A rock & Roll show should never be confused with elemental atomic fusion. Yet, there's where we began Phil & Tour's Friends las night in Santa Barbara. Those initial cords that invited everyone to "Come & Join The Party" were almost like subversive lyrics for a New Communisum of happiness & hope, but somehow mellowed into a first set beyond the unfolded World of expertise joy-spreading. Sugaree, Sorrowfully, we danced as the very songs they sung carried the night into rock-your-belly Dixie-Dom. What goes here? Alright, I'll skip to the second set. Hell, I'll call this thing a a RIOT, because them guys down there on that stage should be arrested for assault. "Cold Rain & Snow" with a gut-killer mandate. Then Dylan showed up, in the form of Little Jackie Green Man Leather Black Pant Tight, as he Funk/struck "Serve Somebody". It grooved it's way back into Rock, how I couldn't say. The Other One banished Bobby, when a cop came by, as Phil was smiled at for clouding on a busted day. OK, all this was cool, but..... "Brown Sugar"? Honest. I shouldn't say any more. So, you do the rest.

at our show, it was Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.

Sounds like we got a completely different setlist, though I didn't keep one. Also we got Barry Sless on pedal steel for a while, and that was a treat.

I got miracled in during the break and saw Candyman, The Wheel, Lazy River Road, Sugar Mag, Playin' in the Band, St. Stephen, Hard Rain, Tom Thumb's Blues, and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by Bob Dylan...and outside in front I heard Cumberland Blues and before I got there I heard they played Deal and The Weight by the Band from Big Pink. Lots of loud country-western rock! He was good. Where's the set list?

Phil made a speech at the end and asked everyone to sign up for organ donations: "Tell a family member that you want your organs donated in case something should happen to you!"

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There was no opening act at the Greek, but that's all I can speak for!

Thank you Phil and the boys for dragging my ass out of the funk I was stuck in last night!!! You guys rocked like you did in the good ol days! Thx for restoring the faith! The other one left me born again....

'so I think I'll drift for old where it's at where the weed grows green and fine,And wrap myself around a bush of that bright whoah,oh,Oaxaca vine'-R.P.and P.L.