phil and friends, thursday, NYC

Phil & Friends
Thursday, 11/7/13, Best Buy Theatre, NYC

Set I
Wild Horses LD >
Big Railroad Blues AO
Down By the River AO >
Mozambique AO >
Rolling & Tumbling LD
Loose Lucy GL
Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ LD

Set II
Turn On Your Lovelight LD >
I’m a King Bee LD >
Turn On Your Lovelight w/(I Thank You verse) >
The Wheel PL GL JC
You Got to Move AO
Hard To Handle LD
Bitch AO
St. Stephen PL GL JC >
Unbroken Chain PL
Not Fade Away PL GL JC

Donor Rap
E:Peggy-O pl

phil and friends, wednesday, nyc

Phil & Friends
Wednesday, 11/6/13
Best Buy Theatre (Where you see a cop arrest a girl who threw an empty beer can into the trash at the entrance to this stinking place; where, in order to get inside, they frisk you like you're in maximum security lock-up; where they look in your cigarette pack for weed; where cops are stationed next to the theater security people so they can arrest anyone found with weed; where they make you check your "digital camera" even though everyone in the place is using their phones to take snaps and record everything; where bouncers are shining lights in the face of anyone they suspect of smoking; where they have the sound from the show blasting away in the bathroom at ear-savaging levels. . . Jesus, you hate this place.)
NYC

Set I
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love ao >
And It Stoned Me ao >
Brown Eyed Women gl
Bird Song pl
The Weight
Hear The Hills ld>
Cortez The Killer ao

Set II
Playin’ In The Band gl
You Can’t Always Get What You Want ao >
Smokestack Lightning ld
Shake ‘em On Down ld
Scarlet Begonias gl >
Fire On The Mountain ao
Comes A Time ao
Brown Sugar ao
Franklin’s Tower pl >
Playin’ In The Band (reprise) gl
Donor Rap
E: Friend Of The Devil pl

phil and friends, tuesday, nyc

Phil & Friends
11/5/13
Best Buy Theatre
NYC

Set I
Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) ao >
Bertha gl
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere ao
Sittin’ On Top Of The World ld
Conan ld >
Live With Me ao >
New Speedway Boogie gl

Set II
Viola Lee Blues pl gl jc >
Let It Bleed ld >
Viola Lee Blues >
Midnight Rambler ao >
Viola Lee Blues
Death Don’t Have No Mercy ao
Who Do you Love ld > The
Other One pl >
China Cat Sunflower gl >
I Know you Rider pl gl jc
Midnight Hour ao

Donor Rap
E: Cold Rain & Snow pl

Phil Lesh

Luther Dickinson
Anders Osbourne
Jason Crosby
Grahame Lesh
Tony Leone

phil and friends, port chester, sunday

Phil & Friends
Sunday November 3, 2013
Capitol Theatre
Port Chester NY

Set I
Tennessee Jed
Simple Man > +
Eyes Of The World >
Things Goin’ On +
Squeaky Wheel
Let It Ride
Burning On The Inside (Anders Osborne song)

Set II
Mississippi Kid > +
Alabama Getaway
I Shot The Sheriff
Mason’s Children
Poison Whiskey +
Morning Dew >
Uncle Johns Band >
Dark Star >
Freebird> +
Dark Star

Donor Rap
E: Gimme Shelter

+ Lynrd Skynyrd songs

phil and friends, port chester, saturday

Phil & Friends, Saturday, 11/2/13 Capitol Theatre Port Chester NY

Set I
Ramblin’ Man >
Bertha
Down By The River > +
Peggy-o
Dire Wolf
The Losing End > +
Cumberland Blues

Set II
Caution (Do Not Step On Tracks) >
Shake What Yo Mama Gave You >
Sugaree
Running Dry > +
All Along The Watchtower >
Death Don’t Have No Mercy >
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
Help On The Way >
Slipknot! >
Franklin’s Tower

Donor Rap E:Cowgirl In The Sand +
E2 :I Ain’t The One

phil and friends, port chester, friday

Phil & Friends, Friday, 11/1/13 Capitol Port Chester NY

Set I
Truckin’ (20 minutes long) >
Sitting On Top Of The World
Friend Of The Devil
Ramble On Rose >
Jam >
Ship
Heart Of Gold
This Wheel’s On Fire

Set II
Shakedown Street>
New Speedway Boogie
Joliet Bound>
BirdSong
St. Stephen >3rd Stone From the Sun Jam>
Mozambique
I Shall Be Released
I Know You Rider
Lovelight

Donor Rap
E: Yazoo Street Scandal> Truckin’

phil and friends, port chester, thursday

Phil & Friends, Thursday, 10/31/13, Halloween, Capitol Port Chester NY

Set I
Big Railroad Blues *
Caledonia Mission *
Walkin’ Blues *
The Weight* #
Brown Eyed Women *
And It Stoned Me *
Deal #

Set II
Who Do You Love >
Not Fade Away
We Can Talk >
The Wheel>
Two Trains Running
Scarlet Begonias >
The Other One
Rollin’ and Tumblin’
Cortez The Killer >
Fire On The Mountain

Donor Rap
E:Long Black Veil #
Chest Fever

*Larry Campbell
# Teresa Williams

pharrell

You saw and talked to him a bit -- yesterday at Whitney Houston's (with BYH).  Completely well-spoken and polite.  Shook your hand (twice).  Acknowledged your mother.  Had two bodyguards who both weighed twice as much as he does.  Talked to him about his interivew with Daniel Lanois (P called him "Mr. Lanois").  A couple of tables called him over to have their pic taken with him.  He nicely obliged.

red rocks, 9 .20 .13

With Rebecca Adams.  Note: "New Speedway Boogie" not played; "New Potato Caboose" was played after "Truckin'."  No "Sugar Magnolia";  "Touch of Gray" instead.

red rocks, 9 .19 .13

Furthur 
Red Rocks Amphitheater 
Morrison, CO 
Thursday, 9 .19 .13 

Set 1
Jam > 
Crazy Fingers > 
I Need a Miracle > 
Here Comes Sunshine > 
Cassidy 
Just a Little Light 
Lost Sailor > 
Saint of Circumstance 

Set Two
Mountain Song > 
The Eleven > 
Mountains of the Moon > 
Lady With A Fan > 
Terrapin Station 
Days Between > 
China Cat > 
Playing > 
Uncle John’s Band > 
Donor Rap 
E: Rider

lockn' 9 .8 .13

dweeze goes back to NYC

paris -- le tour hits town

Even the gods were watching le Tour.

You cross the Seine (via the bridge that puts you in the gigantic courtyard of the Louvre) for lunch and to scope out your spot to view the final stage of le Tour.  It is hot and sunny;  photo perfect. You claim real estate at the corner of Rue de Rivoli and Ave. du General Lemmonier around 5:30, about two and a half hours before the first bike will emerge from the tunnel.  They will pass this spot ten times -- once every eight minutes or so -- as they do laps from here to the Arc De Triomphe and back, with the finish on the Champs-Elysees.  All spots on the rail are taken, and have been for a couple of hours, so you camp out next to the young Brit couple on the rail.  He is jacked because Chris Froome, a Brit is going to win le Tour; she's along for the ride.  The Norwegians have taken over the whole corner across from you, their flags displayed prominently.  Pamella swoons from the heat -- not from the sun, but rather her gendarme du jour.

The race finally comes to town.  Sometimes you recognize a jersey, sometimes it's a blur of colors and machinery. The bikes go by in a thick rush of speed, muscle, power and testosterone that slaps you senseless.  These are the 200 best cyclists on the planet, and their combined aura coming around that turn astonishes intensely.  

sunflower

paris -- day one

You and Pamella walk a mile or so to Chez Francis and have lunch as the Eiffel Tower stands tall across the Seine.  A walk up Ave. Montaigne to the Champs-Élysées to scope the finish of Le Tour.  

Barricades are already in place, as is seating for the masses and the VIPs.  The temp today is an unusually hot 86 degrees; it's supposed to be over 90 on Sunday for the final stage. 

You visit Monet's museum ( http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/documents/anglais_2013-03-04.pdf ) and are entranced/enchanted by the Water Lillies series, installed in a space (two oval rooms, apprx. 40' x 80' each) he created specifically for them.  The eight canvasses, all around 6 feet tall, range in length from 20 to 50 feet and follow the course of a day: sunrise to sunset..  Skylights allow natural light (filtered through a white scrim) to flood the room: if clouds pass across the sun, the light in the room changes, the colors in the paintings lighten and darken accordingly.  You were lucky enough to see them on a partly cloudy day and saw constant, dramatically cool changes in color and texture every few seconds/minutes.

Back at the hotel by 5.  Maker's (you) and wine (Pamella).  Awaiting Clay's call to meet up for dinner.  No call, but you do anyway: Maceo's R & B -- roomy, relaxed, sitting by open windows, eating duck, crab, gazpacho, salad, drinking red wine, talking into the night, trying to get an idea of what to do tomorrow (the Smith bookstore?  Versailles?  Hang in Paris?).   Clay leaves for the states at 5 a.m.  You walk past the Louvre on the way back to the St. Vincent.  Bonsoir et au revoir.

jarrett peacock dejohnette vid

paris

You are not in Kansas (Provence) any more. 

You get strict instructions from Clay about how to get from CDG to your hotel – and you’re told that under no circumstances can you puss out and take a taxi.  Two trains and several turnstile adventures (you’re schlepping two suitcases), and an hour later, you emerge above-ground a few blocks from your hotel (the St. Vincent:  http://www.hotelsaintvincentparis.com/ )  and Pamella, who got to town a day ahead of you­.  You walk to the St. Vincent: third floor, room 326, w/ view of a “courtyard.”

Pamella brought a couple of duty-free bottles of Maker’s, so you break one of them open and settle in.   The lime scarf you bought in Venice looks great on her.

Evening: you walk the neighborhood a bit and she shows you the suit you have to buy.  Dinner at an excellent Indian place three blocks away.

concession speech

In spite of your best efforts, you have given up hope of this journal ever catching up to real time, i.e., there is still so much from Provence you haven't posted, not to mention Venice (which you're leaving today), not to mention Paris-to-come, where you will meet Pamella this afternoon.  So you'll just post current events as they occur and play catch-up when you can.  You admit defeat.  Travelling is hard work.

kicks

Your shoes blow up in Venice.  You know where the Puma store is.  You go; you buy; you wear: navy stripes on gray.  You replace the white shoelaces with navy.  You are (per Clay's instructions) as ready as you'll ever be to walk into Paris today.

meanwhile, over in nice