Cross-posting this. Sorry if you're seeing it twice but I wanted to share the Goodness and Woo Hoo.

Saw the Waybacks with Bob Weir at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday night. They managed to craft a wonderful mix of new music, Dead classics, and covers. As usual, they played till we had our fill and could leave happy and completely exhausted.

Worth noting was the way James Nash (on guitar and mandolin) and Warren Hood (on fiddle and mandolin) sometimes filled the lead guitar space. At times, the fiddling acted as a slidy, melty surrogate in the places where Jerry might have played.

They also played several long medleys that mixed Dead, Waybacks, and traditional fiddle music in a way that shook sand out of the wall mortar with slow-building energy escalations. For example, in the middle of a long, rich Cumberland Blues, we might have heard St. Anne's reel and Blackberry blossom.

I can't remember the whole playlist. If anyone else can fill in the blanks, fix my mangled order, or pass on a link to a tape, that would be lovely.

- Petrified man (waybacks w/o Bob)
- From the pasture to the future (waybacks w/o Bob)
- Cumberland blues
- Kashmir (yes Zep, and it Was Good)
- The weight
- Big iron
- St. Stephen
- Blacksmith (a celtic ballad w/o Bob)
- A jazzy-acid instrumental that was vaguely reminiscent of the music in the cocktail lounge scene in the first Star Wars movie :-) (waybacks w/o Bob)
- Casey Jones
- Two beatles songs that I can't remember, one of which was sitar-evocative
- 19th Nervous breakdown (Stones)
- A second Stones song I can't remember (ack)
- Like a rolling stone
- Dark star, which was short but quirkily sultry with Warren's lazy, slidy-sounding fiddle
- Big river
- Broke down palace

For those going to SEVA, looks like we'll all get more of this extremely tasty pairing there as well.

peace