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What a time we had! It was so fun to hang with and see some of my favorite humans I have ever known. It is always a trick to push pause on life and dip out but so needed. Daily life is a bit of a grind, especially trying to balance peoples' expectations and manifest goodness and love in spite of that static getting in the way. As my husband says, I work too hard to suffer the bs. We are so lucky to experience the magic of a show where the Named has no name and the Way has no path lives full on captured in the timeless lyrics and inspired music. Island Bro and I cooked this escape up back in October, and like Venus, these February shows danced on the distant horizon with promise and delivered. So hot tubs/ springs are the ticket for the NW and erase the wear of the night before. And being the good student, I managed to hit the spa 4 out 5 days we were out there! The other day I soaked in wine!! . We landed in snow at PDX a little bedraggled and began to decompress. The first show(2nd Portland) was a smorgasbord of music and it all in its own way began to sort me out. You know- when too much of everything is just enough? A little pinch of this and that is bound to satisfy. Melvin tore up the keys across the way after the show -and thankfully Portland is a city after my own stomach. We found good company at the Roxy for a late night breakfast. The next day seemed a bit dicey because the snow all around might impact our wine tour plans. The sun was shining on us and we tasted the earth and felt the rain. I found new spaces within in Eugene and opened up for the good primal Dead in Ashland. The most perfect venue is that Ashland Armory- wide space with wood floors. I danced a while in socks. Oh, and it was heavenly. Mon amour, mon vie. Things reset, cloudy skies cleared, old crusty pizza even shone again in glory. I breathed in the goodness and my heart space filled, awashed in laughter and good times. I savor the new friendships I made and the aroma of the longer standing ones. Soul connections happen when you meet people it seems you've known already and they bless you unbeknownst through the years. Just being there at the right times to soothe your soul. This really happened....You must be on the right road when a dress you wore 5 years ago to dinner shows up in your landscape, with that dinner date standing right there! I kid you not. Floored! I have never see another wear it, even when new, much less so long afterwards!!! I will be taking that dress out there to Ashland next time for my twin. It is only 16 years old from Target but the best!! lol Love you people. Love my tribe. I carry you in my heart, that feeling, til we meet again.

2/5/78

77/78 style but I can't for the life of me find a GD setlist that quite matches this one. First set was extra mellow, second set soaring jams including a hot Scarlet>Fire and a REALLY exploratory Other One. See yas in LA!

Filler was box of rain and white rabbit. Show was was a perfect mix of tight and powerful and loose and jammy. The Bobby rockers were on point. And the jams in Fire and Other One got way out there. A perfect recreation of the amazing show immortalized by Dick. A bit of a mix up in the 1st set list posted above. I’ve got : Bertha good lovin brown eyed El Paso

I bet you get a 69.

I do notes Every 2 songs. I Try to remember what just finished 7 secs ago and note the current one but I’ve had a show where I fiercely denied that a song was played. I recalled the rest but would have sworn this 5 minute block didn’t take place. On recreations I don’t keep setlist but on originals I do my best.

No truer words, RD. I used to always go into a show with paper and something to write the list with. And more often then not I would bail about midway through the first set because I didn’t want to stop grooving or was a tad too buzzed to write legible English, or both. So I’d come to rest sometime after the show, begin to try to recap what just happened, and find a list of five songs that looked like Marie’s “Dear John” note after Navin R. Johnson read it in the bathtub.

Trying to piece a show together even with a group is near impossible if you don’t do it during the show song by song and even then I’ll get so caught up in the music that a song will be lost. I’d have to say 90% is pretty solid from memory. Plus you listen to so much dead you are like was that song played tonight or last night or in the car or none of the above.

I think we'll need to file that in the "massive omissions" folder.