Have You Ever Heard a Rainbow? }{ Trey Comes Out in Santa Clara

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The band was unquestionably tentative while performing the first weekend of the “Fare Thee Well” celebrations at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The “core four” hadn’t played together much over the last decade and there’s only so much that limited rehearsals can accomplish. This was particularly true for Trey Anastasio, charged with learning around 90 songs to cover the five night run across which they repeated only two numbers. It’s understandable – even laudable – that Trey would restrain his bombastic Phish persona for this project, resulting in equal measure from lack of comfort with the material and respect for his position in Jerry Garcia’s spot. Most agree that it wasn’t until a week later, for the first show in Chicago on July 3rd, that he really started to let loose. In the post-show wrap-up on the MLB video stream Steve Liesman referred to Friday night’s performance as “Trey’s coming out party” as he soared through two sets of material from 72-78, much of which suits his style very nicely indeed. But there were moments in Santa Clara that prefigured Chicago and let us all know what Trey was capable of in this context.
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The first time this struck me was during the lengthy jamming on “Viola Lee Blues” to close the first set of the run. The band was dragging its feet a bit, but in the last jam section before the spacey meltdown conclusion the band picks up the tempo and Trey gets into some soloing that takes the whole affair up a couple of notches. Listening to one of the audience recordings from the taper section you would be forgiven for thinking that the uproarious cheering that sends up as Trey moves his riffs into the higher octaves (starting around 2:05 in the excerpt above) came in appreciation of the guitarist finally letting his guard down. This was, however, the exact moment that the infamous rainbow appeared causing everyone to lose their shit, so perfectly timed to coincide with this shining conclusion to the first set that some were convinced it had to have been staged. It was certainly appropriate visual support for what I would argue was Trey’s real coming out moment well ahead of Chicago’s Friday night barn-burner. The synchronicity of the moment was all but lost on the video stream where differentiations in crowd noise were carefully dampened and the rainbow wasn’t revealed until right at the very end of Trey’s solo. But in the stadium it was exhilarating. For this one, friends, you had to be there.

 

 

Posted on July 12, 2015 at 9:26 pm by rjordan · Permalink
In: Concerts, Dead50, Grateful Dead

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