Phil Lesh and Friends - North American Tour 2006
CD385 - Instant Live: 17 shows, 51 CDs
Phil Lesh and Friends - North American Tour 2006
This set includes
the following shows:
June 20th Nashville,
TN
June 23rd Tampa, FL
June 28th Raleigh, NC
June 30th Camden,
NJ
July 1st Holmdel, NJ
July 2nd Saratoga, NY
July 3rd Hartford, CT
July 6th Mansfield, MA
July 7th Wantagh, NY
July 8th Darien Lakes, NY
July 9th Bethel, NY
July 11th Scranton, PA
July 12th Essex Junction, VT July
14th Columbus, OH
July 15th Indianapolis, IN
July 16th Chicago, IL
July 18th Louisville, KY
The whole tour consisted of 26 shows. The following shows are missing from this collection: 6/17, 6/18, 6/22, 6/24, 6/25, 6/25, 6/27, 7/19, 7/20.
from Wikipedia:
During 2006, Phil Lesh and Friends consisted of a core of musicians including Lesh, Larry Campbell (guitar, violin, slide guitar, mandolin, and vocals), Joan Osborne (vocals), Rob Barraco (keyboards and vocals), and John Molo (drums). On the first half of the summer tour, they were joined by John Scofield (guitar), and on the second half, by Barry Sless (pedal steel) and, during the third quarter of the tour and generally for the second set, by Trey Anastasio. Saxophonist Greg Orsby joined the group for various concerts, particularly toward the end of the tour, and guest artists including Page McConnell and Dickey Betts sat in for individual sets. Concerts with Scofield had a jazzy, astringent quality. Anastasio contributed a strong rock lead guitar to the sets he played in, while Sless brought a softer, more lyrical quality. The relative lack of comment about these lineups compared to the earlier "Quintet" and later 2007-8 configuration suggests that they were not as popular with Lesh's core fan base, but they gave unique and varied interpretations to some of the Grateful Dead's classics along with numerous other songs. Furthermore, the fact that the entire tour was distributed online and later via Instant Live CDs, and a live DVD was made of an early concert at the Warfield (with Scofield and Orsby), meant that the various configurations of the year's lineup left a larger body of recorded work than many groups that worked together for years.
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Phil & Friends has continued the Grateful Dead's tradition of allowing fans to record concerts, and trade these recordings freely. The Internet has been an invaluable source for these tapers to disseminate this music through various sources, including Archive.org, and the vast BitTorrent file-sharing network. Phil has also embraced the Internet by providing free soundboard recordings of many concerts through his website, even providing high-resolution CD covers for fans to print. For his Summer 2006 tour, Phil partnered with Instant Live, a company that was able to provide soundboard CDs of a concert immediately upon its finishing, as well as make these recordings available for fans to download online, though this service was not free.