day 4

I was pretty beat by the time sunday rolled around. Headed home and then over to Hillside to help Lauren & Renn set up for the engagement party later that evening. At around 2 I drove to Evergreen to pick up Steph, who had run a road race earlier that morning. It was just the two of us for the last ashow so we stopped and picked up some more food to grill in the lot. Bumped into Mike B who was looking for a ticket, and had a couple brews with him until he continued his search. Much mellower lot scene since everyone was prolly as wiped out as I was.

Went in around 7 again, security had a stick up their ass tonight after 3 pretty lax days. Had reserveds in row 53, but once 'Roses' kicked in, we realized our neighbors were kind of borax so we headed down about 10 rows and met up with our now infamous show pals - Casey et al, who brought the vibe once again. Solid first set - 'NICU', and 'Reba' into 'Grind' a capella in lue of the whistling was nice. 'Beauty' developed more fully from the Page solo outing version sans guitarist we saw last year. And I was way more into 'Kill Devil Falls' than I thought I would be after hearing some versions of it from the fist leg of summer tour - a nice rocker.



Second set slayed, kicking off with a wicked 'Boogie' and a well placed 'YEM'. During the vocal jam at the end when they play with the upper lights a bit and the stage gets dark, they snuck out a second drum set for Bill Kruetzmann who joined them for the rest of the 2nd set starting with a sweet 'Undermind'.



They followed through with seemless song transitions throughout the rest of the set. A pleasant trio of encores bookended the 4 night stand nicely starting with another fave, 'Bittersweet Motel'. Got out of the lot quick and luckily we only had 10 minutes to drive after the show since we were staying back at Steph's mom's.



Set One
Roses Are Free
Wilson
NICU
Prince Caspian
Back On The Train
Reba
Grind
Beauty Of A Broken Heart
Sample In A Jar
Sugar Shack
Waste
Kill Devil Falls

Set Two
Boogie On Reggae Woman
You Enjoy Myself > Undermind > Seven Below > 2001 > Waves > Character Zero

Encore
Bittersweet Motel
Bouncing Around The Room
Slave To The Traffic Light

(show pix courtesy of Dave Vann)