6/8/03 Memorial Auditorium

Burlington, VT June 8, 2003 08:00 PM

Set One:

  • Simple Twist Up Dave
  • Mozambique
  • Undermind
  • Mr. Completely
  • Every Story Ends in Stone
  • First Tube
  • Black Dog

Set Two:

  • Alive Again
  • Burlap Sack and Pumps
  • Flock of Words
  • Cincinnati
  • At the Gazebo
  • Pebbles and Marbles
  • Last Tube >
  • Caravan
Encore:

  • Root Down

Show Notes:
part of the 20th Annual Burlington Discover Jazz Festival
Big Joe Burrell and the Unknown Blues Band (w/ special guest Joey Sommerville) opened.

6/7/03 Memorial Auditorium

Burlington, VT June 7, 2003 08:00 PM

Set One:

  • Money, Love and Change
  • Cincinnati
  • Magilla
  • Curlew's Call
  • The Way I Feel
  • Push On 'Til The Day

Set Two

  • Last Tube
  • Drifting
  • At the Barbecue
  • Olivia
  • Night Speaks to a Woman

Encore:

  • The Inlaw Josie Wales*
  • Dazed and Confused

Show Notes:
*trey solo acoustic
part of the 20th Annual Burlington Discover Jazz Festival

6/5/03 Chicago Theatre

Chicago, IL June 5, 2003 08:00 PM

Set I

  • Night Speaks to a Woman >
  • Drifting
  • The Way I Feel
  • Olivia

Set Two:

  • Last Tube
  • Cayman Review
  • First Tube
  • Undermind
  • Cincinnati
  • Black Dog

Encore:

  • Sweet and Dandy*

Show Notes:
*trey led the band through the crowd at the end of Sweet and Dandy

6/4/03 Chicago Theatre

Chicago, IL June 4, 2003 08:00 PM

Chicago Theatre

Set One:

  • Simple Twist Up Dave
  • Curlew's Call
  • Every Story Ends in Stone
  • Sweet Dreams Melinda
  • Sidewalks of San Francisco
  • Money, Love and Change

Set Two:

  • Javier Cinakowski
  • Alive Again
  • Mr. Completely
  • Cincinnati
  • Spices*
  • The Inlaw Josie Wales*
  • Secret Smile*
  • Push On 'Til The Day

Encore:

  • Dazed and Confused

Show Notes
*trey solo acoustic

6/2/03 The Fillmore

Denver, CO June 2, 2003 08:00 PM

Set One:

  • Curlew's Call
  • Cayman Review
  • Push on 'Til the Day
  • Every Story Ends in Stone
  • Last Tube
  • Sunday
  • Dazed and Confused >
  • First Tube

Set II

  • Simple Twist Up Dave
  • Drifting
  • It Makes No Difference
  • Money, Love and Change
  • Cincinnati
  • The Inlaw Josie Wales*
  • Secret Smile*
  • Pebbles and Marbles
Encore:

  • Sultans of Swing

Show Notes:
*Trey solo acoustic

San Francisco

by Ray Paczkowski

San Francisco, CA June 1, 2003 01:30 PM

The Warfield, The House of Jerry Garcia. A lot of great music has happened in this place. Funny how history has a way of soaking into the bones of a building. Leaves a patina of...suggestion, maybe. Only the people who were here then, in the heyday of musical and cultural experimentation, the fifties, sixties, could really describe it, but the theatre itself reeks of the past. It sits on the edge of two worlds, really, downtown and the Tenderloin district. Not a Starbucks in sight. Someone with a yen for it can certainly find something a little stronger than coffee here. A cash economy.

The street people of San Francisco live a life in common with millions of other marginalized individuals throughout the cities of the United States, but there is a unique ettiquette about them, I don't know if it's a west coast culture thing or just, what. A kind of humor you don't find in, say, New York. At least from a visitor's vantage point, which is a questionable perspective to be sure. New York seems to foster the attitude of everything up front, here it is, you don't like it, well, go to hell. And loud. So many people packed in such a small place, you have to put it out there in a big way, first, or you don't get heard. Or seen. San Francisco takes a different tack. Relax. There's time, all right. Maybe it's the weather. Paul Languedoc was standing outside the Warfield and this guy comes up, sings "there's no business like show business," does a tap dance routine, tells a joke Paul doesn't get, sings the song again, and walks off down the street into the Tenderloin. Art imitating life, or vice versa.

We had the great pleasure of making music with Carlos Santana last night. Even before he picked up his guitar and walked on stage, just talking with him inspired the band to put it all out there. Along the lines of making a joyful noise, he spoke about the twisted times we are living in, how so much fear mongering only makes the work of musicians that much more valuable, that much more necessary. People, he said, only crave a joyful, positive thing more now. And we can create this through sound vibration. He said the danger is becoming complacent, falling back on what we know, giving up any chance of change, redemption; Accepting things how they are today, being the victim--"I ain't nobody's victim." Amen. And then it's upstairs to the pulpit, preaching the gospel of...vibration. On his face is the smile of a man who knows his calling beyond a shadow of a doubt, and you will be convinced he speaks the truth.

A Harley pulls up in front of the stage door, straight pipes roar, and he's gone. Deafening, and in the aftermath a parking lot of cars are left howling their alarms. Beautiful.

5/31/03 Warfield Theatre

San Francisco, CA May 31, 2003 08:00 PM

Set Two

  • Mozambique
  • Simple Twist Up Dave
  • Last Tube*
  • The Way I Feel*
  • Cincinnati
  • Black Dog

Set Two

  • Mr. Completely* >
  • John The Revelator#* > (traditional)
  • Night Speaks to a Woman* >
  • Caravan#* (Duke Ellington)
Encore:

  • Root Down# (Beastie Boys)

Show Notes:
#1st time played
*with Carlos Santana on guitar.
Portions of this show were released on DVD. See the Albums Page for more information.

5/30/03 Warfield Theatre

San Francisco, CA May 30, 2003 08:00 PM

Set One:

  • Money, Love and Change
  • Plasma
  • Magilla
  • Push on 'Til the Day
  • Flock of Words
  • Sidewalks of San Francisco
  • Drifting
  • Olivia
  • At the Gazebo
  • Last Tube

Set Two

  • Curlew's Call
  • Tube Top Flop
  • Alive Again
  • Pebbles and Marbles
  • Small Axe
  • The Inlaw Josie Wales*
  • Secret Smile*
  • Spices*
  • Dazed and Confused# (Led Zeppelin cover)
Encore:

  • Sweet and Dandy**

Show Notes:
*Trey solo acoustic
#1st Dazed and Confused played
**Trey led entire band on a march through the crowd to end Sweet and Dandy

5/28/03 Electric Factory

Philadelphia, PA May 28, 2003 08:00 PM

Set One:

  • Burlap Sack and Pumps >
  • Mr. Completely
  • Small Axe
  • Push On `Til The Day
  • Tube Top Flop
  • Every Story Ends In Stone
  • Last Tube

Set Two:

  • Javier Cinakowski
  • Alive Again
  • Olivia
  • Drifting
  • Undermind
  • Money, Love and Change

Encore:

  • The Inlaw Josie Wales*
  • Secret Smile*
  • At the Gazebo
  • Black Dog

Show Notes:
*Trey solo acoustic

5/27/03 Hammerstein Ballroom

New York, NY May 27, 2003 08:00 PM

Set One:

  • Mozambique
  • Money, Love and Change
  • Sweet and Dandy# (Toots and the Maytals)
  • Undermind#
  • Sweet Dreams Melinda
  • The Way I Feel
  • Sultans of Swing

Set Two:

  • Night Speaks To A Woman >
  • Gotta Jibboo**
  • Plasma
  • Ether Sunday
  • Sand**

Encore:

  • Cincinnati

Show Notes:
#1st time played
*with horn jam at front of stage and Trey on melodica
**with Warren Haynes on Trey's spare Languedoc guitar

New York

by Ray Paczkowski

New York, NY May 27, 2003 12:00 AM

New York. There really is no place like it. And it dawns on me everytime I step out of a bar, a hall, another bodega. The night air here is a rich thing, got its own climatic idiosyncrasies, geothermal steamvents, hot breath of an air conditioning exhaust, the subway cars inject their own air into ours, up into the street with a confused rumble, clack, grating. All the time. And the smell of New York, it reminds me of an old Sufi story about a beggar in the slums who wanders onto a street where vendors are selling perfumes. He is overcome by the heady fragrance and falls to the ground insensible. Several strangers try to wake him by shaking, prodding and wafting strong scents before him, but it is not until someone holds some foul trash under his nose that he awakes,smiling, and saying, "ahh....this familiar smell brings me back to reality."

There was a familiar smell at the Hammerstein last night, and some familiar and not so familiar sounds as well. We launched "Undermind" and "Cinncinnati", music in the genre of "Stravinsky meets Steve Miller." You'd think they wouldn?t have much to say to each other, but, well, conversation is a funny thing...you just need the right interest in a topic I guess. There's been all this talk about Led Zep recently, a DVD, some new dusted off takes from their reign as rock gods. So we put Jen in a trance and had her spiritually mainline Robert Plant for a version of Black Dog. Holy Shit. Takes me right back to high school, stuffing grocery bags at the supermarket, and realizing Zep is only properly understood through the speakers of a 79 Camaro.

Then it's one last stroll down sixth avenue, steak and eggs and a handout, the bums muttering their secrets to anyone, Times Square's unrelenting visual extravaganza, you can be this for only $29.95. All through the heady air of New York. Hey Hey Mama.

5/26/03 Hammerstein Ballroom

New York, NY May 26, 2003 08:00 PM

Set One:

  • Curlew`s Call
  • Cayman Review
  • Simple Twist Up Dave
  • Flock of Words
  • Last Tube

Set Two:

  • Mr. Completely >
  • Windora Bug
  • Cincinnati#
  • Secret Smile#*
  • Spices#*
  • Drifting
  • Olivia
  • First Tube
  • Alive Again

Encore:

  • Push On `Til The Day**
  • Black Dog#*** (Led Zeppelin)

Show Notes:
# 1st time played
*Trey solo acoustic
**during the end of Push On, Mike rode onto and around the stage on his Segway scooter
***with Mike Gordon on Tony's bass (without Tony)

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