Joe Russo’s Almost Dead just finished up it’s first of two runs at the Brooklyn Bowl over a two-week period. The first run featured three blistering nights of Grateful Dead tunes, other assorted covers, plenty of teases, a few debuts and the first JRAD original song. The three shows also marked shows #100, #101 and #102.

The final night was packed with teases and jams galore. JRAD debuted a cover of the WOLF! tune “Chuckles” and The Champs classic “Tequila.” How about Marco’s epic piano solo during “Tennessee Jed” that breaks into “Chopsticks”? Joe and the gang were even able to weave “Summer Nights” from the Grease soundtrack into the second set. The musicianship from these guys simply cannot be topped.

Thanks as always to Peter Costello & Eric McRoberts for the excellent soundboard matrix recording. As Peter said on the JRAD Facebook page, “Incredible night – great vibe, great energy, high “X-Factor” level from start to finish. Really can’t ask for or say much more.”

Set One (9:30PM – 10:46PM):
01. Jam @ ->
02. Cassidy # (SM) ->
03. Let It Grow Jam ->
04. Born Cross Eyed Jam $ ->
05. Tennessee Jed % (TH) ->
06. Jam %% ->
07. Chuckles ^ ->
08. Tequila & ->
09. Chuckles Reprise ^ ->
10. Big River (SM) >
11. Box Of Rain (JR)
12. Althea (TH) * >
13. Throwing Stones (SM)

Set Two (11:18PM – 12:41AM):
01. Deal (TH) >
02. Good Lovin + (SM) ->
03. Summer Nights Jam @@ ->
04. Good Lovin’ Reprise (SM) ->
05. Heartbreaker Jam ## ->
06. Cumberland Blues $$ (All) ->
07. Terrapin Station (TH) ->
08. The Other One Jam ->
09. Terrapin Suite (TH/JR) ^^
Encore:
10. One More Saturday Night (SM)

@ – With a China>Rider Transition Jam Tease (TH)
# – Unfinished
$ – With “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (Bob Dylan) Teases (Band)
% – With a Spoonful Tease (SM) & a lengthy Marco Solo that included “Chopsticks”
%% – With “Big River” teases
^ – WOLF!! Original, First Time Played By Almost Dead
& – The Champs Original, First Time Played By Almost Dead
* – With a “So What” (Miles Davis) Tease (SM) & a full band “All of my Love” (Led Zeppelin) Jam
+ – With a back & forth between Marco & Scott that teased numerous jazz standards including “St. Thomas” (Sonny Rollins) & “Four” (Miles Davis)
@@ – Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta / Grease Soundtrack Original, (AKA Summer Lovin’ – written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey). First Time Played By Almost Dead
## – Led Zeppelin Original, First Time Played By Almost Dead
$$ – With a “Heartbreaker” (Led Zeppelin) Tease (DD) & a Slipknot! Jam (Band)
^^ – This is probably the 1st “split” Terrapin Suite, making me think that I should reassess how I note the full version of the song, vs. when they just play the first part that the GD usually played live…

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