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Wow....what a line up of musicians! Love Diana Krall. That second set and Fever must have been great. Would love to hear someone who was there at the show. Maybe it will warm us up here in Colorado.

LOVED the first set. Amazing. Every song was great, Elivs meshed in beautifully and the crowd just ate it up. Tennessee Jed was epic. Samson started off the night on fire.

The second set was also very good but just not as electric as the first. And I dunno, I'm done with space. It bores the crap out of me (actually it always has) and after a very long break between sets, I wasn't that pumped for a long space deal.

But to b e clear, I loved this show. The band is in great form and is really loving performing and Radio City is a great place for a Furthur show.

Feel very lucky to have been there for tha.

My take is a little different. Have been catching Dead and related shows since '87, including my share of Furthur shows the past few years. And, while I like Elvis (and appreciate his connection to Jerry), wasn't there to see an Elvis show. So, my buddy and I were both bummed that he headlined the set after Samson, and especially since it left JK far too and unnecessarily silent (both vocally & on guitar) on all those great Jerry tunes. But, highlights for me included the kickin' Cassidy and the grooved up Friend of the Devil (including Larry Campbell's violin chops).

As for the second set, it simply rocked out (despite the extended Beatlesesque What's Become of the Baby interlude), and an incredible 2 1/2 hours at that!; clearly, the band was looking to give everyone what they had been waiting for. The jamming Stephen had an Eleven tease, which they broke into later full force, and they continued to tear it up in Unbroken Chain. As for Morning Dew, it was as if they saved JK all show for that moment, and as usual he made it worth it for all of us (rivaled the absolutely killer similarly-positioned second set Dew - and surreal show - from Radio City last February; the best of their shows I've seen). Then, to top it all off with Bobby's deep rendition of the beautiful Days Between and a 10 harmony Attics finale (absolutely amazing - everyone on stage was singing except Russo).... What a set - made the show, and me and my buddy very happy....

Yeah, I've been seeing Dead shows since 1979 (Cape Cod colliseum) and many Furthur shows, but I also love Elvis Costello. So for me, seeing them together was pretty cool.

Agree that St Stephen and Morning Dew were freaking tremendous.

Great show, among the best for this latest incarnation. I've been catching these guys since 1970, & they still got it going on, still taking the jams out there & back. That being said, phenomenal show. Opened with Samson, ok, rocking... then, Larry Campbell come out & rocks Chest Fever... then, Elvis Costello comes out & they ROCK Tenn. Jed ,Friend of the Devil & a few more, Larry on the vilolin...Then Diane Kral (Elvis' wife) comes out & sings Ripple with the whole crew to end the first set....
Then... second set tears it up ... Sunrise (featuring Thresa Williams, Larry's wife)St Stephen...The Eleven... Uncle John's Band... Unbroken Chain.. The Wheel
Then... Diane jazzes up Fever & they close with a beautiful Attics with all hands on vocals, all in all, an outstanding night. Kind of bring the wife to work, great to see all these varied talents kicking it out. A good show to get the CD.
Peace
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Totally agree that Elvis is a great musician; and, it definitely was cool to see him play with Bobby and Phil (especially considering the connection) and appreciate that. Just wish things had been divvied up a little differently.

Regardless, one of the many great things about a show - everyone can both share in some of the same experiences and take away something different, with ultimately all still having much to savor and enjoy....

what a great show! from 7:15 til almost midnite with their usual break. ship of fools, the wheel, morning dew, sugar mag,uncle john's band. one great song after another. their last nite on broadway, and they went out with a BANG!!! hope they come to worcester again in the fall,can't wait.

Well, i guess I fall somewhere in the middle. Part of me wants to see them take off without the guests coming in. You lose something in terms of energy because it becomes more about the guests then the actual music. It can be a real distraction. It changes the experience.

Having said all this, I loved all the musicians on the stage. I know they are all fans that love the music. Elvis is doing FOTD on his solo tours and its always good to hear his interpretation of different music.
Ripple was the biggest disappointment. While I like Diana Krall this is a special song and she does did not bring it.

For most of the songs the band's harmonies were great. At times they have 8 vocalist singing - Tennessee (a real good one with Elvis on lead), UJB and the Wheel. The vocals were spot on. JK was rather quiet until Morning Dew.

Hasta la vista from NY. See you soon.

Simply one of the best shows I have ever seen.......a complete music experience....far beyond a normal GD or Furthur(if there is normal,lol) ...they just pulled out so much sound diversity.A truly unique show to say the least.

I thought the show was very solid. Chest Fever was a wonderful cover. Elvis was a great guest and all his numbers (especially the moving Ship- Roses-Ship) were fantastic. Its a shame Diana Krall's vocals on Ripple were barely audible. Morning Dew was amazing as were St. Stephen (I loved Phil flubbing the words in the bridge and bursting into laughter) and Uncle John. On the negative side, What's Become of the Baby was boring and way too long and the Sunrise was unnecessary.
I hate to be a Debbie Downer but I must complain that the show was overlong. The intermission was an interminable 45 minutes and the show didn't end until midnight. That is way too late when there is work in the morning.

Rob New Jersey

Anticipating a great last show on Broadway for the season I was not dissapointed. Chest Fever was an absolute thrill after a tight and strong Samson. Mr. Campbell was a nice call!
The White Hat and glasses after that was a great suprise. I think meant that the band wanted to share the fun not only with their audience but amongst themselves and fellow musicians who shared the same love for this music.

Yes at times it seemed like Elvis would not leave the building
Jed and Ship of fools were great)! You have to respect his connection with the band and if you had the chance to jam with Phil and Bob wouldn't you?

Tennesee Jed , The Wheel and Dew were absolute standouts! Especially The Wheel and it's arrangements. The Beatles Space was cool for a little while.
Diana Krall and Theresa Williams were a very fresh sight on the stage. Sunrise was a very beautiful thing.
Phil and St. Stephen is great.! And the more he misses the lyrics the better the song gets! A big smile from Phil Lesh means big Phil Bombs later in the set!
And JK kick it up a notch..the people want to hear you!

In all of me dead shows I have always been let down by Attics as an Encore... I was hoping for a revolution!

The Attics I saw last night is as good as when I was at Nasau in 1981 to hear one of the best's Jacks ever.

Thanks!

MIke Westchester, N.Y.

Furthur has brought back the fun!

After looking at the setlists for the previous two Radio City shows, I saw that they were throwing in a few songs from Reckoning, maybe as an homage to their acoustic sets from Radio City back in the day. This show was packed with "Reckoning" material and as my friend noted, they could have done the whole first set "unplugged."

I love Elvis, so to see him share the stage with these guys was amazing. I loved the Tennessee Jed and it reminded me of the version Elvis did on last season's "Spectacle," his show on The Sundance Channel. He had Levon Helm as a guest and since Larry Campbell is in Levon's band, he was there as well.

I have a couple of bootleg Elvis shows where is does Ship of Fools and Roses, so that was expected, but it still knocked me out. Friend of the Devil was "deep fried country" at it's best. While the "quality" of Ripple wasn't stellar, it was still nice to hear and especially with someone like Diana Krall sitting in.

The second set had was really good. While "What's Become of The Baby," went on way too long for my liking it didn't sour me on what came before or after. The Morning Dew was monumental (and I guess my only real complaint would be that this was the only song that really featured John the entire night) and the three-song encore was more than I had the right to expect.

It was a great experience that I won't soon forget.

Some shows resonate more than others, stay with you for awhile. Englishtown for me is like it happened yesterday. And my take on 3/27 is that this is the show in the post Jerry era that I won't soon forget.

I don't know, maybe it was the venue. Radio City - wowee! Is there a better sounding, GD friendly venue out there? I think not.

Or maybe it was the special guests. Elvis, in particular was outstanding. Larry Campbell is perhaps the best sideman in the business.

I don't know - it must have been the setlist. It speaks for itself. I know it's always personal - and one man's all star roster of songs, is another man's poison. But come on: Ship of Fools, Tennessee, Cassidy, St Stephen, Dew!! - to name a few. An embarrassment of riches. And topped off with a 3 song encore?!?! Has anyone ever seen Bobby or Phil do a 3 song encore???

The first set smoked, top to bottom. Never a dull moment. Chest Fever was insane. Ship - Roses - Ship with Elvis at the helm was gorgeous. FOTD, Tennesse, Cassidy - were all stellar. Ripple, as Jonathan pointed out, was a lovely homage to Reckoning.

It took the boys (and girls) a little too long to figure out what became of that baby. But once they did - St Stephen, Morning Dew, The friggin' Wheel!! - and surprisingly enough, I haven't seen too much written about what was in my mind the best jam of the night: Unbroken Chain was a mind blower!

I think JK's Morning Dew was hotter at the famed second Radio City show last year - but all in all - 3/27/11 will go down in my book as the best I've seen in the post Jerry era.

it was sooo worth the 3 1/2 hour ride from mass. so i got home by 3:30 am, well worth the trip. just an amazing show. thank you furthur! bob, hopedale,mass.

Sampson and Delilah portended to Elvis and Diana and Larry and Theresa. As soon as I saw Elvis on stage and the first licks of Jed, I ran right out and got my bracelet for the special CD and ducked back in for an amazing first set and incredible night. These guys are playing better and better -with some incredilbe spacey, jazzy stuff all thrown in to the songs we've long loved as well as the ones we rarely heard before Furthur brought them back to life. Elvis interpreting those classic Jerry tunes was great, with the Ship/Roses/Ship combo a real highlight for me, although Jed and FOTD were great as well. While I missed John, and the Morning Dew he did last year at RC was a real pinacle and a step above Sunday nite, I am sure he was satisfied to be jamming away with his Furthur heroes and guests on this night. Phil was the 2nd set man for me. His vocals on Baby (take another listen - it holds up better on the CD) and St. Stephen (and the 11 hints loaded into that song was very nice) were fantastic. While I never begrudge Bob to sing whatever he wishes - it's their song book, not mine, I like it best when he sings his songs (S&D, Sugar Mags, Throwing Stones). This Ship of Fools is enough for me. If Bob never sings it again and I am left with this version, that is ok for me. God bless us all - What a nite indeed.

Doc Rich couldn't be more right. The best post Jerry show to date.
Last show as magical was 9/20/90, MSG with Branford...check out the second set....21 years later I got "that special feeling again" in what was just a spectacular show, flaws and all. The natural high to those in attendance who understood the magnitude of the night lasted a long time....I just landed a few hours ago. Hey, I've seen hundreds....Congrats to all who were there.

We've all been around in some way or another. Some saw them in their infancy. Some in the grand ole' 70's. Some like myself in the 80's. Some in the 90's And some not at all and this is all we have. Regardless, I really started to chase them in '88 and back then, when Samson was played as anything as the 2nd set opener it was deemed pretty special. Funny how much "furthur" we've come along when Samson & Delilah opens a show and is IMHO easily the worst song of the show and would be totally dwarfed by what was to follow it. It was anything but special, actually it sucked, rushed and lifeless, it may have been the worse Samson I've witnessed and/or heard. Evidently it was there for one and only one purpose: to warm up the band and make sure that everyone got to their seats for what was to follow: An evening of epic proportions, beginning with Larry Campbell stepping onto the stage and Furthur performing their first-ever version of The Band's classic song Chest Fever. The party was officially on and they ripped the cover off the song. But it didn't stop there, back in the day that would have made the show and everything else would have been icing on the cake but we were now treated to the current Elvis, Costello, stepping on stage for a rocking and rollicking version of Tennessee Jed and a seriously jangly version of FOTD afterwards. Then things got very serious with Elvis-led versions of Ship of Fools and It Must Have Been The Roses. Great stuff. The guests walked off and left Bob to lead the band in one of the more intense and jammed out Cassidy's that I've seen/heard Furthur perform. This eclectic set then ended with everyone returning back to the stage plus Diana Krall to help the band perform a very celebratory Ripple

There was a distinct buzz during intermission which grew louder as it got longer. It was, indeed, a long one. An hour but little did we know that all they were doing was paying it forward. When I walked into RCMH I knew that they were going to leave us smiling just like they did last year after the 2nd show's second set but little did I know that how that was going to be achieved when I texted my pal Jose during intermission and boldly stated "I know this, this 2nd set is the 1 that will be talked 'bout." Yet it started innocently enough, one would suppose, with a snarly Throwing Stones that seemed oh-so-appropriate after all these years. Then the final, and perhaps, most important, guest stepped on stage and for some reason I thought to myself "Sunrise". And dammed if they didn't do it! And a soaring version. Absolutely beautiful and breathtaking, Teresa Williams shined brightly like the sun itself on this version. Then back to the party with a song that I was expecting, St. Stephen. It truly rocked while at the same time amusing Phil, who laughed during it just like Sunday night Philly '10. And just as much fun and as well-played, 'bout thirteen minutes worth. Then anybody that had the next song in your Furthur Phantasy Tour rotation, take a bow. Me, I honestly didn't even know what was going on but I'm not getting on myself, there were a whole lot of folks 'round me that were equally bewildered and it was ALL good. What I later learned was What's Become of the Baby was exactly what I've been asking of this band since its inception, to go where no man has gone before: Space. Seventeen gloriously spooky and weird minutes of it, the vocals alternating between Phil and Teresa Williams, who had returned after the Stephen finished. Wow! Perfect.

Reality had to return at some point and it did in the form of a smokin' The Eleven, another song that this particular band slays and the NYC RCMH party was back on full force, to be followed by a love fest between band and audience, Uncle John's Band. This was followed by what Doc Rich correctly pointed out, that the best jam of the night was, indeed, Unbroken Chain. It was the 2nd best I've ever had the privilege of either witnessing or hearing live (the best was IMHO Barton Hall 2010). It came in waves and probably was Jeff's shining moment, if not John's and it left me with tears welled up in my eyes, physically and emotionally spent and I would have been perfectly happy if they had walked off after it, even without the band doing the song that I fully had expected to perform simply because they wouldn't be able to help themselves from doing it. But first, The Wheel and near its conclusion I turned to my friend and said "not if, but when" he nodded in agreement and then came...the Dew. And tears welled up in my eyes again as JK poured it out while I'm sure big poppa was watching and smiling from above...:-wink/smile. Once again, they easily could have walked off after the Dew and few, if any, would have complained. But the boys were apparently intent on making a statement and is sure as seemed as the good ole' days when they followed the Dew up with Sugar Mags. Double Wow!

After Phil expressed his love for us, they collectively let us know how much by performing IMHO one of the more important songs of the latter part of the GD catalog, Days Between and tears welled up in my eyes yet again. "Gave the best we had to give. How much we'll never know. We'll never know." Indeed. It may not have been the best or longest version but it was at the very least heartfelt.

Phil then introduced the "stunningly beautiful, devastatingly talented" Diana Krall back onto the stage for a devastatingly wonderful version of Fever. Then they concluded this marathon 2 1/2 hour set with a stunningly beautiful electric, with all-the-guests-on-stage, version of Attics of My Life. One final bow from everybody on stage and an epic night was complete. Wow wow wow.

I bitched, whined and complained over the winter that this band may not survive past its 1st honeymoon year. I was afraid they were going to get stale. That they would fall back on the "same ole', same ole'". Maybe. A bit. But from what I've seen/heard (was at the Sunday & Tuesday Best Buy shows and Friday & Sunday RCMH shows and heard Saturday Best Buy & Fairfax on stream), they really have taken it "furthur". Yes, they can be faulted on certain levels such as set lists to a certain extent but, let's be honest, they're doing things nowadays set list-wise that we only dreamed of them doing while Jer was alive and though Furthur gets the advantage of using prior history, IMHO realistically what they've done with it has been pretty impressive overall, all factors considered. This is as epic as it gets. And it's only going to sound better in my car...:-wink/smile.

To those that's going to catch them somewhere on the rest of this tour, enjoy!

Peace,
Alex

Still smiling about this show! And if anyone wants to see what all the hoopla was all about - do a YouTube search for:

Furthur w/ Elvis Costello, Radio City Music Hall - 3/27/11, Ship of Fools, Must Have Been the Roses

Enjoy!

My take is that this was a pretty good show that will be better remembered for novelty than for actual quality. There were some definite highlights and lowlights. I'm glad I was there and can safely say that's a show I'll never see again.

Highlights: just about everything Larry Campbell did, from leading a bluesy-sounding Chest Fever (a song I had never heard) to his violin work on FOTD and Uncle John's Band; the songs Elvis sang in the first set, which were not just novel but actually good; a truly great St. Stephen, one of the best yet; Morning Dew, which they seem to kill every time now; and one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in the Attics encore (all those voices, punctuated by Bob's hard chords!).

Lowlights: a mailed-in Throwing Stones; What's Become of the Baby, which might have been interesting at an album-length 8 or 9 minutes but was tedious at 17 minutes; and a subpar Unbroken Chain (can't understand the above comment that it was one of the best ever -- although the instrumental part after the last vocal part was haunting and made up some of the difference).

Also, add me to the list of people who would like to see a little more puncutality out of these guys. Yeah, I'm getting old. Starting a few minutes late is okay, but they were consistently over half an hour late this whole tour. And the time between sets was too long.