This was a really special night for those of us who got to take a ride on Ava’s magic rainbow and I hope I never lose the euphoria of that feeling. To have connected with this girl’s spirit is to have found the fountain of youth. There is just nothing in the world like the carefree joy of a six year old and Ava bottled that feeling for all of us, so much so that I literally have a tear in my eye and goosebumps from head to toe as I reflect upon it days later. To say that this girl won a whole lot of hearts with her inimitable smile and effusive dancing only captures a small part of the narrative. There was a certain blonde haired six year old dancing it up with us all night, completely immersed in not just the music but also the scene and the vibe.
That’s gotta mean something about both the quality of their work and the friendships that have grown between myself and these four men. As such, I found it so interesting that of Cosmic’s first four songs, the two I grew up with couldn’t raise the hair on my arms yet the two that my close friends poured their hearts and souls into did. For some reason I always note things like goosebumps as they are the outward expression of my deepest feels. Wait, what?!? This tune has really grown on me of late and last night’s beautiful rendition raised the second set of goosies from my flesh. Fun fact … Dan Donovan’s wife Kristi wrote the lyrics. While Mike Jaskewicz does the lion’s share of Cosmic’s songwriting, Billy Siegel has a heavy hand in the pot as well and was responsible for the music on “Apple Tree”. A smoking hot return to the Grateful Dead’s songbook necessitated the removal of my shirt as Jelly took his first vocals of the evening on “Feel Like A Stranger”. What this band is doing right now with their songwriting and live presentation of fresh material is an article all its own but IMHO these songs are the future of this band. As Cosmic continues to push out literal scores of original material, my visceral reaction was a combination of love and pride as these incredible tunes have slowly but surely become a part of my musical DNA.
#JERRY GARCIA BAND LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON FULL#
“Butterflies” brought the first of what would be a night full of goosebumps. Putting a big old picture of Dan Donovan front and center beacuse he’s the rocketship that is Cosmic. Last night checked that last box, a love-fest of the highest order on both sides of the non-existent stage that just made me feel so deeply. Some shows are rockers, others are tear-jerkers, and others simply transcend all that while completely enveloping you in their magic. Twenty-twenty, depending on how you look at it, is all about silver linings with last night’s stage setup thrusting the band amongst their adoring family of Cosmicnauts, the intimacy of last night’s show certainly qualifies among those.
The setting sun at their back for most of the first set, Cosmic kicked things off with a tasty cover of Jerry Garcia’s “Love In the Afternoon” and just like that the beach stage was a distant memory. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. What’s better than live music on the beach? I’ll let that sit there for a while as I mention my initial disappointment after having rolled up to Donovan’s Reef and seeing Cosmic set up their stage from the corner of a patio, the beach stage now officially closed for the season.
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