The Dead & Company Fall Tour/Halloween/NYE Run

[pcr3]

I got there during Sugaree due to a combination of familial obligations, traffic, and a startling lack of parking available anywhere near the venue after the show had started. I agree with  that there was nothing mindblowing, though I also enjoyed that little liftoff during UJB. However, I actually enjoyed the way that Mayer was playing off of Bobby throughout the night. I think he deserves some credit for learning a lot of music that he is not that familiar with, unlike some of these other lead players in Dead-related bands who have been listening to this stuff for decades.

Anyhow, I had fun at the show. It helps that I was miracled the day before and did not have high expectations going in. Now, if I had to have paid even face for the show, I might've been sightly disappointed afterward. Without Phil, I think Bobby is the alpha, and I think we all know what that means as far as the "jamz" are concerned...

[emay]

After listening to some Dead & Co and now these Fare Thee Well boards, I always thought Kreutzman's playing was "loose" to kinda let mickey fill in, but its almost so loose and slow hes like off beat or barely holding the band together, he seems like hes either missing a beat or falling behind.

[WhatstheUse?]

Yeah, I would say his old style of playing was loose, in the best way possible.

Now it's so loose it's kinda falling apart.

[Caravan2001]

...and they lost me.

FUCKING DRUMS!! EVERY FUCKING NIGHT WITH THIS SHIT!!!!!!! :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead:

Crazy...It's my favorite part.  It was unreal at Chicago, real highlights for me.  To each their own I guess.  Oddly enough, I never cared for it at all when I went to actual GD shows and almost always went to the bathroom or something.  In Chi, I was firmly planted where I was hanging on every beat, and really enjoyed them on the AMEX stream.  If I am listening to a GD show though, I almost always skip D/S.....

[emay]

...and they lost me.

FUCKING DRUMS!! EVERY FUCKING NIGHT WITH THIS SHIT!!!!!!! :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead:

Crazy...It's my favorite part.  It was unreal at Chicago, real highlights for me.  To each their own I guess.  Oddly enough, I never cared for it at all when I went to actual GD shows and almost always went to the bathroom or something.  In Chi, I was firmly planted where I was hanging on every beat, and really enjoyed them on the AMEX stream.  If I am listening to a GD show though, I almost always skip D/S.....

Everytime I see it during The Dead, I always wonder if I followed the Dead, how many hours I would have spent a tour just wandering the hallways or in the bathroom during Drums/Space since that is what I did during D/S for most the Dead recreated groups.

[mehead]

...and they lost me.

FUCKING DRUMS!! EVERY FUCKING NIGHT WITH THIS SHIT!!!!!!! :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead: :shakehead:

Crazy...It's my favorite part.  It was unreal at Chicago, real highlights for me.  To each their own I guess.  Oddly enough, I never cared for it at all when I went to actual GD shows and almost always went to the bathroom or something.  In Chi, I was firmly planted where I was hanging on every beat, and really enjoyed them on the AMEX stream.  If I am listening to a GD show though, I almost always skip D/S.....

EXACTLY how I feel.  Back during the GD shows I may have stuck around for a few but thats it.  But now, with these shows, it's actually the part I'm looking forward to the most.  Totally different 20+ years later, obviously.

[WhatstheUse?]

Drums and Space kicked ass in Worcester. Oteil on a third set!

although, I can't exactly tell what is a pre-recorded loop playing behind them and what is real...

[rowjimmy]

Looked to me, in Chicago, like Mickey was creating loops on the fly like Keller Williams (among others) does...

[birdman]

The way they do drums now it's like going to a club. Deadtronica. I'm a huge fan. I was thinking in Worcester the the other night that I could listen listen to two sets of nothing but drums.

[sunrisevt]

The way they do drums now it's like going to a club. Deadtronica. I'm a huge fan. I was thinking in Worcester the the other night that I could listen listen to two sets of nothing but drums.

I find the Neal Casal setbreak jams compelling in an odd way, too.

I'm not prepared to explain it just yet, but it has something to do with an unhurried, no-fuss approach to the sonic palette and exploratory sensibility of    music, full of gestures towards more recent music influenced thereby.

[WhatstheUse?]

The way they do drums now it's like going to a club. Deadtronica. I'm a huge fan. I was thinking in Worcester the the other night that I could listen listen to two sets of nothing but drums.

Deadtronica. LoL.

Definitely an accurate description. I was totally digging it, as well as the tapping stuff Mayer was doing in the space section...

Looked to me, in Chicago, like Mickey was creating loops on the fly like Keller Williams (among others) does...

Aha... That makes sense... could've been that happening. 

What's the instrument called he uses for that?

[sunrisevt]

Paging Dr. Didg?

[Hicks]

The way they do drums now it's like going to a club. Deadtronica. I'm a huge fan. I was thinking in Worcester the the other night that I could listen listen to two sets of nothing but drums.

Deadtronica. LoL.

Definitely an accurate description. I was totally digging it, as well as the tapping stuff Mayer was doing in the space section...

Looked to me, in Chicago, like Mickey was creating loops on the fly like Keller Williams (among others) does...

Aha... That makes sense... could've been that happening. 

What's the instrument called he uses for that?

The Beam maaaaaaan. 

Did not look like any DAT was involved while watching the webcast.   

[Buffalo Budd]

Aha... That makes sense... could've been that happening. 

What's the instrument called he uses for that?

The Beam

ETA. I see Hicks beat me to it.

[pcr3]

The beam used to shatter my world when I was much younger. Now, I look forward to it.