Phil Lesh Plays Terrapin Crossroads Bar With Members Of Circles Around The Sun

On Tuesday and Wednesday nights Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh played a pair of “From Darkness To Light” shows in the Grate Room at his Terrapin Crossroads venue in San Rafael, California. Among the members of his bands for both nights were guitarist Neal Casal as well as keyboardist Adam McDougall and drummer Mark Levy both of whom contributed to Neal’s Circles Around The Sun project. The three Circles Around The Sun members teamed with Lesh again last night for a surprise two-set show at Terrapin’s bar area.

Casal put together Circles Around The Sun to create original Dead-like music that was played during intermissions at last summer’s Fare Thee Well – Celebrating 50 Years Of Grateful Dead shows in Santa Clara and Chicago and eventually released as the 2-CD set Interludes For The Dead. The band, with regular bassist Dan Horne, will make its live debut later this summer at the Lockn’ Festival in Arrington, Virginia. 3/4s of Circles Around The Sun and Lesh didn’t perform any songs from the project last night at Terrapin, though Jambands.com notes both sets started out “with jams that alluded to the Circles Around The Sun interludes.” Otherwise the foursome mostly stuck to Grateful Dead covers with a handful of exceptions during the free show.

Setlist

Set One: Jam > Peggy-O, She Belongs To Me, It Must Have Been The Roses, No Expectations, Friend of the Devil

Set Two: Jam > Mountains of the Moon, After Midnight, Mission In The Rain

[via Jambands.com]