March 14th, 2010 
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March 14th, 2010 Jam Band Not much information released from the Furthur camp as of yet, but stay tuned for more information about the upcoming Furthur Festival. Scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, May 28th – 30th, located in Mountain Aire California. We’ll update you as we know.
Furthur Featuring:
Bob Weir
Phil Lesh
Jay Lane
Jeff Chimenti
Joe Russo
John Kadlecik
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March 12th, 2010 Default Author Submitted by Patrick Ward
There is a certain warmth to concerts featuring Grateful Dead music. From cover bands to the actual Grateful Dead to the latest iteration of post-Jerry Garcia bands, Furthur, featuring Grateful Dead founders, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, the familiarity of the music, the camaraderie of the audience’s purpose, it all fits like an old sweater.
On Saturday in Broomfield CO, there was warmth beyond that anticipated metaphoric comfort. Saturday had been gorgeous. Early spring in Colorado makes blue, cloudless skies and draws you out of doors. Halfway through the Furthur show, the inaugural events at a new FirstBank Center in suburban Denver, the weather seemed an important point to consider. After a six week run on a east coast suffering through a long winter, that early spring Colorado sun was the first natural warmth the band had probably felt in over a month. And these are sun guys, raised on the West Coast in the golden, painterly bath of northern California. The concept of sunglasses and shorts must have been welcome.
And it showed. There was an alacrity throughout, as if the vitamin D of the day had fueled new energy in both the old guard approaching 45 years of playing together, and in the newer wave infusing original, respectful lines and synergy to this music. From “After Midnight” as an opener to “Samson and Delilah” as an encore, there was irony and double entendre in almost every song. But this music, even when improvised, isn’t self-propelled or created by chance, it requires leadership. That was embodied in the younger Jerry Garcia and demonstrably lacking in the older one. It seems clear that Bob Weir has taken much of that leadership outside the actual playing, but his role in the mix doesn’t really license leadership within the music. Phil Lesh’s bass lines certainly have the potential and occasional opportunity, but when it all shakes out, its the newest member of the group, lead guitarist John Kadlecik who sits in the driver’s seat of this band ostensibly named after Ken Kesey’s bus.
Kadlecik is unlike any other guitarist who has played with this group, perhaps in his playing, but absolutely in his education. First, Kadlecik most recently played his same role in Dark Star Orchestra, a sort of Grateful Dead cover band in the way the New York Philharmonic is a Mozart cover band. That band re-played (not re-created) specific Grateful Dead shows song for song. But there is one distinct difference. Unlike the Dead, DSO always knew what the next song was. The crescendos, codas and denouements that naturally exist for a listener 30 years after a Dead show, were created on the spot not pre-destrined or contrived. They may have had some vague idea of what was coming next, but the set list was as much an improvisation as the solos within each song. Kadlecik and his former band mates in DSO knew exactly where each set and concert was going and could build a deliberate path inside the music.
Kadelcik also has an encyclopedic knowledge of this music that is only matched by his current cohorts playing stage left. The other formidable players who have stood in his spot were all accomplished and certainly learned the necessary music, but they came from other traditions. Kadelcik, in his old job, needed to understand as many as five arrangements of each song, depending on what year’s show his former band had decided to replay on a given evening. That requires a fluency with the material that no lead guitarist in the Dead, The Other Ones, Phil and Friends or other iteration of Furthur can boast.
That education and his sensibility not to mimic but to honor this music, combined with a tendency to approach the concert as a collective body makes his playing as boundless as Garcia’s. He is not Garcia. Nor does he want to be. But is there another guitar player other than the late Garcia who could know the whole catalog as cold as Kadlecik? Even Garcia himself would have struggled if you asked him to pull out A “Golden Road”, a “Til the Morning Comes” and an “Alligator” in one show. But Kadlecik weaves through the show hinting here, leading there, building improvisational bridges between songs that have never been paired before. He is a consummate professional up there, and, man, he loves his job. He glances across the stage at Jeff Chimenti, the band’s equally talented keyboard player, taking musical cues and riffing off them, and in the foreground are two of the original composers of the music to which he has dedicated his career for the many years.
There were particular highlights. The Alligator into Dark Star into Pink Floyd’s Time into Dark Star into Morning Dew is worth listening to over and over again. The Morning Dew alone is as memorable to me as the Good Lovin I heard in Giant’s Stadium in September 1978 at age 15 and maybe more. But no song or string of songs was the most impressive aspect of this show. Grateful Dead shows can be relatively predictable in set list choices. If you know your history, you can hear three songs in a row and pretty much pick a show down to the season and the year, Spring ‘77, for instance. In the day at any show, Deadheads would play a parlor game of picking the next tune, and someone always won. But with this show, even after a goodly amount of time listening to most of the tour’s shows via online streaming, there was no way to predict where it would go next Someone remarked in the crowd after the pair of openers, “After Midnight” and “You Win Again,” ‘they’re gonna play all covers tonight.’ And they could have. That is as much a testament to Kadlecik’s education as it is to Weir and Lesh’s willingness to shed all convention and legacy from the music and truly try and invigorate it with new life.
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March 11th, 2010 Matthew Kupchinsky TOUR IN REVIEW:
Furthur Winter Tour 2010
The Winter Tour of 2010 by Furthur consisted of 23 shows.
A total of 154 different songs were played.
20 different cities and 20 different venues were played.
GUEST APPEARANCES:
No guest appearances were made on this tour.
SETLIST ODDITIES:
**The following 12 songs were performed on this tour by Furthur for the first time ever**:
Big Railroad Blues (Noah Lewis)
Black Peter
Black Throated Wind
Dear Prudence (The Beatles)
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Bob Dylan)
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan)
Me and My Uncle (John Phillips)
Revolution (The Beatles)
Ripple
Row Jimmy
The Race Is On (George Jones)
The Weight (Robbie Robertson)
**Only 8 of 23 shows started with a Jam, the rest were from a dead stop into the first song.**
**5 of 23 shows featured two encore songs.**
**Playing In The Band was played 4 times, but split only twice (February 13th in Fairfax, and across both nights of Radio City Music Hall: February 23rd and 24th).**
**China Cat Sunflower and I Know You Rider were each played 6 times, each time in the same show. They were split for two of those times: February 20th – China Cat Sunflower -> The Wheel -> I Know You Rider & February 14th: China Cat Sunflower -> Standing On The Moon -> I Know You Rider.**
SONG PERCENTAGES:
28 songs were played one time on this tour, or 18.18% of all the songs played.
Ashes & Glass, Beat It On Down The Line, Big Railroad Blues, Black Throated Wind, Built To Last, China Doll, Come Together, Comes A Time, Corrina, Cryptical Envelopment, Dear Prudence, Don’t Ease Me In, Get Back, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, King Bee, Me & My Uncle, Mountains Of The Moon, No More Do I, Peggy-O, Queen Jane Approximately, Row Jimmy, Ship Of Fools, Silvio, Sittin’ On Top Of The World, Strawberry Fields Forever, The Weight, Time, and Wang Dang Doodle.
48 songs were played two times on this tour, or 31.17% of all the songs played.
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, (In The) Midnight Hour, Alabama Getaway, Box Of Rain, Brokedown Palace, Candyman, Casey Jones, Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks), Cold Rain & Snow, Cosmic Charlie, Crazy Fingers, Deep Elem Blues, Doin’ That Rag, Dupree’s Diamond Blues, El Paso, Gloria, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Greatest Story Ever Told, Hard To Handle, Here Comes Sunshine, Hurricane, Just A Little Light, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Liberty, Looks Like Rain, Maggie’s Farm, Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo, Money For Gasoline, New Potato Caboose, Nobody Girl, On The Road Again, Picasso Moon, Pride Of Cucamonga, Promised Land, So Many Roads, Standing On The Moon, Stella Blue, Stuck Inside Of Mobile (With The Memphis Blues Again), Tennessee Jed, The Race Is On, They Love Each Other, Turn On Your Lovelight, Two Djinn, US Blues, West LA Fadeaway, Wharf Rat, and When I Paint My Masterpiece.
35 songs were played three times on this tour, or 22.73% of all the songs played.
Alligator, Althea, Black Peter, Brown Eyed Women, Days Between, Deal, Death Don’t Have No Mercy, Dire Wolf, Estimated Prophet, Feel Like A Stranger, Foolish Heart, Friend Of The Devil, Help On The Way, He’s Gone, I Need A Miracle, It Must Have Been The Roses, Jack Straw, Johnny B. Goode, Loose Lucy, Loser, Lost Sailor, Mama Tried, Morning Dew, New Minglewood Blues, New Speedway Boogie, One More Saturday Night, Peaceful Valley, Ramble On Rose, Revolution, Saint Of Circumstance, Saint Stephen, Samson & Delilah, Slipknot!, The Eleven, and Till The Morning Comes.
29 songs were played four times on this tour, or 18.83% of all the songs played.
After Midnight, And We Bid You Goodnight, Bertha, Bird Song, Born Cross Eyed, Cassidy, Cumberland Blues, Dark Star, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Eyes Of The World, Franklin’s Tower, Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad, Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion, Good Lovin’, Hell In A Bucket
King Solomon’s Marbles, Lady With A Fan, Mason’s Children, Next Time You See Me, Not Fade Away, Passenger, Playin’ In The Band, Ripple, Sugar Magnolia, Terrapin Station, The Music Never Stopped, Throwing Stones, Truckin’, and Uncle John’s Band.
10 songs were played five times on this tour, or 6.49% of all the songs played.
Fire On The Mountain, Let It Grow, Magnolia Mountain, Reuben & Cerise, Sugaree, The Other One, The Wheel, Touch of Grey, Unbroken Chain, and Viola Lee Blues.
4 songs were played six times on this tour, or 2.60% of all the songs played.
China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, Scarlet Begonias, and Shakedown Street.
OPENERS, CLOSERS, and ENCORES:
Most common 1st set opener: Playin’ In The Band (3 times).
Others: Feel Like A Stranger (2 times), Here Comes Sunshine (2), (In The) Midnight Hour (1), After Midnight (1), Alabama Getaway (1), Born Cross Eyed (1), Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion (1), Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (1), Not Fade Away (1), One More Saturday Night (1), Passenger (1), Picasso Moon (1), Promised Land (1), Shakedown Street (1), The Music Never Stopped (1), The Other One (1), Truckin’ (1), and Viola Lee Blues (1).
Most common 1st set closer: Sugaree (3 times).
Others: Casey Jones (2 times), Cosmic Charlie (2), Passenger (2), (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (1), Deal (1), Don’t Ease Me In (1), Franklin’s Tower (1), Good Lovin’ (1), I Know You Rider (1), Man Smart (Woman Smarter) (1), New Speedway Boogie (1), Next Time You See Me (1), Samson & Delilah (1), Terrapin Station (1), Touch Of Grey (1), Turn On Your Lovelight (1), and Two Djinn (1).
Most common 2nd set opener: Scarlet Begonias (4 times).
Others: Lost Sailor (3 times), Bertha (2), Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion (2), Uncle John’s Band (2), After Midnight (1), Cassidy (1), China Cat Sunflower (1), Feel Like A Stranger (1), Hard To Handle (1), Help On The Way (1), The Music Never Stopped (1), Throwing Stones (1), Truckin’ (1), and Viola Lee Blues (1).
Most common 2nd set closer: And We Bid You Goodnight, I Know You Rider, and Sugar Magnolia (3 times each).
Others: Franklin’s Tower (2 times), Not Fade Away (2), Playin’ In The Band reprise (2), Throwing Stones (2), Cold Rain & Snow (1), Fire On The Mountain (1), Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad (1), Hell In A Bucket (1), One More Saturday Night (1), and Touch Of Grey (1).
Most common encore: Johnny B. Goode and Ripple (3 times each).
Others: Box Of Rain (2 times), Brokedown Palace (2), Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (2), Samson & Delilah (2), Touch Of Grey (2), US Blues (2), (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (1), And We Bid You Goodnight (1), Gloria (1), Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1), Not Fade Away (1), One More Saturday Night (1), Revolution (1), Sugar Magnolia (1), The Weight (1), and Uncle John’s Band (1).
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February 26th, 2010 Jam Band Bob Weir was interviewed by CNBC regarding the Furthur Summer Tour ticket prices. Check out the video on CNBC:
www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1424781112&play=1
February 26th, 2010 Jam Band Furthur announced the dates for their Summer tour today. Performing concerts mostly in the Northeast, it appears that there will be a 2nd leg of the tour announced at a future time. At least those in other parts of the country would hope.
Furthur 2010 Summer Concert Tour Dates
Fri, 6.25 Highland Bowl Amphitheater Rochester, NY
Sat, 6.26 MCU Park Brooklyn, NY
Sun, 6.27 MCU Park Brooklyn, NY
Tue, 6.29 Penn’s Peak Jim Thorpe, PA
Wed, 6.30 LeLacheur Park Lowell, MA
Sat, 7.03 Gelston Castle Estate Herkimer, NY
Sun, 7.04 Nateva Music & Arts Festival Oxford, ME
Mon, 7.05 The Green @ Shelburne Museum Shelburne, VT
Thu, 7.08 ArtPark Buffalo, NY
Fri, 7.09 Allgood Music Festival Masontown, WV
Sat, 7.10 Mann Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA
Tags: Bob Weir, Furthur, Furthur 02/24/10 Setlist, Furthur Concert, Furthur Concert Dates, Furthur New York Setlist, Furthur NY Setlist, Furthur Radio City Setlist, Furthur Setlist, Furthur Summer TOur, Furthur Tour, Grateful Dead Setlist, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti, Joe Russo, John Kadlecik, Phil Lesh February 16th, 2010 Jam Band The initial artist lineup for the All Good Music Festival is out. 4 days of camping and music on Marvin’s Mountaintop in West Virginia scheduled for July 8th through July 11th.
So far the bands scheduled to perform are:
FURTHUR
featuring PHIL LESH & BOB WEIR
Widespread Panic
Umphrey’s McGee
Yonder Mountain String Band
Dark Star Orchestra
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
Lotus
Femi Kuti & the Positive Force
Railroad Earth
The New Deal
Rebelution
Perpetual Groove
Cornmeal
Fort Knox Five
The Macpodz
Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb 19th at 12:00 EST
We’ll keep you updated as mire bands are announced!
Tags: 2010 Music Festivals, Bluegrass Festival, Bob Weir, Cornmeal, Dark Star Orchestra, Femi Kuti, Fort Knox Five, Furthur, George Clinton, Jamband Festival, Lotus, Music Festival Guide, Outdoor Festival, Parliament Funkadelic, Perpetual Groove, Phil Lesh, Positive Force, Railroad Earth, Rebelution, The Macpodz, The New Deal, Umphreys McGee, Widespread Panic, Yonder Mountain String Band February 4th, 2010 Jam Band Wakarusa Music Festival
June 3rd – June 6th 2010
Ozark, Arkansas
Widespread Panic
STS9
Umphrey’s McGee (2 sets including a late night)
The Disco Biscuits
The Black Keys
Slightly Stoopid
John Butler Trio
Blues Traveler
Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Bassnectar (late night set)
Railroad Earth (2 sets)
The Machine performs Pink Floyd (late night set)
JJ Grey & MOFRO (2 sets)
7 Walkers featuring Papa Mali and Bill Kreutzmann
Lotus (late night set)
Rebelution
ALO
State Radio
Tea Leaf Green (2 sets including a late night)
Boombox (2 sets including a late night)
Black Joe Lewis (2 sets)
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk (2 sets)
Dub Tribe Soundsystem
Fishbone
EOTO
James Zabiela (late night set)
Mark Farina
Split Lip Rayfield (2 sets)
Todd Snider
Hayes Carll
Mother Hips
Ott
Sub Swara
Tortured Soul
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (2 sets)
Trampled by Turtles (2 sets)
Wookiefoot (late night set)
Mishka
Future Rock
Big Gigantic
Spacemen
MiMosa
Truth & Salvage Co.
Fort Knox Five (2 sets)
Pimps of Joytime (2 sets)
That One Guy (2 sets)
Ekoostik Hookah
Mountain Sprout (2 sets)
Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
Band of Heathens
Great American Taxi
Last Waltz Ensemble (2 sets)
Cash’d Out
Earl Greyhound (2 sets)
Constellations
The Dirty Heads
Bluetech (sunrise set)
Lynx & Jamie Janover
Jay Nash (2 sets)
Supervillains
Uglysuit (2 sets)
The Moondoggies
The Bridge
Backyard Tire Fire (2 sets)
Dirtfoot (2 sets)
The Heavy Pets
Spoonfed Tribe
Sunshine Jones
Passafire (2 sets)
Simplified
Kinetix
Hoots & Hellmouth (2 sets)
Truckstop Honeymoon (2 sets)
Oakhurst (2 sets)
Ben Miller Band
Resident Anti-Hero
Somasphere
Radio Hiro
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Opening bands will include the Soul Rebels Brass Band and Josh Charles.
Tickets are $15.00
February 3rd, 2010 Jam Band The String Cheese Incident have announced that they will perform a handful of concerts in the Summer of 2010. SCI will play their greatest hometown venue, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, on July 23, 24, and 25. They will then set up camp at Horning’s Hideout on July 29 through August 1. This announcement ends a three-year break from performing for String Cheese Incident; a hiatus interrupted only once – this past summer- when SCI united to headline the Rothbury Festival in 2009 .
Tickets for all concerts go on sale February 9th at 10AM MST. Tickets will be available through http://sci.baselineticketing.com/
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