Furthur Stories

Furthur Summer Tour 2011 Visual Setlists

For a write-up on how to read and interpret visual setlists, click on over here.Visual Setlist Legend2011-07-15 All Good Festival Morgantown, WVOne: Jack Straw, Bertha, Money For Gasoline, Ramble On Rose, Big River, Cold Rain And Snow, Viola Lee Blues > Turn On Your LovelightTwo: Truckin' > New Speedway Boogie > Corrina &...

Furthur Summer Tour 2011 Rotation Infographic

Summer's here and the time is right for Dancing In The Streets! Friday kicked off Furthur's several week long jaunt and The Barn will keep you informed about what tunes are seeing the most action, infographic style.Furthur fans who played along at home last spring know the drill. We mark songs played within the...

Friday Linkafication

Our Symphony Sunday features was partially inspired by Cathy Richardson telling me about this event which will be broadcast this weekendMaybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney is looking for the best coverOur friends in The Steepwater Band have a brand new songGet well with Widespread Panic's John Bell (Wall Street Journal)Don't tell me this...

Friday Linkafication: Bob Dylan Is 70 Edition

Happy Birthday Bob! We learn more about you every day.Awesome! Cover Me Songs finds a cover of every Dylan song he's ever written.I am above average. I bet you are, too.Mega-tickets are exactly as their name implies.Furthur, Live at Your House June 7thRumor: Paul McCartney at Wrigley this summerVideo Time!Have...

Furthur Spring Tour 2011 - By The Numbers

Came here looking for Summer Tour Info? Follow this link: http://tomorrowsverse.com/furthur You like the stats? Here are some key statistics about the songs played on Furthur's Spring 2011 tour (this breakdown includes the three night run in CO in February as well...for more information on data sources, please see the footnote at...

Furthur Spring Tour 2011 Rotation InfoGraphic

Came here looking for Summer Tour Info? Follow this link: http://tomorrowsverse.com/furthur Updated with data from the Boca Raton show.We're back! After taking the last couple of mini runs (NYE and Broomfield) off, we are here to deliver day-by-day rotation updates for Spring Tour.You may also notice some of the totals...

Friday Linkafication

Some kick ass photos of the Furthur tour from Jambase.Enter your twitter account name and, using the hunch.com recommendation engine, this site will create a music playlist for you. Gotta admit, it worked pretty well for me.For the Dylan completist. Store, Organize. Display Appreciate... the entire body of work. Bootlegs too?This...

Furthur Completes Abbey Road On Phil's Birthday In New York: Setlist and Video

Well, that timing worked out just perfectly. After tackling an Abbey Road song, in order, each day of their Spring Tour, Furthur arrived at The Beatles' two album closing musical suites just in time for Phil Lesh's 71st birthday. Tucking the so-called Sun King and Golden Slumbers in the middle of a beefy second set...

Furthur and Grateful Dead InfoGraphics, Volume One

Updated 3/8 based on some discrepancies identified by the philzone.org communityThere's just something about Furthur. They've got so much Grateful Dead X-Factor yet still feel like their own band.I thought it'd be cool to start a series of InfoGraphics that compared the approaches of each of these bands that, using only setlist data and...

The Prehistory of Furthur’s John Kadelick: A Hairball Willie Stream and Download

John Kadelick has been turning heads all over the country with Phil Lesh and Bob Weir in Furthur, and before that with Dark Star Orchestra. But those of us in Chicago have been seeing John perform from way back, some of us even before the days of $5 cover DSO at Martyr's on Tuesday nights.I...