Former Grateful Dead affiliate Bob Weir alternate to the date – and the Internet – last night, taping a new adventure of his account web alternation "Weir Here" in foreground of a reside admirers at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California.
Weir's aboriginal accessible achievement in added than a ages (he performed a clandestine account beforehand in June for Marin Academy) came 5 weeks afterwards he canceled all accessible engagements to accord with an bearding bloom affair that emerged if the guitarist fell down onstage while assuming with the Grateful Dead adjunct Furthur at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, in April. The bandage cited a "strained shoulder," and accomplished the concert after him.
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Weir performed a few canicule after in Atlantic City before Furthur canceled their headlining aperture at the BottleRock festival in Napa, California, and Weir abeyant all of his accessible appearances. That included putting a acting arrest to "Weir Here," in which he about performs with appropriate guests and discusses Grateful Dead-related capacity with assorted accompany and cohorts.
With no official account offered for his leave of absence, admirers grew anxious about his bloom while the rumor comminute churned. But Weir appeared to be aback and in abounding force as he opened the night with a abandoned acoustic achievement of his abandoned cut "Black Throated Wind," with his articulation in aiguille form.
Weir arrive collaborators onstage one at a time for an accretion and sometimes alternating ensemble that included Widespread Panic's Dave Schools on bass, Primus' Jay Lane on drums, Furthur's Jeff Chimenti on keyboards, singer-songwriter Jonathan Wilson on guitar and Leslie Mendelson on vocals. Bassist Rob Wasserman and multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby angled out the lineup. They ran through selections from Weir's all-inclusive songbook, including a alternation of acceptable Americana advance added carefully associated with the backward Jerry Garcia ("Catfish John," "Deep Elum Blues"). The night bankrupt with a arrangement of the Beatles' "Come Together," followed by a jammed-out adaptation of Weir's original, "Playing in the Band."
Midway through the proceedings, singer-songwriter Beth Orton performed a mini-set, including a awning of the 5 Stairsteps' "O-o-h Child." Jonathan Wilson and Leslie Mendelson offered their own mini-sets as well.
During two "couch segments," Weir sat abaft a desk, allocution show-style, and chastened conversations that ranged from top academy contest with the added singer-songwriters to a altercation with the band's archivist, David Lemieux, of the Grateful Dead's May 1977 bout with. (Rhino Records afresh appear a 14-disc boxed set with performances adopted from that tour).
Weir aswell took a few questions from admirers members, none of whom asked about the albatross in the room; he offered no animadversion on his contempo cancellations and is not acceding any academic interviews, absolutely to abstain such questions. When a fan asked, tactfully, "How are you feeling today?" Weir responded that he'd be accomplishing bigger if he had time for his circadian workout, but he had been alive "like a mule" to adapt for the show. Added than that, Weir said, he was "doing just fine, thanks."
"Weir Here" is accepted to resume webcasting on Wednesdays while Weir gets accessible to accomplish after this ages on four dates of the Americanarama tour, featuring Bob Dylan, Wilco and My Morning Jacket. Furthur aswell allotment to the alley this summer alpha July 11th at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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