Kanada Kev

From left, members of The Dead rock group Warren Haynes, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh pause for a photograph after singing the national anthem before the San Francisco Giants played the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game in Denver on Thursday, May 7, 2009. The group was scheduled to play a concert later Thursday in Denver. (AP | David Zalubowski)

(Set 1) Feel Like A Stranger Casey Jones Loser Easy Wind Crazy Fingers Lost Sailor> Saint Of Circumstance (Set 2) Deep Elem Blues (acoustic) Me and My Uncle (acoustic) Whiskey in the Jar (acoustic) The Weight Space Ramble On Rose King Solomon's Marbles Space Drums China Doll Cumberland Blues Not Fade Away (Encore) Ripple Set 1 Recap Back in the Mile High City, where many great shows were played through the years. As I mentioned in the historical look back at the Grateful Dead’s visits to Denver, not only was Denver an always-good stop on the GD’s touring schedule, but so was Red Rocks, from 1978 to 1987, and by all accounts the Grateful Dead loved playing here. For some odd reason, I’ve encountered many angry people today via phone and email, and am not sure why that is, but hopefully the music will bring people to a more positive place. If you get confused (or angry…), listen to the music play. As others have noted, Phil, Bobby and Warren have had a busy day, singing the national anthem at today’s Giants-Rockies baseball game. In terms of the show, Feel Like A Stranger has always been a favourite (excuse the Canadian spelling…) opener. Bob’s voice on this tour has sounded better than it has in a while, hitting his highs when he needs to, and able to do the end-of-Bucket falsetto and all the other good things he does vocally. Casey Jones seems like a good way to follow up the jam in Stranger, followed by Loser, always fun to hear. Earlier today I heard the stellar version from 3/24/90 in Albany, really one of the finest from the Brent era. I am partial to the 1971 version of this song, but some of the later versions were real mind-blowers. With Easy Wind up next, I’ve got admit I could listen to the songs from Workingman’s Dead any night. Warren’s been doing this song justice with some appropriately growly vocals. Crazy Fingers arrives next, and thanks to Zomby’s helpful chart (thanks Zomby!), four of the first five songs are seeing their third appearance of the tour, with the exception being Loser, which is making its second tour appearance. Hey, I’m a sucker for trivia like this. They follow this with the mighty fine Weir-Barlow twofer, Lost Sailor>Saint of Circumstance. I always enjoy a first set tape that features a Deal or Don’t Ease Me In after Sailor>Saint to end a set, but this is a pretty good ending nonetheless. Set 2 Recap A nice little acoustic sequence to open the set, the fourth time on the tour they’ve done this, with a couple of more tour-firsts mixed in, specifically Deep Elem Blues and Whiskey in the Jar. Me and My Uncle in Denver is always appropriate, and loads of fun. The percussion jam and Space were a little different. Ramble On Rose has been played really well on this tour, so it’s good to see it pop up again in the rotation. King Solomon’s Marbles allows this band to really show how tight it can be, which is followed by a bit of an odd sequence, with China Doll, Cumberland Blues and Not Fade Away. One very cool thing about this band on this tour is that song placement is no longer predictable. Cumberland Blues after Space? It just never would have happened after 1974 with the Grateful Dead, just as the mid-first set Crazy Fingers was pretty much gone from the setlist after 1976. Likewise, a Ripple encore was pretty darn rare, with the 9/3/88 version being the only one I can think of by the Grateful Dead. A quick breeze through Denver, and no one’s noticed but the band’s all packed and gone, and now it’s on to L.A. for a one-night stand at the funky old Forum in Inglewood.

Good times last night. Great meeting up with Basher and Stoned Phillips preshow and hanging on the floors. Sound wasn't so hot for the first chunk of the show, but then improved. Here's the setlist: 8:17 1. Badlands (w/Max) 2. No Surrender 3. Outlaw Pete 4. She's The One!! 5. Working On A Dream 6. Seeds 7. Johnny 99 8. The Ghost of Tom Joad Collecting signs 9. Raise Your Hand 10. E Street Shuffle (sign request) 11. Prove It All Night (sign request) 12. LOUIE LOUIE (sign request) 13. Waitin' On A Sunny Day 14. The Promised Land 15. Racing In The Street 16. Kingdom of Days ( for PS) 17. Radio Nowhere 18. Lonesome Day 19. The Rising 20. Born To Run 21. Hard Times 22. 10th Avenue Freezeout 23. Land of Hope & Dreams 24. American Land 25. Rosalita (Come Out Tonite) 26. Glory Days 11:03 I really found Outlaw Pete to be a buzzkill. It simply drags on for wayyyy too long. Got treated to some real gems though. She's The One, Seeds, a killer reworked Johnny 99. Couple of sign requests provided some rarely heard classics with E Street Shuffle and Prove It All Night. What bettter way to cap it off with a run of American Land, Rosalita, and Glory Days. The Boss comes through again ... and it was nice seeing the show sans Patti Scialfa

Oh man, these shows will be amazing. Would love to attend one (especially one with the Aja set!) Hopefully it's a success and maybe they'll come to Toronto

THANKS!! I want to listen to the live Springsteen they have going, however this didn't work for me. When you enter a "@bsnow.net" email address to sign in Sirius it relplied that it was an invalid email address I'll try again in a bit.

Pic from one of the recent Dead show lot scenes. Is this good shit? or bad shit?:

Tim, we want to hear your review! http://jambands.ca/sanctuary/showtopic.php?tid/251825/post/595536/#595536

BROOOOOOOOOOOCE

Betcha he does it again btw - fuck you Bettman (and all those mucks that keep voting him in as commissioner)

Great finishes tonight. I'm glad the Pens are back in it. Who'da thought that the Canes would be up 2-1!

Pics from 2 nights ago at Nassau: http://www.amsaddler.com/bruce_springsteen_05_04_09/

There's a preshow party at Scotland Yard, where they will be blasting Springsteen, etc. It's nice and close. Check out the song selection that has been played on this tour so far!!! 001. Outlaw Pete 002. My Lucky Day 003. Night 004. Out in the Street 005. Working on a Dream 006. Johnny 99 (rolling stones version) 007. I Ain't Got No Home 008. Good Eye 009. Radio Nowhere 010. Candy's Room 011. Because the Night 012. Mary's Place 013. The Wrestler 014. This Life 015. Long Walk Home 016. Surprise, Surprise 017. Badlands 018. No Surrender 019. Hard Times 020. Mustang Sally 021. Thunder Road 022. Born to Run 023. American Land 024. Seven Nights to Rock 025. Seeds 026. The Ghost of Tom Joad (rockin') 027. Darlington County 028. Waitin' on a Sunny Day 029. The Promised Land 030. Kingdom of Days 031. Lonesome Day 032. Dancing in the Dark 033. Tenth Avenue Freeze-out 034. Land of Hope and Dreams 035. Good Rockin' Tonight 036. Growin' Up 037. Working on the Highway 038. Downbound Train 039. The Rising 040. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 041. Prove It All Night 042. Youngstown 043. Sherry Darling 044. She's the One 045. Jungleland 046. I'm a Rocker 047. Glory Days 048. I'm on Fire 049. I'm Goin' Down 050. Cadillac Ranch 051. It's Hard to be a Saint in the City 052. The Ties That Bind 053. Tougher Than the Rest 054. The E Street Shuffle 055. Racing in the Street 056. Darkness on the Edge of Town 057. Raise Your Hand 058. Spirit in the Night 059. Adam Raised a Cain 060. Proud Mary 061. Hungry Heart 062. Backstreets 063. Bad Luck 064. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide 065. I Wanna Be Sedated 066. For You 067. So Young and in Love 068. Jackson Cage 069. Wild Thing 070. Rockin' All Over the World 071. 96 Tears 072. Trapped 073. Detroit Medley 074. Fire 075. The Fever 076. Mountain of Love 077. You Can't Sit Down 078. London Calling 079. Red Headed Woman 080. Thundercrack 081. Streets of Philadelphia 082. Kitty's Back 083. Seventh Son 084. Hang on Sloopy 085. Human Touch 086. Expressway to Your Heart 087. Rendezvous 088. Roulette 089. You Really Got Me 090. Gypsy Biker

http://beta.wilcoworld.net/guthrie/ Welcome to the download page for the Wilco cover of the Woody Guthrie tune. We ask that if you'd like to download the tune, you hit the donate button and contribute a MINIMUM of two US dollars. If you can afford more, please be generous. All proceeds will go directly to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives and we enthusiastically support their good work in promoting and sustaining the legacy and music of Woody Guthrie. If you are unemployed or otherwise unable to donate now, please keep it in mind for the future when your circumstances improve. DOWNLOAD

(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 Recap of Set 1 Happy Cinco de Mayo! The craziest thing, earlier today I was listening to the Grateful Dead in Chicago on 5/12/77, and listened to that excellent Dancing In The Street that ended the first set, thinking to myself, ‘what a great song.’ And then the band opens with it tonight, very cool. I certainly didn’t call for it (I gave up on that a very, very long time ago after countless wrong calls), but it is nice when the band plays something you were hoping for. And as the next song, Tennessee Jed, another song played on 5/12/77, although back then it was played before Dancing, not after as it was tonight. And then a song that DEFINITELY wasn’t played on 5/12/77, The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion), the Grateful Dead’s non-hit single from their first album. It was one of the first tunes that got me hooked on the band. Heard back-to-back with Uncle John’s Band, I couldn’t believe a band could sound this different three years apart, but still create music that was so good but diverse. This is followed by Mister Charlie, always fun to hear, especially a touch of Pigpen is a nice tribute to great Grateful Dead frontman. Then comes another song that was also played on 5/12/77, They Love Each Other. There’s really nothing to this but coincidence, and I’m really only pointing it out because I was so jazzed listening to the Dancing In the Street from Chicago ’77 that it has me paying attention. They then follow this up with Touch of Grey, and I’ll now shut up on the 5/12/77 thing. Hey, did you know that just across town, the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team is hosting a playoff hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks? And oddly, the Blackhawks scored to make the score 3-1 (for Vancouver) just as The Dead kicked into Touch of Grey. How’s that for useless trivia? Capping it all with Weather Report Suite is a great ending to a first set, just like the old days. Set 2 Chicago, New York, Detroit, it’s all the same street… Truckin’ to open the set is always so much fun, and something the Grateful Dead didn’t do all that often in their last decade or two. I think I only saw the GD play this as a second set opener once, at that mighty fine 1989 Cal Expo run, on 8/4/89. Another classic Grateful Dead song, this one from the 1980s, features next in the show, Throwing Stones, a tune I never tire of. Next is another song from the 1970s, Unbroken Chain, in its third appearance of the tour. This was a song played at the final Grateful Dead show, right here in Chicago on 7/9/95. Whereas that version came out of Drums and Space, this version went into this sequence, which is followed by Come Together. This band does Beatles songs very well. Jumping back into the same territory as the pre-Drums Throwing Stones, up next is Hell in A Bucket from the mid 1980s. With the last song, to remind us where yesterday’s first night in Chicago began, they wrap everything up with I Know You Rider, a cool way to bookend the shows here in the windy city. A Brokedown Palace encore is the perfect way to send the tour on its way to the mile high city, Denver, for a show on Thursday. Although it seems it all just began yesterday, the tour has been rolling for more than three weeks, and there are only five shows left. Plus Rothbury.

Keep him in line, or cut him some lines? I'd like to see Emery with Bobby Clarke teeth

Tonight, Malkin wakes up and has a killer game (or not )

Yup, both are "holes" Asshole #1 Hextall Asshole #2 Emery Perfect fit, IMHO.