On Saturday night my buddies Hurl,Buzzard and I went to the
Mickey Hart Band concert in Sherwood Park at
Festival Place (a great venue by the way), this was the second of a two night stand for the band here. This was my first time seeing a show at this venue and first time ever seeing a member of the
Grateful Dead perform in concert. For those that don't know Mickey Hart was the drummer in the
Grateful Dead.
The night started with opening band the African Showboyz, whom were four members that all played drums and shakers of one sort or another. In all honesty, I didn't much care for them.
After them it was time for the
Mickey Hart Band who had a nine piece band playing with him. This show was a drum extravaganza if there ever was one. Mickey of course on drums as well as two other drummers
Sikiru Adepoju and
Greg Schutte. And when they were all going, holy fuck did this show ever get hypnotizing at times, I felt like I was in a trance a few times especially during the first set. But then, that could of been because of being under the influence. The show opened with the
Jefferson Airplane song "
White Rabbit", opening with that gives you an indication of what kind of night we were in for. The lady singing for the
Mickey Hart Band Crystal Monee Hall had an amazing voice, that could be raw and bluesy but also angelic to the pint you could lose yourself in her singing, very cool. Also in the band was bass player
Dave Schools who also plays in the band
Widespread Panic, another jam band. He had the funky bass shit going on all night.
The show consisted of two sets which was nice, cause like I say, was losing it at times during the first set. Some fresh air and a break from the hypnotic music did me a lot of good. That, and I was starting to sober up, which helped too. I enjoyed the second set more. All and all the show was about two and a half hours long with lots of hippies in their tie-dyed t-shirts dancing the night away. Good times!!!
Setlist for the Edmonton show.
white rabbit, scarlet/fire,the sermon, west l.a., djinn/ who stole the show, starlight........ set 2: (rainforest)/supersonic, i can tell you more/ the other one/ mountains of the moon/other one/drone, morning dew, slo-joe rain. encore: brokedown
Few Pictures from the show.
Limited Edition Poster from the show.
Free stickers I picked up at the show.
T-shirt front.
T-shirt back.
