Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead with Trey Anastasio
2015-07-05
Soldier Field Stadium
1410 Museum Campus Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
7:00 PM, Sunday, July 5, 2015

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[7:32 PM group bow and hug]

1. [7:35 PM] China Cat Sunflower (Trey/Bruce) »
2. [7:43 PM] I Know You Rider
3. [7:50 PM] Estimated Prophet
4. [8:06 PM] Built to Last (Bruce)
5. [8:13 PM] Samson and Delilah
6. [8:21 PM] Mountains of the Moon
7. [8:35 PM] Throwin' Stones
   [set ends 8:48 PM]

[9:35 PM lights down, fireworks; 9:41 PM ready to rumble]

1. [9:41 PM] Truckin' »
2. [9:54 PM] Cassidy
3. [10:09 PM] Althea (Trey)
4. [10:17 PM] Terrapin Station »
5. [10:32 PM] Drums » [10:38 PM] Billy off for a minute or two to fetch mallets » [10:44 PM] BK off again » beam space, train horns »
6. [10:47 PM] Space »
7. [10:54 PM] Unbroken Chain
8. [11:06 PM] Days Between
9. [11:20 PM] Not Fade Away
10. [11:28 PM] drums and crowd NFA chant
    [set ends 11:29 PM]
     
    Encores
11. [11:31 PM Donor rap; 11:34 PM; BW wearing a “let Trey sing” t-shirt] Touch of Grey (Trey/Bruce/Weir)
    [First encore ends 11:41 PM; pause for a few min]
12. [11:45 PM] Attics of My Life
    [11:51 PM bows and group hug]

• Trey Anastasio: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Jeff Chimenti: Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, harmony vox;
• Mickey Hart: drums, percussion;
• Bruce Hornsby: piano, lead and harmony vox;
• Bill Kreutzmann: drums;
• Phil Lesh: bass, lead and harmony vox;
• Bob Weir: guitar, lead and harmony vox.

Up at the crack of noon and rallying for 1 pm lunch at the Spoke and Bird with the gathered Wheelies and friends. It's good to see folks again, and to trade tall tales of good times past, and share critiques and highlights of the last few shows. It's BROILING hot today, dang! But we have two tables in the tree-shaded courtyard, and every now and then a wisp of a breeze off the lake comes whispering by. Too soon it's time to run, and so we head out, taking the long route around clockwise to stop at Trader Joe's for water before continuing our circumambulation of Soldier Field to join the rest of our crew in line duty. In line kinda late today, we don't arrive until 3:47 PM. But the scene is even mellower than the past couple days, and except for momentary drama when we first squeeze in, there are no hassles at all. Just the continuous exercise of grace and patience.

5:20 PM in the doors, down to the field 7:20 PM still waiting…

Of course plenty of reviews have been posted of the event; I'll limit myself to sharing this one from Lee Ranaldo, the best that I've read to date.

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2015 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2015 event list! ☸ On to the next event!