Lifeless & Firm performed their remaining present on Sunday night time, delivering a sprawling efficiency throughout two units at San Francisco’s Oracle Park.
The night time started with “Bertha,” the opening monitor from the Grateful Lifeless’s 1971 album Cranium and Roses. From there, the group — made up of former Grateful Lifeless members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, alongside singer-guitarist John Mayer, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, bassist Oteil Burbridge and drummer Jay Lane — rocked by an array of traditional materials, together with a number of covers.
Highlights from set primary included a rendition of the Rascals’ “Good Lovin’,” beloved Deadhead favourite “Althea” and a pair of songs the band’s late chief, Jerry Garcia, launched on his 1972 solo album: “Loser” and “Chook Track.”
Lifeless & Firm caught completely to Grateful Lifeless materials for his or her second set, delivering an array of tunes from all through the band’s lengthy and influential profession.
Simply as spectacular because the music had been the visuals. Lifeless & Firm have earned rave critiques for his or her drone reveals in the course of the farewell tour, and the ultimate cease actually was one thing to behold. At totally different factors, the well-known Grateful Lifeless Brand could possibly be seen excessive above Oracle Park. On the finish of the present, an enormous skeleton within the sky tipped his hat to the followers.
The night time ended with a 3 tune encore made up of “Truckin’,” “Brokedown Palace” and “Not Fade Away.” See movies and the total set record from the live performance under.
It was Mayer who was initially the driving drive behind Lifeless & Firm’s formation. The singer-songwriter, who was already a vastly profitable solo artist, grew to become a large fan of the Grateful Lifeless someday round 2011. In 2015, he befriended Weir, and shortly the musicians started collaborating at occasional reveals. Mayer was invited to hitch the surviving Grateful Lifeless members for a collection of fiftieth anniversary reveals, additional setting issues into movement.
Lifeless & Firm was formally introduced in fall of 2015, and the group would embark on their first tour that yr. The band has remained lively ever since, often heading out on summer time treks and acting at among the largest festivals on the earth.
“Effectively, it appears like that is it for this outfit,” Weir famous when the 2023 tour was unveiled, saying that this tour can be Lifeless & Firm’s final. “However don’t fear, we are going to all be on the market in a single kind or one other till we drop.”
Lifeless & Firm, Oracle Park, San Francisco, 7/16/23
1. “Bertha”
2. “Good Lovin’”
3. “Loser”
4. “Excessive Time”
5. “Samson and Delilah”
6. “Althea”
7. “Expensive Mr. Fantasy”
8. “Hey Jude”
9. “Chook Track”
10. “Assistance on the Method”
11. “Slipknot!”
12. “Franklin’s Tower”
13. “Estimated Prophet”
14. “Eyes of the World”
15. “Drums”
16. “House”
17. “Days Between”
18. “Cumberland Blues”
19. “Sugar Magnolia”
20. “Truckin'”
21. “Brokedown Palace”
22. “Not Fade Away”
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Even the Grateful Lifeless’s most ardent supporters admit that making albums wasn’t one the band’s strengths.
