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Hyryder first night of Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash Celebration. First set cut short due to Charlie's guitar breaking down, but oh my what a night from what I can recall: #1 Alabama Getaway Promised Land TLEO Used to Love Her Dire Wolf BEW Hard to Handle Foolish Heart ...? #2 Gomorrah Help Slip Franklins Doin That Rag Cryptical Other One Cryptical Mission in the Rain Stronger than Dirt Uncle Johns Band Alligator Viola Lee Blues After Midnight Eleanor Rigby After Midnight Brokedown Palace Might As Well (1hr 51 min)

From forward Secret Space of Dreams - On a more technical note, he played most often in a major blues scale, which added to this mix of innocence, and even joy. Minor blues notes lend themselves to the exquisiteness of pain, while major blues scales kind of explore the relief from it. Garcia played to relieve people of pain. That melodic innocence must have something to do with bringing so many people to their “happy place.” He wasn’t pulling notes from an anguished place within, he was catching them with a butterfly net as they went flitting by overhead. On a tactile level, he held the guitar with grace. It wasn’t a weapon, it was a vehicle. He took it easy. He may have played fast, but he was thinking slow. And that makes us listen with a smile. - John Mayer 😄 to dance is to live; to live is to dance.

Pig and the band had a lot to say.

1987-06-21 @ Greek Theatre - Berkley, CA Set 1 Alabama Getaway -> The Promised Land, West L.A. Fadeaway, Walkin' Blues, Far From Me, Cumberland Blues -> Mexicali Blues, Box Of Rain, Don't Ease Me In Set 2 Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Crazy Fingers -> Saint Of Circumstance, China Doll -> Playing In The Band -> Drums/Space -> When I Paint My Masterpiece > Black Peter -> Throwing Stones -> Not Fade Away Encore Brokedown Palace Filler Oh! Darlin, Love The One You're With

Saw 85/10/31 at State Theater in Falls Church, VA. Praise DSO.

We have played there a few times before