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My primary motive for going to a DSO show is to hear Grateful Dead music played live with fucking stellar execution. I really don't care recr or not, preannoun or not, damn rain or shine, DSO is going to plug a hole in my soul no matter what. I'm not going to shows because of what they do, I'm going because of how they do what they do. It's necessary. Thanks.

Cull the nonbelievers - Elective only tours now!

Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA (7/13/76) Mississippi Half-Step Big River Peggy-O Cassidy Crazy Fingers Let it Grow drums Let it Grow Might As Well Music Never Stopped It Must Have Been the Roses Samson and Delilah High Time St. Stephen Not Fade Away St. Stephen Sugar Magnolia Stella Blue Sunshine Daydream Dancin' in the Streets Filler: Easy Wind My Sisters & Brothers with Kevin on bass Interesting set list. Chock full of ballads with Jeff sounding amazing on all of them. Let it Grow, St. Stephen, Dancin', plus some fun Filler were highlights for me.

Yes, what a coincidence, that. Let's not tell the people I came to visit that they were secondary to the tour schedule.

So prompted above, I decided to delve into my dead base. There are some tunes that are classically coupled, of course. Scarlet Fire, China Rider, Fantasy-> Jude, Estimated-> Eyes, Alligator-> Caution and Mama Tried-> Mexicali. I thought I would share what other trends I saw and feel free to dispute, discuss, add among yourselves. Alabama ->Promised Land or GSET. Early 80s Althea-> Sailor, LLR or ETLY. For 73-74, RIDER_> Around and Around often. Bertha: 71-72 Bertha -> MAMU 78-79 saw MIR-bertha-GLOV 77-79 Bertha-> GLOV Big River 78-83 MAMU-> Bertha Cryptical Suite->Cosmic Charlie 69-71 Dark Star-> Steven trend 68-71 While Estimated Eyes is popular, 2nd most popular Estimated-> He's Gone. Half Step-> Franklin's NFA-GDTRFB-NFA of course Stones-NFA GSET 80-82 ALA-GSET-FOTD popular trilogy Also BER- GSET-> PEG or FOTD 89s Touch-> GSET Terrapin: TERR-> DRUMZ but 78-79 TERR-Picasso Moon Sailor-Saint 86-95 stand alone saints Sailor always became a Saint ( How about that answer for Terrapin of choosing wisely lol) SCARLET SCAR-TOUCH mid 80s SHIP: SAMS-> Ship and WOMS-> Ship popular Spoonful evolved out of Truckin or He's Gone STEPH-> Eleven or NFA O1-> Stella popular SUGAREE 72-73 PROM-> SUG popular 85-94 combo BUCK-> SUG DRUMZ-> Wheel pretty much is the Wheel. ELEVEN-LOVL GONE- Truckin Playing-UJB I think I'd really like to see 6/20/74 for that Eyes-> Slip_>Doll

If you've ever gone to your GD audio catalog while sitting around having a beer, and played a 69 schoolgirl, a 76 eyes, a 71 hard to handle, a 74 Bertha, etc etc. Well you just made yourself an elective. And I bet you had a damn good time doing it. 😄😃 Hang in there MVB.