Bob Weir and Wolf Bros returned to action with their first performance since closing LOCKN’ last month with a show at Humphreys in San Diego, CA on Wednesday. The show marked the first of four total shows that the Grateful Dead-inspired trio have scheduled throughout the month of September as part of a brief early fall run.
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The band’s 11-song opening set started with “The Music Never Stopped”, a fitting choice for someone like Weir who seems to always be playing somewhere. The first half of the show continued with a pair of covers in Rob Wasserman‘s “Easy Answers” and The Temptations‘ “Standing on Shaky Ground” before returning to “The Music Never Stopped”. The music indeed continued with Bob Dylan‘s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” before turning to “Gonesville” from Weir’s Blue Mountain solo album. The set continued with “Deep Elem Blues” before closing with a mix of Dead staples in “Tennessee Jed”, “Loose Lucy”, “Lost Sailor”, and “Saint of Circumstance”.
Watch a clip of the band performing Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” below.
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The band returned to the stage to start the second half of the show with a cover of The Beatles‘ “Blackbird” before charging into the Dead playbook with “Cassidy” and “Truckin'”. Following a cover of Eddie Cooley‘s “Fever”, the band returned to “Truckin'” and kept the Dead hits coming with “Scarlet Begonias” and “I Need A Miracle”. The second set closed with another Dylan tune in “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and “Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad”. The show came to a fitting close with a rendition of “Ripple”.
Watch part of the band’s second set performance of “I Need A Miracle” below.
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The band’s September tour continues with a show at the Ventura Theater in Ventura, CA on Friday. Head to Weir’s website for tickets and tour info.
Setlist: Bob Weir And Wolf Bros | Humphreys | San Diego, CA | 9/18/2019
Set One: The Music Never Stopped > Easy Answers (Rob Wasserman cover) > Standing on Shaky Ground (The Temptations cover) > The Music Never Stopped, When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan cover), Gonesville, Deep Elem Blues (Traditional cover), Tennessee Jed, Loose Lucy, Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance
Set Two: Blackbird (The Beatles cover), Cassidy > Truckin’ > Fever (Eddie Cooley cover) > Truckin’, Scarlet Begonias > I Need a Miracle > A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan cover), Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad (Henry Whitter cover)
Encore: Ripple