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Brother BONES You can use the "Filter Builder to find anything you want, I'm pretty proud of this feature! I found 0nly four shows that played both songs. The most recent was 9/28/19 Madison, Wisconsin

On new years day it was announced 12/29, 12/30 and 12/31 Lakefront Arena and stated Tickets eventually for sale. It was a long two day drive from Cincy. I'm thinking this year of doing the three night Halloween run in Asheville after all those crszy Zeppelin tunes, war Pigs, nights in White Satin, his Halloween shows started getting crazy with his 2018 Seattle show where they were all dressed in feathers and every song had a bird in it ending with an incredible Freebird including the rousing guitar leads as the end. Most bands who cover freebird only do the piano and slide leading up to the ripping solos , not Billy he had his les Paul and captured most of what Skynyrds three guitarists shared. So nice to run into a familiar friend, Duck. New years 2018 was when I met you. That pageant show was well worth the six hour drive. Can't believe we got a St Stephen when the next show was obviously going to be a 60's early dead recreation. New Orleans was the first time I'd had a hangover in years. DSO did nye righteously opening with After midnight and spacing into a fantasy. If any one is coming in for the three Cincy shows in March Hotel AC still has a couple of vacancies 🛌💤

I prefer the balloons outside the venue.

wow, it really is dead around here (no pun intended)...so I'll say something. I went to DSO New Years in Port Chester, NY. The Cap is a highly acclaimed venue. In my experience, as someone who identifies as being a Deadhead and Dancer, is that the Venue is waaaaaay overrated. I don't even like it. Slanted GA floor? Really? And this is a venue run by Deadheads for Deadheads? Tear that floor out and put 2-3 flat tiers in. The first night I spent a fair amount of the show dancing in Garcia's. They have the soundboard feed playing at high volume and a nice, flat, wooden dance floor. Some gawkers come with the territory but we let em gawk. On NYE I stopped by Garcia's and the volume was way down. Other parts of night 1 i spent in the back, under the balcony. The 1st set closing of 1/2 Step>Franklins>TMNS was deeply excellent, definitely one of my highlights of the weekend. 2nd set was good, I especially enjoyed the rockers at the end and of course Skip killing it on the encore ( can't think of the name, a song by The Band). NYE was a different story. I was very excited to see Jeff play but was super bummed when I realized that DSO was only doing 2 sets. Been to almost every new years since 2005 and I can only think of a couple times that it wasn't 3 sets (2005 Higher ground comes to mind). The 1st set I was in my head and couldn't settle into a dance zone anywhere until Scarlet>Fire took hold. That was really good. My friends convinced me to go way down front left for 2nd set. It was actually really fun, a bit tight but it was loud and we were IN IT. somebody said to me that this night was the loudest the sound has ever been at the CAP. I believe it as my head was ringing afterwards (also a common side effect after a 69 rager.....no resolution, ya know?). Everything was going great until the ballon drop. PLEASE DO NOT DO THE BALLOONS AGAIN. FUCK THE BALLOONS. What a mess. I was swimming in balloons. I must have popped upwards of 100 and it did seemingly nothing. I had to retreat out of the pit and into the back but it felt weird there so I went back in. The Viola Lee that came out of the NYE countdown was, IMO, pretty weak by DSO standards. which is to say that I've come to expect them to climax into tearing a small hole in the space time continuum and then depositing us back on our feet. This one barely seemed to climax at all...I blame the chaos from the Balloons. FUCK THE BALLOONS. The remainder of the set was good, not great. Dupree's>the Eleven was utterly fantastic. Overall the night was good but I've had so many NYE's be 'best night ever' material and this one just didn't make it there. Maybe it was just me....who knows? Okay one more complaint. Oh Darlin>Love the One you're with has been done 3x as in Encore in the last 2 months. I saw it at Penn's Peak. It was so freakin cool that time. Then I saw that they did it in Long Island and I thought, 'hmmm, that's weird.'. now it feels totally played out. just my opinion, take it or leave it~ Thank you Dark Star Orchestra band and crew. You deliver the best product on the market and I will be back.

Awesome thank you TR ! This helps a lot. I can't believe its been 22 years since Caroline & met you on DSO tour in 2001. Will we see you in Jamaica? This is my first JITS and I am stoked !! It's been way too long since i had a dose of Dark Star ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Well said in every regard, Mango. I feel about that motherfucking hill at the Jubilee like you do about the balloons. But that’s just my take, too.

I took the boys and a buddy to New Orleans for Billy. We stayed in Tuscaloosa Thursday and had the whole city to ourselves because everyone was already in NO for the sugar bowl. We ended up going to the sugar bowl and was a cool way to spend the day. Left early due to Bama beatdown. Literally bumped right into Archie Manning outside his restaurant while looking over my shoulder trying to sneak out to the street for a toke 🤣. We didn’t get to do much pokin around, but ate some good shit, and had a killer time. Broke my foot thanksgiving week and had been feeling pretty good but it was the size of a grapefruit again when I got home. Totally worth it. If you ask Luke the highlight was the 75,000 sq ft gas station Buc-ee’s that had killer brisket sandwiches and was kind of like a mix between a grocery store and a Bass Pro shop. Lol my friend told Luke he’d buy him a beaver hat but he had to wear it the whole trip so all my pics luke is wearing a bucee beaver toboggan with the pippy longstocking braids. He says Billy is kicking it to 3 nights next year but I don’t know where he saw it Also ran into AC both nights in NO but we somehow missed each other at the Pageant 😂