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I went to concerts the last two weekends. Two weeks ago Joan Osborne Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne at the Fox in Oakland. First, if you haven’t been to the Fox go – it’s gorgeous. A tremendous venue. Bonnie Raitt is a treasure. She has not lost a step. Tremendous voice, good guitarist, excellent slide guitarist. Just terrific. Jackson Browne was pretty good as well. He was at his best playing “For a Dancer”. Osborne was fine. Of course I also had to sit through 20 minutes of Mickey Hart on a synthesizer making all sorts of bizarre and very loud noises. I’m a brobdingnagian Grateful Dead fan – but not even I could handle that. Wavy Gravy was the MC. I’m 60. I think I was under the average age.

Last Friday was The Infamous Stringdusters at the Fillmore. The best way I can describe them is “high speed Bluegrass.” Guitar, dobro, stand up bass, fiddle, banjo. All are tremendous musicians and all can sing. And they absolutely cooked. They do a fair amount of Dead covers,although they didn’t Friday. They did Don’t Think Twice it’s All Right, For What it’s Worth and a bunch of stuff I’ve never heard. I loved it. Again if you haven’t been to the Fillmore I highly recommend it. They have a lot of excellent acts there that are not particularly well known. 25 bucks. Only downside is you have to stand the entire time. No seating. But they do have a couple of bars where you can at least sit and relax a bit. As for the Stringdusters check them out on YouTube. Terrific stuff.

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Second that.

if you have not already, go see Bohemian Rhapsody

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I went to concerts the last two weekends. Two weeks ago Joan Osborne Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne at the Fox in Oakland. First, if you haven’t been to the Fox go – it’s gorgeous. A tremendous venue. Bonnie Raitt is a treasure. She has not lost a step. Tremendous voice, good guitarist, excellent slide guitarist. Just terrific. Jackson Browne was pretty good as well. He was at his best playing “For a Dancer”. Osborne was fine. Of course I also had to sit through 20 minutes of Mickey Hart on a synthesizer making all sorts of bizarre and very loud noises. I’m a brobdingnagian Grateful Dead fan – but not even I could handle that. Wavy Gravy was the MC. I’m 60. I think I was under the average age.

Last Friday was The Infamous Stringdusters at the Fillmore. The best way I can describe them is “high speed Bluegrass.” Guitar, dobro, stand up bass, fiddle, banjo. All are tremendous musicians and all can sing. And they absolutely cooked. They do a fair amount of Dead covers,although they didn’t Friday. They did Don’t Think Twice it’s All Right, For What it’s Worth and a bunch of stuff I’ve never heard. I loved it. Again if you haven’t been to the Fillmore I highly recommend it. They have a lot of excellent acts there that are not particularly well known. 25 bucks. Only downside is you have to stand the entire time. No seating. But they do have a couple of bars where you can at least sit and relax a bit. As for the Stringdusters check them out on YouTube. Terrific stuff.

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Second that.

if you have not already, go see Bohemian Rhapsody