Pro-Shot Video: Joe Russo’s Almost Dead Debuts ‘Silvio’ At Brooklyn Bowl

Grateful Dead tribute act Joe Russo’s Almost Dead held a three night stand at Brooklyn Bowl in New York City earlier this month. The band has shared official video footage of a highlight from the October 6 opening show of the run featuring JRAD’s debut performance of a Bob Dylan song.

Following their first set and an unannounced short acoustic set on a mini stage built over the venue’s bowling lanes, drummer Joe Russo, keyboardist Marco Benevento, bassist Dave Dreiwitz and guitarists Scott Metzger and Tom Hamilton returned for an electric set two. A brief jam started the second half before Metzger took lead vocals on “Silvio” which Dylan wrote with longtime Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and recorded with members of the legendary band on his 1988 LP Down In The Groove.

Watch the 10-camera, pro-shot debut performance from Fall Ball II here:

Setlist (via JRAD FB)

Set One (8:25 PM – 9:33PM): Jam -> Good Morning Little School Girl @ (SM) -> Birdsong (TH) -> St. Stephen # (All) -> Fortune Teller $ (All) -> Morning Dew Jam % -> I Know You Rider ^ -> (All) Jack Straw & (SM/TH) So Long Jerry ++ (DD)

Acoustic Mini Set (On the Bowling Lanes Stage) (9:35PM – 10:06PM): Candyman * (TH),The Race Is On + (SM), It Must Have Been The Roses * (TH), Uncle John’s Band * (All)

Set Two (10:34PM – 11:5?PM): Silvio @@ (SM) -> Wharf Rat ## (TH/All) -> Loser $$(TH) -> King Bee %% (SM), Unbroken Chain ^^ (JR) > Here Comes Sunshine (TH) -> Playing In The Band && (SM)

Encore: Marco Solo ** -> Werewolves Of London (MB)

Notes:

• @ – First Time Played by Almost Dead, Sonny Boy Williamson / Son Bonds Cover
• # – With a “Duo Jam” & what sounded like a “War Pigs” (Black Sabbath) Tease (Band)
• $ – First Time Played by Almost Dead, The Who / Allen Toussaint Cover
• % – First Time Played by Almost Dead
• ^ – With Morning Dew Teases (SM)
• & – With an unknown Tease (MB)
• ++ – First Time played by Almost Dead, Ween Cover
• * – First (& so far only) Acoustic Version played by Almost Dead (All 3 have been played Electric)
• + – Acoustic, First Time Played by Almost Dead, no electric versions have been played
• @@ – First Time Played by Almost Dead, Robert Hunter/Bob Dylan Cover
• ## – Not played by Almost Dead since State Theater, Portland, ME 2015-02-17, gap of 65 shows
• $$ – Not played by Almost Dead since Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO 2014-10-10, a gap of 75 shows
• %% – First Time played by Almost Dead, James Moore (AKA Slim Harpo) Cover
• ^^ – Not played by Almost Dead since Concord Music Hall, Chicago, IL 2014-09-20, a gap of 77 shows
• && – Possible Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key) Tease?? (So I’ve been advised.)
• ** – Very New Orleans centric, with probably more than a few nods to Dr. John & James Booker, amongst others.