12/28/18 String Cheese Incident @ 1st Bank Center - Broomfield, CO

1STBANK Center - Broomfield, CO - 12/28/18

S1: Can't Wait Another Day, White Freightliner Blues*, Eat My Dust*, High on a Mountain Top*, Boo Boo’s Pik-a-Nic* > Take the Money And Run*  > Salt Creek* > Take the Money And Run* > Big Mon* > Take the Money And Run* > Boo Boo’s Pik-a-Nic* > Vamp In The Middle*, Signed, Sealed, Delivered*, Sand Dollar*, Revival* , Colorado Bluebird Sky*

S2: Close Your Eyes > Black Clouds > Jellyfish > Round the Wheel > Texas > Land's End > Texas > 'Round the Wheel > Jellyfish > Black Clouds > Close Your Eyes

E: Rivertrance*, Reach*

* w/ Sam Bush and Darol Anger


Last Friday I made the short half hour drive down 287 to Broomfield for The String Cheese Incident.  I stopped in Westminster before the show to see my friends Eric and Karla.  It was easy to find free parking in the nearby garage.  Before the show it was very cold.  Winter tour for sure.  The arena concourse was decked out in SCI 25th anniversary decor.  They had a room with a bunch of SCI artwork on display.  Preshow PA music was older reggae.  The arena was maybe 3/4 full.

The previous time I'd seen SCI was in Lyons, CO and they also opened that show with Can't Wait Another Day.  The rest of the set was with Sam Bush and Darol Anger playing a variety of bluegrass/newgrass originals and covers from their careers.  The Stevie Wonder cover was fun.  Colorado Bluebird Sky in Broomfield was definitely an anthem.  The clearcut highlight of the set was Sand Dollar.

The setlist of the second set was a palindrome.  I noticed during Land's End that all the songs had been left unfinished.  It made the show unique.  During setbreak I went outside and a light snow was falling.  This was appropriate during the Round the Wheel which I felt produced the best jam of the set.  I sat on the Billy/Kyle side and watching them made the show for me.  Rivertrance in the encore was gravy.  I peaced out during the final song and beat the traffic.  My mom bought my ticket for this show for Christmas.  It was a fun experience and I'm glad I went.