# Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Fillmore, December 11, 2015

[the Fillmore presents](http://thefillmore.com/event/an-evening-with-chris-robinson-brotherhood/) an Evening with the [Chris Robinson Brotherhood](http://chrisrobinsonbrotherhood.com/)  
2015-12-11  
[the Fillmore](http://www.thefillmore.com/)  
[805 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA .](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=805+Geary+Blvd,+San+Francisco,+CA+.&hl=en)  
9:00 PM, Friday, December 11, 2015

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## Set One

[9:18 PM lights down]

01. [9:20 PM] _Takin' Care of Business_
02. [9:27 PM] _Tomorrow Blues_
03. [9:35 PM] _Badlands Here We Come_
04. [9:42 PM] _Roan County Banjo_
05. [9:49 PM] _Oak Apple Day_
06. [9:58 PM] _40 Days_
07. [10:06 PM] _(Last of the Old Time) Train Robbers_
08. [10:15 PM] _Poor Elijah / Tribute to Johnson_  
[set ends 10:30 PM]

## Set Two

[11:06 PM lights down]

01. [11:07 PM] _Stranger in a Strange Land_
02. [11:12 PM] _Ain't It Hard But Fair_  
[NC swaps to the Doug Irwin "Wolf" guitar for the rest of the set]
03. [11:21 PM] _One Hundred Days of Rain_
04. [11:30 PM] _West LA Fadeaway_
05. [11:40 PM] _Shore Power_
06. [11:47 PM] _Meanwhile in the Gods..._ >>
07. [12:02 AM] _Tulsa Yesterday_
08. [12:16 AM] _Rosalee_  
[set ends 12:26 AM]  
   
**Encore**  
[Tony Leone switches to mandolin; Adam MacDougall switches to drums; Chris on acoustic guitar; Neil playing a black telecaster]
09. [12:30 AM] _The Last Place That Love Lives_
10. [12:36 AM] _You Ain't Goin Nowhere_
11. [12:40 AM] _I Am a Pilgrim_  
[show ends 12:45 AM]

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## Performers

### Chris Robinson Brotherhood

[Chris Robinson Brotherhood](http://chrisrobinsonbrotherhood.com/)

* [Neal Casal](http://www.nealcasal.com/): guitar, harmony vox;
* Mark Dutton: bass, harmony vox;
* Adam MacDougall: keyboards, drums (encore), harmony vox;
* [Chris Robinson](http://chrisrobinsonbrotherhood.com/): guitar, acoustic guitar (encore), lead vox;
* [Tony Leone](https://www.facebook.com/tony.leone.1000): mandolin (encore), drums.


## Notes

Zipped over to SF in fairly light traffic for a Friday night to find a parking spot just as soon as I began looking. Gotta love it when the night begins like that! Walked a few blocks over to Fillmore, waited about 30 sec for the entry queue, then sauntered inside to claim a spot exactly where I wanted, dead center, about 20 or 30 feet back from the stage. Unfortunately, there were at least three NBA-qualified giants standing more or less right in front of me, but hey, you can't expect *everything* to go your way *all* of the time. And happily, during the next fifteen or twenty minutes of pre-show waiting, two of those towers edged outward from the center, leaving me a pretty decent view, with only a single man-mountain occluding my sightlines to the stage. As Ting was uninclined to suffer this situation, she did her best to worm up front, eventually claiming a spot just off the rail -- all the better for her purpose, shooting pictures of the action, right?

The show kicked off with a high energy start in _Takin' Care of Business_, and continued that way with a romping take on _Tomorrow Blues_. It's good to realize that I'm starting to recognize a few CRB tunes by their opening notes -- makes it that much easier to write a setlist! The rest of the set simmered along nicely, varying in mood, energy, and vigor according to tune until they got to the set closer, _Poor Elijah_, when they really busted for broke. You gotta love it when they blast through those country-gospel blues! More! More! More!

Set break afforded a good 30-minute chance to rest, and I was happy to have a dry seat tonight despite the many drinkers around me. The giant on my left, who'd alternated between smoking fatties and taking iPhone videos opted to sit awhile too, recognizing the utility of taking a load off the old bones. He offered to share a fat-fingered doobie while we sat, but seeing as how he allowed that it was zombie weed, I declined, stating my preference for a happier, bouncy buzz instead. "Ain't no couches here to crash out on," I told him, to which he replied, "True, true," then tucked the thigh bone away. And who should decide to pass out during the middle of the second set? My set break buddy. I guess he couldn't resist the temptation to get zombified. I assume he's OK ... it caused a bit of a commotion when he crashed, but as far as I could tell, no Fillmore staff were summoned for assistance; hopefully all was well following some rest and hydration.

Opening the second set with Leon Russell's classic _Stranger in a Strange Land_ was a great choice! Following the next tune, Neall took off his regular guitar, and surprise, surprise, surprise, a roadie came out carry the Doug Irwin "Wolf" guitar formerly owned and played by our dearly departed Jerry Garcia. Nice! I was pretty psyched to hear Neal wail on it, but it seemed to me that he took a few tunes to warm up to the instrument. Not that I'm complaining, or anything, but he seemed to approach the instrument gingerly or tentatively at first. Probably just getting used to different action or some other physical aspect of playing. It still sounded like Neal anyways -- no surprise there! -- and as the set progressed, he obviously relaxed into things. Playing Garcia's axe? No big deal mon!

Anyways, _100 Days of Rain_ was plenty fun, but _West L.A. Fadeaway_ was decidedly un-funky. Clunky even. Not bad, but not nearly as much fun as I expected when I first heard the opening notes. Ah, well, you can't win 'em all. Anyways, the rest of the set was double plus good: one nearly seamless suite of fiery jamming.

Given the late ending for the set, I wasn't expecting more than a token encore, so it was another happy surprise when they regrouped to share an acoustic mini set to end the night. It was clear that something was up when Tony Leone climbed onstage carrying a mandolin. A few moments later, Adam MacDougall took a seat behind Tony's trap set, and with a nod from Chris, counted off the pace for _The Last Place That Love Lives_. Yay! Big props to the guys in the band for delivering a rocking good time tonight -- I'm sure glad we made it!


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