Setlist 3/17-18/05

With Leann in Florida this week, I was on for a 5 hour marathon I've grown to call "The Brokedown Logic Set". It's a sort of fusion of Brokedown Palace and The Loose Logic Set. Last night's Brokedown Logic Set featured a show that is nominated for a Jammy (the Jam Band genre's award ceremony): Phil & Friends at The Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA 12/19/04. The show is up for "Live Performance of the Year". Voting ends on April 22nd so I would encourage you to for it at the Jammys website. I also featured this show last night as a belated birthday wish to Phil Lesh, Bassist of the Grateful Dead, who turned 65 years old on Tuesday, the 15th. Happy Birthday, Phil! Keep those Bass Bombs flying!

Additionally, if you enjoyed this show and want a copy of your own, shoot me an e-mail at rsappington@neo.tamu.edu, and I will get those copies burned and ready for you as early as Sunday morning. Just drop by the station at 207 East Carson Street in Bryan between the hours of 10 am and 1 pm and I will have your show ready for you.

But enough about that, on to the setlist


Phil & Friends, The Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA 12/19/04

Set 1

• He's Gone>
• Box of Rain
• Like A Tumbleweed In Eden
• Row Jimmy
• The Dolphins>
• The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)
• Unbroken Chain

Set 2

• Imagine
• Help On The Way>
• Slipknot!>
• Eyes Of The World
• St. Stephen>Millenium Jam>
• The Eleven>
• Lovelight
• Dark Star>
• The Elevator
• Comes A Time>
• Happy Birthday*>Franklin's Tower
• Not Fade Away

Encore

• Donor Rap/Band Intros
• The Wheel>
• We Bid You Goodnight
  

But that wasn't the end of the night...not for us at least. Since the show spanned time between 9 PM and nearly 1 am Friday morning, the weekly Midnight Rant was postponed till the end of the Phil & Friends show. Last night's midnight rant was specifically about the failure of an amendment to the fiscal year 2006 Federal budget which would have stricken any language concerning exploratory drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil. As has been stated on this blog, the amendment failed by a narrow margin: 49 yea to 51 nay. With the passage of this budget almost certain given a right-wing strangle hold on both the House of Representatives and the Presidency, and a considerablely un-friendly grip on the throat of the U.S. Senate, we launched into a discussion about a future with conservation, sustainable/renewable fuels that function the same as the fuels we use today, but without the emissions that the fuels of today secrete into our atmosphere. In addition to the news stories that have just pissed me off over the course of the past week, look forward to a critical commentary about mainstream news in America today.

So this is how the rest of the show shook out...


The short remainder of the show...

Moe. - Mexico**>Happy Hour Hero*** - Tweeter Center, Camden NJ, 12/31/2003
Phish - Julius - Coral Sky Amp., West Palm Beach, FL 11/2/96
Grateful Dead - We Bid You Goodnight - Nightfall of Diamonds

See ya on Sunday. Also, I'm probably going to be out at the Harvey John Happening this Saturday at Brazos Natural Foods at the corner of Texas Ave. and Rosemary just at the College Station/Bryan divide. We'll be out there from 10 am to 2 pm to take donations in our change jar, hand out bumper stickers and program schedules.

* "Dead"icated to Phil Lesh. Happy Belated Birthday!
** Going out to my advisor, Dr. Heather Bortfeld, who is vacationing in Mexico this week for Spring Break. Wait a second, shouldn't I be the one in Mexico and she the one here in College Station...I digress.
*** This one goes out to Dr. Eric Wruck, a good friend that just completed his Dissertation defense. One more bottle for this Happy Hour Hero!