But even so, it was still a much more spontaneous and unpredictable approach to playing live than practically any other band.Ĭlick to expand.Actually, I think the Europe '72 tour might have been an exception. I remember reading that Bruce Hornsby complained about this routinization at some point-he said that he suggested that they open a show with a particular tune, only to be told "Oh, we don't do that, we only play that in a second set." Phil also went on record at some point in favor of shaking up the pattern more. A post-Space Jerry ballad would generally be one of a handful of options encores tended to be short rockers etc. Some would only be played in the first set, or the second set. What did get more formalized over time, aside from the decision to have an automatic Drums>Space sequence in every show near the end of the second set, was the role of certain songs.
Sometimes it's obvious that the choices are spontaneous, when in the middle of a jam one band member starts playing a new tune and the others join in-or, sometimes, *don't* join in and go in a different direction entirely. They might figure out the first few songs before starting a set and then go from there. There wasn't a set list drawn up in advance for the whole show.
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