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Listening to transition to the Eleven while cleaning my bathroom on a grey Sunday morning, I recalled Tea for a time had this song as a white whale in his show attendances. Mind wandering began. DSO has provided so much material I would have never seen if not for the continuation of the Grateful Dead concert experience. What's left to see? Off to the wormhole. All information from DBX, so they maybe a play off here and there. I started with the yearly play summary in the DBX, which does exclude some 1/2/3 GD play songs (looking at you Money, Money, Card Board Cowboy, Master's Bouquet, sorry Greg) so there is a line in the sand as far as deep the catalog we look. Songs I had for sure seen the first filter and 76 songs remained to be seen. DSO setlists found 23 songs I had seen but was not sure, this was a super fun activity, scrolling through setlists searching for certain songs, finding out I actually saw Don't Need Love at the 9:30 in 2016. After those two filters, 53 songs remained to be seen. Songs were grouped in five groups: Acoustic, Played less than 10x by DSO, Played More than 10x by DSO, Never Played by DSO, Never Played by DSO the Late Years. Numbers after songs are GD Played/DSO Played. Acoustic: (10) I prefer electric, but could have gone to Hamilton and cross many of these off the list. All Around This World 18/1 Ain't No Lie 13/10 Cold Jordan 12/6 Heaven Help the Fool 17/21 Katie Mae 11/10 Rosaslie McFall 16/8 Sadie 6/3 Silver Threads 17/6 Swing Low 8/14 Wake Up Little Susie 14/21 DSO outpacing the boys on a couple of these. Played Less Than 10x by DSO (15) Baby What You Want 5/2 Bottom 9/3 Eternity 44/4 Hand Jive 6/9 Hey Bo Diddley 5/4 Hog For You 4/3 How Long Blues 4/2 Louie, Louie 8/2 Stealin' 4/2 Superstitous 8/2 Thin Man 8/1 That Would be Something 17/3 Walkin' the Dog 6/4 Way to Go 92/4 Who knew Way To Go Home was done four times, and once with Vince sitting in. And they did Eternity, hello 1999. Played More Than 10x by DSO (8) Green Green Grass 18/21 He Was Friend 17/21 Man's World 11/21 Mason's Children 18/18 Mountains of the Moon 12/27 Picasso Moon 77/35 New Potato Caboose 26/15 Tomorrow Is Forever 10/15 Psst. White Whale Alert. Never Played By DSO (9) Born Cross Eyed 13/0 Cream Puff War 8/0 Hi-Heeled Sneakers 5/0 Long Black Limousine 7/0 Seasons 5/0 She's Mine 4/0 Slew Foot 9/0 Standing on the Corner 4/0 You Don't Have to Ask 5/0 My life would be complete with a Cream Puff War. Never Played by DSO The Late Years (10) All Too Much 6/0 Baba O'Riley 12/0 Childhood's End 8/0 Easy Answers 44/0 Matilda 6/0 Samba In the Rain 38/0 Shoe Fits 17/0 Take Me 4/0 Want To Tell 7/0 Wave To Wind 21/0 Sure most like to block out this group, I managed to only duck Want To Tell. Did run the Samba ugly dog fanclub, someone had to do it. So back to the original question, What's left to See? The group of songs played more than 10x by DSO the best target group. Hard to believe I have not caught a Picasso, not really white whale material though. A friend is chasing Mason's Children, so will leave that one for him, and by the way keep playing that one. Mountains of the Moon and New Potato Caboose worthy of whale status. I'll add Walkin' the Dog from the less than 10X DSO plays and reaffirm my deep desire to experience Cream Puff War. Give yourself a gold star if you made it this far and feel free to share your own white whale stories below. Again Thanks Band and Crew. Praise DSO.

Saw my local GD cover band do Cream Puff War, Mountains of the Moon, and Mason's Children this past weekend. Pretty amazing stuff. The whole setlist was really top notch . It will be tough for DSO to top that when they roll through in a couple of weeks (2/15), but I still can't wait. Assuming I find a ticket. ☝️

I wish I had more time for research but..... The Eleven and Visions of Johanna were my DSO white whales for a good spell. I got a Visions for the last show I saw with JK but it took a number of years before I got to see Jeff do it. DSO has filled most of my GD gaps and I'm excluding one-off performances and the 1992+ offerings. I know a few that I've heard DSO has done live, but have never seen them live: New Potato Caboose Gloria Mind Left Body Jam There were a few others I thought I hadn't seen yet but Starbase informed me otherwise

I don’t even know what I haven’t seen. There’s some 2 times played I haven’t but not sure ehst they are. I’ve seen all on the above list but I was hitting tour pretty hard for 4 years pre covid. Saw masons children prob 5x. Valley Road I caught 1-2x. I didn’t even know that was played ever as Thats not an era i play that much. My only real disappointment was hearing them work up low spark at least 10x from space all the way into full band instrumental thinking this was it and then the lyrics busted out at a show I wasn’t at. I was like this is it. Nope. Did eventually hear it with lyrics a few times but was pissed I missed the bust out.

I didn't get a Unlimited Devotion until last year from Hyryder and peeps are like it's fairly common among DSO and Hyryder shows. Think of all the straight up JGB (Rhapsody in Red is a WW for me for sure) Don't know if Rob wants to get into Edward the Mad, Born Cross Eyed and Cream Puff are outrageously orbiting.. Standing on the Corner is one I never knew of until it was played. Your writings bring to surface why I'm not really into all these freakin dead cover bands around Cincy. Skilled musicians are prompted by a local promoter here, so they put the sheet music in front of them ridiculous songs like Fire, Eyes and everyone seems to be playing West LA at every show. This conversation is worthy of this forum. Nicely played Bill⚡🇱🇷💫 Thanks for setting it up.....John A around ? I did catch a Crazy Love at the Stone Jan 87, rambling back to the task at hand I do like all the Viola Lees being dropped since "me and my friends all got life round here "