NASHVILLE |DATE: APRIL 1, 2009
FROM: TODD BRODGINSKI/MITCH SCHNEIDER/BARI LIEBERMAN
the DEAD
PERFORM THREE FREE CLUB SHOWS
IN MANHATTAN MONDAY NIGHT
IN PREPARATION OF THEIR UPCOMING SPRING TOUR
The group was in New York preparing for their upcoming spring tour and decided to do what they love most: playing live in front of an audience. The weekend kicked off with Weir and Lesh sitting in with the Allman Brothers Band for the last night of that group’s 15-show Beacon Theatre residency, where they played “Sugaree,” “I Know You Rider” and “Franklin’s Tower.”
The DEAD started the marathon day Monday with a performance on ABC-TV’s “The View,” where Weir, Lesh and Haynes performed “Friend of the Devil” and talked about their music and the upcoming tour with two of the show’s hosts, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar.
At 5pm, the first of three sets began at the intimate Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts with the trio performing a rare acoustic set highlighted by “a largely instrumental, 20-minute version of ‘Bird Song,’ the three men weaving guitar lines in and around each other,” according to David Browne from RollingStone.com. After a full band electric set at the Gramercy Theatre, the band’s cab tour through New York took them to the largest of the three venues, Roseland Ballroom, for an “expansive, energetic set…[that] began with two up-tempo ballads before moving into renditions of some of the band’s most renowned improvisational vehicles” (Seth Schiesel, NYTimes.com). As Browne also noted, “the Dead awed an enraptured, dancing crowd with nearly two more hours of music” to cap off this historical night.
The group’s 3-set show Monday night featured the following songs:
Angel Orensanz Set List: (capacity: 500)
Dire Wolf
Birdsong
Cumberland Blues
Pride of Cucamonga
High Time
Lazy River Road
Casey Jones
Encore: Ripple
Gramercy Theatre Set List: (capacity: 600)
Playin in the Band
Good Lovin’
The Wheel
Franklin's Tower
Encore: Touch of Gray
Roseland Ballroom Set List: (capacity: 3000)
Althea
Cassidy
Uncle John's Band
Eyes of the World
St. Stephen
Dark Star
Sugar Magnolia
Encore: Not Fade Away
For the tour–their first in five years, kicking off April 12 in North Carolina–all the headlining DEAD gigs will be performed as “An Evening With:” marathon, two-set shows, with no opening act, except for the Gorge. For the latest DEAD news and ticketing info, please go to www.Dead.net or www.Dead.Net/Dead09, or check out a recent Q&A with the group at http://www.msopr.com/?q=node/4380. In other live news, the Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group recently confirmed that they’ll make their only summer appearance, headlining the Rothbury Festival, taking place over July 4 weekend in Michigan.
| DATE: | CITY: |
VENUE: | |
| Sun | 4/12 | Greensboro, NC | Greensboro Coliseum |
| Tue | 4/14 | Washington, DC | Verizon Center |
| Wed | 4/15 | Charlottesville, VA | John Paul Jones Arena |
| Fri | 4/17 | Albany, NY | Times Union Center |
| Sat | 4/18 | Worcester, MA | DCU Center |
| Sun | 4/19 | Worcester, MA | DCU Center |
| Tue | 4/21 | Buffalo, NY | HSBC Arena |
| Wed | 4/22 | Wilkes-Barre, PA | Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza |
| Fri | 4/24 | Uniondale, NY | Nassau Coliseum |
| Sat | 4/25 | New York, NY | Madison Square Garden |
| Sun | 4/26 | Hartford, CT | XL Center |
| Tue | 4/28 | E. Rutherford, NJ | IZOD Center (w/special guest Marsalis |
| Wed | 4/29 | E. Rutherford, NJ | IZOD Center (w/special guest Marsalis |
| Fri | 5/1 | Philadelphia, PA | The Wachovia Spectrum |
| Sat | 5/2 | Philadelphia, PA | The Wachovia Spectrum |
| Mon | 5/4 | Chicago, IL | Allstate Arena |
| Tue | 5/5 | Chicago, IL | Allstate Arena |
| Thu | 5/7 | Denver, CO | Pepsi Center |
| Sat | 5/9 | Los Angeles, CA | The Forum |
| Sun | 5/10 | Mountain View, CA | Shoreline Amphitheatre |
| Thu | 5/14 | Mountain View, CA | Shoreline Amphitheatre |
| Sat | 5/16 | George, WA | The Gorge (w/ Allman Brothers) |
For more information on the DEAD contact:
MSO 818.380.0400
Todd Brodginski 818.380.0400 x239 toddb@msopr.com
Bari Lieberman 818.380.0400 x222 blieberman@msopr.com
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