Happy 82nd Birthday Phil! We love you, and miss you, and hope that you are healthy and happy and having the best day ever today! So looking forward to seeing you, and hearing you soon!
Phil Lesh is playing next at… Skull and Roses, & The Frost Amphitheater & Levitate Festival & the Phil Lesh Incident at Red Rocks!
Here’s a triple Box hit for us all to enjoy:
1. “Darkness” show campfire Encore | Phil Lesh, Neal Casal, Jackie Greene, Adam MacDougal, Mark Levy, Cass McCombs | 7/5/2016
2. Phil Lesh and Friends Ross James, Stu Allen, Scott Guberman, Alex Koford Dead of Winter 1/8/2018
3. Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Nation Seder II Band 4/27/2016 Phil Lesh, Lebo, Grahame Lesh, Ross James, Scott Guberman, Jeanette Ferber, Ezra Lipp
Going back to where it all began, a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago. I couldn’t be more excited to take this trip down to Palo Alto with my dear friends Grahame Lesh, Scott Metzger, Joe Russo, John Scofield, and Benmont Tench.
Was it ever here at all? Was it a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago?
Well, as Bob Weir once sang “Dreams are lies…. it’s the dreaming that’s real”. Or in this case, the streaming is real, proof that it happened.
I had March 8th marked on my 2012 calendar, as “Casual Opening” – somewhere I had gotten word that that is when Phil was going to open the restaurant we new he purchased, the former Seafood Peddler, and the adjacent Palm Ballroom (soon to be the Grate Room.) And yet I never saw an announcement, and I clearly didn’t know that sometimes at Terrapin things would happen without much notice… from day 1!
I was invited to the Ashkenaz Berkeley that night to see Deadicated Maniacs (a David Nelson Band tribute band) – and then I noticed Jay Blakesberg tweeting pictures and setlist… from Terrapin Crossroads! Instantly TxR FOMO became a reality – something that would affect myself and many others over the next few years. In 1999 when I missed Phil at the Warfield with Trey, Paige and Kimock, I made myself a promise to make as many Phil Lesh & Friends shows as possible from that point on, I never wanted to miss this magic again! When the TxR FOMO hit that night in 2012, I realized I messed up, and recommitted myself to see Phil as much as a I could, and that very clearly meant I needed to be at Terrapin Crossroads ALL THE TIME!
The next day I was in line early to get a spot up front… and spent a fair portion of the next 9 years in line, on the rail, and listening to Phil Lesh and all of his wonderful friends, and when i could, making videos or streaming it out to all of you on Deadheadland. I moved to Marin a month later, and as they say, the rest is history… my history and Terrapin’s were very intertwined. Until the very end of that final Ripple played by Stu Allen and Mars Hotel…
I haven’t seen Phil in 6 months (when he sat in with Midnight North in September, the last time he himself was publicly at TxR) – though so looking forward to feeling his bass bomb my nervous system at Skull and Roses in April!
Anyway, the streaming is real…. While I missed the 1st night, my good friend Photographer Stuart Levine was there, and shot these videos, the 1st official unofficial videos from Terrapin Crossroads “Casual Opening” on March 8, 2012. Phil is joined by Grahame Lesh, Jeff Chimenti, Tim Bluhm, Jackie Greene, Nicki Bluhm, Jordan Levine, and the one and only, Ross MF James!
Uncle John’s Band – 3.8.2012 Terrapin Crossroads Casual Opening
Bob Weir dropped by to play 3 songs with his Grateful Dead bandmate/brother Phil Lesh this past Saturday afternoon, May 1, 2021. It was his first public performance in about 14 months, since the pandemic began, and concerts and tours were all put on hold around the world.
While Bob Weir & Wolf Bros. has done several live-streamed shows from his TRI studios, with audiences watching and joining virtually via Fans.com, and he has made other online appearances during this time, this was Bob Weir’s first time with a real live audience since Wolf Bros. in Chicago, March 11, 2020.
Bob Weir had just announced 4 shows in Colorado, which promptly sold out. And while that was touted as their return to the public stage, the Weir-wolf himself has already made that return.
Phil Lesh and The Terrapin All-Stars resumed performing shows this Spring, socially distant pod-style dinner shows on Terrapin Crossroads Backyard Stage in Beach Park, San Rafael California.
The Terrapin All-Stars, are a rotating group of mostly (but not exclusively) local musicians who have frequently performed at Terrapin with Phil in the past. The line-up on Saturday featured Jackie Greene guitar, Grahame Lesh guitar, Jason Crosby keyboards, John Molo drums – and for 3 songs, Bob Weir.
Photos (and Setlist) by Ting Vogel | videos by Doug Clifton
SETLIST St. Stephen️ * Uncle John’s Band * Shakedown Street * Mississippi Half-Step Wharf Rat with Dark Star Tease Midnight Hour Jack Straw Lovelight Not Fade Away with Mountain Jam Tease Donor Rap
*With Bob Weir
Terrapin Crossroads began producing some outdoor, limited attendance, socially distant, pod-style dinner shows there last Summer, with the first lifting of restrictions, closed again when there was a Covid scare within their ranks; Reopened again in September 2020 – only to shut down again in December when all of California returned to “stay at home“.
Terrapin Crossroads 1st outdoor dinner show of 2021 was on April 1st, and they have done a dozen or so since then, as well as 2 shows by Grahame Lesh‘s band Midnight North.
“Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo “>”Wharf Rat”>”In the Midnight Hour”
Terrapin Crossroads leases Beach Park from the city, the property is adjacent to their restaurant, and in the pre-pandemic days would be regularly open to the public, as well as a frequent home to concerts, both free and ticketed, by Phil, his friends, and various other bands. Originally they were required to do at least 7 free concerts each year, and Phil easily fulfilled this part of the deal and beyond. While these outdoor shows have been very limited tickets, and therefor on the expensive side ($112.50 per person, and purchasing of pod-tables of 2, 3, and 4 adds up!) – as restrictions are lifted, perhaps we can expect some lower prices and even free events later in the year. Phil said from stage one night that he expects Terrapin to be going at full force by Fall.
Jack Straw”>”Lovelight”>”Not Fade Away” Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Allstars (Phil, Jackie Greene, Grahame Lesh , Jason Crosby , and John Molo] Terrapin Crossroads Backyard San Rafael, CA 5/1/2021
___________ Listen to Bob Weir & Wolf Bros. Chicago 3.11.2020:
SETLIST 
St. Stephen️ *
Uncle John’s Band *
Shakedown Street *
Mississippi Half-Step
Wharf Rat with Dark Star Tease
Midnight Hour
Jack Straw
Lovelight
Not Fade Away with Mountain Jam Tease
Donor Rap
