Phil Lesh - 2023-03-15 - Portchester, NY (Webcast)

Phil Lesh & Friends

2023-03-15

Capitol Theater

Portchester NY

Webcast Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set

01. Tuning > Jam >

02. Help On The Way >

03. Slipknot >

04. Cumberland Blues

05. Dire Wolf

06. Scarlet Begonias >

07. Fire On The Mountain >

08. Scarlet Begonias

09. Franklins Tower

2nd Set

10. Tuning > Jam >

11. Not Fade Away 

12. Playin’ In The Band

13. St. Stephen>

14. The Other One >

15. Long Time Gone >

16. The Wheel >

17. Let It Grow

Encore

18. Donor Rap > Band Intros > Happy Birthday Phil

19. I Know You Rider

Phil Lesh - 2023-03-15 - Portchester, NY (Webcast)

2020s - #3: On March 15, 2023, just 3 years ago today, the late, great Phil Lesh celebrated his 83rd birthday on stage at the Capitol Theater in Portchester, NJ, as captured in this webcast recording. The Capitol, which was a concert hall in the early 1970s, then functioned as a broadway style theater and catering hall foor almost 4 decades before re-opening as a concert venue in 2012, has become sort of a home away from home for Phil & Friends. In fact, tonight, he'll be there again, celebrating birthday #78. Of course, Phil's connection to the venue went back to his days with the Grateful Dead, who played 17 shows at the Capitol between March 1970 and February 1971. Jerry Garcia loved the venue, once proclaiming that "there’s only two theaters, man… that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.” Little wonder then that the lobby bar at the newly renovated Capitol is named Garcia's. In any event, this would be Phil's next to last birthday celebration at the venue.  He would return again in 2024, just 7 months prior to his passing in Octiber that year.