Phil & Friends Fare Thee Well Pre-Compression Webcast & Recap

This year to celebrate the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary, Phil Lesh is performing a series of Phil Lesh & Friends shows at his Terrapin Crossroads venue in San Rafael for each of the years the band was in action. Tonight the Grateful Dead bassist takes a break from his tributes to each year for the second of two Phil Lesh & Friends Fare Thee Well Pre-Compression parties at Terrapin Crossroads. If you can’t make it to Terrapin in person, there’s an option watch from home.

[Graphic Composite shared by Quinfolk]

Terrapin Crossroads is offering a Pay-Per-View webcast of this evening’s performance for $7. Lesh and his band -which features guitarists Neal Casal, multi-instrumentalist Jon Graboff, keyboardist Adam MacDougall and drummers Ezra Lipp and Alex Koford -are expected to take the stage around 8 p.m. PT. The page where you can purchase the webcast notes the band will be joined by guests. Last night that guest was Terrapin Crossroads regular Stu Allen.

Saturday’s show featured Phil Lesh and the same band he’ll perform with tonight. Phil Lesh & Friends presented two sets filled only with originals from the Grateful Dead’s “Primal Dead,” (1967 -1968) and “Workingman’s Beauty” (1969 -1971) eras. In fact, the newest song the bassist and his ensemble played last night was debuted by the Grateful Dead in 1971. Both sets contained plenty of open-ended material such as “Dark Star,” “The Other One” and “Alligator” leaving plenty of room for improvisation from the talented group.

Listen to audio of Saturday’s show captured by Quinfolk:

Watch video of Saturday’s performance captured by GratefulLSD:

Setlist (compiled by John Collins for Deadheadland.com)

Phil’s Fare Thee Well Pre-Compression Party
Phil Lesh & Friends
Saturday June 6th, 2015
The Grate Room
Terrapin Crossroads
San Rafael, California

Phil Lesh – bass/vox
Jon Graboff – guitar
Neal Casal – guitar/vox
Stu Allen – guitar/vox
Adam MacDougall – keys
Ezra Lipp – drums
Alex Koford – drums/vox

First Set (8:25-9:28)
Dark Star (1st V) -> (PLesh)
China Cat Sunflower (NCasal)
Golden Road (SAllen)
Candyman (SAllen)
Friend of the Devil (PLesh)
Truckin (SAllen)(AKoford)
Cumberland Blues (All)I

Second Set (10:12 – 11:45)
Alligator -> (PLesh)
Cryptical Envelopment (PLesh) ->
The Other One (PLesh)(All) ->
Cryptical ->
Dark Star Jam
Cosmic Charlie (All)
St. Stephen (All) ->
Sugar Magnolia (NCasal)
Casey Jones (SAllen)

Encore: Sugaree (SAllen)