Furthur Tickets Tomorrow!

Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. tomorrow for the summer  furthur show at the wonderful St. Augustine Ampitheater July 30 and in Atlanta at Alpharetta's Verizon Wireless Ampitheater on July 31. Atlanta show tickets are on sale now.

Those are the only true southern stops on the tour, which starts June 3 in Callifornia and winds up with the Atlanta show. So get yer keyboard fingers ready and click your way to the show!

furthur rocks Atlanta

The Deadhead faithful converged on the unbelievably ornate Fox Theater on Atlanta last night (stars on the ceiling! Egyptian carvings in the bathroom!Fancy loom-woven seat cushions!) for a furthur show that a few folks I talked to said was the best of the Hampton-Charleston-Atlanta run.

I really can find few words for this show, other than you had to be there.... down on the floor, no one sat down and the bamd rolled out one gem after another, impeccably played, with a sublime space jam and Dark Star into Pink Floyd's Time smack in the middle.

The energy in that place was amazing, that's all I gotta say.

Here is the setlist and you check out the audio here.

I: Hell in a Bucket, Cold Rain and Snow, West L.A. Fadeaway, To Lay Me Down, Peggy-O, Ramble On Rose, Samson and Delilah, Deal


II: Iko Iko, Last Time, Wharf Rat > Born Cross-Eyed > Dark Star > Time > Breathe Reprise > Dear Prudence > The Eleven, Lady with a Fan > Terrapin > At a Siding > Terrapin Flyer

E: Brokedown Palace

Only ''To Lay Me Down''; Only ''Last Time''

furthur heads to Florida with shows in Orlando and Boca Raton next!

Furthur Hits the South!

Furthur comes to our neck of the woods next week, with shows in Atlanta, Orlando, and Boca Raton. I know there are still tickets available online for the Orlando show at the UCF Arena.

The show they put on last year in Orlando (at the Hard Rock Live in Epcot, of all places) was one to remember. It wasn't some oldies Dead show. This was a chance for Grateful Dead  players still at the top of their game to strut their stuff with some fine younger additions and take us along for the long strange trip. Phil Lesh anbsolutely KILLED it with his hellaciously jazzy-jammy bass lines.

Some people I know make fun of Deadheads for being grandparents and great grandparents by now. Well screw that noise. How beautiful to see all those ages mixed together at the show, grooving together to some very tasty tunes. To build a community in the 1960s and have it stil vibrant in the 2000s, well, that's a prodigious feat, and one to celebrate.

festgrrl will be celebrating at the Furthur show (with floor seats!) Sunday night at Atlanta's Fox Theater, oh yeah!

ATTENTION DEADHEADS!

Internet Pre-Sale tickets open this Friday, Jan. 7, at noon, for the three southeast shows on Furthur's spring tour. That's Sunday April 3, at Atlanta's Fox Theater, Tuesday, April 5 at the UCF Arena in Orlando, and Wednesday, April 6 at the Mizner Park Ampitheater in Boca Raton.

Regular sales, through Ticketmaster, open January 14 at 10 a.m. Write it down on your calendars, y'all, and see you at one of the shows!