Joe Russo’s Almost Dead owned the Denver area on 12/15 and 12/16/16 as they triumphed at the Ogden Theatre and then a night later at the Boulder Theater. As can be told by the photos and setlists, The Grateful Dead catalog is in good hands when Russo, Scott Metzger, Tom Hamilton, Marco Benevento and Dave Dreiwitz bring their Dead formula to the stage. Photos by Todd Radunsky.
Setlist
Ogden Theater,
Denver, CO
2016.12.15
Set 1 (9:13PM – 10:32PM)
Don’t Ease Me In (TH)>
Viola Lee Blues @ (All) ->
Space ->
Truckin’ (SM) ->
St. Stephen Jam ->
Truckin’ Reprise # (SM) ->
Born Cross Eyed Jam ->
Loser (TH) ->
Marco Solo $ ->
The Eleven (All) ->
Shakedown Street % (TH)
Set 2 ^ (11:08PM – 12:5?)
Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion (All) ->
Greatest Story Ever Told (SM) ->
Terrapin Suite & (TH & JR) ->
King Solomon’s Marbles *
Row Jimmy (TH) ->
Drums ->
Good Lovin’(SM) ->
The Wheel Reprise + (All) ->
Good Lovin’ Reprise @@ ->
E: GDTRFB ## (All) ->
Sugar Magnolia / SSDD $$ (SM)
@ – With a Throwing Stones Jam
# – First time played by Almost Dead, with Throwing Stones Teases (Band)
$ – With the usual spate of teases & familiar themes – see what you can find / what you remember
% – With “Chameleon” (Herbie Hancock) Teases (Band)
^ – With Estimated Prophet Teases throughout the set
& – With a “Duo Jam” & “Hateframe” (Benevento Russo Duo) Teases (JR)
* – With an Uncle John’s Band Tease (Band)
+ – Finishes The Wheel from Ogden Theatre on 2015.02.14
@@ – First Time Played by Almost Dead
## – With out the usual WBYGN Ending
$$ – Proceeded by a “WBYGN Ending” Tease (Band)
Boulder Theater
Boulder, CO
2016.12.16
Set One (9:18pm – 10:28pm)
Big Railroad Blues (TH) >
Feel Like A Stranger (SM)
Bird Song @ (TH) ->
The Other One # (SM)
Mississippi Half Step $ (TH) ->
Three Question Marks Jam % ->
Let It Grow^ (SM)
Set Two (11:04pm – 12:44am)
Alice D Millionaire & (SM) ->
I Know You Rider (All)
Tennessee Jed (TH) ->
Becky Jam ->
Tennessee Jed Reprise (TH) * ->
The Wheel Jam + ->
Let It Grow Jam ->
The Wheel @@ (All) ->
They Love Each Other ## (TH) ->
Estimated Prophet $$ (SM) ->
Touch Of Grey (TH)
E: Dancing In The Streets %% (SM) ->
Pork & Slaw ^^ ->
Dancing In The Streets (SM) ->
My Sharona Jam && ->
Dancing In The Streets Reprise ** (SM)
@ – With Cryptical Teases x 2 (TH)
# – With a “Hippie Dream” (Neil Young) Jam – may become a track, depending on length
$ – With a “Walk on the Wild Side” (Lou Reed) Tease (DD)
% – First Time Played by Almost Dead, Joe Lukasik Cover; not the entire song. Used to be covered by the Benevento Russo Duo.
^ – With an Other One Tease (Band), a Cryptical Tease (MB) & an Unknown Tease (MB)
& – Not played by Almost Dead since Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY 2015-01-23, a gap of 77 shows
* – Not played by Almost Dead since Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY 2015.10.3, a gap of 52 shows
+ – First Time Played By Almost Dead
@@ – Unfinished, with a “”Moonlight Mile” (Rolling Stones) Jam – may become a track, depending on length
## – With a “Shortnin’ Bread” (James Whitcomb Riley) Tease, a “Hamp’s Hump” (Lou Donaldson) Tease (JR), a West LA Fade Away Tease (MB) and a “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer” (Robert Lewis May) Tease (MB)
$$ – With a Uncle John’s Band Tease (SM) & an “Inspector Gadget Theme” (Unknown) Tease (SM)
%% – With a Feel Like a Stranger Tease (MB)
^^ – WOLF! cover, First Time Played by Almost Dead
&& – The Knack cover, First Time Played by Almost Dead
** – Not Played by Almost Dead since Summer Camp, Chillicothe, IL, 2015.05.23, a gap of 59 shows
