The Good Old Grateful Dead Blog

"OK, let's start with January..."

"The Dead wrapped up their first tour in five years this month, busting out a ton of material along the way. Many remarked that this tour featured some of the best Dead set lists in decades...Reading the comments from ardent fans on the band’s homepage, Dead.net, has been a lot of fun...Basically, there are two camps — those who think the band should hang it up, and those who feel the Dead are still in fine form, despite the absence of Jerry Garcia...There are two comments in particular we wanted to share with you, both from a review of the Dead’s stop in Denver. One is typical of the vitriol you can find from certain disappointed Heads. The other cracks the code behind the Dead’s set list choices, and it’s not what you might expect..."

"Gorge concert reunites community of Grateful Dead fans..."

"Seeing The Dead live was not a concert. No, it was an experience.

The venerable jam band of jam bands proved as much when they packed the Gorge Amphitheatre Saturday for the venue’s season opener. About 22,000 Deadheads danced, sang and merrily partied the day away during the marathon of a three-band bill that also included openers The Doobie Brothers and Southern rock architects The Allman Brothers Band.

Really, the tripleheader felt more like a festival than a single concert as each band came packing enough hits in their respective repertoires and the mood, as you probably could have guessed, was rather, ahem, festive if you know what I mean. The substances were free flowing (I was offered drugs 13 times, which is a record high, no pun intended, for my concertgoing career), there was enough tie dye to force an acid flashback out of a sober hippie and there were enough white dudes with dreadlocks on hand to fill a Rusted Root show, or dormitory at The Evergreen State College. Oh yeah, and there was music too and the music was fantastic..."

"...while I may have changed over the years, become a new a person and even a better person, I just have come to know that once a Headbanger, always a Headbanger."

"(Set 1)
The Music Never Stopped
Loose Lucy
Crazy Fingers
Dark Star
Dire Wolf
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Into The Mystic
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)

(Set 2)
Passenger
Hell in a Bucket
Althea
Eyes Of The World
Drums
Space
Days Between
Dark Star
One More Saturday Night

(Encore)
Box Of Rain"

"(Set 1)
Jack Straw
U.S. Blues
Mason's Children
Ship Of Fools
Friend Of The Devil
Standing On The Moon
Lady With A Fan
Terrapin Station
Standing On The Moon

(Set 2)
Estimated Prophet
New Potato Caboose
Born Cross-Eyed
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Drums
Space
Morning Dew
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider

(Encore)
Scarlet Begonias
Fire On The Mountain
Deal"

"Bob Weir & Ratdog will perform at the Greek
Theater in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday,
September 5, 2009. The age limit is 6 years
and older. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Showtime
is 7:30 PM. Reserved seats are available via
mail order for $54.00 per ticket and available
via credit card for $57.00 per ticket. Rear
reserved and bench seats are available via mail
order for $44.00 per ticket and available via
credit card for $47.00 per ticket.

The first mail/fax in dates for this performance
are Tuesday, May 12, 2009 through Friday,
May 15, 2009.

Tickets are also available for all of the
Bob Weir & Ratdog performances listed on
http://www.gdtstoo.com/GDTSTOOBobWeir&RatdogSummer2009.html

The Crew of GDTS TOO
May 12, 2009

"It's a lesson to me
The Ables and the Bakers and the Cs
The ABCs we all must face
And try to keep a little grace
It's a lesson to me
The Deltas and the East and the Freeze
The ABCs we all think of
Try to give a little love."

Robert Hunter"

"(Set 1)

Help On The Way
Slipknot!
Franklin's Tower
Good Lovin'
Cassidy
Bird Song
Uncle John's Band

(Set 2)

Unbroken Chain
That's It For The Other One
Rhythm Devils
Space
Sugaree
Gimme Shelter
Sugar Magnolia

(Encore)

Saint Stephen
The Eleven
Touch Of Grey"

"(Set 1)
Viola Lee Blues
Bertha
Viola Lee Blues
Caution
Viola Lee Blues
Black Peter
Cosmic Charlie

(Set 2)
Shakedown Street
New Speedway Boogie
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Drums >
Space
Dark Star
Wharf Rat
Dark Star
Satisfaction

(Encore)
One More Saturday Night"

"(Set 1)
Feel Like A Stranger
Casey Jones
Loser
Easy Wind
Crazy Fingers
Lost Sailor>
Saint Of Circumstance

(Set 2)
Deep Elem Blues
Me and My Uncle
Whiskey in the Jar
The Weight
Space
Ramble On Rose
King Solomon's Marbles
Space
Drums
China Doll
Cumberland Blues
Not Fade Away

(Encore)
Ripple"

"(Set 1)
Dancing In The Streets
Tennessee Jed
Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)
Mr. Charlie
They Love Each Other
Touch of Grey
Weather Report Suite

(Set 2)
Truckin'
Throwing Stones
Unbroken Chain
Drums
Space
Come Together
Hell In A Bucket
I Know You Rider

(Encore)
Brokedown Palace"

"(Set 1)
China Cat Sunflower>
Born Cross-Eyed
Built To Last
Pride Of Cucamonga
I Need A Miracle>
Wang Dang Doodle
West LA Fadeaway
Liberty
All Along The Watchtower

(Set 2)
Mexicali Blues (Acoustic)
Into The Mystic (Acoustic)
Peggy-O (Acoustic)
A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Acoustic)
Space>
Drums>
Iko Iko
Standing On The Moon>
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad

(Encore)
Imagine
Box Of Rain"

"(Set 1)
On More Saturday Night
Brown Eyed Women
Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
Althea
He's Gone>
Uncle John's Band>
Mason's Children

(Set 2)
Good Lovin'
Cumberland Blues
Cryptical Envelopment>
The Other One>
Drums>
Space>
Morning Dew
St. Stephen
Revolution
Help On The Way
Slipknot!>
Franklin's Tower

(Encore)
Samson And Delilah"

"(Set 1)
Playing In The Band>
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo>
New Speedway Boogie
Shakedown Street
Dupree's Diamond Blues
Hard To Handle
Friend Of The Devil>
Playing (Reprise)

(Set 2)
Jack Straw
Alligator>
Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)>
Drums>
Space>
Loose Lucy
Comes A Time>
Cold Rain And Snow>
Sugar Magnolia
Donor Rap

(Encore)
Box Of Rain"

"Bill Watkins may not be the CEO of Seagate Technology any longer. But he still has connections with the big disk drive maker, and he still is a major Deadhead. That puts him in a position to help with some unusual fund-raising, Silicon Valley style.

The target is the Grateful Dead Archive, a repository of historic documents and other material that surviving members of the iconic rock band have donated to the University of California at Santa Cruz. That beach community and the university campus are not far from Seagate’s headquarters in Scotts Valley, Calif. Watkins had resolved to help raise money for the archive before his surprise ouster in January..."