The kick off to summer this year started with The Allman Brothers and Blues Traveler. Never was a BT fan, but always wanted to see the Allman Brothers, who by the way did not disappoint. The Allman Brothers at this point consisted of band leader and namesake, Gregg Allman, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Warren Haynes, Allen Woody, and Marc Quinones. The setlist was stocked full of classics. Great evening outdoors.

Blues Traveler did little to win me over. You either like them or you dont.

ALLMAN BROTHERS SETLIST:
Don't Want You No More
It's Not My Cross To Bear
Statesboro Blues
Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
Blue Sky
Nobody Knows
Black Hearted Woman
Seven Turns
Midnight Rider
Southbound
Melissa
Pony Boy
Hoochie Coochie Man
Get On With Your Life
True Gravity
Revival

ENCORE:
You Don't Love Me
Dreams
Whipping Post

BLUES TRAVELER SETLIST:
Love And Greed
Ivory Tusk
NY Prophesie
Conquer Me
All In The Groove
Dropping Some NYC
Gotta Get Mean / Gloria / Gotta Get Mean (reprise)

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
BLUES TRAVELER

Right after the Allman Brother, came the good old Grateful Dead, with more parking lot fun, campers, twirling people, veggie sketti lady and more. This truly became a summer ritual in Noblesville. Even the county cops would come out to marvel at the hippies traveling across the country with the Grateful Dead. Almost everybody has a good time and the local authorities for the most part left people alone to do their thing.

First set got off to slow tempo start, kind of hung around that tempo throughout most of the show.Overall, not my favorite GD show ever, but most Dead shows arent that bad even when they arent that good.

Second set seemed to get a better groove with BoR, but Victim or The Crime killed whatever rhythm was going. Ship of Fools is a great song, but placed at this point in the set continued to drive th emoodof the show down. Kind of weird ending the second set on Sugar Magnolia, an upbeat classic, after the show had lacked energy all night.

SET ONE:
Feel Like A Stranger
Althea
Little Red Rooster
So Many Roads
Desolation Row
Deal

SET TWO:
Box Of Rain
Victim Or The Crime
Ship Of Fools
Corina
Drums/Space
The Other One
Stella Blue
Sugar Magnolia

ENCORE:
Brokedown Palace

GRATEFUL DEAD

I got into Adrian Belew mostly through The Raisins (Fear Is Never Boring) and then The Bears in Cincinnati. Then once introduce to his music and genius, started listening more to his solo work, his work with King Crimson, Frank Zappa and Talking Heads and so on. So really any opportunity to see Adrian Belew is a treat for me. Add to that the fact that Over The Rhine, another Cincinnati music staple, was along for support and this was a cant miss show.

For the 1992 tour, Belew and his band were supporting the Inner Revolution solo album. Over The Rhine was still supporting the debut record, Til We Have Faces.

ADRIAN BELEW
OVER THE RHINE