WILMINGTON — The ultimate Grateful Dead tribute act performed at Tuesday, May 16, at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater.
The seven-piece jam band tours extensively annually, recreating Dead experiences, but never replicating a setlist. For 25 years, they have played 3,100 shows, culling songs from popular Dead tours to create unique sets.
According to MoonFrog Media’s Tom Dorgan, who caught photos of the show for Port City Daily, DSO tapped into 1976 — Sept. 25, to be precise — in Wilmington earlier this week.
“It was a great show and one that was released by the Grateful Dead in their Dick’s Pick Vol. 20,” Dorgan said.
Dick’s Pick is a series of 36 multi-CD sets of live Dead music from the band’s vault.
The DSO show was an early one, starting at 5 p.m., and included quite a few covers the Dead did back in the day — “Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard and “Not Fade Away” by The Crickets, for instance.
Below are the setlists and photos:
Set 1
Bertha
New Minglewood Blues (Noaj Lewis)
Ramble On Rose
Cassidy
Brown Eyed Women
Mama Tried (Merle Haggard)
Peggy-O
It’s All Over Now (The Valentinos)
Loser
Let It Grow
Sugaree
Set 2
Lazy Lightnin’ > Supplication (Kingfish)
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
Dancing In The Street (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas)
Cosmic Charlie
Scarlet Begonias
Saint Stephen > Not Fade Away (The Crickets) > Drums > Jam > Saint Stephen > Sugar Magnolia
Mr. Charlie
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