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It was such a long, long time to be gone, just Phil Lesh and Friends are finally making their manner back to the Capitol Theatre.

Lesh, legendary bassist of the Grateful Expressionless, will exist at the iconic venue in Port Chester, New York, for a nine-prove run happening Oct. 11 to 13, eighteen to 20 and 29 to 31.

"Phil has pretty much been an establishment here at the Capitol Theatre," said venue full general manager Bruce Wheeler. Past the time he ends his 2021 Cap residency on Halloween, Lesh will have played the venue more than 100 times.

"Easily down, (he'south) the nigh frequent performer that this building has ever seen," said Wheeler. "And information technology'due south such a joy to have him, his band, his crew and the patrons that a Phil show brings forth with him. To have them all here at the Cap is just an incredible energy to exist able to experience."

After a storied series of performances at the Capitol Theatre with the Grateful Expressionless in 1970 and '71, Lesh was ready to celebrate his 80th altogether at the venue with three March 2020 shows that would have been his 80th, 81st and 82nd shows at the venue in less than eight years.

A trio of October and Nov 2019 dates at the theater were postponed while Lesh recovered from back surgery, then the COVID-xix pandemic called off the 2020 altogether shows. Merely he's is making up for lost time with three, three-show stands. All three nights will also stream live via Fans for anyone not in attendance at the Capitol Theatre.

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"Information technology'due south just kind of ever been that place where nosotros do these long runs, or that my dad does at least and often I'm there watching or performing in the band as well," said vocalizer/guitarist Grahame Lesh, Phil'south son and frequent bandmate. "There's something about the room. (Information technology) sounds cracking. There's a wonderful history there. The staff is always amazing, and all those things combine to just make for a not bad rock venue. (It'due south) kind of all you need."

Lesh will be joined past the Phil Lesh Quintet of Rob Barraco, Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring and John Molo on Oct. xi to xiii.

For the Oct. eighteen to 20 shows, guests will include Stuart Bogie, Amy Helm, Eric D. Johnson, Josh Kaufman, Grahame Lesh, Elliott Peck, Joe Russo and Benmont Tench.

The October. 29 to 31 shows volition include Nicki Bluhm, Taylor Goldsmith, Trevor Menear, Griffin Goldsmith, Lee Pardini and Grahame Lesh, as well equally One thousand.C. Taylor Oct. 29 and 30 and Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams on Oct. 31.

But no matter the roster, there's always the music. Largely drawn from the Grateful Dead canon, it is a body of work that speaks, in its own boldly inventive style, to the power of enduring through hard times and the necessity of evolving alongside ever-changing circumstances. It's no wonder that these songs ring even deeper and truer these days.

"I remember great songs do that, no matter what the subject thing or what emotion you're feeling at the time you detect a time to relate them," Grahame Lesh said. "Only the Grateful Dead accept bully songs, just they also have songs that extremely explicitly sound similar they're talking to you right now.

"I hateful, 'I will become past, I will survive' plainly became kind of a rallying cry from 'Touch on of Grey' and 'One way or another, this darkness has got to give' from 'New Speedway (Boogie),' so I think it's this mix of things that and so explicitly could be related correct now mixed with (the fact that) their catalogue is singular, fifty-fifty amongst the extended family unit repertoire. The Grateful Dead's lyrics and songs, they are pretty singular and simply playing these songs and singing some of these songs has definitely been a little more meaningful."

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During this 95th anniversary yr for the Capitol Theatre, with prophylactic protocols in place — all patrons 12 and older must evidence proof of full vaccination or a negative exam taken within 48 hours — Wheeler explained why the return of Deadheads to live music venues is disquisitional to the mail service-lockdown revival of live music as a whole.

"That gang, that tribe and so to speak, are a really expert indication ... for other parts of the touring industry equally to what comfort level people take in returning to a show," he said. " ... Knowing that that community is out there and non but supporting bands like the Expressionless and Dead and Company, and Phil and Bob Weir and the Wolf Bros., and Baton and the Kids and whatever Mickey Hart is doing, I think that they look to tap into the energy that those artists are still pulling off."

That aforementioned energy, Wheeler noted, has been passed downward to multiple generations of bands that each concenter their own traveling fan bases, whether that be established outfits like the String Cheese Incident, moe., or Widespread Panic, immature up-and-comers including Twiddle or Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, or alternative rockers relatively removed from the jam world like Ween.

"It's keen to come across that that sense of customs is not only happening around an artist and their off-shoots like the Grateful Dead," said Wheeler. "And I know there are other acts out there, bigger acts, where people tend to follow them around, merely I think the Dead and their customs really sets the example for that."

Go:Phil Lesh and Friends, doors at half-dozen:30 and show at 8 p.m. October. 11 to xiii, eighteen to twenty and 29 to 31 at the Capitol Theatre, 149 Westchester Ave., Port Chester. Tickets for October. 18 to 20, $59.sixty to $376.75, are however available, all other shows are sold out. For more than information, telephone call 914-937-4126 or visit thecapitoltheatre.com.

The shows volition too stream via Fans, $nineteen.99 in advance and $24.99 mean solar day of evidence per show, or $99.99 for the 9-night livestream. For more than information and to club, visit https://fans.alive/products/philoweeen.

Alex Biese has been writing almost art, entertainment, culture and news on a local and national level for more than 15 years.

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