Dave introduced the first band, which was not too shabby at all.
But from the first bass notes of Crush, All of the crowd and I were on our feet and singng every word along with Dave. I never respected fool to think until I heard it live, and especially segued into grace is gone, where I hed my breath as Boyd began his solo, but let it out and screamed my guts out after his beautiful delivery. Both Minarets and OSW sound lousy and ameturish on RTT, but the band played them so much tighter live. The cool thing about OSW was that I recognised the intro to it and knew it was OSW before anyone else in my row did, having played it myself. I shreaked out: "ONE SWEET WORLD!" and everybody looked at me like I was drunk or something. Then they all looked at me and smiled when they recognised the first chords.
A total phish tribute, Two Step was 20 minutes long just as I excpected, and Butch shook the whole Columbia River with his ripsnorting extended piano solo.
My favorite had to be everyday, with spoon a very close second. After segueing from 41, he began playing everyday and everybody (including me) started chanting "honey honey, come and dance with me." I don't know if dave intended to or not, but after he finished everyday he kept playing and caught on to our singing #36 and began singing it right along with us.
I was so happy he played Ants Marching, because there wasn't a soul in the gorge who didn't know every single word. During SMTS, however, I noticed the lower string hammer-on thing that someone talked about on an earlier thread. But it had a cool outro transition to PNP.
I didn't particularly like the use of rapunzel as a closer, but the song sounded good anyway. Then Dave had us wait a distressing ten minutes cheering for an encore. When he finally came back on, he played a great version of Minarets and Stay, which was okay, with the recording of the lovely ladies and all.
All I can say is that I hve never been more pissed in my life when I found out which songs were played at the gorge the folloeing night, which I missed. I wanted Granny and DDTW to be played so bad, but, all in all, I am going to see as many dave concerts as possible as long as the band exists.
