Full Show Audio: Joe Russo’s Almost Dead Shares Official Recording From Dominican Holidaze

On December 4, 2016 Grateful Dead tribute act Joe Russo’s Almost Dead helped close out last year’s installment of Dominican Holidaze at Breathless & New Onyx Resorts in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Today’s Taper Tuesdays features an official recording of JRAD’s performance at the event which is a matrix of on-stage mics and the soundboard feed.

Drumer Joe Russo, guitarists Scott Metzger and Tom Hamilton, keyboardist Marco Benevento and bassist Dave Dreiwitz not only played two sets, but they also treated attendees to a public soundcheck on December 4. JRAD’s official Holidaze debut featured a number of inventive sequences such as fitting “Cassidy” between “Scarlet Begonias” and “Fire On The Mountain,” then working “Alligator” into “St. Stephen” and “Cumberland Blues” within “Throwing Stones.”

Full Show Audio (Taped by Peter Costello, Transferred by Eric McRoberts)

Setlist

Public Soundcheck: Night Train -> Vampire Blues (JR) -> King Solomon’s Marbles -> Jam -> New Speedway Boogie @ (TH) -> Music Never Stopped @ (SM), Uncle John’s Band (All)

Set One: Scarlet Begonias # (TH) -> Cassidy $ (SM) -> Fire on the Mountain % (TH) -> St Stephen (All) -> Alligator ^ (SM) -> St Stephen Reprise (All) -> The Eleven (TH & JR) -> Deal (TH) -> Scarlet Begonias Reprise &

Set Two: Dancing In The Streets *(SM) -> Eyes Of The World (TH) -> Throwing Stones (SM) -> Cumberland Blues + (All) -> Throwing Stones Reprise (SM) -> Ramble On Rose (TH), Truckin (SM) -> Born Cross Eyed Jam

Encore: Shakedown Street ** (TH)

• @ – Both unfinished. NSB was just 2 verses & MNS lacked the jam at the end
• # – With Cassidy Teases (TH)
• $ – With Rubin & Cherise Teases (MB)
• % – With Rubin & Cherise Teases and Cassidy Teases (TH & band)
• ^ – Unfinished
• & – First Time Played by Almost Dead
• * – With an unknown tease (MB)
• + – With a “Duo Jam”
• ** – With “Serpentine Fire” (Earth Wind & Fire) teases (MB & TH)