer, I'm also a realist. I had pretty low expectations for last night and was very pleasantly surprised. The show was upbeat and up-tempo, and damn, that Wolf Pack can play. Setlists are subjective, and I really liked last night's. It was great to get an Esau, as well as the Odessa. Set II was stellar. The Bombs Away made me smile, and there was one fiddle jam in Franklins that was sick. The full Terrapin Cycle was a treat. Just a fun show.

again, stoked for barry. getting to hang with willie and meet and play with other outlaw types...hope it leads to better gigs. there's not a ton of pedal guys running around and hopefully after getting some exposure he can get some other cool opportunitites. 

have fun jp!

I'm listening to the show and it holds up on tape.

One thing you can say about Bobby, like it or not, is that he does something very different with a lot of the songs than just rehashing ther GD sound. I felt the same way about RatDog.

The hurrry up Shatner phrasing and dragging tempos seem to be pretty well absent the last couple years and I really enjoy the textures that this band weaves, weirs tone seems to be a lot less grating also, more in line with his GD era tones vs the harsh brittle of a few years ago. At first I thought it was the volume but he is still up in the mix but it blends a lot better nowadays.  

Superb show tonight. Willie Nelson was great as well 

Nice to see Willie play in a 4-piece. Most times that I've seen him there is a slew of people in the band.

Bobby was like watching paint dry. Love the guy but I just can't do this stuff anymore.

Yea the sparse Willie band is nice, his son was sick recently and Sister passed away so not sure he uses keys at all anymore...didn't last year either...reminds me of the sparse arrangements on alot of his greatest work. He is a master of open spaces 

it's official, sign up for presale 

Waiting for someone to post a pic of the heady serape they scored from the merch booth

Weird but true...

I saw Wolf Pack last night, 9/26 at Mershon Auditorium in Columbus, OH. GD played there on 9/30/76 and Bobby started the show by saying he vaguely remembered standing on the stage and at that time there were only a few hundred people in there, which surprises me for '76, but could be true. The acoustics were great, Come Together was strong and the horns added a bit of Eleanor Rigby in the jam, nice touch. Birdsong had a beautiful flute jam, sounds of a bird, and GDTRFB had a fun discordant jam, everyone play crazy for a few seconds. Bobby playing all those complicated chords is impressive, Barry is so tasteful and plays beautifully, and I love how Bobby's always barefoot or in berks.

Between DeadCo and Wolf Bros Bobby has played about 65 shows this year, most over 3 hours. Not too shabby for an old guy.