Phil Lesh And Friends, Millett Assembly Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 10/29/1999

After the Other Ones summer tour of 1998, we were all convinced that this new creation, the closest thing to the Grateful Dead that many of us teenagers had experienced, would continue on. Fall tour 1998! Spring tour 1999! 

Alas, it took about one ratdog tour after Further Festival to realize that wasn't the case. Nonetheless, I left tour pretty pumped, and after some time in Oregon, I ended up back in Ohio. I dived into tape trading, music listening, working, a girlfriend, and time passed. 

In 1999 we learned that all was not well in Grateful Dead world, as the band wrestled with their future as a corporate entity and had some beef with each other about the future. They wound down some items, even while floating the idea of a future Grateful Dead museum and venue aptly named Terrapin Station. 

Those Phil shows with Trey in April were amazing. I got pristine copies like two weeks after they happened, so very fast. I was thrilled Kimock was playing with Phil, let alone anyone else, and I loved Phil's new concept of a core with different musicians joining in. 

I desperately wanted to run off and see Phil and Bobby and Mickey in the spring, summer, and fall of 1999, they were quite active, but I got sidetracked by family drama as my father was going through a divorce and it left him pretty hollow. 

I thought I'd be able to do fall Phil tour, but things didn't work out, so I only hit a couple of shows, including this one at Oxford, on 10/29/1999. This was the worst Phil Lesh show or related Grateful Dead show I ever saw. 

Phil opened, and Boby Dylan closed. 

I was all in on Steve Kimock, and of course had been gorging on Zero and KVWH all year. So in the line for the show, where i discovered Kimock had left the tour the night before, was pretty awful news. Also awful news: my seat. I was literally next to a football player meathead security guy, who talked the entire show to a cheerleader who he got into the show. Additional awful news; no lead guitarist. Pretty tough to watch the band work through the setlist with no real lead guitar or interplay. I did appreciate the Willin>Don't Bogart that Joint>Willin, but the Eyes of the World was awful. I left this show pretty disappointed. 

On that note, the Bob Dylan show was amazing!

Phil Lesh & Friends, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 10/29/1999

Wolfman's Brother> Jam> Half Step> Jam, Broken Arrow, Alabama Getaway, Willin'> Don't Bogart That Joint> Willin', Eyes> Get Together

The Band: Phil Lesh, John Molo, Paul Barrere (guitar), Billy Payne (keys)

Bob Dylan, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 10/29/1999

I Am The Man, Thomas (acoustic) (song by Ralph Stanley and Larry Sparks)

Mr. Tambourine Man (acoustic)

Masters Of War (acoustic)

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (acoustic)

Tangled Up In Blue (acoustic) (with harp)

Watching The River Flow

When I Paint My Masterpiece

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

Not Dark Yet

Highway 61 Revisited

Love Sick

Like A Rolling Stone

Blowin' In The Wind (acoustic)

Not Fade Away