Dead and Company
2015-12-30
the Forum
3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90305
7:00 PM, Wednesday, December 30, 2015

[7:43 PM lights down, band out]

1. [7:45 PM] Minglewood Blues (B)
2. [7:52 PM] Here Comes Sunshine (J) »
3. [8:04 PM] West LA Fadeaway (J)
4. [8:13 PM] Althea (J) »
5. [8:22 PM] Loser (B) »
6. [8:30 PM] Bertha (J) » [8:40 PM] (Weir issues a sudden left turn) »
7. [8:40 PM] Bird Song (B/J)
   [set ends 8:52 PM]

[9:40 PM lights down, musicians onstage]

1. [9:41 PM] Playing in the Band (B) »
2. [9:54 PM] Viola Lee Blues
3. [10:03 PM] Shakedown Street (B) »
4. [10:14 PM] China Cat Sunflower (J/B) »
5. [10:20 PM] I Know You Rider »
6. [10:28 PM] drums (Mickey to the beam right away) » [10:29 PM] loop space + big drums » [10:33 PM] add OB on Billy's kit » [10:36 PM] all 3 on back line » [10:38 PM] (-OB, BK) beam space » [10:40 PM] (add OB, JC, JM, BW) space jam » [10:42 PM] drop MH » [10:44 PM] add BK, sounds like the Last Time » [10:44 PM] add MH » jam » [10:46 PM] JM guitar swap; sounds like modal Miles Davis jam » [10:49 PM] the Other One jam »
7. [10:51 PM] the Other One (B) »
8. [10:58 PM] Wharf Rat (J/B) »
9. [11:07 PM] (Turn On Your) Lovelight (B/J)
   [set ends 11:16 PM]
    
   Encore (acoustic front line)
10. [11:18 PM] Friend of the Devil (J)
    [show ends 11:24 PM]

Dead and Company

• Oteil Burbridge: bass, acoustic bass, drums, harmony vox;
• Jeff Chimenti: piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, harmony vox;
• Mickey Hart: drums;
• Bill Kreutzmann: drums;
• John Mayer: guitar, acoustic guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Bob Weir: guitar, acoustic guitar, lead and harmony vox.

Walked 4 blocks from our hotel to Casa Gaminos for a terrific feast. Ting got the Sopa Sietes Mariscos: Half a crab, salmon chunks, octopus, mussels, clams, shrimp and who knows what else in a thin red broth. Needless to say, she slurped it all up. I ordered crab enchiladas and was happily surprised with the generous allotment of crab. More than I needed, but I felt compelled to finish it anyway, opting to ignore most of the sides and gorge on the good stuff.

With dinner over, Ting put in an Uber request, and not two minutes later we we're cruising to the venue. $5 later we're queued up to pass through a perfunctory security check and head on inside. Ting makes a poster-buying stop at the first merch booth we come across, and while waiting, I immediately run into a crowd of TXR peeps – nice to have the terrapin nation crowd out in force! Eventually we make our way inside, only to find out that we're on the opposite side of the arena from our seats. Oh well, just another little hike!

We make it to section 125 – directly to stage right, at a 3 o'clock position if looking out from the center – and settle in with our friends Paul and Lori. Big thanks to Paul for arranging things tonight! More familiar faces trickle in as the venue fills up, and by showtime, it appears that the house is pretty well packed. Not quite a sell out, given the open seats behind the stage, but respectably full indeed!

From the opening lines of Minglewood, it's apparent that Bobby is suffering voice issues…it seems like he can hardly get a single line out without rasping like Tom Waits. This is going to be interesting…. Thankfully, John picked up the slack in admirable fashion, treating us to a first set full of Garcia-Hunter classics. I was a bit surprised that Bobby decided to croak his way through Loser, but maybe that was his idea of a joke?

Bobby cuts off Bird Song on the last line. Bozo!

Armando Brown posted a review of the show for the Orange County Register; Mikael Wood posted his review for the L.A. Times.

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