UPDATE: Watch John Mayer Sit-In with JRAD for “Althea,” “New Minglewood Blues,” & More at Brooklyn Bowl

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Update: Thanks to Peter Costello & Eric McRoberts for the SBD/AUD UltraMix recording – it sounds amazing!

JRAD powered on from an amazing performance last night at the Brooklyn Bowl for their fifth show of a six-show run. Joe Russo and the gang had another card up their sleeve to bring the fire again-John Mayer.

Mayer is making these Brooklyn Bowl sit-ins with JRAD a habit. Last year, Mayer sat in during JRAD’s fall run in Brooklyn as well.

The Dead and Company guitarist is in between his solo gigs and the November Dead and Co tour. With just a few weeks before the Dead and Co MSG dates, Johnny Lightning is getting refocused on playing the Dead and what better way to do it than with JRAD?

Mayer’s sit-in started at the end of the first set with one of his signature “Althea” jams and continued into the beginning of the second set with a massive “Jam > Here Comes Sunshine” and a dirty “New Minglewood Blues.” Mayer makes one of the most exciting bands in the land somehow a little more exciting to watch.

After retreating backstage, Mayer came out for the encore which started with the extraordinary Marco Benevento soloing and segued into “Such a Night > Franklin’s Tower.”

Set One (9:36PM – 11:03PM):
01. Jam @ ->
02. Greatest Story Ever Told # >
03. Candyman
04. Feel Like A Stranger $
05. Loser % ->
06. Crazy Fingers
07. Cosmic Charlie (SM/JR) ^ ->
08. Jam ->
09. Althea &

Set Two (11:36PM – 1:24AM):
01. Jam * ->
02. Here Comes Sunshine + ->
03. New Minglewood Blues @@
04. Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion >
05. Jam ## ->
06. Lazy Lightning $$ ->
07. China Doll %% (TH) ->
08. Marco Solo ->
09. There is a Mountain ^^ ->
10. I Know You Rider
Encore:
11. Marco Solo ->
12. Such A Night & ->
13. Franklin’s Tower &

@ – With The Wheel Teases (Band)
# – With an Unknown Tease (MB) and The Wheel Teases (TH)
$ – With a “Chameleon” (Herbie Hancock) Tease (either SM or TH)
% – With a “Nothing Else Matters” (Metallica) Tease (TH)
^ – First Time Played by Almost Dead
& – With John Mayer on Guitar
* – With “Serpentine Fire (Earth, Wind & Fire) Teases & China Cat Teases (Band). With John Mayer on Guitar
+ – With a Marco Solo that included a Cosmic Charlie Tease. With John Mayer on Guitar
@@ – With a West LA Fadeaway Tease (MB). With John Mayer on Guitar
## – With teases / jams of Uncle John’s, “Jolene” (American Babies), Ruben & Cerise, Playin in the Band & The Wheel if not more
$$ – Not played by Almost Dead since 2016.02.14 at Higher Ground, Winooski, VT, a gap of 57 shows
%% – First Time Played by Almost Dead, with teases of “No Quarter” (Led Zeppelin), “Run Like Hell” (Pink Floyd) & Morning Dew
^^ – Donovan cover, very short, just the chorus

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