The Dead, Greensboro 4/12/2009

So far I listened to most of the first set from this concert. It is not bad! The music is recognizably Grateful Dead music: the fat, fluid bass lines; the tempo shifts from pulsing jam to white-hot intensity to deep weirdness; the rhythmic complexity; the sense that each instrument is doing something interesting on its own, with the combination somehow powerful and resonant instead of discordant and noisy. The total fluidity isn't there yet; the original band played together for 30 years, and this incarnation only for a few months. 4/12/2009 is the first concert in the tour though; as time goes on they should get tighter.