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No Raleigh NC show this spring... ? 🙁

That second set was chock full of energy and bliss. Help, Slip, Franklin’s is the ultimate party starter and it did its job!! From the slow drippy Low Spark on it was pretty continuous for the rest of the show. No break, an unadulterated dance party for the last 2hrs. Not to cast shade on that first set that ripped from Lazy on, but come on, electives are for the adventurous and we got paid!!!! So love our boy Island Bro for adding to the bliss of this trip! He’s got a grate fam and group and keeping it real in PNW! Me personally thinks dso has outgrown that venue, makes Orange Peel seem spacious, haha. It’s prob the size of OP, but in a city 10 times bigger. Can’t wait to come back! Thanks to the hard working band and crew that bring this joy! You’re the best!!

I have been in said basement. After reading these posts, there’s nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.

MLB appearance is the best of omens ❤️

Praise BillK! 😍

25/02/17 Dance Lab Set One 82/08/07 Alpine Valley Music Theatre Music>Sugaree>Music, Me & My Uncle>Big River, Must Have Been the Roses, CC Rider, Ramble On Rose, BIODTL>On the Road Again, Althea, Let It Grow. Set Two 71/04/13 Scranton Catholic Youth Center Casey Jones, Mama Tried, Loser, Big Boss Man, Me and Bobby McGee, Bertha, Cumberland Blues, Big RR Blues, Playin' in the Band, Hard to Handle, Sugar Magnolia. Set Three 74/07/31 Dillon Stadium Hartford, CT To Lay Me Down, Truckin'>Mind Left Body Jam> Spanish Jam>Wharf Rat>US Blues, Saturday Nite. E: Uncle John's Band. Piercing the dark winter cold, BDP 25 provides the sanctuary of warm audio delights. Opening stanza an untouched BDP year, the Roses and CC Rider early standouts, a gooey Althea preceding a similiarly strong Let It Grow highlight the uneven first. Second an amazing snapshot of the band in transition, Mickey's recent departure and Pig's decreasing contributions, with Jerry and Phil rushing to fill the sonic voids. The band's play an unstoppable freight train of energy. Primitive versions of new material- Loser, Bertha, Playin' (5 min), along with the set highlight, a hammered H2H, which display the virtues of others from April 71. Closing sequence a Wall of Sound dreamworld, an over the top 18 minute Truckin' melting into Mind Left Body (was feeling you Tea)>Spanish Jam, Garcia going alphadog for a good thirty minutes. Most impressive. Music started at 9:30P, wrapped around 2:00A with full post show silliness and the 6A fresh donut run. Big Fun. Praise DSO.

Strange grateful festival at NLRQ is selling tickets for their July 25-noon on the 27th without any lineup? I'm going to confirm that Hyryder is resident band on Friday when they play Brightside in Dayton. ET assured me two years ago that they were going to be there for awhile. My band Red Dirt will be playing in the pines all weekend. I'm trying to recruit a mandolin player and a banjo to join in with my violin player and me on acoustic. All are welcome. I'll have a few harmonicas and some bean shaker percussias

Thanks for the heads up with ticket sales starting tomorrow

This may have already been posted but if not, DSO will be playing the 4848 Music Festival in Snowshoe, WV (brought to you by All Good). The festival is July 17, 18, 19 and DSO will play one of those nights (schedule has not been released). https://4848festival.com/ Also Dupree's Diamond 3 featuring Rob Eaton, Skip Vangelas, and John Kadlecik

5/15 - The Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN 5/16 - Val Air Ballroom, W. Des Moines, IA 5/17 - The Pageant, St Louis, MO 5/19 - Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, WI 5/20 - Blue Gate PAC, Shipshewana, IN 5/23-25 - Dark Star Jubilee, Thornville, OH 5/27 - Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre, Wilmington, NC 5/29 - The Amp Ballantyne, Charlotte, NC 5/30 - The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA 5/31 - The Asheville Yards, Asheville, NC 6/1 - The Refinery, Charleston, SC

With all the respect in the world for Deadbase, which has been the beloved and go to reference for decades, gratefulsets is the bomb; state of the art research portal for all things Dead lists.

https://archive.org/details/dso2025-02-08

it’s definitely great. But the way deadbase is set up and I have mine with Tabs so I can go right to every time played plus 10 other important tabs. If you don’t make tabs, deadbase can be a bitch. Now I bet at least 1 is gonna take my advice. Get some thick index cards and cut some tabs. I used sticky flags at 1st. They last a bit but eventually flattened out and hard to read.

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Need this one.

And the filler actually started with Next Time You See Me for the quad pack filler… ’twas such a doozy… All I can say is what a gift it is to have the opportunity to visit the dreamy space where there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men… May we all continue to be able to return there to fill our cups ♥️

While on the trail of movie maker's music, I'd like to hear John Carpenter's Halloween or The Thing's music theme played out of space. Maybe even a whole John Carpenter tour 😵‍💫

the only good song that Sly Stallone ever wrote.

That Miracle -> Shakedown transition from the original shoe never fails to astound.

1979/01/15 Springfield Civic Center Springfield, MA Jack Straw, Jack A Roe, Cassidy, Row Jimmy, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Stagger Lee, Passenger, Deal I Need A Miracle > Shakedown Street, From The Heart Of Me, Terrapin Station > Playin' In The Band > Drums > Space > Playin' In The Band Reprise > Casey Jones E: Johnny B. Goode F: Next Time You See Me, Don’t You Do It, Werwolves of London > Brokedown Palace

Absolute barn burner roof blowout kinda show…kickass outta the gate and all the way through…game on…My oh my… Awesome to get Gr8fulpair and fam out in these parts for 2 in Seattle and meet his son catching his first DSO shows…he’ll clearly be heading to many more I think 🤠

Check out 3/29/87 for a nice wheel coming out of space. Bobby broke a string, ran backstage for a moment with his guitar. Jerry had to stretch it out.

Love those '76 second sets.

Get some gr8ful pair. Awesome show review. Praise DSO.

Love that first set. Praise DSO.