7/14/10 - Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain - Scranton, PA

[TMS2787]

I hardly post here anymore or do reviews of anything but here goes...

I was able to get a last minute pit ticket from Bmcallahan82, big thanks to you man!

Anyway here goes...

I missed all of Amos Lee, so I cannot comment on the performance.

I like many others on this board are usually quite critical of the setlists and songs played at shows I go too, I went to Blossom a few weeks ago and my friend said to me afterwards: "I don't think you will ever be completely satisfied with a setlist." This is partly true but tonight maybe the closest I come for a very, very long time. The Stone was a great opener for me and I loved hearing it after a long absence for me. Another great Warehouse with the original intro, I must admit that I do miss the whoos at the start of the song and then Grace Is Gone's hoedown outro was pure insanity. A lot of people probably didn't care for You Might Die Trying and Lying In The Hands Of God being played but as they are two of my favorites off of their respective albums I was more than thrilled and the LITHOG jam? Fire! I was not expecting Cry Freedom and Busted Stuff but man! I could not complain about them. The mid-set One Sweet World (which I have not heard since both 2005 shows), Improv, PNP -> Rapunzle (first of the tour)! section was great and flowed really well. When #41 started I was sure that it was going to be the main set closer with the massive jam but I was in for shock when not only Shake Me Like A Monkey but a 100% badass Two Step with the intro and ridiculously insane jam closed out the normal set, at 11:10 PM after they had been on the stage since 8:27 PM (show ended at around 11:35 PM). The tease of Digging' A Ditch and then You & Me wasn't overly exciting to me because I heard both of them this year and at this point I knew the closer probably wasn't going to be that great. So Damn Lucky is a great song and the jam is nasty but I got that as a closer at Blossom and wasn't thrilled after such an insane, jam-filled, tight, intense set that I was getting SDL as a show closer again. Either way, the show was wonderful and probably number two out of the shows I have seen with only my first show being number one. I have never seen a three hour set with so much jamming, improving, Dave going nuts and a lot of communication with the crowd. And being in the pit only made it that much better! I can't wait to hear the recording of this!

[Gorm]

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[DaveDude12]

Just got home. What an amazing show!

[Highbury]

hey guys just wondering if anyone has a video of #41 and So Damn Lucky >>> Thank You from here cause dave came over and talked to me during 41 and shook my hand at the end of Thank You. Prob not a big deal for a lot of you but for me it was haha I just wanted to see the moment again cause I was that excited! I was the one who had the huge sign

[Bmcallahan82]

Glad you enjoyed the show from the pit!!! A great show indeed!

[LTimberman10]

I have to say that the show in scranton was AMAZING!!!! The second best show I've ever seen (out of 8) and the very first Dave show I saw will always be #1.