04-20-2026, 04:02 PM
Jerry's guitar was used for 3 - Ripple, High Time, & Black Peter. Those were just my notes on my iPhone. Keeping setlists is a habit of mine from those Jerry daze...
Gillian played it for soundcheck (which I wasn't at because I was stupid not to go earlier). She did To Lay Me Down and Babe It Ain't No Lie. I would've loved to hear her take on Lay Me Down.
the encore was similar to Friday's encore with that Stephen>NFA>Stephen>Dew. Friday was Box because Lesh was there, then Sugar, then this passage, then Goodnight.
Overall I thought last night was the stronger show of the two, especially the energy of Set 1 and that Cassidy>Birdsong>Cassidy. Stacy really liked the Cold Rain and Snow. I thought Friday's Brokedown was stronger (I was getting misty on that one) but Friday had a primacy effect.
The lights were accentuated for this show. There was a 'no light effects' policy at Drain the night before so everyone could see the crazy moshers and we could track if anyone was throwing sucker punches. This was the first time the Quarry put lights on the audience that way, more for the performers benefit, to get a better reaction out of them. That was such an improvement.
The bass player was Paul Kowert. He was fantastic. He impressed me even more last night than on Friday because I could tune into him better.
You are so right about concessions. They were better last year when they brought in some food trucks. This year, they suck. I don't know why. The Santa Cruz Eats is just subway sammiches (lame) and hot drinks would be killer. Saturday Verve had a booth because one of the members of Drain is a roaster and they were giving out cans of coffee. I drank too much coffee that night.
Gillian played it for soundcheck (which I wasn't at because I was stupid not to go earlier). She did To Lay Me Down and Babe It Ain't No Lie. I would've loved to hear her take on Lay Me Down.
the encore was similar to Friday's encore with that Stephen>NFA>Stephen>Dew. Friday was Box because Lesh was there, then Sugar, then this passage, then Goodnight.
Overall I thought last night was the stronger show of the two, especially the energy of Set 1 and that Cassidy>Birdsong>Cassidy. Stacy really liked the Cold Rain and Snow. I thought Friday's Brokedown was stronger (I was getting misty on that one) but Friday had a primacy effect.
The lights were accentuated for this show. There was a 'no light effects' policy at Drain the night before so everyone could see the crazy moshers and we could track if anyone was throwing sucker punches. This was the first time the Quarry put lights on the audience that way, more for the performers benefit, to get a better reaction out of them. That was such an improvement.
The bass player was Paul Kowert. He was fantastic. He impressed me even more last night than on Friday because I could tune into him better.
You are so right about concessions. They were better last year when they brought in some food trucks. This year, they suck. I don't know why. The Santa Cruz Eats is just subway sammiches (lame) and hot drinks would be killer. Saturday Verve had a booth because one of the members of Drain is a roaster and they were giving out cans of coffee. I drank too much coffee that night.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse