Joe Russo's Almost Dead kicked off their three-night livestream run on Thursday, marking their first show in seven months, the debut of The Relix Channel on Twitch as well as the passing of what would have been LOCKN' 2020. The livestream was presented by Dayglo and Dogfish Head.
"Over the arc of the next three nights we're going to try to bring LOCKN' into the screen that you're watching on Twitch," LOCKN' co-founder Peter Shapiro told fans as he stood on the rolling hills of its Virginia festival grounds.
From there, Shapiro threw to the band, who tuned up on a soundstage and launched a blissed out improv segment which bled into an opening segment of "Crazy Fingers"> "Jack Straw."
Later, Marco Benevento upped the ante with a nice keyboard solo between "Touch of Grey" and "Let It Grow," before the entire band hit a peak on the latter.
JRAD then ended set one with an emotive "It Must Have Been The Roses."
For the second half, the band dipped slightly into a reggae tempo for the transition through "The Other One"> "Estimated Prophet" and later found their way into "Jack Straw."
Naturally, they served up the classic pairing of "Help on the Way"> "Slipknot!," but instead of completing the predictable move into "Franklin's Tower," the band took a left turn into the anthemic "Playing in the Band."
They ended with "Not Fade Away," rallying Deadheads nationwide who were watching at home, knowing their love for live music will never die.
Tune in tonight - Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. ET - for another free JRAD stream on Twitch, presented by Dogfish Head, and tune in on Saturday, Oct. 3 for a pay-what-you-want stream on Fans.com.
Check out the full setlist below:
Joe Russo's Almost Dead
Oct. 1, 2020
LOCKN' Twitch Livestream, Night One
Set I: Crazy Fingers> Tennessee Jed, Black-Throated Wind> Touch of Grey> Let It Grow, It Must Have Been the Roses
Set II: The Other One> Estimated Prophet> Jack Straw, Help on the Way> Slipknot!> Playing in the Band, Not Fade Away
